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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

Provided also That if the said severall Suns of five hundred pounds and fifty pounds or either of them hath not been satisfied as by the said Petition is suggested that then these Presents shall be void any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Although expresse mention of the certainty of the Premises or any of them or of any other Gift or Grant by Us or any of Our Predecessours to the said Jerome Alexander heretofore made in these Presents is not made or any Statute Act Ordinance Provision Proclamation or Restraint to the contrary thereof heretofore had made ordained or provided or any other thing cause or matter whatsoever in any wise notwithstanding In Witnesse whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents Witnesse Our Self at Westminster the fourth day of December in the ninth yeer of Our Reign Per Breve de privato Sigillo Wolsley And lest you should suspect that Master Alexander hath spoken much of this without-book and without ground of the said Lord Coventries carriage towards him in this matter by his continuall interrupting His Majesties grace and mercy towards him for some yeers together be pleased to read the following Affidavit which Master Alexander hopeth will satisfie the truth of his Allegations EDward Havers of Windfarding in the County of Norfolk Esquire deposeth That not long after the Petitioner Jerome Alexander was fined in the Star-chamber by that Sentence against which hee now complaineth this Deponent heing Uncle to his Wife and understanding that the Lord Coventry late Lord Keeper was an heavy enemy to the Petitioner in that businesse and desiring to get him a Pardon of the Sentence did endeavour first to prevail with the said Lord Keeper that hee would not oppose the passing of the said Pardon in case the Petitioner could obtain it from His Majesty and to that purpose the Deponent made meanes to the said Lord Coventry by Sir John Hare Knight the said Lord Keepers sonne in law who laboured in it accordingly as hee told this Deponent and perswaded the said Lord Coventry in the Petitioners behalf But the said Lord Coventry as the said Sir John Hare told this Deponent would not bee perswaded to it but used these words to him saying Sonne there shall never any Pardon passe the Seal for him meaning the Petitioner whiles I am Keeper of it which for that time put this Deponent out of all hope to obtain it yet shortly after the fine was begged by one Master Fulwood and passed under the great-Seal who was compounded with for the said Fine and Nevil for his fifty pounds and Yates for the Costs And when this Deponent attempted again to get a Pardon of the residue of the Censure that so the Petitioner might have liberty to Practise and used the Earl of Dorset to move His Majesty in the Petitioners behalf to obtain the said Pardon who did so and the late Lord Faulkland also joyned in that Suit to His Majesty for the Petitioner But the Lord Coventry still opposed it albeit the said Earl of Dorset begged it at the Princes birth as a Boon from His Majesty at that time and so it rested till His Majesty went into Scotland and there againe this Deponent petitioned His Majesty at His Coronation there for the said Pardon and procured the late Lord Treasurer Weston to move in it for the Petitioner But His Majesty remembring what the said Lord Coventry had informed him against the Petitioner notwithstanding all the meanes that could be made refused it Yet after His Majesties return from Scotland this Deponent did again sollicite His Majesty by petition in the name of the Petitioners father in law this Deponents brother and then again this Deponent procured the Earl Marshall and Earl of Pembrook Lord Chamberlain to move in it for the Petitioner who did so and with great sollicitation did obtain a Reference upon the Petition and afterwards a Grant that a Pardon should passe And then this Deponent laboured by Master Thankfull Fruen the Lord Coventries servant to perswade his Lord not to oppose it who told this Deponent that he did labour his Lord the said Lord Coventry that he would suffer the Pardon to passe who as Master Fruen told this Deponent did deny to yeeld to it and said to him again It should not passe the Seal so long as he kept the great Seal or words to that effect and then as Master Fruen informed this Deponent he told his said Lord that he would be commanded to doe it against his well and therefore it were better his Lordship would do it willingly but the said Lord Coventry would not be perswaded by him and at length Master Noy then the Kings Atturney perswaded the said Lord Coventry to seal the Pardon as this Deponent verily beleeveth For this Deponent applying himself to the said Master Noy and telling him how the said Lord Coventry had before opposed it and that he would oppose it The said Master Noy told this Deponent that he would warrant this Deponent the said Lord Coventry would then be of another minde And the said Master Noy being at the said Lord Coventries at a Seal when the Pardon was to be sealed did whisper the said Lord Coventry in his ear and so at that time it was sealed with that Condition That the Petitioner should not practise as a Counsellour at Law in England as is contained in the Pardon Jurat 17 Junii 1643. R. Riche And now after all this a man would have thought that Master Alexander should have been at some rest and quiet from further trouble in this businesse But afterwards it so fell out as