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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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Attur. Gen. My Lord, you have heard several Acts of Parliament read, and the offences therein mentioned. My Lord, I have here a Charge against Mr. Love, the Prisoner at the Bar, and I humbly desire that it may be read likewise; and you may please to take his Reply to it, whether by Confession or otherwise.
Attur. Gen. My Lord, you have heard severall Acts of Parliament read, and the offences therein mentioned. My Lord, I have here a Charge against Mr. Love, the Prisoner at the Bar, and I humbly desire that it may be read likewise; and you may please to take his Reply to it, whether by Confession or otherwise.
The Clerk is commanded to read the Charge.
The Clerk is commanded to reade the Charge.
The Clerk. A Charge of high Treason, and other high Crimes and Offences, exhibited to the high Court of Justice by Edmond Prideaux, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of England, for and on the behalf of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, by Authority of Parliament, against Christopher Love late of London Clerk, by him preferred and commenced against the said Christopher Love. That is to say, That he the said Christopher Love, as a false Traitor and enemy of this Common-wealth and free State of England; and out of a traitorous and wicked design, to stir up a new and bloody war, and to raise insurrections, seditions, and rebellions within this Nation, did in several days and times; that is to say, in the years of our Lord 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651. at London, and at divers other places within this Common-wealth of England, and elsewhere, (together with William Drake late of London Mercer, Henry Jermin late of London Esquire, Henry Percy late of London Esquire, John Gibbons late of London Gentleman, Edward Massey late of London Esquire, Richard Graves late of London Esquire, Silas Titus late of London Gentleman, James Bunce late of London Alderman, and other their accomplices (yet unknown) traitorously and maliciously combine, confederate, and complot, contrive and endeavour to stir and raise up forces against the present Government of this Nation, since the same hath been settled in a Common-wealth and free State without a King and House of Lords, and for the subversion and alteration of the same.