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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	high_a	king_n	treason_n	3,672	5	9.5249	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63180	The tryal of Laurence Braddon and Hugh Speke, gent., upon an information of high-misdemeanor, subornation, and spreading false reports endeavouring thereby to raise a belief in His Majesties subjects that the late Earl of Essex did not murther himself in the Tower ... / before Sir George Jeffreys.	Braddon, Laurence, d. 1724.; Speke, Hugh, 1656-1724?; England and Wales. Court of King's Bench.	1684 (1684)	Wing T2196; ESTC R24641	100,437	81

my self in it any further at all than Writing the Letter which I did not well know what I Writ L. Ch. Just Well have you any more to say Mr. Speke Mr. Speke No my Lord. L. Ch. Just Have you any more Mr. Bradden Mr. Bradden My Lord I have only this to say for my self It has not been proved directly or indirectly That I used any evil Arguments to perswade these Witnesses to testify what was false but I dealt with them with all the Candour that any Person in the World could use and used all the Caution that I could to hinder them from speaking any thing that is false There has been nothing proved of evil Practice used by me and I desire the Gentlemen of the Jury to take no other notice of any thing that has been or shall be spoken but what has been Proved L. Ch. Just Gentlemen of the Jury The Evidence has been very long that has been given both for and against the Persons against whom this Information is exhibited 'T is an Information exhibited by the Kings Attorney General in His Majesties Name against Lawrence Bradden and Hugh Speke And the Information does set forth That the late Earl of Essex Murdered himself in the Tower and that thereupon there was an Inquisition taken before the Coroner that did find that he had so Murdered himself he being before that time Committed for High Treason in Conspiring the death of the King and levying War to disturb the Government And these Persons did render that Inquisition as tho' it had been Fraudulently and Irregularly obtained and also to breed ill Blood and spread false Rumours among the Kings Subjects by endeavouring to perswade them to believe That the Earl of Essex was Murdered by some other hand and had not Murdered himself and had procured false Witnesses to testify some such matter in order to the spreading about that false Rumour This is the Substance of the Information To this Information they have both pleaded Not Guilty and the Evidence as I was telling you has been somewhat long but according to the best of my Memory and for the assistance of yours I will mind you of as many things as occur to me that have been said against them and what has been said on their behalf I mean so much of it as is Evidence For I must tell you all Hear-says and common Discourses of other Persons is not Evidence and I will give you that Reason that is sufficient to satisfie any man that is Unbiassed That if in case the Person that so told the Story had been here if he had not told it upon Oath you could not have believed that Person Therefore surely there is less credit to be given to him that tells a Tale out of another bodies mouth And I tell you this because there has been great Allowances given and ought to be when people are accused of such great and weighty Crimes for these are monstrous Crimes that these Gentlemen are accused of but 't is you that are to try whether they are Guilty or not Certainly there is scarce in Nature a greater Crime that can be committed than This that is now before you for I think Robbery or any other such Felonies are not such monstrous Crimes in their true real Weight tho' in consideration of Law in respect of Punishment they are greater yet in point of Crime they are surely less for to spread false Reports in order to raise Sedition Ill-will Heart-burnings and Jealousies in the Kings Subjects against the Government and to suborn Witnesses to that evil purpose is surely a much greater Crime than robbing on the High-way Now Gentlemen 't is not unknown to most of you what indeavours have been of late made to possess the minds of the King's Subjects of great Injuries designed to be done them by the King or His Authority And in order to foment Differences and Misapprehensions between the King and his People and among the People between one and another all Arts have been used to Proscribe People that they are minded to Expose Those they bare ill will to must be called Papists or Papists in Masquerade but They and their Confederates are the Sober Party the true Protestants as if there were none Sober or True Protestants but such as are Factious and Troublesom in the Government But by these things they bring an Odium upon the Name of a Protestant their aim is by distinguishing to divide us whereas if they were Protestants in truth the true Church of England Protestants they would have another behaviour they would learn to obey and submit to Authority and not go buzzing from House to House and spreading false Reports but study to be quiet and do their own business And tho' Mr. Bradden made use of the 5 th Chap. of the Acts to the Child he would have done well to have taken notice of some other parts of Scripture that are as much Scripture as That that enjoyn Obedience and Submission to the Magistrate and being quiet and minding his own business it's odds he had never come to that trouble he is now likely to meet with But the Crime he is accused of carries all the Venom and Baseness the greatest inveteracy against the Government that ever any Case did that I have met with For it s insinuated That because the King and the Duke were walking in the Tower that day and near that time when this unfortunate thing happened now it must be whispered as though the King and the Duke had designed this Murder How Base How Devilish and Hellish a Design is this But yet this must be spread about and endeavoured to be distilled into the minds of the Kings Subjects But besides Gentlemen you are to consider as was opened by the King's Counsel to what this thing tended for in as much as there was an horrid bloody Conspiracy to take away the life of the King and of his Dear Brother his Royal Highness the Duke of York And forasmuch as several persons have been duely executed for that Conspiracy who were concerned along with this unfortunate Lord I cannot help the naming of it though I am sorry for his misfortune for the sake of that Honourable Family but rather than he would abide his Tryal God knows what other reason he had but the probability of the thing speaks it he being conscious the great Guilt he had contracted in being concerned in such a Conspiracy made him destroy himself And 't is easie to imagin how far that might prevail upon him it being done immediately after my Lord Russel who was one of the Conspirators with him was carried to his Tryal It cannot be thought but it was to prevent the methods of Justice in his own particular Case And Gentlemen there was Digitus Dei in it and it is enough to satisfie all the World of the Conspiracy though we live in an Age wherein men are apt to believe only of one side they can believe