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england_n	keeper_n	lord_n	seal_n	5,051	5	8.9948	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

publikely or privately nor to have born any Office What course could he have then taken for a living dig he could not and to beg he was ashamed and what other way had been left him whereby to have maintained himself and family And this this worthy Gentleman would have done to have satisfied his Spleenatick humour Yet like the son of such a father he gives this reason for it In regard saith he of his constant persisting in foul practice having thereby done prejudice to some of the Nobility and severall of the Clergie in that Kingdom You well know who was the father of such untruths from the beginning And Master Alexander is certainly perswaded that it was the invention of his own brain for wrong he never did to any man in that or this Kingdom nor in all the world that he is conscious of unto himself nor did any man there that was not of his Confederacy ever complain of the least ill measure or miscarriage done him by Master Alexander And those Complaints wherein he had a hand albeit they had the said Lord Deputies best countenance and assistance and what he and all the enemies which he had could invent and put upon him yet did Master Alexander clear himself of whatsoever Accusation and left the shame to rest upon them all to whom it justly appertained But peradventure Master Fitz-Gerald will answer this in the language that he informed it in and whatsoever his ill meaning was in the matter will take the words in their proper sense and so t is true Master Alexander by his Practice had done some of the Nobility and some of the Clergie prejudice Sure it was his Profession to do so when he overthrew them in their unjust Suits wherein he was of Counsel against them yet did them no wrong therein nor injury unlesse in Master Fitz-Geralds esteem it was not fair for any man of Law to have opened his mouth against a Lord or Prelate of those times And for the Clergie Master Alexander can but wonder that the should make use of their names in so false a thing as this when t is well known Master Alexander had no such ill opinion amongst the Clergie And that you may perceive that Master Fitz-Gerald circumvented the Lord Primate of Ireland in gaining this Letter from him under such Generals to do Master Alexander a mischief the Information being sent over to Master Alexander out of England by his friends at Court to let him know how his Majestie was thus again possessed and incensed against him he went therewith unto the Lord Primate and shewed his Lordship the same informed him that his name was made use of as one that sent over this Complaint against him which he utterly disclaimed and to go Master Alexander right therein gave him the Certificate under his hand which followeth in these words AT and upon the humble request of Jerome Alexander of Dublin practiser in the Laws informing me that he is credibly given to understand by Letters out of England that his Majestie should be informed by Letters from me hence against him whereby to alien and withdraw his Majesties favour from him in some thing now intended by his Majesty unto him Therefore to satisfie his desires herein and all other whomsoever I do declare hereby That for my part as I never had cause of any Complaint against him now since his residence in this Kingdom have never heard that he demeaned himself here otherwise then orderly and well so I professe that I never wrote any Letters unto his Majestie or any person whatsoever against him either into England or elsewhere but do wish him much good and would rather do him a pleasure then otherways if it should lie in my way Given at my house at Dublin this ninth of November Anno Dom. 1633. Ja. Armachanus Which being sent over for England and shewed unto his Majestie begat a little better opinion in him of Master Alexander then before Yet whensoever his Majestie was sollicited for a Pardon in his behalf the Lord Coventry still was advised with herein as it was his place who so incensed his Majestie still again and again against Master Alexander as for a long time he stopt and kept the current of his Majesties mercy from him All which he did fearing Master Alexanders return and that he would complain of the injustice done him which you may perceive he was no ways able to answer in this matter the same so grosly appearing out of the proceedings that there needed no proof but the Records of his own actions to manifest the same And now after this Master Alexanders father in law Master John Havers and his uncle Captain Edward Havers being well satisfied by Counsel of the iniquity of the Sentence and by Master Noy for one amongst the rest out of their meer goodnesse could hold no longer but were resolved That if the Lord Coventry should interpose in the matter any longer against Master Alexander they would complain of him unto his Majestie yet first they attempted again to obtain his Majesties favour for a Pardon which with much ado his Majestie granted and for which Master Alexander doth own very much to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke who being well informed in the businesse and finding with what a high hand he was opposed by the Lord Keeper for his own ends would not be denied of his Majestie therein by which means it was obtained Yet when it came to be drawn up the Lord Coventry came to the King again and would have perswaded his Majestie against it but finding him and resolved to have it done when he perceived it must passe yet then with his importunities he prevailed to have the Condition inserted in it howsoever That Master Alexander should not use his Profession here in England and after all this yet stopt it at the Seal for some time notwithstanding till Master Noy being then this Majesties Attorney-Generall came to him of purpose and told him reasons why it were better for him to passe it so then to endure a Complaint and thereupon he sealed it much against his will which followeth in these words CHARLES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas in Our Court before Our Councell in Our Star-Chamber the seventeenth day of November in the second yeer of Our Reign in a Cause then there late depending between Jerome Alexander Utter-Barrester at the Law Plaintiff against John Yates and others Defendants by Judgement of the same Court the said Jerome Alexander was censured for a foul misdemeanour and offence by him committed in defacing and blotting out of certain words out of the copie of certain Depositions taken in the said Cause for his own advantage and ends against the said John Yates whereby Our said Court was misled in their judgements in the censuring and condemning of the said Yates

