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Even the reception , which they met with incourt, was full of outrage and mockery. Oneof them saying, that Oates always continued atSt. Omers, if he could believe his fenses: You“ papists, " said the chief justice, “ are taught" not to believe your senses. ” It must be con-fessed, that Oates, in opposition to the studentsof St. Omers, found means to bring evidence ofIns having been at that time in London : But thisevidence , though it had , at that time , theappearance of some solidity, was afterwards dis-covered, when Oates himself was tried for per-jury, to be altogether deceitful. In order fartherto discredit that witness, the jefuits proved byundoubted testimony, that he had perjured himselfin father Ireland’s trial, whom they showed tohave been in Staffordstiire at the very time whenOates swore that he was committing treason inLondon. But all these pleas availed them nothingagainst the general prejudices. They receivedsentence of death; and were executed, persistingto their last breath in the most solemn , earnest ,and deliberate, though disregarded, protestationsof their innocence.

The next trial was that of Langhorne, aneminent lawyer, by whom all the concerns ofthe jefuits were managed. Oates and Bedloeswore, that all the papal commissions by whichthe chief offices in England were filled withcatholics, passed through his hands. When ver-dict was given against the prisoner, the spectatorsexpressed their savage joy by loud acclamations.Vol. XI. A a

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