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Show ( So) who punillled them by a Law .made ·againft ~ Cur{ed Se8 pf Hereticks (as the La~.Expre!fes ) that [peak an~ ,.p~lte Blafphe~otH . Opmzons; ·whofo Doflrines (asH faith ) are D~aboltcal, &c .. But as no fuch thing was. proved againfr. them ; nor were they cryed upon any fuch QEefiion; but did deny that they were fuch a People as that Law exprelfes : And judged ic hard anq wrong Dealing with them, That under Colour of a Law, chey fhould be proceeded wich ~onrrary ro, and againll all Law.-Anfwer was made,' That they appeared fo by their Hats ar~d Company; and that they might Appeal-( now they knew well enough that rhemfelves fbould be of the Court of Appeal) So they appealed.-You muft do it by Petition (faid the Court)-which they could nor; but Jufiice rhey defired, and no Mercy, according to their Law ; and fo fpake, and required them again to Prove them to be (uch as the La'Jv Expr~(Jes-The Har was brought up again-Then let it be Recorded [o, faid they, That we have been thm punifhed for not putting off tbe Hat.-But this the Courc would not.-Srill they required Evidence ro prove chem Bla(phemers, Hereticks, and holding Diabolical DoElrines ; or, fuch a Curfed Sect as the Law fpeaks, and by which they were punifhed.-Brend faid So and ~o (faid the Courc) and that they did own it.None of 115 heard it (faid they) for none of us were there ( yet W. Brend faid nothing ro them, but what was Savory and Truth; and if he had) he ibould have he:;~rd of ic, and they would have produced it, no doubt, ro fatisfie the People, who were fo troubled about his Suffering) and (it was reafonable enough, and turned a Lye upon them, viz." in faying, They owned what be {aid, when none of them were chere)-Then · rhe ( 81 ) the Court put Q.1efiions ro them, whereby ro clear rhemfelves, and Daniel Denijon was Chief in it,-- Evidence { faid the Prifoners) Produce your Evidence : We deflre nothing but a fair Tryal, the Priviledge of Men : We are not afraid nor afoamed to declare what we hold, 'vbether before the Court, or tl{e,vhere ; and offered ic before all the People, firll: ro have a fair Tryal by a Jury of Twelvt Men, according to Law, by Proof and Evidence; as ro what ye have done to us, rill which we fhall nor Anf wer; it being an U nreafonable Thing for the Magifiraces to be both Accufer and 1 udge. So ( faid they ) J'e may accufe of So-domy and Murder, or any other Crime, and execute . your Law cauflefly upon u.r.-Bllt rhis the Court de- A Trya1 nied (contrary tO che Law of England, and in of Twelve r he expretrs. Breach o f Ma[1Ja Charta, and o f your cMorecnli,n rar ctwo Charcer) and infiead of proving any thing againfi the La~ of rhem, or producing any thing in Order chere- England, unto (except fame ~efiions to gain fomerhing anclofthat our of their own Mouths, wherewithal to accufe ~~~~~t'J;. rhem, which chey anfwered nor ) They were manded, Semenc'd w pay each of them Ten Shillings a- denied. piece, for being at Meetings by chemfclves, and Five Shillings each for nm being at yours ; that is ro fay, Samuel Shattock, and Nicholm Pbclps, for being at rwo fuch 1\1 etings, and ab{em twice from yours, Thirry Shillings a- piece ; and Jojhua Buffum, for once of each, Fifteen Shil-lings ; and for b,eing Quaktrr, as ye call'd them, (who were nor proved w have TranfgtdT~d ir, and were denied a Trial, when £hey demand-ed ir, as aforefaid, acc01ding w the Law of England, .and rhe Countr} ; and yet now were made ~o fuffcr as Breakers of th ;.u Law, a. rhey \\:ere be.for~; fuch Monllrous Jlkgaliry, and (Jl"eac InJufhc~: was never heatd . f) And Dtmie! F DoJi{cn |