Gent", S' Ro. Quarles, Mr. Wrighte, Mr. Fanshawe, Sir
Hen. Mildmay of Wansted, my Lo: Peeter's Solicitor,
Sir Tho. Barrington's Sollicitor and others. Willis the
Nurse's husband.
" After the Verdict was given in Mr. Attorney made
a great complainte against Searle one of the Grand Jury,
that when the Jury were togeather he had p'duced a
coppie of Record in paper of King John's, and moved



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to know whether the Lo. Justice would fine him there, or
transmitt him to the Starr Chamber ; whoe transmitted
him to the Starr Chamber, but upon intersession of some
friends pardoned him."



Proc. at
Justice Seat,
Bodl. Lib.
Ranke Ge-
schichte, 2.
197, Eng.
vers. 2. 34.
The adjourned sitting was held at Stratford on the
8th April, 1635, i" the presence of Henry Earl of
Holland (who was conveyed to the Court in a Royal
carriage*). His Majesty's Judges, including Sir John
Finch, then Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the High
Sheriff of the County, the officers of the Forest, and a
Jury. Finch, although as Attorney-General, he had
argued the case with so much heat on behalf of the
Crown, delivered the opinions of himself and the other
judges."



' I am indebted to Mr. T. C. Baring for tiie reference to this
passage in Ranlce, wlio by a misprint malces tlie date 1633.
