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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25782	An account of the proceedings at West Minster-Hall on the 29th and 30th of June, 1688 relating to the tryal and discharge of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of S. Asaph, Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Ely, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Peterborough, and the Bishop of Bristol.		1689 (1689)	Wing A364; ESTC R23617	3,899	10

over the Court He added farther to prove it Libellous the insinuating Expressions of gaining the populace by saying It was not for want of due tenderness to dissenters in relation to whom we are Willing to come to such a temper as shall be thought fit when that matter shall be considered and settled in Parliament and Convocation said he what 's the meaning of that But here my L. C. J. gave him a check and reftrain'd what he seem'd greatly disposed to vent against it There was not very much said by the rest of the Kings council at least nothing more considerable than this The King's Attorny General was pretty moderate Sir Barth Shores spoke a little but was presently silenc'd in the vacancy of stay for my Lord president my L. C. J. said to Sir Barth-Shores Now Sir Bartholomew we have time to hear your Speeches Serjeant Baldock's Argument against the Bishops was chiefly upon their refusing the King requiring such a slender matter so easily to be done for they were not enjoyned to read but only to send about and disperse it Yet this they would not do It concluded with the Kings Council Then my Lord Chief Justice summing up the business was favourable to the Bishops in the former part of the Tryal and could not say the matter of Fact was fully proved upon them but was inclin'd to make the Petition a Libel because of its accusing the King of Flaws in Government He said but little to oppose what had been brought by the Bishops Council against the Declaration and Dispensing Power After him spoke Judge Holloway and very much in the Bishops behalf giving it as his judgment that it could not be a Libel being done from a conviction of Conscience by such Persons in such an humble modest manner Then Judg Power spake to the same effect giving it as his opinion that it could not be a Libel being the only way to redress themselves He had also some smart expressions to confirm what the Bishops Council had urged against the Declaration and Dispensing Power So that Judge Powel gave his opinion also in favours of the Bishops Then Judge Allibon standing up professed he would not meddle with the Dispensing Power tho it had been so much Canvass'd and pleaded against but would only speak to the business of the Paper being a Libel and he did accordingly urging it to be so not barely because it was a Petition For said he any one under grievance may Petition his Majesty but not about affairs of Government for that would tend to very bad consequences and promote Discontents or worse in the Nation Nor as he added can the pretended fairness as to the manner of it be an excuse For the more it hath that way so much the worse and so concluded it in his sense a Libel But urging a Precedent to confirm what he had said he was partly mistaken in it as Judge Powel and the Bishops Council shew'd him and he himself acknowledged Then the Court broke up the Jury went together and the Bishops with all the privacy they could to their respective abodes but wherever the people met with them they huzza'd and humm'd them in a great abundance There was a prodigious full Court and Hall a very great many of the Peers and Nobility present and also the Bishop of Chester of whom they took no kind of notice The Bishop of Rochester did not meet with much better regard The Jury sat up all night tho they were very soon unanimous in their Verdict which they prudently resolved to give in open Court and accordingly next day about Nine or Ten they brought them in Not Guilty The Names of the Lord Bishops Counsellors Sir Francis Pemberton Sir Creswell Levins Sir Robert Sawyer Mr. Finch Mr. Pollixfin Mr. Treby Mr. Summers The Names of the JVRY Sworn Sir Roger Langly of Westminster Sir William Hill of Tedington Robert Jennings of Hayes Esquire Thomas Harriot of Islington Esquire Jeoffry Nightingale of S. Giles Cripplegate Esquire William Withers of the same Esquire William Avery of Enfield Esquire Thomas Austin of South-Myms Esquire Nicholas Grice of Neston Esquire Michael Arnold of Westminster Esquire Thomas Done of S. Giles in the Field Esquire Richard Shore ditch of Ickenham Esquire FINIS