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A77341	A breviate of a sentence given against Jerome Alexander Esquire, an utter barrester of Lincolns-Inne, in the court of Star-chamber, the 17th day of November, in the second yeer of the raign of our soveraign Lord King Charls, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. With exceptions taken to the said sentence, to unfold the iniquity thereof. With a short narrative of divers other passages and oppressions, wherewith he hath been also grieved in other times of his life, both before and since. Printed for the satisfaction of his friends, against those many calumnies and aspertions raised thereupon to blemish him in their opinion, and in the opinion of all others with whom he hath to do.		1644 (1644)	Wing B4410; Thomason E1066_2; ESTC R211322	183,530	157

defective to make up malice in the demerit of him whom we hate it supplyed by the raising of our own stomacks as we see in the body that thin and empty nourishment will more often swell it then that which is substantiall but after the greatest inundation the waters are dryed up the subtillest lightning hath but his flash the ratling thunder-bolt hath but his clap In the fulnesse of time the Israelites shall return out of Babylon in the mean time we must awaite Gods leisure with patience Exod. 12.41 stand still and see the Salvation of God a cheerfull heart makes a strong back and the well couching together of the pack availes much to the Carrier by much sufferance comes great ease the experience of Gods deliverances is a strong Oblation to trust in him for future mercies the Suns heat will be most comfortable when we are most cold in the greatst perplexity to finde a deliverer will be much more welcome to the distressed and though disgrace be a tough bit for flesh and blood to digest yet he that will live godly in this world must resolve for to endure tribulation for at the best it is full of Cares Job 5.7 For man is born unto trouble as the Sparks flyes upwards Esay 45.7 that it is no wonder if in this world he meets with many miseries but as that man onely can look upon the Sea with comfort that hath escapt a shipwrack so with the Prophet David he onely can the best content himself to have been miserable Psal 30.12.13 whose sackcloath God hath put off and girded his loynes with gladnesse and if rightly to consider the manner of Gods Husbandry most commonly he begins to plow that soyle betimes which he means so to sow in his season Jer. 3.27 and tilleth and harroweth it over and over again from which he doth expect to have a good and plentifull harvest Psal 129.1.2 therefore it is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth grace cannot go on but with many rubs Job 18.7 Psal 22.15 Psa 119.67 Judg. 3.20 Joh. 5.2 3. and affliction is the better endured before the steps of a mans strength be straightned or that he be dryed up like a potsheard 't is sicknesse we say which makes health so much esteemed for by wanting we deem the thing better when it is enjoyed and no man sees himself so clearly as in the glasse of adversity when every blow that God layes on seemes to say as Ehud unto Eglon I have a message to thee from God which if he shall consider it will make his grief a Bethesda to cure him of his infirmities and thus he will come out of the furnace as pure gold cleered from the drosse of his corruptions 't is very painfull to hide a wound Then by that which follows I hope I may say without offence Lam. 3.1 I am the man that have seen affliction nay like waves in a storme they have pressed violently in one upon the neck of another I accompted it my first unhappinesse that after I had some good time continued in the University and obtained some measure of knowledge in those Arts which contented me and that for my own part I had resolved to have fixed there I was constrained by my friends upon whom I then depended for livelihood and subsistance for to forsake that way in which I was and to apply my self unto the study of the Law for as every thing lives the best in his proper Element so he thrives commonly the best and proceeds with most successe that is setled in that course to which his Genius is most enclined yet here I accompted it my good hap to fall into such hands for my Education that in the first place I was taught this principle of Religion Pro. 8.7 above all things to buy the truth and sell it not it being a thing so precious and desired that Christ himself came to bear witnesse unto it Joh. 18.37 8.32 3.21 and by his works manifested it to be the thing which should make his followers free the fashion God so much regards not as the stuff and that seed is ever the best which is the most white within now it was not long ere I was put upon the tryall to see if I would hold this ground wherein I stood retain this Doctrine in which I was instructed for the silver cannot appear till Benjamins sack be unloosed A noble friend of mine now in the minority both of my yeers and profession having conferred upon me by grant the Stewardship of many hundreds in the