Relation of Passages and Speeches in the Star Chamber, Title page – To the reader
A BRIEFE RELATION OF Certaine ſpeciall and most materiall paſſages, and ſpeeches in the Starre-Chamber, Occaſioned And delivered the 14th. day of Iune, 1637. At the Cenſure of thoſe three famous and worthy Gentlemen, Dr. Baſtwicke, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne. EVEN SO As it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes, by one preſent at the ſaid Cenſure.
PRINTED In the yeare of God, 1638.
TO THE READER.
CHriſtian Reader, I preſent you heere the Relation of ſuch a Cenſure (and the Execution thereof) as I dare ſay, all circumſtances layd together, cannot bee paralled in any age of man throughout the Christian World, and I thinke I may take in even the World of Pagans and Heathens to it. Which, though it bee not drawne up in ſo eloquent a ſtraine, as it was delivered & deſerved, nor all the Heavenly words and eloquent ſpeeches recorded, which were uttered by theſe Three Worthies of the Lord, both in the preſence of the Lords themſelves at their Cenſure, and alſo at the place of Execution: Yet I earneſtly beſeech you in the bowels of Ieſus Christ, that you doe not in the least manner under-valu the glory and dignitie, eyther of the Perſons, or the cauſe, but rather lay the blame upon the rudenes and meane capacity of the Compoſer, who is an unfeyned Wel-wiſher to them. Fare well.
A Briefe Relation, OF Certaine ſpeciall & moſt materiall paſſages and Speeches in the Starre-chamber, on the 14th. day of Iune, in the yeare 1637. At the Cenſure of thoſe three vvorthy Gentlemen, Dr. Baſtwick, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Prynne.
BEtweene eight and nine a clocke in the morning (the 14. of Iune) the Lords being ſet in their places in the ſaid Court of Starre-chamber, and caſting their eyes upon the Priſoners, then at the Bar, Sr. Iohn Finch (chiefe Iuſtice of the Common Pleas) began to ſpeake after this manner:
Sr. Iohn Finch.
I had thought M. Prynne had had no eares, but me thinkes hee hath eares, which cauſed many of the Lords to take the ſtricter view of him; and for their better ſatisfaction, the Uſher of the Court was commanded to turne up his haire, & ſhew his eares: Upon the ſight wherof the Lords were diſpleaſed they had beene formerly no more cut off; and caſt out ſome diſgracefull words of him.
To which M. Prynne replied;
M. Pryn.
My Lords, there is never a one of your Honours, but would be ſorry to have your eares as mine are.
The Lord Keeper replied againe;
L. Keeper.
In good faith, hee is ſome what ſawcy.
M. Pryn.
I hope (ſaid M. Prynne) your Honours will not be offended, I pray God give you eares to heare.
L. Keeper
The buſines of the day (ſaid the Lord Keeper) is to proceed on the Priſoners at the Barr.
M. Pryn.
M. Prynne then humbly deſired the Court to give him leave to make a motion or two, which being graunted, he mooves,
Firſt, that their Honours would be pleaſed to accept of a croſſe Bill againſt the Prelates, ſigned with their owne hands, being that which ſtands with the Iuſtice of the Court, which he humbly craved, and ſo tendred it.
L. Keeper
As for your croſſe Bill, it is not the buſines of the day; Hereafter if the Court ſhall ſee juſt cauſe, and that it ſavours not of Libelling, wee may accept of it; for my part I have not ſeene it, but have heard ſomewhat of it.
M. Pryn.
I hope your Honours will not refuſe it, being it is on his Majeſties behalfe; wee are his Majeſties Subjects, and therefore require the Iuſtice of the Court.
L. Keeper
But this is not the buſines of the day.
M. Pryn.
Why then, My Lords, I have a ſecond motion, which I humbly pray your Honours to graunt; which is, That your Lordſhips will be pleaſed to diſmiſſe the Prelates, here now ſitting, from having any voyce in the cenſure of this cauſe, (being generally knowne to be Adverſaries) as being no way agreeable with equity or reaſon that they, who are our Adverſaries, ſhould bee our Iudges: Therefore wee humbly crave, they may be expunged out of the Court.
L. Keeper
In good faith, it's a ſweet motion, is't not? Herein you are become Libellous. And if you ſhould thus Libell all the Lords and Reverend Iudges, as you doe the moſt Reverēd Prelates, by this your Plea, you would have none to paſſe ſentence upon you for you Libelling, becauſe they are parties.
