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Show Truth Rtfcued frQ"! Impofture. 1670. on rbeir Hats •tnin. At 'which the fame Keepers put them on, of whicli ~ the Author of out 'fryal has been more parrkular, Nota II. pag. n. The Court ob{ervi,tg rfMt the PrifonerJ jltJnJing oil tf:t Le&~ds behind rbe-Bar, with t!JI'ir liars o11, facing tbe Otnzrr all t!Jttt Day, a1 it wtre daring tb(Court ro a Tryal; Jo tbat the Court, and till tb~ Spe{}arors Jook'd upcm them, as offering a great .Ajfro~t to the Honour of bu Majefly't Court ; rbe Jujlicu were refo!vtd to cbajlzze rbem for the fame. .Anfw. His fecond Nota is his fecond Lye. For firfi we wer~ oat upon the Le:1ds :1t any Time of the Day, as many can aneft, ~ut tn the Bale· dock or within rhe Bar, attending upon the Tryals of Tbuvu and 41ur· dere;s, to the Dif,Pleafure of the Speft~tors~ but not on our ~arr. Rcfide1• that this was done upon meer Defign, IS evtdent. becaufe neuher were rhe Goalers nor we, fo hard~ treated the firll: Day of our Appearance, when there w~s equal Ground for it. Nota III. pag. 14• This is a great Fa/foood; for their Hau wue put on, behind the Bar, before t1Jey came into Court. • .Anfw. But it is a gr~at Truth that ~e were. nor. be~md the Bar at all, until towards the Evemng, when caft mto thetr fimkmg Hol.e, and there indeed they fiay'd us behind the Bar three Hours. And for mtne own part, I do declare, my Hat was clapt upon niy Head by the Keeper's. Hand, within a very little Spoce of the Place in which we ufually 1\ood during the whole Time of our Tryal. Nota IV. pag. 14. Thit it infignificant Canting. Jinfw. What?. W. Mead's faying, Fear God, and dread· his Pua~er. 0 Ru· pendious lmfiety! That ever any profefs'd Prottflant !hpuld have fo much out-finned a l Senfe of God, and his Dreadful Potoer, as to repute that Seafonable Exhortation, Jnfignificant Canting.· But this makes us the lef5 to wonder at our Sufferings from fuch. Nota V. pag. 14. It washy Sir John Robinfon obftrvtd, tbnt Bufhel, rbe Tender Con{citnced Juri-man, maJe an Offer to ldfr tbe Book, hut did nor; VJ1Jaefore he Wal called 'tl.pon by the Court to he Sworn again. Jlnf. How much that fuick-[tgbted Lieutenant had more ]ealoufy and Prejudice than others in hts Eye, the many Speaators prefenr can bell: decide ; for mine own Share, I did not obferve him to gratify the common Cyftom of the Court, more in the latter than former Tender of the Ottb uri to him: But with what prepenfe and difdainful Ketch he was tre:Jred, was obvious to thofe about him, 1 perceive it is as Crimina/to be Tender·confcienced, as it is efteemed Canting, to hid Mtn Fear God: For as tbat Religious Advice \'Vas. f!lade 'Matter of ft1ockage, fo this~ood Quality is not lefs render"d S~fj>Jctous. Bur bow Tender-confcienced ucb Perfonrare, tbrtt makefo illufe ofjucb Exfrelfions, is heft manifeft in I eir fevere Proftcutiont of Alcn that reaOy are fo. Nota VI. pag. 17· As dear EviJe.nu as ever was offered to any Jury, Two WitntjJtt prove tbe Fail dgainfl both the Prifoncrr, 11nd rbe Prijoners confefs the whole matter in EJfefl, and juflify tbemfe!ves, and declare t~ey will do the like a1ain; f»hauver Law.ttbe King and Parliament (an provtde ogainft the fame. 0 confidentlmput!enq! Surely both King and Bzr/iaatnr "'it1take nt11ice of.Penn'.r krPgllnq. Anfw. It will be wholly needlefs to repeat the Evidence, twice done alx~ ady; but to his Nott~.