[49] One of them was publicly searched by command of a justice. See Fairfax, op. cit., 138-139.
[50] Ibid., 205. Two of the women had gone home before, ibid., 180.
[51] Ibid., 225-234.
[52] Ibid., 234.
[53] Ibid., 237-238. If the women were tried twice, it seems a clear violation of the principle of former jeopardy. See above, note 11. The statute of 3 Hen. VII, cap. I, that the plea of antefort acquit was no bar to the prosecution of an appeal, would not apply in this instance, as that statute was limited to cases of homicide.
[54] Fairfax was moreover a man for whom the king had a high personal regard.
[55] At the August assizes there had been an effort to show that the children were "counterfeiting." See the Discourse, 235-237.