M. Pryn.
VnderUnder correction (My Lord) this doth not hold: Your Honour need not put that for a certainty, which is an uncertainty; we have nothing to ſay to any of your Honours, but onelyonly to the Prelates.
L. Keeper
Well, proceed to the buſines of the day; Read the Information.
Which was read, being very large; and theſe five Bookes annexed thereunto (viz.) a Booke of D. Baſtwicks, written in Latin.
The ſecond, a little Booke, intituled, Newes from Ipſwich. The third intitled, A Divine Tragedy, Recording Gods fearefull judgements on Sabbath-breakers. The fourth, Mr. Burtons Booke, intituled, An Apology of an Appeale to the Kings moſt Excellent Majeſty, with two Sermons for God and the King, preached on the fifth of November laſt. The fifth and laſt, Dr. Baſtwickes Letany.
The Kings Counſell (being five) tooke each of them a ſeverall Booke, and deſcanted there at the Barre upon them, according to their pleaſure.
M. Attorney.
Mr. Attorney began firſt with D. Baſtwickes Latin Booke, picking out here & there particular concluſions, that beſt ſerved for his owne ends, (ſo did all the other Counſell out of the former other Bookes) to the great abuſe of the Authors, as themſelves there immediately complain'd, intreating them to reade the foregoing grounds, upon which the ſaid concluſions depended, without which they could not underſtand the true meaning of them.
Serjeant.
Next unto the Attorney, Serjeant Whitfeild fals upon Reverend M. Burtons Booke, who vented much bitternes againſt that unreprooveable Booke (as all that read it with an honeſt and orthodox heart may clearely perceive) ſwearing: In good faith, My Lords, there is never a page in this Booke, but deſerves a heavier and deeper Cenſure then this Court can lay upon him.
Next followed A. B. who in like manner deſcanted upon the Newes from Ipſwich, charging it to be full of pernitious lyes, and eſpecially vindicating the honor of Mathew Wren, Biſhop of Norwich, as being a learned, pious, and Reverend Father of the Church.
M. Littleton.
In the fourth place, followes the Kings Solicitor, who acts his part upon the Divine Tragedy; To which part of it, concerning Gods judgements on Sabbath-breakers, he had little to ſay, but onelyonly put it off with a ſcoffe; ſaying, That they ſate in the Seate of God, who judged thoſe accidents which fell out upon perſons ſuddainly ſtrooken, to be the judgement of God for Sabbath breaking, or words to the like effect: but enlarged himſelfe upon that paſſage, which reflected upon that late Reverend (as he termed him) and learned Profeſſor of the Law, and his Majeſties faithfull Servant M. William Noy, his Majeſties late Attorney, who (as hee ſaid) was moſt ſhamefully abuſed by a ſlaunder layd upon him; which was, That it ſhould be reported, That Gods judgement fell upon him for ſo eagerly proſecuting that innocent perſon M. Prynne; which judgement was this; That he, laughing at M. Prynne, while hee was ſuffering upon the Pillory, was ſtrooke with an iſſue of blood in his privy part, which by all the art of man could never bee ſtopped unto the day of his death, which was ſoone after. But the truth of this my Lords (ſaith he) you ſhall finde to be as probable as the reſt; for we have here three or foure Gentlemen of good credit and ranke, to teſtify upon oath, that hee had that iſſue long before, and thereupon made a ſhew, as if he would call for them in before the Lords, to witneſſe the truth thereof, with theſe particular words, Make roome for the Gentlemen to come in there, but no one witneſſe was ſeene to appeare: Which was pretty deluſion, and worth all your obſervations that read it: and ſo concluded (as the reſt) that this Booke alſo deſerved a heavy and deepe Cenſure.
Mr. Harbert.
Laſtly, followes M. Harbert, whoſe deſcant was upon Dr. Baſtwickes Letanie, picking out one or two paſſages therein, and ſo drawing thence his concluſion, that jointly with the reſt, it deſerved a heavy Cenſure.
The Kings Counſell having all ſpoken what they could, the Lord Keeper ſaid to the Priſoners at the Barre:
Lord Keeper.
You heare Gentlemen, wherewith you are charged; and now, leaſt you ſhould ſay, you cannot have libertie to ſpeake for your ſelves, the Court gives you leave to ſpeake what you can, with theſe conditions:
Firſt, That you ſpeake within the bounds of modeſty.
Secondly, That your ſpeeches bee not Libellous.
They all three anſwered:
Priſoners.
