Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Early Stuarts, 1603-1649 -- Sources
1652. A BATTLE WITH THE DUTCH _British Museum Pamphlets_ 99
1653. CROMWELL AND THE RUMP "_Cromwell's Letters and
Speeches_" 101
1653. THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT "_Old Parliamentary
History_" 102
1653. THE CHOICE OF A HUSBAND "_Dorothy Osborne's Letters_" 106
1653. A PRESBYTERIAN VIEW OF THE
TRIERS "_Reliquæ Baxterianæ_" 107
1643-1658. CROMWELLIAN SAYINGS "_Cromwell's Letters and
Speeches_" 109
1654. GEORGE FOX THE QUAKER "_Journal of George Fox_" 115
1657. KILLING NO MURDER _Harleian Miscellany_ 118
CHARACTER OF CROMWELL "_Warwick's Memoirs_" 119
PURITANISM AND LIBERTY
1603-1660
COKE AND RALEIGH (1603).
=Source.=--_State Trials._ Vol. ii., p. 25.
_Serjeant Philips._ I hope to make this so clear, as that the wit
of man shall have no colour to answer it. The matter is Treason in
the highest degree, the end to deprive the king of his crown. The
particular Treasons are these: first to raise up Rebellion, and to
effect that, to procure Money; to raise up Tumults in Scotland, by
divulging a treasonable Book against the king's right to the crown;
the purpose, to take away the life of his majesty and his issue.
My lord Cobham confesseth sir Walter to be guilty of all these
Treasons. The question is, whether he be guilty as joining with
him, or instigating of him? The course to prove this, was by lord
Cobham's Accusation. If that be true, he is guilty; if not, he is
clear. So whether Cobham say true, or Raleigh, that is the question.
Raleigh hath no answer but the shadow of as much wit, as the wit of
man can devise. He useth his bare denial; the denial of a Defendant
must not move the Jury. In the Star Chamber, or in the Chancery, for
matter of Title, if the Defendant be called in question, his denial
on his oath is no Evidence to the Court to clear him; he doth it in
_propria causa_; therefore much less in matters of Treason. Cobham's
testification against him before them, and since, hath been largely
discoursed.
_Raleigh._ If truth be constant and constancy be in truth, why hath
he forsworn that that he hath said? You have not proved any one thing
against me by direct Proofs, but all by circumstances.
_Coke (Attorney-General)._ Have you done? The king must have the last.
_Raleigh._ Nay, Mr. Attorney, he which speaketh for his life, must
speak last. False repetitions and mistakings must not mar my cause.
You should speak _secundum allegata et probata_. I appeal to God and
the king in this point, whether Cobham's Accusation be sufficient to
condemn me.
_Coke._ The king's safety and your clearing cannot agree. I protest
before God, I never knew a clearer Treason.
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