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A40899	The Lord Cravens case stated; and the impostor dethron'd by way of reply to Captain George Bishop, a grand Quaker in Bristoll. Wherein is briefly hinted, the rottenness of the Quakers conversion, and perfection, in general, exemplified in this busie bishop; in special instanced in his practises against the estate of the Lord Craven, life of Mr. Love. By occasion whereof, this truth is asserted, viz. if we may judge of the conscience, honesty, and perfection of Quakers in general, by this man in particular, a man may be as vile a person, as any under heaven, and yet a perfect Quaker.	Farmer, Ralph.; Bishop, George, d. 1668. aut	1660 (1660)	Wing F442; ESTC R218269	94,789	137

ore two serve nequam out of thine own mouth from thine own words shalt thou bee judged Look back and minde thine own expressions in thine own book pages 7 and 8 where you charge mee with forgery in one word and which yet was not forgery but a mistake and that not in mee neither and yet see your outcries and loud exclamations You may here see say you of what a false and mischievous spirit this Priest is and what a devillish wickedness it is to forge in such a word as for it were it trul● so would take away his Foxes life What credit is to bee given to what such a one saith And again Is not bee that can do this past blushing Is there any wickednesse so great that such a one may not bee well conceived to bee ready to act Is such a one a Minister of the Gospel Words need not further to expresse such an act which in its very face is so manifestly wicked and abominable a wickednesse not found in the Roll of those evils which the Apostle mentions should make the last daies perillous I 'le say no more I need not Read the words and remember your own actions and apply But let mee ask you were these all whose blood you thirsted after Did you not write a letter to a friend of yours in Bristol from White-Hall that until Calamy and some other of the Priests were dealt withal as Love was it would never bee well I hope I shall one day get that book of yours which you writ against him mentioned before viz. A short Plea for the Commonwealth Those who have seen it tell mee it most fully sets forth the fierceness and bitterness of your spirit not only against him but that you shew your rancour and malice therein against many of the servants of Christ whose names are yet precious in the Churches and the memory of whom will live when your name shall rot and perish or if it bee mentioned or remembred it shall bee with abhorrence and detestation as infamous as poor Faulceners is I cannot but remind that passage of yours in your Throne page 34. where because I said the Magistrates had their spots and failings you say they are no Magistrates of God but men of sin and the born of the devil If spots and failings do in your judgement render them thus Oh! what are you mind that Rom. 4. beg Therefore thou art inexcuseable O man whosoever thou art Jew or Gentile Ranter or Quaker that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self for thou that judgest dost the same things nay infinitely worse But wee are sure the Judgement of God is according to truth against them which commit such things and thinkest thou this O man that judgest them who do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the Judgement of God But Reader in this poor wretch you see what a dreadful thing and what a heavy judgement it is for a man to bee given up of God what wickedness so abominable that hee will not then commit So Rom. 1. ver 24. to the end And see also how the Lord doth punish hatred and contempt of his Ministry and servants and Apostasie from the truth with hardnesse of heart and blindnesse of mind giving them over to believe lyes 2 Thes 2.10 11 12. What a sottish piece is this poor man become to turn Quaker But 't is most true Shipwrack of faith and of a good conscience are seldome severed 1 Tim. 1.19 But yet Countryman come there is hope in Israel concerning this thing there is still balm in Gilead the blood of Jesus Christ shed at Jerusalem though above sixteen hundred years ago is as efficacious as prevalent as ever Come man leave quaking don't trample upon and despise the price of thy Redemption I see thou art in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquity but come repent of thy wickednesse and pray to God perhaps the thoughts of thy heart and the wickedness of thy hands and the blasphemies of thy pen and tongue may bee forgiven thee Don't despise the riches of Gods goodness and forbearance and long-suffering towards thee know that the goodnesse of God in this patience of his in not cutting thee off is to lead thee to repentance Consider friend there is a day coming wherein the Lord will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest all secret plots contrivances and under-hand counsels Repent whiles 't is called to day lest thy heart bee more and more hardened through the deceitfulness of sin treasure not up wrath by impenitence and hardness of heart one true repentant tear will avail more now than millions of yellings and howlings then our Jesus is able to save perfectly and to the uttermost all those who come unto the Father through him meet him whom thou slightest and make him thy friend And for a close know and consider that if you go on in sin wilfully and impenitently after you have received the knowledge of the truth and that you despise the blood of Christ there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a fearful looking for of judgement and of fierce indignation which shall devoure the adversaries And now from henceforth let none of these Quakers trouble mee I have done with this generation but if they will bee troubling let them know I will not bee troubled And as for any further answers replies contendings or debatings with them or him being well assured that my ground work on which my discourse and discovery is founded will stand firm I declare this as my Coronis my farewel to Quakerisme As for their doctrines or opinions in this or any other of their Pamphlets I think them not worth the reading much less the answering by any serious Christian especially