se you
told me a lye, but because I found you in a lye. Come Sirrah,
tell me the truth.

Where did Dunne sleep? in a chamber to which the girl showed him, he
saw no one else; he put up his horse himself and fed him on hay which
was in the rack; the stable-door was latched; he pulled up the latch. He
knew his way to the stable, because he had been there before--even
though it was dark. Carpenter the bailiff gave his horse hay and brought
a light to the stable after he had gone there. Besides Carpenter and the
girl he saw no one. He did not drink in the house; he had last drunk at
Barton.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Now prithee tell me truly, where came
Carpenter unto you? I must know the truth of that; I would not
terrify thee to make thee say anything but the truth, but assure
thyself I never met with a lying, sneaking, canting fellow, but
I always treasured up vengeance for him; and therefore look to
it, that thou dost not prevaricate with me, for be sure thou
wilt come by the worst of it in the end.

DUNNE--My Lord, I will tell the truth as near as I can.

Carpenter met him in the court when he was with Hicks and Nelthorp; no
one else was there; Carpenter opened the stable-door.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Why thou vile wretch, didst thou not tell me
just now that thou pluckedst up the latch? Dost thou take the
God of Heaven not to be a God of truth, and that He is not a
witness of all thou sayest? Dost thou think because thou
prevaricatest with the court here thou canst do so with the God
above who knows thy thoughts? And it is infinite mercy, that,
for these falsehoods of thine, he does not immediately strike
thee into hell! Jesus God!... Did you not tell me that you
opened the latch yourself and that you saw nobody else but a
girl? How durst you offer to tell such horrid lies in the
presence of God and of a court of Justice? Answer me one
question more. Did he pull down the hay or you?

Dunne did not pull down any hay; Carpenter took him into the house and
to his room; but no one asked him to eat or drink; he did not know what
became of the others' horses.

JEFFREYS--Did you tell Carpenter that the horses were there?

DUNNE--I did not tell him any such thing.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Thou art a strange, prevaricating,
shuffling, sniveling lying rascal.

_Barter_ was then called and sworn.

Having been duly threatene