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whereof the genérality (as it were in the Clouds he had afore delivered to a Counfellor. For he might not seem a man to be fufpected of any difloyal purpose, who fhewed himself fo careful for his Sovereign's fafety. Add to thefe, his cunning petition, to have prisoners for treafon, &c. to be examined by himself, and execution of condemn'd perfons to be ftai'd at his beck, whereby he might more eafily have induced them to appeach, whom he lift to have overthrown, and whom he principally aimed at. His fubtilty alfo doth notably appear in his petitions to her Majefty; where he makes fhew of great fecrets to be delivered only in her presence, and prayeth to be pardoned, if in overmuch fear of her fafety, he had attempted to prove that, which he could not, which argueth, that he had (indeed) not fo much as any colourable intelligence delivered unto him, of Treafon intended, by fuch great men, as he pretended: but ufed this as a means, to have accefs, for himself and the others, unto her Highness's presence, for fome further intended mischief: Then his allowance and commendation of found and good counfel given him, by Eg. a preacher, and by others; his fparing to reveal the great and dangerous fecret unto Hacket, upon their firft acquaintance; his razing out of Hacker's and the Town's Name, out of the Letter fent by him to a Noble perfonage, to give inkling of Treafons intended against her Majesty, left the quality and unlikely

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hood of the man being enquired after, that that plot fhould be dashed; his not fubfcribing of his name to fundry Letters; his directing of Hacket, neither to fubfcribe nor endorfe (but in that fort as he prescribed) for fear of discovery; his defire to have all the Letters again, that he had written to Eg. about that matter; his wary and diligent keeping of copies of every Letter that he writ in that caufe; and when leafure ferved not fo to do, his great care to have the very, Letters again; his offence with one Hoc. for keeping a Letter from him, which he had fent unto him; his cunning excufe of Hacket's defacing of the Queen's Arms; his counterfeit revelation to bring Arthington further in; his device to make Arthington refolute, by saying it was revealed to him, that they had Angelical fpirits, not fubject to hurt, by any mortal power; his willing choice to withdraw himself into an houfe, when (after their proclamation) things fell not out as was expected, and from thence afterward to go to his place of abode, through by-lanes; his and Hacket's putting off the matter from knowledg of Arthington for a time, though afterward (happely) to be opened, why the Queen might not be pray'd for, in particular; their pretence of the Lords commandment, to keep the means fecret; how the Queen's Majefty and the Counsel were to be brought to repentance, and unto their pretended Reformation; the fenfible and coherent manner of report unto Wiggin

Wigginton, touching Hacket's and their own callings, and offices, by Coppinger and Arthington; their temperate and pertinent anfwers unto Wigginton's fpeeches, and all their confulting fundry times together, about their business, namely, the night afore, and the day of their proclamation, do plainly argue, that Coppinger (albeit he were greatly milled by a falfe and spightful zeal, and by much hypocrifie ) yet was he far enough, from any distracting of his wits, in every part of this action.

And concerning Hacket (whofe terrible blafphemies at the laft, do argue either a villanous diffimulation to have his execution refpited, or a desperate intemperancy against God, for fruftrating his expectation) there can no fury or madness be juftly noted in him, by the whole managing of this action, but rather, notable hypocricy, craft, and diffembled holiness. First, in that he feem'd a man moft zealous for the pretended Reformation of the Church, by erecting the Difcipline, and afterwards alfo for reforming of the Common-wealth: That he ufed (in outward appearance) a moft fervent and devout manner of praying: that in his prayers, he did execrate himself most deeply, if he fought not the glory of God only in this action, thereby the better to be credited, and to cover his villanies: that he took a day's deliberation, to answer the great matter, after it was firft propounded by Coppinger that he fought to get credit to himself,

himself, and to terrify her Majefty, by telling (in generalities) of strange judgments of God, imminent over her, that were revealed unto him: that foreseeing it not unlikely to rain (after a long time of drought) he prayed in Coppinger's prefence for rain, whereby it might feem to be fent by God, at his only prayer and mediation: that he bare them in hand he could tell things to come, being merely contingent: that he could fain fuch kind of Revelations, as if they were fhewed to him in the midft of his torments, (which if they be marked) tended only to have himself magnified, as a man placed most highly in God's favour: that when the one of his followers feemed offended, he craftely excused the mislike which he had fhewed, to hear her Majesty prayed for: that the better to colour his hatred and malice, he afterwards prayed for her himself: that he cunningly induced Coppinger, either to fain or to fancy a Revelation, that he, and Arthington muft obey him the faid Hacket in all things: that he pretended to difpence with Arthington, for honouring him as King of Europe, until he should do it before others, where it might ftand him in better fted: that he craftily put off his intended anointing by Coppinger, (as being already done in heaven) left fome (unlooked for) accident happely falling forth, the whole pageant might have been marr'd: that his pretended greatest office of fevering (in Chrift's behalf) the good from the bad, with his

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Fan in his hand, was concealed from Arthington, until the very time that the meffage was to be done by them, when as it was too late to confider of it, and unlawful to be difobeied: that this office he proclamed unto them (after his two folemn prayers, for direction of them by God's fpirit, to the glory of God only) as it were an oracle newly dropped down from heaven: that he afwered Wigginton's queftions very cunningly, as touching the old Magiftrates that were gone, and the new come in place, meaning thereby(in truth) the difplacing of all her Majesty's Councel: that he warily qualified Coppinger's and Arthington's speeches, which feem'd unto Wigginton, to attribute a little too much unto him: that (coming through the ftreets, and feeing their proclamation had not made fuch fturr, as was hoped) he then pretended unto Wigginton that he had not fet them on work, but marvelled what they meant thereby, and thereupon fignified, he would depart the city, and be gone home: that fearing what might happen in the event of the tumult he fent them into the ftreets, but tarried behind in the House himself: That he put the trial of his faid pretended great Office (which he claimed in Chrift's room) upon this iffue and trial, That none of the People which fhould come to fee him, had the power to kill him; for he knew that no private Subject might or would attempt to do it, howfoever otherwise they took the matter. That

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