It was to no purpose that, with the halter round his neck, he invoked on himself the whole vengeance of the God before whom, in a few moments, he must appear, if he had been guilty of meditating any ill to his prince or to his Protestant fellow countrymen.
The evidence which he produced in his favour proved only how little Popish oaths were worth.

His very virtues raised a presumption of his guilt.

That he had before him death and judgment in immediate prospect only made it more likely that he would deny what, without injury to the holiest of causes, he could not confess.

Among the unhappy men who were convicted of the murder of Godfrey was one Protestant of no high character, Henry Berry.

It is a remarkable and well attested circumstance, that Berry's last words did more to shake the credit of the plot than the dying declarations of all the pious and honourable Roman Catholics who underwent the same fate.