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 Then did Sir Edward Philips, Knight, His Majesty’s Serjeant at Law, open the Indictment  this effect, as followeth: ‘The matter that is now to be offer’d to you my Lords the Commissioners, and to the trial of you the knights and gentlemen of the jury, is  matter of Treason; but of such horror, and  monstrous nature, that before new, the tongue of man never deliver’d; the ear of man never heard; the heart of man never conceited; nor the malice of hellish or earthly devil ever prac-tised: For, if it be abominable to murder the  least ; if to touch God’s anointed be to oppose themselves against God: 1f (by blood) to subvert princes, states and  kingdoms, be hateful to 
 God and man, as all true Christians must acknowledge: then, how much more than too too monstrous shall all Christian hearts judge the horror of this treason; to murder and subvert such a king ; such a queen ; such a prince; such a progeny; such a state; such a goverment, so complete and absolute, that God aproves, the world admires, all true English hearts honour and reverence; the pope and his disciples only envies and maligns ? The proceeding wherein, is properly to be divided into three general heads. 1. Matter of Declaration. 
 2, Matter of Aggravation. 
 3.  Matter of Probation. Myself am limited to deal only with the Matter of Declaration, and that is contain’d  within the compass of the Indictment
	Then did Sir Edward Philips, Knight, His Majesty’s Serjeant at Law, open the Indictment this effect, as followeth: ‘The matter that is now to be offer’d to you my Lords the Commissioners, and to the trial of you the knights and gentlemen of the jury, is matter of Treason; but of such horror, and monstrous nature, that before new, the tongue of man never deliver’d; the ear of man never heard; the heart of man never conceited; nor the malice of hellish or earthly devil ever prac-tised: For, if it be abominable to murder the least ; if to touch God’s anointed be to oppose themselves against God: 1f (by blood) to subvert princes, states and kingdoms, be hateful to
	God and man, as all true Christians must acknowledge: then, how much more than too too monstrous shall all Christian hearts judge the horror of this treason; to murder and subvert such a king ; such a queen ; such a prince; such a progeny; such a state; such a goverment, so complete and absolute, that God aproves, the world admires, all true English hearts honour and reverence; the pope and his disciples only envies and maligns ? The proceeding wherein, is properly to be divided into three general heads. 1. Matter of Declaration.
	2, Matter of Aggravation.
	3. Matter of Probation. Myself am limited to deal only with the Matter of Declaration, and that is contain’d within the compass of the Indictment
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