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 Therefore they need not so suddainly be repeated to us againe, you need not repeate these things; for I tell you agane, they are all fresh in our memories, and that we have done we must maintaine, or we have done nothing.

L. Col. Lilb. Truly, it is requisite for me to say, that I am wronged, I had no such single Plea; I plead a Plea at large to the errors of the Indictment, and first now crave liberty of the Law of England, to have time and Councell assigned me.

L. Keeble. You shall have the Lawes of England, although you refuse to own them, in not holding up your hand; for the holding up of the hand hath been used as a part of the Law of England these 500 yeares, go on.

My Lord, The prisoner at the Bar stands Indicted as a Traytor, for that he contriving, and maliciously intending not only to disturbe the publicke Peace; but also to bring the Government of the Nation happily setled in a free State, or Common-wealth, without a King, or an house of Lords, and the Commons in Parliament assembled, to bring in disgrace and contempt amongst all good men, he did the first of this instant October, and divers times before and since in this City, falsly and maliciously, advisedly and trayterously by writing, printing and openly declaring, in and by one Paper of his called, A Salva libertate, and by divers other papers and books, whereof one he calls, An Impeachment of high Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his sonne in law Henry Ireton, and another book of his Entituled An Out-Cry of the young men, and Apprentices of London, ''directed to all the privat Souldiers of the Army, &c. a third, A preparative to an Hue and Cry after Sir Arthur Haslerigg, and a fourth The legall fundamentall liberties of the people of England revived, that he did in these bookes publish, that the aid Government is tyrannicall, usurped and unlawfull; and that the Commons in Parliament assembled, are not the Supream authority of this Nation; he stands further indicted, that he as a false Traytor did maliciously, advisedly and trayterously plot, and contrive, to raise force against the present Government, and for the subversion and alteration of it, and for the fulfilling of his most malicious and trayterous designes, he did in and by the said trayterous Books, falsly, maliciously and advisedly, utter and declare severall most false and scandalous, malicious and trayterous words and writings, that in the Indictment are particularly named and expressed. And thirdly, that as a Traytor not being an Officer, nor a Souldier, or a member of the Army under the Command of the now Lord Generall Fairfax, he did most maliciously and trayterously endeavour, to withdraw certaine Souldiers of that Army from their obedience to their superiour Officers, which are particularly named in the Indictment, and that for the full accomplishment of his contrivances and endeavours, he'' Rh