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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER VIII
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The judges and the culprits have gone to their own homes.

The jury remain together.

Tomorrow we shall learn the event of this great struggle." The solicitor for the Bishops sate up all night with a body of servants on the stairs leading to the room where the jury was, consulting.

It was absolutely necessary to watch the officers who watched the doors; for those officers were supposed to be in the interest of the crown, and might, if not carefully observed, have furnished a courtly juryman with food, which would have enabled him to starve out the other eleven.
Strict guard was therefore kept.

Not even a candle to light a pipe was permitted to enter.


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