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A38203	Articles of accusation, exhibited by the Commons House of Parliament now assembled, against Sr. John Bramston Knight, Sr. Robert Berkley Knight, justices of His Majesties Bench, Sr. Francis Crawley Knight, one of the justices of the Common-Pleas, Sr. Humphrey Davenport Knight, Sr. Richard Weston Knight, and Sr. Thomas Trevor Knight, barons of His Majesties Exchequer	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; Bramston, John, Sir, 1577-1654.; Berkeley, Robert, Sir, 1584-1656.; Crawley, Francis, Sir, 1573 or 4-1649.; Davenport, Humphrey, Sir, 1566-1645.; Weston, Richard, Sir, 1579?-1652.; Trevor, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1656.	1641 (1641)	Wing E2521; ESTC R6725	30,776	51

information and thereby knowing it to be one Henry Browne one of the said grand Jurie he asked the said Browne how he durst meddle with Church matters who affirming that in the said charge from Master Sergeant Atkins the said Jurie were charged so to do he the said Sir Robert Berkley told the said Browne hee should therefore finde 〈◊〉 for the good behaviour and that hee the said Sir Robert Berkley would set a great fine on his head to make him an example to others and thereupon the said Browne offered sufficient baile but hee the said Sir Robert Berkley being incensed against him refused the said baile and committed the said Browne to prison where hee lay in Irons till the next morning and used to the said Browne and the rest of the Jurors many other reviling and terrifying speeches and said he knew no Law for the said presentment and told the said Browne that he had sinned in the said presentment And hee compelled the said grand Jurors to say they were sorrie for what they had done in that presentment and did bid them to trample the said presentment under their feet and caused Browne to teare the said presentment in his sight And hee the said Sir Robert Berkley when as John Houland and Ralph Pemberton late Maior of St. Albans came to desire his opinion on severall Indictments against John Browne Parson of Saint Albans and Anthonie Smith Vicar of St. Peters in Saint Albans at the quarter Sessions held for the said towne of St. Albans on the foure and twentieth of June 1639. for the removall of the Communion Table out of the usuall place and not administring the Sacrament according to the Law in that Case provided Hee the said Sir Robert Barkley then told them that such an Indictment was before him at Hertford and that he quashed the same and imprisoned the Promoters by which threatning and reviling speeches unjust actions and declarations he so terrified the Jurors in those parts that they durst not present any Innovations in Church matters to their great griefe and trouble of their consciences And whereas severall indictments were preferred against John Brooke Parson of Yarmouth by John Ingrane and John Carter for refusing severall times to administer the Sacrament of the Lords supper to them without any lawfull cause at the Assizes held at Norwich in 〈◊〉 1633. he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Judges of the Assize proceeded then to the triall on the said Indictments where the matter in issue being that the said Brooke refused to administer the said Sacrament because the said Ingram and Carter would not receive tickets with their Sir-names before their Christen-names which was a course never used amongst them but by the said Brooke He the said Sir Robert Berkley did then much discourage the said Ingrams Councell and over-ruled the cause for matter of Law so as the Jurie never went from the Bar but there found for the said Brooke And the said Sir Robert Berkley bound the said Ingram to the good behaviour for prosecuting the said Indictments and ordered him to pay costs to the said Brooke for wrongfully inditing him And whereas the said Carter not expecting the triall at the same Assizes he preferred his Indictment was then absent whereupon the said Sir Robert Berkley did cause to be entred on the said Indictment a vacat quia non sufficiens in lege and ordered an attachment against the said Carter which said proceedings against the said Ingram and Carter by the said Sir Robert Berkley were contrary to Law and Justice and to his own knowledge 10. That the said Sir Rob. Berkley being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and duely sworn as aforesaid in Trinitie Terme an. 1637. deferred to discharge or baile Alexander Jennings prisoner in the Fleet brought by Habeas Corpus to the Bar of the said Court the returne of his Commitment being that he was committed by two severall warrants from the Lords of the Councell dated the fift of November 1636. the first being onely read in Court expressing no cause the other for not paying Messengers fees and untill he should bring a certificate that hee had paid his Assessement for Ship-money in the County of Bucks but remitted him And in Michaelmas Terme after the said Jennings being brought by another Habeas Corpus before him as aforesaid and the same returned yet he the said Sir Robert Berkley refused to discharge or baile him but remitted him And in Easter Terme after severall rules were given for his Majesties Councell to shew cause why the said Jenings should not be bailed a fourth rule was made for the said Jenings to let his Majesties Attorney Generall have notice thereof and notice was given accordingly and the said Jenings by another Habeas Corpus brought to the Barre in Trinity Terme after and the same returne with this addition of a new Commitment of the fourth of May suggesting he the said Jenings had used diverse scandalous words in derogation and disparagement of his Majesties government He the said Jenings after severall rules in the end of the said