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A38938	An exact narrative of the tryal and condemnation of John Twyn for printing and dispersing of a treasonable book with the tryals of Thomas Brewster, bookseller, Simon Dover, printer, Nathan Brooks, bookbinder, for printing, publishing, and uttering of seditious, scandalous, and malitious pamphlets : at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, London, the 20th, and 22th of February, 1663/4.	Twyn, John, d. 1664.; Brewster, Thomas.; Dover, Simon.; Brooks, Nathan.	1664 (1664)	Wing E3668; ESTC R15143	52,156	88

Morton Did you hear this man say that he had corrected it Wickham No but I having him in custody at my house I asked him about it he said It was a very bitter thing that it was his unhappy fortune to meet with it Jury Did he confess he Printed it Wickham Not to me Serj Morton He said It was a Bitter Thing and that it was his unhappy Fortune to meet with it make the best of tha● compare that with the rest of the Evidence William Story Sworn Gentlemen of the Jury Upon the seventh of October last early in the morning I was sent for to Mr. L'Estrange into Cloth fair we went to the house of this Twyn after some time knocking they went up stairs and brought down several papers I know not what they were I went into the next house with Mr. Wickham and there we found two or three hundred sheets and brought them to Mr. L'Estrange I asked the Prisoner at my house whether he could not write or read he said Yes did not you use to read what you Printed he said Yes did not you know Treason when you read it It was a fury thing I did not mind it much but I should have got money by it Mr. Mabb He owned he had but a very small price for the doing of it Mr. Joseph Williamson Sworn That which I can say is That I know this looking upon a paper to be my own hand writing and to be the examination taken of this Twyn I took it and he owned it after it was written Serj. Morton What was the substance of it L. Hide What did he confess before Mr. Secretary when he was examined Mr. Williamson He said that the Copie of the Book was brought to him by one Evans maid to Mistris Calvert that for the Author being asked if he knew him he said he did not and that he had seen the Copie of three sheets of the Book that he had Printed only two of those sheets a thousand exemplaries of each Serj. Keeling Did he confess that Mr. Williamson Yes and further that he had delivered them to this Evans at the sign of the Rose in Smithfield that he himself had corrected those sheets he had Printed and that he had read them after they were Printed that for his pains and Printing of them he had received fourty shillings in part from this maid at the delivery of them at the Rose that the maid carried away those Exemplaries from the Rose and that he parted with her at the door Serj. Morton I hope you observe Gentlemen we have now done we desire the Prisoner may give his answer to it and then we shall make our reply L. Hide What say you you have heard the Witnesses and what is laid to your charge Twyn I did never read a line of it in my life L. Hide That 's impossible I 'le tell you first your own man who set part swears you did both Set and Print part of this Book your self you gave him the title to Set you composed one part of the Book whilst he was Composing another part Is it possible you conld Compose and not read a line of it He tells you further wheu the first Sheet was Printed he brought it into the Kitchin and laid it down knew not of any one in the House but your self About an hour or an hour and a half after you brought it back again Corrected laid it down and the hand that Corrected it was not unlike your hand upon other Corrections of Books Pray Brother Morton Let the Jury have Books and Mr. Lee Read the Indictment that they may see they agree Serj. Morton I observed to you there were Thirteen Treasonable Paragraphs you shall find them marked out in the Margent L Hide You shall see there are Treasons with a Witnesse see the very Title Mr. Lee. Reads the Title of the Indictment A Treatise of the Execution of Justice wherein is clearly proved that the Execution of Judgment and Justice is as well the Peoples as the Magistrates Duty and if the Magistrates pervert Judgement the People are bound by the Law of God to execute Judgement without them and upon them L. Hide That you gave to your man to set Mr. Lee reads It is one of the Scarlet Sins of this Nation that the People suffer their Rulers c. The Particular Passages are too Impious to be Published and indeed too Foul to be Repeated but in Substance Those mentioned in the Indictment are as follows First The Supream Magistrate is made Accomptable to the People Secondly The People are Rebelliously Incited to take the Menage of the Government into their own Hands Thirdly They are Animated to take up