Note 492 — Chapter I
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In a somewhat similar case the judges under Charles II refused to give an opinion until the matter had been argued before them by counsel. The Attorney-General, among other questions put to the judges at the outbreak of the agitation of the Popish Plot, asked “Whether there be any evidence against these particular persons besides the single testimony of Mr. Oates?” To which it was answered that it was a question of fact, and could only be determined in court. S.P. Dom. Charles II 407: i. 128.