After having thus submitted to the House the general tenor of the proceedings in this trial, your Committee will, with all convenient speed, lay before the House the proceedings on each head of evidence separately which has been rejected; and this they hope will put the House more perfectly in possession of the principal causes of the length of this trial, as well as of the injury which Parliamentary justice may, in their opinion, suffer from those proceedings.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] 4 Inst. p. 4.
[2] Rol. Parl. Vol. III. p. 244, § 7.
[3] 4 Inst. p. 15.
[4] 16 Ch. I. 1640.
[5] Lords' Journals, Vol. IV. p. 133.
[6] Id. Vol. XIX. p. 98.
[7] Lords' Journals, Vol. XIX. p. 116.
[8] Lords' Journals, Vol. XIX. p. 121.