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Otes Try'd, and Convict of Two Perjuries.

IN the 7th Year of Otes'es Reign; That is to say, upon the 8th and 9th Days of May. 1685. Otes was brought to his Tryal, upon Two Indict∣ments, for Willfull, Malicious, and Corrupt Perjury, at the King's-Bench-Bar at Westminster, before the Lord-Chief-Iustice Ieffreys, and the rest of the Iudges of That Court. The Former;* 1.1 [for Swearing in Ire∣lands Tryal, that there was a Trea∣sonable Consult of the Jesuites held at the White-Horse in the Strand. Ap. 24. 1678. And that He himself was Present.] And the O∣ther; [for Swearing that Mr. Ire∣land,* 1.2 (who had been already put to Death upon Otes'es Testimony) was in London upon the First or Second of September 1678. And likewise for Swearing That He took his leave of him at his Chamber in Russel-street, between the Eighth and Twelfth of Au∣gust, 1678.] He was found Guilty upon Both Indictments: The Former, by the Testimony of [Two and Twenty Witnesses, that Swore directly,* 1.3 that he was Not here in London, the 24th of April. 1678.] And not onely so; but [They Swore Directly that he was in another Place, at That Time.] I had the Honour to take their Enformations, my self, and I reckon it my Duty to do them Right, upon This Occasion, in saying,

(over and above the Eminent Quality of the Per∣sons) that it was Impossible for Men to be Ten∣derer, or more Scrupulously Cautious in what they Swore. He was Convicted likewise, the Second Day,* 1.4 upon the Testimo∣ny of Forty Seaven Witnesses, and most of them Persons of a very Considerable Character. Now if Otes was not in London, the Plot falls, and All the Branches of it, and the Superstructures upon it, go for Nothing. This in short, was the Seed-Plot, that brought forth All the Rest.

After this General Account of the Tryals, and Convictions of this Perjur'd Wretch, I'le Conclude, with his Sentence at Large, as it was Pronounc'd by Mr. Iustice Withens, on the 26th of May. 1685.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Otes'es Tryal upon the Con∣sult fol. 77.
• * 1.2

  Otes'es Second Tryal fol. 44.
• * 1.3

  Otes'es Tryal fol. 87.
• * 1.4

  Tryal p. 52.