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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE Proceedings at the Kings-Bench-Bar Upon the Execution of the Writ of Enquiry of Damages At the SUIT of His ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of <HI>YORK,</HI> AGAINST TITUS (formerly &s;tild Doctor) OATES.</HEAD>
<P>THis day being the la&s;t day of <HI>Trinity-Term,</HI> was a Writ of Enqui|ry of Damages at the <HI>Kings-Bench-Bar,</HI> in an Action upon the Statute <HI>deScandalis magnatum,</HI> at the Suit of His Royal Highne&s;s the Duke of <HI>York</HI> again&s;t <HI>Titus Oates;</HI> who denying to plead, &s;uffer'd Judgment upon him by <HI>nil dicit:</HI> And in regard of the Eminency of the Per&s;on who is Plaintiff, and of the Notoriou&s;ne&s;s of the Defendant, it was pray'd by His R. Highne&s;s's Council, <HI>That for the more &s;olemnity of the matter, and to &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">isfie all per&s;ons who may be curious to pique at the Proceedings at Law, that it &s;hould be try d at the</HI> Kings-Bench-Bar, <HI>though it be a thing very unu&s;ual, being ordinarily done before the Sheriff in his County.</HI> There appea|red a very &s;ub&s;tantial Jury of Knights, E&s;quires, and Gentlemen, to the number of Fifteen, who without going from the Bar, (as well upon the words within the Record, as upon the Evidence of a great number of worthy and credible Witne&s;&s;es, which &s;trengthen'd it) gave Damages to His Royal Highne&s;s of 100000 <HI>l.</HI></P>
<P>The Lord-Chief-Ju&s;tice mo&s;t faithfully and learnedly &s;umm'd up the Evidence, and de&s;canted upon the evil con&s;equences that attended &s;uch In&s;olence as pre&s;umed to reproach and calumniate the Peers of the Realm, more e&s;pecially a per&s;on &s;o near and dear to the King and Crown as His Royal Highne&s;s, whom the &s;aid <HI>Oates</HI> hath be &s;patterd and traduc'd in all Companies he came into, &s;ince the beginning of his <HI>Evidence&s;hip</HI> in 78. calling him <HI>Traytor, Ra&s;cal,</HI> and &s;uch-like horrid names, and charging Him with being in the <HI>Plot,</HI> with firing the City, and rai&s;ing the Army at <HI>Black-Heath,</HI> in order to introduce Popery, and cut all the True Pro|te&s;tants Throats. He likewi&s;e was pleas d to give him the Epithet of a <HI>Son of a W</HI>&mdash;; And after preaching in the City, being invited by &s;ome of his Auditory to a Gla&s;s of Wine, he asked them, <HI>If any of them ever eat or drank with</HI> York? (becau&s;e His Royal Highne&s;s had done that Royal Favour to &s;ome of the Societies of the City to Honour them with His pre&s;ence) but <HI>Oates</HI> told them, <HI>If any of them did, he would not eat or drink with any that eat or drank with the Devil.</HI> He left them, and went to a Braziers Hou&s;e, (his Face having a Sympathy with the Calling.) Ano|ther Go&s;pel-expre&s;&s;ion of his at <HI>Oxford</HI> was, <HI>That he hop'd if the Devil had had one place hotter than other in Hell, he would re&s;erve it for the Duke of</HI> Y&mdash;. Much more of the <HI>No Doctor</HI>'s &s;tuff of this kind was &s;worn again&s;t him, and without difficulty believed by the Jury; which is a means to &s;ecure his pre&s;ent Lodgings, until he is removed by &s;ome extraordinary means, which probably may &s;oon happen.</P>
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<P>Sold at the Entrance into the <HI>Old-Spring-Garden,</HI> 1684.</P>
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