Crossword-Solution: DEPONENTS 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The pleader having spoke his best, Had witness ready to attest, Who fairly could on oath depose, When questions on the fact arose, That every article was true; _Nor further those deponents knew_: Therefore he humbly would insist, The bill might be with costs dismissed.

When this was stated to Charles II., on November 7, 1678, by the perjured Bedloe, the King naturally remarked: ‘The parties were still alive’ (the deponents) ‘to give the informations.’ Bedloe answered, that the papers were to be seized ‘in hopes the second informations taken from the parties would not have agreed with the first, and so the thing would have been disproved.’** This was monstrously absurd, for the slayers of Godfrey could not have produced the documents of which they had robbed him.

See also another poem, a most detestable one, on the same subject, by Stepney, who was then studying at Trinity College.] [Footnote 285: Mackay's character of Sheffield, with Swift's note; the Satire on the Deponents, 1688; Life of John, Duke of Buckinghamshire, 1729; Barillon, Aug.

Whereupon did Euseby Treen come forth through the great hall-door which was ajar, and answer most audibly,— “Your worship!” Straightway did Sir Thomas read aloud, in like form and manner, the name of Joseph Carnaby; and in like manner as aforesaid did Joseph Carnaby make answer and say,— “Your worship!” Lastly did Sir Thomas turn the light of his countenance on William Shakspeare, saying,— “Thou seest these good men deponents against thee, William Shakspeare.” And then did Sir Thomas pause.

CHORUS-- Your Hours are choicely employ'd, Your Petitions lie all on the Table, With Funds Insufficient, And Taxes Deficient, And Deponents innumerable.