The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

xcvi LIFE OF BACON.
soon after my first coming to the seal, (being a in the cause between Fisher and Wrenham, the
time when I was presented by many,) the four lord chancellor, after the decree passed, received
hundred pounds mentioned in the charge was de- from Fisher a suit of hangings, worth a hundred
livered unto me in a purse, and I now call to mind, and sixty pounds and better, which Fisher gave
from Mr. Edward Egerton; but, as far as I can by advice of Mr. Shute: I confess and declare,
remember, it was expressed by them that brought that some time after the decree passed, I being at
it to be for favours past, and not in respect to that time upon remove to York House, I did receive
favours to come. a suit of hangings of the value, I think, mentioned
1" 3. To the third article of the charge, viz., in in the charge, by Mr. Shute, as from Sir Edward
the cause between Hody and HAdy, he received Fisher, towards the furnishing of my house, as
a dozen of buttons, of the value of fifty pounds, some others that were no way suitors did present
about a fortnight after the cause was ended: I me the like about that time.
confess and declare, that, as it is laid in the ", 9. To the ninth article of the charge, viz., in
charge, about a fortnight after the cause was the cause between Kennedey and Vanlore, he
ended, (it being a suit of a great inheritance,) received a rich cabinet from Kennedey, prized at
there were gold buttons about the value of fifty eight hundred pounds: I confess and declare, that
pounds, as is mentioned in the charge, presented such a cabinet was brought to my house, though
unto me, as I remember, by Sir Thomas Perient nothing near half the value; and that I said to him
and the party himself. that brought it, that I came to view it, and not to
"' 4. To the fourth article of the charge, viz., in receive it; and gave commandment that it should
the cause between the Lady Wharton and the be carried back, and was offended when I heard it
co-heirs of Sir Francis Willoughby, he received was not; and some year and a half after, as I
of the Lady Wharton three hundred and ten remember, Sir John Kennedey having all that
pounds: I confess and declare, that I received of time refused to take it away, as I am told by my
the Lady Wharton, at two several times, (as I re- servant, I was petitioned by one Pinckney, that
member,) in gold, two hundred pounds and a it might be delivered to' him, for that he stood
hundred pieces, and this was certainly pendente engaged for the money that Sir John Kennedey
lite; but yet I have a vehement suspicion that paid for it. And thereupon Sir John Kennedey
there was some shuffling between Mr. Shute and wrote a letter to my servant Shereborne with his
the register, in entering some orders, which af- own hand, desiring that I would not do him that
terwards I did distaste. disgrace as to return that gift back, much less to
" 5. To the fifth article of the charge, viz., in put it into a wrong hand; and so it remains yet
Sir Thomas Monk's cause, he received from Sir ready to be returned to whom your lordships shall
Thomas Monk, by the hands of Sir Henry Helmes, appoint.
a hundred and ten pounds; but this was three- "10. To the tenth article of the charge, viz.,
quarters of a year after the suit was ended: I con- he borrowed of Vanlore a thousand pounds, upon
fess it to be true, that I received a hundred his own bond, at one time, and the like surn at
pieces; but it was long after the suit ended, as is another time, upon his lordship's own bill, subcontained in the charge. scribed by Mr. Hunt, his man: I confess and
c" 6. To the sixth article of the charge, viz., in declare, that I borrowed the money in the article
the cause between Sir John Treavor and Ascue, set down, and that this is a true debt. And I
he received, on the part of Sir John Treavor, a remember well that I wrote a letter from Kew,
hundred pounds: I confess and declare, that I above a twelvemonth since, to a friend about the
received at new year's-tide a hundred pounds king, whereinI desired that, whereas I owed Peter
from Sir John Treavor; and because it came as a Vanlore two thousand pounds, his majesty would
new year's gift, I neglected to inquire whether be pleased to grant me so much out of his fine set
the cause was ended or depending; but since I upon him in the Star Chamber.
find, that though the cause was then dismissed to "- 11. To the eleventh article of the charge, viz.,
a trial at law, yet the equity is reserved, so as it he received of Richard Scott two hundred pounds,
was in that kind pendente lite. after his cause was decreed, (but upon a precedent
"6 7. To the seventh article of the charge, viz., promise,) all which was transacted by Mr. Shute:
in the cause between Holman and Young, he I confess and declare, that some fortnight after,
received of Young a hundred pounds, after the as I remember, that the decree passed, I received
decree made for him; I confess and declare, that, two hundred pounds, as from Mr. Scott, by Mr.
as I remember, a good while after the cause ended, Shute; but, for any precedent promise or trans.
[ received a hundred pounds, either by Mr. Tobie action by Mr. Shute, certain I am I knew of
Matthew, or from Young himself; but whereas I none.
understood that there was some money given by ", 12. To the twelfth article of the charge, viz.,
Iolrnan to my servant Hatcher, with that certainly he received in the same cause, on the part of Sir
I was never made privy. John Lentall, a hundred pounds: I confess and
cS8. T,. the eighth article of the charge, viz., declare, that some months after, as I remember,