[693] Burnet ii. 231.
[694] 7 State Trials 602–618.
[695] Ibid. 619–623.
[696] Ibid. 624–641. Bedloe however gave no evidence against the prisoner Rumley.
[697] 7 State Trials 644–651. Sir J. F. Stephen has strangely missed the bearing of this evidence, and writes as if it had been decisive in favour of the prisoners. Hist. Crim. Law i. 391.
[698] The first serious acquittal at least, for the trial of Atkins, after the conviction of Green, Berry, and Hill for the murder of Godfrey, was hardly more than formal.
[699] 7 State Trials 651–653.
[700] Hatton Correspondence ii. 187. Charles Hatton to Lord Hatton, July 10, 1679. “Mr. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane was bailed yesterday, and if my Lord Chief Justice hang five hundred Jesuits, he will not regain the opinion he thereby lost with the populace, to court whom he will not act against his conscience.” Luttrell, Brief Relation i. 74.
[701] Verney MSS. 474.
[702] Burnet ii. 232. The Narrative of Segnior Francisco de Faria, 1680, 17, 18.