AS
the
Law
is
both
the
Measure
and
Bond
of
the
Subjects
Duty
and
Allegiance
,
so
it
is
not
only
the
best
security
which
they
have
to
trust
unto
for
their
peace
and
safety
,
and
the
established
fence
and
hedg
for
the
protection
of
their
lives
and
properties
;
but
it
was
intended
,
and
always
ought
to
be
the
Rule
and
Standard
by
which
the
Prince
is
to
defend
and
govern
his
people
.
And
as
Subjects
are
obliged
by
their
Interest
,
as
well
as
by
the
ties
of
Conscience
,
to
honour
and
maintain
all
due
Allegiance
to
their
Supreme
Governours
;
so
Rulers
are
not
only
bound
by
the
Stipulation
which
they
have
made
with
their
people
,
but
by
the
respect
which
they
bear
to
the
preservation
of
the
Constitution
and
the
Safety
of
their
Crowns
and
Dignities
,
to
preserve
and
defend
all
those
in
their
Persons
and
Fortunes
,
who
decline
not
from
the
Duties
of
Loyalty
and
Fealty
which
the
Law
requires
of
them
.
Nor
can
any
sort
of
men
design
a
more
fatal
mischief
against
their
Prince
,
and
the
stability
of
his
Throne
,
than
to
advise
him
to
exclude
a
company
of
Innocent
persons
,
from
the
benefit
and
protection
of
the
Law
;
or
by
an
usurpation
upon
the
Kings
Authority
,
to
attempt
the
doing
it
themselves
.
For
this
were
in
effect
,
to
cancel
all
bonds
,
by
which
Subjects
are
tyed
to
their
Prince
;
&
destroy
all
Pleas
&
Arguments
,
which
may
influence
their
Consciences
to
obedience
and
subjection
.
And
whensoever
Laws
cease
to
be
a
security
unto
men
,
they
will
be
sorely
tempted
to
apprehedn
themselves
cast
into
a
state
of
War
,
and
justified
in
having
recourse
to
the
best
means
they
can
for
their
shelter
and
defence
.
But
blessed
be
God
,
his
Majesty
is
so
good
,
as
well
as
so
wise
,
neither
to
entertain
any
such
thought
in
his
own
breast
,
nor
to
connive
at
such
barbarous
proposals
in
others
,
should
any
have
the
impudence
as
well
as
disloyalty
to
suggest
them
.
And
therefore
besides
the
confidence
which
all
his
Majesties
Leige-people
place
in
his
Coronation
Oath
,
and
his
many
reiterated
promises
and
protestations
,
that
he
will
always
govern
his
Subjects
according
to
Law
;
the
alone
consideration
of
his
wisdom
,
renders
them
fully
assured
,
that
he
neither
will
,
nor
can
do
otherwise
.
But
though
it
would
be
a
very
mischievous
thing
in
its
self
,
and
extremely
dangerous
to
any
Government
,
to
exclude
Loyal
Persons
from
the
benefit
and
security
which
they
have
from
the
Laws
of
the
Constitution
where
they
live
;
yet
the
perverting
that
to
the
ruine
of
the
Subject
,
which
was
both
designed
for
,
and
which
he
relied
upon
for
his
preservation
,
is
not
only
more
dishonourable
to
Rulers
,
but
infinitely
more
pernicious
to
the
people
,
than
that
would
be
.
For
to
tell
obedient
and
Loyal
Persons
,
that
they
are
to
esteem
themselves
as
outlaws
,
and
that
they
must
expect
to
be
treated
as
Banditi
,
though
it
would
be
most
unjust
,
and
might
,
if
love
to
their
Country
did
not
prevent
,
prove
very
unsafe
to
a
Government
in
the
issue
;
yet
even
this
would
both
leave
men
an
opportunity
,
and
give
them
a
warning
to
withdraw
to
some
other
place
,
where
they
might
promise
themselves
more
humane
and
upright
dealing
;
but
to
assure
men
of
the
protection
of
Laws
,
and
yet
apply
those
Laws
to
the
ruine
of
the
innocent
,
is
that
which
leaves
no
man
safe
,
and
at
the
same
time
by
concealing
his
danger
,
hindreth
his
endeavouring
an
escape
.
Nor
is
either
the
poysoning
or
assassinating
men
,
half
so
bad
,
as
the
studying
to
destroy
them
in
a
pretended
legal
way
,
upon
the
Testimony
and
Oaths
of
suborned
and
prejured
Rascals
.
For
whereas
care
and
watchfulness
may
contribute
something
to
our
security
against
a
mortal
dose
or
stab
;
we
are
,
in
case
subornation
and
perjury
be
connived
at
,
left
at
the
mercy
of
every
Villain
,
nor
will
the
discreetest
conduct
be
any
means
of
our
safety
.
Besides
,
should
it
come
to
be
any
mans
misfortune
to
be
destroyed
by
a
Stilletto
or
a
pestiferous
Drug
;
he
would
not
only
die
pitied
,
but
without
a
taint
or
stain
upon
his
Name
;
and
withal
would
convey
a
right
to
his
Posterity
to
inherit
his
Possessions
;
whereas
should
the
most
innocent
person
be
cut
off
through
perjury
,
under
the
charge
and
imputation
of
Treason
,
he
would
not
only
perish
unlamented
with
a
perpetual
brand
of
infamy
upon
his
Name
,
but
leave
his
offspring
shut
out
from
enjoying
the
inheritance
of
their
Ancestors
,
as
well
as
deprived
of
the
fruits
of
their
Fathers
care
and
labour
.
And
therefore
if
the
French
King
hath
in
order
to
restraining
and
punishing
the
poysonings
practised
in
his
Dominions
,
appointed
and
erected
a
Court
that
shall
enquire
into
that
Crime
,
and
adjudge
Offenders
to
a
deserved
punishment
;
we
may
surely
hope
from
the
justice
of
the
King
of
England
,
that
he
will
command
his
Courts
of
Law
,
either
themselves
to
make
a
due
search
into
this
more
detestable
villany
of
swearing
men
out
of
their
Lives
and
Estates
by
hired
and
suborned
Rascals
;
or
at
least
to
require
them
to
give
all
due
protection
and
countenance
to
such
as
shall
be
ready
to
make
a
discovery
of
it
;
and
that
the
Judges
shall
impartially
execute
the
Laws
against
all
those
who
upon
full
and
convincing
proof
,
shall
be
found
criminal
.
And
as
all
men
who
have
not
renounced
their
Reason
as
well
as
forfeited
their
Conscience
,
do
perfectly
understand
who
were
the
Authors
of
this
pretended
Protestant
Plot
;
so
it
is
as
easie
to
conjecture
what
advantages
several
sorts
of
persons
have
promised
themselves
by
it
.
For
tho'
they
do
vastly
differ
in
their
ends
,
yet
they
all
agree
,
that
this
is
the
most
proper
and
effectual
means
to
compass
and
accomplish
what
they
severally
aim
at
.
In
the
first
place
,
they
who
advised
the
Dissolution
of
the
last
Parliament
,
do
by
obtruding
upon
the
world
the
belief
of
a
Protestant
Plot
,
hope
to
justifie
their
Wisdom
and
Loyalty
in
giving
His
Majesty
so
unseasonable
and
pernicious
Counsel
.
For
as
they
cannot
but
observe
,
that
that
effort
of
Royal
Power
,
which
they
put
the
King
upon
,
hath
't
is
feared
,
diminished
the
confidence
which
the
people
put
in
his
Prudence
and
Conduct
,
and
not
only
embroiled
his
affairs
at
home
,
but
lessened
his
Interest
and
Reputation
abroad
;
so
they
could
think
of
no
other
means
to
vindicate
themselves
from
the
many
imputations
which
they
lye
under
,
for
influencing
His
Majesty
to
so
hasty
and
prejudicial
an
act
of
Prerogative
and
Royal
Authority
,
but
by
ascribing
it
unto
an
indispensable
Necessity
,
occasioned
by
a
Conspiracy
of
seising
His
Person
.
And
the
less
they
find
His
Majesty
considered
both
by
his
Friends
and
his
Enemies
since
that
time
,
the
more
are
they
necessitated
to
promote
by
all
imaginable
Arts
the
belief
of
a
Plot
,
for
the
Deposing
the
King
and
altering
the
Government
,
as
judging
that
nothing
else
will
expiate
for
an
Offence
attended
with
so
many
direful
consequences
,
not
only
towards
these
three
Kingdoms
,
but
all
Europe
.
Besides
,
their
Ambition
being
boundless
,
and
some
of
their
Fortunes
not
proportionate
to
their
Pride
and
the
port
they
live
at
;
they
hop'd
by
the
Forfeiture
of
Protestants
Estates
,
both
to
satisfie
their
own
vast
desires
,
and
entail
Inheritances
upon
their
Posterity
,
answerable
to
the
Titles
they
intend
to
convey
to
them
.
And
whereas
they
and
divers
other
persons
dread
nothing
so
much
as
another
Parliament
,
knowing
how
obnoxious
they
are
to
the
Justice
of
the
first
that
comes
,
they
conceived
that
the
Necessities
of
the
Crown
would
be
so
plentifully
supplied
out
of
the
Estates
of
Peers
and
Gentlemen
,
whom
they
designed
to
get
condemned
upon
this
forged
Conspiracy
,
that
His
Majesty
should
never
be
in
any
such
distress
,
as
to
be
obliged
by
the
exigency
of
his
Affairs
,
and
the
craving
of
his
Exchequer
,
to
call
one
.
