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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	death_n	king_n	treason_n	2,761	5	9.5559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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