County where I lived and the then Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas being my Country-man and having purchased the Fee of two of those hundreds moved me to depart with my interest in two of those Stewardships for an Officer of his own without other right but onely because he desired to have it so which for that I refused without the approbation and consent of him that trusted me who had Letters Pattents thereof for the life of another which I had no reason to sollicite for to let go and his Lordship thought was below him to seek after otherwise and I maintaining my right therein in this time against the many disturbances and opposition of those imployed by his Lordship attempting to have gained the present possession by an User of the Office therefore he was much displeased with me and did not forbear in plain termes to tell me so with other expressions in language cleer enough to let me know his meaning that I was to stand upon my guard for if ever I came in his way I should be sure of a lash Now a young beginner doth not so well understand what the Schollers of the upper form do and this being in the first of my comming forth in a time when I was fully perswaded that faithfulnesse and truth could not have been over-mastred by an enemy and that he was not worthy to wear his masters Livery and bear the name of a Christian Jer. 9.3 that was not valiant for the truth upon the earth the Spirit being truth Jo. 1.5 6. and knowing that God made his everlasting Covenant with them onely that love judgement Esay 6.8 and do their works in truth and being commanded by the Word of truth to withdraw from men of corrupt minds destitute of the truth who onely suppose gain to be godlinesse Acts 6.11 yet no sooner did Stephen plead for this truth but some were therefore suborned against him to kill him no sooner did Paul begin to Preach this truth Rom. 2.2 but opposers began also to consult how to put him out of the way for as Origen saith of the Devills There is ne greater torment to them then to see men addicted to the Scriptures so the same may be said of truth The Devill and his Angells cannot endure it it is so contrary to his nature

Alexander stands the more clear in his Oath being made with this caution and he who doth a thing by another seemeth to do it by himself and in common parliance men do use to say I have done such a thing or such a thing for you when he hath onely caused and procured it to have been done for him by another assuming the act as his that hath been done by his procurement And so Master Nevil did say He had made it to agree with the Record although he speaketh this falsly to make Master Alexander the rather believe it and therefore it was more safe for Master Alexander to depose the manner how that he delivered the copie to him fair and received it with those alterations and that either Nevil did it himself or caused it to be done which in effect was one and the same thing and thus not possible for Master Alexander to know who actually did it There is this also more remarkable in Master Hookers Examinations upon his Oath and in his Relation of the Conference which passed between him Master Jones and Master Alexander in Master Jones his Studie For in court when he was demanded his knowledge of what passed in that Discourse not being upon his oath he answered and so t is alleadged in the Sentence that he should relate That Master Alexander should then say That the Paper-copie of John Warrens Depositionwas as he first received it But in his Examinations upon Oath before the Judges he leaves out this word first and says that Master Alexander answered his question That the said copie was as he received it which makes a very main and great difference for this word first being added as they had studied it made much for their purpose that is to say If it were so as when Master Alexander first received it then how could Nevil blot out those words afterwards especially if Master Alexander received it from the Examiner to which sense they would presse the meaning of the words and then there must be a meer repugnancie to truth in such case and an impossibility in that and so at first blush to a cursary understanding of the words Nevile must of force be clear of the Accusation and Master Alexander catched as they are elsewhere pleased to call it in this matter But you see God will have truth come to light in despight of the adversary and therefore Master Hooker when he onely says without Oath then he speaks one thing but when he is examined upon his Oath before the Judges then he says another thing And the words spoken by Master Alexander being no other but That the copie of the said Deposition was as he received it agrees in terms with Master Alexanders Affidavit in all things which is That it was as he received it the second time from Nevil after that it was left with him to be examined by the Record and that he delivered it back again to Master Alexander and said That he had examined it and made it to agree with the Record And thus Master Hookers testimony makes