Some members made severe remarks on the improbability of the story and on the character of the witness.

He was, they said, one of the greatest rogues on the face of the earth; and he told such things as could scarcely be credited if he were an angel from heaven.

Fuller audaciously pledged himself to bring proofs which would satisfy the most incredulous.

He was, he averred, in communication with some agents of James.

Those persons were ready to make reparation to their country.
Their testimony would be decisive; for they were in possession of documentary evidence which would confound the guilty.