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A40860	The famous tryal in B.R. between Thomas Neale, Esq. and the late Lady Theadosia Ivy the 4th of June, 1684, before the Right Honourable the late Lord Jeffreys, lord chief justice of England, for part of Shadwell in the county of Middlesex ... together with a pamphlet heretofore writ ... by Sir Thomas Ivy ...	Mossam, Elam.; Ivy, Theadosia Stepkins, Lady, d. 1694 or 5?; Neale, Thomas, d. 1699?; Ivie, Thomas. Alimony arraigned, or, The remonstrance and humble appeal of Thomas Ivie, Esq.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1696 (1696)	Wing F386; ESTC R35557	155,074	101

should be brought in the Officers Custody L. C. I. Read it de bene esse let us see what it is Mr. Att. Gen. My Lord I would ask Mr. Sutton was not this produced and read before the the Trial in Michaelmas Term last Sutton It was produced in Court Twelve years ago Mr. Sol. Gen. Was it allowed as Evidence Sutton Yes constantly Mr. Att. Gen. Pray read it Mr. Williams Pray who has had it in keeping all this while Sutton My Lady Ivy brought it to me among her Writings at first L.C.I. Read it Clerk The Verdict and Presentment of us the Jurors as well of all Defects Annoyances within the Limits or Bounds of Wapping and Wapping Marsh from Grash Mill to the Mill at Ratcliff that is to say the 20 th of December Anno Dom. 1572. and in the 14 th year of the Queens Majesties Reign that now is The Names of the Free-holders within Wapping Marsh and the Number of Acres contained within the same Marsh with all the Names of the Occupiers thereof First Iohn Stepkin Gent. Freeholder for a parcel containing Twenty two Acres in the Tenure of Richard Ew Benedict Gent. Mr. Att. Gen. You may skip over a great deal and read only that which conduce to the Question Clerk No one can read it very well I think Reads On the west side of Gravel-lane containing 68 Acres Is that it Mr. Att. Gen. No go to the East side Clerk Reads Freeholders one parcel containing Ten Acres in the Tenure of Iohn Hodges and Iohn Gee Iohn Stepkin Gent. Two Parcels containing 20 Acres in the Tenure of Iohn Cooper and Iohn Harding Iohn Stepkin Gent. One Parcel containing Four Acres in the Tenure of Iohn Stepkin One Parcel Containing Twelve Acres in the Tenure of Iohn Roger Iames Freeholder Two Parcels containing Six Acres Robert Hemmings and Iohn Stepkin One Parcel containing One Acre and an half Richard Roper One Parcel containing Six Acres in the Tenure of Rechard Roper All which Parcels be on the East Part of Gravel-lane containing Sixty Acres Then here is somewhat interlined and struck out again Mr. Williams This doth not concern the Church Mr. Att. Gen. No more it doth not as you say indeed for they cannot claim any of the Marsh. Now we shall shew a Warrant Three Years after from the Commissioners to survey Clerk Reads This is dated the 18th of Iuly in the 17th Year of the most prosperous Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God c. And it is directed To our well-beloved John Stepkin and John Osborn Surveyors Whereas The Queen's Majesty by a Commission of Sewers bearing Date the 23th Day of April in the Year of her Reign hath authorized us to survey and view from Buttolphs-Wharf by St. Katharines near the Tower of London unto Ratcliff-mill not only to consider of the Decays and Ruines of the same but also to take order for the speedy repairing as to our Discretions shall seem good We therefore sufficiently informed of your Wisdom and Discretion appoint you Surveyors willing and commanding you by vertue of the said Commission to see whether the Work be accomplished according to such Ordinances and Decrees as we have appointed and from time to time shall make and appoint and to see who we have made Expenditor for such Sums of Money for the Payment of Workmen may by your Warrant be disbursed and payed accordingly and further we give you Power and Authority to give to provide for a competent and Salary at reasonable Prices all Workmen Boats Lighters Carts Carriages Trees Pales as to your good Discretion shall seem meet and for your so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Mr. Att. Gen. We shall now go a Step farther as I opened in the beginning and shew that this was mortgaged by Stepkins to the Queen and a fine was levied upon that Mortgage Clerk Reads This Indenture made the 4th Day of Iune in the 15th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth c. Between the Right Honourable Sir William Cecil Knight Lord Burleigh and Lord High Treasurer of England the Right Honourable and one of her Highness's most Honourable privy Council Sir Gilbert Gerard Knight her Majesty's Attorney General for and on the Behalf of the Queen's Majesty and to her use of the one Party and Iohn Stepkin Whereas William Pat one of the Tellers at and upon the Determination of his Account made and ended at the 25th Day of December is indebted in the Summ of 7928 l. 7 s. and 11 d. ob And whereas our said Sovereign