character and redoubled the force of the catastrophe which befell him at the trial of Sir George Wakeman eight months later. This was not however apparent at the time, and the Chief Justice’s determination, due to the lateness of the hour and the small extent to which the prisoner’s interest was actually involved, is easy to understand. When he came up to receive judgment the next day Coleman produced the diary,[601] but it was then too late and the chance was gone. Scroggs proceeded at once to recapitulate the evidence to the jury. What was important in his summing up was almost entirely concerned with the meaning and weight of Coleman’s letters.[602] He pointed out acutely that the construction which the prisoner put upon them and the feeble explanation which he gave of his designs were repugnant to common sense and could not be entertained. “For the other part of the evidence,” he terminated abruptly, “which is by the testimony of the present witnesses, you have heard them. I will not detain you longer now, for the day is going out.”[603] The jury went from the bar and returned immediately with the verdict of Guilty. On the following day Coleman received sentence as usual in cases of high treason, and five days after was executed at Tyburn. As the cart was about to be drawn away he was heard to murmur, “There is no faith in man.” A rumour spread throughout the town that until the end he had expected to receive a pardon promised by the Duke of York, and that, finding himself deceived, he had died cursing the master whom he had so diligently served.[604]