Trinity Terme was againe remitted to prison And he the said Sir Robert Berkley did on the fifth of June last deferre to grant his Majesties Writ of Habeas Corpus for William Pargiter and Samuel Danvers Esquires prisoners in the Gate-house and in the Fleet And afterwards having granted the said Writ of Habeas Corpus the said Pargiter and Danvers were on the eighth of June last brought to the Barre of the said Court where the returnes of their Commitments were severall warrants from the Lords of the Councell not expressing any cause yet he the said Sir Robert Berkley then sitting in the said Court deferred to baile the said Pargiter and Danvers and the eighteenth of June last made a rule for a new returne to be received which were returned the five and twentieth of June last in haec verba Whereas his Majestie finding that his subjects of Scotland have in rebellious and hostile manner assembled themselves together and intend not onely to shake off their obedience unto his Majestie but also as enemies to invade and infest this his Kingdome of England to the danger of his Royall Person c. For prevention whereof his Majestie hath by the advice of his Councell-board given speciall commandement to all the Lord Lievtenants of all the Counties of this Realme appointed for their Randenvouz in their severall and respective Counties there to be conducted and drawne together into a body for this service And whereas his Majestie according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and the constant custome of his Predecessours Kings and Queenes of this Realme hath power for the defence of this kingdome and resisting the force of the Enemies thereof to grant forth Commissions under his great Seale to such fit persons as he shall make choice of to array and arme the Subjects of this kingdome and

to compell those who are of able body and of able estates to arme themselves and such as should not be able of bodies but of ability in estate to assesse them according to their estates to contribute towards the charge of arraying and arming others being able of body and not able in estate to arme themselves And such persons as should be contrariant to commit to prison there to remaine untill the King should take further order therein And whereas the Earle of Exeter by vertue of his Majesties Commission to him directed for the arraying and arming of a certaine number of persons in the County of Northampton hath assest William Pargiter being a man unfit of body for that service but being of estate and ability fit to contribute amongst others to pay the summe of five shillings towards the arraying and arming of others of able bodies and wanting ability to array and arme themselves And whereas we have received information from the said Earle that the said William Pargiter hath not onely in a wilfull and disobedient manner refused to pay the said money assessed upon him towards so important a service to the disturbance and hinderance of the necessary defence of this kingdome but also by his ill example hath mis-led many others and as we have just cause to beleeve hath practised to seduce others from that ready obedience which they owe and would otherwise have yeelded to his Majesties just command for the publike defence of his person and kingdom which we purpose with all convenient speed to enquire further of and examine These are therefore to will and require you to take into your custody the persons of the said William Pargiter and Samuel Danvers and them safely to keepe prisoners till further order from this Board or untill by due course of Law they shall be delivered Yet he the said Sir Robert Berkley being desired to baile the said Pargiter and Danvers remitted them where they remained prisoners till the ninth of November last or thereabouts although the said Jennings Pargiter and Danvers on all and every the said returnes were cleerly baileable by Law and the Councell of the said Jennings Pargiter and Danvers offered in Court very sufficient baile And he the said Sir Robert Berkley being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench denied to grant his Majesties Writs of Habeas Corpus to very many others his Majesties subjects and when he had granted the said Writs of Habeas Corpus to very many others his Majesties subjects and on the returne no cause appeared or such onely as was clearly baileable by Law yet he remanded them where they remained prisoners very long which said deferring to grant the said Writs of Habeas Corpus and refusals and delayes to discharge prisoners or suffer them to be bailed contained in this Article are destructive to the fundamentall Lawes of this Realme and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament and to the petition of Right which said resolutions and petition of Right were well knowne to him the said Sir Robert Berkley and were resolved on and enacted when he was the Kings Serjeant at Law and Attendant in the Lords House in Parliament 11 That wheras there was a cause depending in the Court Christian at Norwich betweene Samuel Booty Clerke and 〈◊〉 Collard for 2 s in the l. for tithes for rents and houses in Norwich and the said Collard moved by his Councell in the Court of Kings Bench for a prohibition to stay proceedings in the Court Christian at Norwich and delivered into the said Court of Kings Bench his suggestions that the said cause in the said Court Christian was onely for tythes for rents of houses in Norwich which was determinable by the Common Law onely yet hee the said Sir Robert Berkley being one of the Justices of the said Court of Kings Bench and sitting in the said Court deferred to grant a Prohibition to the said Court Christian in the said cause although the Councell did move in the said Court many severall times and severall termes for a