the charge against m l S wonder and h I for scandal and traduce of the king  justice in the proceed against Weston in the star Chamber novemb the offence  wherewith I shall charge the three offender at the bar be a misdemeanour of a  high nature tend to the deface and scandal of justice in a great Cause capital  the particular charge be this the king among many his princely virtue be know  to excel in that proper virtue of the imperial throne which be justice it be a  royal virtue which do employ the other three cardinal virtue in her service  wisdom to discover and discern nocent or innocent fortitude to prosecute and  execute temperance so to carry justice as it be not passionate in the pursuit  nor confuse in involve person upon light suspicion nor precipitate in time for  this his majesty virtue of justice God have of late raise a occasion and erect  as it be a stage or theater much to his honour for he to show it and act it in  the pursuit of the untimely death of sir Thomas Overbury and therein cleanse  the land from blood for my lord if blood spill pure do cry to heaven in God  ear much more blood defile with poison this great work of his majesty justice  the more excellent it be your lordship will soon conclude the great be the  offence of any that have seek to affront it or traduce it and therefore before  I descend unto the charge of these offender I will set before your lordship  the weight of that which they have seek to impeach speak somewhat of the  general crime of impoisonment and then of the particular circumstance of this  fact upon Overbury and three and chief of the king great and worthy care and  carriage in this business this offence of impoisonment be most true figure in  that devise or description which be make of the nature of one of the Roman  tyrant that he be lutum sanguine to make soft mire mingle or cymented with  blood for as it be one of the high offence in guiltiness so it be the base of  all other in the mind of the offender treason magnum to some degree spectant  they aim at great thing but this be vile and base I tell your lordship what I  have note that in all God book both of the old and new testament I find  example of all other offence and offender in the world but not any one of a  Impoyonment or a impoisoner I find mention of fear of casual impoisonment when  the wild vine be shred into the pot they come complain in a fearful manner  master mors in olla and I find mention of poison of beast and serpent the  poison of asp be under their lip but I find no example in the book of God of  impoisonment I have sometime think of the word in the psalm let their table be  make a snare which certain be most true of impoisonment for the table the  daily breed for which we pray be turn to a deadly snare but I think rather  that that be mean of the treachery of friend that be participant of the same  table but let we go on it be a offence my lord that have the two spur of  offend spes to achieve and spes Celandi it be easy commit and easy conceal it  be a offence that be tanquam Sagitta night  flying it be the arrow that fly by  night it discern not who it hit for many time the poison be lie for one and  the other take it as in sander case where the poison apple be lie for the  mother and be take up by the child and kill the child and so in that notorious  case whereupon the statute of oh h cap oh be make where the intent be to  poison but one or two poison be put into a little Vesell of Barm that stand in  the kitchen of the bishop of Rochesters house of which Barm pottage or gruel  be make wherewith of the bishop family be poison nay diverse of the poor that  come to the bishop gate and have the break pottage in nourishing be likewise  poison and therefore if any man will comfort himself or think with himself  here be great talk of impoisonment I hope I be safe for I have no enemy nor I  have nothing that any body shall long for why that be all one for he may sit  at table by one for who poison be prepare and have a drench of his cup or of  his pottage and so as the poet say  an abattis unfortunate another wound he  may die another man death and therefore it be most grave and judicious and  proper provide by that statute that impoisonment shall be high treason because  whatsoever offence tend to the utter subversion and dissolution of human  society be in the nature of high treason last it be a offence that I may true  say of it non be our men  noble birth nec blood it be thank be to God rare in  the isle of brittanny it be neither of our country nor of our church you may  find it in Rome or Italy there be a region or perhaps a religion for it and if  it shall come among we certain it be better live in a wilderness than in a  court for the particular fact upon Overbury first for the person of sir Thomas  Overbury I know the gentleman it be true his mind be great but it move not in  any good order yet certain it do common fly at good thing and the great fault  that I ever hear by he be that he make his friend his idol but I leave he as  sir Thomas Overbury but then take he as he be the king prisoner in the tower  and then see how the case stand in that place the state be as it be respondent  to make good the body of a prisoner and if any thing happen to he there it may  though not in this case yet in some other make a aspersion and a reflection  upon the state it self for the person be utter out of his own defence his own  care and providence