By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. 



269 



Be merciful unto me O Lord, be merciful unto me under the shaddow of thy 

 icinyes will I hide myself e ty 11 this tyranny be overpassed.* One of the Jury 

 being asked by a Gent : why he Foun mee guilty answered that he was resolved 

 to hang mee before he saw me.f 



Glory to God on high on earth peace good will toward men, & have mercy on 

 mee 0 Lord. 



JOHH PeNEUDDOCK." 



On the second page of this sheet there is the following 



"Witnesses Bennett and 

 Stroud [Strong], who in 

 open [Court confessed to be 

 guilty of all they p'ved ag** 

 mee yett Mr. Attorney 

 gave y e Jury direcons. to 

 fynde them not guilty. 



Mr. Attorney well Knew 

 y l . if y e statute had bine 

 read, I had bine iustified 

 & himselfe Guilty. 



If this be the tithe of the 

 subject, the whole nation 

 may see themselve in 

 greater slaverie than ever 

 y e pore Isrealites were to 

 ye Egiptions. 



This is as iust a triall ac- 

 cording to law, as if [it] 

 had bin for y e p'soners to 

 have tried (of ther owne 



ffor if this be made treason its an Judibidum 

 vacuni, like y e winde in the Gospell, w ch . bloweth 

 wher it listeth, and that shal be treason in mee to 

 day, w ch . to morrow shal be none in another, as 

 it shall please Mr. Attorney, 



& neyther myselfe nor Jury might have y\ 

 statute read by w h . y e Court ptended my Accons 

 wer made treason, but 1 must rest (and soe they) 

 satisfied y*. Mr. Attorney said it was Treason. 

 Observe alsoe 



The Judges when Demand their Judgm t8 . in 

 poynt of law, said they were pties, yet sat uppon 

 y e bench in their robes, soe y i . Mr. Attorney y e 

 Protecto rs Servant (whose whole businesse was to 

 carrie on his Masters Interest right or wrong) was 

 both Judge & Jury, for what he said (so iust a Jury 

 I had) they did. 



If I had bine guilty of Treason I had bine 

 unjustly tried for I ought to be tried by y e sworne 

 Judges of y e Law, & not by ye Immediate'Servants 

 of the ptecto 1 '. as is Lisle Glyn & Steele for Judges 



* The words given in italics are omitted from the pamphlet. 



+ Interpolation—" The Judges are sworn to do justice, according to the law of the land, and there- 

 fore have miserably perjured themselves in condemning me contrary to law : And (not so contented) 

 must cause the jury (so wise they were) through their false and unjust directions, to destroy then- 

 own rights and properties, and set up a new Arbitrary and Tyrannical government. 



The judges would not give me their advise in point of law (as was their duty) because they said 

 they were parties ; yet could sit still on the bench in their robes to countenance? (and approve of) my 

 sentence. 



No man can be a Judge where he is a party in the same cause therefore my triall was contrary to 

 law. Hobart folio 120, Doet Bonam's case, 8 part of Cook's reports. 



The Judges being parties, ought not to sit npon the bench, (but stand by) therefore my t- La] \\ as 

 illegall : the rest being no judges but the Protector's immediate servants, so could not Wr- my Judges 

 in case of High Treason ; for none but the sworn Judges of the Land arc capable of it by law. 



One thing of Colonel Dove the reverend sheriff of Wilts, who that the jury might be sufficiently 

 incensed, complaining of the many incivilities (he pretended) were offered him by our party, being 

 upon his oath, said that one of our men did run him through the side with a carabine. Surely it 

 was a very small one, for the wound is not discernable. 



A good deal of praise every man in his place took for the carrying on their master's work." 