And
they
were
firmly
resolved
that
while
they
had
His
Majesties
ear
,
provided
they
could
redeem
Him
from
the
importunity
of
want
,
no
other
motive
should
ever
be
effectual
to
obtain
the
meeting
of
an
Assembly
,
from
which
they
expect
some
fatal
Doom
.
In
the
next
place
,
there
are
others
who
have
been
long
travelling
with
Designs
of
making
the
Crown
Arbitrary
,
and
the
King
Despotical
;
but
finding
themselves
unable
to
effect
it
,
while
the
Treasure
is
not
answerable
to
the
charge
and
expence
that
such
an
undertaking
doth
require
;
they
also
joined
in
the
promoting
the
belief
of
this
Plot
,
reckoning
to
have
gotten
so
many
Protestant
Peers
and
Gentlemen
convicted
of
this
new
and
forged
Treason
,
as
(
were
we
not
secure
from
his
Majesties
Goodness
,
as
well
as
his
Truth
and
Justice
,
that
he
will
never
attempt
the
enslaving
his
people
)
might
empower
the
King
to
form
and
maintain
Armies
that
should
be
sufficient
to
trample
upon
the
Rights
and
Liberties
of
his
Subjects
,
and
make
him
at
his
pleasure
Master
of
what
they
have
.
The
regret
with
which
some
beheld
the
Disbanding
the
Black-heath
Army
,
and
the
language
which
they
bestowed
upon
his
Majesty
for
his
gracious
condescending
to
discharge
a
Force
which
they
wished
had
been
employed
to
subjugate
his
people
,
leads
us
to
believe
,
that
they
also
are
in
the
number
of
the
Fomenters
of
an
opinion
of
a
Protestant
Plot
,
as
thinking
thereby
to
retrieve
the
Design
which
was
then
abandoned
and
lost
.
And
though
they
despair
of
prevailing
upon
his
Majesty
to
countenance
an
attempt
which
would
at
once
rob
Him
of
his
Honour
and
the
Love
of
his
People
;
yet
they
perswade
themselves
,
that
the
obtaining
credit
to
a
Protestant
Plot
,
would
render
this
atchievement
the
more
facil
and
easie
to
the
Presumptive
Heir
,
whose
Religion
obligeth
him
to
extirpate
Protestants
,
and
whose
temper
byaseth
him
to
be
severe
over
all
whom
he
is
advanced
to
Govern
.
The
last
sort
of
persons
who
expected
to
have
served
themselves
,
and
promoted
their
Interest
by
the
belief
of
this
Sham
Protestant-Plot
,
are
the
Papists
,
and
all
such
who
by
vertue
either
of
their
Religion
,
or
out
of
hopes
of
Gain
and
Preferment
,
had
embarqued
in
the
late
Romish
Conspiracy
.
And
as
these
were
the
first
and
principal
Forgers
of
this
pretended
Protestant
Plot
,
so
of
all
men
they
proposed
to
themselves
the
greatest
advantages
by
having
credit
given
unto
it
.
For
as
by
the
entertainment
which
they
meet
with
in
the
Intervals
of
Parliament
,
they
apprehend
nothing
to
be
feared
but
the
meeting
of
the
great
Inquest
,
High
Council
,
and
Supreme
Judicature
of
the
Nation
;
So
they
wisely
conceived
that
nothing
would
in
more
likelihood
render
his
Majesty
jealous
of
their
Assembling
,
than
to
possess
him
,
that
the
leading
men
of
the
last
Parliament
intended
to
depose
him
.
And
besides
,
they
hop'd
that
the
belief
of
this
Sham-Plot
would
silence
all
discourse
of
their
Real
one
.
Nay
,
they
question'd
not
but
that
the
imposing
this
design
of
Protestants
against
the
King
,
upon
the
faith
of
the
Nation
,
would
have
made
most
men
inclinable
to
think
that
all
charged
upon
themselves
was
only
to
make
the
Papists
odious
to
his
Majesty
and
the
Kingdom
.
And
by
creating
in
his
Majesty
by
this
forged
Conspiracy
a
distrust
of
his
Protestant
subjects
,
they
reckoned
that
they
should
oblige
him
in
order
to
his
own
security
,
to
have
placed
all
his
trust
and
confidence
in
them
.
And
could
they
once
impose
upon
the
King
,
that
the
Protestants
have
designed
to
destroy
him
,
they
know
that
this
would
be
the
ready
way
to
deprive
him
of
the
love
of
all
those
of
the
Reformed
and
Established
Religion
;
seeing
and
knowing
themselves
innocent
,
they
must
needs
judg
that
they
were
not
only
injured
by
the
entertainment
of
such
an
opinion
concerning
them
,
but
that
such
a
thought
could
be
harboured
of
them
for
no
other
end
but
in
relation
to
have
the
principal
of
them
cut
off
,
and
all
the
rest
either
weakned
or
made
obnoxious
to
severe
oppression
.
Yea
,
could
they
once
lessen
the
peoples
concernment
for
his
Majesties
Life
and
Safety
,
how
ready
would
they
be
,
and
that
without
any
apprehension
of
hazard
to
themselves
,
to
remove
or
Murder
him
,
that
so
they
might
advance
his
Brother
into
his
Throne
,
in
whom
they
place
all
their
confidence
for
the
re-establishing
of
the
Papal
Superstition
and
Idolatry
in
these
Kingdoms
.
Nor
could
the
Contrivers
and
Promoters
of
this
Sham
Protestant
Plot
,
have
ever
fallen
or
lived
in
an
Age
more
adapted
and
suited
to
their
Design
,
forasmuch
as
it
is
beyond
any
other
,
replenish'd
with
persons
prepared
and
inclined
to
swear
whatsoever
they
shall
be
Suborned
and
Hired
unto
.
For
there
are
so
many
sunk
into
all
wickedness
and
profligacy
,
that
it
is
but
to
accost
them
with
the
promise
of
a
good
Reward
,
and
you
may
prevail
upon
them
to
the
perpetrating
what
Villany
you
please
.
Can
we
think
but
that
among
the
many
who
blaspheme
God
,
and
dare
him
to
damn
them
a
hundred
times
a
day
for
nothing
,
there
should
some
be
found
that
will
venture
upon
damnation
in
the
next
world
,
for
a
Pension
,
or
the
hopes
of
some
preferment
in
this
?
Will
such
as
Smith
,
who
bid
God
damn
the
Gospel
,
when
tempted
by
a
Justices
promise
of
the
next
Deanry
,
make
any
scruple
of
swearing
falsly
upon
it
?
Or
will
he
that
boasted
that
if
he
pleased
he
could
prove
God
Almighty
a
fool
,
as
the
same
Smith
did
,
stand
in
any
fear
of
swearing
falsly
by
his
Name
?
Or
can
he
and
Turbervile
deserve
credit
with
any
men
for
the
future
,
having
slandered
Dr.
Lower
to
the
world
,
as
if
he
had
acknowledged
to
them
his
wronging
Dugdale
by
saying
he
had
the
POX
,
when
the
Dr.
had
both
affirmed
and
justified
in
the
presence
of
the
King
and
Council
his
having
of
it
?
Nor
will
any
men
of
sense
believe
that
the
Dr.
should
deny
that
to
them
,
which
he
had
before
owned
and
attested
to
his
Majesty
and
the
Board
.
In
a
word
,
Is
it
to
be
imagined
,
that
they
who
are
guilty
of
Cheating
,
Coining
,
Clipping
,
Polygamy
,
Theft
,
Burglary
,
Murder
,
all
which
offences
make
men
liable
to
the
Gallows
,
should
be
afraid
of
being
guilty
of
Perjury
,
which
makes
them
only
obnoxious
to
a
Pillory
?
Now
that
the
Macknamarra's
,
Haynes
,
Ivy
,
Dennis
,
Carr
,
Booth
,
Sir
James
Hayes
,
and
a
Gentleman
whose
Employ
lies
below
the
Bridg
,
whom
for
some
reasons
at
present
I
forbear
to
name
,
besides
several
others
who
stand
listed
in
the
Register
of
Witnesses
concerning
a
Protestant
Plot
,
are
all
of
them
guilty
of
one
or
more
of
these
horrid
crimes
,
is
known
to
divers
persons
of
unquestionable
credit
,
and
will
be
made
good
whensoever
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
or
any
other
against
whom
they
are
produced
,
shall
be
brought
upon
their
Trial
.
Nor
is
it
difficult
to
conceive
how
much
w
—
p
,
Fitzgerald
,
Booth
,
Bains
,
and
the
other
little
suborning
Tools
,
are
advantaged
in
their
prevailing
upon
mean
,
indigent
and
criminal
Fellows
,
by
addressing
them
under
the
authority
of
great
and
honourable
See
No
Protest
.
Plot
,
p.
23
,
25.
and
Mr.
Wilkinson's
Information
,
p.
4
,
5.
Names
,
and
by
pawning
the
faith
and
honour
of
Noble
persons
to
ensure
Pardons
and
Rewards
to
whosoever
will
depose
and
swear
what
shall
be
dictated
unto
them
.
For
besides
the
power
that
the
offers
of
money
have
upon
base
and
mercenary
souls
,
the
conceit
that
they
shall
become
the
Darlings
and
Favourites
of
great
Ministers
,
provided
they
will
but
swear
such
a
one
out
of
his
life
,
is
a
temptation
that
creatures
destin'd
by
Nature
and
Education
to
be
Grooms
or
Footmen
,
know
not
how
to
withstand
.