Prohibition And he the said Sir Bobert Berkley deferred to grant his Majesties writ of Prohibition to severall other Courts on the motions of divers others of his Majesties subjects where the same by the Lawes of this Realme ought to have been granted contrary to the Laws of this Realme and his owne knowledge All which words opinions and actions were so spoken and done by him the said Sir Robert Berkley traiterously and wickedly to alienate the hearts of his Majesties liege people from his Majestie and to set a division betwixt them and to subvert the fundamentall Lawes and established government of his Majesties Realme of England For which they doe impeach him the said Sir Robert Berkley one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench of high treason against our Soveraigne Lord the King his Crowne and Dignity and of the misdemeanours above-mentioned And the said Commons by protestation saving to themselves onely the liberties of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other accusation or impeachment against the said Sir Robert Berkley and also of replying to the answer that he the said Sir Robert Berkley shal make to the said Articles or any of them or of offering proofe of the premisses or any other impeachments or accusations that shall be exhibited by them as the Case shall according to the course of Parliaments require Doe pray that the said Sir Robert Berkley one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench may be put to answer to all and every the premisses and that such proceedings examinations trialls judgements and executions may be upon every of them had and used as is agreeable to Law and Justice Articles of the House of Commons in the name of themselves and all the Commons of England against Sir Iohn Brampston Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the Court of Kings Bench impeaching him as followeth 1. THat the said Sir Iohn Brampston then being Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Court of Kings Bench and having taken an oath for the due administration of justice to his Majesties liege people according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme did on or about the last of November 1635. subscribe his name to an opinion in haec verba I am of opinion that as where the benefit doth more peculiarly redound to the good of the Ports or Maritime ports as in case of Pyracie or Depredations upon the Seas there the charge hath beene and may be lawfully imposed upon them according to presidents of former times so where the good and safety of the kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole kingdome in danger of which his Majestie is the onely Iudge there the charge of the defence ought to be borne by all the realme in generall this I hold agreeable both to Law and reason 2 That hee the said Sir Iohn Brampston then being Lord cheife Iustice of the Court of Kings Bench about the Moneth of February

1635. did subscribe an extrajudiciall opinion in answer to questions in a letter from his Majestie which letter questions and answer follow in haec verba Charles R. When the good and safetie of the Kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole kingdome in danger whether may not the King by writ under the great Seale of England command all the Subjects of this kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuall and Munition and for such time as hee shall thinke fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdome from such danger and perill and by Law compell the doing thereof in case of refusall or refractorinesse And whether in such case is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided C. R. May it please your most excellent Majestie We have according to your Majesties command severally every man by himselfe and all of us together taken into serious consideration the Case and Question signed by your Majestie and inclosed in your Royall letter and wee are of opinion that when the good and safety of the kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole kingdome in danger your Majestie may by writ under the great Seale of England command all the Subjects of this your kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuall and Munition and for such time as your Majestie shall thinke fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdome from such danger and perill and that by Law your Majestie may compell the doing thereof in case of refusall or refractorinesse And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to bee prevented and avoided John Brampston John Finch Humphrey Davenport John Denham Richard Hutton William Jones George Crooke Thomus Trevor George Vernon Robert Berkley Francis Crawley Richard Weston Which said opinions contained in the first and second Articles are destructive to the fundamentall Lawes of this Realme the subjects right of property and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament and to the petition of right 3 That he the said Sir John Brampston then Lord chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench about Trinity Terme 1637. refused to baile or discharge Alexander Jennings prisoner in the Fleet brought by Habeas Corpus to the barre before him the returne of this Commitment being two severall warrants from the Lords of the Councell dated the fifth of November 1635. the first expressing no cause the other for not paying messengers fees and untill he should bring certificate that he had paid his Assessement for ship-money in the County of Bucks And the said Sir John Brampston the first warrant being onely read then said The cause of this Commitment did not appeare and it was not fit for every Goaler to be made acquainted by the Lords of the Councell why they committed and therfore remitted him and in Michaelmas