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The whole trial of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice…The whole triall of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice…
The whole trial of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice in Westminster Hall containing the charge of high treason against him ... with the relation of his suffering and his speech and prayer at his death on Tower-hill / published by John Farthing, citizen of London, who took the trial in the said court in short-writing for Mr. Love, and at his own request ; to which is added The tragedy of his trial and death in very elegant verses / by the acute author of Iter boreale.The whole triall of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice in Westminster Hall containing the charge of high treason against him ... with the relation of his suffering and his speech and prayer at his death on Tower-hill / published by John Farthing, citizen of London, who took the triall in the said court in short-writing for Mr. Love, and at his own request ; to which is added The tragedy of his triall and death in very elegant verses / by the acute author of Iter boreale.
London : s.n., 1660
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M. Love. Sir, I am now to look to the charge of treason read against me, and not to the evidence; and in the charge I am indicted for those things, for which I apprehend I ought not to be indicted. For according to those two Acts, I ought not to have been indicted for things pretended to have been done by me so long ago: and this I apprehend to be matter of law. And for the witnesses, let them speak to what time they will, yet this I am sure, they cannot prove that I was indicted within a year for those things that are charged upon me to be done in 1648. and 1649. for that were to prove an impossibility: so that it appears to me, I am indicted for those things for which I ought not to be indicted.
M. Love. Sir, I am now to look to the charge of treason read against me, and not to the evidence; and in the charge I am indicted for those things, for which I apprehend I ought not to be indicted. For according to those two Acts, I ought not to have been indicted for things pretended to have been done by me so long ago: and this I apprehend to be matter of law. And for the witnesses, let them speek to what time they will, yet this I am sure, they cannot prove that I was indicted within a yeer for those things that are charged upon me to be done in 1648. and 1649. for that were to prove an impossibility: so that it appears to me, I am indicted for those things for which I ought not to be indicted.
L. Pres. It may be so; and if so, those things will fall off of themselves; there may be some things true, and some things not true; and the counsel may fail in proof of some of them, and you may clear your self; yet this cannot be before the pleading. When you come to plead, if the matter be not proved against you, and within the time limited, it will fall off of it self without any words at all; and all this time is lost to all this Auditory, and no counsel can give you advice in this.
L. Pres. It may be so; and if so, those things will fall off of themselves; there may be some things true, and some things not true; and the counsel may faile in proof of some of them, and you may clear your self; yet this cannot be before the pleading. When you come to plead, if the matter be not proved against you, and within the time limited, it will fall off of it self without any words at all; and all this time is lost to all this Auditory, and no counsel can give you advice in this.