Lady the Queen the 16th Day of Iune in the 9th Year of her Reign hath commanded the said Sir Will. Cecil Sir Gilbert Gerard and Sir Thomas Bromley to take order from time to time with so many of the Debts owing or that after should be owing and for the sure Payment and Contentation of the said Summ of 7928 l. 7 s. 11 d. ob Covenanteth with them the said that he the said Iohn Stepkin his Heirs Executors shall and will not only saisfie and pay the said Summ into the Receipt aforesaid but also for the better Settlement shall and will make and cause to be made by one Fine in good Form of Law of and in one Close within the Parish Mannor of Yewel and one great Garden And of and in one Tenement with the Appurtenances in now in the occupation of Iohn Stout and 19 Acres of Meadow in Wapping-marsh Parcel of the said Mannor Richard Roper Mr. Attorn Gen. Where is the Copy of the Fine Sutton Here. Clerk Reads This is the Final Concord c. Mens Mich. 14 Eliz. Mr. Sol. Gen. This was afterwards regranted from the Crown and there is the Regrant Which being under the great Seal and Tested 6 Iulii Anno 7. Iacobi Rex was read Mr. Att. Gen. Part of this Marsh was by our Ancestor conveyed to one East L. C. I. Ay I have the Note of such a Conveyance in my Notes of the last Tryal Mr. Att. Gen. Mr. Sutton is that a true Copy Sutton Yes it is Mr. Williams A Copy of what where did you examine it Sir Sutton At the Roles-Chappel Mr. Att. Gen. It is a Deed enrolled and I hope you do not think the Record is forged Mr. Williams Mr. Williams I know not what you forge or do not forge pray read it let us see what it is The Copy of a Deed enroled dated 27 July 3 Eliz. was read L. C. I. Then the next thing that you produced was a Bond dated the 25th of Ianuary 4 Eliz. wherein Stepkins was bound to Spinola who was Administrator of Vivold and Salvago upon the Recognizance of Hill to them Mr. Att. Gen. We did so my Lord but that we cannot now readily find I think here however is Spinola's Discharge Clerk This is Signed by me Benedict Spinola and Dated the 25th of Feb. 1561. Mr. Att. Gen. Here is the Bond read the Condition of it though it

THE Famous Tryal in B.R. BETWEEN THOMAS NEALE Esq AND THE Late Lady Theadosia Ivy. The 4th of Iune 1684. BEFORE The RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Late Lord Jeffreys Lord Chief Justice of ENGLAND For PART of SHADWELL IN THE County of MIDDLESEX AS ALSO The Title of the Creditors of Sir Anthony Bateman and the Heirs of Whichcott compared with that of the Lady Ivy to certain Lands in WAPPING TOGETHER WITH A Pamphlet heretofore writ and set out by Sir Thomas Ivy her Husband Himself and here now Reprinted again In Perpetuam Rei Memoriam Printed in the Year 1696. TO THE READER THE late Lady Ivy so many Years famous for Wit Beauty and Cunning in Law above any being so Unfortunate in the Year 1684. in a Tryal between Thomas Neale Esq and her Ladyship before the then Lord Chief Justice Ieffryes to have the Deeds by her then produced not believed such of her Heirs and Executors as have not renounced which some of them have the having any thing to do with her Title as well in Vindication of her Ladyships Honour as of the Integrity of such Council and Attorneys as then were imployed in the Cause in Case they should be so again do give out of late that though she and they then were so cruelly baffled they however will try for 't again Now for the Honour of both Judges and Jury before whom that Cause was then tryed and for the Benefit of the Free-holders of Middlesex whose Estates may be possibly subject to be claimed by Deeds left by her Ladyship she having often declared she had Title to many more Houses and Lands than she in her Life time had sued for as also for the Satisfaction of such as are in the least desirous to know the Truth of this Matter The following Tryal is Printed with a Map of the Land then tryed for being about seven Acres in Shadwell in the County of Middlesex of which the Lady Ivy by a Verdict the Michaelmas Term before had got the Possession The State of the Question being whither the said seven Acres was part of the ancient Inheritance of the Dean of St. Pauls London to whom the said Mr. Neale was Lessee and so now the Lessor of the Plaintiff or part of Wapping-Marsh that had been dreined by one Vanderdelf and after sold to the Stepkinses under whom Lady Ivy did claim As likewise is with it reprinted Three or Four Sheets of Paper writ in the Year 1687. comparing the Lady Ivy's Title with that of the Creditors of Sir Anthony Bateman and the Heirs of Witchcutt for Lands in Wapping with a Map thereof as it now lies most plain and exactly agreeing with the Boundaries mentioned in the old Deeds on Record by which alone and no other they claim and now are possest of the same To which also is added a Pamphlet entituled Allimony Arraigned writ by Sir Thomas Ivy her Husband himself Reprinted herewith to make the Book sell the better and to the longer perpetuate so true and diverting