They hoped ſo to order their ſpeech as to be free from any immodest or libellous ſpeaking.
Lord Keeper.
Then ſpeake a Gods name, and ſhew cauſe why the Court ſhould not proceed in Cenſure (as taking the cauſe pro confeſſo) againſt you?
M. Pryn.
My Honourable good Lords, ſuch a day of the monethmonth, there came a Subpoena from your Honours, to enter my appearance in this Court; which being entred, tooke forth a copy of the Information, which being taken, I was to draw my Anſwere, which I endeavoured to doe, but being ſhut up cloſe priſoner, I was deſerted of all meanes, by which I ſhould have done it; for I was no ſooner ſerved with the Subpoena, but I was ſhortly after ſhut up cloſe priſoner, with ſuſpention of Pen, Inke and Paper; which cloſe impriſonment did eat up ſuch a deale of my time, that I was hindred the bringing in of my Anſwer. You did aſſigne me Counſell, 'tis true, but they neglected to come to me, and I could not come to them, being under lock and key. Then upon motion in Court, yee gaue me liberty to goe to them; but then preſently after that motion (I know not for what cauſe, nor upon whoſe commaund) I was ſhut up againe: and then I could not compell my Counſell to come to me, & my time was ſhort, and I had neither Pen nor Incke, nor Servant to do any thing for me, for my Servant was then alſo kept cloſe priſoner under a Purſevants hands; This was to put impoſſibilities upon mee. Then upon a ſecond motion for Pen & Inke (which was graunted me) I drew up ſome Inſtructions, & in a fortnight time ſent 40. ſheetes to my Councell; ſuddainly after I drew up 40. ſheetes more, and ſent to them; My Lord, I did nothing but by the adviſe of my Counſell, by whom I was ruled in the drawing up of all my anſwer, and payd him twice for drawing it, and ſome of my Counſell would have ſet their hands to it. Here is my Anſwer, I tender it upon my oath, which your Lordſhips cannot deny with the Iuſtice of the Court.
Lord Keeper.
Wee can give you a Preſident, that this Court hath proceeded & undertaken a cauſe pro confeſſo for not putting in an Anſweare in ſix dayes; you have had a great deale of favour ſhewed in affording you longer time, & therefore the Court is free from all calumny or aſperſion, for rejecting your Anſwer, not ſigned with the Counſels hands.
M. Pryn.
But one word or two (my Lords) I deſire your Honours to heare me; I put a caſe in Law, that is often pleaded before your Lordſhips, One man is bound to bring in two witneſſes, if both, or one of them faile, that hee cannot bring thē in, doth the Law (my Lords) make it the mans act? You aſſigned me two Counſellors; one of them failed, I cannot compell him; Here now he is before you, let him ſpeake, if I have not uſed all my endeavours to have had him ſigned it (which my other Coūſell would hauehave done, if this would hauehave ſet his hand to it with him) and to have put in long ſince.
Counſell.
My Lord, there was ſo long time ſpent ere I could doe any thing; after I was aſſigned his Councell, that it was impoſſible his Anſwere could bee drawne up in ſo ſhort a time as was allotted; for after long expectation, ſeeing he came not to me, I went to him, where I found him ſhut up cloſe priſoner, ſo that I could not have acceſſe to him: Whereupon I motioned to the Lieftenant of the Tower, to have free libertie of ſpeech with him concerning his aunſwear; which being graunted mee, I found him very willing & deſirous to have it drawne up; whereupon I did moove in the Court for Pen and Paper, which was graunted, the which hee no ſooner had gotten, but hee ſet himſelfe to draw up Inſtructions, and in a ſhort time, ſent me 40 ſheetes; and ſoone after I received 40 more; but I found the Anſwer ſo long, of ſuch a nature, that I durſt not ſet my hand to it, for feare of giving your Honours diſtaſt.
M. Pryn.
My Lords, I did nothing, but according to the direction of my Counſell, only I ſpake mine owne words, my anſwear was drawne up by his conſent, it was his owne act, and hee did approove of it; and if he will be ſo baſe à Coward, to doe that in private which he dares not acknowledge in publick, I will not ſuch a ſin lye on my conſcience, let it reſt with him. Here is my Anſwer, which, though it be not ſigned with their hāds, yet here I tender it upon my oath, which you cannot in Iuſtice deny.
L. Keeper.
But Mr. Prynne, the Court deſires no ſuch long Anſwer; Are you guilty or not guilty?