now Viscount Valentia Sir Frederick Hamilton Knight and others had against him to be heard in the foulest and most palpable and grosse injustice and wrong done them that ever was done or heard of to be done in a Civil Common-wealth and yet could obtain no right or redresse of their injuries but instead of relief were crushed by means of his power and greatnesse And knowing him to be an implacable adversary that never was satisfied without the ruine of him against whom he once conceived a displeasure And Master Alexander therefore not being able to return into Ireland to live upon his estate and having two such good friends at Court as my Lord Coventry the late Lord Keeper and his little Grace of Canterbury and their Faction which stood in the way of his preferment here in England and then not being able to exercise his Profession for the reasons aforesaid the case thus standing with him he took a resolution to travel beyond the Seas and did so where after he had spent some time abroad it so fell out that contrary to all expectation this Parliament was assembled which being sate down and setled he was called home and returned when he found the said Earl of Strafford accused by the Parliament of high treason and therefore committed and his Charge delivered in against him who assisted in making good those Charges what he could in the prosecution thereof to bring him unto justice that scarce ever did any man justice himself in all his life and then Master Alexander also amongst many others then petitioned the Lords in Parliament against him to have been relieved for the great oppressions and injustice which he had sustained at his hands as by the same Petition may appear To the Right Honourable the Lords Spirituall and Temporall in the upper-House of Parliament assembled The Humble Petition of Jerome Alexander Shewing THat the Earl of Strafford conceiving causlesse malice against your Petitioner in or about the moneth of July in the twelfth yeer of his Majesties Reign being then in England and at divers and severall days and times both before and since he expressed the same toward your Petitioner as well by disgracefull and scandalous words and speeches uttered and spoken by him against your Petitioner to sundry Earls Lords and Peers and others His Majesties loving Subjects of all his Hignesse Realms and Dominions with whom he well knew your Petitioner had to do as by his actions and oppressions of your Petitioner both in his good name Profession Fortune and estate whereof your Petitioner had notice being then also in England And whereas your Petitioner purchased an Estate in Fee of divers Lands and Tenements in that His M ties Realm of Ireland from one Ever Magennise and others for which he had paid great sums of money and had as good an Estate thereof conveyed unto him and his Heirs as by Law could be possibly devised or advised by Deeds Inrolled Fines Releases and other like good conveyances and assurances yet after all this the said Magennise was encouraged to Petition the said Earl against your Petitioner to disannull and make void the said Bargain upon scandalous false and feigned surmises in the said Petition suggested Which Petition the said Earl entertained before himself and his Lordship granted out thereupon an Order for your Petitioner presently to appear and answer the said Complaint which your Petitioner did and by his answer cleared himself both by matter of Record and otherwise and therefore prayed to be dismissed from before his Lordship and left to the Law yet would not the said Earl so do but still retained the said Complaint before him and ordered the said Magennise to reply and after granted an order in the nature of an Injunction commanding your Petitioner not to sue the said Magennise in any other Court concerning the premises untill his Lordship should give further order therein And afterwards the said Earl so involved and incumbred your Petitioner with References thereupon and Examination of Witnesses first without Oath before Referrees by his Lordship appointed to hear the businesse and upon oath before the Clerk of the Councell and otherwise that your Petitioner besides the losse of his time and the neglect of his Profession spent great sums of money in his defence and for the cleering of himself and it was a yeers time and more before your Petitioner withall his utmost diligence and best means used could get to be dismissed from before his Lordship in that suite and then not without great importunity of Petitions and otherwise preferred unto his Lordship by your Petitioner for the same and yet thus was your Petitioner onely left unto the Law without any repair for the scandalous matter suggested against your Petitioner and disproved in the proceeding of that Complaint and without dammages for that unjust vexation and in this time the said Magennise became non solvant That when afterwards your Petitioner had recovered against him in an ordinary way of Justice and Legall proceedings the said Magennise was not able to pay and satisfie unto your Petitioner his dammages and losses recovered whereby your Petitioner is damnified 1000 l. That the Earl convented some before him in private with whom he knew your Petitioner had to deal whom he examined of matters to have charged your Petitioner in a criminall way but gaining nothing from them discovered worthy of blame his Lordship shewed himself discontented thereat both against such and your petitioner branding your Petitioner with the name of a skurvey Puritan and threatning both him and the Party that would not be drawn for to accuse him By means whereof and the said Earls further disaffection shewed towards your Petitioner both by words and otherwise others also that did bear ill will against your Petitioner upon every sleight occasion and opportunity were encouraged to traduce and scandalize your Petitioner both publikely and privately without hope of redresse And thus your Petitioner is damnified 2000 l. more That one Philip Fearnesley Esquire wounded and maimed your Petitioner in his face with the stroke of a Candlestick as they were sitting together at Supper at your Petitioners own Table whereby your Petitioner lost much of his bloud and was put in great perill and danger of his life besides what it cost your Petitioner in the cure and recovery of himself Your Petitioner lost also the use of his practise for a whole Terme time together and more by that means For which wrong done unto your Petitioner your Petitioner brought his Action of assault Maism and Battery against the said Fearnesley in His Majesties Court of Chief Place in Ireland where Issue was joyned and a day of Tryall appointed and the Jury returned and summoned accordingly to appear At which time your Petitioner coming to the Bar of the said Court with his Counsell and Witnesses prepared for the said Tryall then and not before the said Fearnsley produced an order signed by the Earl of Strafford