And
truly
the
world
hath
been
expecting
whether
my
Lord
H.
and
the
Earl
of
H.
would
not
have
called
w
—
p
and
Booth
to
an
account
by
what
warrant
they
made
their
Names
a
lure
to
draw
in
men
to
perjure
themselves
,
and
by
what
commission
they
were
empower'd
to
dispose
of
their
Lordships
favour
and
friendship
in
the
service
and
for
the
encouragement
of
so
Villanous
designs
.
And
we
had
thought
,
that
tho'
neither
the
preservation
of
the
lives
of
innocent
Protestants
,
nor
the
upholding
the
honour
of
the
Government
,
might
deserve
so
great
a
kindness
at
their
hands
,
as
impartially
and
truly
to
enquire
whether
their
Names
have
been
used
to
contribute
and
give
success
to
so
wicked
an
attempt
as
the
suborning
men
to
destroy
the
guiltless
by
perjury
,
is
every
where
held
and
accounted
;
yet
that
they
would
have
done
something
in
it
out
of
a
regard
to
their
own
safety
,
as
well
as
for
maintaining
that
credit
and
reputation
which
both
their
Quality
,
and
the
Figure
which
they
make
in
the
State
,
ought
to
make
them
careful
and
tender
of
.
But
as
they
do
best
know
what
course
is
most
convenient
for
their
Lordships
to
take
,
so
they
will
have
no
reason
to
be
angry
if
men
in
the
mean
time
form
such
a
judgment
unto
themselves
of
this
whole
Transaction
,
as
the
Informations
and
Depositions
of
persons
most
duly
of
known
honesty
,
but
upon
their
Oaths
do
guide
and
determine
them
unto
.
Another
thing
which
hath
greatly
contributed
to
the
success
of
the
Papal
Factors
in
their
obtaining
Witnesses
to
swear
this
forged
Conspiracy
,
is
their
having
applied
themselves
unto
,
and
dealt
with
men
,
either
pinched
with
want
,
or
labouring
under
some
distress
,
or
who
at
the
best
were
but
of
a
scant
and
narrow
Fortune
.
Accordingly
,
not
only
persons
straitned
in
their
condition
of
living
,
and
such
as
have
been
forced
to
abscond
from
their
creditors
,
have
been
by
promises
and
bribes
to
entrol
themselves
in
the
number
of
Witnesses
to
swear
a
Protestant
Plot
;
but
the
very
prisons
where
Criminals
,
as
well
as
where
Debtors
are
confined
,
have
been
ransack'd
and
searcht
,
to
see
who
could
be
found
that
under
the
assurance
of
pardon
of
their
crimes
,
payment
of
their
debts
,
and
being
raised
into
a
condition
of
living
plentifully
,
would
list
and
engage
himself
in
this
Forswearing
Service
.
It
was
from
a
prison
that
they
fetch
and
ransom'd
Mr.
Dangerfield
,
in
order
to
the
managing
and
proving
of
the
Meal-tub
Plot
,
in
the
guilt
and
danger
whereof
,
the
most
Loyal
Subjects
and
best
Protestants
of
the
Kingdom
were
designed
to
have
been
involved
;
and
it
is
in
Prisons
that
they
have
been
hunting
for
Witnesses
,
the
second
Impression
,
but
in
another
Form
,
of
the
same
forged
Conspiracy
.
And
their
Misadventures
with
some
,
whose
Imprisonment
and
Necessities
they
supposed
would
render
them
pliable
to
all
they
would
require
of
them
,
especially
considering
the
terms
they
were
authorised
to
propose
,
may
serve
to
instruct
us
what
kind
of
persons
they
have
used
to
trade
amongst
,
for
the
obtaining
of
Evidence
against
Protestants
.
For
as
their
application
to
Capt
.
Wilkinson
,
who
lies
a
See
Capt
.
Wilkinson's
Information
.
Prisoner
for
Debt
in
the
Kings
Bench
in
Southwark
,
and
their
endeavouring
by
taking
advantage
from
his
condition
,
by
large
Promises
to
corrupt
him
to
Swear
against
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
plainly
tell
us
,
with
men
of
what
condition
they
have
used
to
deal
,
and
by
what
means
and
arguments
they
have
been
so
successful
in
procuring
Witnesses
to
Depose
against
that
Noble
Lord
;
so
it
will
be
matter
of
perpetual
Honour
and
Praise
to
the
Loyal
,
as
well
as
honest
Captain
,
that
no
Temptations
from
those
villanous
men
that
accosted
him
in
a
Prison
,
neither
any
consideration
of
the
distress
that
himself
and
Family
were
in
,
could
corrupt
him
to
so
wicked
a
thing
,
as
the
accusing
that
Honourable
Person
falsely
of
Treason
.
Yea
,
are
not
most
of
the
Witnesses
,
who
have
hitherto
appeared
to
prove
a
Protestant
Plot
,
a
company
of
poor
necessitous
Fellows
,
who
by
by
their
own
acknowledgment
,
as
well
as
the
observation
of
the
whole
world
,
wanted
bread
?
For
besides
See
No
Protestant
Plot
,
P.
26
,
27.
those
mentioned
elsewhere
,
whose
Debauchery
had
reduced
them
to
Poverty
,
and
whose
Poverty
disposed
them
to
engage
in
any
wickedness
for
Money
,
we
may
add
Hay's
and
Booth
,
two
Witnesses
lately
entred
into
the
same
Service
,
out
of
mere
hopes
to
be
enabled
thereby
to
feed
their
Luxury
and
Riot
,
as
well
as
to
conquer
their
Necessities
and
Wants
.
For
this
Hays
who
pretends
himself
to
be
a
Knight
,
and
who
hath
sworn
Treason
against
Mr.
Wilson
,
My
Lord
Shaftsbury's
Servant
,
and
as
is
thought
,
merely
in
design
to
have
made
him
accuse
his
Lord
;
he
is
known
through
all
London
,
not
only
to
be
a
most
infamous
person
,
by
reason
of
Cheats
put
upon
Merchants
and
others
;
but
to
have
been
reduced
to
the
greatest
straits
imaginable
,
so
that
he
was
forced
to
abscond
because
of
Crimes
and
Debts
.
And
as
for
Booth
,
who
hath
sworn
Treason
against
Capt
.
Wilkinson
,
in
revenge
for
his
refusing
to
accuse
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
he
is
both
a
fellow
whose
wickedness
had
brought
him
to
a
morsel
of
bread
,
and
one
who
had
ere
this
been
Hanged
for
Coyning
and
Murder
,
if
His
Majesty
had
not
vouchsafed
him
his
gracious
Pardon
.
But
to
all
their
other
Arts
and
Methods
of
obtaining
Witnesses
to
support
the
belief
of
a
Presbyterian
,
or
Protestant
Plot
,
they
have
one
more
,
which
in
a
most
especial
manner
deserveth
the
abhorrence
of
all
mankind
;
because
it
leaves
no
man
safe
that
they
have
the
boldness
and
impudence
to
tempt
and
accost
.
For
as
soon
as
they
find
that
any
whom
they
have
endeavoured
to
corrupt
and
suborn
,
are
of
more
Uprightness
and
Integrity
than
they
apprehended
,
or
were
made
to
believe
;
they
immediatly
involve
them
in
Trouble
and
Danger
,
by
advancing
some
Accusation
or
Charge
against
them
.
For
if
a
person
to
whom
they
have
addressed
themselves
in
this
matter
,
and
by
Wheedle
and
large
Promises
laboured
to
Suborn
,
have
either
the
Wisdom
,
the
Vertue
,
or
Grace
to
scorn
their
offers
and
importunities
,
they
do
then
either
by
themselves
,
or
by
such
whom
they
have
debauched
or
corrupted
to
be
implicitly
and
universally
at
their
command
,
swear
Treason
or
Subornation
against
them
.
So
that
if
one
will
not
offend
God
,
wrong
his
Neighbour
,
and
damn
his
own
Soul
,
in
complying
to
be
a
false
witness
and
perjure
himself
,
he
shall
be
Deposed
against
,
as
one
guilty
of
some
horrid
Crime
against
his
Majesty
and
the
Government
.
Thus
when
Justice
w
—
p
could
not
corrupt
Mr.
Everard
to
swear
,
That
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
intended
a
Commonwealth
,
and
that
he
with
others
were
preparing
Arms
to
See
No
Protestant
Plot
,
p
22.
alter
the
Constitution
;
he
immediately
gets
the
poor
young
Gentleman
to
be
charged
with
I
know
what
Crimes
against
His
Majesty
,
his
Crown
and
Dignity
,
and
Warrants
to
be
issued
forth
to
apprehend
him
.
And
in
the
same
manner
is
Capt
.
Wilkinson
served
;
for
when
Booth
and
Bayns
could
not
prevail
upon
him
to
forswear
himself
,
in
order
to
the
destroying
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
;
Booth
(
who
had
he
received
his
Demerit
,
had
been
as
certainly
Hanged
for
Murder
and
Treason
,
as
he
was
by
his
Diocesan
turn'd
out
of
his
Ecclesiastical
Living
for
scandalous
Villanies
and
Misdemeanors
)
undertakes
and
is
admitted
to
Swear
Treason
against
him
.
Thus
likewise
one
Mr.
Puckle
,
a
person
often
employed
in
his
Majesties
Service
,
and
who
hath
been
always
said
to
have
acquitted
himself
with
Fidelity
and
Diligence
,
yet
because
he
would
not
accuse
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
and
my
Lord
Howard
of
Treasonable
Designs
against
the
King
and
Government
,
and
of
their
having
corresponded
with
him
in
pursuance
thereof
;
he
is
therefore
accused
himself
.
And
one
Mr.