-1 anfwet thus, Firft, Thctt the Witneffes did not lfwear, that we were at an Vn!atDfu! .Affe11lbly, :1nd that they were there, the ]urj never fcr~!eJ. That Part or the lndi8:menr, which was fo In~ digeflahle with the ]uty, was the IUeghlity of tbe .AjJemh!y; and qncc the Court was not content wirh their Verdict upon a meer FaO, it argues, t~at ~hey wouia have rmde them Judges of Law, by determining the Uga!it~; \foJJ-1, Trutli ]/.efcutd·frDmlmpotlure. ~ 'l-or "!Rt~aliry of the Meetin.g,_ no~. fworn to by the Wi<neffes. Second! ·j (6 ~'1 • T~ Jl:1a)'or and _ReCJJrder d 1.fleted In the. Point , the Mayor was for tb.ctfu i ~· ti~tng m'e only; the .Re~nrder.dtoUght It unreafonable that I fhould 0 ~ wnhout a Maze, and.Jufhfies lttS':Apprehenfi'ort, from the Word: COfiitirfic~ ' J.ur where the Confp1racv was lWe'"h:rve leave to think '11' 1 ~ ' 'JJhe-Btnch being rlrus .di~id~d.i'n 'rh; Poinr, 'tWlS m' obferved bv s. s. imce the Perfon he molt VIOdlcates hes moft liable to RefteUion. ·Third'" ly, Thotl&h we. confefs t~ ha\'e.been there, yet we deny to have been at an Unlarvjal.Aj}embly, whtch being the Purpofc of the lddiElmen'r it was unfCafonably obferved. But fourthly, we acknowledge before Go/ ilngel ' a.nd .M~:ni that MEE! we m. uft, and encour.:1ge others to do the like; y::.. io, ~never to Comrtve, or Abet tU !eaft DJRt~rpana to tbe Civil Peace: .And· •~ from hen~ he fhl~ M; lmtnldent, and ArrogttRt, I am contented to t>ear hts fcurvy Epnhets 'ttll he is hetter l~.trnr. · One .Paffage 1 cmnot well omit, becaufe it gil•es the M:10 the Lye that fpok~ 1[, When TV. .Mead ask'd R. Brown, Wbftt be Jid there? Was be a Ju{l!ce, ~r no? I~ not, d~fired him to come down : R. Brown is faid to ~nfwet htm, hy tlie' Relatton Of S. S. Sir, I am a ]II /lice, and yo11 are an rmpudenr,FeRow. , f . Which Anfwer 1 oor~ies ?S: much Of FaHhood, as L1civility ami Folly. FOr, fuft, he w~s no J uibce 1n that Place, the Ground of the Queftion. And n~xt, !"le '!ug~t h:~ve fparod the Infolency of {tiling him an Impudent Fe/. low, who ts, m e_xternal Re~petb, a Perfon no ways infer'i6r to himf'eU~ An4· ~ftly, He !hews not a httl_e FoUy, or S. S. for him, who ventures to call htm an lmpude~t Fellow, tn the End df the Sentence, that he ftiled (S.r)."tn the Begmmng (a Title'of fo much Honour with S. S. pag. 10.) But. •1£ the Author. Of .the .Tryal gave not Titlc..s and Additions this Man hath not been wanting m etther. ' r ·r. ·. !! - Nota VII. pag; ti]. How Mr. P<:nn plfl)'l u.Polt the Word Common. ~. -1nfw. _1 play d upon not~1ng, But for worlt.ing in Defence of the Com-man .L~w, SMu. f!Jere (o proJ1gat., 41 to-pl4y away hry Liberty. ;.; BoL':S, S. Wlll .have it, that the MaYor bad Law enough, to define the Comma~ one; b~tlat the Rate he exprelres it,~ he rhight have let it alan€! ·unlefs t}ts E,xp9fino'Jc..had turr.eil ·mcre to hi1 A~aounr: For, if the Commo~ ~~w ~ be Commori Re'afon, (as. he ·fays ·the MaYor defio'd it) and that, beIIJ! l: a. 1M~r'l, I have' corhtnon Reafon (which none of them had fo mttctt extraor~wary Reafon, as to evidce-.the f;Ontrary) methinks they might have ,ft>rborn. fa grcar·an lnftan.ce 1o£ 110 Reafon, as their commanding me to theJBale:dock,. for ,demandmg Common Reafon. 1 ~ am well affuted, tb;~;t common Reafon criminates no Afi'embly peac~ }:~hv~l::r 'J).';;~fi~:.p God, withqut the leafr Appearance of Weap~ns Of-k. l , j I Nora VIII. P.'g.19. CT.his N~ta r.cf~rring to_rhe Jury's•being Judge of .La.w-:~nd:Faft (as unhapptly ~tUmgu1fh d) I omu to confider it fanher, it beong fully onfweted alteady m the founh Pan ~f this Difcourfe. "{• No~a IX. pag. 21. Penn madefuc!J.anJmci'IJil Noije, that the CoJJrt coflld nor. t,1Ve Jbe J11ry .lfu Charge, be wa~ therefore pru into tbe &/1'-dock txl~rch ftand.~ eVt'JI ,Wlt_b 1be Ba~} and 1be Priflners- might bear the Cbarg; tl ere, .ttl toell.m t~.PriJomr mtgbt bear at rbe Bar 1 this tbcrrfore auu 4 cullft! efs f.xc!tllntlftan. .Anfw. If. my Noife was uncivil, it was becaufe it was Lrg11!, :md 1 ex~ pea not a better Ghuroder from flJch, lS proclaim me .a Broather of new 1-lerefies1 bamtje 1 honefl!y delltt~nded rbe free Courfe of the f•nd11mtnt11l La~s Q] · England. The plain Tnuh was this; thall bec.aufe I endeavoured to t~form the Jury of my Cafe, and to rake. off the Afpcricy of fome Me~ s PJfiion&., they turn'd me .and my Com(iluion inro the B:t!e·do.ck. Whtch, thougl\ e\'Cn with the.Bar, yet befidcs ttze main Court, :Jnd.-fo deep- ' T tt IY. |
