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.difcuiTedihok who were moft agaliift his client to bear themarks of confufion, and, as fome thought, even ofX contradiction. Supported by fuch counfel, and nocriminal action or opinion charged againll him, thepannel had no reafon to fear the iflue of tlie triahChap. 25. Among the fir it who offered thenifch'es4.0 be witneiles, were four of the judges ^ and as the-counfel for the pannel objected againil their beingadduced, this point was gravely, and at great length,by the court. Two or three maintained,.that no judge ought to be examined as a witnefs, andthat fuch a ftep was altogether illegal -, but thofe whowere eager to be examined far out-voted the otherparty, and fuftained themfelves as witnelTes. Thiswas thouglit flrange at that time, and appeared to bemore fo a little afterwards : For the fame proieflbrs»-had firft taken a precognition, and then, as it ilandsexprefgly marked in their minutes, had found groundfor a libel, and appointed the procefs to be commencedand carried on long before they had put-theprecognition into the procurator-fifcai's hand, andeven before they had fo much as chofen a procurator-fiCcalJnay, four or five of them deponed, thatthey had advifed and dire