New witnesses came forward every day with fresh cases of gifts and presents, "bribes" received by the Lord Chancellor.

When Parliament rose for the Easter vacation (March 27-April 17), the Committees continued sitting.

A good deal probably passed of which no record remains.

When the Commons met again (April 17) Coke was full of gibes about _Instauratio Magna_--the true _Instauratio_ was to restore laws--and two days after an Act was brought in for review and reversal of decrees in Courts of Equity.

It was now clear that the case against Bacon had assumed formidable dimensions, and also a very strange, and almost monstrous shape.