sible  speed  certifie  his  majesty,  oraome  of  his
secret  councill  or  some  of  the  cheiff  persons  of
autboritie  and  credit,  dwelling  within  the  same
shyre,  that  sick  persons  (it  they  be  knowcn)

quietly  for  some  years  after  that   rebellion
before  he  employed  him  :  and  if  the  govern-
ment seemed  to  forget  his  crime,  it  was  no
wonder  if  others  entered  into  common  dealii.gs
with  him.    All  the  lawyers  were  of  opinion,
that  nothing  could  be  made  of  this  prosecution :
so  that  Blakewood  made  use^  of  no  secret  ap-
plication, thinking  he  was  in  no  danger.     But
the  Court  came  to  a  strange  sentence  in  this
matter,  l^y  these  steps:  they  judged,  that  all
men  who  suspected  any  to  have  been  in  the
rebellion  Were  bound  to  discover  such  their  sus  •
picion,  and  to  give  no  harbour  to  such  persons :
that  the  bare  suspicion  made  it  treason  to  har-
iMNir  the  person  suspected,  whether  he  was
guilty  or  not:  that  if  any  person  Mas  under
such  a  suspicion,  it  was  to  i>e  presumed  that  all
the  neighbouriiood  knew  it :  so  that  Ihere  was
no  need  of  proving  that  against  any  particular
person,  since  the  presumption  of  law  did  eh-otc.
It :  and  it  being  proved  that  the  person  >^ith
whom  Blakewood  had  conversed  lay  under  that
suspicion,   Blakewood   was  upon  that    con-
demned as  guilty  of  high  treason.    This  was
such  a  constructive  treason,  that  went  upon  so
many  unreasonable  suppositions,  that  it  shewed
the  shameiessness  at  a  sort  of  me d  who' had
been  for  forty  years  declaiming  against  a  par-.
liamentary  attainder  for  a  constructive  treason,
in  the  case  of  the  earl  of2$trafford«  and  did.
now  in  a  common  court  of  justice  condemn  a
man  upon  a.train  of  so  many  inferences  that  it.
