g the history of the
trial and execution. A print of Titus in the pillory was published at
Milan, with the following curious inscription: "Questo e il naturale
ritratto di Tito Otez, o vero Oatz, Inglese, posto in berlina, uno de'
principali professor della religion protestante, acerrimo persecutore
de' Cattolici, e gran spergiuro." I have also seen a Dutch engraving
of his punishment, with some Latin verses, of which the following are a
specimen:

"At Doctor fictus non fictos pertulit ictus
A tortore datos haud molli in corpore gratos,
Disceret ut vere scelera ob commissa rubere."

The anagram of his name, "Testis Ovat," may be found on many prints
published in different countries.]

[Footnote 276: Blackstone's Commentaries, Chapter of Homicide.]

[Footnote 277: According to Roger North the judges decided that
Dangerfield, having been previously convicted of perjury, was
incompetent to be a witness of the plot. But this is one among many
instances of Roger's inaccuracy. It appears, from the report of the
trial of Lord Castlemaine in June 1680, that, after much altercation
between counsel, and much consultation among the judges of the different
courts in Westminster Hall, Dangerfield was sworn and suffered to tell
his story; but the jury very properly gave no credit to his testimony.]

[Footnote 278: Dangerfield's trial was not reported; but I have seen a
concise account of it in a contemporary broadside. An abstract of the
evidence against Francis, and his dying speech, will be found in the
Collection of State Trials. See Eachard, iii. 741. Burnet's narrative
contains more mistakes than lines. See also North's Examen, 256, the
sketch of Dangerfield's life in the Bloody Assizes, the Observator of
July 29, 1685, and the poem entitled "Dangerfield's Ghost to Jeffreys."
In the very rare volume entitled "Succinct Genealogies, by Robert
Halstead," Lord Peterbough says that Dangerfield, with whom he had had
some intercourse, was "a young man who appeared under a decent figure,
a serious behaviour, and with words that did not seem to proceed from a
common understanding."]

[Footnote 279: Baxter's preface to Sir Mathew Hale's Judgment of the
Nature of True Religion, 1684.]

[Footnote 280: See the Observator of February 28, 1685, the information
in the Collection of State Trials, the account of what passed in court
given by Calamy, Life of Baxter, chap. xiv., and the very curious
extracts from the Baxter