nothing against Master Alexanders testimony at all And observe further that even Master Hooker himself is enforced to flee unto that common Rule of second thoughts to be more sage and certain and that there is a difference between words spoken at randome and in ordinary discourse and afterwards premised and delivered in a solemn Oath And observe further that in the beginning of the Sentence pronounced against Master Alexander it is related as if deposed by Master Hooker That upon that Conference Master Alexander should affirm this thing with many and heavie imprecations and oaths vowing and protesting He knew not of the blotting out of those two words that and did in the said Deposition Which is inserted of purpose to make Master Alexander seem little conscientious of what he swore judicially that valued oaths and imprecations nothing in his ordinary discourse But of this Master Hooker likewise says nothing in his Examinations upon Oath before the Judges dealing in it indeed very clearly for there was no such matter And yet this also shews that Master Hooker was not so constant to his relations but that he knew a difference what it was to say and what to swear And Master Alexander doth appeal to all men that have known his conversation both before and since if ever he were addicted to that abominable vice of taking the blessed Name of God in vain But see what the devil can do when he wants truth for his accusations and observe unto what shifts and subterfuges men are brought when they do clothe injustice with a seeming-holinesse And after all this consider yet this further that if Master Hooker had not been Yates his Attorney in that Cause and had not preferred such an unwarrantable Bill of Costs against Master Alexander as he did and had not joyned with Master Jones with his utmost endeavours to have fixed the offence upon Master Alexander as he did and that he had not been a Witnesse for Nevile free from all exceptions as he was not and had sworn something to the purpose for the clearing of Nevile as he did not yet then he had been but singularis Testis to whom nullafides in the Cause whereupon to have grounded a Sentence against Master Alexander in that matter T is true when many vehement and strong presumptions are coupled together sometimes a single and clear testimony beyond all exception rarely in matters Civil and betwixt party nd party relief hath been thereupon afforded unto the oppressed but in matters Criminall where the life many times and that which is always as dear and neer unto a good Christian His good Name hath been questioned and in danger from the mouth of two or three Witnesses at the least according to our Saviours Precept in that case the Judgement hath onely been established And before I end this part of the Sentence let me observe unto you one thing more That these good Judges who took these Examinations one of them yet living Sir Randal Crewe Knight then Lord Chief Justice of England a man famous for his piety and justice and that in those times chose rather to be discharged of his place then to serve curns against his conscience and Master Justice Dodderidge known to be a learned and just man yet these two that made the Certificate would neither of them be drawn into Court to give a Sentence or an opinion against Master Alexander therein which they well understood must have been done against their consciences and against the truth 13. ANd also by the testimony of Cook Gent. sworn in open Court who upon his corporall Oath deposed that the said Alexander had formerly been taken very foul in his own Cause in the same kinde or worse at a Triall in the County of Norfolk at an Assizes holden at Thetford before the said Justice Dodderidge who bound him to his good behaviour for the offence he then committed

black the Musk smells swetest when hardest rub'd Corn must be ground and bakt before it be eaten sire burns the hottest in frostie weather Vines if they be not prun'd and cut will wax wild straights and goodnesse shuts in doores together a Plant seasonably cut flourisheth the better the swetest Grape is hardest prest out why should we then fear the Lyon when we shall be sure to finde honey in the Carkasse but a stratagem it is to charge the truth and the professors of it with false accusations thereby to render them odious either to Princes or people thus have I been dealt withall and yet not discomforted for the Gospell of Christ hath been called Heresie and King Artaxerxes is told If the Jews re-build the wall Ezra 4. they will pay no tole nor tribute so the Primitive Christians had strange and horrid crimes and accusations laid unto their charges as the Arrians charged Athanasius with Adultery Murther and Witch-craft the Jews of Persia in the time of Sopores Willets Pillers of Papistry accused Simeon Bishop of Selusia as a friend of the Roman Emperours that gave Intelligence to them of the Persian affaires which was not onely an occasion of his death but of a generall persecution against the whole Church thus deal the Jesuits with the Protestants at this day