Armes not only against the Person of His Sacred Majesty but likewise against the Royal Family Fourthly They are Stirred up to a Revolt in that very Term as an Action Honourable and Conscientious making Publication in the next Clause of Encouragement to any Town City or County in the Three Nations to begin the Work Fifthly The People are Laboured not only to cast off their Allegiance to the King but in Direct Terms to put His Sacred Majesty to Death And to the purposes before mentioned tends the whole Scope of the Treatise Serj. Morton You may judge of the rest by this we will not put you to any more expence of Time there hath been sufficient Treason in that which you have read L. Hide Now say what you will but I must tell you in those particulars that have been compared there is as much Villanie and Slander as is possible for the Devil or man to invent It is to destroy the King in his Person to Rob him of the Love and Affections of His People to Destroy the whole Family and all Government Ecclesiastical and Civil and this Read by your self Owned and Caused to be Printed Twyn Except it was that sheet that Mr. L'Estrange read to me when I was taken I never heard it before nor read it L. Hide Your man swears that you did Set and Print part of it it 's impossible to Compose and Set but you must Read it nay you did Examine and Correct the sheets brought them up again Mr. L'strange swears you confessed you read it over it was Mettlesome stuffe Mr. Dickenson sayes you did not say you read it over but he saying to you it was impossible you should Set it and not Read it You told him also It was Mettlesome Stuffe You could not Judge it to be Mettlesome Stuffe but you must read it There is Mr. Williamson sayes that you confessed before Mr. Secretary Bennet that you had seen three Sheets Printed off two Sheets Corrected those two Sheets and after Printed and delivered them and that you had 40● in part of Payment Besides this when Mr. L'Estrange came first you were up nay at two a Clock in the morning when they came and knocked at the Door they heard Presses going you would make no answer till

trying your Neighbours may come Brewster My Lord I shall desist for the present Serj. Morton May it please your Lordship and you Gentlemen of the Jury I am of Council for the King against Tho Brewster Bookseller that stands here Indicted for that he contrary to the duty of his Allegiance which he owes to our Soveraign Lord the King he did cause maliciously a seditious and scandalous Book to be printed wherein there are divers scandalous clauses contained that are in disparagement of the Kings Royal Prerogative and against his Government Crown and Dignitie and likewise that he has sold and uttered the same Books in contempt of his Majesties Laws This is the effect of the Indictment it has been proved to you by four Witnesses that for which he stands Indicted First that he did cause part of the Book to be Printed that 's clearly proved by Creek likewise that he has sold and uttered those Books in his Shop nay he confesses that he did and saies they were sold openly as a Diurnal and therefore he thinks it was lawful for him to do it he has gone about to make a defence of this his seditious behaviour he tells you he did not print all the Book it is not said that he printed such and such a Letter of the Book but that he caused such a Book to be printed and it is to be presumed if he caused one part he would cause the other or otherwise it would be a Book of maimed sence and imperfect Gentlemen for the uttering and selling of them that himself confesses you have heard the excuses he hath made whether you will not find him Guilty of this crime that I must leave to you and to the direction of the Court. L. Hide You of the Jury you see the Indictment is for causing a libellous and seditious Book to be printed under such a Title that is The Speeches and Prayers c. It is for causing this seditiously factiously and wickedly to be printed and for selling and publishing it abroad to the Kings people For the matter of Evidence you have heard it I will not repeat the particulars to you only something to what he has said that you may not be misled First He saies it does not appear that he did it maliciously or knowingly there are some things that you that are of the Jury are not to expect Evidence for which it is impossible to know but by the Act it self malice is conceived in the heart no man knows it unless he declares it As in Murder I have malice to a man no man knows it I meet this man and kill him the Law calls this malice If a man speak scandalous words against a man in his calling or trade he laies his action Malice though he cannot prove it but by the words themselves If I say a Printer or Stationer is an ignorant person has no skill in his Trade I would not have any man to deal with him he understands