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.
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.