AN OLD HAMPSHIKE MANOR HOUSE. / 



of vipers, do avc live among. Sirs, is this wliat you call the 

 Protestant religion ? Shall so glorious a name, be applied to so 

 mucli villany and hypocrisy '? Is this the pursuasion, you hope to 

 live and die, and find salvation in ? Will you, any of you, gentle- 

 men, be contented to die, with such a lie in your mouth, &c. f 



" Jesus God, was there ever such a fellow, in the world, as thou 

 art? Prithee, let me ask thee, once again, Dost thou believe there 

 is a God, that this God is spotless, truth, and purity, itself 1 Dost 

 thou believe, that thou hast a precious and immortal soul, that is 

 to live, in everlasting bliss, or eternal misery, after this life, 

 according, as thou carriest it here, &c. 1 Thou wretch, all the 

 mountains, and hills in the world, heaped upon one another, will 

 not cover thee, from the vengeance of the great God, for this 

 transgression of false swearing. What hopes, can there be, for so 

 profligate a being, as thou art, that so impudently, stands, in open 

 defiance of the omnipresence, omniscience, and justice of God, by 

 persisting, in so palpable a lie, &c. ?" 



The unfortunate Avitness was so l)ewildered by the torrent of 

 abuse from the mouth of the Lord Chief Justice, that at last he 

 bursts out, " My Lord, I am so baulked, I do not know what I say 

 myself : tell me what you would have me to say, for I am cluttered 

 out of my senses." 



Dame Alice Lisle called no witnesses, but made defence as 

 follow : — 



'•' My lord, that which I have to say is this, I knew of nobody 

 coming to my house but Mr. Hickes, and as for him, I did hear 

 that he did abscond by reason of warrants that were out again.-<t 

 him for preaching in private meetings, but I never heard he was 

 in the army, nor that Xelthorpe was to come with him, and for that 

 reason, it. was, that I sent for him to come by night, but for the 

 other man Nelthorpe, I never knew he was Nelthorpe, I could die 

 upon it, nor did know what name he had till after Ir- canif into 

 my house, but as for ^Ir. Hickes, I did not in the least suspect 

 him, that he had been in the army, being a Presliylerian Minister, 

 that used to preach and not to light. My lord, 1 abhorred butli the 