Carr
,
a
person
well
known
in
England
,
as
having
stood
in
the
Pillory
here
for
enormous
Crimes
,
and
as
well
character'd
from
Holland
for
tricks
and
debaucheries
,
as
having
lived
there
these
several
years
,
hath
,
as
is
commonly
reported
,
deposed
something
against
him
.
So
that
every
honest
man
,
who
hath
had
the
misfortune
to
be
thought
capable
of
being
made
a
knave
,
and
hath
been
accordingly
tempted
by
those
who
measure
and
judg
others
by
themselves
,
runs
the
venture
of
his
own
life
,
for
not
complying
to
be
an
instrument
in
destroying
the
lives
of
such
as
are
innocent
.
And
as
if
it
were
not
enough
,
first
to
forge
a
Plot
,
and
then
suborn
Witnesses
to
swear
it
,
the
managers
of
this
affair
have
for
securing
the
better
success
of
the
whole
intrigue
,
thought
of
one
trick
more
;
namely
,
the
causing
those
to
be
accused
of
one
offence
or
another
,
who
have
the
courage
to
endeavour
to
trace
and
detect
them
.
It
is
a
most
deplorable
case
and
condition
that
we
are
in
:
For
as
our
own
innocency
is
no
protection
against
the
perjury
of
fellows
that
are
suborned
;
so
we
do
but
expose
our selves
to
new
hazards
,
by
labouring
to
discover
by
whom
and
what
means
such
and
such
were
corrupted
,
and
to
whose
ruine
they
are
to
be
employed
.
For
as
he
,
who
,
in
the
Roman
story
,
would
have
kill'd
his
Neighbour
,
complained
,
being
hindred
and
prevented
,
that
the
person
whom
he
designed
to
stab
,
did
not
totum
gladium
recipere
;
so
they
who
labour
to
fasten
a
Conspiracy
upon
Protestants
,
against
His
Majesties
Person
and
Government
,
are
angry
that
we
will
not
abandon
our
own
innocency
,
and
suffer
them
without
disturbance
or
molestation
,
to
swear
us
out
of
our
Lives
and
Estates
.
For
this
and
no
other
crime
,
that
any
man
knows
of
,
is
Mr.
John
Harrington
bound
over
in
a
Recognizance
of
1000.
l.
to
answer
at
the
Kings
Bench
to
whatsoever
charge
and
information
shall
be
brought
against
him
.
And
whereas
we
are
told
of
divers
Presentments
and
Indictments
which
Justice
Warcup
hath
ready
to
be
preferred
against
several
persons
,
it
is
for
nothing
else
in
the
world
,
but
because
they
have
been
too
bold
and
sawcy
in
prying
into
his
secret
transactions
,
for
inveigling
and
suborning
Witnesses
to
depose
,
and
support
a
Protestant
Plot
.
And
though
the
whole
matter
of
this
grand
Conspiracy
be
not
only
perfectly
known
by
men
of
wisdom
and
observation
,
to
be
a
meer
forgery
,
but
fully
understood
and
discerned
by
the
meanest
and
weakest
to
be
a
Popish
contrivance
,
yet
no
man
can
sooner
publish
a
few
sheets
to
display
and
unfold
the
Combination
,
and
lay
open
that
hellish
Intrigue
,
but
he
is
threatned
to
have
an
Information
exhibited
against
him
in
Westminster-Hall
.
Alas
!
if
compassion
to
innocent
and
loyal
persons
,
whose
lives
are
brought
into
danger
by
suborned
and
perjured
fellows
;
or
if
regard
to
the
credit
and
safety
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
which
would
be
greatly
weakened
and
exposed
,
should
the
principal
Patrons
of
it
become
believed
guilty
of
a
Conspiracy
against
his
Majesty
and
the
established
Government
;
be
not
sufficient
inducements
to
justify
all
lawful
endeavours
to
detect
this
forgery
,
and
publish
to
all
mankind
the
whole
Sham
:
yet
surely
love
to
the
honour
of
the
King
,
and
respect
both
to
the
peace
of
his
Kingdom
and
the
glory
of
his
Reign
,
may
be
allowed
for
reasonable
motives
,
why
an
honest
man
should
study
to
hinder
the
pursuance
of
a
design
,
which
,
if
not
seasonably
check't
,
will
not
only
lessen
the
peoples
esteem
of
the
Justice
and
Wisdom
of
their
Rulers
,
but
by
repeated
Ignoramus's
upon
Bills
of
Indictment
for
Treason
,
and
by
representing
the
Witnesses
personated
upon
stages
and
in
publick
shows
,
may
expose
the
Government
it self
to
too
notorious
an
affront
.
And
either
so
malicious
and
thirsty
of
Protestant
Blood
,
or
so
infatuated
and
deprived
of
all
understanding
,
are
the
managers
of
this
forged
Conspiracy
,
that
neither
any
detection
of
their
Villanies
,
nor
disappointment
of
their
Attempts
,
have
been
hitherto
sufficient
to
discourage
them
in
their
proceedings
.
But
when
they
are
brought
to
despair
of
effecting
their
Design
of
destroying
Innocent
persons
by
one
Set
of
Witnesses
,
they
immediately
betake
themselves
to
the
finding
out
and
hiring
of
another
.
And
if
the
babbling
of
some
hath
so
far
betrayed
them
,
that
they
are
become
useless
,
and
must
be
sent
away
,
new
ones
are
to
be
Suborned
to
fill
up
their
room
,
who
shall
be
taught
greater
Secrecy
and
better
Conduct
.
Nor
is
the
Nation
or
the
City
so
barren
of
Rogues
,
but
that
whosoever
is
weary
of
serving
himself
by
one
,
may
for
Money
be
furnished
with
another
.
And
if
the
Muster-master-general
of
the
Evidence
think
it
expedient
to
disband
the
whole
Troop
of
Witnesses
,
which
he
hath
hitherto
maintain'd
and
paid
on
the
prospect
and
hope
of
Service
from
them
,
he
may
by
the
Art
of
Subornation
,
and
the
Attractive
of
a
liberal
Advance
,
and
a
well
settled
and
large
pay
,
easily
fill
up
his
Rolls
with
others
of
the
same
Character
and
Complexion
.
But
can
any
think
,
that
more
credit
will
be
given
to
Carr
,
who
(
as
the
report
goes
)
is
brought
from
Holland
to
support
the
sinking
credit
of
a
Protestant
Plot
,
than
would
have
been
given
to
Callaghan
,
should
he
instead
of
being
sent
away
to
Ireland
,
have
been
kept
here
and
brought
into
a
Court
of
Judicature
,
to
prevail
upon
a
Jury
by
the
authority
of
his
Oath
,
to
believe
that
My
Lord
Shaftsbury
intended
to
change
the
Monarchy
into
a
Commonwealth
?
Or
can
any
apprehend
,
that
the
Rascally
Fellow
Sallacole
,
that
boasts
of
being
a
Witness
against
that
Noble
Peer
,
and
who
to
all
his
other
Crimes
,
hath
lately
added
the
hiring
and
subornig
one
Peter
Brashay
to
subscribe
and
swear
a
false
Information
,
by
the
name
of
Daniel
Holland
,
before
Sir
Thomas
Exton
,
should
obtain
more
credit
with
a
Grand
Inquest
of
honest
,
wise
and
discreet
men
,
than
Dugdale
,
whom
all
the
world
believes
to
be
perjur'd
,
would
do
,
should
any
have
the
folly
to
produce
him
hereafter
as
a
Witness
against
Protestants
.
And
should
Justice
w
—
p
be
able
by
applications
to
Mr.
Manu
,
to
prevail
upon
him
to
swear
Treason
against
Capt
.
Wilkinson
,
namely
,
how
the
said
Capt
.
had
told
him
of
a
Design
,
wherein
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
and
the
Members
of
the
Oxford
Parliament
,
were
engaged
against
His
Majesty
;
yet
would
any
man
believe
Maud
;
that
hath
either
known
the
Capt
.
or
read
his
late
Printed
Information
.
But
to
do
Mr.
Maud
right
,
he
hath
solemnly
professed
and
protested
to
twenty
Gentlemen
,
that
he
neither
is
nor
can
be
a
Witness
against
any
Protestant
;
though
,
he
declares
withal
,
how
the
Justice
both
by
Promises
and
Threatnings
would
have
influenced
him
to
have
been
one
.
And
as
if
all
the
Arts
already
mentioned
,
were
not
base
and
villanous
enough
,
the
Papists
and
their
Abettors
,
have
as
men
at
a
desperate
pass
should
this
Design
miscarry
,
be
thought
themselves
〈◇〉
another
trick
more
damnable
and
Hellish
than
all
the
rest
.
For
being
jealous
of
the
Credit
and
Reputation
of
their
Wit●esses
,
and
apprehensive
that
no
Jury
will
believe
what
they
say
,
they
see
that
the
Project
they
have
so
long
travailed
with
,
of
silencing
the
Noise
of
their
own
Plot
,
by
fathering
a
forged
one
upon
Protestants
,
will
not
only
be
lost
,
but
themselves
made
obnoxious
to
answer
for
contriving
the
Death
of
innocent
Persons
,
unless
they
can
be
able
to
produce
Letters
and
Papers
.
Nor
is
it
to
be
questioned
,
but
that
as
they
who
take
a
liberty
to
suborn
Men
to
perjure
themselves
,
for
the
destroying
of
innocent
Persons
,
will
also
judg
it
a
venial
thing
,
to
hire
some
Miscreant
or
another
to
forge
and
counterfeit
Writings
in
order
thereunto
.
