off, and whichever he did, the jury ought to
find him Guilty. He concluded by telling them that they were not to
consider what was said of the prisoner by another unless it was
corroborated by what the prisoner said.

After a more than ordinary time of consideration the jury returned to
their places, and found the prisoner Guilty.

Hulet was brought up for sentence on the 16th of October, and sentenced
to death in the usual way, with other prisoners. At the same time he was
informed that his execution would be delayed in order that the King's
pleasure might be known. He was eventually reprieved.[41]

FOOTNOTES:

[26] Sir Orlando Bridgman (1606-1674) was the eldest son of the Bishop
of Chester. He entered Queens College, Cambridge, in 1619; became a
fellow of Magdalene in 1624, and was called to the bar in 1632. He
became Chief-Justice of Chester in 1638, and Solicitor-General to the
Prince of Wales in 1640. He sat in the Long Parliament as a Royalist,
and in the Oxford Parliament in 1644. He was one of the King's
Commissioners at the Uxbridge negotiations in 1644-45. He ceased
appearing in court under the Commonwealth, but enjoyed a considerable
practice as a conveyancer, at that period a very profitable branch of
the profession. At the Restoration he was made a Serjeant, Chief-Baron
of the Exchequer, and a Baronet. After this trial he became
Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas. On the disgrace of Clarendon he
became Lord Keeper in 1667, a position in which he did not add to his
fame as a lawyer. According to North, he was both ignorant and weak;
'and what was worst of all, his family were very ill qualified for that
place; his lady being a most violent intriguess in business, and his
sons kept no good decorum whilst they practised under him.' He avoided
the political intrigues of the time; he was kept in ignorance of the
Treaty of Dover, and refused to let the Declaration of Indulgence pass
the Great Seal in its original state in 1672. Finally, when Charles
declared the Exchequer closed for twelve months he refused to grant an
injunction to protect the bankers who were likely to be ruined. He was
accordingly removed from office in November 1672, and was succeeded by
Lord Shaftesbury.

[27] Sir Robert Foster (1589-1663), the youngest son of a judge of the
Common Pleas, was called to the bar in 1610. He supported Charles I.'s
most tyrannical proceedings, and became a Justice of the Common Pleas in
1640. He followed