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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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Reader,
Thou hast here a true and impartial account of the Proceedings of the High Court of Justice (so called) against that faithful Servant and Minister of Christ M. Christopher Love, a man of so much and such known worth while he lived, and of so good a name and memory now dead, that as any thing I can say of him would signify little, so I shall be wholly silent in it: What and how extreme the Proceedings of the Court were against him, will by this that follows sufficiently appear, especially if thou dost but considerately peruse M. Loves defence, and the Plea of that honourable Gentleman, and his then faithful Counsel M. Serjeant Hales, against both the Charge and Evidence. This trial was formerly printed, but not till now made thus public, the times not bearing it. The Court took a severe course to have prevented the publishing of it, as being (it seems) conscious to themselves of their own foul and false play therein; and did therefore every day commit my very Notes to the Tower, (though they did not prove to be under such strict keeping, but that I had the liberty of giving them several visits) not that I think every one of the Court should fall under the same consideration, for there were divers of them (as I am certainly informed▪) that would not at all have appeared in it, but upon the ⟨image 3⟩earnest solicitation of some nearly related to M. Love, and that only in order (if it could have been) to the saving of his life. My aim in now publishing this Trial, is not that it should prove an injury to or an irritation of any, but partly a little to revive the memory of that now blessed servant of God (though I know the righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance) and partly that the world may be somewhat acquainted with the manner of proceedings of our high Courts of Justice, especially when they have been erected (as it is too too apparent ours have been) only to feed the malice, and serve the corrupt and unjust interests, of ambitious and merciless men.
THou hast here a true and impartiall account of the Proceedings of the High Court of Justice (so called) against that faithfull Servant and Minister of Christ M. Christopher Love, a man of so much and such known worh while he lived, and of so good a name and memory now dead, that as any thing I can say of him would signifie little, so I shall be wholy silent in it: What and how extreme the Proceedings of the Court were against him, will by this that follows sufficiently appear, especially if thou dost but considerately peruse M. Loves defence, and the Plea of that honourable Gentleman, and his then faithfull Counsell M. Serjeant Hales, against both the Charge and Evidence. This triall was formerly printed, but not till now made thus publick, the times not bearing it. The Court took a severe course to have prevented the publishing of it, as being (it seems) conscious to themselves of their own foul and false play therein; and did therefore every day commit my very Notes to the Tower, (though they did not prove to be under such strict keeping, but that I had the liberty of giving them severall visits) not that I think every one of the Court should fall under the same consideration, for there were divers of them (as I am certainly informed) that would not at all have appeared in it, but upon the