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94 Lord Keble.—You were advised to forbear reproaches, and act rationally, not break into extravagancies, and bitterness of spirit.

Lieut.-Colonel Lilburne.—I look upon myself as a dead man, for want of council to help my ignorance; and if you will not allow it, I will go no further, if I die for it.

Judge Jermin.—You have transgressed the laws of England by not holding up your hand, which I never before knew an Englishman refuse. We are on our oaths, and will discharge our consciences; and we have told you what the law is, yet you will not be satisfied.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne.—Sir, my prosecutors have had a long time to consult with council, yea, and with yourselves, to contrive tricks and snares to destroy me; and I have had no time for defence against such potent malice: you yourself said the law of God is the law of England; act by that; do as you would be done to.

Another Judge.—The laws of God, of reason, and of the land, are joined in the laws you shall be tried by.

Judge Thorpe.—For my particular part, I never saw your indictment before this time, nor ever was at any consultation about it.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne.—You might have seen the substance many months ago, and most of the judges in England have had meetings with Mr. Solicitor at Serjeant's-Inn about it.

Judge Jermin.—It was requisite (from the importance of the offence) such meetings should be, that it might be grounded as the law directs.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne.—If you are resolved to destroy me by the same prerogative Nebuchadnezzar did Daniel, I am as willing to die as he was to be thrown into the lion's den; it is in vain to make more words.

Lord Keble.—Take care the sparks of your venom do not burst out to declare you guilty without further proof.

Lieutenant Colonel Lilburne.—I know the worst, I can but die; and I have lived not to fear it.

Mr. Attorney-General.—What is consonant to the laws of England neither is, nor will be denied, Mr. Lilburne; but what he now desires, viz. Council, a copy of the indictment, and longer time, is what no one that understands the law ever asked; and if granted to him, ought not to be denied to any man for felony or treason, so there would be no end of criminal trials; and of what dangerous consequence such a precedent may be, I leave your lordship and the court to judge.

My Lords, I desire Mr. Lilburne may be used with all just and legal proceedings, and I desire the same for the commonwealth; and, as Mr. Lilburne has pleaded, that you immediately proceed to trial.

Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne.—If the law of England be founded upon the laws of God and reason, it is not to lay snares to take away your neighbour's life, as trying me upon forms without help of council must be: besides, Sir, for some of you to reproach me with the name of notorious traitor, when I am as innocent in the eye of