to be with the Army, but he follows his own private councels. All
things run now in the channel of Royalty. Poor Argyle walks like a Bar,
none regards him: he is now with the Lord Cassels, retiring into the
countrey, for the Court cares not for them. Hamilton, Crawford,
Midleton, and such like, are of the private Cabinet, and what the issue &
product of their councels will be, you may easily judge. The Generall
Assembly is shortly to sit down. It is likely there will be great divisions
amongst them, and something may be brought forth for our advantage.
The Ministers in the West totally disown the resent proceedings, and I
suppose they have many Abettors. We shall shortly see what the event
will be.
Upon a Drum head at the Camp before Calander
House, July 14. 1651.
In relation to what passed this day at the High Court of
Justice, you are to observe that on Fryday last they sate,
and there were brought two prisoners to the Bar, both of
them impeached for the same business with Mr. Love: the
one, viz. Potter, an Apothecary, acknowledged himselfe
guilty, and made a Narrative to the Court of the Treasons,
and how they were carryed on at Loves House and other
places. The other whose name is Gibbons, a servant of Mr.
Hollis's, pleaded not-guilty, but it appeared by many evidences
upon the Tryall. That he was not onely a party in
the Treasons, but the prime Soliciter: one that lay here on
purpose to follow the business, insomuch, that no meeting of
the Conspirators was of any validity without him. The
matter of evidence being over, the Court adjourned to this
day, where in Gibbons was brought again to the Bar, and he
endeavoured to make his defence, which (after the example
of his Ghostly Father Mr. Love) amounted to no more then
a Negation of the particulars, in the same strain of equivocation,
and of aspersing the witnesses. What the opinion of
the Court is, touching these Conspirators, you will know
e're long, they having adjourned their Judgement and resolutions
till Fryday.
London, Printed by T. Newcomb, 1651.