can serve he nothing he be in custody and preservation of  law and we have a maxim in our law as my lord the judge know that when a state  be in preservation of law nothing can destroy it or hurt it and God forbid but  the like shall be for the person of those that be in custody of law and  therefore this be a circumstance of great aggravation last to have a man chase  to death in such manner as it appear now by matter of record for other privacy  of the Cause I know not by poison after poison first Roseaker then arsenic  then Mercury sublimate then sublimate again it be a thing will astonish man  nature to hear it the poet feign that the fury have whip and that they be cord  with poisonous snake and a man will think that this be the very case to have a  man tie to a post and to scourge he to death with snake for so may true be  term diversity of oysons now I will come unto that which be the principal that  be his majesty princely yea and as I may true term it sacred proceed in this  Cause wherein I will first speak of the temper of his justice and then of the  strength thereof first it please my lord chief justice to let I know that  which I hear with great comfort which be the charge hat his majesty give to  himself first and afterward to the commissioner in this case worthy certain to  be write in letter of gold wherein his majesty do before rank and make it his  prime direction that it shall be carry without touch to any that be innocent  nay more not only without impeachment but without aspersion which be a most  noble and princely caution from his majesty for man reputation be tender thing  and ought to be like Christ coat without Seam and it be the more to be respect  in this case because it meet with two great person a noble man that his  majesty have favour and advance and his lady be of a great and honourable  house though I think it be true that the writer say that there be no  pomgranate so fair or so sound but may have a perish kernel nay I see plain  that in those excellent paper of his majesty own hand write be as so many beam  of justice issue from that virtue which do shine in he I say I see it be so  even carry without prejudice whither it be a true accusation of the one part  or a practice of a false accusation on the other as show plain that his  majesty judgement be tanquam picture rasa as a clean pair of table and his ear  tanquam door area free from obstacles as a gate not side open but wide open to  truth as it shall be by little and little discover nay I see plain that at the  first till further light do break forth his majesty be little move with the  first Tale which he vouchsafe not so much as the name of a Tale but call it a  rumour which be a Headless Tale as for the strength or resolution of his  majesty justice I must tell your lordship plain I do not marvel to see king  thunder out justice in case of treason when they be touch themselves and that  they be a maintainer pain not common with others but that a king shall pro  love the whole of the laws only contrary to the tide of his own affection for  the preservation of his people take such care of a Cause of justice that be  rare and worthy to be celebrate far and near for I think I may true affirm  that there be never in this kingdom nor in any other kingdom the blood of a  private gentleman vindicate come tanto mou royal power or to say better come  tanto clapping royal power if it have concern the king or prince there can not  have be great nor better commissioner to examine it the term of the be almost  turn into a Iustitium or vacancy the people themselves be more Willing to be  looker on in this business then to follow their own there have be no care of  discovery omit no moment of time lose and therefore I will conclude this part  with the say of Salomon glory God to hide from remember glory king  junk merchant remember and his majesty honour be much the great for that he  have show to the world in this business as it have relation to my lord of  Somerset who case in no sort I do prejudge be ignorant of the secret of the  Cause but take he as the law take he hitherto for a suspect I say the king  have to his great honour show that be any man in such a case of blood as the  signet upon his right hand as the scripture say yet will he put he off now  will I come to the particular charge of these gentleman who quality and person  I respect and love for they be all my particular friend but now I can only do  this duty of a friend to they to make they know their fault to the full and  therefore first I will by way of narrative declare to your lordship the fact  with the occasion of it then you shall have their confession read upon which  you be to proceed together with some collateral testimony by way of  aggravation and last I will note and observe to your lordship the material  point which I do insist upon for their charge and so leave they to their  answer and this I will do very brief for the case be not perplex that wretched  man Weston who be the actor or mechanical party in this impoisonment at the  first day be indict by a very substantial jury of select citizen to the number  of who find that true yet nevertheless at the first stand mute but after some  day intermission it please God to cast out the dumb devil and that he do put  himself upon his trial and be by a jury also of great valve upon his  confession and other testimony find guilty so as sufficient juror have pass  upon