Note 256 — Chapter IV
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The improbability does not lie in the unlikelihood of the application of torture to witnesses at this date so much as in the nature of the particular facts alleged, which cannot be believed. Brief Hist. iii. 76, 77, 78, 80. L’Estrange procured Corral to contradict his evidence at the trial. Ibid. 102, 106. It is important to insist upon the falsehood of the charge in this case, because it has been adopted without question by Foley v. 29, n., and see Echard, 503 seq.