"For these hireling scribblers who traduce it [the fairness and equality of the trial in which he had been notoriously unfair and unequal], who write to eat, and lie for bread, I intend to meet with them another way; for they are only safe while they can be secret; but so are vermin, so long as they can hide themselves.... They shall know that the law wants not the power to punish a libellous and licentious press, nor I a resolution to exact it. And this is all the answer is fit to be given (besides a whip) to these hackney writers." "However, in the mean time, the _extravagant boldness of men's pens and tongues is not to be endured, but shall be severely punished_; for if once causes come to be tried with complacency to particular opinions, and shall be innocently censured if they go otherwise, public causes shall all receive the doom as the multitude happen to be possessed; and at length any cause shall become public ... at every session the Judges shall be arraigned, the Jury condemned, and the verdicts overawed to comply with popular wish and indecent shouts." "There are a set of men ... that too much approve and countenance such vulgar ways, ... that embrace all sorts of informations, true or false, likely or impossible, nay though never so silly and ridiculous, they refuse none; so shall all addresses be made to them, and they be looked on as the only patrons of religion and government!" His associates chimed in with accordant howl. Puny Judge Jones declared,-- "We have a particular case here before us, as a matter of scandal against a great Judge, the _greatest Judge in the kingdom_, in criminal causes [the Lord Chancellor Nottingham was greater in _civil_ causes]; and it is a great and an high charge upon him. And certainly there was never any age, I think, more licentious than this in aspersing governors, scattering of libels and _scandalous speeches against those that are in authority_: and without all doubt _it doth become the court to show their zeal in suppressing it_." [It was 'resisting an officer.'] "That trial [of Dr. Wakeman] was managed with _exact justice and perfect integrity_. And therefore I do think it very fit that this person be proceeded against by an information, that he may be made _a public example_ to all such as shall presume to scandalize the government, and the governors, with any false aspersions and accusations." Accordingly Mr. Radley, for that act, was convicted of speaking "scandalous words against the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs" and fined L200.[86] [Footnote 86: 7 St. Tr. 701.] Mr. Hudson says of the Star-Chamber, "So tender the court is of upholding the honor of the sentence, as they will punish them who speak against it with great severity."[87] [Footnote 87: In 2 Collectanea Juridica, 228.]