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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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At. Gen. I do as earnestly press, that you would as positively say, that you cannot allow him counsel till he hath pleaded.
Att. Gen. I do as earnestly presse, that you would as positively say, that you cannot allow him counsel till he hath pleaded.
M. Love. I now see Mr. Attorneys words to be true. When he came to me to the Tower and examined me, the 16 of this month, he said, That seeing I would not acknowledge (as he called them) my treasons, I was judged peremptory and obstinate; and I remember he said these words to me, Mr. Love, Though you are too hard for me in the Pulpit, yet I will be too hard for you at the Bar; and truly now I find it so; and it is an easy matter for a Lawyer, armed with Law and Power, to be too hard for a poor naked Scholar, that hath neither Law nor Power.
M. Love. I now see Mr. Attorneys words to be true. When he came to me to the Tower and examined me, the 16 of this month, he said, That seeing I would not acknowledge (as he called them) my treasons, I was judged peremptory and obstinate; and I remember he said these words to me, Mr. Love, Though you are too hard for me in the Pulpit, yet I will be too hard for you at the Bar; and truly now I finde it so; and it is an easie matter for a Lawyer, armed with Law and Power, to be too hard for a poor naked Scholar, that hath neither Law nor Power.
L. Pres. Doth this do any good to you? if it were so that you are too hard for him (for you are too hard for every man in the pulpit;) yet you sometimes are so out, and in that you are controllable. If Master Attorney be too hard for you here, let him be too hard for you; but it is the Court that are to deal with you here: we will not do it because of his saying, but you must think that the court will be led by their evidence, and not by Mr. Attorney.