a Story The CONTENTS THE Dean of St. Pauls Title from pag. 1 to pag. 4 Lady Ivies Title from pag. 4 to 22 Knowles Examined about finding Deeds for Lady Ivy p. 7 Swears he found out one Deed by what was Writ on the Outside and nothing was Writ on it p. 8 Swears he found another Deed by seeing Marcellus Hall's Name Writ on the Outside which Writing after appeared to be writ by Sutton Lady Ivies Attorney p. 9 The Survey of Stepney produced for and by Lady Ivy but proved otherwise p. 12 Banister Lady Ivyes Rent-gatherer Examined to the finding a Deed in Knowles's House to which he had set his Hand and swears he found it there p. 15 But it proved the Purchase Deed and so that could not be p. 16 Banister and Knowles swear contrary to each other p. 17 A Commission of Sewers produced but not by the proper Officer p. 23 The Overshot-Mill pretended to by Lady Ivyes own Witnesses made appear to be a Tide-Mill p. 26 Mrs. Barefoot a through paced Witness sworn and other Witnesses of Lady Ivyes p. 29 to 32 The Plaintiffs Reply p. 32 Foxes-lane proved the Boundary 'twixt the Deans Land and Wapping-Marsh by Mar and Leyburn the Surveyers proved 130 Acres West of Foxes-Lane p. 37 The Forgery opened and proved by the Style of the Deeds themselves by Styles in the Acts of Parliament and Fines of that time p. 38 Sir Charles Cotterell sworn p. 39 Sir Charles tells the story of Lady Ivyes forging a Mortgage of 1500 l. from Sir William Salkeild and how Mr. Duffett was privy to it and how Mr. Sutton was so concern'd in it that L.C.J. said it smelt rank of a Knave how Lady Ivy did relinquish this Mortgage but afterwards writ Duffett word she would set it up again and that he should have half of what she Recovered p. 40 Lady Ivy frets at Sir Charles Cotterell's Evidence p. 41 Mrs. Duffett Lady Salthills Daughter and Widow to Mr. Duffett who was reputed to forge for Lady Ivy being sworn swears she saw her Husband forge several Deeds for Lady Ivy. 1st a Bond of 1000 l. from Sir Tho. Ivy. 2d Several Letters 3d. She seeing him writing a Parchment she asked him what 't was and was answered he was Counterfeiting one Glovers Lease by which Lady Ivy would get many hundreds of Pounds and that he should get 500 l. 4th the aforesaid 1500 l. Mortgage Lady Ivy and Mr. Duffett agreed to make in my Sight Lady Ivy directing what Ink to use to make it look Old that Mr. Sutton was lett in when Mr. Duffett was counterfeiting for Lady Ivy and how they rub'd the Deeds on dirty Windows and wore them in their Pockets and laid them out in Balconies and shriveled them before the Fire or in the Sun to make them look Old p. 41 200 l. of the Money borrowed of Sir Charles Cotterel at one time given to Mr. Duffett and as much to Mr. Sutton Mrs. Eliz. Riccord Sworn produced Lady Ivy's own Letters left with her by Mr. Duffett to whom they were writ in one of which she tells him she intends to set Sir William Salthill's Mortgages on foot again and as her Husband promised him he should have half and two Bottles of Ink out of which she saw Mr. Duffett write for Lady Ivy what he said was forged and said that with Ink out of these Bottles he could make new writter Writings look old very soon p. 42 Here the Plaintiff ended and then follows Mr. Attorney General 's Arguments to palliate the Forgeries p. 43 Mr. Sollicitor Geneneral endeavours but to no purpose to make them not believed Forged p. 44 Mr. Solicitor General pressing that for Evidence very hard the Lord Chief Iustice would not admit p. 45 Mr. Attorney and Mr. Sollicitor say all they can for Lady Ivy p. 45 Then follows the Lord Chief Iustices Speech wherein he incomparably Summs up the whole Evidence p. 46 His Lordship speaks of the

the Grace of God King and Queen of England Spain France both Cicilies Ierusalem and Ireland Defenders of the Faith Arch Dukes of Austria Dukes of Burgundy Millain and Brabant Counties of Hasburg Flanders and Tyroll The other is This Indenture made the 22th day of December in the same Year Now in November and December 2 and 3 of Philip and Mary it was impossible for any man in the World to draw a Deed in this Form that those two Writings are Mr. Att. Gen. Is that your Demonstration L. C. I. Pray let him go on methinks it is very ingenious Mr. Bradbury My Lord I had the hint from my Lord Coke in his first Institutes not as to this particular Stile for I know he is mistaken there but for the detecting of Forgeries in general L. C. I. It is very well pray go on Mr. Bradbury My Lord at that time King Philip and Queen Mary were among other Stiles stiled King and Queen of Naples Princes of Spain and Sicily they never were called King and Queen of Spain and both the Cicilies then And lastly Burgundy was never put before Millain Now to prove all this that I say I have here all the Records of that time which will prove their Stile to be otherwise First We shall shew the Acts of Parliament of that time The sitting began the 21th of October in that Year which was before their Deeds and