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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Subject terms
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 16, 2024.

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VI.

That the said Lord Chief Justice is very much addicted to Swearing and Cursing in his common discourse, and to drink to excess, to the great dispa∣ragement of the Dignity and Gravity of his said place. He did in his common discourse at Dinner at a Gentlemans house of Quality, publickly and openly use and utter many Oaths and Curses, and there drink to excess.

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