JUDGE TWISDON. Whereat Judge Twisdon answered very angrily, saying,
What, you think we can do as we list! Your husband is a breaker of
the peace, and is convicted by the law, etc. Whereupon Judge Hale
called for the statute-book.
WOMAN. But, said she, my lord, he was not lawfully convicted.
CHESTER. Then Justice Chester said, My lord, he was lawfully
convicted.
WOMAN. It is false, said she; it was but a word of discourse that
they took for conviction.
CHESTER. But it is recorded, woman, it is recorded, said Justice
Chester; as if it must of necessity be true, because it was
recorded. With which words he often endeavored to stop her mouth,
having no other argument to convince her but, It is recorded, it is
recorded.
WOMAN. My lord, said she, I was a while since at London, to see if I
could get my husband's liberty; and there I spoke with my Lord
Burkwood, one of the House of Lords, to whom I delivered a petition,
who took it of me and presented it to some of the rest of the House
of Lords for my husband's releasement; who, when they had seen it,
said that they could not release him, but had committed his
releasement to the judges at the next assizes. This he told me; and
now I come to you to see if any thing can be done in this business,
and you give neither releasement nor relief.
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