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ftances in Hiftory, except in the Reign of Henry the VIIIth, where any Prince appeared in fuch a Cafe as a Party in the Profecution, to the End that himself alone might reap the Emoluments arifing from it.

II. That he made a Treaty without his Mafter's Confent.

III. That he empowered Sir Gregory de Caffali to conclude a Treaty of Amity with the Duke of Ferrara, without any Warrant from the King.

IV. That he joined himself with the King, in his Letters and Inftructions abroad, The King and I give unto you our hearty Thanks, quoth he, whereby it is apparent, that he used himself more like a Fellow unto your Highness than a Subject. This Expreffion, though not to be defended, is not near fo infolent as that Fox charges him with, I and my King command you to do thus, placing himself first, and making the King his Property; for which Fox has no manner of Authority.

V. That he caufed his Servants to be sworn true to him only, as if there had been no Sovereign.

VI. That, knowing himself to have the Great Pox, he breathed upon his Grace with his perilous and infective Breath, to the marvellous Danger of your Highnefs, if God, &c.

VII. That he, by his Authority Legatine, had dif posed of divers Benefices, belonging to Perfons as well fpiritual as temporal, contrary to Law, and therefore hath incurred the Forfeiture of his Lands and Goods to the King. And yet Rapin affirms, "That the "Car

*If thefe Gentlemen had not talked of the Cardinal's infecting his Majefty by his Breath, we fhould be at a Lofs to know, whether the French Pox, or the Small Pox, was here meant; but

that makes it out of Doubt; for, according to the Notion now prevailing, a Communication of Flesh is rather conducive to the former, than Breath. This fhews how they were put to it.

THE EAST FRONT.

To the Right Honourable,
Chancellor and Under Treasurer of
This plate of the East and West
is humbly Inscribed by

your

HENRY

PELHAM


ESQR

N. Parr Julp

his Majesty's Court of Exchequer &c. &c. prospects of your Seat at. Eshur most Obedient humble Servant

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"Cardinal was not accufed in the Houfe of Lords "of exercising the Authority of Legate."

VIII. That Ambaffadors had come firft to him, and he had heard their Charges and Intents alone.

IX. That he received Letters, fent from beyond the Seas to the King, contrary to Order, &c. In both thefe Refpects, we apprehend, he acted agreeable to the Nature of his Poft, the Trufts repofed in him, and according to the Method that still generally obtains in all Courts where there is a Prime Minifter.

X. That he had directed Perfons, having Reports to make of Affairs done beyond the Seas, fhould at their Return come first to him, and, in cafe they did the contrary, he punished them.

XI. That he had granted Licences for carrying Grain and other Victuals out of the Land after Prohibition. XII. That he was wont to write Letters of his own Mind, without the King's Orders.

XIII. That he received Gratuities from Religious Houses, so that they were not able to keep up Hofpitality, as they were used to do, &c.

XIV. That he promised upon the fuppreffing of fuch Religious Houses, that the Poffeffions of them should be fet to farm among the King's Lay Subjects, after fuch reasonable yearly Rents, as that they fhould be able to live and keep up good Hofpitality, which he did not do.

XV. That, in fitting among the Lords and others of the Privy Council, he used, if any Man would fhew his Mind contrary to the Cardinal's Opinion, fo to take them up, that they had better have held their Peace; and that he confumed much Time with a fair Tale. *

XVI. That he was the undoing of the Subjects, for want of difpatching their Affairs, &c.

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If telling fair Tales in our Time were to be deemed treasonable we should have had many more Impeachments.

XVII. That, by his Authority Legatine, he had taken, upon the Death of fpiritual Men, their Riches and Substance to his own Ufe, by reafon whereof their Wills were not performed; and ufed Means to put fo in fear those that were made Executors, as to caufe them to refufe to meddle.

XVIII. That he constrained all Ordinaries in Eng land yearly to compound with him, &c.

XIX. That he flandered the Clergy to the Pope, to answer his own Ends.

XX. That he examined divers Matters in the Chan cery, after Judgment thereof given at the Common Law.

That is, in Fact, he did what properly belonged to his Office as Chancellor; and Lord Herbert allows the Juftice of his Administration in general, but particu larly in his publick Hearing of Causes.

XXI. That he granted Injunctions by Writ, and the Party never called thereunto, nor Bill put in against them. If this was really the Cafe the Court must have been impofed upon, for the Courfe is, there must be produced a Certificate of the Bill being filed, and then in fpecial Matters, as to Staying Wafte, &c. Injunctions are granted, before the Defendant is ferved with Process to answer.

XXII. That he caufed divers Pardons granted by the Pope, to be fufpended, till he obtained fomething for bimfelf. Why did not their Lordships fend this Complaint to Rome?

XXIII. That he turned out his Tenants from his Eftates, though they had good and fufficient Grants thereof by Law.

XXIV. That he prevailed with Religious Houses, on the Demife of their Heads, to fubmit their Elections to him, by which Means he got Goods from them to the almoft undoing them, &c.

XXV. That, by his Authority Legatine, he had vifited most Part of the Religious Houfes and Colleges, and had taken from them the 25th Part of their Live

lihood,

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