that he being entrusted by the Earl Marshall of England in the managing of a Suit which his Majestie had given him for such Lands in Ireland as were his and his Ladies Ancestours and to which he could make out a good Title for the King which when he had waded in so far as that he had made it to appear unto the then Lord Deputy the Earl of Strafford that a good Title would be found for his Majestie to a great quantity of Land which had sometimes been the Inheritance of the Earls of Norfolk and Shrewsbury covetousnesse and something else now made him the said Deputy to cast an eye upon it for himself and lying all not far from Dublin within the Province of Leinster where the said Earl of Strafford had gotten some footing before first his Lordship did labour with the Earl Marshal to have quit his pretence unto it alleadging that it would hinder his Majesties designes of raising a Revenue in that Kingdom unto the Crown and would be otherwise of differvice to the State with other like Objections with which he so prevailed and with other Insinuations and promise of service to the Earl Marshal in other things that he had almost perswaded him to give over his Suit And in the mean time the said Earl of Strafford had procured Letters from his

Majestie and issued out Commissions to entitle his Majestie to these Lands as derived from the Earl Marshals and his Ladies Ancestours which M. Alexander had discovered And having found one Territory thereof but not the tenth part thereof afterwards procured more Letters for to passe the same to others at a small Rent under a hundred pounds per annum which was no lesse in value then between three and four thousand pounds per an Which M. Alexander perceiving informed the Earl Marshal thereof and of the true state of things Whereupon his Lorship finding himself thus injured and abused by the Earl of Strafford did labour his Majestie that he might go on with his Suit for those Lands and did proceed so far as that many of the terre Tenants the ancient Natives who had been in possession by intrusions by them and their Ancestours for many Generations some hundreds of yeers Master Alexander had so satisfied them in the weaknesse of their Titles that without more ado the chiefest of them began to surrender and did surrender their estates into his Majesties hands with intent that they should be granted to the said Earl Marshal and his Heirs according to the Tenour of his Majesties Letters in that behalf and were resolved to stand to the said Earl Marshals courtesie for new Grants to hold of him and his Heirs Which thing when the said Earl of Strafford perceived and that the Earl Marshal having gotten this footing the said Lord Deputies project therein concerning himself to get those Lands would be at an end and so he was not onely like to have too powerfull a Neighbour but his actions must thereupon be sifted and discovered in that wherein he had broken both trust and all bonds of friendship with the Earl Marshal now he the said Lord Deputy saw he had no other way to acquit himself but either to gain Master Alexander unto his party or by crushing him altogether that so he might be quitted of him he therefore attempted first by all expressions of favour towards him to win him and at all places and in all cases where he might shew him countenance he did it for a time till he perceived that nothing could take him from his duty or to violate the trust the Earl Marshal had put in him but found that Master Alexander the rather proceeded with the more zeal and earnestnesse in that businesse then before and by this opportunity was able to have done the said Lord Marshals businesse without him when he thought t was high time to turn about and that speedily or it had been too late for all the possessours of those Lands were resolved to have made the like surrenders of their estates as their neighbours had done before into his Majesties hands c. Whereupon spirits were raised up to fined out other particular interests and claims of private men which were set on foot against the said ancient possessours and albeit without colour or shadow of Title yet it was enough to embroyl the businesse and for to hinder the Earl Marshals smoother proceedings and now a Bill was first brought against these Gentlemen for no other cause but for making these Surrenders of their estates into the Kings hands And because it was pretended to be done in prejudice of those claimers that had no colour of right yet for this and no other thing were they grievously fined and censured in the Castle-Chamber there for thus giving away their own Lands unto the King and the Court of Wards and all Courts there were now filled with Suits against the Occupants and their estates and possessions ordered from them and they outed of their Interests which they and their Ancestours had enjoyed for some hundreds of yeers before and in this time they could get no Lawyer to plead or speak for them but Master Alexander for which cause the said Lord Deputy had wrought all the Judges some few excepted that were just men to disfavour him and fix whatsoever upon him to disgrace him when he came in their way also whomsoever he was that would complain against him had the said Lord Deputies ears open and his creatures too more ready to receive then any of them could possibly be for to petition against him And thus Master Alexander had almost enough to do to make his own Defence against such clamours and false things which were thus received against him whereof he still cleared and freed himself but without any