[1] Also it was alleged against the said Empson, that he had sent foorth precepts directed vnto diuerse per|sons, commanding them, vpon great penalties, to appeare before him, and other his associats, at cer|teine daies and times within his house in S. Brides parish, in a ward of London, called Farringdon without: where they making their appearances, ac|cording to the same precepts,A charge of manifest op|pression and extortion. were impleaded afore him and other his said associats, of diuerse mur|thers, felonies, outlawries, and of the articles in the statute of prouisors conteined; also of wilfull escapes of felonies, and such like matters and articles apper|teining to the plées of the crowne, and common lawes of the realme. And that doone, the said per|sons were committed to diuerse prisons, as the Fléet, the Tower, and other places, where they were deteined, till they had fined at his pleasure, as well for the commoditie of the said late king, as for the singular aduantage of the said sir Richard Emp|son.