24th day of August, 1572, and few following days, cause to be murdered at Paris, in France, 70,000 persons, who were massacred by one of your agents called CHARLES IX. and who in a few years murdered 300,000! Within thirty years were killed in France, 39 Princes, 148 Counts, 234 Barons, 147,518 Gentlemen, and 760,000 persons of inferior rank in life, but whose blood equally called for justice.

"And you did in England, during the short reign of the ever-to-be-execrated Queen MARY, burn 1 Archbishop, 4 Bishops, 21 Preachers, 8 Gentlemen, 84 Artificers, 100 Husbandmen and Labourers, 26 Wives, 20 Widows, 9 unmarried Women, 2 Boys, and 2 Infants. And in Ireland also you did in the year 1641, cause to be murdered 40,000 persons. And in Scotland, in Holland, in Germany, in Spain, in Italy, in Portugal, in Poland, in Hungary, in Bohemia, and other countries in Europe; and in South America, innumerable multitudes have been slaughtered by your rebellious arms, for the vile purpose of promoting said insurrections and treasons within the kingdom of our Sovereign Lord the Everlasting Kings And for the purposes of your treasonable imaginations as aforesaid, our said Lord the King from the royal state, title, honour, power, imperial crown, and government of his realm, to depose and deprive, contrary to the duty of your allegiance, against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown and dignity, and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided."

CLERK OF THE CROWN. How sayest thou, Antichrist? Art thou Guilty of that treason whereof thou standest indicted, and for which thou hast now been arraigned? or Not Guilty?.

ANTICHRIST. (After remaining silent for some time,) I do not consider myself accountable to any Court.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. Whatever opinion you may entertain respecting your treasonable authority; it will not be owned here. You have heard the Indictment read, and the course is, you must plead Guilty or Not Guilty. It is the law and the common case of all men in your situation. Are you Guilty or Not Guilty?

ANT. Shall I not be allowed to produce such authority as almost-all Christian Countries have admitted? Some of the most eminent Catholic writers have proved my power over all law and-

COURT. You must hold, and plead Guilty or Not Guilty. You shall have the liberty that any subject can have, or can challenge. No man standing at the bar, in the condition you are, must make any other answer to the Indictment than Guilty or Not Guilty. Your answer must be plain and direct, either Guilty or not Guilty.

ANT. Will you permit me to give you my answer in my own words?

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. but what the law directs.

There is no answer

You shall be heard

when you put yourself upon your trial.

ANT. I request some time to consider of it, for I have been very unexpectedly called upon.

COURT. You have been allowed several centuries to take this case into consideration. You must follow the direction of the Court, Guilty or Not Guilty?

ANT. Shall I be heard, my Lord?

COURT. Yes, upon your trial. You must keep to the course of law, either Guilty or Not Guilty. There is but one of these pleas to be made. You trouble the Court.

CLERK. How sayest thou, Antichrist ? Art thou Guilty or Not Guilty?

ANT. My condition differs from others, I am

now

CLERK. Are you Guilty or Not Guilty?

ANT. I am speaking. I have known the time when none dare

COURT. There are but three things to be considered. Either you must say Guilty, which is Confession, and then there remains no more but Judgment; or Not Guilty, and then you shall be heard; or Judgment will pass for your standing mute, which is the same as if you had confessed. ANT. Will you refuse to give me any satisfaction ?

CLERK. Are you Guilty or Not Guilty?

COURT. You have been long acquainted with the proceedings of earthly courts. Did you ever allow any prisoner brought before your tribunal, the indulgence the court has now granted you? ANT. This is a Special Case.

COURT. The law allows nothing now, but to plead Guilty or Not Guilty. You must plead to your Indictment. If it be treason, it cannot be justified; if it be justifiable, it is not treason. Therefore plead Guilty or Not Guilty?

ANT. Who could suppose that I would plead Guilty?

CLERK. You plead Not Guilty. Is this your plea?

ANT. I do not acknowledge the Indictment to be legal. I never called myself by the name of Antichrist. I am not the person.

CLERK. You have been long known by that name. You are the person charged with treason. It would take many hours to read all the names you have been known by in the world. You are the person, and by one, or other of the names in the Indictment, you have for centuries committed all the crimes laid to your charge. But the Court cannot be thus interrupted. Are you Guilty or Not Guilty?

ANT. I am not Antichrist.

CLERK. Are you Guilty or Not Guilty?
ANT. I do not plead Guilty.

CLERK. Then you plead Not Guilty. Is this your plea?

CLERK. How will you be tried?

ANT. I will be tried by the laws and Cardinals of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. I must inform you, if you do not put yourself in this case according to law, what you have said amounts to nothing.

CLERK. How will you be tried? ANT. According to the ordinary course. CLERK. Whether by God and the Country? You must speak the words.

COURT. We have given you a great deal more liberty than is usually granted. It is the course and proceeding of law; if you will be tried, you must put yourself upon God and the Country.

ANT. If I must say the words, I will say what you tell me. I will be tried by God and the Country.

CLERK. God send you a good deliverance.

COURT. You, the prisoner at the bar: if you desire pen, ink, and paper, you shall have them: and if you will challenge any of the Jury, you may when they come to be sworn, and that before they are sworn.

Mr. Timothy Telltruth, being called was desired to look on the prisoner at the bar, and lay his hand upon the book, when the prisoner said, I utterly abhor his name, he is well known to be one of the greatest enemies to my government.

Mr. Jacobus Investigation, Mark Mercy, Gideon Grace, Titus Truth, Francis Faithfulness, Luke Love, Peter Peace, Jonah Joy, Matthew Meekness, Henry Holiness, and Venerable Virtue, being called, were severally excepted against by the prisoner.

COURT.

Antichrist, you know the law. You must say, I challenge him.

ANT. I shall, Sir.