Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
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expresslie, that the booke was a good booke and lawfull, and
declared as he had before done, howe the same was allowed, &c. And
after he was urged to put himselffe uppon his tryall, and was put
in remembraunce what the punishment of the lawe was, yf judgement
were geven against him, de payne fort et dure. And thereuppon yt
was asked him howe he would be tryed, and he aunswered by God
and the countrye; and then he was told by the courte, that uppon
the evidence geven, he should be hard att large, and then was a
jurye of verie sufficient commoners called, and he was especiallie
warned by the Towne Clerke to take his challenges unto them as they
should come to the booke to be sworne. The jurye beinge sworne,
the indictment was redd, the which conteyned divers faulse, lewed,
and slaunderous partes of Doctor Allen's booke, tendinge playnlye
by expresse wordes, not onelie to treason, but most manifest and
shamefull slaunders against her Majestie. Yet did Allfeild not
sticke to saye, _that it towched not the Quene any moore then it
did the Frenche Kinge or Spanish Kinge_. He travelled verie much
to make the Commissioners to beleve that they understood _not
the slaunderous booke, addinge, this withall the same booke was
especiallie devised and wrytten by Doctor Allen to aunswere him who
had wrytten the booke of Justice of Englande, and not to slaunder
the Quene_. And after much speache used, and manye repeticions made
all to one effecte, by Allfeilde, there was delivered to the jurye
one of the bookes to compaire the wordes of the indictment with
the booke and the examinacions, and they fyndinge them to agree,
and hearinge him soe stowtlie to justifie the same to be a loyall
booke. They retourned after a competent tyme, and beinge called by
name and the prysoner beinge called to the barre, they were asked
first of Allfeild, whether he were gyltye of the offence that was
conteyned in the indictment. The fforeman sayed gyltie, &c.
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