And
it
will
be
strange
,
if
the
Managers
of
this
Business
,
having
been
so
successful
in
obtaining
false
Witnesses
as
to
Words
,
should
not
find
one
or
another
,
that
will
be
prevailed
upon
for
Money
,
first
to
counterfeit
his
hand
to
Treasonable
Letters
,
and
then
depose
upon
Oath
to
the
Authenticalness
of
them
.
For
if
Granger's
old
Friend
and
Complice
,
who
stood
in
the
Pillory
,
be
not
skilful
and
exact
enough
at
it
,
Granger
himself
is
neither
so
far
off
,
but
that
he
may
be
spoken
with
upon
so
good
an
occasion
,
nor
so
reformed
by
long
Imprisonment
for
former
Offences
of
this
kind
,
but
that
for
a
good
Reward
,
and
especially
if
they
will
promise
him
a
Pardon
for
his
old
Crimes
,
he
may
be
persuaded
to
have
one
Touch
more
at
the
wonted
Trade
.
And
considering
that
we
live
in
a
Juncture
,
when
Men
of
better
Fame
than
any
who
abett
the
Belief
of
a
Protestant
Plot
are
judged
to
be
,
do
,
by
a
Writing
under
their
hand
,
misreport
the
Actings
and
Transactions
of
the
two
Houses
of
Parliament
to
the
Court
of
Kings-Bench
,
and
that
in
a
Business
of
so
great
and
fatal
moment
,
as
the
discharging
of
an
impeached
Person
would
infallibly
be
;
we
need
not
be
surprized
,
should
one
of
a
profligate
Life
,
an
infamous
Name
,
and
an
obdurate
Conscience
,
endeavour
to
impose
upon
a
Court
of
Oyer
and
Terminer
,
by
a
forged
Letter
or
two
,
especially
in
order
to
the
accomplishing
so
meritorious
a
Work
,
as
the
whole
Papal
Party
will
esteem
the
bringing
of
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
to
the
Scaffold
to
be
.
But
the
Failure
and
Error
in
the
managing
of
this
Intrigue
is
,
That
some
,
reckoned
very
proper
Instruments
for
such
a
Service
,
were
not
only
brought
over
from
beyond
Sea
,
at
a
Season
which
will
awaken
in
the
Minds
of
Men
a
Suspicion
of
the
Errand
upon
which
they
come
;
but
they
have
been
observed
to
be
very
busy
in
scribling
every
day
at
a
certain
place
since
they
arrived
,
which
will
greatly
augment
the
Belief
of
what
they
were
framing
,
should
any
Papers
,
fathered
upon
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury
,
and
my
Lord
Howard
,
be
produced
in
Court
.
Besides
,
that
noble
and
wise
Peer
,
whom
the
Snare
is
in
a
special
manner
laying
for
,
is
sufficiently
known
,
to
be
a
Person
of
another
kind
of
Foresight
and
Conduct
,
than
,
were
he
traiterously
and
wickedly
disposed
,
to
trust
the
best
Friend
in
the
World
with
a
Paper
under
his
Hand
that
might
destroy
him
.
Nor
could
there
be
a
more
convincing
Proof
of
the
Villany
of
the
whole
Contrivance
against
this
great
and
truly
politick
Statesman
,
than
to
offer
to
bring
forth
against
him
Papers
pretending
to
bear
his
Name
,
and
affirmed
upon
Oath
to
be
of
his
own
hand-writing
.
Some
little
Mushroom-Minister
,
or
young
Dabler
in
Politicks
,
may
possibly
be
guilty
of
such
an
Oversight
;
but
for
a
Person
of
the
greatest
Sagacity
,
and
wisest
Conduct
of
this
Age
,
and
one
grown
gray
in
the
Study
of
Men
,
and
Observation
of
Courts
and
Civil
Affairs
,
to
commit
such
a
Folly
,
is
next
to
impossible
.
And
if
ever
Men
should
be
so
far
forsaken
of
Wit
,
as
well
as
Truth
and
Prudence
,
as
to
offer
to
produce
Letters
,
to
prove
and
enforce
his
Concernment
in
a
Conspiracy
against
his
Majesty
and
the
Government
,
there
will
need
no
more
to
detect
the
Forgery
,
but
the
bare
naming
of
the
Persons
,
with
whom
this
Correspondence
for
changing
the
Monarchy
into
a
Common-wealth
is
said
to
have
been
held
.
All
Mankind
may
with
as
much
probability
fall
delirous
,
and
become
distracted
in
one
day
,
as
that
a
Peer
of
the
Earl
of
Shaftsbury's
Sense
,
Wisdom
,
and
Knowledg
of
the
World
,
should
treat
in
Writing
,
about
so
illegal
,
ticklish
,
and
hazardous
an
Affair
,
as
the
altering
of
a
Government
is
,
with
Persons
,
that
he
would
blame
his
own
Discretion
,
and
judg
his
Prudence
had
failed
him
,
should
he
so
much
as
speak
unto
them
,
save
in
the
presence
of
Witnesses
,
that
might
testify
what
was
said
.
Upon
the
whole
of
what
hath
been
discoursed
,
concerning
the
Implacableness
of
our
Enemies
,
and
the
unjust
and
wicked
Courses
which
they
have
steered
,
to
bring
the
World
into
a
Belief
of
a
Protestant
Plot
,
and
that
the
greatest
and
wisest
Persons
in
the
Nation
,
as
well
as
the
most
Loyal
Subjects
to
his
Majesty
,
and
the
most
zealous
Patriots
of
our
Religion
and
Civil
Liberties
,
are
guilty
of
it
;
nothing
can
be
now
more
clear
and
apparent
,
than
that
our
whole
Security
,
as
to
Life
and
Fortune
,
and
what
is
beyond
both
,
a
good
Name
here
,
and
a
worthy
and
honourable
Fame
hereafter
,
depends
principally
(
if
not
solely
)
upon
the
having
an
upright
,
discreet
,
and
understanding
Jury
.
And
blessed
be
God
,
who
hath
cast
our
Lot
in
a
Land
renowned
in
this
above
all
other
Nations
,
that
our
Lives
and
Estates
are
not
subjected
to
the
arbitrary
and
despotick
Pleasure
of
a
Sovereign
,
nor
left
to
the
Discretion
of
Judges
,
who
may
be
Vassals
to
the
Will
of
their
Creator
and
Prince
;
or
being
of
a
covetous
and
mercenary
Temper
,
may
be
wrought
upon
to
sell
our
Lives
for
a
Bribe
.
Yea
,
were
our
Rulers
never
so
benign
,
gracious
,
and
merciful
;
and
were
Judges
never
so
impartial
,
upright
,
and
just
:
yet
where
there
are
not
Juries
,
the
Lives
of
innocent
Men
are
ever
liable
to
be
taken
away
by
the
Testimony
of
suborned
and
perjured
Witnesses
.
Whereas
by
this
inestimable
Privilege
of
our
Constitution
,
the
boldest
and
most
home-swearing
of
never
so
many
Witnesses
,
cannot
bring
a
Person
within
the
compass
of
being
condemned
,
till
twelve
impartial
,
honest
,
and
substantial
Men
of
his
Neighbours
have
judged
and
pronounced
him
guilty
.
So
that
upon
this
alone
account
,
if
there
had
been
no
other
,
our
Ancestors
,
comparing
their
Condition
with
the
Case
of
other
Nations
,
had
good
reason
to
say
,
Nolumus
Leges
Angliae
mutari
,
We
will
not
have
the
Laws
of
England
abrogated
or
altered
.
And
Vid
.
Fortescue
de
landibus
Legum
Angliae
,
cap
.
26
,
27
,
28
,
29.
&
Glanvil
,
lib
.
7.
cap
.
14
,
15.
therefore
upon
this
reason
,
more
than
upon
any
other
,
do
Fortescue
and
Glanvil
prefer
the
Laws
of
England
,
to
the
Laws
of
all
other
Countries
and
Kingdoms
whatsoever
.
For
the
Antiquity
of
Trials
by
Juries
,
there
needs
no
more
to
prove
them
co-eval
with
the
first
Constitution
of
our
Government
,
than
that
no
Man
is
able
to
assign
the
Time
when
they
began
:
For
as
all
agree
,
this
to
have
been
the
Way
and
Course
of
Trial
in
Henry
the
First's
Time
,
according
to
that
Passage
in
Cap.
31.
of
the
Laws
of
that
King
,
Unusquisque
per
pares
suos
judicandus
est
,
&
ejusdem
Provinciae
.
Every
Man
is
to
be
judged
by
his
Peers
;
and
those
to
be
of
the
County
where
he
lives
.
So
our
Histories
tell
us
of
one
Roger
Fitz-Osborn
,
who
being
apprehended
by
Tiptoft
,
Sheriff
of
Worcester-shire
,
was
condemned
for
Treason
in
William
the
Norman's
Time
,
per
judicium
parium
suorum
.
And
that
this
Method
of
Trial
came
not
in
with
the
Conqueror
,
is
not
only
evident
from
hence
,
That
the
Law
of
Normandy
never
took
any
cognisance
of
Trials
by
Juries
;
but
from
this
,
That
it
was
one
of
Ethelred
the
Saxon's
Laws
,
That
none
should
be
acquitted
or
condemned
,
See
Lamb
,
p.
281.
but
by
twelve
ancient
Freemen
.
