=Source.=--Rushworth. Vol. i., p. 672.
So the fine was settled to £2,000 and all (except the two Chief
Justices) concurred for a submission to be made. And accordingly a
copy of the submission was sent to the Warden of the Fleet, to show
the said Richard Chambers.
"I, Richard Chambers of London, Merchant, do humbly acknowledge
that, whereas upon an information exhibited against me by the
King's Attorney General, I was in Easter Term last sentenced by
the Honourable Court of Star Chamber, for that in September last,
1628, being convented before the Lords and others of his Majestie's
most honourable Privy Council Board, upon some speeches then used
concerning the merchants of this kingdom, and his Majesty's well and
gracious usage of them, did then and there, in insolent contemptuous
and seditious manner, falsely and maliciously say and affirm 'That
they,' meaning the merchants, 'are in no parts of the world so
screwed and wrung as in England, and that in Turkey they have more
encouragement....' Now I, the said Richard Chambers in obedience to
the sentence of the said honourable court, do humbly confess and
acknowledge the speaking of these words aforesaid and am heartily
sorry for the same: and do humbly beseech your Lordships all to be
honourable intercessors for me to his Majesty, that he would be
graciously pleased to pardon this great error and fault so committed
by me."
When Mr. Chambers read this draft of submission, he thus subscribed
the same.
"All the abovesaid Contents and Submission I Richard Chambers do
utterly abhor and detest, as most unjust and false: and never to
death will acknowledge any part thereof.
"RICH. CHAMBERS."
Also he underwrit these Texts of Scripture to the said submission
before he returned it [eight texts, mostly from the Old Testament, on
God's care for justice and truth].