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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01138	The charge of Sir Francis Bacon Knight, his Maiesties Attourney generall, touching duells vpon an information in the Star-chamber against Priest and Wright. With the decree of the Star-chamber in the same cause.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; England and Wales. Court of Star Chamber.	1614 (1614)	STC 1125; ESTC S121055	15,080	60

combination and plotting of murther let them guilde it how they list they shall neuer haue fairer termes of me in place of iustice Then the conclusion followeth that it is a case fit for the censure of this Court. And of this there be presidents in the very poynt of Challenge It was the case of Wharton Plaintife against Ellekar and Acklam Defendants where Acklam being a follower of Elleckars was censured for carying a challeng from Ellecker to Wharton though the challenge was not put in writing but deliuered onely by word of message and there are words in the decree that such challenges are to the subuersion of Gouernment These things are well knowne and therfore I needed not so much to haue insisted vppon them but that in this Case I would be thought not to innouate any thing of mine owne head but to follow the former presidents of the Court though I meane to doe it more throughly because the time requires it more Therfore now to come to that which concerneth my part I say that by the fauour of the King and the Court I will prosecute in this Court in the Cases following If any man shall appoint the field though the fight be not acted or performed If any man shall send any Challenge in wrighting or any message of Challenge If any man carry or deliuer any writing or message of Challenge If any man shall accept or returne a Challenge If any man shall accept to bee a second in a Challenge of either side If any man shall depart the Realme with intention and agreement to performe the fight beyond the seaes If any man shall reuiue a quarrel by any scandalous bruites or wrightings contrary to a former Proclamation published by his Maiesty in that behalfe Nay I heare there be some Counsell learned of Duells that tell yong men when they are before hand and when they are otherwise and thereby incense and incite them to the Duell and make an art of it I hope I shall meete with some of them too and I am sure my Lords this course of preuenting Duels in nipping them in the budde is fuller of clemency and prouidence then the suffering them to goe on and hanging men with their wounds bleding as they did in France To conclude I haue some petitions to make first to your Lordshipp my Lord Chancellor that in case I be aduertised of a purpose in any to goe beyond the sea to fight I may haue granted his Maiesties writ of Ne exeat regnum to stoppe him for this Giant bestrideth the sea and I would take and snare him by the foote on this side for the combination and plotting is on this side though it should be acted beyond sea And your Lordship said notably the last time I made a motion in this busines that a man may be as well fur de se as felo de se if he steale out of the Realme for a bad purpose and for the satisfiing of the wordes of the writte no man will doubt but he doth machinari contra coronam as the wordes of the writte be that seketh to murther a subiect for that is euer contra coronam et dignitatem I haue also a sute to your Lordships all in general that for Iustice sake and for true honors sake honor of Religion Law and the King our Maister against this fond and false disguise or puppetrey of honor I may in my prosecutiō which it is like enough may some times stirr coales which I esteme not for my particular but as it may hinder the good seruice I may I say be countenanced and assisted from your Lordships Lastly I haue a petition to the noblesse and gentlemen of England that they would learne to esteeme themselues at a iust price Non hos quaesitum munus in vsus their blood is not to be spilt like water or a vile thing therefore that they would rest perswaded there cannot be a forme of honor except it be vpon a worthy matter But for this Ipsi viderint I am resolued And thus much for the generall now to the present case THE DECREE OF THE STAR-CHAMBER IN THE SAME CAVSE In camerâ stellatâ coram concilio ibidem 26º die Ianuarij anno vndecimo Iacobi regis The Presence THO Lo Ellesmere LORD Chancellor of England HON Earl of North L Priuie Seale CHARLES Earle of Notting Lo high Admiral of England G●OR Lo Archbishop of Canterbury IOHN Lo Bishop of London Sir EDVVARD Cooke Knight L chiefe Iustice of England The Earl of Suffolk Lord Chamberlaine 〈◊〉 Lord ●o●che Sir Hen. Hobart Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the common-pleas WILLIAM Lo. Knolles Treasuror of the Houshold EDVVARD Lo. Wotton Controwler IOH Lo Stanhop Vicechamberlaine Sir IVLIVS Caesar knight Chancellor of the Exchequer THis day was heard and debated at large the seuerall matters of Informations here exhibited by Sir Francis Bacon Knight his Maiesties Attourney Generall th' one against William Priest Gentleman for writing and sending a Letter of challenge together with a stick which should be the length of the weapon And th' other against Richard Wright Esquire for carrying and deliuering the said letter and sticke vnto the partie challenged and for other contemptuous and insolent behauiour vsed before the Iustices of Peace in Surrey at their Sessions before whom he was conuented Vpon the opening of which cause his Highnes said Attourney generall did first giue his reason to the Court why in a case which he intended should be a leading case for the repressing of so great a mischiefe in the commonwealth and concerning an offence which raigneth chiefly amongst persons of honor and qualitie he should begin with a cause which had passed betweene so meane persons as the defendants seemed to be which he said was done because hee found this cause ready published and in so growing an euill he thought good to lose no time wherevnto he added that it was not amisse sometimes to beate the dogge before the Lyon saying further that hee thought it would be some motiue for persons of birth countenance to leaue it when they saw it was taken vp by base and mechanicall fellowes but concluded That hee resolued to proceed without respect of persons for the time to come and for the present to supply the meannesse of this particular Case by insisting the longer vpon the generall point Wherein he did first expresse vnto the Court at large the greatnes dangerous consequence of this presumptuous offence which extorted reuenge out of the Magistrates hand and gaue boldnes to priuate men to bee lawe giuers to themselues the rather because it is an offence that doth iustifie it selfe against the lawe and plainely giues the law an affront describing also the miserable effect which it draweth vppon priuate families by cutting off yong men otherwise of good hope and cheifely the losse of the King and Common-wealth by the casting away of much good blood which being spent in the field vpon occasion of