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Show 354 ATROCIOUS JUDGES. [A. D. 16~8. when he thourrht he was . o ncar his end, lJe lost nil sen. c of dignity and all pre ence of mind. IIc held up hi imploring lutn(L, ~ omctin1cs on one ide of the coach, and sOinctimc on the other, exclaiming, "For the Lord's sake, keep them off! For the Lord's sake, keep them off! '' Oldmixon, who was an eye-witnes of thi proce \ion, and makes loud profe ..ions of compas ion for malefactors, declares that he saw these agonizing alarms without pity. The difficulty was greatest in passing the open space on Tower IIill. But at length the carriage passed the drawLridg , and the portcullis descended. Within all was till. Jeffreys wa.s courteously received by Lord Lucas, recently a1)pointed lieutenant, and in a gloomy apartment, which he never more left, he reflected in solitude on the proce sion which had just terminated, so different from those to which he had been accu tomcd for some years on the first day of each returning tenn, when, attended by the judges and all the grandees of the law, he had. moved in state to 1Ve tminster IIaii, the envy and admiration of all beholder .. . A regular \Varrant for hi co1nn1itment was the smnc night made out hy the lord. of the Council, and the next day a deputation from their body, con. i ting of Lords North, Grey, Chandos and 0.· 'ul:ton, attended to examine him at the Tower. I1"'our que. Lions were a ked him. 1. """\Vhat he had clone with the great seal of England." IIe answered "that he had delivered it to the king on the Saturday before at Mr. Cheffncl'~, no person b ing present, and that he had not seen it since." IIe wa next a 'ked, 2. "Whether he had scaled all the writs for the Parliament, and what he had done with them." "To the best of his remembrance," he said, "the wrj ts were all sealed and delivered to the king," (suppressing A. D. 1088.] GEORGE JEFFREYS. 355 that ]1e ]1au seen the king throw a gr at n1any of them in the fire.) 3. "lind he R aled the evcral patents for the th n en tu· ng ye~u• ?. " Jle dech(. re<l " that h e had caled everal patents for the new sh eriff\ but :haL he coulJ not cht~~gc his nlemory wjth the particular .' Lasl1~, he w~s a~l...e~ "whether he had a license to go out o( the lnngdom. And to this he replied, "that he had ~·eyeral liecnses to go beyond sea, which w re all <1 livered to ir John Friend." lie sub""cribed the. e anRwer with an affirma-tion that "they were true upon his honor," and the lords withdrew. But no sympathy did he meet with from any qu~rter, and he was now r 'proachfully spoken of even l>y the lung. The news of the outbreak again t ln· nl conl·m g .. pee, l1t'1 y t o Fever- s1 1 am, tl1 e f ubcri" tl"vc monarch ' who then meditated a.n attem, p·t to 0 1 remount his throne, thought that his chancellor Inight po I . y be accepted by the natw· n as a s,c ", tpe,- bo· oat ' and. laid. upon lnrr m the o-reat errors of Jn. ' rei.g n. It 11 ap1 )Clle(l' strancb rely cnoubb, b 1 1. , that the inn to ·which J mne.' hal uccn c,~ wried when captured .1 off Sheerness, was kept by a man on whOin Jeffreys, for ~ o,r ne suppo ed contempt o{. court, had 1.1 11P0 ed a very .h eavy. i.u, l . ' wln. ch had not yet b ecn 1c) v1.c , d · Comr)lainin cr of tlns arlHLl ,u y b . . ... • , ,_ act to his royal au est, - w ] 1o ] w <1 a, tl mittcd lum . to lu ple 1 . , b 1 f 1 ·on "h1 · nan1c, 11~ once and had a ·ked him, in roya as 11 ' . a· ... age ' and his history," - J anles <lc:'-.. ired hinl to draw a 1~- ' I • , charo-e as ample as he cho. e , an J ' estal>li hing a .p recet1) 'nt, whicbh has been often fo11 lowe d ·, .J nc.c , for writing . In. a seedi n'U- in<rly private and confldentm. .1 (1 o clun cnt what I .l l.l tcn. e 1 t afbt erward to be ·ommuni. catec1 to th e~ Pu l>lic he s. ubJOlll.c , u , o his sin-nature these remarkable ·d . which w re IIDinech,ttc1 Y WOl ' I proclab imed 1. 11 F~ everslutnl and. ti. ansm itted to London : ' am |
