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A65962	The whole triall of Mr. Christopher Love, before a pretended high court of justice in Westminster Hall containing the charge of high treason against him ... with the relation of his suffering and his speech and prayer at his death on Tower-hill / published by John Farthing, citizen of London, who took the triall in the said court in short-writing for Mr. Love, and at his own request ; to which is added The tragedy of his triall and death in very elegant verses / by the acute author of Iter boreale.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Wild, Robert, 1609-1679. Tragedy of Mr. Christopher Love.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2065; ESTC R30199	222,195	132

Thirdly promised to repay all whatever they should lend But when and by whom this payment should be made the letter will tell you and that is when God shall blesse their endeavours in procuring a free Parliament in England So the Parliament in England must pay all the Scots debts that these conspirators shall lend Truly I thinke it will be a very free Parliament indeed when it comes so free out of the peoples purses My Lord Mr. Love and others gave Bamfields man that brought this Narrative out of their own purses ten pounds and sent a bill of exchange of 30. pounds to Bamfield by one witnesse it will be expresly proved that ten pounds of this money came out of Mr. Loves purse My Lord William Drakes last letter did informe that Massey would break into England as soon as there was grasse for his horses and therefore he sent to have a good bank of money provided in readinesse and that they should think of timing a party and that they should neither rise too soon nor too late but just when Massey came in this Mr. Love told Major Adams My Lord now we come so near to the time as that one of these conspirators is apprehended by the Councel of State When he had been in restraint three daies he sent to Mr. Love and Mr. Love came to him but he had been at a kinde of a Fast for they did keep Fasts once a fortnight at least and Prayers for the good success of this design That God would bless this wonderful Treason which was for the making by the Scots Army an utter subversion of this Commonwealth and the free and noble and magnanimous people of England should be made vassals and contributaries to the Scots Nation This was the design and for this design the Ministers fasted and prayed But it is plain God did abhor such things And my Lord Master Love took upon him to speak to the person under restraint Take heed saith he what you do least you wrong your self or others and said It is true Titus his man hath broken up Papers but we are all well enough but give notice to the rest of the Confederates That they may not be surprised but be you not troubled because we have prayed for you this day And they implored the God of Truth that nothing of all this should come to light but that we should be in the dark still in generals My Lord This is the true state of the evidence as near as I can present it with a frail memory And my Lord I have opened nothing but generals your Lordship and the Court will judge of it and Master Love will have the less to do to answer But it appears by this That there hath been such a practice such a series of Treason Treason upon Treason that one Act of Parliament is not enough to contain it but all those Acts of Parliament read every one of them make him a Traytor And my Lord I am sorry I have taken up so much of your time especially when you have spent so much time before If your Lordship therefore will be pleased to have the patience to hear the Witnesses we shall prove more then I have yet opened At. Gen. My Lord This was an early Treason that began betimes to crush the Commonwealth in its infancy And my Lord Master Love being singled out for justice you will anone observe there was singular cause for it and if he had had his desert it had been long before now But States can play sometimes with Treasons and not take a time tell they see fit My Lord This Treason as I have opened it to you began in the year 1648. The King of Scots so called but take notice That the same Nation and Persons that proclaimed him King of Scotland proclaimed him King of England also at the same time in the same Nation and those persons that proclaimed this person King of Scotland the same proclaimed him King of England My Lord You have heard some of the Conspirators named Titus and Drake active men both of them These men have been so ingenuous That they have fled for their Treasons notwithstanding this Gentleman a Minister of the Gospel he doth not do so they have confest their offences and are fled for them they dare not appear they have so much guilt within them that prompts them to keep away but this Gentleman hath not so much My Lord Drake was so active and it was carried on with so much secresie and so much as they thought of Caution That Master Drake writing as that Gentleman next Mr. Love doth in short hand he burnt his Papers and burnt all where any thing was to be seen so that no originals are to be seen My Lord in this case it hath been opened to you what transactions Mr. Love had with Scotland and you have been pleased to observe it was a tender point that Mr. Love did enter discourse with the Scotch Nation Mr. Love was very much troubled at it and he may see just cause to be troubled at it And will you give me leave there hath been Blood and Treasure spent as was told you by Mr. Solicitor I am afraid I might too justly say by that Gentleman and those he did seduce That they have been too much the cause of this Blood even that Gentleman that stands at the Bar that should be a man of peace and not of blood My Lord I may justly say That that Gentleman hath been too much the cause of these late Engagements between these two Nations and making himself a party and it is a sad thing when parties appear against a State My Lord I am too much afraid what ever God pleases to work upon him That it should touch his Conscience that he should be instrumental in such a work But I verily believe had there not bin actings from hence there had not bin so much forwardness in the Kings party to the Scots My Lord I will minde that Gentleman of what is said of the fifth of November I am sorry for it that it should be said of our Ministers whose Faith is Faction Whose Religion is Rebellion it is said so of the Romish Ministers I hope it will not be said so of the English That their Faith is Faction and that they pray for strife and fast for strife My Lord For these men Drake and Titus they are gone as I said and they did confess themselves so much guilty as that they have fled for it and Mr. Love doth know I am sorry to see him in that gesture that he was conversant with them all and doth know I believe that we can prove it and when he hears the men named he will say so too Truly my Lord I have nothing to say against the person of the man but against his vices and faults and nothing to his Function and nothing to those whom he pretends so boldly to represent that is the Presbyterian party