not how to Set Letters or the like here is nothing of malice at all appears yet if you bring your Action you must lay it Maliciously it is the destroying your Trade and you will have damages I instance in this particular that you may see there is malice supposed to a particular private person in that slander much more to the King and the State The thing it self in causing a Book to be printed that is so full of scandals and lies to inveigle misguide and deceive the people this is in construction of the Law Malice though no malice appear further The next is this factiously seditiously knowingly This carries sedition as well as malice Such a barbarous transcendent wretch that murdered his Prince without the least colour of Justice to declare that he rejoyced in his bonds and that the Martyrs would willingly come from Heaven to suffer for it horrid blasphemy all the Saints that ingaged in it to wish that they had sealed it with their blood what can you have more to incourage and incite the people to the killing of Kings and murdering their lawful Prince This they publish and say it was spoken publickly let it be upon his own soul that did it for in case he did it no man knew it but those that heard it But to publish it all over England 3000 of the first Impression and a second This is to fill all the Kings Subjects with the justification of that horrid murther I will be bold to say Not so horrid a villany has been done upon the face of the earth since the crucifying of our Saviour To Print and publish this is Sedition The next thing is your Trade I have a Calling to use and I may justifie the using of it so long as I use it lawfully but that must not justifie me in all manner of wickedness against the King and State As if a Lawyer I will put it in my own Coat pleads a mans Cause and against the King this is justifiable he ought to plead for his Client but he must plead as becomes him if a Lawyer in defence of his Client will speak Sedition do you think he is free from being punished so of a Printer if a Printer prints seditious and factious Books he must look to himself that 's no part of his Calling to poison the Kings people so though printing of a Book be lawful he must use it as the Law appoints him and not to incite the people to faction Writing of Letters you know it is common and lawful but if I write Treasonable Letters give notice to Rise do such and such unlawful acts I am to be punished for these Letters A Printer he is a publick Agent he is to do what he is able to answer or else he must take what follows He saies there was no Act against bim It is true you see he is not Indicted upon the Statute but at the Common Law for an offence in the nature of a Libel If I were a Printer and would compile a Pamphlet against a man though not in Authority and disparage him this is the publishing of a Libel and an offence for which he ought to be Indicted and punished by the Common Law and he that prints that Libel against me as a publick person or against me as Sir Robert Hide That Printer and he that sets him at work must answer it much more when against the King and the State Another thing is this he talks to you of dying mens words if men will be so vile to be as wicked at their deaths as they had been in their lives put the Case of that man on Saturday convicted for printing a horrible villainous thing if he will be so unchristian to himself as to justifie this at his death or to speak as bad as he had caused to be printed is that a Justification to publish them because they are the words of a dying man God forbid a Robber declares at the Gallows it is for a

An Exact NARRATIVE OF THE Tryal and Condemnation OF John Twyn FOR Printing and Dispersing of a Treasonable Book WITH THE TRYALS Of Thomas Brewster Bookseller Simon Dover Printer Nathan Brooks Bookbinder FOR Printing Publishing and Uttering of Seditious Scandalous and Malitious Pamphlets At Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly London the 20 th and 22 th of February 1663 4. Published by AUTHORITY London Printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1664. To the Reader IT is by Authority that these Tryals are Published and exact care has been taken that the Criminals may be as fairly used in the Narrative as they were at the Bar and how they were there dealt with let the Reader judge It may be noted in the first place that of Four Lives forfeited to the Law the Kings incomparable Clemency would take but One for as the Lord Chief Justice Hide often and excellently observed It was only his Majesties Mercy toward the other three to call that a Misdemeanour which the Law calls Treason In the next place may be observed the Tenderness of the Court not only in the large allowances of Freedom and Favour to the Prisoners while they were upon their Tryals but in the Adjournment of the Sessions from Saturday