The verse runs thus:--
"'Sir Philip well knows,
That his innuendos
Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose:
For twelve honest men have determined the cause,
_Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws._'"{148}
Lord Campbell, in his _Lives of the Chancellors_ (v. 25.) and _Lives of
the Lord Chief Justices_ (ii. 543.), and Mr. Harris, in his _Life of
Lord Chancellor Hardwicke_ (i. 221.), give the lines as quoted by Lord
Mansfield, with the exception of the last and only important line, which
they give, after the note to Erskine's speeches, as
"Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws."
And Lord Campbell (who refers to _State Trials_, xxi.) says that Lord
Mansfield, in the Dean of St. Asaph's Case, misquoted the lines "to suit
his purpose, or from lapse of memory."
I know not what is the pamphlet referred to as printed in 1754; but on
consulting the song itself, as given in the 5th volume of the
_Craftsman_, 337., and there entitled "The Honest Jury; or, Caleb
Triumphant.
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