Crawley.
_Good Times for Equity Suitors._--Having lately met with the following
particulars in Bishop Goodman's _Diary_, I send them for insertion, if you
think fit, in "N. & Q.:"
"Then was the chancery so empty of causes, that Sir Thomas More could
live in Chelsea, and yet very sufficiently discharge that office; and
coming one day home by ten of the clock, whereas he was wont to stay
until eleven or twelve, his lady came down to see whether he was sick
or not; to whom Sir Thomas More said, 'Let your gentlewoman fetch me a
cup of wine, and then I will tell you the occasion of my coming;' and
when the wine came, he drank to his lady, and told her that he thanked
God for it he had not one cause in chancery, and therefore came home
for want of business and employment there. The gentlewoman who fetched
the wine told this to a bishop, who did inform me."