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A88579	A cleare and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love, since my tryall before, and condemnation by, the High Court of Iustice. Whereby it is manifested, that a close prison, a long sword, a High Court, and a bloody scaffold, have not in the least altered my judgment. Whereas also the cruelty of the sentence, the insufficiency of the proofs, and my own innocency, are demonstrated. As also my grounds and reasons of giving in a narrative, and the lawfulness of the matter and titles of my petitions (though to usurpers) manifested and maintained. Together with a declaration of my judgement concerning Cromwells unlawfull invasion of the kingdom of Scotland. Written by me Christopher Love, Master of Arts, minister of Lawrence Iury, London; penned by me the eighth of August, fourteen days before my death.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1651 (1651)	Wing L3148; Thomason E790_5; ESTC R202748	58,288	49

say so he said William Drake undertook to draw up the Instructions but he could not say they were drawn up or sent He said that those that were named Commissioners they were to advise but not to treat in the behalf of the Presbyterian party After the fight at Dunbar a Letter from Massey to assist both with money and arms was read but he said he came in late and did not hear it read he could not say positively such a Letter was read but that I told him so and that I told him we could not do it He said that I told him we had agreed to raise a summe of money for Massey and Titus either 250 livre. or 300 livre. He said that I asked him what he would do so he brought five pound and laid it upon my Table when severall persons were in the room and being askt whether I was in the room he said yes my Lord but he could not say any els was so he contradicted himself before he said severall persons were present now he said he could not tell that any els but my self was in the room yea he could not say that I received it or see him lay it downe or bid him lay it downe and further he saith he doth but conceive that the money was for Massey or Titus He could not say that I was privy to the Negotiation with Titus nor that I was present at the reading of the Copy of the Kings Letter which Alford brought from Callis nor that I was present whil'st that the Narrative was read He being askt whether I did send Alford to Callis or agree to the sending of him he answered that he thinks I did not He being askt whether I gave my consent to the sending away of the Commission he answered that he could not say that I was there when it was sent away And being askt whether I did not protest against it he answered that it was agreed by all that the Commission should not be sent He being askt whether he thought that I received the five pound he laid on my table he answered no but he thought another did receive it and named who Thus you have an extract of all the eight Witnesses have deposed without extension or omission of any materiall passage in any mans Testimony I wish from my heart that all the Depositions together with my Defence made in Court were truly published by an impartiall hand then I should be confident the Reader would justifie me though the High Court have condemned me Being now upon the Testimony of the Witnesses I crave leave to insist a little larger upon it than I at first intended that I may manifest the more clearly the insufficiency falsnesse and contradictorinesse thereof what the Evangelist observes touching the accusers of Christ I may without vanity say of mine that they did not agree among themselves one Witnesse sware one thing and another sware the quite contrary yea they did not only contradict ●ne another but sometimes contradict themselves as I have made appear more fully in my defence before the high Court I did never see Witnesses more confounded than they were so that though their Testimony did condemne my person yet I nay themselves have condemned their owne Testimony So that may I say without vanity that promise is made good Isa. 54. 17. Every tongue that shall rise up in judgement against thee thou shalt condemn this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord To evidence this to the world I shall give you a brief and true relation of sundry remarkable passages concerning the Witnesses either before or in or after the Tryall which will If not nullifie yet invalidate and disparage their Testimony in the thoughts of judicious and impartiall men I shall begin with the first Witnesse which was Captaine Potter I beseech you take notice concerning him of these particulars First If ever his testimony be published he doth rather justifie than accuse me he fastens nothing capitall upon me yea secondly he swears he met at my house sometimes on a friendly sometimes on a Christian account or to hear news that was the worst he did swear about the meeting at my house Thirdly He swore in Court that till Master Prideaux remembered him of some things out of the examinations of other men he could not remember them or speak to them yet things done so long agoe and forgotten by a man are counted to be sufficient proof against me Fourthly he was threatned with death if he would not and promised his life by Mr. Prideaux and Mr. Scot if he would confesse what he knew and Witnesse against me And because he did not swear to every addition and agravation against me put into his examination by Capt. Bishop Clerke of the Committee which he discovered in Court and said all was not his therefore he is condemned to dye and in great danger to lose his life The second Witnesse was Major Alford he was in much trouble before he came in against me he told his Sister and other Friends they would put him to death if he did not testifie against me but now he sees me condemned he is filled with shame that he cannot walk the streets and with sorrow that he can neither sleep nor eat his bread with comfort Yea Mr. Cranford coming once to visit him did finde him lying on his bed in a dark room in much disquiet of minde he told Mr. Cranford that nothing did trouble him so much in all his life as his witnessing against me and were it to do again he would never doe it if he had ten lives to lose Mr. Cranford told me this that he heard it from Alfords own mouth I hear that he is not well but I believe I may say agrotat animo magis quam corpore and that he hath great cause to be The third Witnesse was Major Huntington a man whose face I never saw but once at my house nor since but at my Tryall He is not only a dissembling fellow but a most perjured wretch he did hardly swear one true word as relating to things done at my house yea as to me he sware most falsly that I said of the Commission Come come let it goe which is a most notorious lye yea Captain Far another of the Witnesses who was then present sware the quite contrary that all the Company was against the sending the Commission and did allege the reason that I gave against it That private men had not power to Commissionate c. The fourth Witnesse was Lieutenant Colonell Baines that Arch-Apostate from his first Principles he told the Court a long story but did not could not say one word concerning me so he went as wise as he came The fifth Witnesse was Major Adams who is a Monster among men and will be I am perswaded a monument of Misery to all that know him I have many things to say concerning him First He was