till Munday only for their sakes that they might want nothing which even they themselves thought necessary for their defence And Thirdly It is considerable That the One half of the Jury were Book-sellers and Printers whose Interest lay against the Verdict if they had not been Governed by a stronger Impulse of Loyaltie and Justice To descant upon the Hainousness of their Offences is not within the Prefacers Commission neither shall any mention be made unnecessarily of their Names but to speak one word concerning the Books Themselves for which they have suffered and Another touching the Reasons of laying open to the World what is here Exposed will not I presume be altogether Impertinent or Vseless Of the Treatise for which Twyn dyed a little shall suffice It was Moulded and Timed for the 12 th of October and any man that shall compare the Cast and Bias of it with the Rebels late Declaration in the North will swear that they were Both written with the same Ink. It was in fine an Arrow drawn out of a Presbyterian Quiver Lex Rex The very Shaft that formerly pierced the Late King through the Heart now Levelled at This. As to the Pamphlets whereupon the other Three were Indicted viz The Speeches and Prayers of some of the late Kings Judges c. Be it known to the Reader that this Book was not as it pretends to be a true account of the words written or spoken of dying men but a meer Forgery and Imposture Fathered upon those that were Executed but contrived by the Traytors that scaped as deeming it their safest way to publish the designs of the living in the words of the dead and the most conducing to their Project of destroying the Present King to perswade the Multitude into a good Opinion of the Murder of the Last To conclude Notorious it is that the whole Libel is a Cheat the Letters and Speeches a Counterfeit and framed only by Recommending one Rebellion to stir up Another The Phaenix whereupon Brewster only was Indicted was Printed soon after the burning of the Covenant by Order of Parliament and bears for the Device a Phaenix Rising out of the Flames The Drift of which Book is to Charge Damnation upon the Deserters of that Impious League and to Authorize a Rebellion Upon the whole Businesse These are but Three of above Three Hundred several Sorts of Treasonous Seditious Schismatical and Scandalous Books Libels and Papers Printed since His Majesties Return which are already Gathered into a Catalogue and the Pamphlets Themselves in Readinss to be produced whensoever Authority shall Require it Beside Those Numbers that have Escaped the Observation of the Collector If there be any Man that will yet pretend to doubt of a Settled Formal Plot against His Sacred Majesty and the Establish'd Government let him but advise with these Horrible Luxuriances of the Press and he shall either Renounce his Reason or Confess that The Generality of all the Separate Factions within the Kings Dominions are Engaged in the Conspiracy And it is no more wonder to find a People Distemper'd that 's entertain'd with Poyson instead of wholesome Nourishment then to see the Sea Rage when the Winds blow Thus much said might seem to give the Disaffected Party a greater Reputation then Convenient were it not that their maine Design has lately suffered so Fatal a Disappointment that many of them are at this Instant under a Course of Justice Others in Custody and Expecting it and the Residue neither in Humour nor Condition to prosecute the Quarrel Being so fully satisfied of the Vigilance Power and Activity of the Kings Friends which in Effect are as many as either Love the Publique or themselves that they find it morally impossible for them ever to bring any Villanie to Perfection upon so desperate a Bottome Beside that they have Undeceived the World and made appear to His Sacred Majesty that all Mercy is lost upon them To pass now to the Reasons of Publishing this Relation and there to make an End First There has not been any One Traytor cut off by the Stroke of Justice since the Blessed time of His Majesties Restauration whose Case and Tryal has not been Surreptitiously Printed and Published and impudently in Justification of the Offender with most Scandalous Reflections upon the King and His Government Except the Late Tryals in the North which are violently presumed to be at this Instant upon the Forge So that To Prevent mis-informations is one Reason of Publishing This Narrative A Second is To manifest the Insufferable Liberties of the Presse and the Necessity of bringing it into better Order Thirdly and Lastly It is Published for a Caution to all Persons whatsoever that they may see the Hazzard of Dispersing of Books as well as Printing of them and to the end that none presume to flatter themselves with an Expectation of coming off in Cases of Treason and Sedition upon the Plea of Trade or Ignorance His