and thus the adversaries of the power of godlinesse charge it with Heresie Faction Rebellion and all that can wake it odious either to King or people but a white cloath is capable of any dye 't is the fairest silk that is thus the soonest soyled the Pestilence first taints the purest breath those that are most maligned are not the worst for a man is pittied for his follies envied for his vertues men being most apt to hate that goodnessE they can onely admire and upon this ground the Ephesians expelled Hermodorus and the Athenians Aristides because they were too just for the rest of the people mens minds out of I know not what malignity being apt too for to suspect that that will not be used unto good which might be abused unto evill for this is all the evill of malevolent persons to make others to appear worse than they are that themselves though they be the worst of men may not appear so having Satyricall wits which make use of other mens names as of whetstones to sharpen themselves upon so that he which maliciously pursues his brother doth but snuffe the candle to besmuch his own fingers and yet so makes the light to burn more cleer the fire never flaming more than when the wind seeks to blow it out and most commonly you shall finde him herein the most forward to condemn another that is equally culpable if not more then him whom he thus accuseth who never looks to pull out the beam in his own eye but things that bear the same impression should be bound together in the same bundle for the theefe that escapes deserves to be hang'd as well as he that is tane and suffers for his fact nor is he alwayes the greatest theef that comes first to the Goale and yet this Varlet having stript a man of all would be thought mercifull for not murthering a man out-right but I have oftentimes seen this Bee drowned in her own honey the man entangled in his own talk tript in his own play and 't is but just that Perillus bull first torments himself that he falls into the same pit he had digg'd for another like beasts they hear musick as a sound not as a harmony Psal 5.15 regards not goodnesse in another but 't is the course of this world that if a man be once faln a little into disgrace every base fellow then takes him for a subject of their contempt and scorn dealing with such herein as with a nosegay which we keep in our hands so long as it is fresh and sweet and cast it away when 't is become a little withered all will go with our Saviour into Mount Calvery but will then forsake him when he goeth unto Golgotha Poverty parts good fellowship and leaves a man forsaken as a naked tree standing in a wilde plain beaten too and fro with every blast of wind but no cresse hath ever disgraced a wise man for all that extremities do but exercise our trust and when the body is distempred 't is the best cure to take away some blood the chaffe comes not from the corn if the eare be not beaten with the flayle Incense then perfumes when 't is cast into the fire men commonly learn Gods loveby his wrath Achimedes had never been so famous if the City where he dwelt had not been so long so violently besieged and a long time preserved onely by his means there is no craft like to that to be an honest man of the purest seeds springs the fairest plants whose wayes though they be frozen dry so that no butter will stick upon his bread yet this Lilly will grow up amongst thornes this fish will be in the salt Sea and yet be fresh this Lot will live in Sodome free from their sins and though this man be bowed almost together that his head and heeles be made to meete yet he will not break but like unto a twig he will come right again water will not commix with oyle piety with Hypocrisie this Bee will never gather honey where the Cockatrice hath blasted nor will any moth or worm breed in this Cedar and who can disclose his pace so well as he that followeth him at the heels know those that love truth as he that practiseth it and when his adversaries playes with it as with a game at Chesse a pawn before a King sets their worldly ends before this precious Jewell there a stander by oftentimes sees more of it then he that playes the game a shipwrack in the haven we say is grievous to be deceived where we trust is most abhominable although a wise man commonly is onely over-reacht in such cases by his too much credulity thinking every man to be honest as himself by whom he knows nothing to the contrary but ill-favoured complexions the more they are painted the worser will appeare for frost and fraud will ever have foul ends and this man not practising what he professeth shall at last be sure to have his own dung cast in his face but as he that hath once swallowed a hedge-hog needs not to care afterwards what he eates so he that is hardened and prepared for mischief with a brazen face can look upon contradiction and never blush Popularity the mother of this corruption being like that venome which makes men laugh to death they do advise and counsell best that know most then try all things saith Saint Paul finde out the truth and accordingly determine for that which is good and against that which is evill and give the Ox hay and Pearls to those that esteem them and be not peremptory to condemn any man but upon cleer grounds

