“Prisoner.—­You say you have seen me several times at
     Hughson’s, what clothes did I usually wear?

     “Mary Burton.—­I cannot tell what clothes you wore
     particularly.

     “Prisoner.—­That is strange, and know me so well?”

She then says several kinds, but particularly, or chiefly, a riding-coat, and often a brown coat, trimmed with black.

     “Prisoner.—­I never wore such a coat.  What time of the day
     did I used to come to Hughson’s?

“M.  Burton.—­You used chiefly to come in the night-time, and when I have been going to bed I have seen you undressing in Peggy’s room, as if you were to lie there; but I cannot say that you did, for you were always gone before I was up in the morning.

     “Prisoner.—­What room was I in when I called Mary, and you
     came up, as you said?

     “M.  Burton.—­In the great room, up stairs.

     “Prisoner.—­What answer did the Negroes make, when I
     offered to forgive them their sins, as you said?

     “M.  Burton.—­I don’t remember."[254]

William Kane, the soldier, took the stand.  He was very bold to answer all of Ury’s questions.  He saw him baptize a child, could forgive sins, and wanted to convert him!  Sarah Hughson was next called, but Ury objected to her because she had been convicted.  The judge informed him that she had been pardoned, and was, therefore, competent as a witness.  Judge Horsemanden was careful to produce newspaper scraps to prove that the court of France had endeavored to create and excite revolts and insurrections in the English colonies, and ended by telling a pathetic story about an Irish schoolmaster in Ulster County who drank the health of the king of Spain![255] This had great weight with the jury, no doubt.  Poor Ury, convicted upon the evidence of three notorious liars, without counsel, was left to defend himself.  He addressed the jury in an earnest and intelligent manner.  He showed where the evidence clashed; that the charges were not in harmony with his previous character, the silence of Quack and others already executed.  He showed that Mr. Campbell took possession of the house that Hughson had occupied, on the 1st of May; that at that time Hughson and his wife were in jail, and Sarah in the house; that Sarah abused Campbell, and that he reproved her for the foul language she used; and that this furnished her with an additional motive to accuse him; that he never knew Hughson or any of the family.  Mr. John Croker testified that Ury never kept company with Negroes, nor did he receive them at Croker’s house up to the 1st of May, for all the plotting was done before that date; that he was a quiet, pious preacher, and an excellent schoolmaster; that he taught Webb’s child, and always declared himself a non-juring clergyman of the Church of England.  But the fatal revelation