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606—SEPARATE ILLINOIS v. ALLEN 5 “Recorder. Sir, you are 4 troublesome fellow, and it is not for the honour of the court to suffer you to go on. “Penn, I have asked but ane question, have not answered me; though the rights and priv- ileges of every Englishman be concerned in it. “Recorder. If I should suffer you to ask questions till to-morrow morning, you would be never the wiser, “Penn. That is according as the answers are. “Recorder, Sir, we must not stand to hear you talk all night. “Penn. I design no affront to the court, but to be heard in my just plea: and I must plainly tell you, that if you will deny me Oyer of that law, which you suggest 1 have broken, you do at once deny me an acknowledged right, and evidence to the whole world your resolution to sacrifice the privileges of Englishmen to your sinister and arbi- trary designs. “Recorder. Take him away. My lord, if you take not some course with this pestilent fellow, to stop his mouth, we shall not be able to do any thing to night, “Mayor. Take him away, take him away, turn him into the bale-doeck””* The Trial of William Penn, 6 How. St, Tr. 951, 958-959. The panel of judges who tried William Penn were sin- cere, Jaw-and-order men of their day, Though Penn was acquitted by the jury, he was jailed by the court for his contemptuous conduct. Would we tolerate re- and you on \ a _| SAt Old Bailov, where the William, Penn trial was held the Par baledock (or baildock) was “a small roam taken from one of the Be corners of the court. and Jeft open at the top: in whieh, during __ the trials, are prt some of the malelactors.” Oxford Eng. Dict.