Treason I do not know any personall act of mine proved against me that brings me under any Act of yours And thus having briefly spoken concerning the Charge in generall and concerning my accusers and having briefly surveyed their Testimony I shall humbly crave leave to speak something concerning my self and I shall be very brief in it Concerning my self it is needfull I should speak a word I would not stand under misrepresentations to seem to be what I am not I am presented unto some as if I were a Malignant an Apostate from my first principles a mover of sedition and what not but what I am Wherefore I am constrained to speak a word in my own vindication and I shall make the Apostles apologie I am become a fool in glorying but ye have compelled me I count it never lawfull for a mans own mouth to praise him till another mans mouth accuses him and then he may without vanity be his own vindicator What I shall say of my self the Lord knows it is not voluntarily out of an affected ostentation but by compulsion for a necessary and cleer manifestation of my Principles and Practices now suspected As touching Malignity I hate both Name and Thing and as Cardinal Farnesus said of himself profanely That if he knew any part of him infected with Lutheranism he would cut it off and cast it into the fire That I can say truly That if I knew any part of mee infected with Malignity I would cut it off with the pruning hook of mortification and by an ingenuous retractation before you all this day God is my witnesse I never drove a Malignant Designe I never carried on a Malignant interest I detest both I still retain my old Covenanting principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terrour or perswasion whatsoever When I look upon all the Vows and Covenants and Declarations and Protestations of both Houses of Parliament I do finde a sutablenesse between my judgment and them and am not conscious to my selfe of any thing that I have done in opposition or contradiction thereunto And therefore J may say as Jeremy did when he was accused in the like case of making defection to a contrary party Jerem. 37.13 14. Irijah said to Jeremiah Thou fallest away to the Caldeans Then said Jeremiah It is false I fall not away to the Caldeans So if it be charged upon mee that J am fallen from my first Principles or that J am fallen to Malignity J say to any that shall so accuse me Jt is false J fall not away to Malignitie J do retain as great a keenness and shall whilest J live and as strong an opposition against a Malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where J live and have to this day as ever J did in former times J am no Jncendiary or evill Jnstrument to divide the Nations one from another God knows the grief of my heart hath been for the divisions and the desire of my soul hath been for the union of both the Nations and if J had as many lives as J have hairs on my head or as much bloud in my veins as there is water in the sea J could count it all well spent to quench the burning that our sins have kindled between the two Nations J have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parliaments Quarrel against the Forces raised by the King My appearing in their cause was not from any aim at profit but out of a perswasion of conscience and sense of duty J may speak it as Paul doth it of himself I was in labours more then they all J speak it without vanity J was according to my obscure station and mean condition in doing and giving in the Parliaments Quarrell more then many Many gave out of their abundance but J out of my want and as Christ spake to the widow who gave two mites that she gave more then they all for she gave all that she had even all her living So did J though J gave my mite yet J gave my all And J did not only deem it my duty to preach for the lawfulnesse of a Defensive war but unlesse my Books and wearing apparel J contributed all that J had in the world and that was no small summ considering the meannesse of my condition And J have at this day a great summ due to mee from the State which is still kept from me and now my life endeavoured to be taken from mee And yet for all this J repent not of what J have done though J could from my soul wish That the ends of that just VVar had been better accomplished then should we have been happy and united among our selves and honoured among the Nations round about us J am so far J say from repenting of what J have done both by doing and contributing and suffering in the Parliaments Quarrell That were it to do again upon the same unquestionable Authority for the same declared ends and against the same Malignant persons I should manifest as much readinesse of mind to engage according to my measure as ever I did And thus I have declared my selfe touching my Principles in these particulars I shall now crave leave to expresse my selfe a little touching my sufferings and then to make but a few humble Proposals and so cast my life into Gods hands and yours Touching my sufferings I may say that my whole life hath been a time of affliction either of body or mind God sees my heart to be a tuffe and knotty piece that it needs so many blows to break it I may say with the Psalmist I have been afflicted from my youth up and from my youth up I have met with opposition From the Prelates being persecuted by them meerly for conscience sake it is near twenty years since I was cited to the Bishops Courts I have been often troubled for hearing of Sermons and discharging other exercises of Religion which were an offence in those dayes When I was a Scholer in Oxon and Master of Arts I do not speak it out of vaine ostentation but meerly to represent unto you that what I was I am and what J am J was J was the first Scholer that J know of or ever heard of in Oxon who did publickly refuse in the Congregation House to subscribe unto those impositions or Cannons imposed by the Arch-Bishop touching the Prelates and Common Prayer And for which though they would not deny me my degree yet I was expelled the Congregation House never to fit as a Member among them When J came first to London which is about twelve years since J was opposed by the B. of London and though J was called as a Lecturer to Ann Aldersgate yet it was near three years before J could fasten upon any Lecture After this about the year 1640 or 1641 J was imprisoned in New-Castle meerly for expressing my self