Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials
21st February 1739
231, 232.
Henry
Godwin
proceedingsdefend
and
Thomas
Wood
proceedingsdefend
were
each of them indicted for wilful and corrupt Perjury, in a Deposition relating to certain Articles exhibited in the Ecclesiastical Court
. But an Objection being made by the Council for the Defendants, to a Writing, offer'd to be read in Evidence as a Record of the Ecclesiastical Court; the Objection being allow'd, the Prosecutors could not proceed. Both
Acquitted
.