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Penn made such an uncivil Noise, that the Court could not give the Jury the Charge, he was therefore put into the Bale-dock, which stands even with the Bar; and the Pri∣soners might hear the Charge there, as well as a Prisoner might hear at the Barr; this therefore was a causeless Exclamation.
Answ. If my noise was uncivil, it was because it was Legal; and I expect not a better Character from such, as so pro∣claim me a broacher of new Heresies, because I honestly demanded the free course of the Fundamental Laws of England. The plain truth was this; that because I endeavoured to inform the Jury of my Case, and to take off the asperity of some mens passions, they turn'd me, and my Companion, into the Bale-dock, which though even with the Bar, yet besides the main Court, and so deeply impaled, that we could not see the Court, nor hear the Charge; but upon information, that the Recorder was charging the Jury, I stept up, and my Fellow-Prisoner after me, and exclaim∣ed against the irregularity of such proceedings. And for this plain Reproof, and but necessary demand of the English Right, of Prisoners being present at the giving of the Charge, commanded us into the Hole, a place so noisom and stinking, that the Mayor himself would have thought it an unfit Sty for his Swine.