Trial of the Charge of High Treason

The complete transcript of the 1651 treason trial of Christopher Love, a prominent Puritan minister charged with conspiring to restore the monarchy during the English Commonwealth. This rare primary source preserves the courtroom proceedings across five days of testimony, cross-examination, and legal argument. Love's courageous defense, his appeal to liberty of conscience, and his ultimate condemnation and execution on Tower Hill stand as a powerful testament to faithfulness under persecution and the cost of principled dissent.