OCR Text |
Show 100 "We read the scriptures and catechized our families," explained Eaton. "...we did nothing but what you will allow us to do." Laud's face reddened at Eaton's benign confession. He was on his feet again addressing the court. "...These are dangerous men, they are a scattered company sown in all the city, and about St. Michal of the Querne, St. Austin's, Ould Jury, Redriff, and other remoter places." Picking up the book upon which they should swear an oath, he demanded, "Hold them the book!" "I dare not sweare , nor take this oath, though I will not refuse it, I will consider of it," said Eaton in a voice noticeably placid. "Hear, hear..." Sir Henry Martin took exception to Eaton's refusal, "you shall swear but to answer what you know, and as far as you are bound by law- You shall have time to consider of it, and have it read over and over till you can say if without book if you will, when you have first taken your oath that you will make a true answer." "I dare not, I know not what I shall swear to," Eaton was unmoved. "It is to give a true answer to articles put into the Court against you, or that shall be put in touching this conventicle of yours, and divers your heretical tenehts, and what words, and exercises you used, and things of this nature," clarified the King's Advocate. |