ended the 9th of December after We shall first read the Titles of the Acts of Parliament and you will find them just as I have opened them Read the Statute Book Clerk Reads Acts made at a Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the one and twentieth day of October in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord and Lady Philip and Mary by the Grace of God King and Queen of England France Naples Ierusalem and Ireland Defenders of the Faith Princes of Spain and Sicily Arch Dukes of Austria Dukes of Millain Burgundy and Brabant Counties of Haspurg Flanders and Tyroll and there continued and kept until the Dissolution of the same being the ninth day of December then next ensuing M. Bradbury Here in the Acts made by the Publick Council of the Kingdom the Style is in the ancient manner And your Lordships observes these no small differences Here first Spain is left out in the enumeration of the Kingdoms and so Sicily and Naples is instead of them In the Deeds Spain is put in before France and the Sicilies made a Kingdom too Secondly Here in the Style of the Act they are called but Princes of Spain and Sicily that in the Deeds is quite left out And then in the Acts of Parliament Millain is put before Burgundy in the Deeds Burgundy before Millain And how this great alteration of the Style should come to be put in a Millers Lease is strange We have next an account of all the Fines of Hillary Term which was the Term next following for their first Deed happens to be in Michaelmas Term and then the Parliament sate too Many of which were read Mr. Bradbury Here are likewise the Fines of Easter Term following which shew that still the Old Style continued in all the publick Records And if we could as easily have brought all the Enrolments of Deeds that would prove the same The Fines of Easter Term read Mr. Bradbury Now my Lord we shall shew when the Style turn'd that was in Trinity Term after The Fines read Mr. Bradbury But I cannot see how these Deeds could be truly made at that time when they stand single and none like them can be shewn except they come from the same Forge that these do I cannot believe the Miller alone or he that drew his Leases for him could so long before prophecy what manner of Style should hereafter be used Mr. Williams Your Lordship has heard our Deed of the 10th of December in the same Year read already but we having here the Leiger Book of the Church of St. Pauls which cannot be made for a Turn but was written at that time we desire the Style may be read there Which was done But to go a little further to satisfie your Lordship that they are very likely to be forged We shall give some evidence that this is not an unusual thing with some People concerned in this Cause The Witnesses will name them to you and give you an account of it Swear this Lady and Sir Charles Cotterel Which was done L. C. I. Well what is it you call these Persons to Sir Iohn Trevor To speak plain my Lord we call them to give an account of my Lady Ivies forging a Mortgage from one Sir William Salkhill for 1500 l. of a House in St. Martins Lane to which forgery Mr. Duffet that Ladies Husband was privy and what benefit he should have by it you will hear Sir Charles Cotterel pray will you tell what you know of my Lady Ivie in this matter Sir Charles Cotterell My Lord that which I have to say is this My Lord I am Tenant to my Lady Salkhill Sir William Salkhill's Widow in a House in St. Martins Lane and was so to her Husband a year and a half before he died The House hath been built backward and the Garden side they kept to themselves But all the House that was first built I took and have it still My Lord my Lady Ivy did come to the House about three months before Sir William died parting from her Husband Sir Thomas Ivy she came thither as a Refuge where she had been before and was received very kindly He died as I said about three months after and my Lady then desired to know how accounts stood between Sir William and her about monies he had lent her and supplied her with And upon the Account she appeared to owe Sir William 96 l. she then took 4 l. more out of my Lady Salthills mony and told her now Madam I owe you 100 l. She had been entertained as a Guest there without paying any thing for it and at his death she continued with my Lady Salthill three quarters of a year after And being there as she pretended in great kindness to me she persuaded my Lady and me that the Lease of my Ladies House should be turned over to me in trust for a Debt of fourscore pounds that was owing to me by Sir William Salkhill Said I to my Lady Salkhill Madam I am in no doubt of my mony I pay as much Rent as this in a Year and more I can pay my self that way pary let not me meddle with any such thing Mr. Duffett will be persuaded I intend to cheat them if I should But still my Lady Ivy was at it and prevailed upon my Lady Salkhill to press me to it At last upon their importunity said I if it be necessary for my Ladies service let it be done what you think fit She therefore gave direction to Mr. Sutton and he

