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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63162	The tryal and conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane for a conspiracy to defame and scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe thereby to discredit their evidence about the horrid popish plot : at the Kings-Bench-Bar at Westminster, on Tuesday the 25th of Novemb. 1679 ... : where upon full evidence they were found guilty of the offence aforesaid.	Knox, Thomas, 17th cent.; Lane, John, 17th cent.; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2165; ESTC R21831	50,627	72

falsly craftily unlawfully and advisedly did direct and cause to be delivered to himself the said Thomas Knox by which said Letters falsly craftily and deceitfully it was declared that they the said Iohn Lane and VVilliam Osbourn were greatly troubled in their Consciences by reason of certain things which they well knew and had concealed concerning the nnjust contrivances of the said Titus Oates and William Bedloe in accusing the said Thomas Earl of Danby to be guilty of the Treasons and other misdemeanours aforesaid and that the said Titus Oates was a person of a wicked and vitious Life and made an assault upon the said Iohn Lane and with the said Iohn Lane to commit that detestable sin called Sodomy before that time had endeavoured And that he the said Thomas Knox the sooner and more effectually to perswade the said Iohn Lane and VVilliam Osbourn falsly to accuse the said Titus Oates and VVilliam Bedloe that they the said Titus Oates and VVilliam Bedloe unjustly and against all truth had accused the said Thomas Earl of Danby of the Treasons and other misdemeanours aforesaid and so to affirm against the evidence of our said Soveraign Lord the King upon the Trial of the said Thomas Earl of Danby for the Treasons and other Misdemeanours aforesaid to be had afterwards to wit the said 30 th day of April in the 31 th year of the Reign of our said Soveraign Lord the King aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance unlawfully gave to the said Iohn Lane and William Osborn divers great sums of money and also further falsly advisedly corruptly and against the duty of his Allegiance the day and year aforesaid at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid did promise unto the said Iohn Lane and William Osbourn that they the said Iohn Lane and VVilliam Osbourn within a certain time by the said Thomas Knox to the said Iohn Lane and William Osbourn propounded divers other great sums of money and other great rewards therefore should have and receive against the Duty of their Allegiance to the great retarding obstructing and suppressing of Justice in manifest contempt of the Laws of this Kingdome of England to the evil and pernitious example of all others in the like case offending and against the peace of our said Soveraign Lord the King his Crown and Dignity to this Indictment the said Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane by their Attorney plead that they are not Guilty nor either of them is Guilty of the offence aforesaid and further withal put themselves upon the Country and the Kings Attorney likewise And your charge is to inquire if they are Guilty or not Guilty c. Clerk of the Crown Make an O yes Cryer O yes If any one will give Evidence on the behalf of our Soveraign Lord the King against Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane of the Misdemeanours and offence whereof they stand indicted let them come forth and give their Evidence Then Trenchard Esq of Counsel for the King in this Cause opened the Indictment thus Mr. Trench May it please you Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury Thomas Knox and Iohn Lane stand indicted for a great and high Misdemeanour and the Indictment sets forth that whereas Coleman Ireland Pickering and Grove and other false Traitors did conspire to destroy the King and change the Religion established by Law to levy War against our Soveraign Lord the King and to introduce Popery and for these Treasons were convicted attainted and executed and further sets forth that the Lord Powis Lord Arundel of Warder and others were accused of the said Treasons and were committed to the Tower and afterwards were impeached for the same by the Commons in Parliament Assembled as also that Thomas Earl of Danby was impeached of High Treason and other Misdemeanours that the Defendants knowing Mr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe had given Information of these Treasons to stifle the Evidence and to scandalize them did falsly conspire to represent them as wicked persons and men of no credit And the Indictment further sets forth that the Defendant Knox with the agreement of Lane and one Osbourn did cause several Letters to be writ in which it was contrived to accuse the said Oates and Bedloe that they had conspired falsly to accuse the said Earl of Danby and that Oates was a person of a vitious conversation and had a design to attempt an assault upon the person of the said Lane with an intention to commit that detestable sin of Sodomy the better to effect which wicked designs the said Knox gave several sums of money to Osbourn and Lane and had offered great rewards unto them To this Indictment they have pleaded not Guilty and you are to try whether they are Guilty or not of this Misdemeanour Then Sir Iohn Maynard the Kings eldest Serjeant at Law persued the charge thus Mr. Serj. Mayn May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury this cause is of great consequence and my Lord I desire the Jury to observe that their question this day is not to inquire whether the Lords or the other persons accused and impeached in Parliament are Guilty or not but the question before them is whether the persons that stand here indicted are guilty of wicked and vile endeavours to discountenance and suppress the Evidence and scandalize their persons who were to give Evidence against these Lords we are not to give Evidence against the Lords but against these persons L. Chief Iust. You are right Brother Mr. Serj. Mayn Gentlemen something I must observe to you that is an inducement to this matter that there hath been an horrid and abominable Conspiracy against the King the Nation the Religion and the Law appears my Lord by the proceedings in Parliament wherein the Lords and the Commons have several times joyntly declared and I think 't is so publick that no body will doubt there is such a thing who is guilty that is another matter L. Cheif Iust. This Court must take notice of that because some have been tryed convicted and condemned for it by this Court Mr. Serj. Mayn Your Lordship says right But my Lord the first discovery of this Conspiracy came from a single person one that stood single and discouraged a long time and that there were endeavours to discourage his further discovery that will appear My Lord when it stood so it happened that Sir Edmondbury God frey had taken his Examination and these things will be material in the end of the Cause Sir Edmondbury Godfrey having taken the Examination of Oates then the endeavour was to suppresse this Examination that he had taken and that by no less a wickednesse then the barbarous murder of that honest Gentleman whom you all knew and they not only took away his Life but they did strive to baffle and defame him when he was dead and that will appear too and is publick and known My