A88579:104
A clear and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love,…A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love,…
A clear and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my trial before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Justice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawful invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Jury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my tryall before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Iustice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawfull invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Iury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.
London : s.n., Printed in the year 1651
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When I first put pen to paper, I did not intend to look so far back as the Trial, but because the Trial is so mis-represented, and mis-reported in some Books in Print, especially in that lying Book, called, The Plea for the Common-wealth, and because many black and hideous things are laid to my Charge, of which I am not guilty. Wherefore I shall do two things, 1. Lay down what none of the 8. Witnesses did prove against me. 2. Give a brief Extract of what they did prove against me, that so the World may be satisfied upon what I was Condemned to dye.
When I first put pen to paper, I did not intend to look fo far back as the Tryall, but because the Tryall is so mis-represented, and mis-reported in some Bookes in Print, especially in that lying Book, called, The Plea for the Common-wealth, and because many black and hideous things are laid to my Charge, of which I am not guilty. Wherefore I shall doe two things, 1. Lay down what none of the 8. Witnesses did prove against me. 2. Give a brief Extract of what they did prove against me, that so the World may be satisfied upon what I was Condemned to dye.
None of the 8. Witnesses did prove in Court.
1. That I writ Letter to the King of Scots, or Queen, or Jermin, or Percy, or to any other persons in foreign parts, either in or of the Scottish Nation, since the Wars began, to this day.
1. That I writ Letter to the King of Scots, or Queen, or Jermin, or Piercy, or to any other persons in foreign parts, either in or of the Scotish Nation, since the Wars began, to this day.