M. Pryn.
My good Lord, I am to Anſwer in a defenſive way, Is here any one, that can witnes any thing againſt me? Let him come in. The Law of God ſtandeth thus; that a man is not to be condemned, but under the mouth of two or three witneſſes. Here is no witneſſe comes in againſt me, my Lord, neither is there in all the Information one clauſe that doth particularly fall on me, but onelyonly in generall, there is no Booke laid to my charge. And ſhall I be condemned for a particular act, when no accuſation of any particular act can bee brought againſt mee? This were moſt unjuſt and wicked. Here I tender my aunſwere to the Information upon my oath; My Lord, you did impoſe impoſſibilities upon me, I could doe no more then I was able.
L. Keeper.
Well, holde your peace: your anſwere comes too late. Speake you Dr. Baſtwick.
Dr. Baſt.
My Honorable Lords, Mee thinks you looke like an Aſſembly of Gods, and ſit in the place of God; yee are called the Sonnes of God: And ſince I have compared you to Gods, give me leave a little to paralell the one with the other, to ſee whither the compariſon betweene God and you doth hold in this noble and righteous cauſe. This was the car…iage of Almighty God in the cauſe of Sodome, Before hee would pronounce ſentence, or execute judgement, he would firſt come downe, and ſee whether the crime was altogether according to the cry that was come up. And with whom doth the Lord conſult, when he came downe? With his Servant Abraham, and hee gives the reaſon; for I know (ſaith hee) that Abraham will commaund his children & houſehold after him, that they ſhall keepe the way of the Lord to doe Iuſtice & Iudgment. My good Lords, thus ſtands the caſe between your Honours and us this day; there is a great cry come up into your eares againſt us from the Kings Attourney; bee novv pleaſed to deſcend and ſee if the crime be according to the cry, and conſult vvith God (not the Prelates being the adverſary part, and; as it is apparant to all the World doe proudly ſet themſelves againſt the vvayes of God, and from vvhom none can expect Iuſtice or Iudgement) and vvith righteous men, vvill be impartiall on either ſide, before you proceed to cenſure: which cenſure you cannot paſſe on us vvithout great unjuſtice before you heare our Anſwers read: Here is my Anſwer, which I here tender upon my oath; My good Lords; give us leave to ſpeake in our owne defence; wee are not conſcious to our ſelves, of any thing we have done that deſerves a Cenſure this day in this Honourable Court, but that vve have ever laboured to maintaine the Honour, Dignity, & Prerogative Royall of our Soveraigne Lord the King, let my Lord the King live for ever. Had I a thouſands lives, I ſhould thinke them all too little to ſpend for the maintenance of his Majeſties Royall Prerogative: My good Lords, can you proceed to Cenſure before you know my cauſe? I dare undertake, that ſcarce any one of your Lordſhips have read my Bookes; And can you then Cenſure me for what you know not, and before I have made my defence? O my Noble Lords! is this righteous judgement? This were againſt the Law of God and Man, to condemne a Man, before you know his crime. The Governour before whom S. Paul was carried (who was a very Heathen) would firſt heare his cauſe before he would paſſe any Cenſure upon him; And doth it beſeeme ſo Noble and Chriſtian Aſſembly to condemne mee, before my Anſwer be peruſed, and my cauſe knowne? Men, Brethren, and Fathers, into what an age are wee fallen? I deſire your Honours to lay aſide your Cenſure for this day & inquire into my cauſe, heare my Anſwer read; which, if you refuſe to doe I here profeſſe, I will cloath it in Roman Buffe, and ſend it abroad unto the view of all the world, to cleare mine innocency, and ſhew your great injuſtice in this cauſe.
Lord Keeper.
But this is not the buſines of the day; Why brought you not in your Anſwer in due time?
D. Baſtwicke.
My Lord, a long time ſince I tendred it to your Honour, I failed not in any one particular: And if my Counſell be ſo baſe and cowardly, that they dare not ſigne it for feare of the Prelates (as I can make it appeare) therefore have I no Anſwer? My Lord, here is my Anſwer, which, though my Counſell out of a baſe ſpirit, dare not ſet their hands unto, yet I tender it upon my oath.
L. Keeper
But M. D. you ſhould have beene briefe; you tendred in too large an Anſwer, which (as I heard) is as Libellous as your Bookes.
D. Baſtw.
No, my Lord, it is not Libellous, though large, I have none to anſwer for me but my ſelfe, and being left to my ſelfe, I muſt plead my conſcience in anſwer to every circumſtance of the Information.
