TREATISE OF EQUIVOCATION

As supplementary to J.B.'s valuable paper on the *Treatise of Equivocation*, I transcribe the following from the *Smith Manuscripts* (num. lxix. 5. p. 35.), thinking it may leave an interest for some of your readers:— "*Apud, D.P.* 13th of May, 1597. *Gerard the Jesuite, his Defence of Æquivocation.* John Gerard, the Jesuite, being told that, upon the arraignment of Sowthwell the priest of high treason, one of the witnesses being asked upon her oath by one of the judges, in open court, whether Sowthwell were ever in Bellamie's house, said that she had been perswaded by Sowthwell to affirme upo…