that hath publick imployments indeed not of any one that hath ought else to do but to make a long voyage to Tarshish to fetch only Apes and Peacocks I conclude therefore with holy Augustine Tales judices velim c. I desire such Judges of my writings that will not alwayes require an answer when they shall finde what I have written to bee spoken against those things which being matter of fact have clear testimonies and being matters of doctrine have clear arguments and authorities It were a prejudice and disparagement to either to agitate whem alwayes upon the cavils of ignorant or contentious persons therefore I end FINIS Books lately written by William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolnes-Inne and sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour IUs Patronatus Or the Right of Patrons to present Vicars to Parish Churches c. The first and second part of a seasonable legal and historical vindication of the Fundamental Rights and Laws of England The second Edition in Quarto A Declaration and Protestation against Excize in general and Hopps a native incertain commodity in particular A PIECE WORTHY PERUSAL A Polemical Desertation of the Inchoation and Determination of the Lords Day Sabbath An old Parliamentary Prognostication for the Members there in Consultation The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected to bee the Spawn of Romish Froggs c. A new Discovery of Free-State Tyranny The first Part of a Short Demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued Remitter into England The second Part of the Short Demurrer c. A Legal Resolution of two important Queries concerning Ministers giving of the Sacrament to their Parishioners A new Discovery of Romish Emissaries Also all the former works of Mr. William Prynne both before during and since his Imprisonments are sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour Pendennis and all other standing Garrisons dismantled More Books printed and sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour REynolds Of Gods Revenge against Murther Folio Festivous Notes on Don Quixot Folio Phioravants Three Pieces in Quarto A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets in Quarto Bakers Arithmetick in Octavo Crumbs of Comfort in twenty fours Private Devotions by D. Valentine in twenty fours Lillies Grammar in English by R. Rabinson The School of Complements in Twelves A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts by Rich. Standfast Master of Arts the third Edition in Twelves Railing Rebuked or A Defence of the Ministers of the Nation against the Quakers by William Thomas Minister of the Gospel at Ubley in Quarto A Vindication of the Scripture and Ministery by William Thomas Minister of Ubley in Quarto Practical Husbandry Improved by G. Platts in Quarto c. Satan Inthroned in his Chair of Pestilence wherein the whole business of Ja. Nayler his coming into Bristol and his Examination is related by Ralph Farmer Minister of the Gospel in Quarto Also the Life of James Nayler with his Parents Birth Education actions and Blasphemies is exactly set forth by William Deacon in Quarto Hypocrisie Unmasked or the Definition and Characters of the Natural Moral Civil Praying Hypocrite and how they differ from the sincere Christian by Mr. Samuel Crook late Rector of Wrington in Sommersetshire The true Christ falsly applyed discovered 1. How far his person 2. The expectation of receiving Christ in the Spirit 3. The operation of Christ received 4. The Predestination And 5. His Merits and Free-grace are not truly apprchended from whence some conclude to cast off all Ordinances pretend and expect to Prophesie and work Miracles all which with twenty more false Applications of the true Christ are discovered by W. Kaye Minister at Stokesley

friends that in regard most of the inhabitants neer and about the Colledge were persons of another judgement than my self in civil matters I should have little converse or comfort among them but rather the contrary nay some did suggest to mee that my settlement there was procured by some who bore mee no good will on purpose to make mee weary and so to leave the City but that I satisfied them the matter was of my own seeking and endeavour and the other reason was that going so far out of the City I should not have any opportunity of any Church communion and Christian fellowship with any considerable number of which I was convinc'd to bee a duty although I was then unwilling to undergo the burthen of a Pastor And indeed considering that some honest-hearted Christians in Thomas Parish with whom I had there communion did still desire it and hoping that divers of Nicholas having formerly been exercised in it I should finde them more comfortably complying than those who had been a long time strangers to it I did the more willingly imbrace it but as for the advantage in removing from poor Thomas to rich Nicholas as the Calumniator phrases it let him and the world know that upon these grounds I removed from the rich Colledge to poor Nicholas nor was it the poverty of Thomas though poor enough that made mee leave them nor was it or could it bee filthy lucre or sordid covetousness that drew mee to Nicholas which could by no reasonable man bee imagined would amount to what was setled upon mee at the Colledge And since I must boast but 't is to secure the credit of my Ministery that it suffer not damage in any thing I will do it a little further having good witness of the truth on 't After I had consented to come to Nicholas and came to give them a meeting at their Vestry although I knew that with much difficulty they raised what some of them had ingaged unto by bond to M. Jessop and which as I have heard was not above eighty pound per annum yet when they ask'd mee what would content mee for my labour so far was I from seeking my self as that I told them I would not make a bargain for preaching the Gospel but that I would do my duty and leave them to do theirs and how richly it hath been performed by them I speak not of all I am asham'd to mention Sure not beyond poor Thomas nor so much by two parts in three which M. Jessop now reaps as I am informed and which place was setled upon him