Note 743 — Chapter XII
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R. v. Farwell and others; State Trials, viii. 1361. They were indicted for publishing some letters to prove that Godfrey had killed himself. They defended themselves by calling witnesses to prove the truth of the fact, which, though in a case of libel, Pemberton allowed. But their own witnesses proved that Godfrey's body had all the appearance of being strangled.
The Roman catholics gave out, at the time of Godfrey's death, that he had killed himself; and hurt their own cause by foolish lies. North's Examen, p. 200.