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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

tender hearted Husband CHRISTOPHER LOVE Master Loves last Letter to his Wife on the day he suffered My most gracious Beloved I Am now going from a Prison to a Palace I have finished my work I am now to receive my wages I am going to heaven where are two of my children and leaving thee on the earth where are three of my babes those two above need not my care but the three below need thine It comforts me to think two of my children are in the bosome of Abraham and three of them will be in the arms and care of so tender and godly a Mother I know thou art a woman of a sorrowfull spirit yet be comforted though thy sorrow be great for thy Husbands going out of the world yet thy pains shall be the less in bringing thy child into the world thou shalt be a joyfull Mother though thou beest a sad Widdow God hath many mercies in store for thee the prayers of a dying Husband for thee will not be lost To my shame I speak it I never pray'd so much for thee at liberty as I have done in prison I cannot write more but I have a few practical counsels to leave with thee viz. 1. Keep under a found orthodox and soul-searching Ministry Oh there are many deceivers gone out into the world but Christs sheep know his voice and a stranger will they not follow Attend on that Ministry that teaches the way of God in truth and follow Solomons advice Prov. 19.27 Cease to bear instruction that causes to erre from the ways of knowledg 2. Bring up thy children in the knowledg and admonition of the Lord the mother ought to be a teacher in the fathers absence Prov. 19.27 The words which his mother taught him and Timothy was instructed by his Grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice 2 Tim. 1.5 3. Pray in thy family daily that thy dwelling may be in the number of the families that do call on God 4. Labour for a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price 1 Pet. 3.4 5. Pore not on the comforts thou wantest but on the mercies thou hast 6. Look rather at Gods end in afflicting than at the measure and degree of thy afflictions 7. Labour to clear up thy evidences for heaven when God takes from thee the comforts of earth that as thy sufferings do abound so thy consolations in Christ may abound much more 2 Cor. 1.4 8. Though it is good to maintain a holy jealousie of the deceitfulness of thy heart yet it is evill for thee to cherish fears and doubts about the truth of thy graces If ever I had confidence touching the grace of another I have confidence of grace in thee I can say of thee as Peter did of Silvanus I am perswaded that this is the grace of God wherein thou standest 1 Pet. 5.12 Oh my dear soul wherefore dost thou doubt whose heart hath been upright whose walkings have been holy c. I could venture my soul in thy souls stead such a confidence have I of thee 9. When thou findest thy heart secure presumptuous and proud then pore upon corruption more than upon grace but when thou findest thy heart doubting and unbelieving then look on thy graces not on thy infirmities 10. Study the covenant of grace and merits of Christ and then be troubled if thou canst Thou art interested in such a covenant that accepts purposes for performances desires for deeds sincerity for perfection the righteousness of another viz. that of Jesus Christ as if it were thine own Oh my Love rest rest then in the love of God in the bosome of Christ 11. Swallow up thy will in the will of God it is a bitter cup we are to drink but it is the cup our Father hath put into our hands When Paul was to go to suffer at Jerusalem the Christians could say The will of the Lord be done Oh say thou when I go to Tower-hill The will of the Lord be done 12. Rejoyce in my joy to mourn for me inordinately argues that either thou enviest or suspectest my happiness The joy of the Lord is my strength oh let it be thine also Dear wife farewell I will call thee wife no more I shall see thy face no more yet I am not much troubled for now I am going to meet the Bridegroome the Lord Jesus Christ to whom I shall be eternally marryed From the tower of London 22th August 1651. The day of my glorification Thy Dying yet most Affectionate Friend till death CHRISTOPHER LOVE FINIS Psal 7.10.12.5 John 2 19. Mar. 24.57.58 This passage of C. Potters Mr. Love I have news to shew you was through some mistake left out of his Depositions Pro. 6.13 2 Cor. 1.10 Job 5.19

combination here is that men being before authority and in the face of Magistracy in such a Court as this is so eminent in the presence of it and so authorized as this is that men should dare to dally as they do and that Ministers should say they dare not speak the truth not when treason is hatched and contrived they dare not speak the truth that this man should be more precious though a traitour then the Common-wealth which should be preserved I hope we shall root these opinions out or some of the parties that hold them that I will say L. Pres Master Jackson you are one of the parties in these meetings you have been at their meetings and we require nothing of you but to speak the truth Saint Austine will tell you that to conceal a truth or tell a lie you had better let the world fall about your ears you are required nothing but to speak the truth and will you say this truth will be a torment to your soul are you a Professour of Jesus Christ a Minister of God the great errand you are sent hither about is to speak the truth from him therefore lay your hand upon your heart and do as becomes you as a Christian and as a rationall man and as one that will tell truth for by the Truth the world stands we are all no better then savage men if we have not judgement to tell truth one to another Att. Gen. My Lord Suppose Mr. Love should kill one of these men that doe hear the debate in the presence of Mr. Jackson and he should be called to give evidence and refuse it he may take away any mans life personall