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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
L. Pres. Then your denial of it will be a high transgression against God.
M. Love. I could urge the case of Jesus Christ, who when he was accused before a Judicatory, answered not a word.
L. Pres. You are out.
M. Love. When Christ was accused in a civil business, to be a mover of sedition (as now I am) they asked him whether he was King of the Jews, and he answered them not a word. But this is that I doubt, whether there be not matters of law arising from the charge read against me, and that in respect of the time of the Act of the 26 March, 1650. which gives power to you to determine several crimes, and to proceed to the trial of the offender. And Sir, it is also to me doubtful, whether this be not matter of law, viz. whether this trial ought not to be by a Jury of twelve of the neighbourhood, or whether in any different way from it; and I doubt it upon this ground, your Lordship having given me this hint; for I was present at the trial of Mr. Lilburne, and the formality of the law tied him to plead to this, that he must be tried by God and his Country. He refused it, and your Lordship urged it upon him, that he might safely plead it by God, because God was in all Judicatories; and by his Country, because, said you, by Country is meant the Jury of a mans equals. And this is a trial according to the law of the Land. Now if you have declared that in Guild-Hall, I beseech your Lordship inform me, whether a different way from this of a Jury of the neighbourhood be according to law in Westminster Hall.