Says that having lived some 37 years after his father in the commission of the peace, and being deputy-lieutenant for Caernarfonshire since 1587, he studied the peace and good government of the country. In all this time he has had but one trial in Caernarfonshire, and that about 24 years since, for a house which William Williams bought and the writer recovered; and no trials in Denbighshire or Merioneth, though he has lands in both. He was neither plaintiff nor defendant in the Court of the Marches save for two causes: one for giving William Williams a box on the ear, and the other, some fourteen years agone, for a small lease; and his solicitor, Evan Lloyd, attorney of common pleas, will testify to the truth thereof. Confesses, however, that he had a suit some eight years since in the Exchequer Chamber, wherein he was plaintiff and defendant for a matter of £500, which was ended some four years agone. Says that he was branded with the malicious eye of Sir Richard Lewknor, because he gave him no presents, and withdrew his suits from the Court of the Marches to London. Lewknor therefore caused a Bill to be framed against Sir John in the Council of the Marches. Gives particulars of the same. His enemies, moreover, wrote to the Lord Chancellor desiring that the writer should be deprived of all his offices, who answered that they must sue the King in order to displace him from the lieutenancy and the Council of the Marches. The Lord Chancellor and Lord President were married to two sisters. The former was most careful to maintain the reputation of the Court of the Marches. Sir Richard Lewknor was his tenant and dependant. Treasurer Salisbury and Northampton being dead, and Somerset committed to the Tower, and the Lord Treasurer, by reason of melancholy, not to be troubled with business, Lewknor was heartened to take advantage thereof, and, in order to levy the fine, sent out sequestrations against the writer's goods and lands, with two sheriffs to execute the same and a pursuivant as witness (never before seen), whose fee Sir John was forced to pay.