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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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Captain P•tter is called into the Court.
Mr. Love. I except and protest against this Witness, for he hath been already examined in private, and hath made his confession there, and that is equivalent to a conviction; and I hope, the Court in Justice, will not admit of this man for a witness.
L. Pres. You shall have Justice, as well as ever any Jesuit had.
L. Pres. You shall have Justice, as well as ever any Jesuite had.
At. Gen. You see now what Mr. Love drives at, and you will find his Jesuitical evasions: And, my ⟨p. 19⟩Lord, let him be asked, Whether ever this man was before this Court, or any Committee of this Court; and I think in Justice, you ought to examine Witnesses before hand: But it is clear and evident, That this man hath been a party with him. I do humbly conceive, it is so clear and evident, that rather I should except against the witness, as an incompetent witness, then Mr. Love, because he hath been a party with him; but I desire he may be a competent witness, and one in whom there is more ingenuity, then there is in Mr. Love.