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Show CHAPTER SEVEN "May 3, 1632"* Despite the voiced concerns of her family for her health, Hannah determined that she would attend the trial of her husband by the High Commission. Because of her weak condition, the effort to tie up her hair, to button her shoes, and to take care of her personal hygiene took the major part of the morning. Accompanying Hannah were Jane and the younger children, but Thomas had sprinted ahead so as to assure that at least one Lathrop family member would be inside the courtroom to witness the trial. By the time she and the rest of the family arrived at the court, they found there was no seating available. What's more, there wasn't even standing room within the courtroom itself. The arrest of John Lathrop and his conventiclers had been touted loudly by the presiding authorities and on this day of trial a host of interested parties gathered to hear the proceedings, not the least of whom were the families of those who had been arrested. "Thomas must be inside," S.amuel concluded after looking over the mass of faces. "I'm going to get in too." Before Hannah could stop him, he was working his way through the crowd toward the bottleneck of faces at the entrance to the courtroom itself. He couldn't get past the door, but crouching low he could peer between ^All courtroom dialogue quoted in this chapter has been extracted HSMHfterds of the proceedings of Lathrop's trial by the ' H U B M i l tJ Court of High Cbmfffission. Onlv the s p e l l i n g has been modernized. |