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Show ( ll6 )' done? Ye faid, Hit o7vn Confrj]ion WtU as good tU a Tboufand Wit1uj]es. William demanded, What T he mat- wra that? You anfwered, That he owned thofe ~ers lai't that were put to Death. ( A fore Crime indeed, to his for a Man to be pur ro Dearh, for owning rhe Charge. Innocent Manyrs of Jefus~ whom you had murrhered ; and thac rhey were Innocent for whic~ Lhey died ; and that he would noc pur off ,hJ.s Hat in Courc; and that he would fay, Thee and Thou. 0 char ever a Generarion of Men thould · be fo befoned in Blood, as to bring Innocent Blood upon their Heads, for fuch Innocent Things as thefe ! ) Then faid William to you, You wilt pHt me to Death for fpeak~ng Englifb,an_d for not putting off my Clot~ths. To thts your fomeumes Major-General Denifon repli~d, A Man may [peak Treafon in Englill1 ; let m come to the Thing in Hand. Then anfwered Wi/Jiam, Is it Treajon to fay Thee and Thou to a jingle Perfon ? To which none of you replied ; but Simon Broadflreet ( a Man hardned in Blood, and a cruel Perfecutor) demanded of WilJiam Leddra, Whether he would go for England ? William an{ wered, I have no Bujinefs there. Said Simon, pointing to the Gallows, Then you Jhatl be Hang' d; or, that he (houltl go that way. So linle Efieem have you of Mens Lives or Blood; but Blood will be given you, + Tl . for you are worthy t, who have 1bewed no they ~~ct Mercy. And yet this Simon Broadflreer,when afterin a large wards he was here in England, wich 1ohn Norton, ~earure your High-Priefi, as your Agents, when he was Wa~~'e as charged with fi~ring on _the Blood of the Innobefore- eel")[, could llumk, feanng he 1bould have been mention'lt quefiioned for the Blood of the Innocent; which, had he received hii due, had been here execured upon him; bur ·anmher hand will meet with him, who w him and you, will rende1· according ro your Deeds~ fViOiam ( ~17 ) William replied, What, wiO you put me to Death (or breathing in the Air in roe.r Jurifdi8ion ? And He Apfor what JO" have againft me, I appeal to the Laws ~ea\s ~0 of England ( faid he ) for my Trial; ar:zd if by ng an • them I am Guilty, I refu{e not to Dyr:. See the Va-lour of the Man, and his Confidence and Truft and your Wickednefs, t har for breathing in rh~ A_ir ( ~or in effeCt nothing elfe could ye charge ·him wuh, bur coming wirhin your JurifdiCl:ion who is called a f!.!4aker, and· doing nmhing there~ ·in worchy of Death. or of Bonds: And what is r~is. b~t for bre~rhing in the Air within your Ju~tf~tCl:ton ? t-:JeHher broaching Opinion or ~rm~1ple, or domg any other Thing, bur commg m contrary ro your Law, who will have none ro breathe therein, but whom ye pleafe) hi~ Breath ye will take away, and cut him off from the Land of the Living. • To this you would not agree nor yield, but mfiead thereof, you feek to perf wade him ro Th~ Cow:r: R f h r E d demes h1q ecanr o £ Ote rrors, an Conform to your A eat · WiJls, and to Submit to you, fo hard ic is for PP • you ro ?ubmir ro England ( 0 ! what a fiupid ~eneratton are ye, ro demand of a Man, for his Ltfe, to Recant, f~r nor puning off his Har, his Cloaths, for fpeakmg properly, Thou and Thee ro ~ fingle Perfon_ ~ _fo~ owning thofe, who coming mto your JunfdtCl:wn, and being known ro be fuch Perfons ·as themfelves ; by fuch inno-cem and proper Things as rhefe, ye puc co Death ; and becaufe he can nor do it ro Mur ther him ~lfo; it is hard ro find word; by which to exprefs you. To which he anf we red according ro. the Ma~nan_imiry of the Spi;it of Truth whtch was m htm, What, to joyn witb {uch Murtherers tU you t~re? Then let everr Man thm meets ·me fay, Lo! this is the Man that hath · · U 3 · f orfakm |