Majesty being Justly Resolved upon a Strict and Necessary Severity toward all Offenders in that Kind for the Future Five several Indictments Beeing drawn up viz. One of High-Treason against John Twyn Printer and the other Four for Sedition viz. Two against Thomas Brewster Book seller One against Simon Dover Printer and One against Nathan Brooks Bookbinder were Presented to the Grand-Inquest in London at the sessions of Goale Delivery of Newgate holden at Justice-hall in the Old Baily the 19th day of February 1663. Except that against Brooks which was found the day following by the same Inquest And after divers Witnesses were Sworn and Examined before the said Grand Inquest the said Bils of Indictment were severally returned Billa vera The Names of the said Grand

have free liberty of defending your self To the matter of Fact whether it be So or No in This case the Law does not allow you Councel to Plead for you but in matter of Law We are of Councell with you and it shall be our care to see that you have no wrong done you Cl. Set Simon Dover to the Barr Who being set his Indictment was read to the purpose following Thou standest Indicted in London by the name of Simon Dover late of London Stationer for that thou c. the 15th day of February in the 13th year of the Reign c. at the Parish of St. Leonards Fosterlane in the Ward of Aldevsgate London Falsly Maliciously and Wickedly didst Imprint a Certain Fals Malicious Scandalous and Seditious Book Intituled The Speeches and Prayers of some of the late Kings Judges c. and the same didst Sell Vtter against the duty of thy Allegiance c. How sayest thou Simon Dover art thou Guilty of this Sedition and Offence whereof thou standest Indicted or not Guilty Dover My Lord and the Honourable Bench I desire I may be heard a few words L. Ch Ju. Hide When you have Pleaded you shall Dover I shall be willing to Plead L. Ch Ju. Hide You must either confess it or Plead not Guilty I hope you are not Guilty of this Foule Crime Dover I am Not by the Laws of England Guilty L. Ch. Ju. Hide You shall be Tryed by the Laws of England whether you are Guilty or No. Dover I am willing to be so and I am glad I am come before you to that purpose having been long a Prisoner I am not Guilty of any thing in this Indictment neither as to Matter Time nor Place L. Ch. Ju. Hide What do you mean by Time and Place Dover I am not Guilty in Manner or Forme And now my Lord I being altogether ignorant of the Law I humbly beg Councell and a Copie of my Indictment I hope I shall not be destroyed because I am ignorant of the Law I have been eighteen weeks close prisoner L. Ch. Ju. Hide What would you have Dover I desire Time and Councell assigned me and a Copie of my Indictment L. Ch. Ju. Hide For a Copie of your Indictment though it be for a Foule Offence yet in favour to you it being not made so Capital as the other we cannot deny it you for Councel you may have what you will we need not assign it Make him a copie but I will tell you We shall try it now Dover I do protest I knew not what I came for I never imagined what my Indictment was I know not what there 's in 't L. Ch. Ju. Hide You shall have a Copie made presently If you have Councel or Witnesses send for them we must try you to day but you will have some time for we will begin with the other Dover I beg I may have a Copie of the Indictment in English I cannot understand Latine L. Ch. Ju. Hide That that is against you is in English the Latine signifies no more but that you did Seditiously and Malitiously Print all that which is in English Dover I hope I have done nothing but I shall acquit my self of L. Ch. Ju. Hide I hope you may But we can give you nothing but a Copie of the Record send for your own Clerke to understand it Cl. Set Thomas Brewster to the Barr. Who was set And then his Indictment was read which was that he the faid Thomas Brewster late of London Stationer Not having c. in the forme aforesaid the 15th day of February c. at the Parish of Little St. Bartholmews in the Ward of Farington without London Maliciously c. did cause to be imprinted the aforesaid Book of Speeches and Prayers c. and the same did Sell and Vtter against the duty c. Who being demanded whether he was Guilty of that Sedition and offence answered Not Guilty Cl. How will you be tryed Brewster By God and the Countrey Cl. God send thee a good deliverance L Ch. Ju. Hide Say what you will now Brewster May it please your Lordship I am wholy Ignorant of the Proceedings of the Law I have been a close prisoner these eighteen Weeks no body to advise with me scarce my wife suffered to come to me I desire some time to take advice L Ch Ju. Hide I doubt we shall not be able If you mean till next Sessions Brewster No my Lord I have had too long Imprisonment already would I had been here the first Sessions after I was a Prisoner Lord Ch. Ju. Hide If