Date: 1882
Writing to Lord Fairfax, with whom he appears to have been in close intimacy, he thus expresses himself, in reference to the trial of Lord Strafford: — "April 10th, 1641.  And I assure your lordship, it will be no small encouragement to the subject to see justice done upon that great engine , the Lord Strafford, who hath in a manner battered down their laws and liberties, and levelled ‚Ä¢In the forty-first EUzabeth, the Attorney- General prosecuted, in the Duchy Court, Thomas Matthew, Robert Matthew, John Benson, and others, for intrusion thereon, and for the felling and destruction of timber.  — Cal.