Terme after the said Jennings being brought by another Habeas Corpus as aforesaid and the same returned yet hee the said Sir John Brampston refused to discharge or baile him but remitted him And in Easter Terme next after severall rules for his Majesties Councell to shew cause why he the said Jennings should not be bailed a fourth rule was made for the said Jennings to let his Majesties Attorney have notice which notice was given accordingly yet he remitted him And the said Jennings by another Habeas Corpus brought to the Barre as aforesaid in Trinity Terme after and the same returne with the addition of a new Commitment of the fourth of May 1638. suggested that he the said Jennings had used divers scandalous words in derogation and disparagement of his Majesties government after severall rules in the end of the said Trinity Terme hee againe remitted him to prison And he the said Sir John Brampston about the ninth of July after at his chamber in Serjeants Inne being desired by Master Meautis one of the Clerkes of the Councell-board to discharge the said Jennings for that he the said Jennings had entred into a Bond of 1000. pounds to appeare before the Lords of the Councell the next Michelmas Terme after and to attend de die in diem yet hee the said Sir John Brampston refused to discharge the said Jennings untill hee entered into Recognizance to appeare the next Terme and in the meane time to bee of his good behaviour And the said Jennings was continued on his said Recognizance till Easter Terme after And the said Sir Iohn Brampston did on the 5. of June 1640. deferre to grant his Majesties writ of habeas Corpus for Samuel Danvers and William Pargiter Esquires prisoners in the Gate-house and in the Fleet and when hee had granted the said writ the said eighth of Iune after the returne being the order of the Councell Table not expressing any cause hee the said Sir Iohn Brampston deferred to baile the said Pargiter And the eighteenth of Iune after made a rule for a new returne to bee received which was returned the five and twentieth of the said Iune in haec verba Whereas his Majesty finding that his Subjects of Scotland have in rebellious and hostile manner assembled themselves together and intend not onely to shake off their obedience unto his Majesty but also as enemies to invade and infest this his Kingdome of England to the danger of his royall person c. For prevention whereof his Majesty hath by the advice of his Councell-board given speciall commandement to all the Lord Lievtenants of all the Counties of his Realme with expedition to array and arme a certaine number of able men in each County to be prepared and ready to be conducted to such place as should be appointed for their Randezvouz in their severall and respective Counties there to be conducted and drawne together into a body for this service And whereas his Majesty according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme and the constant custome of his Predecessours Kings and Queenes of this Realme hath power for the defence of this Kingdome and resisting the force of the enemies thereof to grant forth Commissions under his great Seale to such fit persons as he shall make choice of to array and arme the subjects of this Kingdome and to compell those who are of able bodies and of able estates to arme themselves and such as should not be of able bodies but of ability in estate to assesse them according to their estates to contribute towards the charge of arraying and arming others being able of body and not able in estate to arme themselves And such persons as should be contrariant to commit to prison there to remaine untill the King should take further order therein And whereas the Earle of Exeter by vertue of his Majesties Commission to him directed for the arraying and arming of a certaine number

ARTICLES OF ACCUSATION EXHIBITED By the Commons House of Parliament now assembled AGAINST Sr. John Bramston Knight Justice of his Majesties Bench Sr. Robert Berkley Knight Justice of his Majesties Bench Sr. Francis Crawley Knight one of the Justices of the Common-pleas Sr. Humphrey Davenport Knight Baron of his Majesties Exchequer Sr. Richard Weston Knight Baron of his Majesties Exchequer and Sr. Thomas Trevor Knight Baron of his Majesties Exchequer 2 CHRON. 19.6 7. Jehosophat said to the Judges Take heed what ye do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord wherefore let the feare of the Lord be upon you for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God nor taking of gifts Printed for I. H. 1641. The Articles of impeachment of Sir Robert Berkley Knight one of the Justices of the Court of the Kings Bench by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in their owne name and in the name of all the Commons of England in maintenance of their accusation whereby he standeth charged with high treason and other great misdemeanors INprimis that the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the said Court of Kings Bench hath traiterously and wickedly endevoured to subvert the fundamentall Lawes and established government of the Realme of England and instead thereof to introduce an Arbitrarie and Tyrannicall government against Law which he hath declared by traiterous and wicked words opinions judgements practises and actions appearing in the severall Articles ensuing 2 Whereas by the Statute made in the five twentieth year of the raigne of the late King Henry the eighth prices of Victualls are appointed to be rated in such manner as in the said Statute is declared But it is manifest by the said Statute Corne is none of the victuals thereby intended Neverthelesse some ill-affected persons endevouring to bring a charge upon the subjects contrary to Law did surmise that the prices of Corne might be rated