[260] True Narrative 13, 14.

[261] 7 State Trials 172. True Narrative 15.

[262] 7 State Trials 173. True Narrative 16, 17.

[263] 6 State Trials 1487. 7 State Trials 182.

[264] 6 State Trials 1488.

[265] Ibid. 1487.

[266] Prance to L’Estrange, January 17, 1688. Brief Hist. iii. 127.

[267] Brief Hist. ii. 52, 53.

[268] It is worthy of remark that Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, judging only from the evidence which Prance gave at the trial, has come to the same conclusion. Hist. Crim. Law i. 393.

[269] It was ordered that an examination should be held on the subject, but Coleman was never questioned on Godfrey’s death. House of Lords MSS. 48. L.J. xiii. 303, 307, 308.