confesse it I have done those things contrary to their late Acts which are punishable with death by their cruell Lawes so that if the Reader marke my words I do not place my guiltinesse of the sentence of death upon the things proved against me but upon the things done by me And when I say The sentence of death is justly past upon me by the High Court of Iustice I do not place the justice of the sentence on the clearnesse or sufficiency of the proof for there was no treasonable fact as they call it proved against me by two Witnesses but upon my violation of their Lawes that is I had done those things which are punishable by their bloody Lawes with death I did violate their Lawes and upon my violation of their Lawes not upon the clearnesse of the evidence do I acknowledge the sentence of death to be justly past upon by their bloody and tyrannicall Lawe for although eight Witnesses came in against me yet they were very deficient in their evidence sometimes they contradicted one another they did not agree among themselves sometimes a Witnesse contradicted himselfe none of the Witnesses proved that ever I received Letter that ever I writ Letter that ever I collected gave or lent one peny of money yet I am condemned to dye I confesse I did write two Letters and did give a small summe of money not upon any Military accompt both which facts are adjudged Treason by their new Acts in which regard I do acknowledge the sentence of death is justly past upon me that this was the sence that I intended many friends who were with me in the Tower can beare Witnesse Thirdly In a sence though a rigid and forced sence I must confesse the sentence may be said to be just for although there was no single personall fact proved against me which made me guilty of Treason yet my facts being they say of a continued time and complicated nature I cannot deny but upon the whole matter they have by rigid collections and strained consequences hookt me within the generall clause of the Act of August the second 1650. To abett countenance or incourage the Scotish Nation or the Forces adhering to them which is declared to be Treason There was no Act but this could reach me and no particular clause in this Act but these generall words of abetting countenancing or incouraging the Scotish Nation or the Forces adhering to them for which I was condemned I do not deny but I might in a sort be brought under some of these generall words if the Members of the High Court would put a harsh and rigid interpretation as they have done upon what was proved against me they might have put a more candid and faire interpretation upon what was proved against me if they had not been led more by Interest than by Conscience they might have saved their Oathes and my life too I believe some of them said in their Consciences at least we find no cause of death in this man but others mighty say as the Iewes to Pilate you are no friends to Caesar you are no friends to the State if you condemne not this man to dye Others of them haply may through blindnesse and partiality be so bound up in their Consciences as Herod was that he must cut off Iohn Baptist's head for his Oath sake so forsooth because they had sworne to execute justice upon all that came before them according to those Acts they by forced inferences and tortured collections bringing me under one clause of the Act of August 2. 1650. thought they were bound by their Oathes to condemn me so to avoid the appearance of perjury they commit murther as Herod did in cutting off Iohn Baptist's head pretending that he should break his Oath if Iohn Baptist did not lose his head Fourthly Though I should grant the sentence to be just according to their rigid inferences and strained and forced collections yet I do not by such no nor yet by any acknowledgment of mine absolutely justifie the sentence To clear this in a few words take notice a sentence may be said to be just in a two-fold sence or consideration First In an absolute sence Secondly In a respective or relative sence and Consideration F●rst A sentence is then said to be just in an absolute sence in the generall when for the substance of it it is such that no injustice can be charged upon that is when it hath all those requisites and ingredients that are required to and are necessary for the making up such a sentence and they are chiefly these three First That the Law or Lawes which are proceeded by be for the matter and substance of them consonant and agreeable at least unto generall rules of Scripture Secondly That the Ministers of those Lawes be such who are Lawfully designed and deputed to the management and exercise of them And thirdly That in their sentence they walke by and proceed according to the substantiall rules and directions given them in those lawes and where these three things concurre to a sentence it may be said to be just in an absolute consideration and when it misseth it in any of these it cannot truly and rightly bear the domination of such a sentence now that the sentence past upon me was a just sentence in this absolute consideration I have not and I hope never shall acknowledge But then secondly A Sentence may be said to be just in a respective or relative consideration that is as it hath reference to and respects those Lawes which are the rise and foundation of it Now though a Sentence should misse it in the two first respects of a Sentence absolutely just that is though the Lawes proceeded by should be vitious for the matter of them and the Ministers of them Vsurpers that have no right nor title to the exercise either of those or any other Laws yet if their proceedings be such as that the Sentence being laid to the line and weighed in the ballance of those Lawes shall be found in any sence yea though a strained and forced sence to be a sentence according to and that holds proportion with those Laws or any other Clause or Clauses of them in this sence and so far the Sentence may be said to be just just not simply and absolutely but only in reference and relation to those Lawes And when I acknowledge the Sentence to be just I understand it in this sence viz. according to their rigid and forced inferences from their unjust and cruell Lawes Object If it be demanded what was the reason that I refused formerly to mention a word about the justice of the Sentence in any sence yet afterwards do it Sol. I shall give you a brief and I hope satisfactory account to both parts of this Question I shall first give you the reasons why I formerly refused to speake a word about the justice of the sentence then give you reasons why I did speak something