A Mongst all the Pro­jects and Contrivings of wicked Mer; none are so dangerous as those of insna­ring their Fellow Creatures by false Oaths; nothing so horrid & Detesta­ble, as to make the Justice of the Na­tion the Executor of their Reverge, or Advantage, as in Case of Perjury, it has of late been too sadly manifested, and had not an ex­pedient been found to put a stop to the Carrier of those Consciences, or at least to their ef­fects; who bogled not at the blackest Falshoods. What Streams of Inno­cent Blood, had been by this time shead? What Iniquity of that kind had been lest unpracticed? But God, whose peculiar Care it is, to protect the Innocent, Winks not at such Villany nor leaves it unpunished, in this World has been Evident; but to pass over former Perjuries and Perjurors, whom Justice has made examplar: I shall proceed to give the Reader an Account of one lately Com­mitted, and of the due Punishment the Law has directed to be inflicted upon the false Swearer; which take as followeth.

Thomas Saxton (a Person taken in the late Western Rebelli­on) amongst other Persons) having accused Henry Lord De­lameer, Barron of Meer in the County of Cheshire, of High-Treason, in Conspiring the Death of the King, by Leavying War and Raising Rebellion, &c. The said Lord was thereupon Apprehended, and Committed to the Tower of London; and taking his Tryal, upon an Indictment found upon the Oath of Saxton, he was by his Peers acquitted in the open Hall of Westminster, upon the 14th. of January last; and uppon that Tryal, it appearing that Saxton was Perjured; an Infor­mation was exhibited against him by his Majesty's special Com­mand for wilful Perjury, and he upon his Arraign­ment pleading not Guilty, was on the 8th. of February, a second time brought to the King's-Bench-Bar; and there puting himself upon the Jury for his Try­al, the Juror upon full proof of his manifest Perjury, found him Guilty, with­out going from the Bar, whereup­on he was Reman­ded to Newgate, and from thence on the 12th. of February, brought by a Rule of Count, in order to receive his Sentence, where having nothing material to offer in his own De­fence, after he had been heard to what ever he pretended on that occasi­on, the Court proceeded to pass Se [...]rence, as thus,

That he the said Thomas Saxton for his willful Perjury, of which he had been sairly and fully Convicted, should stand on and in the Pillory, on Saturday the 13th. of February be­fore Westminster Hall. On the 15th. of February, to stand on and in the Pillory at Temple Bar. On the 16th. of February, to be Whipt at the Carts Tail, from Ludgate to Westminster. On the 17th. to stand on and in the Pillory, before the Royal Ex­change. On the 19th. to be Whipt from Newgate to Tyburn and Fined Five Hundred Marks.

And thus, we see Justice meet with those, that seek by un­lawful ways the Ruin of others, whether through Malice, or by an incitement to self preservation;