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Just: Jermin, You refuse to hold up your hand, and though you break the Law of England, the Court will not break it.
L. Col: Lilb: I do what the Court declares what is my right and duty to do, I do no more then declare my name to be so as it is.
L. Keeble, Read the Indictment.
Mr Broughton Reads, Hold up thy hand John Lilburne, thou standest here indicted of high Treason by the name of John Lilburne, late of London Gentleman, for that thou as a false Traytor, not having the fear of God before thine eies, but being stirred & moved up by the instigation of the Devil, dist indeavour not only to disturbe the peace and tranquility of this Nation, but also the Government thereof to subvert: now established without King or house of Lords, in the way of a Common-wealth, and a free-state, and happily Established, and the Commons in Parliament assembled being the supreame authority of this Nation of England, to disgrace, and into a hatred, base esteeme, infamy and scandall, with all the good true and honest persons of England, to bring into hatred, That is to say, that thou the said John Lilburn, one the first day of October in the year of our Lord 1649. and in diverse other daies and times, both before and after, in the parish of Mary the Arches, in the ward of Cheap London aforesaid, of thy wicked and devilish mind and imagination, falsely, malitiously, advisedly, and trayterously, as a false Traytor, by writing and imprinting, and openly declaring that is to say, by a certain scandalous, poysonous, and traiterous writing in paper intituled A salva libertate; and hy another scandalous, poysonous and trayterous Book, intituled An impeachment of high treafon, against Oliver Cromwell, and his son in law Henry Ireton, Esquires, late members of the late forcibly desolved House of Commons, presented to publike view by Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn close prifoner in the Tower of London, for his reall, true and zealous affections to the liberties of this Nation; and by another scandalous, poysonous and traiterous Book, imprinted, and intituled, An out-cry of the young men and apprentices of London, or an inquisition after the lost fundamentall laws and liberties of England, directed August 29. 1649. in an Epistle to the private soldiers of the Army, especially all those that signed the solemn Engagement at Newmarket-heath, the fifth of Iune 1647. but more especially the private Soldiers of the Generals Regiment of Horse, that healped to plunder and destroy the honest and true hearted Englishmen, traiterously defeted at Burford, the fifteenth of May 1649. andalso
