83. Here hapned the occasion or that wch was afterwards so highly charg∣ed,Subornation of perjury charged on the Bishop. and heavily censured on the Bishop Williams, wiz. tampering to wit∣nesses Henceforward all his first information, which from this day sunk silence, and employed all his power on the proof of Subornation. That too hard for his Teeth to enter, and fastned his fangs on a softer place, so to pinch the Bishop to purpose; yea so expensive was the suit that the Bishop (well skilled in the charge of charitable works) might with the same cost have built and endowed a small Colledge.84. Some daies before she hearing, a Noble Lord of his Majesties Councell,In with the King. the Bishops great Friend, interposed himself to compound the matter, pre∣vailing so farre that on his payment of two thousand pound, the Suit should be superseded in the Star-Chamber, and he freed from further molessa∣tion. But at this Lords return the price was risen in the market, and besides the aforesaid it was demanded of him, that to procure his peace he must part with his Deanery of Westminster, Parsonage or Walgrave, and Pre∣bend of Lincoln which he kept in commendam. To this the Bishop answered, that he would in no base forgoe those few remainders of the favour which his dead master King James had conferred him.85. Not long after another bargain was driven,frustrated therein by his great Adver∣sary. by the well intended endeavours of the same Lord, that seeing his Majesty at that time had much occasion of moneys? if he would but double the former summe, and lay down four thousand pounds, he should be freed from further trouble, and might goe home with all his about him. The Bishop returned that he took no delight, at law with his Soveraign, and thankfully embracing the motion, prepared himself for the payment. When a great Adversary stepping in, so violented his Majesty to a Tryall, that all was not onely fru∣strated, but this afterwards urged against the Bishop, to prove him conscious of a crime from his forwardness to entertain a composition.86. The day of censure being come,July 11. Tues∣day.Sir John Finch Lord chief Justice fined the Bishop ten thousand pound for tempering to suborn Witnesses,His heavy censure.Secretary Windebank concurred with (that little Bell, being the lowdest and shrillest in the whole pea) as who alone motioned to degrade him; which was lusti∣ly pronounced by a Knight and Layman, having no precedent for the same in former ages. The other Lords brought the fine downe to eight thousand pound, and a thousand marks to Sir John Munson, with suspension ab officio et beneficio, and imprisoning him, during the Kings pleasure. The Earl of Arundell added, that the cause in its self was extraordinary, not so much pro∣secuted by the Atturney, as immediately by the King himself recommended to their justice. Manchester Lord privy Seal said that this was the first precedent, wherein a Master had undone himself to save his Servant.87. The Archbishop of Canterbury did consent thereunto,To which the Archbishop of Canterbury did concurre. aggravating the fault of subornation of perjury, with a patheticall speech of almost an houre long, shewing how the world was above three thousand years old before ripe enough to commit so great a wickedness, and Jesabell the first in Scrip∣ture branded with that infamie, whose false Witnesses the holy Spirit refused to name, otherwise than under the Character of Men of Belial. Wherefore although (as he said) he himself had been five times down on his knees to his Majesty, in the Bishops behalf; yet considering the guilt so great, he could not but agree with the heaviest censure. And although some Lords, the Bishops Friends, as Treasurer Weston, Earl of Dorset &c. concurred in the fine, with hope the King should have the sole honor of the mitigation thereof, yet his Majesties necessaries, meeting with the person adjudged guil∣ty, and well known for solvable; no wonder if the utmost penny of the fine was exacted.88. At the same time were fined with the Bishop,Three of his Servants fined with .George Walker his Secre∣tary, 0