Taken in Short Hand by Thomas Tosspot, Foreman of the Jury.
Licensed and entered according to Order.
THE
Arraigning and Indicting
OF
Sir John Barleycorn, Knt.
Newly Composed
By a Well Wisher to Sir John,
and all that love him.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard
London.
This Chap-book not only contains the following ballad, but sets forth the offences of which Sir John is guilty, and witnesses are called to prove them. They consist principally of his making people quarrelsome, etc. For the defence it is asserted that "there is not such another in the land that can do what he can and hath done for he can make a cripple to go, he can make a coward to fight with a valiant soldier; nay he can make a good soldier to feel neither hunger or cold." It is needless to say he is triumphantly acquitted.