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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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My Lord, I believe he knows this, and I am sorry, That that Gentleman that hath gone along with us in much of this War, that he should at last, so much betray his own discretion, as rather to trust a reconciled Enemy, then to be true to his own Friends. I say, He trusts a reconciled Enemy, and a weak Enemy, and that he will think, and will know, that they might betray him; as justly may be done, when men so cast themselves upon the Party of the King, and Queen, and Percy, and Jermine; it is no great policy nor discretion to have so many of Counsel: they say, three keeps counsel; but this Gentleman hath now 20, 30, 40, in Scotland, France, and Holland, and Agitations between them, and frequent Intercourses. My Lord, I shall now call the witnesses out to you, which when Mr. Love doth see, himself will say, are honest men, and to be believed.
My Lord, I believe he knows this, and I am sorry, That that Gentleman that hath gone along with us in much of this War, that he should at last, so much betray his own discretion, as rather to trust a reconciled Enemy, then to be true to his own Friends. I say, He trusts a reconciled Enemy, and a weak Enemy, and that he will think, and will know, that they might betray him; as justly may be done, when men so cast themselves upon the Party of the King, and Queen, and Peircy, and Jermine; it is no great policy nor discretion to have so many of Councel: they say, three keeps councel; but this Gentleman hath now 20, 30, 40, in Scotland, France, and Holland, and Agitations between them, and frequent Intercourses. My Lord, I shall now call the witnesses out to you, which when Mr. Love doth see, himself will say, are honest men, and to be believed.
Mr. Love. My Lord, I beseech you let me speak a word.
At. Gen. My Lord, he hath heard his Charge in particular; and those things, which if he be ingenuous to himself, and his own Conscience, he cannot but know we shall prove them; and before we prove them, I desire to hear, whether or no he will confess them.