Riflery ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 257 of Treafon ; upon the fame Ground I was en- ' gaged with Earneftnefs in his Profecution ; and had the fame Ground remain'd in that Force of Belief with me, which till very lately it did, I ' fhould not have been tender in his Condemnation. But truly, Sir, to deal plainly with you, that ' Ground of our Accufation, that Spur to our ' Profecution, and that which fhould be the Bafis ' of my Judgment of the Earl of Strafford as to Trealon, is to my Underffanding quite vanifh'd away. This it was, Mager Speaker, his advifing the King to employ the Army of Ireland to re- ' duce England; this I was allured would be proved, before I gave my Confent to his Accufation. I was confirmed in the fame Belief during the Pro- ' fecution, and fortified in it moft of all fince Sir Henry Vane's preparatory Examinations, by the ' Afliarances which that worthy Member Mr. Pyrri gave me, that his Teffimony would be made con- ' vincing by fome Notes of what part at the 7unto, concurrent with it, which I ever underftanding to be of force other Counfellor, you fee now, prove ' but a Copy of the fame Secretary's Notes, difco- ' ver'd and produced in the manner you have heard; and thole, fuch disjointed Fragments of the venomous part ofDifcourfes, no Refaits, no Conclufton cfCoun- leis, which are the only things which Secretaries fhou'd regi/ler, there being no ufe at all ofthe other, but to accufe and bring Men into danger. But, Sir, ' this is not that which overthrows the Evidence with me, concerning theArmy of Ireland, nor yet that all the reft of the 7unto upon their Oaths re- ' member nothing of it. But this, Sir, which I ' will tell you, is that which works with me under favour, to an utter overthrow of his Evidence, as unto that of the Army of Ireland. Before, ' whil/i Iwas Profecutor, and under tye ofSecrecy, I mi bt not difcover any Weaknefs ofthe Caufe, which S ' now,
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