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( 36 ) his Spirit. Whereupon the King's Advocate, interrupting him, deſired him to forbear that Diſcourſe, telling him, that he was not there called in queſtion for his Perſuaſion, but for the Crime of Rebellion, in riſing in Arms againſt his Majeſty's Authority, to which he deſired him to an- ſwer. Whercunto he anſwered, that the thing which mov- ed him to declare himſelf as be bad, and would have done, was that weighty and important Saying of our Lord Jeſus, Whoſoever ſhall confeſs me before Men, him ſhall the Son of Man alſo confeſs before the Angels of God, but he that de- nieth me and my Words before Men, ſhall be denied before I the Angels of God. As for the Rebellion he was charged with, he ſaid, his Acceſſion was only ſimple Preſence with a Sword, and that occaſional, as his Confeſſion before the Council did bear. The Advocate anſwers, that not only Preſence, ſuch as he was charged with, was treaſonable, but all Inter communing or keeping Company with Rebels, though for the Space only of half an Hour; and however, he ſaid, he was guilty of a far deeper Acceſſion, and of ma- ny other things beſides theſe contained in his own Confeſſi- on: Whereupon the Advocate cauſed read his Confeſſion, and alſo the Depoſitions of ſeveral others that were exa- mined, in ſo far as they concerned him. Mr. Hew an- ſwered, that all the Depoſitions read contained no more than was in his own Confeſſion, nor could they make out any more againſt him; and ſo in Effect it was. The Advocate, after the ſuſtaining of the Indictment, having made uſe of and cauſed read the Confeſſion of Mr. Hew, and the other perſons accuſed before the Aſſize, in Place of. Probation, referred the Matter to their Cognition. The Aſſize, being incloſed, gave their Verdict una voce, and, by the Mouth of Sir William Murray of Newtown their Chancellor, report him to be guilty of being with the Re- bels at ſeveral Times and Places, and at their Rendelvouz with a Sword, according to his ſubſcribed Confeſſion. However,