having sworn at College's trial that his previous illness had been caused solely by the Catholics having tried to poison him. Lower and the apothecary proved the case, and the council dismissed the false witness "not to trouble them any more". Dugdale then caused a Captain Clinton to be apprehended, on 28 December 1681, for defaming him, but the council set Clinton at liberty on bail. Death Dugdale died a day or two before 26 March 1683. Secretary of State Leoline Jenkins had a report that both Edward Turberville and Dugdale had taken to drink, and in their delirium tremens imagined spectres (in particular the ghost of Lord Stafford, who had warned Turberville that he would follow him to the grave within the year), and died miserably. Notes References 1640 births 1681 deaths English perjurers People associated with the Popish Plot