Mr.Coleman was executed at Tyburn on the third day of December.
* * * * * The trial of Father Ireland, Mr.Grove and Mr.Pickering--who was a Benedictine lay-brother--was opened on the seventeenth day of December, in the Sessions House at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey.
I was in the Court early, before the trial began, carrying a letter with me which Mr.Chiffinch got for me from my Lord Peterborough, that I might have a good place; and I had a very good one; for it was in a little gallery that looked down into the well of the court, so that I could see all that I wished, and the faces of all the prisoners, judges and witnesses, and yet by leaning back could avoid observation--for I had no wish, for others' sake, if not for my own, to be recognized by any of the witnesses.

The seats for my Lords were on the left, under a state, with their desks before them; the place for the prisoners on the right, facing the judges; and for the witnesses opposite to me.

The jury was beneath; and the counsels in front of them with their backs to me.
When the Court was full to bursting, my Lords came in, with the Chief Justice--that is Sir William Scroggs--in the midst.

I had never seen him before, though I knew how hot he was against Catholics, and I looked to see what he was like.

It was a dark morning, and the candles were lighted on my Lords' desks; and I could see his face pretty well in their light.