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It were hard measure for a man to lose his ho∣nour and his life, for an hasty word, or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words, he confessed them to be true, and thought he said no more than what became him, considering how much his Master's Honour was concerned in him, that if a proportionable obe∣dience was not as well due to Acts of State, as to Acts of Parliament, in vain did Councils sit. And that he had done no more than what former
Deputies had done, and then what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council Table, which he produced. And that if those words were Treason, they should have been revealed within fourteen daies.