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THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.
It was not until two months later--on the 19th of September, if you must have the actual date--that Peter Blood was brought to trial, upon a charge of high treason.

We know that he was not guilty of this; but we need not doubt that he was quite capable of it by the time he was indicted.

Those two months of inhuman, unspeakable imprisonment had moved his mind to a cold and deadly hatred of King James and his representatives.

It says something for his fortitude that in all the circumstances he should still have had a mind at all.