recompence of his losses and damages thereby sustained and without all repair for the base scandals were thereby put upon him whereupon he perceiving himself thus resolved and destined unto ruine by some one means or other were it right or wrong and having understood out of his Lordships the said Lord Deputies secret Closet that he had assuredly purposed and determined to ruine him therefore foreseeing the danger M. Alexander prepared the best he could for to prevent it and now by the opposition that was between them by which means those that were in like manner oppressed did still repair unto Master Alexander for advice and counsel he understood the most of his wicked actions and observing his ways against others and that there was no fence for him to save himself whom he purposed for no destroy therefore Master Alexander came for England and yet without his Passe which was the thing he stormed at having before this time made an Act of Common-Councell which he declared should in all tings be as binding as a Statute-Law That no Subject of Ireland should come for England or go elsewhere beyond the Seas without his special License which when any endeavoured to obtain at his hands against whom he had any thing to say he must be sure to ask and go without howsoever if he had no fair pretence yet then it must be delayed at the least so long untill some way or other was found out to obstruct his passage and so enthrall and trouble the Passenger as ruine was the end at last against whomsoever his displeasure and indignation did arise And if it did so fall out at any time that any man had obtained his Majesties Letters to him requiring his permission to let him come for England he would notwithstanding hinder him if he were such a one as he had no minde to let depart or whom he feared might tell tales at Court therefore Master Alexander procured the Warrant following for his repair into England and made use of it for his coming away accordingly To the Lord Deputy of Ireland RIght Trustie and Right Welbeloved Cousin and Counsellour We greet you well Whereas Our Right Trustie and Our Right Welbeloved Cousin and Counselour Thomas Earl of Arundel and Surrey Earl Marshal of England hath especiall occasion for the service and employment of Our Subject Jerome Alexander who is now residing in that Our Kingdom and hath therefore desired Us that he may have Our especial License for his repair hither into Our Realm of England

blemishes fair Faces Moles the finest Garment soonest gets a Stain and there is no man that hath had his eyes in his head but he hath seen clouds in the brightest day The fairest Lawn is not freed from spots the Moon in her brightnesse is speckled and t is a choice Colour that is not dimmed with the Air and these men whatsoever they think of others can finde if they please themselves that they oftentimes do stumble when they think to set their feet the surest But a little wart or spot is soon seen in the face when a great Bunch is not so easily perceived in the other parts things ordinary and commonly practised go without exception the custom of the evil taking away the sense of the sin and the multitude in the mean time warranting the proceeding because running together into the same excesse of riot which if any man shall but seem to crosse he shall be sure to have more fists about his ears then his own for he that shall walk in the Sun cannot avoid the heat that gathers thorns shall prick his fingers that travels in the raine must needs be wet I have been termed a pestilent fellow S. Paul was so esteemed of and yet no man will deny him to have been a Saint dangers past teacheth men to take heede and distrust is the sinews of wisdome and keepes them out a scar doth warn a man to fear a wound and he is freest from danger that feares when he is safe thus a wise man puts evills to good use turnes vertue into necessity and insults over the greatest abuses and after many shipwracks goes to sea again and yet before the Play is done you will see the Philistines did put out Sampsons eyes and then took him forth to make thein sport for which notwithstanding he was well revenged of them in the latter end but the sun is the same though Eclipst and a Bird is a Bird though her feathers be puld off onely the Ape is made more easie to be catcht when laden with a clogg and a breach is soonest made where the wall is crackt and a staffe is more readily found for to beat a dog 't is an easie matter to abuse any man to his face that must not be once received for to answer for himselfe he 's blinde that cannot see fire in this straw and that every coward will run his Launce against a Sarazen of wood make a man once obnoxious to a State and then whether he speaks or be silent 't is all one malice will grieve if thou grievest not at her 't is death to a Jester not to see his fooleries take Envie is a spirit-worm and had rather burst than want her will so that for a man to under to with patience to smell sweet under the pestell not to be daunted at disasters but which way soever he is thrown to light upon his feet makes him yet more vile and odious in the eyes of his enemies for t is a great torment to an adversary when he can finde no in let nor advantage against him whom he hateth so can he not endure to be opposed by him in that he seeketh strength then collecting and gathering it self into more excesse as we see in winds and rivers when they meet with any thing that crosseth their passage they roare and swell millions of Graces too are dazelled by one imperfection and one hour of an