omitted any thing that is material on either side they have free liberty to remind the Court of it you are the Judges of this Fact whether this Land do of Right belong to the Plaintiff or to the Defendant And I leave it to your Consideration After which the Jury withdrew to consider of their Verdict and the Court arose That Evening the Jury gave in a Private Verdict before a Judge and appearing the next Morning at the Barr were called over and demanded if they did abide by the Verdict they had given the Night before to which they answered yes which being declared by the Secondary to be for the Plaintiff the Jury were discharged Then a Motion was made by the Plaintiffs Counsel that several Deeds produced by the Defendant that were detected of Forgery might be lest in Court in order to have them pursued and convicted of the Forgery The Court upon debate of the Matter and the Plaintiffs Counsel declaring they would prosecute an Information of Forgery the Deeds of the 13th of November and the 22th of December 2 and 3 Phil. and Mar. were ordered to be lest with the Clerk of the Crown till further Order and in the mean time the Plaintiff to have Copies of them from the Clerk and by Rule of Court a Tryal at Barr is ordered in Michaelmas Term. FINIS The land within and belowe the Red Line is the Land that was in 1683 Claimed by the Lady Ivy and is the Seaven Acres of Land in which the Mill Ponds and Ditches did all over dispersed by lie and into which the Water did every Tyde flow and then there was kept in by the Thames or Mill Wall on the South and East Corner of it and by Wall-Marsh Wall now foxes Lane on the West and went out againe at the Ebb and so did drive a tide Mill To which with its appurtences which must have been this Land the Deans of St. Pauls on Record can Shew Title in fee for more then 400 years and their Tenants all along have enjoyed it and yet the dispute by the Lady Ivy rais'd twixt the said Dean and her self has been whether this very ground be parcel of 130 acres drowned Land now called Wapping Marsh that drained but about 150 years since in Henry the Eights time or not 1687. Now in Perpetuam Rei Memoriam and for that Cause this is printed Note THE Survey of the Mannour of Stepney and on Record in that Court by the Lady Ivy first she knowing that it would by the Dean be produced taken in and about the 25th Eliz. with Reference to other Surveys above 100 years older sets out and describes by it self the whole 130 Acres of Marsh and Butts the same on the Lands of the Dean of St. Paul's London held of the Mannour of Stepney towards the East and that is on this very Land The Act for Draining the whole 130 Acres in Henry the Eighth's time Butts the same East on the Town of Ratcliff which is also on this very Land every part of it Eastward of Foxes Lane having always been reckon'd in Ratcliff and ever so named in all Leases and Deeds till Shadwell was by 〈◊〉 of Parliament made a Parish distinct from the Hamlet of Ratcliff in or about 1670. And it is to be Noted That this Land Eastward of Foxes Lane was also among other Surveyed and Sold as 〈◊〉 and Chapters Land in the late Times of Rebellion in or about 1652. and was and is all of it but just ●here the Ditches and Ponds were 8 or 10 foot higher than the Lands Westward of Foxes Lane which are al●●●ed to be part of Stepkins's Lands in the Marsh. And besides this 130 Acres of Marsh so set out as in the Survey aforesaid the said Stepney Survey sets also out for the Dean Shadwel-Field by estimation 20 Acres and Bounded as it really is and 5 Acres of Linches Bounded just as it 〈◊〉 And also this Land as it follows described a Tenement called Derekin and one Tenement late Pinserus de 〈◊〉 together with a Water-Mill divers Tenements Cottages Mansion-Houses Orchards Gardens Ponds 〈◊〉 and Pitles all lying together Butting South on the Thames and on Wall alias Wapping Marsh in part Marked A in the Map and on the Linches in part Marked B and on Ratcliff High-way in part on the North 〈◊〉 on Wall or Wapping Marsh on the West and upon the Lords Waste towards the East held of the Mannour of Stepney freely ever since Richard the Second's time at 33 s. 3 d. ½ per annum quit Rent and the same is still yearly paid for it And yet the Claim made by Lady Ivy as aforesaid would take almost all this whole parcel away and by that 〈◊〉 the Ground wherein these last mentioned Tenements Orchards Gardens Ponds c. belonging to the Dean 〈◊〉 most certainly lye and are so exactly described in the aforesaid Survey and without which there could be to place there to hold and keep Water to drive the said Mill And for the mending that matter the Lady Ivy's Counsel at the last Trial alledged it had once been an Overshot-Mill and so did not want these Ditches and Ponds to hold and keep Water to drive it withal and the better to make that out some Deeds were then given 〈◊〉 Evidence with Stile and