spatched now; but I would have all people
consider, what a reason there is, that they should be pressed to
join with me in hearty prayers to Almighty God, that this sin of
lying and perjury may never be laid at thy door. What say'st
thou? Prithee, tell us what the discourse was?

DUNNE--My lord, they did talk of fighting, but I cannot exactly
tell what the discourse was.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--And thou saidst thou didst eat and drink
with them in the same room?

DUNNE--I did so, my lord, I confess it.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--And it was not a little girl that lighted
thee to bed, or conducted thee in?

DUNNE--It was not a little girl.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Who was it then?

DUNNE--It was Mr. Carpenter, my lord.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--And why didst thou tell us so many lyes
then? Jesu God! that we should live to see any such creatures
among mankind, nay, and among us too, to the shame and reproach
be it spoken of our nation and religion: is this that that is
called the Protestant religion, a thing so much boasted of, and
pretended to? we have heard a great deal of clamour against
Popery and dispensations; what dispensations, pray, does the
Protestant religion give for such practices as these? I pity
thee with all my soul, and pray for thee, but it cannot but make
all mankind to tremble, and be filled with horror, that such a
wretched creature should live upon the earth: Prithee be free,
and tell us what discourse there was.

DUNNE--My lord, they did talk of fighting but I cannot remember
what it was.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Did you lie with them?

DUNNE--No, my lord, I did not.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Well I see thou wilt answer nothing
ingenuously, therefore I will trouble myself no more with thee:
go on with your evidence, gentlemen.

MR. JENNINGS--My lord, we have done, we have no more witnesses.

_Mrs. Lisle_ is then called upon for her defence, and proceeds to say
that had she been tried in London Lady Abergavenny and other persons of
quality could have testified with what detestation she had spoken of the
rebellion, and that she had been in London till Monmouth was beheaded.
She had denied Nelthorp's being in the house because of her fear of the
soldiers,

who were very rude and violent and could not be restrained by
their officers from robbery and plundering my house.