he whereupon judgement and execution be awaded against he after this be  in preparation for another world he send for sir Thomas Overburies father and  fall down upon his knee with great remorse and compunction ask he forgiveness  Aftrwards again of his own motion desire to have his like prayer of  forgiveness recommend to his mother who be abent and at boh time out of the  abundance of his heart Confssd that he be to die just and that he be wothy of  death and after again at his execution which be a kind of seal tme of  confession evn at the point of death although there be tempter about he as you  shall hear by and by yet he do again confirm public that his examination we  rue and that he have be just and honourable deal with here be the narrative  which induce the charge the change it self be this m l who offence stand alone  single the offence of the other two be in consort and yet all three meeting in  their end and centre which be to interrupt or deface this excellent piece of  justice m l I say mean while between Westons stand mute and his trial take  upon he to mke a most false odious and libellous relation contain as many  untruth as line and set it down in write with his own hand and delives it to  mr Henry Gibb of the bedchamber to be put into the king hand in which write he  do falsify and pervert all that be do the first day at the arraignment of  Weston turn the pike and point of his imputation principal upon my lord chief  justice of England who name thus occur I can pass by and yet I can not skill  to flatter but this I will say of he and I will say as much to age if I shall  write a story that never man person and his place be better meet in a business  then my lord cokee and my lord chief justice in the Cause of Overbury now my  lord in this offence of m l for the particular of these slanderous article I  will observe they unto you when the write and examination be read for I do not  love to set the gloss before the text but in general I no to your lordship  first the person of m l I know he be a Scottish gentleman and thereby more  ignorant of our law and from but I can tell whither this do extenuate his  fault in rspect of ignorance or aggravate it much in respect of presumptiou  that he will meddle in that that he understand not but I doubt it come not out  of his quiver some other man cunning wrought upon this man boldness second I  may note unto you the greatness of the Cause wherein he be a private mean  gentleman do presume to deal m l can not but know to what great and grave  commissioner the king have commit this Cause and that his majesty in his  Wiedom will expect return of all thing from they to who trust he have commit  this business for it be the part of commissioner as well to report the  business as to manage the Businsse and then his majesty may have be sure to  have have all thing well weigh and true inform and therefore it shall have be  far from m l to have presume to have put frth his hand to so high and tender a  business which be not to be touch but by employ hand three I note to your  lordship that this infusion of a slander into a king ear be of all from of  libel and slander the worst it be true that king may keep secret their  information and then no man ought to inquire after they while they be shrine  in their breast but where a king be please that a man shall answer for his  false information there I say the false information to a king xceeds in  offence the false information of any other kind be a kind since we be in  matter of poison of impoisonment of a king ear and thus much for the offence  of m l for the offence of S wonder and h I which I say be in consort it be  short this at the I be and place of the execution of Weston to upplant his  Christian resolution and to Scandalzehe justice already pass perhaps to cut  off the thread of that which be to come these gentleman with other come mount  on horseback and in a ruffle and face manner put themselves forward to  re-examine Weston upon question and what question direct cross to that that  have be try and judge for what be the point try that Weston have poison  Overbury what be S wonder question whether Weston do poison Ovrbury or no a  contradictory direct Weston answer only that he do he wrong and turn to the  sheriff say you promise I I shall not be trouble at this time nevertheless he  press he to answer say he desire to know it that he may pray with he I know  not that S wonder be a ecclesiastic that he shall cut any man from communion  of prayer and yet for all this vex of the spirit of a poor man now in the gate  of death Weston nevertheless stand constant and say I die not unworthy my lord  chief justice have my mind under my hand and he be a honourable and just judge  this be S wonder his offence for h I he be not so much a questionist but  wrought upon the other question and like a kind of confessor wish he to  discharge his conscience and to satisfy the world what world I marvel it be  sure the world at Tyburn for the world at guild hall and the world at London  be satisfy before testae the bell that ring but man have a get fashion now a  day that two or three busy body will take upon they the name of the world and  broach their own conceit as if it be a general opinion well what more when  they can not work upon Weston then h I in a indignation turn abont his horse  when the other be turn over the ladder and say he be sorry of such a  conclusion that be to