Genealogie of the Hayes of Tweeddale

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publick good : If my life, with the current show, veine, and straine of
my carriage and conversatione hitherto, can afford the least suspicion
of such wickednesse as my adversaries wold beare upon me, who cease not
by their assiduous and sedulous suggestiones to draue from your Lordships
that finall sentence, by it to sume up and contract, (as it wer,) by compend-
end all my former sufferings ; be pleased, my Lords, in equall balances,
woyd of all by respects, to ponder and weigh this hynous cryme of mine, as
the King's Advocate, by this dittay, and his arguments, wold aggieadge it.
Consider, I say, if my sufferings hitherto indured, may not well compence
the same, which, howsoever, have bein greater then I suppose could have
bein expected in any Kingdom professing the Gospell ; yet have I never
repyned, expostulated, nor grudged against any, nor freitted I at the
forme and maner of tryall, nor yet declyned I that committie wherunto
I was called to answer, super inquirendis, a forme of judicatore ex-
presslie prohibited by the lawes of the Kingdome, wher, as also solemne
promises was maide, that what was then shewed by me, should not be
used against me to my hurt and prejudice, altogether against promises,
ar my dispositions used now, for qualification of my dittay in the point of
relevancie. Nixt, I was indicta causa committed to closse waird, de-
famed, deleitted to my Soveraigne, suppressa veritate ; and still, since the
time of my 20 months captivitie, I was excommunicate from the companie
of al Christian peopell, banished from my familie and wholl affaires : no
creature, no, not my wife, gatt accesse to me. And in the time of this
hard usage, I maid hot 3 suttes, 1. the benefite of a preacher, to preach
on sermon in the week to me, and to give a faint and weak man counsell
and instructione, for the good and saiftie of his soule, quhilk I litell did
knowe how long it was to be permitted to dwell in this tabernacle of
clay, bot was flett refused ; yea, I never heard on sermon, nor the con-
ference of a minister since the houre of my imprisonment, untill this pre-
sent moment. 2. I craved the helpe of a physician for my health when
greatlie weakened and impeared through my troubles and watching ; bot
it was denyed. 3, and lastlie, In regairde my sicknesse increassed, and