subjects, are at stake; neither
her age or her sex are to move you who have nothing else to
consider but the evidence of the fact you are to try. I charge
you therefore, as you will answer it at the bar of the last
judgment, where you and we must all appear, deliver your verdict
according to conscience and truth.

With that Great God the impartial judge there is no such thing
as respect of persons, and in our discharge of our duty in
courts of justice, he has enjoined us his creatures, that we
must have no such thing as a friend in the administration of
justice, all our friendship must be to truth, and our care to
preserve that inviolate.

LISLE--My lord, if your lordship please----

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Mistress, you have had your turn, you cannot
now be heard any more after the jury is charged.

MRS. LISLE--My lord, I did not know Nelthorp, I declare it,
before he was taken.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--You are not indicted for Nelthorp, but we
are not to enter into dialogues now, the jury must consider of
it.

JURY-MAN--Pray my lord, some of us desire to know of your
lordship in point of law, whether it be the same thing, and
equally treason, in receiving him before he was convicted of
treason, as if it had been after.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--It is all the same, of that certainly can be
no doubt; for if in case this Hicks had been wounded in the
rebels' army, and had come to her house and there been
entertained but had died there of his wounds, and so could never
have been convicted, she had been nevertheless a traitor.[62]

Then the jury withdrew, and staying out a while the Lord
Jeffreys expressed a great deal of impatience, and said that he
wondered in so plain a case they would go from the bar, and
would have sent for them with an intimation, that if they did
not come quickly, he would adjourn, and let them lie by it all
night; but about after half-an-hour's stay, the Jury returned,
and the foreman addressed himself to the Court thus:

FOREMAN--My lord, we have one thing to beg of your lordship some
directions in, before we can give our verdict in this case; We
have some doubt upon us whether there be sufficient proof that
she knew Hicks to have been in the army.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--There is as full proof as proof can be; but
you are judges of the p