Titles before them which were not in use at the time of the date of those Deeds and so they were not believed when produced nor indeed is it sense in any sort to imagine that an Overshot-Mill there being no Water would drive one could in Nature have ever been there And yet Lady Ivy again would pretend to this Land Eastward of Foxes Lane as parcel of Wapping Marsh notwithstanding all this and a Verdict against her at a Trial in 1684. before the Right Honourable George Lord Jeffreyes Baron of Wemme the present Lord Chancellour then Lord Chief Justice of England and what was 〈◊〉 said then and may well be so again against her new found Deeds the finder of which as perjured has already been Pillory'd for it and notwithstanding that her Grandfather Iohn Stepkins Esq 16 Aug. 1615. did ●●mise to one Cayford the three parcels of Marsh lying next to and Westward of Foxes Lane which is held by 〈◊〉 Lease till this day and therein says that it lies at the East end of Wapping Marsh next towards Ratcliff ●●●tting Eastward on the old Wall which divided the same from the Mill-Ditch which lay just East of Foxes L●●e And the Michaelmas-Term following the said Iohn Stepkins suffered a Non-suit in the King's-Bench after 〈◊〉 Ejectment by him brought against the Dean's Lessee for part only of Wall-Marsh-Wall which he said was encroched on the Marsh. And In 1617. the said Stepkins Claiming again the same thing a Verdict on a full Hearing and after a View was in the Common Pleas given against him and allowing the whole Wall to belong to the Dean of St. Paul's And notwithstanding that her

but whether it be just and righteous I submit to your Breast and that is thus That although it was Convenanted between Mr. Stepkins and my Trustees that in case I did not perform all the Covenants to which I had obliged my self then was the said Estate of 240 l. to go to the use of the right Heirs of the said Stepkins until such time as I should perform By virtue of this Clause did young Stepkins lay claim to the said Estate Yet say the Commissioners that Mr. Stepkins the Father Who had reserved unto himself the Remainder of the said Limitation to me and my Wife made a Will and by that Will had acquitted me from any further Performance insomuch that the Estate was now totally belonging unto me This I believe my Wife told them and peradventure shewed them such a Will and this is their Ground But by their leave I cannot think till such a Will be legally proved That it can be any Ground for them to give away the Estate in such manner as they have upon a bare suggestion of one Party for whose interest and profit it was Certainly had they been as conscientions Judges as they are Judges of Conscience they would have first caused her to prove the said Will which then had clear'd the Estate from the claim of my Brother Stepkins and saved me the expences of some Suits in Chancery for no other end than to get the Will produced which to this day I am not able to do Notwithstanding I have a Bill of Complaint depending before them for that purpose Nevertheless all these discouragements it pleased the Lord to give me a proportionable measure of Patience to submit unto his correcting hand and in the most sore Afflictions which I have undergone he hath not with-held his loving kindnesses from me nor the sweetness of his refreshing Spirit though many Oppressions and Grievances were daily multipled and many new Suits at Law were let on foot against me by my Wives means who now seemed justified by them and my self vilified and undervalued Yet was I not clamorous at their Bar neither was I ever admitted to any private Speeches with them or indeed did ever seek it being confident that my cause wanted the Protection of Justice only and not favour but waited still expecting when they would put their good Promise in Execution and send for us and endeavour a cordial Reconciliation between us But after two months were expired and hearing nothing from them to that purpose though many several Friends of Quality had moved them thereunto I addressed my self with an humble Petition for a hearing After it was read they appointed a day though it was somewhat far off yet it did abundantly revive me hoping that that day would be the end of my trouble and that then my Reputation and Estate might be repaired my Person freed from the continual molestation of Catchpoles And my Wife her self whom I had perfectly forgiven restored unto my Bosom The Order which the Lords made in Answer to my Petition was this Saturday 29th of April 1653. Between Theodosia Ivie Plaintiff Wife of Thomas Ivie Defendant UPon the Defendants Humble Petition this day preferred to the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal of England shewing That in the unhappy difference fomented by evil persons between the said Parties and the said Plaintiff hath petitioned their Lordships for Alimony being separted from her Husband without his Consent Thereby intending to live a-part by her self contrary