dutton-colt

Updated: May 11, 2025

A like sentence was passed upon Dutton-Colt, for a like offence Sir Samuel Barnardiston was fined ten thousand pounds, because, in some private letters which had been intercepted, he had reflected on the government. This gentleman was obnoxious, because he had been foreman of that jury which rejected the bill against Shaftesbury.

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.: From Charles II. to James II.