have the state honour or justify but other take and  report his word in another degree but that I leave see it be not confess h I  his offence have another appendix before this in time which be that at the day  of the verdict give up by the jury he also will needs give his verdict say  open that if he be of the jury he will doubt what to do marry he say he can  tell well whether he speak this before the jury have give up the verdict or  after wherein there be little gain for whether h I be a prejuror or a post  Jurour the one be as to prejudge the jury the other as to taint they of the  offence of these two gentleman in general your lordship must give I leave to  say that it be a offence great and more dangerous then be conceive I know well  that as we have no Spanish inquisition nor justice in a corner so we have no  gag of man mouth at their death but that they may speak free at the last hour  but then it must come from the free motion of the party not by temptation of  question the question that be to be ask ought to tend to further reveal of  their own or other guiltiness but to use a question in the nature of a false  interrogatory to falsify that which be res P. a be intolerable for that be to  erect a court or Commission of review at Tyburn against the king bench at  Westminster and beside it be a thing vain and idle for if they answer accord  to the judgement pass it add no credit nor if it be contrary it derogate  nothing but yet it subject the majesty of justice to popular and vulgar talk  and opinion my lord these be great and dangerous offence for if we do not  maintain justice justice will not maintain we but now your lordship shall hear  the examination themselves upon which I shall have occasion to note some  particular thing c the effect of that which be speak by the lord keeper of the  great seal of England at the take of his place in chancery in performance of  the charge his majesty have give he when he receive the seal before I enter  into the business of the court I shall take advantage of so many honourable  witness to publish and make know summary what charge the king most excellent  majesty give I when I receive the seal and what order and resolution my self  have take in conformity to that charge that the king may have the honour of  direction and I the part of obedience whereby your lordship and the rest of  the presence shall see the whole time of my sit in the chancery which may be  long or short as please God and the king contrcted into one hour and this I do  for three cause first to give account to the king of his commandment second  that I may be a Guard and custody to my self and I own do that I do not swerve  or recede from any thing that I have profess in so noble company and three  that all man that have to do with the chancery or the seal may know what they  shall expect and both set their heart and my ear at rest not move I to any  thing against these rule know that my answer be now turn from a  not into a  non to be able it be no more I will not but I can after this declaration and  this I do also under three caution the first be that there be some thing of a  more secret and counsel like nature which be rather to be act then publish but  these thing which I shall speak of to day be of a more public nature the  second be that I will not trouble this presence with every particular which  will be too long but select those thing which be of great efficacy and conduce  most and summas a thing leave may other particular to be set down in a public  table accord to the good example of my last predecessor in his beginning and  last that these imperatives which I have make but to my self and my time be  without prejudice to the authority of the court or wise man that may succeed I  and chief that they be whole submit unto the great wisdom of my sovereign the  absolute prine in judicature that have be in the Christian world for if any of  these thing which I intend to be subordinate to his direction shall be think  by his majesty to be inordinate I shall be most ready to reform they these  thing be but tanquam Albm praetor  for so do the Roman praetor which have the  great affinity with the jurisdiction of the chancellor here who use to set  down at their entrance how they will use their jurisdiction and this I shall  do my lord in word male no flourish or paint word but such as be fit to go  before deed the king charge which be my lantern rest upon four head the first  be that I shall contain the jurisdiction of the court within his true and due  limit without swell or excess the second that I shall think the put of the  great seal to letter patent be not a matter of course after precedent warrant  but that I shall take it to be the maturity and fullness of the king intention  and therefore that it be one of the great part of my trust if I see any  scruple or Cause of stay that I shall acquaint he conclude with a quoth  to waver in opinion ne to make the three be that I shall retrench all  unnecessary delay that the subject may find that he do enjoy that same remedy  against the faint of the seal and against the consumption of the mean and  estate which be speedy justice bis that who to cause to go that the four be  that justice may pass with as easy charge as may be and that those same  bramble that grow about justice of needless charge and expense and all manner  of exaction may be root out so far as may be these commandment my lord be  