X92 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. " were you not civilly used ?" " Yes," replied Mr. James, " "and I thank you for your civility." " And were you not counselled," said the lieutenant, " to take heed in future?" " Yes," said Mr. James, " I have taken heed; so far as could with a good conscience." Upon this, the lieutenant said, " You shall stretch. for it ; and if you be not hanged, I will be hanged for you." To which Mr. James meekly.re- plied, " I am not careful in that matter : you can do no more than the Lord shall permit you to do." Then said the lieutenant, " I think you are not careful; for you have a mind to 'be hanged, as some of your holy- brethren have before you Mr. James being asked whether he owned the jfth kingdom ' and signifying in the affirmative, they laughed at him, and. said, now they had itfront his own mouth. He was also charged with having learned to sound a trumpet, in order to a rising with Veneer's party; when he said, there was a friend of hiS who lodged in his house, andwho, designing to. go to sea, and wishing to learn the sound, desired that he Might have liberty to be taught in his house : but he never learned himself, neither was he at all concerned in that rising, judging it to be a rash act. The lieutenant of the Tower then called in Captain Hodgskin, who commanded the party of soldiers standing at the door, and said, " Take this man, be careful of him, and commit him close prisoner to Newgate," and gave him a warrant for that purpose.. November 14th, Mr. James was brought to the bar in the King's-bench, Westminster, and was indicted, 1. " For com- passing and imagining the king's death.-2. For endeavour- ing to levy war against the king:-3. For endeavouring a change of government." In compassing, imagining, and contriving the king's death, he was charged with having maliciously, traiterously, and by instigation of the devil, not having the fear of God before his eyes, declared these words: " That the king was a bloody tyrant, a blood-sucker, and a " blood-thirsty man, and his nobles the same.--That the king 46 This warrant was as follows: -" To the keeper of the goal of Newgate, " or his deputy, Middlesex. TheSe are in the king's majesty's name, to require you to receive into " your custody, the body of John James, whom we send you herewith ; 46 being taken this present day at a conventicle, or private meeting: in the " parish of Whitechapel ; and there speaking in the andience of the people present,.treasonable words against his majesty's royal person; you shall " therefore keep him close prisoner until further order, and this shall be your warrant. Given under our hands this 19th dayof October, 1661. "John li,obinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, Edward Chard, Thomas Bide, Thomas Swallow." Narrative, p. 9, 10,
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