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Show 230 ATROCTOU" Jl' DC:I·: -3. [A. D.1G8·L vVhen heated with liquor, J effrcy could not now con ce~l hi contempt for the lord ke p r, even jn the l~ing' · pr . ence. It i::; related that, upon the hearing of a 1naLter before the council, ari ing out of a controversy for juri.--dietion between two ·ei:s of magistrates, Guilford proposc<l so1nc sort of compromise betw en thcn1, when the lord chief ju. Lice, "flaming drunk," came fr01n the lower to the upper end of the board, and "talking and staring like a 1nadman," bitterly inycjghc<l against "trimmer.," and tolu the king "he hau trinunfrs in his court, and he never would be easy ti11 all the trz'mmers ''ere ent about their bu .. incss." "The lord keeper, knowing that the .. e darts were aimed at him/~ movccl thr king that the whole businc .. s should be refcrrcu to tile lord chief ju ·ticc, and that he should ma.ke a report to his mnjc. ty in council of what . hould be fit to be clone." Th1s w~L' onlerPJ, and Guilford secin::; to have enterlaine<l n hope that J d i'rcys, from the state of intoxication he wa. in, woulLl entirely forget the reference, and so 1night fall into diRgracc.t But the most serious difference Let \Yecn then1 -in Charlrs's time wa on the return of J effr y~ from the northern circuit in the autmnn of 1 G84, when, backe<l by ibc J)ukc or York, he had a deliberate purpo 'e of imn1c·diately grasping the great seal. At a cabinet council, held on a. Sunday eYening, he stood up, and addre sing the king while he held in his hand ' the rolls of the recusan ts in the north of' I~ngla11d- " Sir," * It is curious that Roger gravely states that "he was dropped from the tory list and turned trimmer." - L~fe, i. '.1:04.. . t Life, ii. 179. It should be recollectc;d that, at thi::; time, the councJl met in the afternoon, between two and three- dinner having taken place soon after twelve, nnd a little ele\'ation from wine was not more di crcclitn.ble at that hon.r than in our time b0t ween rleven and twelve o'C']ock nt nigl1t. A. D. 1084.] I•'nANCIS NOHTJT. 231 said he, "I have a busin <\"S to lay L<'fore yonr rnajc ty which I took notice of in the north, and which well tle:-;crvc .. your majc ty's royal con1mi ·oration. I t i ' tl1c ca~c of numberl e s members of your good subject.· that <1 rc in1prisoncd for recusancy: * I have ibe li:3t of ilH'nl l1cre to j n. t1f)' what I ay. They are so nutny tha t tl1 e great j ails cannot hold lh('m wjthout their lying one npon another." After tropes and iivurr~ about "rottincr and stinkin o· in p ri~on," he concllldccl \vith a motion to hi maj c. ty "that he would, by hi .' pardon, cl i ... charcrc all the conviction for recusan ry, aud i hereby re tore air and liberty to th ese pooe n1cn." 'I'his 'vas a dccp-lai<l scheme, for be ides pleasing the royal brother~ one of wl10m wa.' a :ecret~ and the other an avowed Papi .. t, he expcrtcd that Guilford. mu ... t either be turn ed ont for refu ~ing to put the great . cal to the pardon, or that he woul (l 1nake him. elf n1ost obnoxious to the public, and afterwa rd .' to P ar] iamcnt, by co rn plinncc. A general silence prevailed, and the ex pcctal ion was that Halifax or Roche ter, ·who were strong P rote ·tants, would have st011tly obj ected. 'l'hc lord kee;)er, alan ned lc. t th motion should be [lrri )<1, and seeing the dilc tnmn. to which he might be reduced, plueke<l up con ragc and said, ' Sir, I humbly entreat your nntje~Ly that 1ny lord chief j u. ticc may declare whether all 1.hc pcr:-;on. · nan1cd in tl 1e~c r oll· are actually in pri "'On or not ?" Gkt'r:f Just1.'ce. - " No f~ti r mnn could suspect 1ny n1canin cr to be that all t hcse are actual • 0 pn oners; for all the jails in England would not holcl them. tol* J. am. es a~ d J e [ reys settm. g themselYcs up as the spec1. al ad,·ocatcs of crahon ' (w1 th a Yi· ew t o t 1l C m· troductjon of P opery ) I·S l1'l . .:.c our A men· ca.n slavchold cr·s puttm· g themselves forward a!:) advo· c' at es of the n·g 1 r ts o f Pb·t opcrty and as speci. al democra ts, for t he p urpose of upholdm. g slavery, l'r<ltS cd as s' l?-v r Y . . . 1 . 1 f IS on prmc1ples a t wa.r wi th the fnndamenta 1c ea. o prop-y rmd clemorrary. _ Rd. |
