Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

himself, says Jeffreys to him, 'Richard, Richard,
dost thou think we will hear thee poison the court?
And, Richard, thou art an old fellow, an old knave;
thou hast written books enough to fill a cart, every
one as full of sedition -- I may say treason -- as an
egg's full of meat. Hadst thou been whipped out of
thy writting forty years ago, it had been happy. I
know thou hast a mighty party, and I see a great
many of thy brotherhood in corners, to see what
will become of their mighty Don, but by the grace
of Almighty God I will crush them all.'"
"After this strange insult, another of Mr.
Baxter's counsel begins to speak, and to clear Mr.
Baxter, would have read some passages of the
book, but Jeffreys cried out, 'You shall not draw
me into a conventicle with your annotations, nor
your sniveling parson neither.' So that when neither
he himself nor the lawyers could be heard, but
were all silenced by noise and fury, the judge
proceeds to sum up the matter to the jury: ' It is
notoriously known,' says he, that there has been a
design to ruin the king and nation, the old game has
been renewed, and this has been the main
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