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CERTAINTY EVIDENCE
No Affidavits to be admitted of Persons living
within [12] miles of London, but the evidence to
be vivaa voce in open Court — Both parties agreeing,
to have power to bring parties witness from any distance.
If the consideration of the benefit to the revenue
from the - with which thou intruments
are chargd be an objection , in lieu of that there
might be so much as money it is imagined they warrant
to for each upon an average, paid for each
witness that is examined.
2 Hale . 282 — If a Man &c
That is making him worse off than a common
subject in the case of an attempt upon his life
in a private chamber, as was the case of L. James
1st. & the E. of Gowrie which happened in Scotland.
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do 279 . And it were a very &c
Apply this reasoning to the other grounds of incompetency
in p. 277.
277. - "6 . If he be convict of Felony"
Yet a Felon's evidence is admitted against an
accomplice where his guilt is equally indubitable
as after a conviction, & where the receipt
or yet more the hope of favor begets a
bias which is the same in every case,
constant & certain.
Ib. ego I would never convict &c because he
would not give &c"
But the person mentioned in the last page
could have given an account how he came
by the Horse.
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