Gates and Bedloe deposed, that he had received a commission, signed by the superior of the Jesuits, to be Papal secretary of state, and had consented to the poisoning, shooting, and stabbing of the king: he had even, according to Oates's deposition, advanced a guinea to promote those bloody purposes.

These wild stories were confounded with the projects contained in his letters; and Coleman received sentence of death.

The sentence was soon after executed upon him.[*] He suffered with calmness and constancy, and to the last persisted in the strongest protestations of his innocence.
Coleman's execution was succeeded by the trial of Father Ireland, who, it is pretended, had signed, together with fifty Jesuits, the great resolution of murdering the king.

Grove and Pickering, who had undertaken to shoot him, were tried at the same time.

The only witnesses against the prisoners were still Gates and Bedloe.