e into that room where I was taken.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--When thou heardst a stir and a bustle, why
wert thou afraid of anything?

DUNNE--My lord, I was frightened at the noise.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Prithee, what needst thou be afraid for,
thou didst not know Hicks nor Nelthorp? and my lady only asked
thee whether Hicks were a Nonconformist parson. Thou art a very
innocent soul, and surely need'st no occasion to be afraid.

Colonel Penruddock did not remember Barter telling him what he said he
did, but Barter said he apprehended the two men to be rebels, and 'that
Dunne told him as much.'

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--What do you say to that, Dunne? It seems you
told Barter that you apprehended them to be rebels?

DUNNE--I apprehend them for rebels, my Lord?

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--No, no, you did not apprehend them for
rebels, but you hid them for rebels. But did you say to Barter
that you took them to be rebels?

DUNNE--I take them to be rebels!

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--You blockhead, I ask you, did you tell him
so?

DUNNE--I tell Barter so?

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Ay, is not that a plain question?

DUNNE--I am quite cluttered out of my senses; I do not know that
I say (A candle being still held nearer his nose).

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--But to tell the truth would rob thee of none
of thy senses, if ever thou hadst any; but it should seem that
neither thou, nor thy mistress the prisoner had any, for she
knew nothing of it neither, though she had sent for them
thither.

Colonel Penruddock continuing, said he had some difficulty in getting
admittance to Lady Lisle's house; he did not see her till after he had
brought out Hicks and Dunne; she denied that anybody else was there, but
he searched and found Nelthorp.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--But she denied it [Nelthorp's being there]
first it seems?

LISLE--My lord, I hope I shall not be condemned without being
heard.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--No, God forbid, Mrs. Lisle. That was a sort
of practice in your husband's time, you know very well what I
mean; but God be thanked it is not so now; the king's courts of
law never condemn without hearing.

_Downing_ being called and sworn, deposed to finding Dunne and Hicks in
the Malt-house, the former in a little hole 'where he had taken some
stuff or other to cover him.'

_Mrs. Carpenter_, the bailiff's wife,