you desire a Copie of the Indictment and Councel you shall have it Brewster I humbly thank you but I must have time to consult them or they will do me little good L Ch Ju. Hide If you have any friends or Witnesses you may send for them Brewster I thank you my Lord. Cl. Thomas Brewster Thou standst again Indicted in London by the name of c. For that thou not having c. The 10th day of July in the 13th year c. at the Parish of Little St. Bartholmews in the Ward of Farington without London c. Falsely Maliciously Scandalously and Seditiously didst cause to be Imprinted a Book Intituled The Phaenix Or the Solemn League and Covenant c. And the said Book didst Sell and Vtter against the duty c. How saist thou Art thou Guilty of this Sedition and Offence whereof thou standest Indicted or Not Guilty Brewster Not Guilty my Lord. Cl. How will you be Tryed Brewster By God and the Countrey Cl. Nathan Brooks to the Barr. Thou standest Indicted in London by the Name of Nathan Brooks late of London Stationer Not having c. the same as to make time and place with that of Dovers and knowing the said Book to be Scandalous and Seditious did Sell Vtter and Publish the same against the duty c. How sayst thou Nathaniel Brooks Art thou Guilty of this Sedition and Offence whereof thou standest Indicted or Not Guilty Brooks Not Guilty Cl. How will you be Tryed Brooks By God and the Countrey Cl. God send thee a good deliverance L. Hide If you desire to have a Copie of your Indictment and Councel you may have it Brooks I am a poor man I have not money to get Councel I hope I shall not want that that belongs to me by Law for want of money L Hide You shall not by the Grace of God Cl. Set John Twin Simon Dover Thomas Brewster and Nathan Brooks to the Barr. Cl. John Twyn Those men that you shall hear called and Personally appear must pass between our Soveraign Lord the King and you upon Trial of your Life and Death if you will challenge them or any of them you must do it when they come to the Book to be Sworn before they be Sworn And you that are for the Seditions and Offences look to your challenges Dover We desire we may have a Jury of

they call'd a Smith with intent to force it open when they came in they found a Form brought out of the Printing Room and broken all but one Corner That taken up by a Printer and compared with the Lines of the Printed Sheets and found to agree Some of the Sheets were Printed on one side only the rest perfected you threw them down Stairs part into your Neighbours House Said You were undone when you understood Mr. L' Estrange was there What needed all this but that you knew what you were doing And did it purposely to do mischief Twyn I did never Read or hear a line of it but when Mr L' Estrange read it when I was taken Judge Keeling Was it printed at your House or no Twyn I know not but that it might not that I did it with my own hand Judge Keeling The papers were found wet wi●h you who was in your House Twyn My two Servants Judge Keeling Did any set them at work but your self did they work of their own heads Twyn I did use to set them at work but I did not set them on that particular work L. Hide Have you any thing else to say God forbid but you should be heard but the Jury will not easily believe such denialls against so much Evidence Judge Keeling Tell us to whom you carried this Copy to be Corrected Twyn I know not who Corrected it L. Hide If you have any thing to say speak it God forbid but you should have a full hearing say what you will Twyn I say I did not read it nor heard it till Mr. L'Estrange Read it L. Hide Have you any thing else Twyn It 's possible I may upon Consideration L. Hide We cannot spend all the day I must let the Jury know they are not to take your Testimony Serj. Morton I am of Councel for the King I shall reply if he will say no more Judge Keeling You have heard your Charge this is your time to make your Answer if you do not speak now you must not speak after therefore if you have any thing to speak in your Justification or witnesses to call now is your time L. Hide Let me give you this Caution we cannot spend time in vain we have other business before us and it grows late The best Councel I can give you is this You said at first that You desired to be Tryed in the presence of God You are here in the presence of Almighty God and I would to God you would have so much care of your Self and do so much right to your Self to declare the Truth that there may be means of mercy to you The best you can now do toward amends for this Wickednesse you have done is by discovering the Authour of this Villainous Book If not you must not expect and indeed God forbid that there should be any mercy towards you Twyn I never knew the Author of it nor who it was nor whence it came but as I told you L. Hide Then we must not trouble our selves Did you never see the hand