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ly fell down groveling upon his face on the ground and honoured him, according

to the Convention among them mention"ed before. And albeit both these continued ftill refolute in their former Fancies, conceived of their extraordinary Callings and Offices, and fought most abfurdly to defend it by Scripture, (but chiefly by moft terrible Imprecations unto themfelves, praying to be confounded and "damned if they faid not true :) yet to all

Questions that were asked of them, they "anfwered (though moft confidently) yet "pertinently, and directly to purpose, fay

ing, That Hacket ufed the matter fome"what more craftily, when any Question "of efpecial danger was propounded unto

him. For then would he by cunning Eva

fions, by Cavils, and by fruftratory kinds of "Anfwers go about to put off fuch Interrogatories, feeming when he was preffed "fomewhat hard, to be weary of his Part "and Perfon put on, if he could have then "told how to have fhaken it off, and been "rid of it again with any honefty.

"Coppinger (foon after his firft examina"tion) finding the event of things not to "anfwer their expectations, feeing alfo the

matter fomewhat warmly taken (as there "was good caufe) and thereby gathering "the danger which he and his Complices "ftood in, and perceiving alfo (by the "Queftions asked) the intercepting of their "Writings and Letters, whereby their deal

"ings were at full discovered and brought "to light; began, either by his own vo"luntary choife (as fome perhaps not un"probably have imagined) or through anx"iety (indeed) of mind, growing forth of the badnefs of the Caufe, to behave him"felf as a Man diftracted of his Wits. In"fomuch as coming at one time to be exa"mined, and finding Hacket there, at his "fight he prefently roared out in a very "ftrange and horrible kind of voice; which "Hacket willing to turn to the best, straightway faid, It was no marvail, though Coppinger did now fo behave himself, for that "he had given him over already unto So

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By perufal of their Writings and Letcc ters, and by their Examinations, all the "Plots of Treafon and Lewdness ( afore " mentioned) fell out very evidently, and "more at full against them.

Touching the Queen's-Arms defaced at "Kaye's Houfe, Hacket did confefs, at the "times of his examination, that he did it, "none other being prefent, and that he was "moved thereunto inwardly by the Spirit, "to take away her whole Power of her Au

thority; and that he would have done "worfe, had it not been for difquieting his "Hoftefs where he lay, because when the "found it, fhe was very angry therewith: "For he was not forry, neither is forry (as "he then faid) for doing the Act, because

he was commanded by God to do it, and

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"durft do no otherwife. He confeffed alfo, "that he was likewife moved to put out the

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Lions and the Dragons Eyes in the Arms; "but being asked why he did fo? he bitterly and malicioufly answered, that he "did know that Lions and Dragons did af"flict God's People. He did alfo raze out "the Cross that was pictured on the top of "the Crown. He further confeffed, That "he meant also her Majefty's Counsel "fhould be removed, because they were (he

faid) wicked; and that he himself (being "moved by the Spirit) would have placed "certain other new Counsellors (whom he "then named) to wait upon the Queen, and

to reform Religion. It is alfo confeffed "by him, that he told Arthington and others, "that he was the anointed King of Europe. "By the Depofitions of the faid Kaye and his "Wife, it appeareth, that they finding,

(about a fortnight before Hacket's depar"ture from them) the Queen's Majesty's "Picture pricked with fome Bodkin or Iron "Inftrument in the very place representing "her Royal Heart, did in great anger charge "Hacket with it. Whereunto he answered, "that he had done it, and muft and would "answer it; adding, he had greater Mat"ters to anfwer than that, and therefore "(faid he) you need not make fuch ado "for it. But Hacket at all his Examinations "either denied this Point flatly, or faid, he "did not remember it. This Noble Heart, "which thereby he fo trayteroufly defpited,

"God

"God of his infinite mercy long blefs and continue ftill moft happy and hearty in his "love and fear, within her Majefties facred "breaft, maugre all fuch execrable fiery

fpirits and hell-hounds in earth, and all "the damned devils in hell. Amen.

"Likewife he confeffed, that he moved and fent forth Coppinger and Arthington, to go whither God fhould fend them, and to CC declare and publifh, that there lay a Man "(namely he the faid Hacket) at Walker's

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Houfe, which made claim to the Crown "of England, and that her Majesty had for"feited her Crown, in that her Ministers "have ufed extraordinary means to fet up "Religion. This he confeffed on the 21ft "and 23d of July. But at his former exa"mination on the 19th of July, being de"manded whether he would acknowledg "that the Queen's Majefty is Lawful Queen "of England or not? he fubtilly then faid, "he would not answer to that Question, "but faid he was Queen of England yet, if the "had not forfeited the fame. And he fur"ther confeffed (on 23d of July) that he "First published in Hamp-fhire (about Three

or. Four Years paft) and afterwards in "Hartford-fhire, and in Northampton-fhire, that "her Majesty was not Queen, and that the "had forfeited her Title to the Crown: And "that he told Arthington fo much in Trinity "Term. All these aforefaid, were confef"fed by him, without any Torture: but being Tortur'd, he then Sang another

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cc Song, and confeffed her Majesty to be his "lawful Queen, and affirm'd, that he Ho"noured her, and was Sorry for his Of "fence: adding, that if Coppinger, WigginCC ton, and one other (whom he named) were well fifted, and ftraightly examined, "they would utter and declare fundry matters of Treafon.

"It fell out befides upon depofition of

Kayes, that Coppinger (being told how "Hacket had ufed the Queens Picture and the "Arms) at the firft feemed to mislike with it, faying, that if he were fuch a fellow, "he had done with him; but (faith he) you must bear with him: for fome great men have also born with him, and he is "with you, but as it were a Prisoner.

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Coppinger himself also at that his exami"nation (which was taken the 19th of July) confeffed, that the Letter then "thewed to him, (and inferted afore) was the Copy of a Letter which he fent to the faid John Udall about ten weeks then past, and that the cause why he wrote to Udall that he used not to repair unto him and the rest who were in prifon, so often as he was wont to do, for doubt of more trouble and danger "that might grow to them thereby, was, in refpect of this action, which he had to do: He

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alfo then affirmed, that the Queens Majesty, "Queen Elizabeth, is not Queen of England, "neither is he (as he faid) now her fervant, "for Hacket is the only King of the World, "and that Hacket was commanded by God

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