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 thereon. And in the further proecution of this affair, he delivered to everal members at the door of the Houe of Commons the ame year, a petition, etting forth, that the aid Baronet had overawed a Committee appointed for trying this caue, to give a fale judgment contrary to the plain evidence before them. On the 15th of January, the Parliament gave a judgment for fining him in the um of 7000 pound to the tate, and banihing him the kingdom, upon which he retired from London and croed the water to Amterdam, where he preently aw in the news-papers the act which paed on the 30th for the execution of that judgment. During his exile he fell into converation with everal of the royal party, before whom he poke very freely, both againt the then reigning powers in England, and in favour of the King. He wrote alo