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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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L. Pres, You shall be informed. That was a trial by the law, as it then stood; these now are all upon Acts of Parliament and Laws of the Land, that are of as high a nature as they: those are ancient Laws, and these are Statutes lately made, and of an extraordinary nature, and were made to meet with such persons as you, that have done such things as you have done. And now for your Neighbourhood, I hope you have twenty or forty Neighbours that are within the equity of that Law.
Mr. Love. If they be a Jury, I have power to except against 35. of them.
At. Gen. My Lord, he pretends Mr. Lilburn's Trial, but when you come to hear the evidence, you shall hear what he was doing then; he was preparing himself then in his business; he thought his time might come; and I am informed, that since he hath been in the Tower, Lilburn hath been his counsel.
Att. Gen. My Lord, he pretends Mr. Lilburns Triall, but when you come to hear the evidence, you shall hear what he was doing then; he was preparing himself then in his businesse; he thought his time might come; and I am informed, that since he hath been in the Tower, Lilburn hath been his counsel.