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treatise but was the rankest treason; that it was to be regarded as a sort of manifesto in tended to justify the proposed rebellion, and, therefore, was evidence of the conspiracy. He held, moreover, that if there was one witness to prove a direct treason, and an other to a circumstance that contributed to

prosecutors. To which Jeffreys replied, "I pray God work in you a temper fit to go into the other world, for I see you are not fit for this." The reign of James the Second was an unmitigated tyranny. Guided by the infamous Jeffreys the judges slavishly

LORD STAFFORD.

that treason, that was a compliance with the statutory requirement of two witnesses. Sidney, like Russell, was convicted and be headed. One instance of Jeffreys' brutality will suffice. Upon being sentenced to death, Sidney passionately besought God not to im pute the shedding of his blood to the coun try, but to visit the guilt upon his malicious

degraded themselves in carrying out the king's despotic designs. It is needless to dwell upon the infamies of the "bloody assize" which followed Monmouth's Rebel lion—the beheading of Alice Lisle (n St. Tr. 298), the burning alive of Elizabeth Gaunt (11 St. Tr. 382), the judicial murder of Cornish in St. Tr. ooo) and many other out