case BERISFORD against press to accuse a person of have speak treason be  slanderous and actionable post SC Yelv Hutton winch Bulst Bulst Com dig hawk p  c action for word Mr Berisford innuendo the plaintiff have speak treason and  that I will prove the defendant plead that he speak other word and traverse  these word the verdict be find against he and now move in arrest of judgement  that these word be not actionable for there be no express affirmation that the  plaintiff be a traitor or have commit treason for then without question the  action will lie as it be croak throw hold by all the court for although the  word be general yet it be a express charge he with matter of treason but when  he say thou have speak treason and that I will prove that be but a misprision  of the word in conceive such word to be treason which peradventure be not and  it be not a express charge he with treason and the word that I will prove be  quasi by way of croak James er p argument which be not to be take in so ill  part as where he charge he to be a traitor and a precedent be show in this  court of Blanchford v atwood a where a action be bring for these word I will  hang he for he have speak treason but it be answer that that be not like to  the case in question for where he say I will hang he for he have speak treason  there it be a direct affirmative that he have speak treason for which he be to  be hang but this be no precise affirmative but be quasi argumentative say  videlicet I will prove that which you have speak be treason and if it be not  so take it be not actionable and when word be doubtful they shall be take in  mild sensum Yelverton and croak justice be of that opinion William and Fenner  conceive there be not any difference betwixt the case and that the word be  actionable Fleming seem to doubt afterward he by the assent of the party  consent that judgement shall be enter for the plaintiff and that he shall take  twenty pound for cost and damage and release the residue and so it be do the  damage give by the jury be sixty pound