Eclipse causeth the Sun to be more gazed at then in a thousand fair dayes one Vulcer in a sound body is enough to draw all the flyes unto it yet 't is not every spot that taketh away the beauty of the face nor is it every wound that killeth a man and herein wise men deale like skilfull Musitians which do not break their strings that jar but by Art do bring them to an accord again and being rightly set the Musicke is as good as ever though a good man once offending is never free for he shall be sure still to have it in his dish then it seemeth neither manners nor charity alwayes to lay that in mens dishes which the voyder a pretty while since hath clean taken away a storm will crack in two that Cable which is never so strong and yet faces about again of those that did flye and in the second charge will obtain the day a fault that 's pardoned is as though it had never been the stain taken out of the garment t is as cleer as at the first mercy hath not a breath to speak evill of another mans unhappinesse will grieve to see a scratch in a clear skin do not throw away its wine for the Lees and grounds nor the gold because 't is covered with dust nor the sword for a little rust but like the good husbandman if he finds Brambels and Bryers upon his land will slock them up and plough and sow it afterwards never a whit the lesse none so cruell then as he that murthers mercy with whom all goes for payment but the truth but mercilesse and blood-thirsty men shall not live out half their dayes and let him take heede that thinks he lives cleerest from despite for he may have his stomack pulled down in his dayes for no arrow is shot but it fals at the highest as Icharus fell into the water but to give his folly a name for he that casts to reach beyond the Moon oft maks wise proceedings to be suspected and though he may be cretp out at a starting bole yet may have his fooling found out those that are best qualified for service are the worst when turbulent as the wind being moderate doth carry the ship safe but doth drown it being tempestuous a cloud can Eclipse that sun which shines the brightest therefore let him not praise a faire day till it be night nor the building while it be finished he is much mistaken that thinks of a man the worse for his afflictions for it is through many tribulations that we must enter into heaven Esay 35.4 yet it hath ever been the condition of the best men to be thus censured they judged the same even of Christ himself and of Saint Paul saying Doubtlesse this man is a murtherer whom though he hath escaped the Sea yet vengeance suffereth not to live Acts 28.4 and the little Boy seeing his Mother pull the Roses and Violets to peeces and putting them in a morter and pounding them with a pestle cryed out His mother would spoyle all the flowers when she thereby intended to make them more usefull by crosses we are conformed to the Image of Christ stars which appear not by day shine in the night the more bitter the potion is the more medicinable and the sharper the file is the lesse rust it will leave behinde Jam. 148 2. the swetest Rose grows from a prickly stem linnen that 's hardest beaten on the block Rom. 8.10 and washt and wrung most lookes the whiter white hath no grace without

anotyher more generall Release upon finishing of all demands between them Master Plandon having spent his money and being returned and growing into all wants and extreme necessities a fit time to be wrought upon by evil Counsel and having yet the main Obligation in his hands undelivered up he made shew of it to others as a reall debt and by that means wrought himself into the acquaintance of those that were more ready to believe it against Master Alexander then he to utter it and resolved to engage with him to make it a question Master Alexander prefers his Bill in equity to have the Bond delivered up Master Plandon and this Master Cook then become an Attorney at Law do commence a Suit against Master Alexander upon the Bond and with them many more joyn to manage the Cause all his Master amongst the rest if by any means to recover it Their prosecution was with such speed and such favour as the matter was soon brought unto a Triall Master Alexanders Attorney having both Acquittances in his hands pleads in Bar to the Action that which was more particular Whereupon Issue being joyned a Jury was pickt out for the purpose and the matter came to Triall before Master Justice Dodderidge at Thetford-Assizes when Master Alexander proved the sealing and delivery of the Release But it so fell out as there was one word interlined in that Release not any thing to the essence of the Deed which Master Plandons Counsel and Master Cook his Attorney pressed to have been inserted after the sealing and delivery thereof and so if true the Release void And there being but one fingle Witnesse to that Release being made in haste at Master Alexanders house a mile and more distant from any Town and between kinsmen and on a time when Master Plandon posted his dispatch and departure upon his occasions and although Master Plandon being present at the Triall did not deny it to be his hand and seal though he was directed to confesse nothing more that made agaist him and albeit the said Witnesse being a substantiall Ycoman of the Countrey and without all exception that testified the sealing and delivery thereof unto Master Alexander as the truth was and albeit Master Alexander produced his other generall Release testified by many Witnesses though not pleaded whereby the debt appeared to be fully satisfied yet upon