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The Par- liament were so incensed at this result, that they ordered the jurors to be apprehended, and brought before the Council of State, to show cause why they acquitted the prisoner of felony, against the plainest evidence ; but though all the jury were separately examined and threatened, they would give no other answer, but that they looked upon themselves to be judges of the law, as well as the fact, and gave the verdict according to their consciences. Cromwell had, at last, no other way t...o defend his usurpation against the attacks of this brave and popular man, but by imprisoning him arbitrarily in Dover Castle, where he died a martyr to liberty. A Medallion was struck, to commemorate the tri- umph of Lilburne, on his original acquittal from the charge of high treason. It had on one side these words : " John Lilburne, saved by the power of the Lord, and the integrity of his jury, who are judges of the law as well as of fact, Oct. 26, 1649. " The reverse, presented the names of the jurymen, in several circles one within the other, with a rose in the centre.
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