Please your Majesty to give the circumstance that solemn weight which is its due, seeing it was FORETOLD." This was an argument of tremendous force in that superstitious day.

Tom felt that the thing was settled; if evidence was worth anything, this poor fellow's guilt was proved.

Still he offered the prisoner a chance, saying-- "If thou canst say aught in thy behalf, speak." "Nought that will avail, my King.

I am innocent, yet cannot I make it appear.

I have no friends, else might I show that I was not in Islington that day; so also might I show that at that hour they name I was above a league away, seeing I was at Wapping Old Stairs; yea more, my King, for I could show, that whilst they say I was TAKING life, I was SAVING it.