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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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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Scroggs, William, Sir, 1623?-1683, defendant.
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[London :: s.n.,
1680]
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Scroggs, William, -- Sir, 1623?-1683.
Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.
Bedloe, William, 1650-1680.
Treason -- England.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53337.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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IV.

That the said Lord Chief Justice, by reason of his Office, hath taken upon him the power to oppress by Imprisonment his Majesties Loyal Subjects, name∣ly Henry Care, for writing and causing to be printed divers single-sheet Books in English, called The Pacquet of Advice from Rome, for the information and discovery of the Idolatrous Errors and Impieties of the Romish Church, to his Majesties Loyal and obedient Protestant Subjects, (in this conjucture of time very useful) although the said Lord Chief Justice neither did, not could alledge or charge the said Care with any thing contained in the said Book, that was any ways criminal or derogatory to his Majesties Laws, Crown or Dignity; and refuses to take very good Bail for him, though offered, and afterwards less Bail taken for him upon his Habeas Corpus in Court: But by the said Lord Chief Justice's means, he was continued bound all the Term to his good behaviour, and at the end thereof until the next Term, although no particular Crime was or could be proved against him, or laid to his charge.

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