respects should be set aside when we come to judgement You see my Lord the person of this man how it is preferred by this man That which is the truth you are required to speak and nothing else L. Pres Have you any oath or promise among your combiners to be secret in this businesse Mr. Jackson Never in my life my Lord. L. Pres Will you take your oath Mr. Jackson I dare not my Lord. L. Pres What is your reason Mr. Jackson I have told you my Lord and I will tell you it again I am a man of a troubled spirit and I dare not do any thing that should cause a hell in my conscience to my dying day L. Pres Do you look to die Mr. Jackson Yes my Lord. L. Pres And do you expect to live again Mr. Jackson I trust in Jesus Christ I shall live again Att. Gen. My Lord I desire your Clerk may be commanded to give him his oath and ●e required to take it The Clerk tenders him the oath L. Pres Will you take this oath or not Mr. Jackson No my Lord. L. Pres Then I think you are the men that were spoken of before Jesuits and Priests they say you are none but you are their brethren Att. Gen. My Lord these go beyond Jesuits the Jesuits will swear with a reservation and these will not swear at all this man must be proceeded accordingly with for if this be allowed I conceive there will be no justice in England And in respect of the quality of his person function and gravity by so much is it a more pernicious example and it aggravates the thing every way L. Pres Let it be known here that it may be dispersed abroad and I thinke there are some of most Counties of England And this air is gone forth this very plot is secretly spread with some chief Ministers throughout all England Att. Gen. This right they have done to many of them that I believe it will make a more severe inquisition into these persons then otherwise there would be it is not bloud that is look'd after but confession and contrition I am glad that those that are not Clergy men do come in and the Clergy will not confesse at all The Court consults a while L. Pres Master Jackson For your refusing to swear the Court fineth you five hundred pounds and imprisonment during the pleasure of the Court. The Keeper of the Fleet is called upon and commanded to take him into custody Mr. Love My Lord I have some motions humbly to make to this Court. The first is to intreat your Lordship and the rest of the members of this Court that if I have let fall any expressions through inconsideratenesse or for want of skill in the Law that have been an offence either to your Lordship or to any I beseech you if I have spoken any derogating expressions or made any unseasonable motions that you would impute it to my ignorance L. Pres None of them shall hurt you Mr. Love Then I intreat this favour that I may have counsel assigned me Soliciters here in Court and in my chamber at the Tower and a copie of my charge and convenient time as the nature of the businesse requires my charge being long and I have not read a word of it nor the depositions that I may have I say counsel assigned me convenient time to bring in my answer I am confident through the good hand of God upon me I shall clear my selfe of all the treasons charged upon me and of all their aggravations through straines of wit and quillets of law by instruments of State I am confident I shall clear my innocencie that I shall not stand a traitour before you L. Pres They being instruments of State are instruments of God appointed by the State For your time you have all this afternoon Are you not ready Mr. Love I was yesterday nine houres lock'd up in that close room and in this place and I could not read one word last night not out of trouble of mind but through wearinesse being kept so many hours in the Court. Att. Gen. My Lord he hath had a fortnights notice of his triall to prepare for it My Lord wee have been two dayes and by the course of proceedings if the Gentleman had had his triall by a Jury both must have been dispatched in one day We are appointed to go on to hear his defence now or else on Munday Mr. Love I desire a convenient time to bring in my witnesses to make it appear how the witnesses against me contradict themselves I have not yet read the depositions of one man and I cannot read the depositions by Munday and to morrow is a day that some time of it should be spent in other imployments L. Pres To do justice you must run out of the Church and though you were at your prayers you must forsake praying and Sabbaths to do justice Sir this is of a higher nature then all your preaching and praying The Court consults a while together L. Pres The Court all agree to give you till Wednesday eight a clock in the morning Mr. Love I desire that I may have counsel here and in my chamber L. Pres You have shewed nothing these two dayes that raises any doubt in matter of

before your Lordship of High Treason which impeachment hath been read before your Lordship and the Court My Lord by that he stands charged with High Treason with severall offences of High treason That he in the years 1648 1649 1650 and 1651 with William Drake Henery Jermin Henry Piercy John Gibbons Edward Massey Sylas Titus and others his Accomplices did Traiterously Wickedly and Maliciously Confederate Plot and Endeavour to stir up a New and Bloody War in this Nation and to subvert the Government now established without a King and House of Lords My Lord That in the same years since the death of the late King he did with other his accomplices endeavour to promote Charls Stewart to be King of England contrary to an Act of Parliament before that time made in this Nation My Lord That in the same years he and his accomplices did Traiterously and Maliciously aid and assist the Nation of Scotland to the end that they might invade this Common-wealth and hath adhered to the forces raised by the enemies of this Common-wealth My Lord That in the same time between the month of March and the first of June this present month he hath Troiterously and Maliciously held