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blood_n	body_n	receive_v	sacrament_n	25,097	5	7.8839	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25874	The arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Peter Cooke, Gent. for high-treason, in endeavouring to procure forces from France to invade this kingdom, and conspiring to levy war in this realm for assisting and abetting the said invasion, in order to the deposing of His sacred Majesty, King William, and restoring the late King Who upon full evidence was found guilty at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1696. And received sentence the same day. With the learned arguments both of the King's and prisoner's council upon the new Act of Parliament for regulating tryals in cases of treason. Perused by the Lord Chief Justice Treby, and the council present at the tryal.	Cooke, Peter, d. 1696.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)	1696 (1696)	Wing A3757; ESTC R3080	87,497	74

Acquit as well as Convict according as the Evidence stands It is your Duty to go according to your Consciences and to declare whether he be Guilty or Not Guilty upon the Evidence you have before you You are to Examine the Truth of the Fact in all its Circumstances and upon your own Consciences to declare whether he is Guilty or Not Guilty now we propose it to you and submit it to your Consciences That here are Three Witnesses that speak upon their Oaths against whom there is no Objection That ever they were Guilty of lying in wait to Poyson any body nor in any Plot for an Assassination nor any Conspiracy for inviting an Invasion from France nor any other Objection against them but they stand upright in the Face of the World and they Three swear That he was not there at that time The Answer that we expect is That he might be there and they not see him And because it was possible he might be there and they not see him therefore it is no Evidence But My Lord because it may be so is no Evidence that it is so that 's no Objection for you will take it as the nature of the thing will afford and the Matter itself allow Now there can be no better Evidence than this That they went in and out continually the Drawers and the Master of the House five or six times himself were in the Room and they say There was no such Person there Why then it is very Improbable if not Impossible that any such Man should be there The one swears He came down from my Lord of Ailesbury just before he went away and another says He follow'd him out of the Room and the Master says That he met my Lord of Ailesbury at the Stairs-head All which falsifies Mr. Goodman in that Particular That he was with my Lord of Ailesbury at the Stairs-head when he went away These are incompatible and if we falsifie him in any one thing he is not to be believ'd in any other Then Gentlemen we offer to your Consideration an Answer to another Objection They say these Witnesses seem to swear That he was not there at all We are not concern'd whether he was there afterwards or not If you are satisfied that he was not there as our Witnesses swear while my Lord of Ailesbury was there that 's enough But then they make an Objection How comes the Master of the House to remember my Lord of Ailesbury's going away more than any body else Gentlemen you know the nature of the thing shows that not only that it was more probable the Master of the House should make his Observations near the time of Dinner rather than afterwards at Night when there is more Hurry But it is more probable he should take notice of it from the Quality of the Person from the Discourse he had with him about the Whitewine which was a good Medium to refresh a Vintner's Memory it being a matter in his own Trade and that might make him call it to mind Therefore Gentlemen we think these three Witnesses stand free and clear in their Credit and being so are inconsistent with Mr. Goodman's Testimony and we hope in favour of Life the Credit inclines on their side especially when the Question is Whether a Man shall be executed for Treason who never fled for it who was never charg'd with any Treason or Treasonable Practises before nay not so much as with any particular Crime or Immorality And whether Three Witnesses shall be believ'd against whom there is no Objection rather than Two against One of which there are such Objections My Lord we are not now debating or attacking the Evidence of the Plot or arraigning the former Judgments against the Conspirators that have suffer'd but Gentlemen we are putting you now upon a serious Enquiry as GOD and your own Consciences shall incline you whether our Clyent be Guilty or Not Guilty upon this Evidence that is whether Mr. Goodman swears true or not We hope that we have given you sufficient Satisfaction that upon Mr. Goodman's part the Evidence is insufficient and we hope you will accordingly find our Clyent Not Guilty Mr. Att. Gen. If Mr. Cook have any thing to say himself I desire he may say it now before we begin Sir B. Shower No pray go on Sir L. C. J. Treby Mr. Cook wou'd you say any thing yourself before the King's Councel sum up Cook The little I have to say my Lord I 'll speak now or by and by which you please L. C. J. Treby You must do it now because after they have summ'd up there is nothing more to be said by you Cook My Lord I thank God I have liv'd a Life I hope as good as any Man and have often receiv'd the Blessed Sacrament I have done it constantly and shall do it speedily by the Grace of God as soon as I can have a Minister come to administer it to me I did offer it to my own Father when he came to me and told me If would confess this thing I should not come to Tryal I told my Father I would not for Ten thousand Worlds take away the Blood of an Innocent man to save mine I thank God I am in a very good way to dye I have for at least this last Year frequently received the Blessed Sacrament and how I have liv'd every body in the Court that knows me can tell my Life and Conversation has been as regular as any man's and I am as ready to dye to morrow if occasion was for it I thank God as any one I will receive the Blessed Sacrament upon it and it is not for Life that I would do any thing that is wrong or unjust I do love my Nation and I love the Quiet of the Nation I never was for disturbing the Government that now is and I ever was against Foreign Forces or an Invasion for I never thought of one or heard of it but with Abhorrence and Detestation And I do assure faithfully I shou'd be sorry to disparage Mr. Porter's Evidence because I would have every body that was concern'd in that Horrid and Barbarous Crime to suffer in God's Name let them all suffer I thank God I never knew any thing of it nor of a French Invasion And I would say more of it but that I would not hurt Mr. Porter's Evidence whose Discovery of that Bloody Business has done so much Service As for Mr. Goodman as I hope to receive the Blessed Sacrament and may I perish when I do it if I speak an Untruth I would not for any thing no not for the Good of my Country have Innocent Blood spilt I would lay down my Life to serve my Country but I would not have my Blood be lightly lost and how little a Man soever I am my Blood will lye as heavy upon the Nation as any the weightiest man's can do I do not doubt your Lordship's Justice nor the