And
our
Ancestors
making
Trials
by
the
lawful
Judgment
of
their
Peers
,
one
special
part
of
the
great
Charter
,
shews
that
it
was
the
ancient
Law
of
the
Land
;
forasmuch
as
Magna
Charta
contains
no
new
Privileges
,
wrested
from
our
Kings
,
but
only
the
ancient
Rights
of
the
People
,
which
had
been
invaded
See
Doderidg's
Treatise
of
Nobility
,
p.
110.
by
the
Norman
Race
.
But
whence
the
first
Inhabitants
of
this
Land
learned
this
Course
and
Method
of
Trial
,
or
whether
they
were
the
first
Inventers
and
Ordainers
of
it
,
I
cannot
tell
:
only
something
of
alliance
and
kin
with
it
,
seems
to
be
have
been
observed
in
the
Grecian
Trials
,
as
appears
by
Mars's
being
tried
for
Muther
by
a
Jury
of
Twelve
,
and
acquitted
only
by
reason
of
the
Equality
of
Votes
.
So
sacred
hath
the
Observation
of
the
Rights
of
Juries
anciently
been
,
that
Alfred
not
only
hanged
one
Justice
Freburn
,
for
condemning
one
Harpin
,
when
the
Jury
were
in
doubt
of
their
Verdict
;
See
How's
Mirror
of
Justice
.
but
he
also
hanged
one
Justice
Codwine
,
because
he
adjudged
one
Hackney
to
Death
,
when
three
of
the
Jury
would
have
acquitted
him
.
And
yet
it
is
remarkable
,
that
the
Judg
did
not
condemn
him
without
the
Verdict
of
twelve
Men
;
but
because
he
put
out
the
three
who
would
have
found
him
not
guilty
,
and
added
other
three
,
whom
the
Person
indicted
had
not
put
himself
upon
,
to
the
nine
that
were
for
finding
him
guilty
;
the
King
ordered
him
to
be
hanged
.
Yea
,
so
careful
have
our
Predecessors
been
to
revenge
all
Invasions
upon
this
excellent
part
of
our
Birthright
,
that
Empson
and
Dudley
were
executed
in
Henry
the
Eighth's
Time
,
for
proceeding
against
Men
,
so
as
to
punish
and
fine
them
for
Offences
and
Contempts
,
without
the
Verdict
of
twelve
Men
,
tho
they
had
the
Authority
of
an
Act
of
Parliament
,
to
justify
them
in
what
they
did
.
Now
those
returnable
upon
Juries
,
ought
,
first
,
to
be
of
the
Vicinage
,
where
the
Party
accused
liveth
,
or
at
least
,
the
Cause
of
the
Charge
or
Action
doth
arise
;
and
the
reason
of
it
is
,
Ut
rei
veritas
melius
sciri
poterit
:
That
what
was
in
issue
before
them
,
may
be
the
more
fully
known
and
understood
by
those
that
are
to
give
their
Verdict
of
it
.
This
was
always
the
common
Law
of
the
Land
,
that
Juries
should
be
chosen
out
of
the
Neighbourhood
,
ubi
Factum
supponitur
quod
est
judicandum
.
And
we
have
a
great
Instance
of
the
Benefit
hereof
,
in
a
Trial
before
Sir
Matthew
Hale
,
when
he
was
Lord
Chief-Baron
:
For
as
he
was
riding
the
Nottingham
Circuit
,
a
pretended
Mortgagee
brought
an
Action
against
the
Executor
of
an
alledged
Mortgager
,
affirming
,
that
such
an
one
had
mortgaged
such
an
Estate
to
him
the
Plaintiff
,
for
four
thousand
Pounds
;
and
this
he
made
a
Proof
of
in
Court
,
by
three
positive
Witnesses
,
who
concurred
in
all
Circumstances
of
Time
,
Place
,
and
Payment
of
the
Money
;
nor
could
any
of
their
Credits
be
impeached
.
Yet
the
Jury
being
of
the
Vicinage
,
and
knowing
that
the
Deceased
,
whose
Executor
was
sued
,
had
Money
of
his
own
at
use
,
at
that
time
when
it
was
said
he
had
borrowed
the
four
thousand
Pounds
,
and
that
he
had
neither
married
Son
nor
Daughter
,
nor
bought
nor
mortgaged
any
Land
,
which
might
make
him
necessitous
of
Money
,
they
brought
in
for
the
Defendant
,
notwithstanding
the
Evidence
of
three
untainted
concurring
Witnesses
.
And
it
was
well
they
did
so
;
for
it
appeared
afterwards
,
that
the
Witnesses
were
forty
Miles
asunder
when
the
Writings
were
said
to
have
been
sealed
;
and
whereas
the
Mortgage
bore
Date
at
London
such
a
day
,
he
that
was
then
neerest
to
the
City
,
was
at
that
very
time
as
far
off
as
Stamford
in
Lincoln-shire
.
Secondly
;
Those
returned
to
serve
on
Juries
,
are
to
be
boni
&
legales
homines
,
good
and
lawful
Men
;
whereupon
all
Persons
outlaw'd
,
condemned
in
a
Premunire
,
or
attainted
of
Treason
,
Felony
,
or
the
like
,
are
uncapable
of
serving
upon
a
Jury
,
as
not
being
homines
legales
,
and
all
See
Lambert's
Eireaarcha
,
p.
376
,
377
discredited
by
Attainder
in
Conspiracy
,
Subornation
of
Perjury
,
Concealment
,
or
the
like
,
are
excluded
from
being
Jury-Men
,
as
not
being
homines
probi
.
But
among
all
the
Exceptions
,
which
by
the
Law
disable
a
Person
from
serving
on
a
Jury
,
I
do
not
find
,
that
differing
from
the
Church
of
England
in
a
Ceremony
,
or
not
attending
upon
the
Common-Prayer
,
are
allowed
,
much
less
enjoined
to
be
any
.
And
for
any
Persons
to
refuse
such
returned
upon
the
Pannel
,
whom
the
Law
doth
not
refuse
,
maketh
a
very
near
approach
to
the
assuming
to
themselves
a
Legislative
Power
.
And
I
dare
affirm
it
in
the
Face
of
all
the
World
,
that
notwithstanding
the
Clamor
about
the
Juries
returned
in
London
the
last
Year
,
and
thus
far
of
this
,
that
yet
there
have
not
,
for
these
twenty
last
Years
,
been
better
Men
returned
,
both
for
Quality
and
Estate
,
and
for
Unblameableness
and
Integrity
of
Life
,
than
were
by
the
last
Sheriffs
,
and
those
now
in
Office
.
And
it
is
remarkable
,
that
all
who
have
been
called
on
Nisi
prius's
are
exceedingly
approved
;
and
why
those
called
to
serve
on
the
Grand
Inquest
,
who
are
usually
Men
of
greater
Quality
than
the
other
,
come
to
be
so
much
condemned
,
I
desire
that
others
should
rather
imagine
and
conceive
,
than
that
I
should
take
upon
me
to
pronounce
and
declare
.
And
when
those
upon
the
Bench
had
cause
to
approve
and
commend
such
as
are
and
have
been
returned
to
serve
in
Civil
Causes
,
I
do
not
well
know
for
what
reason
they
quarrel
at
Men
of
that
Perswasion
and
Mind
,
yea
sometimes
at
the
very
same
individual
Persons
when
impanelled
to
serve
in
Criminal
Causes
.
Yea
,
should
the
little
and
small
differences
amongst
Protestants
,
make
one
Party
judg
another
unqualified
to
serve
in
Juries
,
we
might
thereby
,
in
case
of
a
Popish
Successor
,
teach
the
Papists
to
exclude
one
sort
of
Protestants
aswel
as
another
from
discharging
the
office
of
Jury-men
.
And
would
we
not
be
in
a
fine
case
,
should
the
Papists
in
due
time
turn
these
Arguments
against
all
Protestants
,
which
some
out
of
fondness
to
the
Church
of
England
do
now
make
use
of
against
Protestant
Dissenters
!
And
surely
Nonconformity
to
all
the
Laws
of
Christ
,
which
common
Drunkards
,
Swearers
,
and
every
vicious
and
prophane
Person
is
guilty
of
,
may
with
as
much
reason
be
esteemed
an
Exception
against
a
Jury-man
,
as
Nonconformity
to
the
Rites
and
Ceremonies
of
the
Church
,
especially
if
we
consider
that
the
one
sort
of
Nonconformity
is
prohibited
and
made
punishable
by
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
as
well
as
the
other
.
And
whereas
it
hath
been
said
,
That
thro'
the
late
Sheriffs
returning
Phanaticks
to
be
Jury-men
,
it
came
to
pass
that
during
their
whole
Year
not
one
Popish
Recusant
was
presented
in
the
City
.
They
that
make
this
Objection
,
would
do
well
to
consider
,
that
from
the
Year
1676
till
the
Year
1680
,
there
was
not
one
Papist
presented
in
London
,
and
yet
it
is
supposed
that
the
Sheriffs
during
that
long
Intervall
were
very
good
Church-men
,
and
returned
Juries
worthy
to
be
approved
.
't
is
true
,
the
Dissenters
are
not
in
one
sence
so
well
qualified
to
present
Papists
,
as
some
others
are
,
in
that
they
do
not
know
so
many
,
nor
maintain
that
friendship
with
them
as
they
may
do
.
But
this
may
be
said
,
that
the
most
Phanatical
Jury
which
hath
been
within
these
fifteen
Months
,
did
never
refuse
to
present
Papists
who
were
regularly
and
upon
Oath
brought
before
them
.
But
to
proceed
,
having
heard
what
according
to
Law
ought
to
be
the
qualification
of
the
Jurors
,
we
are
next
to
consider
who
is
the
legal
Officer
that
ought
to
return
them
;
And
this
is
the
Sheriff
:
For
to
him
is
the
Venire
facias
directed
,
and
in
him
is
the
trust
of
returning
Juries
vested
and
reposed
.