and maintained correspondency and intelligence by Letters Messages Instructions and otherwise with the enemies of this Common-wealth and to the prejudice of this Nation And in particular with Charls Stewart and the late Queen his Mother and with Jermin and Piercy and other persons of Councel abiding with Charls Steward My Lord That he hath likewise held correspondency and Intelligence with the Scottish Nation prejudiciall to this Common-wealth and to the end they might invade and bring a Bloody Warr upon this Nation My Lord These Treasons and Traiterous and Wicked Practices of the Prisoner at the Bar were and are to the apparent hazard of the publick Peace of this Common-Wealth and Free-State and the Parliament and People of England and in contempt and violation of the Lawes of the Land and contrary to severall Acts of Parliament in such Cases made and provided My Lord There hath been severall Witnesses and Proofs of these particular Charges against the Prisoner And my Lord I do conceive that there hath been such proof made that in your Lordships judgment he will appear to be guilty of all these particular actings But my Lord I will not enter upon the proof only make a Summary Relation of the beginning and continuance of this Plot and designe My Lord This Plot did begin very suddenly after it pleased God to take away the chief enemy of this Nation The King died in January 1648 and this Plot began in February the very next month following And in the same month my Lord the Scots Nation did proclaim Charls Stewart King of Scotland and they did not stop there but proclaimed him likewise King of England and then my Lord this Plot began here for in the month of February the next month after the King dyed the meeting was at the Swan at Dow-gate where were severall of the Correspondents at that time as Drake Huntington Titus and others and the end of that meeting was to contrive a way that they might agree the King and the Scotish Nation that was the end of their meeting at that time My Lord Within a few dayes after that they met again all these severall persons at the White-Hart in Bread-street and to the same purpose and at length it was resolved to make their addresses to the Queen and to Piercy and Jermin first it was the King himself for a complyance between the King and the Scots letters were sent accordingly and severall meetings and severall returns of messages were had of them My Lord at length it was resolved that they should send Messengers to the King at Jersey and agreed upon one Titus and they raised money and gave it to Titus to undertake the journey My Lord Titus accordingly went in the month of May One thousand six hundred forty nine and returned in August following After he had done his negotiation there he returned to Calice but being afraid that this wicked plot was discovered by reason of letters that were intercepted he durst not come into England but sent letters to desire some correspondents might be sent to Calice My Lord all this time I do not finde that the proof discovers the prisoner at the Bar to be any actor or present at any meeting hitherto But when these letters came from Titus then the letters were brought to Mr. Loves house which is the first time I finde him by proof to be present The letters were read in his house and in his Studie as some of the witnesses say that there were present and it was then agreed my Lord that Alford should go to Calice to Titus My Lord accordingly he went and there Titus did communicate unto him the Affairs that pass'd at Jersey Within four or five dayes after Alford returns again and where should the meeting be but at Mr. Loves house again where Mr. Love and divers of the accomplices were in his house a letter from the King was read the Dyary the Narrative from Titus likewise was read there and there was the consultation wat should be done and what further course they should take to joyn the King and the Scots together My Lord afterward they did agree that there should be some sent to treat with the King at Breda The Instructions were drawn in Mr. Loves house I think one witnesse sayes so and Mr. Love present money was raised and Mr. Love himself did speak to one of the witnesses to raise money which was Far Far accordingly did bring in five pounds and laid it down upon Mr. Loves Table Mr. Love being present then in the room My Lord I shall not trouble you with the relation of more particulars But my Lord I conceive that Mr. Love doth upon these proofs stand guiltie of endeavouring to promote the King to be King of England For my Lord what should be the end of uniting the King and the Scots together after that the Scots had proclaimed Charls Stewart King of England but that they might come in a warlike manner to invade this Nation and to set up his Authority as King among us My Lord I conceive I shall submit to your Lordships judgment that he is guilty of Intelligence from a profess'd Enemy The intelligence is my Lord that divers letters were sent and these letters were read in his presence as himself doth confesse he was at the reading of divers letters and yet did not consent to them and thereupon makes it as it were but misprision of Treason My Lord I conceive that this is apparently Treason For if letters were sent to one person and did occasionally come into another mans hand and he conceale them being not sent to him There peradventure it is but misprision of Treason But when there are sent to these particular persons letters from the King and Scots

