any Officer the King
hath. - And when they do not, why they must take what follows, and the Law doth
not call it Murder.«
    Booth very plainly saw that the Bailiff had squared his Conscience exactly
according to Law, and that he could not easily subvert his Way of Thinking. He
therefore gave up the Cause, and desir'd the Bailiff to expedite the Bonds,
which he promised to do, saying, he hoped he had used him with proper Civility
this Time if he had not the last, and that he should be remember'd for it.
    But before we close this Chapter, we shall endeavour to satisfy an Enquiry
which may arise in our most favourite Readers, (for so are the most curious) how
it came to pass that such a Person as was Dr. Harrison should employ such a
Fellow as this Murphy.
    The Case then was thus. This Murphy had been Clerk to an Attorney in the
very same Town in which the Doctor liv'd, and when he was out of his Time had
set up with a Character fair enough, and had married a Maid Servant of Mrs.
Harris, by which Means he had all the Business to which that Lady and her
Friends, in which Number was the Doctor, could recommend him.
    Murphy went on with his Business, and thrived very well, till he happen'd to
make an unfortunate Slip, in which he was detected by a Brother of the same
Calling. But tho' we call this by the gentle Name of a Slip, in Respect to its
being so extremely common, it was a Matter in which the Law if it had ever come
to its Ears would have passed a very severe Censure, being indeed no less than
Perjury and Subornation of Perjury.
    This Brother Attorney being a very good-natur'd Man, and unwilling to
bespatter his own Profession, and considering perhaps that the Consequence did
in no wise affect the Public, who had no Manner of Interest in the Alternative,
whether A. in whom the Right was, or B. to whom Mr. Murphy by the Means
aforesaid, had transferr'd it, succeeded in an Action. We mention this
Particular, because as this Brother Attorney was a very violent Party Man, and a
professed Stickler for the Public, to suffer any Injury to have been done to
that, would have been highly inconsistent with his Principles.
    This Gentleman therefore came to Mr. Murphy, and after shewing him that he
had it in his Power to convict him of the aforesaid Crime, very generously told
him that he