Colonel Purefoy sworn.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne. I except against his evidence, I am indicted for crimes against the keepers of the liberties of England as they call themselves, and he is one of them, therefore a party, and no witness in law.
Purefoy.—I declare this to be the very individual book I received sealed up from Major Hawksworth, and my hand is at it.
Mr. Attorney observed, that this was proved to be the very same book which Mr. Lilburne delivered Mr. Daffern; and that the next thing he was charged with, was intitled "A Preparative to the Hue and Cry," &c. Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower, I desire you will speak your knowledge.
Lieutenant of the Tower.—My Lord, Mr. Lilburne gave me such a book, and I have such another at home, but I cannot swear either to be the same he gave me.
Mr. Nutleigh and Edward Radney sworn.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne—Pray what are these gentlemen? I never saw either of them before.
Mr. Attorney General.—They are my servants, Mr. Lilburne.
Nutleigh.—The 14th of September last I saw the prisoner deliver this specifical book to Mr. Attorney, and called himself the author pf it, the erratas of the printer only excepted.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lilburne.—Let him be asked if the words "which are many" did not follow.
Radney deposed, he saw him deliver the book and owned it, but neither of them remembered the words "which are many" to have been added.
Lieutenant of the Tower.—My Lord, I was present, and the words were, "Here is a book which is mine, which I will own, the erratas or errors of the printer excepted, which are many."
Mr. Attorney General averred, that this was the individual book that Mr. Lilburne gave him, and that there was another in the indictment, intitled "The Legal Fundamental Liberty," &c. which had Mr. Lilburne's name to it, and though he would not own it, he should prove it from his other books, viz. "The Preparative to the Hue and Cry," and "The Salva Libertate;" that "The Preparative" he owned before three witnesses, and that Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower received "The Salva" from his own hands. Read the marginal note, p 2.
Clerk reads.—See my second edition of my book of the 8th of June 1649, iniitled "The Legal Fundamental Liberties of the People of England revived and asserted," p. 48, 49, to 63.
Mr. Attorney General.—This book hath Mr. Lilburne's name, and he owns it in his "Hue and Cry," in the margin in the third page.
Clerk reads.—Peruse the quotations in the sixth and eighth pages of my forementioned impeachment of high-treason against Oliver Cromwell, as also the 12th and 15th pages of the second edition of my aforementioned book, dated the 8th of June, 1649, intitled, &c.
Mr. Attorney General. Read the fourth in the body of the book.
