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Do-right was Town Clerk. A jury was empanelled in the usual way. Mr. Knowall, Mr. Telltrue, and Mr. Hatelies were the principal witnesses. Atheism was first brought to the bar, being charged 'with having pertinaciously and doltingly taught that there was no God. He pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. Knowall was placed in the witness-box and sworn. 'My Lord, he said, 'I know the prisoner at the bar.
Telltrue. I know him to be a Diabolonian, the son of a Diabolonian, and a horrible man to deny a Deity. His father's name was Never be Good, and he had more children than this Atheism. Town Clerk. Mr. Hatelies. Look upon the prisoner at the bar. Do you know him? Hatelies. My Lord, this Atheism is one of the vilest wretches that ever I came near or had to do with in my life.
I and he were once in Villains Lane together, and he at that time did briskly talk of diverse opinions. And then and there I heard him say that for his part he did believe that there was no God. "But," said he, "I can profess one and be religious too, if the company I am in and the circumstances of other things," said he, "shall put me upon it." Telltrue and Hatelies were next called. Telltrue.
My Lord, I was formerly a great companion of the prisoner's, for the which I now repent me; and I have often heard him say, and with very great stomach-fulness, that he believed there was neither God, Angel, nor Spirit. Town Clerk. Where did you hear him say so? Telltrue. In Blackmouth Lane and in Blasphemers Row, and in many other places besides. Town Clerk. Have you much knowledge of him?
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