[250] Lloyd’s report to the Council. Fitzherbert MSS. 154. Brief Hist. iii. 69, 71. Lloyd to L’Estrange. Ibid. 85.
[251] Burnet ii. 193, 194.
[252] Burnet ii. 194. Brief Hist. iii. 85, 86.
[253] State Trials 1183–1188. This was also a Jesuit story. Warner MS. history 37, “fidiculis tortus et se reum asseruit, et complius [sic. qu. complures] se accusaturum.”
[254] 7 State Trials 1199, 1200, 1210–1212.
[255] Evidence of Fowler. Ibid. 1194–1197, 1204–1209.
[256] The improbability does not lie in the unlikelihood of the application of torture to witnesses at this date so much as in the nature of the particular facts alleged, which cannot be believed. Brief Hist. iii. 76, 77, 78, 80. L’Estrange procured Corral to contradict his evidence at the trial. Ibid. 102, 106. It is important to insist upon the falsehood of the charge in this case, because it has been adopted without question by Foley v. 29, n., and see Echard, 503 seq.
[257] Brief Hist. iii. 84.
[258] True Narrative 11.
[259] 7 State Trials 180.