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and a special jury, on 13th, 15th, 17th, and 18th June. Against Bradlaugh were arrayed five counsel,--the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Sir Hardinge Giffard, Mr Danckwertz, and Mr R. S. Wright, and the case was argued at enormous length on a multitude of minutiæ as to Bradlaugh's original evidence before the first Select Committee, the practice of the House, the position of the Speaker on 11th February, the law as to what constituted the oath, the force of an oath taken by an atheist, and so on. After two delays, caused by the illness of Lord Coleridge, his summing-up, which was proportionately long and elaborate, was given on 30th June. It advised the jury that the weight of evidence was to show that Bradlaugh was all along an unbeliever in a Supreme Being--a point which Bradlaugh argued should not have been raised--that in law a person on whose conscience an oath would have
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was a person who could not legally take a oath; and that Bradlaugh had not taken the oath in accordance with the practice of Parliament. The other judges concurred; but Lord Coleridge having spoken of inquisitorial questions on belief in general (not those in the Bradlaugh case in particular) as
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Mr Baron Huddleston desired to express dissent on that head, while Mr Justice Grove said he would call them,
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The Lord Chief Justice, remarking that he felt strongly on the matter, gracefully agreed that his words should be