and set according to the direction of that Statute and thereupon great gaine might be raised to his Majestie by licences and dispensations for selling Corne at other prices And a command from his Majestie being procured to the Judges and sent to them by William Noye Esquire his Majesties then Attorney generall to deliver their opinions touching the question whether Corne was such victuals as was intended to have the price rated within the said Statute In answer to which demand the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of his Majesties Justices of the Court of Kings Bench in furtherance of the said unlawfull charge endevoured to be imposed as aforesaid the 30. day of November in the 8. year of his now Majesties Raigne did deliver his opinion that Corne was such victuall as was intended to have the price rated within the said Statute which said opinion was contrary to Law and to the plaine sence and meaning of the said Statute and contrary to his owne knowledge and was given and delivered by him with a purpose and intention that the said unlawfull charge might be imposed upon the Subject 3 That an information being preferred in the Court of Star-chamber by they said William Noy his Majesties then Attorney generall against John Overman and fifteen other Soape makers Defendants charging them with severall pretended offences contrary to divers Letters Patents and Proclamations touching the making and uttering Soape and using the trade of Soape-makers and other offences in the said Information mentioned whereunto the Defendants did plead and demurre as to part and answer to other part of the said Information And the said Plea and demurter being over-ruled for that the particulars therein insisted upon would appeare more fully after answer and proofe therefore the Defendants were ordered to answer without prejudice and were to be admitted to such exceptions to the said Information and advantages of the matter of the Plea and demurrer upon the hearing as shall be materiall and accordingly the Defendants did put in their answers and set forth severall Acts of Parliament Letters Patents Charters Customes and Acts of Common-councell of the Citie of London and other matters materially conducing to their defence and in conclusion pleaded not guiltie The said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench upon the 30. day of March in the eighth yeare of his Majesties now raigne upon an Order of Reference to him and others by the said Court of Star-chamber to consider of the impertinencie of the said answers did certifie the said Court of Star-chamber that the whole answers excepting the foure words and ten last lines should bee expunged leaving thereby no more in substance of the said answers then the Plea of not guiltie And after upon a Reference to him and others by order of the said Court of the impertinencie of the Interrogatories and depositions of witnesses taken on the Defendants part in the same case the said Sir Robert Berkley upon the second day of May in the eighth yeare of his now Majesties raigne certified that nine and thirtie of the said Interrogatories and the depositions upon them taken should be suppressed with answers except as aforesaid and depositions although the same did containe the said Defendants most materiall defence Yet were expounged and suppressed according to the said Certificates both which said Certificates were contrary to Law and Justice and contrary to his the said Sir Robert Berkley's owne knowledge and contrary to the said former order whereby the advantages were saved to the Defendants as aforesaid And by reason thereof the said John Overman and the said other fifteene Defendants were sentenced in the said Court of Star-chamber to be committed prisoners to the Fleete and disabled from using their trade of Soape-makers And one of them fined in a thousand five hundred pounds two of them in a thousand pound a peece foure of them in a thousand Marke a peece the rest five hundred pounds a peece which fines were estreated into the Exchequer without any mitigation And the said Defendants according to the said sentence were imprisoned and deprived of their trade and livelihood tending to the utter ruine of the said Defendants and to the overthrow of free trade and contrary to the libertie of Subjects 4 That hee the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and having taken an oath for the due administration of Justice according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme to his Majesties liege people on or about the last of December subscribed an opinion in haec verba I am of opinion that as where the benefit doth more particularly redound to the good of the Ports or Maritime parts as in case of Pyracie or Depredations upon the Seas there the charge hath beene and may be lawfully imposed upon them according to presidents of former times so where the good and safety of the kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole kingdome in danger of

