one way or other in the trial of this
case, nor is she to be accountable for it.

But I must remember you of one particular, that is plain upon
this evidence, and is of very great moment in this case; that
after all these private messages and directions given to come by
night, and the kind reception they met with when they came, and
after all this care to lodge them and feed them, when Col.
Penruddock, after the discovery made by Barter, came to search
her house, then she had nobody in it truly, which is an
aggravation of the offence testified by col. Penruddock himself,
whose father likewise was a martyr, and died for his fidelity to
the crown; and who was the judge of that father we all very well
know.[60]

God Almighty is a just God, and it may be worth considering
(especially by her) how God has been pleased to make use of him
as the instrument in this business; and she would do likewise
well to consider the finger of God in working upon the heart of
that man Barter, who was employed in all this affair, and that
all the truth has been told by Nelthorp,[61] that blackest of
villains Nelthorp, that would have murdered the King and his
royal brother; that he was one of those barbarous, malicious
assassinates in that black conspiracy, and outlawed, should be
harboured, by one that pretends a love for the royal family,
and entertained and discoursed with at night about being in the
army; yet that he and that other villain Hicks, who pretends to
religion, and to be a preacher of the gospel, but is found in
rebellion, and in the company of traitors, should be denied the
next morning.

I hope they themselves are all by this time satisfied truth will
come out, and I hope you will not be deceived by any specious
pretences. Our forefathers have been deluded, but the deception
I hope is now at an end. And I must needs say if all these
witnesses that have freely discovered their knowledge, joined to
that truth which is at length drawn from that Dunne, be worthy
of any credit, it is as plain a proof as can be given, and as
evident as the sun at noon day.

Gentlemen, upon your consciences be it; the preservation of the
government, the life of the King, the safety and honour of our
religion, and the discharge of our consciences as loyal men,
good Christians, and faithful