in the law that constitutes this Court. And no person shall voluntarily relieve any person in Arms or that shall be in Arms against the Parliament with any Money Victualls or Amunition on pain of death of other corporall punishment And whosoever shall voluntarily take up Arms against the Parliament and shall encourage others to do so shall die without mercy These my Lord are clauses contained in the Act that constitutes this Court and I read the law before the charge and now my Lord I have repeated the evidence faithfully now let it be considered howifar the evidence goes with them There are there Acts of Parliament I suppose Mr. Love knew not of the next for he says he knew not of that of the 2 of August but it was published solemnly at the Exchange and at Westminster Hall but ignorance cannot excuse him that no man will pretend This my Lord is in relation to Scotland it was made in August The Battel at Dunbar I cannot well tell whether it was in September or October in September this correspondency from Bamfield Argyle Lowden and Lowthen Belcarris Massey and the rest were all since Dunbar fight that is clear they were since that time the words of the Law are these Whoever after the 5. of August shall use hold or maintain any correspondency or intelligence with any of the Scots nation residing in Scotland without license from the Parliament or with any other person or persons of the Scottish or any other Nation whom they know to adhere to the Scottish Nation against the Parliament or shall abet assist countenance or incourage the Scottish nation or any other person adhering to them in their war against the Parliament and Commonwealth of England or shall send or cause to be sent and conveyed any money horse armes Amunition or any other furniture of Plate Goods Merchandise or any supply whatsoever to the Scots or to any port or place thereof or in their power or in confederacy against this nation these facts are High-Treason by this Law And the high Court of Justice are to take cognizance of the Contents by express provision of that Law My Lord I shall not need to repeat the evidence again but upon these my Lord I must leave him to your justice and judgement to do what in your consciences you think is just upon these Laws and what M. Love hath done in transgression against them My Lord M. Love was pleased at the beginning of this Triall to make some deep protestations I think he did move all honest men that heard him and truly I did think and did hope that they were not made with any relation to equivocation or mentall reservation but to a positive deniall of any facts of Treason or looking that way that it had been made in that sense that he had been clearly not guily of any thing But my lord having looked upon them and caused them to bee transcribed to me I doe finde that they are somewhat cautious and perchance they may be true my lord in the sense spoken by M. Love but whether true in the sense they should have been spoken by a Christian in a publike Assembly that I shall not judge His first protestation was in the presence of God and this Assembly that I never wrote any letter to the King or to the Church nor to the Queen or Church and State of Scotland in generall or to any particular person of the Scotch Nation since the war began to this very day My Lord this may be true but whether any letter hath been sent from the King or from the Scottish Nation or others or by Massie or the rest that shall bee believed as the evidence is M. Love It is in my second protestation At. G. Again saith he I do likewise declare in the presence of the same God I never received letter written to me from the King or from the Queen his Mother or from the Church or State of Scotland in general or any particular person of the Scottish Nation since the war began I protest declare likewise in the presence of the same God I never collected gave or lent penny of money either to send into Scotland or any forrain parts either to the King of Scots or to the Queen his mother to the Church or State of Scotland in general or to any particular person of the Scottish Nation since the wars began but that M. Love did not move others to contribute we have not a word of that Truly I did thinke it when hee spoke it But it seems these asseverations were studied to evade and that he would speake true but not the whole truth I have given them but a touch these may be true my lord but under favour there is something else that is as true and goes almost as neer as this My lord M. Love the last day had your patience and justice to make a large Defence and he was very large in it and though hee did beat us down that are the Counsell for the Publike that wee should not use Oratory nor flourishes nor Querks of Law nor Niceties in which I shall be guided by him and shall not doe it yet he is pleased fully to make use of all insinuations to the Court to trip up every Witness upon niceties upon not expression upon nonsense and such my lord which I shall not follow him in for I shall deale as truth ought to deale in pure nakedness and simplicity and not to use any Oratory but to set the matter of fact before you and leave it unto the Court who are the Judges between the Common-wealth and himselfe for life and death But my lord you shall give me leave to touch upon some few things in the late Defence of his It was divided into four parts The first the Charge the second the Witnesses and Testimony both in one The Witnesses for the persons the Testimony for the fact The third concerning himself the fourth some proposalls to the Court which truly my lord might better have been termed rather threatnings than proposalls My lord for the Charge you have heard it hath been gone through and the evidence concerning it concerning the Witnesses my lord I have read unto you for I do take it upon my conscience what I knew and nothing but what was true I have not varied that I know of a syllable and I think I ought not to do it the duty of my place requires it not from me My lord concerning himself he is pleased to say something and much of his merit but my lord it is a grief to this Court to my selfe and all that are well-wishers to the publike that any man that hath been a friend to the Parliament that hath gone along with them acted for them suffered for them done as he hath done that this man should bee called to publike Justice I hope my lord all that heare mee beare witness that I thinke my lord wee are all