which his Majestie is the onely Judge there the charge of the defence ought to be borne by all the Realme in generall this I hold agreeable both to Law and reason 5 That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and duly sworne as aforesaid in February 1636. subscribed an extrajudiciall opinion in answer to questions in a letter from his Majestie in haec verba Charles R. When the good and safetie of the kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole kingdome in danger whether may not the King by writ under the great Seale of England command all the Subjects of this kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuall and Munition and for such time as hee shall thinke fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdome from such danger and perill and by Law compell the doing thereof in case of refusall or refractorinesse And whether in such case is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to bee prevented and avoided C. R. May it please your most excellent Majestie We have according to your Majesties command severally every man by himselfe and all of us together taken into serious consideration the Case and Question signed by your Majestie and inclosed in your Royall letter and we are of opinion that when the good and safetie of the kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole kingdome in danger your Majestie may by writ under the great Seale of England command all your Subjects of this your kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuall and Munition and for such time as your Majestie shall thinke fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdome from such danger and perill And that by Law your Majestie may compell the doing thereof in case of refusall or refractorinesse And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majestie is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to bee prevented and avoided John Brampston John Finch Humphrey Davenport John Denham Richard Hutton William Jones George Crooke Thomas Trevor George Vernon Robert Berkley Francis Crawley Richard Weston 6 That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and duely sworne as aforesaid did on the 〈◊〉 deliver his opinion in the Exchequer Chamber against John Hampden Esquire in the Case of Ship-money That he the said John Hampden upon the matter and substance of the Case was chargeable with the money then in question A copie of which proceeding and judgement the Commons of this present Parliament have delivered to your Lordships 7 That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench and one of the Justices of Assize for the Countie of Yorke did at the Assizes held at Yorke in Lent 1636. deliver in his charge to the grand Jurie that it was a lawfull and inseparable flower of the Crowne for the King to command not only the Maritime Counties but also those that were In-land to finde ships for the defence of the Kingdome And then likewise falsely and malitiously affirmed that it was not his single judgement but the judgement of all his brethren witnessed by their subscriptions And then also said that there was a rumour that some of his Brethren that had subscribed were of a contrary judgement but it was a base and unworthy thing for any to give his hand contrary to his heart and then wished for his owne part that his hand might rot from his arme that was guiltie of any such crime when as he knew that Mr. Justice Hutton and Mr. Justice Crooke who had subscribed were of a contrary opinion and was present when they were perswaded to subscribe and did subscribe for conformitie onely because the major number of the Judges had subscribed And hee the said Sir Robert Berkley then also said that in some Cases the Judges were above an Act of Parliament which said false and malitious words were uttered as aforesaid with intent and purpose to countenance and maintaine the said unjust opinions and to terrifie his Majesties Subjects that should refuse to pay Ship-money or seeke any remedie by Law against the said unjust and illegall taxation 8 That whereas Richard Chambers Merchant having commenced a suit for trespasse and false imprisonment against Sir Edward Bromfield Knight for imprisoning him the said Chambers for refusing to pay Ship-money in the time that the said Sir Edward Bromfield was Lord Maior of the Citie of London in which suit the said Sir Edward Bromfield did make a speciall justification The said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Justices of the Court of Kings Bench in Trinitie Terme last then sitting on the Bench in the said Court upon debate of the said Case betweene the said Chambers and Sir Edward Bromfield said openly in the said Court that there was a rule of Law and a rule of government And that many things which might not be done by the rule of Law might be done by the rule of government and would not suffer the point of legality of Ship-money to be argued by the said Chambers his Councell all which opinions declarations words and speeches contained in the third fourth fifth sixth seventh and eighth Articles are destructive to the fundamentall Lawes of this Realme the Subjects right of property and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament and to the petition of right which resolutions in Parliament and petition of right were well knowne to him and resolved and enacted when he was the Kings Sergeant at law and attendant in the Lords house of Parliament 9 That he the said Sir Robert Berkley then being one of the Judges of the Court of Kings Bench and being in commission of the Peace and duly sworne to execute the office of a Justice of Peace in the County of Hertford on or about the seventh of January 1638. at which time the generall Sessions of the Peace for the said Countie were there holden The said Sir Robert Berkley then and there sitting on the Bench did revile and threaten the grand Jurie returned to serve at the said Sessions for presenting the removall of the Communion Table in All Saints Church in Hertford aforesaid out of the place where it anciently and usually stood and setting it Altar-wayes against the Lawes of this Realme in that Case made and provided as an innovation in matters concerning the Church the said grand Jurie having delivered to them in charge at the said Sessions by Master Sergeant Atkins a Justice of Peace of the said County of Hertford that by the oath they had taken they were bound to present all innovations concerning Church matters And he the said Sir Robert Berkley compelled the fore-man of the Jurie to tell him who gave him any such