L. Keeper
What ſay you M. D. Are you guilty, or not guilty? Anſwer yea or no, you needed not to have troubled your ſelfe ſo much about ſo large an Anſwer.
D. Baſtwicke.
I know, none of your Honours have read my Booke; And can you with the Iuſtice of the court, condemne me before you know what is written in my bookes?
L. Keeper
What ſay you to that was read to you even now?
D. Baſt.
My Lord, he that read it did ſo murther the ſence of it, that had I not knowne, what I had written, I could not tell what to have made of it.
L. Keeper
What ſay you to the other ſentence read to you?
D. Baſt.
That was none of mine, I will not father that which was none of my owne.
L. Dorſet.
Did not you ſend that booke, as now it is, to a Noble mans houſe, together with a Letter directed to him?
D. Baſt.
Yea my Lord, I did ſo, but withall you may ſee in my Epiſtle ſet before the booke, I did at firſt diſclaime what was not mine; I ſent my Booke over by a Dutch Merchant, who it was that wrote the addition I doe not know, but my Epiſtle ſet to my Booke, made manifeſt what was mine, and what was not; and I cannot juſtly ſuffer for what was none of mine.
L. Arund.
My Lord, you heare by his owne ſpeech, the cauſe is taken pro confeſſo.
L. Keeper
Yea, you ſay true my Lord.
D. Baſt.
My noble Lord of Arundell, I know you are a noble Prince in Iſrael, & a great Peere of this Realme; There are ſome honourable Lords in this Court, that have beene forced out as combatants in a ſingle duell, it is betweene the Prelates and us, at this time as betweene two that have appointed the field. The one being a coward goes to the Magiſtrate, & by vertue of his Authority diſarmes the other of his weapons, & gives him a Bullruſh, and then challenges him to fight. If this be not baſe cowardice, I know not what belongs to a Souldier. This is the caſe betweene the Prelates and us, they take away our weapons (our Anſwers) by vertue of your Authority, by which we ſhould defend our ſelves, and yet they bid us fight. My Lord, doth not his ſavour of a baſe cowardly ſpirit? I know, my Lord, there is a Decree gone forth, for my Sentence vvas paſſed long ſince, to cut of our eares.
Lord Keeper.
Who ſhall know our Cenſure, before the Court paſſe it? Doe you propheſy of your ſelves?
D. Baſtwicke.
My Lord, I am able to proove it, and that from the mouth of the Prelates ovvne Servants, that in Auguſt laſt it vvas decreed, that D. Baſtvvicke ſhould looſe his eares. O my Noble Lords? is this righteous judgement? I may ſay, as the Apoſtle once ſaid, What, whipp a Roman? I have beene a Souldier, able to lead an Army into the field, to fight valiantly for the honour of their Prince; Now I am a Phyſitian, able to cure Nobles, Kings, Princes, and Emperors: And to curtolize a Romans eares, like a Curre, O my honourable Lords! is it not too baſe an act for ſo noble an aſſembly, and for ſo righteous and honourable a cauſe? The cauſe my Lords is great, it concernes the glory of God, the honour of our King, whoſe Prerogative we labour to maintaine and to ſet up in a high manner, in which your Honours Liberties are engag'd: And doth not ſuch a cauſe deſerve your Lordſhips conſideration, before you proceed to Cenſure? Your Honours may be pleaſed to conſider, that in the laſt cauſe heard and cenſured in this Court, between St. Iames Bagge, & the Lord Moone, wherein your Lordſhips tooke a great deale of paines, with a great deale of patience, to heare the Bills on both ſides, with all the Anſwers & Depoſitions largely laid open before you; which cauſe when you had fully heard, ſome of your Honours now ſitting in Court, ſaid, You could not in conſcience proceed to Cenſure, till you had taken ſome time to recollect your ſelves. If in a cauſe of that nature, you could ſpend ſo much time, and afterwards recollect your ſelves before you would paſſe Cenſure: How much more ſhould it moove your Honours, to take ſome time in a cauſe wherein the glory of God, the Prerogative of his Majeſtie your Honours dignity, and the Subjects Liberty is ſo largely ingaged? My good Lords, it may fall out to be any of your Lordſhips caſes to ſtand as Delinquents at this Barre, as we now doe: It is not unknowne to your Honours, the next cauſe that is to ſucceed ours, is touching a perſon that ſometimes hath beene in greateſt power in this Court: And if the mutations and revolutions of perſons and times be ſuch, then I doe moſt humbly beſeech your Honours to looke on us, as it may befall your ſelves. But if all this will not prevaile with your Honours, to peruſe my Bookes; and heare my Anſwer read, which here I tender upon the word and oath of a Souldier, a Gentleman, a Scholler, and a Phyſitian: I will cloath them (as I ſaid before) in Roman Buffe, and diſperſe them throughout the Chriſtian world, that future generations may ſee the innocency of this cauſe, and your Honours unjuſt proceedings in it; all which I will doe, though it coſt me my life.