righteous and as I may term they sacred and therefore to use a sacred from I  pray God bless the king for his great care over the justice of the land and  give I his poor servant grace and power to observe his precept now for a  beginning towards it I have set down and apply particular order to every one  of these four general head for the excess or tumour of this court of chancery  I shall divide it into five nature the first be when the court do embrace or  retain cause both in matter and circumstance mere determinable and fit for the  commonlaw for my lord the chancery be ordain to supply the law and not to  subvert the law now to describe unto you or delineate what those cause be and  upon what difference that be fit for the court be too long a lecture but I  will tell you what remedy I have prepare I will keep the key of the court my  self and I will never refer any demurrer or plea tend to discharge or dismiss  the court of the Cause to any mr of the chancery but judge oh it my self or at  least the mr of the roll nay further I will appoint regular that on the  Tuesday in every week which be the day of order first to hear all motion of  that nature before any other that the subject may have his vale at first  without further attend and that the court do not keep and accumulate a  miscellany and confusion of cause of all nature the scond point concern the  time of the complaint and the late comer into the chancery which stay till a  judgement be pass against they at the commonlaw and then complain wherein your  lordship may have hear a great Ratle and a noise of a praemunire and I can  tell what but that question the king have settle accord to the ancient  precedent in all time continue and this I will say that the opinion not to  relieve any case afer judgement will be a guilty opinion guilty of the ruin  and naufrage and perish of infinite subject and as the king find it well out  why shall a man fly into the chancery before he be hurt the whole needs not  the physician but the sick but my lord the power will be preserve but then the  practice will be moderate my rule shall be therefore that in case of complaint  after judgement except the judgement be upon nothing to say which be but  disguise of udgement obtain in contempt of a precede order of this court yea  and after verdict also I will have the party complainant enter into good Bod  to prove his suggestion so that if he will be relieve against a judgement at  commonlaw upon matter of equity he shall do it tanquam in chain at his peril  the three point of excess may be the over frequent and facile grant of  injunction for the stay of the commonlawes or the alter possession wherein  these shall be my rule I will grant no injunction mereely upon priority of  suit that be to say because this court be first possess a thing that be well  reform in the late lord chancellor time but use in chancellor Broomeleyes time  insomuch as I remember that mr Dalton the councillor at law put a pasquil upon  the Cort in nature of a bill for see it be no more but my lord the bill come  in on Monday and the arrest at commonlaw be on Tuesday I pray the injunction  upon priority of suit he cause his Clent that have a lose debt to put a bill  into the chancery bfor the bind due to he be forfeit to desire a order that he  may have his money at the day because he will be sure to be before the other I  do not mean to make it a matter of a horse race or post who shall be first in  chancery or in court of law neither will I grant a injunction upon mater  conained in the bill only be it never so smooth and specious but upon matter  confess in the defendant answer or matter pregnant in write or of record or  upon contempt of the defendant in not appear or not answer or trifle with the  court by insufficient answer for then it may be think the defendant stand out  upon purpose to get the start at the commonlaw and so take advantage of his  own contempt which may not be suffer as for injunction for possession I shall  maintain possession as they be at the time of the bill exhibit and for the  space of a year before except the possession be get by force or by any trick  neither will I alter possession upon interlocutory order until a decree except  upon matter plain confess in the defendant answer join with a plain disability  and insolvency of the defendant to answer the profit as for take the  possession away in respect of contempt I will have all the proceed of the  court spend first and a sequestration of the profit before I come to a  injunction the four part of excess be concern the communicate of the authority  of the chancellor too far and make upn the matter too many chancellor by rely  too much upon report of the master of the chancery as concludent I know my  lord the master of the chancery be reverend man and the great mass of business  of the court can be speed without they and it be a thing the chancellor may  soon fall into for his own ease to rely too much upon they but the course that  I will take general shall be this that I will make no bind order upon any  report of the master without give a seven night day at the least to show cause  against the report which nevertheless I will have do modest with due reverence  towards they and again I must utter discontinue the make of a hypothetical or  conditional order that if a master of the chancery do certify thus that then  it be order without further motion for that be a surprise