[496] Foss, Judges of England vii, 109, 110. Burnet, Life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale. Mr. J. M. Rigg in his article on Hale in the Dictionary of National Biography doubts the truth of this on the ground that Penruddock was tried at Exeter, and Hale belonged to the Midland circuit. Hale however changed his circuit on at least one occasion. See Foss vii. 112, and the Gentleman’s Mag., July 1851, p. 13, where an anecdote is told which shows that Hale had belonged at one time to the Western circuit.
[497] North, Life of Lord Keeper Guildford 119. Dryden, Prose Works (ed. Malone) iv. 156.
[498] Gneist 600 n. (2).
[499] 6 State Trials 951–1013.
[500] See also Hallam iii. 8. Stephen i. 373–375.
[501] Hale, P.C. i. 143–146.
[502] Compare the attempt to create a riot among the apprentices in July 1679, immediately after the trial of the Five Jesuits.
[503] Parl. Hist. iv. 803. Ralph i. 297. North, Examen 139.
[504] Amos, The English Constitution in the Reign of Charles II 302.
[505] Gazette, May 5, 1680.