John Mordaunt, Viscount Mordaunt, was arrested in 1658 for his role in organising Royalist conspiracies against the Protectorate. His trial before a High Court of Justice produced a near-acquittal — he escaped by a single vote — demonstrating the weakening authority of the Protectorate in its final year and the sympathies of the legal profession.
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