certain of the date, because on that day he went to Litchfield
races. At Litchfield he stayed till Saturday, October 19, when he
heard from London of the discovery of Godfrey's body.** Chetwyn
asked Dugdale about this, when Dugdale was sent to town, in December
1678. Dugdale said he remembered the facts, but, as he did not
report them to his examiners (a singular omission), he was not
called as a witness at the trial of Berry, Green, and Hill. Chetwyn
later asked Dugdale why he was not called, and said: 'Pray let me
see the copy of your deposition sworn before the Council. He showed
it me, and there was not a syllable of it, that I could see, BUT
AFTERWARDS IT APPEARED TO BE THERE.'

*Pollock, p. 341, note 2.
**State Trials, vii. 339, 341,

Lord Chief Justice. 'That is not very material, if the thing itself
be true. '

Chetwyn. 'But its not being there made me remember it.'

Its later appearance, 'there,' shows how depositions were handled!

Chetwyn, in June 1679, says that he heard of Dugdale's words as to
the murder, from Mr. Sanbidge, or Sambidge, or Sawbridge. At the
trial of Lord Stafford (1680) Sanbidge 'took it upon his salvation'
that Dugdale told him nothing of the matter, and vowed that Dugdale
was a wicked rogue.* Mr. Wilson, the parish clergyman of Tixall,
was said to have heard Dugdale speak of Godfrey's death on October
14. He also remembered no such thing. Hanson, a running-man, heard
Dugdale talk of the murder of a justice of the peace at Westminster