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 Saturday night, and that night sat up swilling so that he was not able to preach next day.

As for Reynolds: 1. He hath been indited often for forgery, perjury, and common baratry, and so stands convicted. 2. He hath been disabled by order of open session from giving testimony or being a solicitor in any court. 3. He hath forged a warrant of the high commission, and put many names in it without their privity, and so attached divers (fourteen) persons, from whom he took £22 and dismissed them. 4. He made a dimission for an adulterer (Jo: Heape), took £3 and forged the registers. 5. He poisoned himself, and took sixty vomits to save his life, when he should have been carried to the gaol. 6. He defamed the judges of assize (at York), namely, Sir Henry Yelverton and Sir Thomas Trevor,—the one to have been bribed and the other corrupted. 7. He is a common haunter of ale houses, and hath been oft convicted for brawls and frays. For all of which statements the bishop produced his authorities.

The result of the commission was summed up in twenty-five articles returned to the King, who referred them to the high commission. The cause came on for hearing on 9th April, 1633, and Sir Henry Martin was the judge who presided at the trial. The bishop cleared himself of all these charges, and fifty-three "additionalls" which the promoters were allowed to put in, making seventy-eight altogether. But Dr. Rives, the King's advocate, who was counsel for the promoters, asserting that he had received more and new informations against the lord bishop and a command to exhibit new articles against him, requested the sanction of the court to put them in. This was an unusual proceeding in this court; but, under the supposition that it was his Majesty's express pleasure, the bishop yielded the point, and the court gave way to it and ordered that new additional articles in secundo loco should be admitted, provided that they were put in by the 17th of April at the latest sub pœnâ carenticæ and provided that they concerned commutations only in accordance with his Majesty's command. The said articles were accordingly brought