Court they set them aside as uselesse and not warranted and for which there was great reason so to do So they shall need no other Answer And as sure as there is a God in heaven so certain it is that what Nevil hath therin said is contrary to the truth and so afterwards did thrive accordingly and M. Alexander could have disproved all of it by many Witnesses saving that onely part concerning his blotting out the words which he did or caused to be done as God is true Then as to that other part of the said Certificate which mentions Master Hookers Examinations and Testimony in this businesse it maketh nothing at all to crosse any thing said by Master Alexander in his own Defence And it hath partly received an Answer formerly as it is mentioned in the Sentence to be a Discourse between Master Alexander Master Jones and him in Master Jones his Studie in Grays-Inne the day the cause was heard between Master Alexander and Yates But the Bent and Scope of all that was To ensnare and intangle Master Alexander in his talk and to gather from his words or carriage whatsoever might pos2ibly make to charge the offence on him therefore he saith first That Master Alexander seemed to have been in a great passion and perplexity about the blotting out of those words but that which seemeth to be a thing is not the same Nullum simile est idem And what followed from thence Would it not have perplexed any man or astonish him on such a sudden to understand all his businesse to be so changed his adversary released whom he left in custodie upon a Sentence pronounced against him and upon the point declared to be dismissed with his costs when Master Alixander expected to have had costs from him and that justly Might not M. Alexander term it also an unfortunate thing to be thus dealt withall on all hands and perceiving that those which should have assisted him in setting things right again went thus about for to betray him But fain this Gentleman would wrest or pick something out of these words and take an advantage of his own wrong To make some thing against Master Alexander out of this Discourse so said to catch him and surprise him that when they asked him From whom he had received the Paper-copie said He could not tell whether he had them from Nevil or from the Examiner himself If he said so What of this hath not many a man in ordinary discourse and being taken upon a sudden to answer to things done long before said that which upon second thoughts and coming to be deposed thereupon afterwards upon deliberation and recollecting of himself he hath varied from And was this ever yet counted an offence in any man but in Master Alexander to be well advised of that he swears for truth And yet if what passed from him in this discourse shall be rightly weighed and considered there is nothing in it that in the least makes against Master Alexander or that crosseth any thing which he hath either sworn or spoken in the defence of his innocence T is true Master Hooker would invert the meaning of the words to a fained and strained sense as if it should imply a contrariety that once Master Alexander should say He knew not from whom he had the copie and then afterwards should depose the matter so precisely against Nevil as to make him the offender To that other Answer which Master Alexander hath already given of speaking words in passion and upon bare discourse and after deposing to the same matter upon second thoughts and deliberation adde this and consider that Master Alexander in his Affidavit deposeth That there were two receivings of this copie of the Deposition of John Warren the first time from the Examiner or Nevil when he took it and carried it to his Counsel Master Hudson to peruse and at that time it is not materiall from which of them he received it for it makes nothing one way or other from which of them he then had it but sure he is that Nevil got that copie and all other copies from him which he had of any thing done in the Office or otherwise in that Cause else what need should Master Alexander have had of his sollicitation and to have done the work himself And all that were Sollicitours in that Office as he was did so for their Clients it was their duties and for that onely they had their wages But then when Master Alexander had thus carried it to his Counsel who had perused it and directed it to be examined with the Record with a mark in the margin made against it then it was delivered again to Nevil for that purpose and then Master Alexander afterwards received it the second time from Nevil again with the words that and did so defaced c. And this later receiving was that receiving of this copie from Master Nevil when this alteration was committed So that upon the first Conference the Answer was made as it was conceived and according to the times and places where it was propounded and answered that is to say in Master Jones his Studie