Oxford loyal youths, who scorn to sham us With a perjured bill of Ignoramus, Or name us For loyal traitors known; Soon found a flaw i'the bottom of the joyner, By justice, and the laws, Of church and commonwealth an underminer, Who fell a martyr in the good old cause. ] [Footnote 324: He protested to Burnet, that God and his holy angels could witness, he only went among them for this purpose. After which, the Bishop says, he paid no regard to any thing he could say, or swear.] [Footnote 325: One can hardly help exclaiming, with the punning author of a ballad called "Oates well thresh't," A curse on every thing that's hight Oates; Both young and old, both black and white Oates Both long and short, both light and Tite Oates! He is thus stigmatized as one of Absalom's nine worthies: Last Corah, unexhausted mine of plots, Incredible to all but knaves and sots; He surely may for a new Sampson pass, That kills so sure with jaw-bone of an ass. ] [Footnote 326: _Examen_, p. 223.] [Footnote 327: Ibid. p. 254.] [Footnote 328: Ibid. p. 225.] [Footnote 329: This man told a fable of forty thousand Spanish pilgrims, who were to invade Britain, and eke of a number of black bills, wherewith the Irish Catholics were to be armed. Some wag has enumerated his discoveries in the verses entitled, "Funeral Tears upon the Death of Captain William Bedlow:" "England, the mighty loss bemoan, Thy watchful centinal is gone. Now may the pilgrims land from Spain, And, undiscovered, cross the main; Now may the forty thousand men. In popish arms, be raised again. Black bills may fly about our ears, Who shall secure us from our fears? Jesuits may fall to their old sport, } Of burning, slaying, town and court, } And we never the wiser for't. } Then pity us; exert thy power, To save us in this dangerous hour; Thou hast to death sworn many men, Ah! swear thyself to life agen." ] [Footnote 330: A hackney-coachman, named Corral, was very cruelly treated in Newgate, in order to induce him to swear, that he conveyed the dead body of Godfrey out of town in his coach. But he resisted both threats and torments; so that at length another means of conveyance was hit upon, for Prance bore witness that he carried it upon a horse.] [Footnote 331: This gentleman was, after Monmouth's defeat, fain to pay the famous Jeffries 15,000l. to save his life, though he never could learn what he was accused of.] [Footnote 332: There were two brothers of this name. One was convicted of a misdemeanour for aiding Braddon in his enquiry into the death of the Earl of Essex. The other was executed for joining in Monmouth's invasion. Jefferies exclaimed on his trial, that his family owed justice a life, and that he should die for the sake of his name.]