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u near this fourteen Years; you have rust your self upon this Jury, because you nk there is some Service for you. I tell u, you deserve to be indicted more than y Man that hath been brought to the Bar s Day.

BUSHEL. No, Sir John, there were reescore before me, and I would willingly ve got off, but could not.

BLOODW. I said, when I saw Mr. Bushel, at I see is come to pass, for I knew he uld never yield. Mr. Bushel, we know at you are.

MAY. Sirrah, you are an impudent llow, I will put a Mark upon you.

OBSER. They used much menacing Lanage, and behaved themselves very imriously to the Jury, as Persons not more d of Justice than sober Education: After s barbarous Usage, they sent them to coner of bringing in their Verdict, and after ne considerable time they returned to the

CLER. Look upon the Prisoners at the Sar. How say you? Is William Penn Guilty of the Matter whereof he stands ndicted in Manner and Form, or Not Guilty?

FORE-M. Guilty of Speaking in Gracechurch-Street.

COURT. Is that all?

FORE-M.

mission.

That is all I have in Com

REC. You had as good say nothing. MAY. Was it not an unlawful Assembly? You mean he was speaking to a Tumult of People there?

FORE-M. My Lord, This is all I had in Commission.

OBSER. Here some of the Jury seemed to buckle to the Questions of the Court; upon which, Bushel, Hammond, and some others, opposed themselves, and said, they allowed of no such Word, as an unlawful

REC. The Law of England will not ow you to part till you have given in r Verdict.

URY. We have given in our Verdict, we can give in no other.

REC. Gentlemen, you have not given in r Verdict, and you had as good say hing; therefore go and consider it once re, that we may make an end of this ublesome Business.

URY. We desire we may have Pen, Ink Paper.

OBSER. The Court adjourn'd for half Hour; which being expired, the Court rns, and the Jury not long after. The Prisoners were brought to the Bar, the Jury's Names called over.

CLER. Are you agreed of your Verdict? UR. Yes.

CLER. Who shall speak for you?

UR.

Our Fore-man.

CLER.

What say you,

look upon the

VYO LILE JUTUTS, norcujici numeu, u jina

William Penn to be Guilty of Speaking or reaching to an Assembly, met together - Gracechurch-Street, the 14th of August st, 1670. And that William Mead is Not uilty of the said Indictment.

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John Brightman, Wil. Plumsted.

OBSER. This both Mayor and Recorder esented as so high a rate, that they exceeded he Bounds of all Reason and Civility.

MAY. What will you be led by such a illy Fellow as Bushel? an impudent cantng Fellow? I warrant you, you shall come no more upon Juries in haste: You are a Fore-man indeed, addressing himself to the Fore-man, I thought you had understood your Place better.

ou shall starve for it.

EN. My Jury, who are my Judges, t not to be thus menaced; their Verdict ld be free, and not compelled; the ch ought to wait upon them, but not tall them. I do desire that Justice be done me, and that the Arbitrary lves of the Bench may not be made the sure of my Jury's Verdict.

C. Stop that prating Fellow's Mouth, at him out of the Court.

AY. You have heard that he preach'd, he gathered a Company of tumultuous le, and that they do not only disobey Martial Power, but Civil also. EN. It is a great Mistake; we did not the Tumult, but they that interrupted The Jury cannot be so ignorant, as to

that we met there, with a Design to rb the Civil Peace, since (1st.) we by Force of Arms kept out of our lawHouse, and met as near it in the Street,

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