and give no time for  contradiction the last point of excess be if a chancellor shall be so much of  himself as he shall neglect assistance of reverend judge in case of difficulty  especial if they touch upon law or call they shall do it but pro form  of such size and give no due respect to their opinion wherein my lord preserve  the dignity and majesty of the court which I count rather increase then  diminish by grave and due assistance I shall never be find so sovereign or  abundant in I own sense but I shall both desire and make true use of assistant  nay I assure your lordship if I shall find any main diversity of opinion of my  assistant from I own though I know well the judicature whole reside in my self  yet I think I shall have recourse to the oracle of the king own judgement  before I shall pronounce and so much for the temperate use of the authority of  this court wherein the health of the court do much consist as that of the body  consist in temperance for the second commandment of his majesty touch stay of  grant at the great seal there may be just Cause of stay either in the matter  of the grant or in the manner of pssing the same out of both which I extract  these principal case which I will now make know all which nevertheless I  understand to be whole submit to his majesty will and pleasure after by I he  shall have be inform for if to do a second time mandatum do come obedience be  better then sacrifice the first case be where any matter of revenue or  Treasure or profit pass from his majesty my first duty shall be to examine  whether the grant have pass in the due and natural course by the great officer  of the revenue the lord treasurer and chancellor of the exchequer and with  their privity which if I find it not to be I must presume it to have pass in  the dark and by a kind of surreption and will make stay of it till his majesty  pleasure be further know second if it be a grant that be not mere vulgar and  have not of course pass at the signet by a Fac simile but needs science my  duty shall be to examine whether it have pass by the learned counsel and have  their dockets which be that which his majesty read and that lead he and if I  find it otherwise although the matter be not in it self inconvenient yet I  hold it just Cause of stay for precedent sake to keep man in the right way  three if it be a grant which I conceive out of my little knowledge to be  against the law of which nature Theodosius be wont to say when he be press I  say it but I grant it not if it be unlawull I will call the learned counsel to  it as well he that draw the book as the rest or some of they and if we find  cause I will inform his majesty of our opinion either by my self or some of  they for as for the judge they be judge of grant pass but not of grant to come  except the king call they fourthly if the grant be against the king book of  bounty I be express command to stay they until the king either Revise his book  in general or give direction in the particular five if as a counselor of  estate I do foresee inconvenience to ensue by the grant in reason of estate in  respect of the king honour or discontent or murmur of the people I will not  trust I own judgement but I will either acquaint his majesty with it or the  Cousell table or some such of my lord as I shall think fit last for matter of  pardon if it be of treason misprision of treason murder either express or  involute by a non to stand before or of a piracy or praemunire or of fine or  exemplary punishment in star Chamber or of some other nature I shall by the  grace of God stay they until his majesty who be the fountain of grace may  resolve between God and he understanding the case how far grace shall abound  or superabound and if it be of person attaint and convict of robbery burglary  c then will I examine whether the pardon pass the hand of any justice of  assize or other commissioner before who the trial be make and if not I think  it my duty also to stay they thus your lordship see in this matter of the seal  agreeable to the commandment I have receive I mean to walk in the light so  that man may know where to find I and this publish thereof plain I hope will  save the king from a great deal of abuse and I from a great deal of envy when  man shall see that no particular turn or end lead I but a general rule for the  three general head of his majesty precept concern speedy justice I be resolve  that my decree shall come speedy if not instant after the hear and my sign  decree pronounce for it have be a manner much use of late in my last lord time  oh who I learn much to imitate and with due reverence to his memory let I  speak it much to avoid that upon the solemn full hear of a Cause nothing be  pronounce in court but breviate be require to be make which I do not dislike  in it self in cause perplex for I confess I have somewhat of the cunctative  and I be of opinion that whosoever be not wise upon advice then upon the  sudden the same man be no wise at year old then he be at and it be my father  ordinary word you must give I time but yet I find that when such breviate be  take the Cause be sometime forget a term or two and then set down for a new  hear or a rehear three or four term after of which kind of intermission I see  no use and therefore I will promise regular to pronounce my decree within few  day after my hear and to sign my decree at least in the vacation after the  pronounce for fresh justice