and the Examiners Office which related to that receiving of them the first of all and that might be delivered doubtfull without any disadvantage and yet Master Alexanders Oath stands clear too and without exception that he did inform the further carriage of the businesse to make the truth appear and all stands very well together And t is against the Rule to fetch blood out of a mans words and to strain an intendment thereof beyond the genuine meaning of the speaker and therefore in Law they are always to be taken in mitiori sensu most favourable for him that speaks them where by any means they might be wrested to a contrary interpretation But then Master Hooker doth further expresse these other words also falling from Master Alexander in that discourse viz. That Master Alexander then should have said and swore He altered it not nor knew who altered the same and that being true How could he say that Nevil did it Both are true and contradicts nothing of whatsoever Master Alexander hath either said or sworn in this matter when once rightly understood For the first that Master Alexander did it not that is true and hath been continually maintained and justified by Master Alexander both upon his words and upon his Oath first and last Then that he knew not who altered the same also well standeth with his Deposition for he deposeth the manner how he left it with Nevil to be examined with the Record and that afterward Nevil gave it him again so blotted as it was and that Nevil did it or caused it to be done and so Master Alexander could not know who actually did it whether Nevil himself or any other and yet received so done from Nevil and was so his offence equally whether done by himself or by his direction and therefore Master

search and look over And before that Nevil did understand that Master Alexander was gone out of Town he stirred very little in the businesse but afterwards he procures the Certificate from the Judges to be returned which bears date the 7 of Novemb. 2 Car. then the 10 of November following he procures it to be read and debated in Court and the 17 of November following he procures the Cause to be heard So that in seven days time before it was possible for Master Alexander to ride down to his house in the Countrey being 100 miles from London and return again he had procured the Sentence to be given in his absence without any defence And what justice there was in this Proceeding let any man judge Thus all things you see are done sutable to one another And that it may appear to be no fiction for the Cause of Master Alexanders journey then made into the Countrey be pleased to observe a Letter of Nevils written to him concerning this businesse which he found at that time amongst his papers To his assured good friend Master Jerome Alexander at Walsingham give these M. ALEXANDER I Never heard from you by Letter since you went down untill about a fortnight since I received one by the Foot-Poste by whom I did return you Answer and did expect to have heard from you this last week but it seems it was not come to your hands when you writ this last and since that time we have had no seal nor shall have any till Friday next Master Gay is not in Town but so soon as he comes up I will take a course with him that shall be fit Concerning Grout you shall receive your Subpena's so soon as I can get them sealed and hear of a fit Messenger And so with remembrance of my love I rest September 13. 1623. Your assured friend ever to command Hen. Nevil Which Letter you may perceive was the Answer of a former Letter written by Master Alexander unto Nevil Wherein be pleased for to observe That Nevil answers a part of Master Alexanders said letter concerning Master Gay which was the Examiner of the Court named in the Sentence that took those Depositions And the truth is that Master Alexander having left this Deposition with nevil to be examined with the Record when he left the Town He promised to do it and to write Master Alexander word thereof into the Countrey Which he having for some time neglected to do Master Alexander wrote unto him to put him in minde thereof and desiring to be satisfied how it stood with the Record In Answer whereof he writes that Master Gay is not in Town but so soon as he comes up I will take a course with which was To examine the Deposition with the Record for at this time Master Alexander had nothing more to do with Master Gay publication being past and the copie of the Books taken out in the later end of Trinity-Term before And when Master Alexander afterwards came to London Master Nevil then delivers him the copie of the Deposition and says he had made it to agree with the Record in manner and form as hath been formerly informed and from that time untill secundo Caroli that the Cause was heard the Books were laid up and never looked upon by Master Alexander which was for above three yeers space And this is the very truth concerning this particular And truely you may perceive by that which hath gone before that albeit Master Alexander did not go away for any such reason