A65962:110
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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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.
M. Love. I still say, I do not refuse to plead, but if you would afford me counsel, I should think my life in a great deal less danger. For I do not know, whether I may not, by the advise of counsel, confess some part of the indictment; whether I may not demur in law upon some part, or a great part of the indictment, which I have done already; As that I am charged for treason for those things that are not within your cognizance or power, as I apprehend, and things done before your Acts; and for such things, that if I had done them, I must have been indicted for them within a year, or else not at all; and these I deem legal exceptions.
M. Love. I still say, I do not refuse to plead, but if you would afford me counsel, I should thinke my life in a great deal lesse danger. For I do not know, whether I may not, by the advise of counsel, confesse some part of the indictment; whether I may not demur in law upon some part, or a great part of the indictment, which I have done already; As that I am charged for treason for those things that are not within your cognizance or power, as I apprehend, and things done before your Acts; and for such things, that if I had done them, I must have been indicted for them within a yeer, or else not at all; and these I deem legal exceptions.