Nay
,
at
Goal-deliveries
,
when
there
is
no
writ
directed
to
the
Sheriffs
,
yet
he
is
the
Officer
that
is
to
return
the
Panel
,
for
so
the
Law
hath
constituted
him
.
The
Statute
of
the
11.
Hen
.
4.
is
express
to
this
purpose
.
Yea
,
that
confidence
and
power
doth
the
Law
place
in
the
Sheriff
as
to
this
matter
,
that
in
Inquests
before
Commissioners
of
Oyer
and
Terminer
,
it
alloweth
not
the
Judge
to
except
against
any
whom
the
Sheriff
is
pleased
to
return
:
and
tho'
in
Juries
upon
Goal
delivery
the
Statute
of
the
3
H.
8.
empowers
the
Judge
to
reform
the
Pannel
,
by
excepting
agaihst
such
as
they
think
will
be
wilfully
forsworn
and
perjured
:
yet
even
in
that
case
the
Sheriff
must
still
return
those
who
are
to
supply
the
places
of
such
as
are
excepted
agninst
.
Yea
,
the
forfeiture
is
but
20
l.
whereof
one
half
only
goes
to
the
King
,
the
other
going
to
the
Informer
,
in
case
he
should
refuse
to
return
the
Pannel
according
to
the
reformation
of
the
Justices
.
And
so
careful
is
the
Law
to
preserve
the
right
of
returning
Juries
to
the
Sheriff
or
his
Bayliff
by
his
leave
and
order
,
that
one
Robert
Scarlet
,
10.
Jac
.
not
being
returned
by
the
Sheriff
,
yet
by
confederacy
with
the
Clerk
,
getting
himself
to
be
called
on
the
Grand
Inquest
when
the
Pannel
was
read
in
Court
,
was
Indicted
upon
the
Statute
of
the
11
Hen
.
4.
So
that
it
being
the
Sheriffs
Right
to
return
Juries
,
we
may
justly
wonder
why
men
quarrel
that
the
Secondaries
in
London
are
not
of
late
suffered
to
do
it
.
I
am
sure
the
High
Sheriffs
being
men
of
greater
Estates
,
than
the
Secondaries
are
,
they
are
less
likely
to
be
brib'd
in
making
undue
returns
than
the
latter
.
And
if
the
Secondaries
complain
that
they
are
not
permitted
to
return
Juries
,
it
is
a
ground
of
shrew'd
suspition
that
that
they
made
some
advantage
to
themselves
by
doing
it
.
and
indeed
purchasing
their
places
at
great
Rates
,
we
may
safely
imagine
that
they
will
be
somewhat
inclinable
to
excuse
some
from
serving
,
and
bring
on
others
as
shall
turn
and
conduce
most
to
their
interest
and
profit
.
And
were
it
not
that
they
propose
an
advantages
to
themselves
by
the
returning
of
Juries
,
instead
of
complaining
that
they
are
deprived
of
that
liberty
and
priviledg
,
they
have
cause
to
be
thankful
that
they
are
eased
of
an
Office
which
besides
the
Foile
trouble
of
it
,
might
sometimes
expose
them
to
very
great
inconvniencies
.
And
if
any
other
take
it
amiss
that
the
Secondaries
are
not
still
allowed
to
return
the
Juries
,
it
is
a
plain
argument
that
they
think
they
could
have
better
served
a
turn
or
a
design
by
them
,
than
they
see
they
can
do
by
the
Sheriffs
.
In
the
next
place
it
is
observable
that
as
in
all
criminal
causes
there
are
two
Juries
to
pass
upon
the
party
that
is
accused
and
arraigned
,
fo
the
difference
between
them
is
,
that
the
Grand
Jury
in
finding
the
Bill
,
do
supponere
crimen
,
and
the
Petty
Jury
in
finding
the
person
guilty
do
imponere
crimen
.
And
as
a
Grand
Jurie
is
never
to
find
any
Bill
,
but
either
upon
personal
knowledg
,
or
Evidence
;
so
in
case
they
have
no
personal
knowledg
of
the
Eact
of
which
the
party
is
Indicted
,
they
are
not
to
find
the
Bill
except
they
beleive
the
Evidence
.
And
to
do
otherwise
is
plainly
for
a
Jury
man
to
perjure
himself
.
For
how
can
a
man
upon
his
Oath
find
a
Bill
to
be
true
,
when
he
beleives
not
the
Evidence
upon
which
the
Truth
of
it
doth
wholly
depend
.
As
one
of
the
Petty
Jury
is
not
to
find
the
person
that
is
put
upon
them
for
his
Trial
,
unless
upon
hearing
of
the
whole
matter
he
beleive
the
Witnesses
;
no
more
is
one
of
the
Grand
Jury
to
find
the
Indictment
that
lyes
before
them
unless
he
be
satisfied
in
conscience
that
what
the
Witnesses
say
is
true
.
And
beside
,
whosoever
finds
a
Bill
,
and
yet
doth
not
beleive
the
Evidence
,
he
is
injurious
to
the
person
who
is
arraigned
before
him
.
And
there
are
three
injuries
which
Jury
men
make
themselves
Guilty
of
towards
him
,
nameley
of
one
to
him
in
his
liberty
,
another
in
his
estate
and
a
third
in
his
life
.
For
upon
finding
the
Bill
,
the
Prisoner
is
lyable
to
be
put
in
closer
durance
,
which
is
a
wrong
that
the
jury
occasions
to
be
done
him
as
to
his
liberty
;
his
goods
are
subject
to
be
inventor'd
,
which
is
an
injury
that
the
Grant
Inquest
causeth
him
in
his
estate
;
and
his
life
is
put
into
hazard
,
which
is
the
greatest
injury
we
are
capable
of
doing
a
person
next
the
destroying
him
.
And
as
a
Grand
Jury
is
never
to
find
a
Bill
,
unless
they
believe
the
Evidence
?
so
they
are
to
be
Judges
of
the
matter
of
Fact
that
is
sworn
and
given
in
Evidence
?
And
th●refore
it
hath
been
heretofore
customary
,
that
the
witnesses
gave
their
dispositions
and
Evidence
only
to
the
Jury
.
And
indeed
there
are
some
passages
in
the
Oath
of
a
Grand
Jury
Man
that
are
not
easily
reconciled
to
the
having
the
Witnesses
examined
in
Court
.
Nay
the
Jurors
are
so
far
in
all
Cases
the
only
and
sole
Judges
of
matter
of
fact
,
that
the
Judge
cannot
so
much
as
direct
them
.
Nor
are
they
obliged
to
make
the
Testimony
of
those
that
swear
,
the
sole
measure
of
the
Fact
,
the
truth
and
reality
whereof
they
are
called
to
judg
about
,
but
their
own
knowledg
,
and
the
knowledge
that
any
one
of
them
hath
of
and
concerning
the
matter
of
fact
in
the
first
place
,
and
in
opposition
to
all
that
is
sworn
contrary
to
their
knowledge
,
is
to
be
the
of
rule
of
the
judgment
they
are
to
make
concerning
the
fact
,
the
truth
whereof
they
are
constituted
and
appointed
Judges
.
Nay
,
all
juries
are
judges
so
much
as
of
matter
of
fact
,
that
the
Bench
is
not
so
much
as
to
give
any
direction
how
or
what
they
are
to
Judge
therein
.
Nor
upon
a
Trial
of
life
and
death
are
the
juries
bound
up
to
the
judges
recapitulation
of
the
evidence
much
less
to
his
sense
of
the
plaineness
&
fulness
.
of
it
.
Yea
they
are
not
only
sole
Judges
of
Matter
of
Fact
,
but
they
are
also
Judges
of
the
Law
so
far
as
it
influenceth
the
Fact
or
is
complicated
with
it
.
For
they
do
not
,
neither
are
they
to
find
the
Fact
abstractedly
See
Vaughan's
Repts
.
p.
150.
Littleton's
Tenures
Sect
.
368.
by
it self
,
and
leave
the
Law
to
the
Court
,
but
they
find
the
party
guilty
or
not
guilty
,
or
a
Bill
to
be
Billa
vera
,
or
ignoramus
as
the
Indictment
or
the
Case
in
issue
contain
Law
and
Fact
complicately
together
.
For
tho'
they
may
be
convinced
of
the
Fact
,
that
the
party
charged
before
them
did
it
,
yet
they
are
not
to
find
him
guilty
,
unless
they
be
satisfied
that
he
did
it
as
it
is
laid
in
the
Indictment
,
that
is
,
that
it
be
such
a
Crime
as
it
is
there
stiled
,
and
done
with
that
Traitorous
and
Malicious
intention
as
it
is
there
laid
.
And
were
it
otherwise
,
a
person
might
come
to
be
Condemned
for
the
most
innocent
Fact
in
the
World
,
provided
that
it
were
represented
in
the
Indictment
as
some
mortal
offence
,
and
then
porved
by
the
Witnesses
to
have
been
done
.
Thus
Suppose
a
person
to
be
indicted
for
words
that
are
plainly
Teason
according
the
Statute
of
the
13
of
Charles
2.
Yet
if
the
party
charged
be
not
prosecuted
within
the
time
provided
by
that
Act
,
he
is
not
to
be
brought
in
as
guilty
,
though
it
should
appear
by
the
Evidence
that
such
and
such
Words
were
spoken
.