that he had to fear the justnesse of his Cause yet if he had been tzed as Laban did Jacob to have fled away secretly Gen. 31.27 he might well have answered with Jacob to Laban he had just cause to be afraid Truth it self may sometimes seek corners not as fearing her cause but as suspecting her Judge and therefore flight is not always an argument of guilt but there onely where the person declines his Triall altogether for after defence made by any person to any Accusation in any Court of Justice and that an Issue is joyned upon the proceedings and the matter made ripe for hearing now that the Court is thus possessed of the Cause and have an ordinary way for to bring such a matter unto judgement the parties absence cannot be said to be a fleeing from justice for now the Law will proceed notwithstanding and subject both his person and estate unto such a Sentence if there shall be found cause to order any thing against him this being presupposed That if possible he may have notice of the day of hearing to make his just Defence that so he may not be surprised and overtaken unawares Nor did the said Nevil prosecute Master Alexander for this offence but was prosecuted by him foroffending as he did as the proceedings manifest unlesse that his surprising him thus in his absence and without defence may be called a prosecution which was a persecution rather 15. THis honourable court was clear of opinion that the said Alexander himself was guilty of that foul misdemeanour and offence of defacing and blotting out of the said two words that and did out of the copie of John Warrens Deposition for his own advantage and ends against the said Yates whereby this honourable Court was misled in their judgement in censuring and condemning the said Yates as afore is declared Fol. 6 in the Sentence It should seem their judgements which upon the first debate of the Judges Certificate were but inclineable to be of opinion that Master Alexander should have blotted out those two words in the Paper-copie of the said John Warrens Deposition were now brought about without any other Reasons given the before to be absolutely resolved therein A good fore-man of a Jury we say is able to do very much with his fellows But if the Court were so resolved you may well perceive how some of them were misled therein and how it was brought about that they became to be so mistaken And if the Court had been thus misled in their judgements in censuring and condemning the said Yates they were not long out of the way an hours time was the most of their abberration by their own acknowledgement for in such a space they dissolved all again that they had done before and for so little a time of restraint they rewarded Yates very well For besides that upon no terms the Lord Keeper Coventry would hear of any thing that might make out to continue the Censure against him Notwithstanding if the said John Warrens Deposition to that 39 Interrogatory had been set aside yet the Court absolutely dismissed him with 130 l. costs that ought to have given Master Alexander twice as much with 1000 l. damages that he had sustained by his means in the prosecution of that Suit against him at that time if to have done justly 16. ANd have therefore Ordered Adjudged and Decreed the said Jerome Alexander for his said foul offence and

which did lie in the way of M. Alexanders preserment in Ireland being so far remote and out of the eyes of those that sought his ruine and confusion here and when he had done all this he sent M. Alexander notice thereof But this storm was no sooner thus blown over but another cloud ariseth at first as little as a mans hand which afterward covered all his Fortune again with blacknesse threatning a mighty showre of destruction to follow if not sheltered from the violence of it It was M. Alexanders good hap by Gods assistance and his good endeavours to gain the good opinion of many Noblemen Gentlemen and others in that Kingdom and by their countenance and employment acquired much for the livelihood and subsistence of himself and family and was in a fair way of preferment and doing good for himself his wife and children which his enemies here no sooner understanding of purpose to blemish him took occasion to send over into Ireland many copies of the said unjust Sentence which they caused to be shewn to all Master Alexanders best friends and Clients there to weaken him in their good esteem and divulged and published the same alsO unto all his enemies there as sho can be a Practiser at Law and be just and faithfull to his Client and zealous in their Causes but shall and must have an ill report of the adverse side who will hugge such an opportunity to do him mischief In all places also they made it the subject of their discourse at Councel-Table and in all the Courts of Justice But amongst the rest they made use of one Master Richard Fitz Gerald as he is called his fathers mothers Sirname I know not But because there are many Families of the Fitz-geralds in that Kingdom to let you know the man I mean he is Sir Dudly Loftus Knight his