before with which this Copy was written Twyn No. L. Hide I am very confident you would not then have been so mad as to have taken such a Copy A Copy fraught with such abominable Treason and Lies Abusing in the first place the late King that is dead who was I 'le be bound to say it as Virtuous Religious Pious Mercifull and Just a Prince as ever Reigned and was as Villainously and Barbarously used by his Rebellious Subjects Nay you have not rested here but have fallen upon this King who has been Gentle and Mercifull beyond all President Since He came to the Crown He has spared those that had forfeited their Lives and all they had And he has endeavoured to Oblige all the rest of His People by Mildnesse and Clemency And after all this for you to Publish so Horrid a Book you can never make amends God forgive you for it Twyn I never knew what was in it L. Hide You of the Jury I will say only this that in point of Law in the first place there is no doubt in the World by the Law of the Land the Publishing such a Book as this is as High a Treason as can be Committed by this he has indeavoured to take away the Life of the King and destroy the whol Family and so consequently to deliver us up into the Hands of Forreigners and Strangers It is a great blessing that we have the Royal Line amongst us But I say there is no Question and my Brothers will declare the same if you doubt it that this Book is as fully Treason by the Old Statute as much the Compassing and indeavouring the Death of the King as possible and he rests not there but he incites the People to Rebellion to Dethrone Him to raise War And the Publishing of this Book is all one and the same as if he had raised an Army to do this The Proofe is that he Set part Printed part and Corrected it by his own Confession read it over it was mettlesome stuffe Confessed how many Sheets he Printed the Reward and Recompence you took notice of it and I presume no man among you can doubt but the VVitnesses have spoken true and for his Answer you have nothing but his bare denyal and so we shall leave it to You. Set Simon Dover to the Bar. Dover My Lord I pray time till Munday morning I have sent away the Copy of my indictment L. Hide The Sessions will be done to Night Mr. Recorder and the rest are to go away on Munday and therefore we must end to night Dover I beseech your Lordship I may have time till night L. Hide Men Clamour and say they are hardly used their Tryals being put off Are you content to lye in Goal till the next Sessions Dover No my Lord I have had enough of that we are willing now to have it Tryed L. Hide You have had a kindness done you that it i● not laid Treason and therefore go on to your Tryal But because you shall not say you are surprized if you will not go on now you must lye in the Goal till the next Sessions we cannot Bail you Dover My Lord the Indictment is full of Law and I understand not the Formalities of it I desire but till four a Clock L. Hide We must do it before we go to dinner or not at all for there is Judgement to be given to the Goal and all of us Judges are Commanded by the King to attend him to night Dover I am not able to plead to it L. Hide Then because you shall not say you had not all the Right imaginable we will dispatch the rest of the Goal to night and Adjourn the Sessions till Munday morning and you shall then have a fair Tryal by the help of God you and your Company Nathan Brookes and Thomas Brewster are you all desirous to be Tryed on Munday morning

and they told me they had them of his men Dover Where are those men that changed the sheets which of my men were they J. Keeling Look you Dover you are indicted for causing to be Printed this wicked Book and for publishing and Vending of it You are a Printer by your Trade as well as this man that comes against you he says he did not see you Print it but he took it and believed that you Printed it I tell you how far that weighs You are a Printer by Trade and comes the other and desires the sheets you would not deliver them unless Mr. Brewster and Mr. Calvert were agreed How come the sheets to your house being a Printer and yet you not print it Answer that Dover I shall my Lord it is no consequence at all Admit I had these sheets it is no consequence at all that I printed them For Printers and Booksellers usually have books they did not print themselves L. Ch. Ju. Hide Thresher by the Oath that you have taken did you see those sheets hang upon the line in his house Thresher My Lord I judged these had lately hung up and I saw other sheets hanging there and I knew nothing to the contrary but that those that hung upon the line were the same with these L. Ch. J. Hide Here are sheets upon the lines you delivered him to sold part of those on the lines what would you have more plain You would not deliver them if they were not agreed then they were agreed and