[upon occasion of an Arraignem[en]t of a Peer the office having been anciently hereditary & by Tenure, I cannot yett finde who the peer was that was then arraigned & found quilty upon his confession. The Evidence is unanswerable out of History & Records also of the beheading of the Earle of Huntingdon by the Co[m]mon peopleVe Dugd. bar. 2. fo. 79, 80. who first seized him & therefore Sr. Edw. Cokes emenda[ti]on of the story is in that point to be corrected. The peer mentioned in the booke to haue been arraigned is G. Counter de H.

In the Co[ur]ts of Chivalry under Ric. the 2dSeld. Baronage pag. 135 de 10 R. 2. in the great case between Sir Richard Scroop appellant and Sir Robert Gravenour deft. touching Matters of Armes the Attestations taken by Commission from John of Gaunt, the Earle of Derby, the Earle of Northumberland, the Duke of York and the Earl of Arundell are (for ought appears) w[i]thout oath, for whereas others are sworne the entry of their deposi[ti]ons - pray & requests accordingly the right of Armes by the procurator of Master Ric. Scroop to testify & say & c.). And among others the Earle of Deuonshire was exa[m]i[n]ed by Com[miss]ion by John Kentwood who in the Returne of the Com[miss]ion & the deposi[to]ns certifyes the Court that he had sworne all the witnesses there being none of the nobility (but only the Earle of Deuon) in his returne which was not sworne by spake in the Loyalty of his Chevalry. A case it is of no ordinary example in the nature of the thing and the precedent touching the swearing of those (who are of the degree[e]s of Lords of the Realme hath been not a Little considered as may appeare by the solemn resolution taken in the case of the Earle of Lincoln. Jones Rep. 152. att large.