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That the said Lord Chief Justice, knowing that one Will. Osborn was in the Conspiracy and Contrivance with the said Knox and Lane, in the last Article mentioned, to take away the Credit of the said Dr. Titus Oates and Mr. William Bedlow, and knowing the said Dr. Titus Oates and Mr. William Bedlow to be material Witnesses for his Majesty, in proving of the Conspiracy and Conspirators in the said last Article mentioned, and had been so against se∣veral of the said Conspirators that had been tryed, and were to be so against several others of the said Conspirators that were impeached or accused for the said High-Treason, and were to be tryed for the same; and knowing the said Will. Osborn had been detected before the Lords in Parliament assembled, for his said Conspiracy and Contrivance with the said Knox and Lane; and that upon his own Oath, thereupon denying the Fact in their said Conspiracy and Contrivance to be true, yet out of his malice to the said Dr. Titus Oats. and Mr. William Bedlow, and in as much as in him lay to endeavour the dispa∣ragement, if not the suppressing of the further discovery of that Hellish and damnable Plot, the said Lord Chief Justice, without the knowledge, consent, or approbation of his Majesty, or any of his Learned Council in the Law, or the said Dr. Titus Oates, or Mr. William Bedlow, did voluntarily give the said Osborn liberty to make an Affidavit before him upon Oath, of the truth of the said Fact, he had before as aforesaid denied upon his Oath, with intent that the same might be made use of against the said Dr. Titus Oates, and Mr. William Bedlow, to their disparagement, and the apparent prejudice of his Majesty, against the said Conspirators, in the said High-Treason.