Catalogue description Petition of LORD WILLOUGHBY to SIR FRANCIS BACON, Lord Keeper.

--It having pleased his Lordship (in answer to suppliant's former request for a writ of ne exeat regnum against one Palmer) to require to know how the said Palmer is dangerous, and what grounds of suit there are against him, may it please his Lordship to be advertised that the said Palmer is sometimes resident in England and sometimes in the Netherlands ; and "being no merchant, but an extravagant person," from time to time exports coin and other prohibited things into foreign parts, " and lurketh here in obscure places and with dissolute persons, that he can hardly be met withal or be arrested without danger," and when any writ is sued forth against him, suddenly departeth the realm. Petitioner has no remedy at the common law against him " as executor of Hall for the 650l. complained for," because it cannot be proved by whose hands Hall received the money, although the debt itself is sufficiently proved; and therefore prays that Palmer may be detained until he find sureties to answer suppliant's bill and to stand to his Lordship's order.

Underwritten " Let a writ of ne exeat regnum be granted. Fr. Bacon, cane."