foster-brother and was bred up with him a Boy at School and maintained by Sir Dudleys father also to wait upon his said son in that time by which he got so much learning as afterwards he became Master Greenham an Attorneys Clerk in Ireland and having the great fortune to marry with the sister of a worthy gentleman was promoted to be an Attorney in the Common-Pleas in Ireland And aspiring to attain yet to greater Offices in that Common-wealth and Master Alexander having then purchased the Office of the Kings Bench there in Ireland during the life of one Master Henry Andrews the present Patentee and Master Fitz-Geralds brother in law being also joyned Patentee with the said Master Andrews but had bound himself both by Articles of agreement and recognizance not to meddle with the same during Master Andrews his life And Master Fitz-Gerald having understood that the way to rise unto preferment was to attempt something against Master Alexander whom if he could overthrow he was confident of the same good successe to follow him thereupon as happened to Master Fountain and Master Cook the Lawyers in those brave atchievements which they accomplished against him as aforesaid And hereupon that he might be made secundary of that Office with his brother did undertake to out Master Alexander thereof and therefore first preferred a Bill of Complaint in his said brother in laws name in his Majesties Court of Exchequer in ireland against Master Alexander and his Deputies the effect whereof was to gain the possession and execution of the said Office from Master Alexander but upon such slight and slender grounds as there was neither law nor equity to warrant any such Demand Yet Master Alexander well understanding the course of things in that Kingdom and the alliances and dependence of one man unto another and how far power and greatnesse might possibly prevail to do him hurt and perceiving the inclination of the Court of Exchequer there where the Cause depended to over-rule a Demurrer which he had caused his Deputies to put in for their and his defence in that Suit made his repair over into England with the Proceedings to be advised here by Counsel the best he could for to maintain his just right and interest in the said Office But his departure was no sooner understood but the said mastere Fitz-Gerald posts over after him into England for London purposely to have caused the remain of the said Sentence to have been executed upon him and to have restrained him from making his return He gained also letters of Credence and Recommendation from Doctour Usher Lord Primate of Ireland and others to some Noble Personages and others here in England to assist him in such occasions and busineffe as he should have then here to do And being come to London he made use of these generalls against Mastere Alexander in particular contrary to the minde of those from whom he received those Letters and first he contrives a Writing which he stiles An Information against Jeromy Alexander sent out of Ireland the 12 of July 1633. which he delivereth unto one Master Archibald Hamilton that then was agent here for the said Lord Primte of Ireland and others and insinuates unto him that that thing was the businesse which he came about and had to do and which was recommended unto him the said Hamilton by the said Letters of the Lord Primate to assist Master Fitz-Gerald in Whereupon Master Hamilton wnet unto Mastere Alexanders old friends the late Archbiship of Canterbury Laud and the Lord Coventry then Lord Keeper and shewed them the said paper which was presented unto his Majestie with all the Aggravations possible to incense and cause his Highnesse indignation and displeasure to continue if not to wax more hot and fierce against him insomuch as his Majestie well knowing some of Master Alexanders good friends at Court who had often laboured with his Majestie in his behalf informed them thereof that for the time to come they might no more sollicite for him And in the interim Mastere Fitz-Gerald or some other for him upon his earnest sollicitation had procured a Warrant from the said Lord keeper Coventry directed to the Warden of the Fleet strictly charging and commanding him to make diligent search for Master Alexander in London and wheresoever for to apprehend him and restrain him in safe custodie till he should perform all the parts of the said Sentence which Mastere Fits-Gerald and the Warden of the Fleet did pursue with their utmost diligence And that this truth may yet appear the clearer be pleased to cast your eye upon the same Information which followeth in these words An information against Jeromy Alexander sent out of Ireland the 12 of July 1633. IEromy Alexander an Utter-Barrester of Lincolns-Inne being formerly an Attorney was censured in the high Court of Star-Chamber Mich. 2 Caroli for a very foul offence in falsifying copies of the Records of that Court to the end he might mislead the judgement of the said Court against a person whom he prosecuted His Censure was First to be utterly disabled to practice as a Counsellour at Law