COURT. What Number do you think might be there?
COOK. About three or four Hundred People.
COURT. Call Richard Read, give him his Oath.
READ being sworn was ask'd, what do you know concerning the Prisoners at the Bar?
READ. My Lord, I went to Gracechurch-Street, where I found a great Crowd of People, and I heard Mr. Penn preach to them; and I saw Capt. Mead speaking to Lieutenant Cook, but what he said, I could not tell.
MEAD. What did William Penn say?
READ. There was such a great Noise, that I could not tell what he said.
MEAD. Jury, observe this Evidence, He saith he heard him Preach, and yet faith, he doth not know what he said.
Jury, take notice, he swears now a clean contrary thing to what he swore before the Mayor when we were committed: For now he swears that he saw me in Gracechurch-Street, and yet swore before the Mayor, when I was committed, that he did not see me there. I appeal to the Mayor himself, if this be not true. But no Answer was given.
COURT. What Number do you think might be there?