[83] Dr. Oates in the next reign was to some extent indemnified for his sufferings. When quite an old man he married a young city heiress with a fortune of £2000; and a writer who handled this “Salamanca wedding,” as it was called, was arrested. Oates was in the receipt of a pension of £300 from the Government when he died in 1705. [84] The practice of fining jurors for finding a verdict contrary to the direction of the judge had already been declared arbitrary, unconstitutional, and illegal. [85] ‘History of the Press-yard.’ [86] _Ibid._ [87] See chap. x. [88] This cobbler of Highgate was a zealous Jacobite, who turned out in his best suit of clothes on King James’s birthday. For this he was prosecuted, and sentenced to be whipped up and down Highgate Hill, with a year’s imprisonment in Newgate. He lived on the fat of the land during his incarceration, had quarters in the press-yard, and “lay in lodgings at ten or twelve shilling a week.” [89] This was Bernardi. See post, p. 226. [90] Bernardi. [91] Mr. Marvell was either principal hangman or the assistant. [92] ‘History of the Press-yard.’ [93] ‘Secret History of the Rebels in Newgate: giving an account of their daily behaviour from their commitment to their gaol delivery.’ Taken from the diary of a gentleman in the same prison--who was evidently no particular admirer of theirs. [94] ‘History of the Press-yard.’ [95] It will be remembered that Mr. Forster’s want of generalship lost the battle of Prestonpans. [96] See chap. vii. for this and other escapes. [97] For this Dalton was convicted and fined fifty marks, with imprisonment for one year, also to find security for three more years. [98] Parson Paul was the Rev. William Paul, M.A., vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill, in Leicestershire. He met the rebels at Preston, and performed service there, praying for the Pretender as King James the Third. When the royal troops invested Preston, Mr. Paul escaped “in coloured clothes, a long wig, a laced hat, and a sword by his side.” He came to London, and was recognized in St. James’s Park by a Leicestershire magistrate, who apprehended him, and he was committed to Newgate. [99] One of the Halls of Otterburn, Northumberland, and a magistrate for the county. He joined the Pretender early, and was one of his most active and staunch supporters. [100] No doubt a form of the gaol fever. [101] ‘Secret History.’ [102] See _ante_, p. 203. [103] According to the deposition of Harris the informer, Bernardi came with Rookwood to London on purpose to meet Barclay the chief conspirator. [104] Pike, ‘Hist, of Crime,’ ii. 83. [105] Camden’s ‘Annals of the Year 1581.’ [106] Dr. Bastwick’s daughter, Mrs. Poe, after his ears were cut off, called for them, put them in a clean handkerchief, and carried them away with her.