to the Marriage Stipulation to the destruction of the mutual happy Comfort that might and ought to be between parties so nearly joyned pending with Suit Their Lordships as Iudges of good Conscience did often move her to Conformity and Reconcilement chiefly desired by the said Defendant but the Plaintiff refused And by an Order of the 24th of Iuly last their Lordships were pleased to appoint her 300 l. per Annum out of her Fathers Estate until further Order And the said Defendant being daily arrested and troubled for the said Plaintiffs Debts cannot walk the streets without molestation by the Officers and Bailiffs It was prayed That some day as soon as to their Honours shall seem meet may be appointed to hear the Defendants Reasons and the merits of the Cause why the said Order should be nulled To command the Defendant and his Wife to be personally before their Lordships at the same time so that there might be a final Conclusion of these unhappy and unnatural Differences under which the Defendant hath long groaned to his utter Ruine Their Lordships do thereupon Order that Counsel on both sides be heard in the Business the first Day of Causes in Trinity Term next Iohn Sandford Deput Regist. My Hopes and Expectations being now raised from the Dust I considered with my self how I might represent the Case between me and my Wife with the least prejudice to her For upon some Debatings about the Witnesses I had examined against her I found the Breach still made wider by her Lawyers aggravations than it was really in it self what was but a scar they would tear open into a wound nay they preferr'd a seeming Rhetorick so far before a Christianity that rather than they would exasperate they would speak Point Blank to the very Papers they held in their hands And therefore to prevent the like Inconveniences and aiming at a perfect Reconciliation I drew up all that Counsel could be instructed in or could offer at the Bar into writing and for each Commissioner had a Paper ready to be presented as follows To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of England WHereas the Daught of an Order was on Friday August the 13th made and presented unto your Honours by the Counsel of the Plaintiff and Mr. Zanchie her Sollicitor not entred into the Registers Book or drawn up by him from any Notes taken in Court or was ever perused by the Defendants Counsel before it was signed according to the Rules of the Court in which Order it was mentioned that 300 l. per Annum should be raised out of the Fathers Estate which was setled at the Marriage upon Sir John Brampston Knight Orlanlando Bridgman Esq and William Booth to uses c. and upon the reading of it it was ordered by your Lordships at the same time that unless the Defendant should shew cause at the next Privy Seal a Decree should pass accordingly And whereas it was ordered by another of August the 19th That on Tuesday following the Defendant should attend and shew Cause why the said 300 l. per Annum should not be decreed May it therefore please your Honours to consider these following Considerations which are all proved upon Oath and good Evidence wherein he hopeth it is sufficiently cleared that the Plaintiff neither ought to have any Alimony out of that which was her Fathers Estate or out of her Husbands Mrs. Ivie the Wife of Thomas Ivie suggesteth

both with the Heirs at Law the Executors of the said Will and the Trustees of the said Estate That both the Defendant and Plaintiff must necessarily be defeated of all Hopes of ever enjoying the Father's Estate for the future unless the 4000 l. aforesaid be raised and disposed of according as is limited and appointed in the Deed of Settlement or the said Will proved for in Default thereof the Trusttes are obliged by the said Indenture to settle the said Estate on the Plaintiffs Father and his Heirs for ever And the Estate is not as yet recovered by the Defendant but is still invested in the Trustees who are no Parties to these Proceedings and in the Possession of the Heir at Law Insomuch that no Alimony as the Defendant is advised by his Counsel can be ordered from hence because the Ordinance of Parliament impowereth the Lords Commissioners to allow the Maintenance out of the Husband's Estate not out of any others whatsoever And the Plaintiff hath or ought to have in her Custody 1200 l. worth of Jewels which were delivered her according to the Indenture of Settlement at the Intermarriage And in case the Defendant survive her ought to be restored to the Defendant who hath too great reason to suspect that they are wasted and embezelled and therefore the Defendant humbly beseecheth your Lordships that instead of giving her Alimony you will be pleased to force her to give good Security unto the Defendant or bring the Jewels into Court that so he may not be cheated of 1200 l. by the Plaintiff and her Abettors and unless your Honours yield to secure the said Jewels whilst this Cause depends before you he doth not conceive where