L. Keeper
Mr. D. I thought you would be angrie.
Dr. Baſt.
No my Lord, you are mis-taken, I am not angrie nor paſſionate; all that I doe preſſe, is, that you would be pleaſed to peruſe my Anſwer.
D. Keeper
Well, hold your peace. Mr. Burton, what ſay you?
Mr. Burton.
My goods Lords, your Honours (it ſhould ſeeme) doe determine to Cenſure us, and take our cauſe pro confeſſo, although we have laboured to give your Honours ſatisfaction in all things: My Lords, what you have to ſay againſt my Booke, I confeſſe I did write it, yet did I not any thing out of intent of Commotion or Sedition: I delivered nothing, but what my Text led me too, being choſen to ſuite with the day, namely, the fifth of November; the word were theſe, &c.
L. Keeper
M. Burton, I pray ſtand not naming Texts of Scripture now, we doe not ſend for you to preach; but to anſwer to thoſe things that are objected againſt you.
M. Burt.
My Lord, I have drawne up my Anſwer to my great paines and charges, which Anſwer was ſigned with my Counſels hands, and received into the Court, according to the rule and Order thereof. And I did not thinke to have beene called this day to a Cenſure, but have had a legall proceeding by way of Bill and Anſwer.
L. Keeper
Your Anſwer was impertinent.
M. Burt.
My Anſwer (after it was entred into the Court) was referred to the Judges, but by what meanes I doe not know, whither it be impertinent, and what cauſe your Lordſhips had to caſt it out, I knovv not. But after it was approved of; and received, it was caſt out as an impertinent Anſwer.
L. Finch.
The Iudges did you a good turne to make it impertinent, for it was as Libellous as your Booke, ſo that your Anſwer deſerved a Cenſure alone.
L. Keeper
What ſay you Mr. Button, are you guilty, or not?
M. Burton.
My Lord, I deſire you not onelyonly to peruſe my Booke, here and there, but every paſſage of it.
L. Keeper
Mr. Burton, time is ſhort, are you guilty, or not guilty? What ſay you to that which was read? Doth it become a Miniſter to deliver himſelfe in ſuch a rayling and ſcandalous way?
M. Burton.
In my judgement, and as I can proove it, it was neither rayling not ſcandalous; I conceive that a Miniſter hath a larger liberty then alwayes to goe in a milde ſtraine: being the Paſtor of my people, whom I had in charge, and was to inſtruct, I ſuppoſed it was my duety to informe them of thoſe innovations that are crept into the Church, as likewiſe of the danger and ill conſequence of them: As for my anſwer, yee blotted out what yee would, and then the reſt which made beſt for your owne ends, you would have to ſtand; And now for your owne turnes and renounce the reſt, were to deſert my cauſe, which before I will doe, or deſert my conſcience, I will rather deſert my body, and deliver it up to your Lordſhips, to doe with it what you will.
L. Keeper
This is a …lace where you ſhould crave mercy and favour, Mr. Burton, and not ſtand upon ſuch termes as you doe.
M. Burt.
There wherein I have offended through humane frailty, I crave of God & Man pardon: And I pray God, that in your Sentence, you may ſo Cenſure us, that you may not ſinne againſt the Lord.
Thus the priſoners deſiring to ſpeake a little more for themſelves, were commaunded to ſilence. And ſo the Lord proceeded to Cenſure.
The Lord Cottingtons Cenſure.
I Condemne theſe three men to looſe their eares in the Pallaceyard at Weſtminſter; To be fined five thouſands pounds a man to his Majeſtie: And to perpetuall priſonment in three remote places of the Kingdome, namely, the Caſtles of Carnaruan, Cornwall, and Lancaſter.
The Lord Finch added to this Cenſure.
MR. Prynne to be ſtigmatized in the Cheekes with two Letters (S & L) for a Seditious Libeller. To which all the Lord agreed. And ſo the Lord Keeper concluded the Cenſure.