A88575:202
Mr. Love's case
Mr. Love's case: wherein is published, first, his several petitions to the Parliament. Secondly, a full narrative of the late dangerous design against the state, written with Mr. Loves own hand, and by him sent to the Parliament; wherein he setteth down his several meetings and secret actings with Major Alford, Maj. Adams, Col. Barton, Mr. Blackmore, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Dr. Drake, Mr. Drake, Cap. Far, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Haviland, Major Huntington, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Jaquel, Mr Jackson, Lieut. Col. Jackson, Cap. Massey, Mr. Nalton, Cap. Potter, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Sterks, Colonel Sowton, Colonel Vaughan, and others. Thirdly, Mr. Loves speech and prayer on the scaffold on Tower Hill, August 22. 1651. Printed by an exact copy, taken in short-hand by John Hind. Fourthly, animadversions on the said speech and prayer.Mr. Love's case: wherein is published, first, his several petitions to the Parliament. Secondly, a full narrative of the late dangerous design against the state, written with Mr. Loves own hand, and by him sent to the Parliament; wherein he setteth down his several meetings and secret actings with Major Alford, Maj. Adams, Col. Barton, Mr. Blackmore, Mr. Case, Mr. Cauton, Dr. Drake, Mr. Drake, Cap. Farr, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Haviland, Major Huntington, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Jaquel, Mr Jackson, Lieut. Col. Jackson, Cap. Massey, Mr. Nalton, Cap. Potter, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Sterks, Colonel Sowton, Colonel Vaughan, and others. Thirdly, Mr. Loves speech and prayer on the scaffold on Towerhil, August 22. 1651. Printed by an exact copy, taken in short-hand by John Hinde. Fourthly, animadversions on the said speech and prayer.
London: printed for R.W. and Peter Cole, 1651
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ANIMAD. upon Sect. 5.
If Mr. Love may be his own Judge, nothing capital was sufficiently proved against him: Allow him his own sense of the words, capital and sufficiently, and possibly he may be innocent. But the High Court of Justice, though a great part (I think I might say, the greatest) of the Members of it, were very real friends to him, and their hearts much set to have holpen him out of the briars, as far as Justice and a good Conscience would give way, were not of Mr. Loves mind touching his Innocency; yea Mr. Love in his Narrative was not of the same mind (in this point) with himself here; How he came by so much Innocency between the time of his exhibiting the said Narrative to the Parliament, and the time of his coming to the Scaffold, his best Advocate (I suspect) would be ashamed to declare. Innocency is not contracted by obstinacy, or by the greatest confidence in denial of the Truth. Mr. Love when he ingenuously (as himself professed) acknowledged the Justice of the Parliament in their proceedings against him, did plainly enough confess that the Proof against him, was not empty, but as high and full as the Charge it self. Those Expressions, That no witness proved that ever he writ a Letter or directed any man to write a Letter into Scotland, &c. plainly prove him to have been more cautelous then chaste: and that he walked all along with his fellows in their unhallowed practices, under the protection of that Motto, Si non castè, tamen cautè. He that desires to know more particularly how Mr. Love with the rest of his fellow Trinketers, divided their thoughts and endeavours between doing of mischief on the one hand, and the keeping themselves out of danger, what mischief soever they should do on the other hand, may receive satisfaction only by a perusal of the six and seven pages of a small Discourse lately published under the title of, A short Plea for the Commonwealth; whereas he affirmeth, That all that was sworn against him, was, That he was present when Letters were read, and that he made a motion to give Money to Massey, is a most shameless and horrid untruth, as appears by the Depositions of several Witnesses against him. Captain Potter deposed, That he carried the Letters sent from Bampfield, from Argile, Loudon, Lothian, Belcarris, and another from a nameless person (supposed to be Mr. Baily) to Mr. Love to take advice upon them.