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been with you in the Tower; sayes he, will you goe drinke? if you please we will, and so upon that we went to a place called the Red Crosse in Newgate-market: and thene we sitting down to drinke, having not much discourse for the present, we sitting still, he asked me at length, have you heard of a booke called the Out-cry of the Apprentices? Sir said I, I have heard of it, and have a louging desire to buy one of them to read it, and my reason why I so said, was, because I did understand it was to be sold at the Exchange, there I intended to go to get one of them: Says he, I had one given to me, & if you will, I will give it unto you, so I received the booke with thankefulnesse, and further expressing, which was something meane, it would save me a penny in buying of it. And I further entreated him, if he could direct me, where I might buy some more of them: I have a friend sayes he in such a place, if you would goe to him, and tell him that I am here, I should thinke my selfe beholding to you; Now the places name was Martins lane, bub the man’s name whether I went, I have forgot, and ths man too, I never heard of the man before nor since, so I told Mr. Lilburn. Now he said to me, peradventure when you find that man, you may have some more of the bookes; now these were the words to my best remembrance and knowledge, as I desire to speake with a pure conscience.
Mr. Aturny. Mr. Lilburn gave you one of those bookes.
Mr. Lewis. Yes Sir, and I put it into my pocket, and when I had done, Mr.
he will deliver him.
Whether there was any Bookes or passages betwixt them; and upon which he told him, yes, There is a booke that Mr. Lewis has, that has such a title.
Mr. Atturny. What did you with the booke.
Mr. Lewis. I delivered it to the Lieutenant.
Mr. Atturn. The same booke that you received from Mr. Lilburn, you delivered to the Lieutenant.
Mr. Atturney. What did L. Col. Lilb. say to you concerning your pay, did not he aske you, &c.
L. Col. Lilb. I pray Sir doe not direct him what to say, but leave him ⟨t⟩o his own conscience and memory, and make him not for fear to swear more then his own conscience freely tels him is true.
Mr. Lewis. The discourse was thus; sayes he, you souldiers (to my best remembrance) are the men that keep us all in slavery; now what to conceive of that expression I must leave that unto you: And as concerning our pay, he asked us, how is your pay? these were the words, or to that effect, but there was money come for us, and ready to be delivered out unto us.
Mr. Atturn. Call John Skinner, he was one of those that was in companie and can speake to it.
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