Note 100 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part i. 176.
In vol. xvii. of Petitions and Reports (State Papers) are the following memoranda:—
"Case tried at Worcester Assizes, 1656. Charge of defamation of character by ejected clergyman, against the person who prosecuted him before the Commissioners. Sued the person for damages. Judge Windham, in charging the jury, did urge very much the increase of damages as aforesaid, declaring that by such conduct as the defendant's honest men came to be sequestered, to the discouragement of many then present who had stated this to be the fact. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—£80 damages."