Articles of high misdemeanours humbly offer'd and presented to the consideration of His Most Sacred Majesty, and His Most Honourable Privy Councel, against Sir William Scrogs, Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings Bench, exhibited by Dr. Oats, and Captain Bedlow, together with His Lordships answer thereunto.

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Title: Articles of high misdemeanours humbly offer'd and presented to the consideration of His Most Sacred Majesty, and His Most Honourable Privy Councel, against Sir William Scrogs, Lord Chief-Justice of the Kings Bench, exhibited by Dr. Oats, and Captain Bedlow, together with His Lordships answer thereunto.
Author: Scroggs, William, Sir, 1623?-1683, defendant.
Publication: [London :: s.n.,; 1680]
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Subject terms: Scroggs, William, -- Sir, 1623?-1683.; Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.; Bedloe, William, 1650-1680.; Treason -- England.
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That at the Tryal of Sir George Wakeman and others, at the Sessions-House in the Old Bayly, for High Treason, the said Lord Chief Justice (according to the Dignity of his place) managing the said Tryal, did brow-beat and curb Dr. Titus Oates and Mr. William Bedlow, two of the principal Witnesses for the King in that Case, and encourage the Jury impanelled and sworn to try the Malefactors, against the said Witnesses, by his publick speaking slightly and abusively against them and their Evidence, and the mis-repeating and omitting of material parts of their Evidence, whereby the parties Indicted were by the said Jury acquitted of the Fact then charged against them, and fully proved by the said Witnesses.