you delivered them Dover I say this I look upon the Witness to be altogether invalid he is a person of no good repute L. Ch. Ju. Hide A better man than you for ought appears you are indicted for a foul offence so is not he Dover I am not the man you take me to be L. Ch. Ju. Hide You shall have Evidence if you will that you are at work at this time upon as bad as this Dover If it be a crime I am sorry for is Mr. Lestrange sworn Mr. Lestrange Shall I speak to the whole matter or only to the particular you last mentioned L. Ch. Ju. Hide Say your knowledge Mr. Lestrange When I came to his house which was about the middle of October to search I found at that present a little Unlicenced Quaking book and in his pocket the Libel that was thrown up and down the Town called Murder will out ready printed L. Ch. Ju. Hide Which was a Villanous thing and scattered at York Mr. L'Estrange Since that I was at his house to compare a Flower which I found in the Panther a dangerous Pamphlet that Flower that is the very same border I found in his house the same mixture of Letter great and small in the same Case and I took a Copy off the Press I found over and above this Letter producing the Letter dated the 7th of February 1663 and directed For my dear and loving Wife J. Dover Is it your Lordships pleasure I shall read it all L. Ch. Ju. Hide If it be touching the printing of things you found do Mr. L'Estrange Reads it I would fai● see my Sister Mary therefore since Sister Hobbs will not come take her Order and instead of her Name put in Sister Marys it will never be Questioned here However do it as wisely and handsomly as you can c. And thei● in a P. S. You must either get Tom Porter or some very trusty Friend possibly ● D. may help you to get for you a safe and convenient Room to dry books in as soon as possibly you can And again Let me know what you intend to do with the two sheets and half I will have it published when I am certain I shall be tryed L. Ch. Ju. Hide Let the Jury see now whether you are the man you would be thought Dover I desire to know whether my name be to that letter Mr. L'Estrange No it is nor L. Ch. Ju. Hide Where did you receive or find this Letter Mr. L'Estrange My Lord I found it about his Wife L. Ch. Ju. Hide Let the Jury judge if this come from you or no. J. Keeling You of the Jury you must understand this that what is said now is only upon his Reputation not to the point in question at all that matter rests upon it's own bottom L. Ch. Ju. Hide I 'le deal plainly with you Had he not stood upon such terms I should not have spoke of this but when a man will be thus bold and confident I thought it proper to let you see how he continues now in the Goal Dover I do not vindicate my self in it but I speak against the witness I do conceive that the witness does not fix any thing upon me L. Ch. Ju. Hide Have you any thing else to say to the Indictment Dover I am Indicted as a Malicious and Factions man the witnesses sayes no such thing L. Ch. Ju. Hide You are not Indicted so but that you have Maliciously and Factiously caused to be Printed such a Seditious Book not your Person but the Action Dover There is nothing of that proved admit I was guilty of it it was done when there was no Act or Law in being touching Printing The witnesses do not swear positively that I did do it one sayes he did not see me the other that he only believed it that he did see some sheets upon the line and they were the same for ought he knew Does not remember the time or place of our discourse I do not know that ever I had half an hours discourse with him in my life I never had any meeting with him about any such matter nor had any converse with him The Title of the book sayes Faithfully and Impartially collected for further satisfaction so that it cannot be interpreted maliciously it 's a Maxime in Law that the best interpretations are to be put upon the words of the Indictment in favour of the prisoner at the barr and I hope this Honourable Bench and the Jury will mind that I am a Printer by trade what I did was for my livelyhood the Scripture sayes He is worse than an Infidel that takes not care for his Family I speak not this to justifie any thing against his Majesty or his Government through my ignorance I may possibly transgress if I have done any such thing I am sorry for it I hope I shall be more careful for the future The other part of the Indictment is for selling of them no man Swears that I sold one book of them Mr. Creek saies that some of his men told him that he had some of those sheets from some of my folkes but of whom he does not say That I did meddle with them knowing them to be scandalous I hope there is nothing proved of that nature there being then no Law I humbly hope there was no Transgression L. Ch. Ju. Hide Have you done Dover I humbly desire your Honours and this Jury to take