this device and colour and having obtained a Jury for that purpose he gained a Verdict against Master Alexander for the whole penalty of the Obligation which they after pursued with that eagernesse and obtained such favour by the friendship they had and means they used in the Courts of Justice that presently they obtained Judgement and took Master Alexander immediately in Execution And being thus restrained and in prison for so great a demand which he was no ways able to satisfie without sale of his Lands And the subsistence of himself his wife and family principally depending upon his endeavours in the course of his Profession and being then in a fair way of Advancement being employed by many noble friends and having many Stewardships and other employments of like nature which of necessity he must have forgone and lost the benefit of and been ruined in all if to continue in restraint whiles he should in a legall way question the injustice and miscarriages of those proceedings and being involved in so great a strait was advised and perswaded by his friends although he must confesse much against his wil rather to sit down under the burden then to be ruined both in his estate and profession altogether And they having M. Alexander at this advantage as the least of these evils he was thus enforced for his enlargement to sell his Lands to pay this great debt over again and to give them a generall Release into the bargain for that they would have the first of all or else he must lie by it and be ruine and lost in his Fortune and estate And when M. Alexander upon this Agreement had the bond delivered up which by his plea was confessed he found that his kinsman had been more just then he expected for he found the bond had been cancelled and the Seal closed down again in the old place with a little Starch which then it was too late to call in question besides that M. Alexander saw little hopes to right himself by any Suit of Law for so great an injury for that he understood his said kinsman had shared and divided the greatest part of the money presently amongst those that were his abettours and assistants and that he had given 100 l. for Counsel-Fees and 60 l. or thereabouts for Attorneys Fees and Clerks Fees whereof this M. Cook had the greatest share and other great Sums of money to others that did him service in the businesse And 'T is an ill winde blowes no man unto good This Conquest thus obtained against M. Alexander bred such spirit in M. Cook and gained him such applause and reputation that he shortly after admitted himself of Grays-Inne and within lesse then three yeers got a bare Gown upon his shoulders and became a great Practiser at Law and afterwards fell in at Court gained employment about the Fen-businesse in the Isle of Ely and recovering of Lands gained from the Sea in Norfolk and other Counties for divers Courtiers to whom his Majestie had granted his Right and demand thereunto and was used in many Projects of like nature gained a Patent of the Stewardship of the Kings Forests and Chases in Essex and thrust out a far honester man then himself from that employment got to be made a Justice of the Peace And if this be that Cook that is mentioned in the Sentence this must of necessity be that businesse which he drived at for M. Alexander professeth he knoweth not of any other thing that ever hapned to him of like nature in all his life and concerning the carriage whereof he leaveth himself to be judged accordingly And thus M. Alexander hath been set for the rising of some and his disasters have been the beginning of the Rise of two great Lawyers M. Fountain being one of them now with his Majestie acting against the Parliament and the other this M. Cook who hath not yet fully shewn his heart what it is for want of opportunity 14. ANd for that also the said Alexander was fled and durst not abide Judgement as the said Nevil did who prosecuted him for that offence Fol. 6 in the Sentence That there was no such fleeing in the Case hath been said before and the reason given of Master Alexanders leaving the Town after the businesse had been again examined before the Judges viz. to finde out Letters in the Countrey which he had formerly received from Nevil about that businesse which he conceived might more fully inform against Nevil for this offence and which no other but himself could so well finde amongst a multitude of papers which he had there to

Letters and being informed from the Bearer of Master Alexanders abode in the Countrey my Answer was That at his coming to Town the businesse should be dispatched After I have certified you very truely the Letter came not to my hands before the sixth of this Moneth and that he was seen in London the ninth of the same it will easily and plainly be gathered the Gentleman was gone before he vouchsafed so much as to deliver me the Letter And yet I attribute it rather to height of minde and stomack then to his over-dilgence thus first and last to over-run the Constable Again out of my Duty to the orderly and comely proceeding of these Affairs admit me to observe the ill consequence I fear must follow such an ill Instance as this as well in the generall as in this particular In the generall we shall be sure to have Suiters enough in this kinde if that they may thus procure not onely leave to go over but Protections Royall also which may free them not onely from the Civil demands of the Subject but from any Criminall Prosecution against them on His Majesties behalf and not onely so but that the Kings Deputy must be enjoyned to