And
the
reason
is
plain
,
for
as
much
as
the
Statute
makes
not
words
Tryable
but
within
such
a
limited
and
prefixed
time
,
and
therefore
if
the
time
through
the
fault
of
the
Informer
or
neglect
of
the
prosecutor
be
suffered
to
elapse
,
no
Jury
is
afterwards
to
find
an
Indictment
,
were
the
words
charged
never
so
fully
proved
.
And
as
the
Jurors
are
Judges
of
Matter
of
Fact
,
and
of
Law
so
far
as
it
is
complicated
with
Fact
,
so
in
order
to
their
finding
what
is
either
presented
or
in
issue
before
them
;
they
are
in
the
first
place
and
in
a
special
manner
to
consider
and
weigh
the
quality
and
creditableness
of
the
Witnesses
who
are
brought
to
prove
the
Indictment
.
For
there
are
some
whose
Testimony
the
Law
doth
not
admit
,
and
consequently
the
Jurors
are
not
to
receive
their
Evidence
,
or
in
the
least
to
be
influenced
by
it
.
And
whosever
is
so
branded
that
he
cannot
be
a
Juror
,
he
is
also
excluded
according
to
law
Viz
Trials
perpais
p.
138.
Mirrour
of
Justice
p.
192.
from
all
capacity
of
being
a
Witness
.
There
are
some
whom
the
Law
stiles
infamous
,
nor
have
such
any
credit
to
support
what
they
say
.
Yea
,
there
are
some
whom
the
Law
hath
not
branded
with
the
mark
of
infamy
,
and
yet
Principles
of
natural
light
instruct
us
not
to
give
any
faith
unto
them
.
Personoe
vili
,
saith
the
Civil
Law
,
non
facile
creditur
;
a
beggarly
or
base
person
is
not
to
be
credited
.
Such
a
one
,
quem
fames
,
magisquam
fama
incitat
,
whom
hunger
and
want
have
a
greater
power
over
,
than
respect
Vid
Cod
lib
.
4.
Tit
.
20.
to
reputation
,
is
not
to
be
much
hearkned
unto
in
what
he
say's
.
Particularly
whosoever
is
bribed
or
suborned
is
both
in
the
sight
of
the
Law
and
according
to
the
common
sense
of
mankind
an
infamous
person
to
whom
Jurors
are
to
give
no
belief
.
Yea
,
one
Witness
of
whose
being
suborned
the
Jury
are
satisfied
,
is
enough
to
bring
a
just
suspition
upon
the
Testimony
of
never
so
many
other
Witnesses
,
tho
there
be
no
Evidence
of
their
being
corrupted
.
Nor
are
Jurors
only
to
consider
the
quality
and
credit
of
the
Witnesses
;
but
they
are
also
to
consider
the
probability
or
improbability
of
what
they
depose
.
See
Vaughan's
Reports
,
ubi
supra
.
For
as
a
Witness
is
to
swear
nothing
but
what
he
hath
heard
or
seen
,
and
is
not
to
be
allowed
to
make
any
Inferences
or
Deductions
,
but
is
meerly
to
relate
matters
as
they
occurred
and
fell
under
his
senses
;
so
Jurors
are
not
to
swallow
it
without
chewing
of
it
,
and
examining
the
possibility
of
the
whole
,
and
the
consistency
of
one
part
with
another
.
For
allegans
contraria
non
est
audiendus
,
he
who
produceth
things
which
interfere
with
themselves
,
or
with
what
any
other
hath
said
in
the
same
cause
,
overthrows
both
the
credit
of
his
fellow
Witness
,
and
destroys
his
own
Testimony
.
Some
things
though
positively
sworn
,
yet
carry
their
refutation
along
with
them
.
For
example
,
that
there
should
be
a
Protestant
Plot
to
seize
the
King
and
alter
the
Government
,
and
not
one
of
all
those
know
it
,
who
were
most
likely
to
have
been
made
acquainted
with
it
.
And
a
conspiracy
to
apprehend
the
King
at
Oxford
,
and
yet
no
visible
force
to
effect
it
,
nor
any
thing
proportionate
to
such
an
undertaking
either
taken
care
of
before
hand
,
or
brought
to
light
since
.
It
is
impossible
that
what
my
Lord
Shaftsbury
is
charged
with
should
be
true
,
and
yet
that
no
man
should
ever
hear
of
it
,
but
they
from
whom
,
if
there
had
been
any
such
thing
,
it
would
have
been
most
industriously
concealed
.
Nor
are
the
Jurors
only
to
consider
of
the
quality
of
the
Witnesses
,
and
the
probability
of
the
matter
given
in
charge
,
as
it
lies
abstracted
from
the
party
that
is
accused
,
but
they
are
also
to
weigh
the
agreeableness
of
the
Fact
to
the
principles
of
the
party
brought
and
Indicted
before
them
,
and
whether
it
be
likely
that
a
person
of
his
loyalty
,
integrity
and
wisdom
should
be
guilty
of
it
.
And
therefore
it
is
that
the
Jurors
are
to
be
of
the
Vicinage
,
the
Law
supposing
that
such
are
best
able
to
judge
of
the
person
and
his
manner
of
life
,
whose
cause
is
to
receive
its
issue
according
to
their
sentence
and
Verdict
.
And
if
upon
there
own
knowledg
they
believe
him
innocent
,
they
are
not
to
bring
him
in
guilty
,
nor
to
find
a
Bill
upon
the
Testimony
of
never
so
many
Witnesses
.
Nor
is
this
all
that
belongs
to
Jurors
,
but
they
are
likewise
to
consider
both
the
motives
and
the
nature
and
manner
of
the
prosecution
.
For
where
there
is
either
malice
at
the
bottom
,
or
unusual
and
unbecoming
rigour
and
violence
in
the
pursuit
,
there
is
just
ground
administred
of
a
suspition
,
that
the
party
accused
is
not
so
much
nocent
,
as
his
enemies
out
of
wrath
and
revenge
would
have
him
thought
to
be
.
A
Princes
interest
is
to
have
the
Lives
of
all
his
subjects
preserved
,
as
far
as
the
Law
,
his
own
safety
,
and
the
wellfare
of
the
Society
will
admit
;
and
therefore
the
singling
out
of
a
person
from
the
rest
,
as
if
it
were
of
purpose
to
run
him
down
,
argues
that
some
inducements
which
his
prosecutors
do
not
think
fit
to
mention
do
influence
unto
it
,
and
that
it
is
the
interest
of
some
secret
ministers
,
rather
than
the
parties
own
guilt
that
bring
him
under
obnoxiousness
.
Besides
where
all
things
have
been
carried
with
a
clandestineness
which
is
neither
justified
by
the
Law
,
nor
usual
in
other
Cases
,
there
men
may
justly
fear
that
there
is
foul
play
in
that
man's
affair
.
Again
,
when
a
Si
quis
,
as
it
were
,
hath
been
sent
into
all
parts
to
invite
Witnesses
,
and
when
forraign
Dominions
hove
been
sought
into
for
Evidence
,
as
well
as
our
own
Kingdoms
,
it
gives
impartial
man
cause
to
apprehend
that
the
party
persued
.
is
not
so
criminal
,
as
his
Adversaries
endeavour
to
proclaim
him
.
Nor
can
a
Jury
of
Life
and
Death
bring
in
any
legal
Verdict
,
unless
the
whole
Twelve
,
which
are
all
that
are
sworn
to
pass
upon
the
party
Indicted
,
be
agreed
and
unanimous
.
So
tender
have
our
Ancestors
been
of
their
own
and
the
lives
of
their
posterity
,
that
Eleven
cannot
cast
a
man
,
but
the
whole
Twelve
must
concur
in
the
Verdict
.
Nor
can
a
Grand
Inquest
find
a
Bill
,
unless
also
Twelve
agree
in
the
in
dorsing
Billa
vera
upon
it
.
It
is
not
the
opiniof
the
majority
that
makes
a
Verdict
;
but
the
Law
hath
ordained
such
a
precise
number
as
Twelve
at
the
least
towards
the
putting
a
mans
life
into
hazard
:
And
therefore
we
read
in
our
Books
of
a
Judge
that
was
condemned
,
for
adjudging
a
person
to
death
,
when
only
Eleven
were
agreed
in
the
Verdict
.
And
when
the
Jurors
have
endorsed
their
Bill
,
or
declared
their
Verdict
,
they
are
only
accountable
to
God
and
their
own
Consciences
for
what
they
have
done
.
Nor
is
their
either
fine
or
attaint
lies
against
a
Jury
in
criminal
causes
.
The
Law
hath
taken
that
care
to
have
only
good
and
lawful
men
Jurors
,
that
it
trusts
all
upon
them
,
and
leaveth
them
not
exposed
to
be
harassed
by
a
Bench
of
Judges
,
who
many
times
hold
their
places
at
the
placitum
of
a
Minister
or
Courtier
that
can
influence
the
Monarch
,
or
hath
the
ear
of
the
Prince
.
Nor
was
ever
a
Jury
legally
punished
in
any
See
Vaughan's
Reports
,
ubi
supra
.
case
,
where
the
Jurors
were
not
accused
of
some
offence
,
besides
barely
the
giving
sueh
a
Verdict
.
Yea
,
the
Law
hath
made
such
liable
to
punishment
,
who
asperse
or
revile
a
Jury
for
what
they
do
in
the
way
of
their
Office
.
But
of
this
,
and
the
whole
that
our
Law
hath
concerning
Jurors
and
Juries
,
with
a
vindication
of
the
Verdicts
of
some
late
Juries
,
the
world
may
see
something
in
a
little
time
.
FINIS
.