[643] 7 State Trials 138–141.

[644] 7 State Trials 142–144. Klopp II. 464, app. IV.

[645] Foley v. 58.

[646] See “An impartial consideration of these speeches,” etc., 1670, attributed to John Williams, D.D. “Animadversions on the last speeches of the Five Jesuits,” etc., 1679. Printed 7 State Trials 543.

[647] Burnet ii. 201.

[648] Sidney, Letters 123, 124. The opinion of Ranke, who in his writings was neither Catholic nor Protestant, lies midway between these views: “Grässlich ist die lange Reihe von Hinrichtungen Solcher, die nichts bekannten,” v. 235.

[649] “The examination of Captain William Bedloe deceased, taken in his last sickness by Sir Francis North, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.” Printed 6 State Trials 1493–1498.

[650] See Russell’s written Speech, printed at length, Ralph i. 755–757.

[651] Sitwell, First Whig 153–158. And see Stephen i. 408, 409.

[652] Stephen i. 449. And see Burnet II. 303, 304.