Note 183 — Chapter V
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That such a distinction was suggested seems generally admitted. Clarendon attributes it to Williams, (Rebellion, 140.) This, considering the historian's prejudice respecting the Archbishop, is not perfectly conclusive against Williams, any more than the silence of Hacket (Life of Williams, pt. II., i. 161,)—who only speaks of the advice given in common, founded on the distinction between facts and law—is conclusively in his favour.
Clarendon is corroborated by the circumstance, that Ussher and Juxon were freed from the charge by the King himself (according to the report of Sir Edward Walker), and of the remaining prelates Williams was the most likely to give such advice as Clarendon mentions.