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treasons : but especially a full declaration of Sir 

 Henry Neville s, which describeth and planteth forth 

 the whole manner of his practising with him. 



The fellow, after he had made some introduction 

 by an artificial and continued speech, and some time 

 spent in sophistical arguments, descended to these 

 two answers : the one, for his being within Essex- 

 house tli at day, the day of the rebellion, they might 

 as well charge a lion within a grate with treason, as 

 him ; and for the consultation at Drury-house, it was 

 no more treason than the child in the mother s belly 

 is a child. But it was replied, that for his being in 

 the house, it was not compulsory, and that there was 

 a distribution in the action, of some to make good 

 the house, and some to enter the city, and the one 

 part held correspondent to the other, and that in 

 treasons there were no accessaries, but all princi 

 pals. 



And for the consultation at Drury-house, it was 

 a perfect treason in itself, because the compassing of 

 the king s destruction, which by judgment of law 

 was concluded and implied in that consultation, was 

 treason in the very thought and cogitation, so as 

 that thought be proved by an overt act : and that 

 the same consultation and debating thereupon was an 

 overt act, though it had not been upon a list of 

 names, and articles in writing, much more being 

 upon matter in writing. 



And again : the going into the city was a pur 

 suance and inducement of the enterprise to possess 

 the court, and not a desisting or departure from it. 





