READ. About four or five hundred.
PENN. I desire to know of him what Day it was?
READ. The 14th Day of August.
never saw him.
CLER. Cryer, call —— —— into the Court.
CLER. Give him his Oath.
—— My Lord, I saw a great Number of People, and Mr. Penn I suppose was speaking; I see him make a Motion with his Hands, and heard some Noise, but could not understand what he said. But for Capt. Mead, I did not see him there.
REC. What say you, Mr. Mead, were you there?
MEAD. It is a Maxim in your own Law, Nemo tenetur accusare seipsum, which if it be not true Latin, I am sure it is true English, That no Man is bound to accuse himself: And why dost thou offer to ensnare me with such a Question? Doth not this shew thy Malice? Is this like unto a Judge, that ought to be Counsel for the Prisoner at the Bar?
REC. Sir, hold your Tongue, I did not go about to ensnare you.