take course for every private mans businesse that hath or may have enough of his Majesties to attend besides And in this particular I know not how it might be thought His Majestie had been informed to give such an especiall and gracious Protection to a person that was but a few yeers since publikely sentenced and branded for a foul and corrupt Forgery in the Starre-Chamber of England So as it is truely to be wished the Gentleman may prove more faithfull to his Lordships commands and services hereafter then in those times it seems he was either to his own conscience or credit And lastly give me leave to acquit my self upon this occasion of a severity imputed unto me by the ignorance and malice of some as if this restraining of mens going over without Licence were a new-found holy-day of mine own and first introduced by me then which God wot nothing more grosly mistaken for it is most plain that by the ancient Law I was penally imposed upon this subject which appears by the Statute in this Kingdom of 25 of H. 6. cap. 2 and 9. which reciting That hereafter no Liege-mans Lands should be seised though out of the Land if so be it were by the Command of the King his Lieutenant c. implies That before that time if they had gone of their own heads their Lands were then and still are to be seised into the Kings hands Next in reason of State and Government it hath always been so declared and practised by many Acts of State and all the Governours successively it being in truth most dangerous to the Crown of England That this subject so much addicted to hold Intelligence and forraign dependances abroad should have liberty to be transported as they list without giving any account at all of themselves to the present Governour And in the last place as a matter much conducing to the good and quiet of this Kingdom they themselves in their twelfth Article of Graces beseech the King it may be so continued And his Majestie by his Princely Answer assents and enjoyns it to be so practised and observed So as after all this there must be many better tokens then any as yet I have heard before the childe can by any interepretation be taken or believed to be mine And thus in all humility I submit the consideration hereof to his Majesties wisedom best able to discern an inconvenience and seasonably to apply the proper remedy resting Your faithfull humble servant Wentworth Dublin this twentieth of November 1637. Received the seventh of December By which you may perceive Ovem in fronte Vulpem in corde gerit he pretends fair but meant nothing lesse then what he said all his endeavour was to have Master Alexander sent to him back again with a Rod at his back as the Earl of Kildare was of whom he gives instance for that purpose But His Majestie having read the Letters was displeased for a time and caused Master Alexander to be committed to the Fleet for this notwithstanding he had His Majesties own License for his coming over And well it was for Master Alexander that he was so imprisoned for though it was conceived too much punishment for so small an offence yet it stopped the Earl of Straffords mouth from all further complaint against him or otherwise he would never have left till he had gotten him to have been sent over back again for Ireland and left unto his mercy You may also perceive how willingly he was mistaken falsly to scandalize and traduce Master Alexander unto His Majestie in the matter of this Sentence terming the Accusation Forgery which he well knew was not so having had a finger in the businesse long before but did it purposely to lay a block in the way of Master Alexanders preferment fearing lest Master Alexander by his friends might procure something of his Majesties Gift that he would not have been well pleased withall and if he and his best friends had not bestirred themselves quickly and to purpose Master Alexander had been so placed by him as must have offended him to the heart which place to have been setled upon Master Alexander he would not have much cared either for his power or anger For the manifestation of this truth also be pleased to see the Warrants for his Commitment and Discharge THese are to will and require you forthwith to receive into your Custodie the body of Jerome Alexander Gent. herewith sent you and him to keep in your Custodie till you shall receive Order for his enlargement And hereof you are not to fail Dated at Westminster 18 Feb. 1637. To the Warden of the Fleet and to his Deputy FRA. WINDEBANK Vera Copia examinator per Tho. Revel Cler. de le Fleet. WHereas by His Majesties Command I committed to your Custody the body of Jerome Alexander His Majesty being graciously pleased that he shall be set at liberty These are therefore to require and authorize you forthwith to enlarge and set at liberty the said Jerome Alexander for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant At my house at Westminster the 15 day of March 1637. To my loving friend the Warden of the Fleet and to his Deputy and Deputies these FRA. WINDEBANK Vera Copia examinator per Tho. Revel Cler. de le Fleet. Thus far you may perceive what oppression Master Alexander still endured by he opposition of these great Favourites of those times yet still God delivered dim out of all But the said Earl of Strafford growing still into more and greater favour with his Majestie every day then other as the businesse he laboured in grew riper and neerer execution And Master Alexander perceiving that albeit the late Lord Viscount Loftus of Ely sometimes Lord Chancellour of Ireland the Lord Mount-Norris