A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations Volume 8 - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...innocent of what is laid to my charge; I think it was severe against me, now contrary to what was sworn at London: they swear how, I was to seize the king at Oxon, in London they swore I would pluck the king out of Whitehall, but it is altered since, and now it is to seize the king at Oxon; but be it either one or the other (for the one is as true as the other) I am wholly innocent of either, I never had such a thought in my life, God forgive them that have sworn against me; I have no more to say, my lord. L. C. J. Look you, Mr. Colledge, it is too late to profess your innocence, you have been tried, and found Guilty; but because you say so now, it is necessary for me to say something in vindication of the verdict, which I think the Court were all very well satisfied with: there were sufficient pi oofs to warrant it, and the jury did according' to justice and right. I thought it was a case, that as you tnade your own defence, small proof would serve the turn to make any one believe you Guilty. For as you would deiieud yourself by pretending to be a Protestant, I did wonder, I must confess, when you called so many witnesses to your religion and reputation, that none of them gave an account that they saw you receive the Sacrament within these many years, or any of them particularly had seen you at church in many years, or what kind of Protestant you were. If we look to your words and actions, it is true, they did prove this, that you were mighty violent nhd zealous in crying out against popery and the papists; but if we look to your actions, they favoured rather to promote'the papists ends, for I must tell you, the papists are best extirpated, and suppressed by a steady prosecution of the laws against them, not by violent crying-J-out, and nutting the people ...
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