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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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The Clerk goes to read the Sentence.
The Clerk goes to reade the Sentence.
M. Love. Not guilty.
At. Gen. My Lord, we do say in the behalf of the Common-wealth, he is guilty of the crimes and treasons laid to his charge. And, my Lord, you now perceive, that when you have been long troubled, you see he comes very hardly to it; an innocent man would not have made so much ado; and knowing his innocency, would not have had so much capitulation and trifling with a court of Justice. My Lord, for these crimes, you are pleased to observe they are of several natures, and of long continuance. And now, my Lord, for the state of the evidence, it is commended to the charge of another Gentleman, that is master Solicitor General of the Common-wealth, to open to you the state of the fact, by which he stands here impeached and accused, the nature of it, and how it should have been carried on, the series of time, the persons with whom he complied, how plotted and contrived to undermine this Common-wealth, even to the foundations of it. My Lord, when that is opened, I will then produce the evidence to make it good against him.
Att. Gen. My Lord, we do say in the behalf of the Common-wealth, he is guilty of the crimes and treasons laid to his charge. And, my Lord, you now perceive, that when you have been long troubled, you see he comes very hardly to it; an innocent man would not have made so much ado; and knowing his innocency, would not have had so much capitulation and trifling with a court of Justice. My Lord, for these crimes, you are pleased to observe they are of several natures, and of long continuance. And now, my Lord, for the state of the evidence, it is commended to the charge of another Gentleman, that is master Solicitor General of the Common-wealth, to open to you the state of the fact, by which he stands here impeached and accused, the nature of it, and how it should have been carried on, the series of time, the persons with whom he complied, how plotted and contrived to undermine this Common-wealth, even to the foundations of it. My Lord, when that is opened, I will then produce the evidence to make it good against him.