Old Bailey Proceedings:
Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials

21st February 1739

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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 .




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