or how he can be redressed from any Court of England That about the beginning of these Unhappy Differences it was proposed both by the Plaintiff and her Father that in case she might have her liberty to live where she would that she would accept of 120 l. per Annum for her Maintenance and look on it as a very good Provision which accordingly was agreed upon and drawn into Writing and Engrossed by and with the Consent of Sir Iohn Brampstone her Uncle and Orlando Bridgeman Esq two of her Trustees her Father also promising that his Estate should be setled according to the Covenants on the Defendant without further Sute of Law but the said Defendant was unwilling to Seal it being very tender to Act any thing that might separate him from the continual Enjoyment and Society of his Wife so that 300 l. per Annum is more than her self Father Trustees and Friends did think fitting by 180 l. per Annum That the Petition it self is both False and Scandalous and hath been disproved by several Witnesses nay the contrary also proved by Persons of Quality that she lived very Plentifully in great abundance rather beyond than under her Quality in every respect as the Defendant hopeth is most visible to your Honours That notwithstanding such vast Sums have been expended on her by her means and that the said Defendant is to pay to Creditors 3000 l. and to raise 4000 l. more to be secured unto the Trustees as aforesaid And that in case he recover the Plaintiffs Father's Estate 't will not with his own make above 872 l. per Annum out of which all these Moneys must be raised and in case 300 l. per Annum of this shall be taken away out of the Plaintiffs Father's Estate which he has dearly bought and purchased That 't will be impossible for the Defendant to avoid perpetual Imprisonment but must be kept in Goal and the Creditors Defrauded and must there perish and himself be cheated also of 1200 l. worth of Jewels yet he is most willing to receive her and take her again and forget all former Passages whatsoever that so they may be for the future lead a peaceable and godly Life together Counsel also I did retain very many and great ones That in Case the Lords should refuse the Papers and would not hear the Merits of the Cause in Publick in regard I might not be wanting to lose the opportunity of that Time which they had ordered for me I drew up also to be rendred at the same time that if it had been possible I might have prevented both Reading and Arguing too this short Petition following Theodosia Ivie Plaintiff Thomas Ivie Defendant To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of England The Humble Petition of Thomas Ivie Defendant Sheweth THat your Petitioner with much Horror and Amazement doth consider the great unhappiness of his future life if your Lordships shall both separate him from the Society of his Wife and take from him so great a part of his Estate having such great debts to pay as have been made appear to your Lordships That he cannot Despair in the infinite Mercy of God in whose hands are the hearts and desires of all Mankind But that his Wife notwithstanding such vast sums of Money have been wasted and such odious aspersions cast on him may yet return and take Comfort from her Husband being passionately desirous to receive her if all Christian and prudent means may be applied That for your Petitioners part he doth as in the presence of God forgive her from the bottom of his Soul and is most willing to cohabit with her so long as he liveth on Earth That he hath often desired to express unto her and used all the Industry as Man can imagine but once to speak with her even before any of her Friends to let her know so much but could never obtain any such meeting from her In Order hereunto he very willing that a Godly and Conscientious Divine may be received to live in house with your Petitioner and his Wife both to exhort and instruct them in their Duties towards God and one another and to perform all Gospel and Family-Duties amongst them for certainly the Lord will not deny a Blessing on those means which he hath ordained and which is unfeignedly sought after by a broken and contrite Spirit And your Petitioner will oblige himself to allow any such Minister 50 l. per Annum besides all other conveniences whatsoever May it therefore please your Lordships not to pronounce any such hard Sentence as Separaration but rather enjoyn your Petitioner and his Wife to live together and to appoint any honest and religious Divine to live with them who may ever be at hand pray with them and for them and keep up their Spirits in Peace and Unity together August 24th 1652. And your Petitioner shall pray c. Thomas Ivie When the Day came and the Counsel began to speak my hopes were quickly commanded to vanish and the Counsel to hold their Peace for they suddenly declared That they would not hear the Merits of the Cause With much pressing Mr. Lisle read the Petition And though they took evident notice of it yet would they not