Lord Bacon's Confession: A Statement of the FactsW. Clowes & Sons, 1861 - 37 pages |
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Lord Bacon's Confession: A Statement of the Facts (1861) William Hepworth Dixon No preview available - 2009 |
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accusation Albans appeared Aubrey's bribe to pervert cause between Sir cause was decreed cause was ended Chancery charge Churchill Coke Compton confess and declare counsel Cranfield Crown decree passed Edward Egerton fees and fines five hundred pounds four hundred pounds given guilty of corruption Hansby's History of Lord honour House of Commons House of Lords House of Peers Huxley irregular Jour judge judgment judicial King King's Bench Lady Buckingham Lady Wharton Lord Bacon LORD BACON'S CONFESSION Lord Chancellor received lordships Mathews never took penny offence paid Parliament payment pendente lite pervert justice plea of guilty Privy Council pronounced purse Ralph Hansby registrars and clerks Ruswell Seals sentence servant Hunt Shute Sir Francis Willoughby Sir George Reynell Sir John Kenneday Sir John Treavor Sir Rowland Egerton Star Chamber submission and confession suit taken any bribe Thelwall thousand pounds tion twentieth article unto vintners vote Williams wrote York House
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Page 35 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Page 28 - Upon advised consideration of the charges," said he, "descending into my own conscience, and calling my memory to account so far as I am able, I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defence.
Page 24 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage. I have...
Page 27 - It resteth therefore that, without fig-leaves, I do ingenuously confess and acknowledge, that having understood the particulars of the charge, not formally from the House, but enough to inform my conscience and memory, I find matter sufficient and full, both to move me to desert the defence, and to move your Lordships to condemn and censure me.
Page 29 - I confess and declare, that, as it is laid in the charge, about a fortnight after the cause was ended (it being a suit of a great inheritance,) there were gold buttons about the value of fifty pounds, as is mentioned in the charge, presented unto me, as I remember, by sir Thomas Perient and the party himself.
Page 5 - And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the book of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times.
Page 34 - I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.
Page 32 - I am heartily and penitently sorry, and submit myself to the judgment, grace, and mercy of the court. " for extenuation, I will use none concerning the matters themselves ; only it may please your lordships, out of your nobleness, to cast your eyes of compassion upon my person and estate. I was never noted for an avaricious man. And the apostle saith, that covetousness is the root of all evil. I hope also, that your lordships do the rather find me in the state of grace ; for that, in all these particulars,...
Page 31 - I confess and declare, that my servant Hunt did, upon his accompt, being my receiver of the fines of original writs, charge himself with two hundred pounds, formerly received of Smithwick, which, after that I had understood the nature of it, I ordered him to repay it, and to defaulk it of his accompt.
Page 24 - I praise God for it, I never took penny for any benefice or ecclesiastical living, I never took penny for releasing anything I stopped at the seal, I never took penny for any commission or things of that nature, I never shared with any servant for any second or inferior profit.