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 Mr. Aturny. Did hee name a place and person to you where you might have some of them.

Mr. Cook. He did name a place, but I have forgot it, where there were more bookes to be sold.

L. Col. Lilb. Sir I beseech you let me aske you one question.

Lord Keble. Mr. Lilburn, for your direction you must make your question to us, and tequirerequire [sic] us to aske him the question, and then if your question be faire, it shall not hebe [sic] denied you.

L. Col. Lilb. Then thus: whatsoever this Gentleman sayes of meeting him in Ivy lane, and desiring him to goe to drinke with me, yet I desire you to aske him whether I did take notice or cognizance of any of them first, or whether they did speak to me before, before ever I said any thing unto them.

Lo. Keble. To what end doe you aske this.

L. Col. Lilb. Because in your Indictment I am charged that I went among the Souldiers to seduce them from their obedience to their superior Officers, when I have made it my endeavour to shun them as much as I can, and not to come nigh the place where I know they are, if I can avoid it, no although I meet with them, not to discourse with any of them, unlesse they begin first.

Lord Keble. I tell you this which may direct you afterwards, whosoever began to discourse first, if you did give them the booke afterwards, it is all one.

L. Col. Lil. But shall please you I am upon my life, and by law I ought not to be denyed, to aske the witnesses that swear against me any question that I please, that I my selfe judge pertinent for my advantage.

Mr. Aturney. Call Thomas Lewis.

Thomas Lewis. ''And it shall please you, I am upon my oath to speake the truth, and I shall desire by the hlpehelpe [sic] of God so to doe, and no more. One day which I conceive to my remembrance, was the 6. day of Septemb. last, we bing upon a Guard at Pauls, went to an house to refresh our selves, & when I came forth, I met with Lieut. Coll. John Lilburn, whom I had formerly known, and sometimes visited in his imprisonment, and whom I was very glad to see, bavinghaving [sic] a little before heard as though some sudden accident or mischaucemischance [sic] had befaln him, and I did aske of him how he did, he said unto me he was well; and so with that sayes he, what are you upon the guard, to my best remembrance this was his expression, yet see whether it was he, or another that said it, as I take it. These were his words, sayes e, I hav almost forgotten you: Sir, I was known to you formerly, having sometimes''