... to the. Superiors their refpe&ive Convents, tofet Liberty all Monks whatsoever, except fuch might be guilty of fuch Capital Crimes as are jpecifyy, in his Highnefs's Order; and the fame was comply'd with JalVWeek, when among others, a *4onk 80 Years of ...

... greater Concern for his eternal State than had been obferved before. After had been often asked what prompted him to fo a Crime, he could give no able Account of it; but when he tlus prejftd little on this head\ he faid before many lVitneffes that the ...

... wicked Art; the Magiflratcs have made a diligent Enquiry, and havj imprifon'd feventy Men and Women who ft-md acculed for that Crime. ...

... with them. The Committee for managing the Earl of Oxford's Trial, meet daily, and 'tis not doubted but the A> tides of High Crimes and Mfdemeanors will be proved avainft him, and if fo 9 his Trial will net above Days; ft) that it will not much hinder the ...

... refolved to try the Earl of Oxford upon the Articles of High Trea/on, beipre they. proceeded -. upon the Article, of High Crimes and Mildemeanors j upoii which the Managers acquainted their Lordihips,, T,hat they had conceiv'd it fo much to be the undoubted ...

... Debate began, Whether the Commons fnouTd go their own Way with the Articles, they (hould try Him for High-Treafon before High Crimes a*rd Miflierheanors, and altera long Debate, was carried*that his Lordfbip (hould be firft cried for Yeas 56, and ther adjourned ...

... bring in Bill ie inflitl fuch Pains and Penalties upon Robert Earl of Oxford, &c. his trct terous Praftices and other high Crimes and Mifdemcanors do deferve, buta Debate arifing, 'twas adjourned till IFednefday morning. This Day the Commons p-affed the ...

... Edinburgh, July-20. Yefterday the Lords of Jufticiary pronounced Sentence of Death againft Robert Hoy, for the unnatural Crime of Beftiality, and ordained him to hang'd on a Gibbet the Gallowlie, betwixt this Place and Leith, the 23d Inftant, Front Miller's' ...

... deliver'd in by this Houle, they ftio.uld now come to Refolution, that the Commons i>e not admitted to proceed upon the High Crimes and Mifdetneauors, till Judgment be firft given upon the Article for High freafon. And here, tho' unwillingly, I rnuft obferve ...

... burnt alive, together with his Chriftian Hey, who aflifted him in committing the Fact. For perpetual Monument of this,heinous Crime, two Stones . are to put up the Place where they committed it, with fcriptions, declaring their Names and On Thurfday laft ...

... committed to Newgate, for counterfeiting the-Coin. As was alfo a Woman who fold Glafs-Bottles about the Streets, for th'' like Crime. Early Wedaefda.y Morning, a Reprieve coming to Newgate, for Joan Follard and James Roeiit'oxd, two Criminals, only ...

... who were ro > fct Fire to the Magazines. Three of them being promised their Pardon, on Condition they would confefs their Crimes and di/co,-- ve.r t eir Accomplices, have declared that above 30 of their Companions molt Germans, are difpers'd in divers ...