This last Minor confirmed.

Suppose that your Guido hath wrongfully impeached some man of honour, as to haue beene an Inginer and wor∣ker in the Powder-vault together with Piercie and Catesbie brethren in that euill: and thus is the noble person made guilty of high treason; but after by more exact triall of cir∣cumstances, it is found that the man of honour was neuer incorporate in that conspiracie, what can you answer for your G•…? What else, but as your Garnet answered for your Tresham, I thinke he did aequiuocate? saying [The ho∣nourable man was present in that vault] reseruing in his thought this clause [Quatenus vir longissimè absens, praesens esse potuit. But answer, (for we wil draw you out of that foxe hole) He swearing according to these words, [This man was one of vs Pioners,] did his words accord with his direct meaning? No: then was not his oath a veritate, from truth; But did his oath (the second propertie of a true oath) con∣firme a truth? No: for it did betray an innocent; then was it not pro veritate, for truth. Therefore call you such an oath, Aequiuocation, or, Reseruation, or secret limitation, or what you will: our great grandfathers (I am sure) would haue termed it peri•rie, and adiudged it to the pillorie, a shame too little for so shamelesse a collusion. For seeing that fPer∣iurie (though not in the iniurie to man, yet in it owne iniquity) is a more grieuous sinne than murder; it may be wished that men∣tall aequiuocation might haue a corporall suspension; and where any of whatsoeuer profession he be, shall be found guilty of both murder and the aequiuocating clause of Re∣seruation; the sinne of Reseruation, may haue a reseruati∣on of punishment: that if, for the one, he hang by the neck, for the other, he may hang iointly by the tongue, as it is written, Iuxta peccatum ita erit & poenae modus.