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The Trial of Sir Miles Stapleton, at the Assizes at York, on Monday July the 18th, 1681.
THen and there the Prisoner appearing, having been arraigned, and pleaded Not Guilty to Indictment of High Treason, for conspiring the Death of the King, and Subver∣sion of the Government and Protestant Religion; after several challenged on both sides, the Jury sworn, were,
- Sir Barrington Boucher, Kt.
- Sir John Jennings, Kt.
- Richard Hutton, Esq
- VVelbrough Norton, Esq
- Tobias Hodgson, Esq
- John Beverly, Esq
- Anth. Frankland, Esq
- John Adams, Esq
- Francis Battery, Esq
- Francis Fuldgam, Esq
- Humphry Brooke, Esq
- Thomas Lee, Esq
To whom the Indictment being read, and then opened by Sir Thomas Stringer (of Counsel for the King in this Cause) the King's Witnesses were,
Mr. John Smith, who being sworn, told what he knew of the Plot in general (much like what he related at the Trial of my Ld. Stafford, to which the Reader is referred:) As to what he knew of the Plot in Yorkshire was, that while he lived with Mr. Jennison, Mr. Thwing the Priest, who had suffered as a Conspirator, much per∣swaded him to intreat Mr. Jennison to send his Daughters to Dolebank, where a Nunnery was