Elizabeth Cellier
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Elizabeth Cellier, commonly known as the "Popish Midwife", was a notable Catholic midwife in seventeenth-century England. She stood trial for treason in 1679 for her alleged part in the "Meal-Tub Plot
Front page of the pamphlet Malice Defeated, published in 1680 by Elizabeth Cellier to defend her reputation from the charge of treason on which she had just been acquitted
William Scroggs
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Sir William Scroggs was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1678 to 1681. He is best remembered for presiding over the Popish Plot trials, where he was accused of showing bias against the accused.
Elizabeth Cellier
…her was that of Dangerfield himself, and she had little difficulty in proving him a witness entirely unworthy of credence – the Lord Chief Justice, William Scroggs, had already begun instructing juries to ignore the evidence of "so notorious a villain". Cellier was found not guilty, and Dangerfield himself was…
Sir William Scroggs
Memorial of Elizabeth Scroggs, Lincoln Cathedral