be the sweet and beside justice ought not to be  delay and it will also avoid all mean make or labour for there ought to be no  labour in cause but the labour of the counsel at the bar again because justice  be a sacred thing and the end for which I be call to this place and therefore  be my way to heaven and if it be short it be never a whit the worse I shall by  the grace of God as far as God will give I strength add the afternoon to the  forenoon and some four night of the vacation to the term for the expedit and  clear of the cause of the court only the depth of the three long vacation I  will reserve in some measure free for business of estate and for study of be  and science to which in my nature I be most incline there be another point of  true expedition which rest much in my self and that be in the manner of give  order for I have see a affectation of dispatch turn utter to delay and length  for the manner of it be to take the Tale out of the counsellor at bar his  mouth and to give a cursory order nothing tend or conduce to the end of the  business it make I remember what I hear one say of a judge that sae in the  chancery that he will make order in a morning out of the way and it be out of  the way indeed for it be nothing to the end of the business and this be that  which make Ordrs in a Cause too and from beget one another and like penelope  web do and undo but I mean not to purchase the praise of expeditive in that  kind but as one that have a feel of my duty and of the case of other my  endeavour shall be to hear patient and to cast my order into such a mould as  may soon bring the subject to the end of his journey as for such delay as may  concern ohers the great abuse be that if the plaintiff have get a injunction  to stay suit at commonlaw then he will spin on his Cause at length but by the  grace of God I will make injunction a hard pillow to sleep on for if I find  that he prosecute not with effect he may hap when he be awake find not only  his injunction dissolve but his Cause dismiss there be other particular order  I mean to take for non prosecution or faint prosecution wherewith I will not  trouble you now because summa sequar the top of a gable a thing and so much  for mattr of expedition now for the fouth and last point of the king  commandment for the cut off of unnecessary charge of the subject a great part  of it be fulfil in the precedent article touch expedition for it be the length  of suit that do multiply charge chief but yet there be some other remedy that  conduce thereunto first therefore I shall maintain strict and with severity  the former order which I find make by my lord chancellor for the immoderate  and needle prolixity and length of bill and answer and so forth as well in  punish the party as fine the counsel who hand I shall find at such bill answer  c second for all the examination take in the court I do give charge unto the  examiner upon peril of their place that they do not use idle repetition or  needless circumstance in set down the deposition take by they and I will I can  help it likewise in commission in the country but that be almost unpossible  three I shall take a diligent survey of the Ceppies in chancery that they have  their just number of line and without open or wasteful write fourthly I shall  be careful that there be no exaction of any new fee but accord as they have be  heretofore set and table as for lawyer fee I must leave to the conscience and  merit of the lawyer and the estimation and gratitude of the client but yet  this I can do I know there have use to attend this bar a number of lawyer that  have not be hear sometime scarce once or twice in a term and that make the  client seek to great counsel and favourite as they call they a term fit for  king then judge and that for every order that a mean lawyer may dispatch and  as well therefore to help the generality of lawyer and therein to ease the  client I will constant observe that every Tuesday and other day of order after  nine a clock strike I will hear the bar until or half a hour after at the  least and since we be upon the point who I will hear your lordship will give I  leave to tell you a fancy it fall out that there be three of we the king  servant in great place that be lawyer by descent mr attorney son of a judge mr  solicitor likewise son of a judge and my self a chancellor son now because the  law root so well in my time I will water it at the root thus far as beside  these great one I will hear any judge Sonn before a sergeant and any sergeant  Sonn before a reader last for the better ease of the subject and the bridle of  contentious suit I shall give better that be great cost where the suggestion  be not prove then have be hitherto use there be diverse other order for the  better reiglement of this court and for grant of writ and for grant of  benefice and other thing which I shall set down in a table but I will deal  with no oher to day but such as have a proper relation to his majesty  commandment it be my comfort that I serve such a master that I shall needs to  be but a conduit for the convey only of his goodness to his people and it be  true that I do affect and aspire to make good that say that optimum magistracy  apply good Legi which be true in his majesty but for my self I doubt I shall  not attain it but yet I have a domestical example to follow my lord I have no  more to say but now I will go on to the business of the court