upon my commendations of him to M. Strong at Westminster and which M. Strong intended to let him know had hee not been prevented by death heu premature if hee hath not done it formerly But much good may it do him and much good may he do them I envy no mans gain or preferment nor will the inhabitants of Nicholas say I contend with them in that matter although I have cause enough to take notice of their neglect yea and sin in this particular For I dare say there are few handy-crafts men that work upon so small incouragement for I suppose their calling feeds their family I have been the larger in this matter because some persons are and have been as willing to take up and spread this ly and calumny as others have been to raise and make it And truth it is I should hardly have undertaken to answer his railing Pamphlet but to satisfie the world in these two last particulars and to wipe off the aspersion of base forgery which my soul abhors and to make good what I promised concerning the discovery of this Quaker to which I 'le hasten with all expedition As for his charging of several Trades upon mee it is but the lickings up of the excrements of William Erburies black pudding A book so called written by W. Erbury wherein hee would prove mee to bee a black pudding In which foolish Pamphlet most if not all of these things are whereby I see George was very hungry and wanted matter to feed upon being it seems troubled with that disease which Physitians call Caninus appetitus The dog-like appetite which makes them huge greedy and to catch at any thing but I wish his after-mess may do him more good than the Pudding it self did Erbury For a few daies after hee had publish'd it he went home and died whether hee died for shame or what it was I know not nor dare I say this was the cause or occasion of it no God forbid I should presume to meddle with the secrets of the Almighty or to judge any man But I mention this because a hare-brain'd fellow came as himself said to revenge Erburies death upon me which I no wayes promoted but probably this poor fellow might take up the thoughts upon what hee might hear some sober persons speak of it But bee it what it will George it seems having swallowed it must vomit it up again the second time that the world may see his foul stomack But see how the vapours of it whilst there had corrupted his brain and be fool'd his intellectuals Did ever any man in the world understand being a member of an Independent Church or of a Presbyterian Church to bee a trade And it is a trade when a man in the former troubles ingages for a time in some publike service as most active spirits did and then lay it aside Is this a trade How many trades has George had then And for a man living in the Country as I did to practise Physick being thereunto lawfully licens'd by the University of Cambridge upon tryal and examination I say for a man so living in the country and having a house fitted for such a purpose no other convenient house being there to bee had for a pleasant dwelling Is it a trade if a man make malt there for a time Doth not many a Gentleman many a Minister do so And did I not so soon as I could get there a more pleasant dwelling give it over And being a Physitian do men call that a trade Or is it a trade being so to apply ones self to the ingenious experiments of Chimistry in order to the inabling himself to deal in his profession with more security and understanding without which Physitians are no better than Emperic●s Or is it a trade if a man living in London as a Physitian the Earle of Berkshire keep an Office in his house for that which is not a Monopoly but a priviledge granted to him by the Law of the Nation and no man forced nor attempted to bee forced to it no nor intended to bee forced which I know and write for the honour of that Noble and ingenious Earle under whom I had no imployment in it hee having his Clerks and Registers and other Agents under him And for the other things mentioned Are they trades Are they mechanical Are any bound Apprentices to them

his testimony upon which the Lord Cravens estate was sequestred and sold you have here the sad and lamentable confession of poor Faulconer himself upon his death-bed under his own hand and seal confirmed in the presence of several credible persons who were present with him on his death-bed which is to the effect following IN the Name and through the gracious mercy of God I Richard Faulconer being of sound memory and understanding do under my own hand and seal on my death-bed make and confirm this my confession with a contrite heart and penitent soul to the honor of my good God principally and particularly concerning the Lord Cravens business And first I confess I have sinned grievously against my God in taking my oath upon his holy Testament that all my information was true for after a twenty weeks sickness this was done my body being low and in much haste being much enfeebled and above three quarters of a year after I came over Sea so that I here solemnly protest that I did not then absolutely remember whether the words barbarous and inhumane rebels were expunged and these words being once named by mee they were as quickly inserted and I the Lord pardon me swore it but since I really remember those words were put out of the Petition and the Petition which Drury produced in the Upper Bench Court was the true and right Petition Drury did say that the Lord Craven would not bee seen to deliver such a Petition but hee would speak to the Queen of Bohemia I did not hear the Lord Craven say this I sinned swearing the Lord Craven said so when as Drury told it mee And truly these great sins since they perfectly came to my memory and to touch my conscience have wofully perplexed my soul so that I many times wished that the Lord would expiate them by taking my life away and granting mee repentance and pardon through the merits and sufferings of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the which the Lord for his mercies sake vouchsafe to grant Amen And here I utterly renounce all Books and Pamphlets writ by mee or any one in my vindication and especially a late Pamphlet sent to mee by Captain Bishop The cause of my writing that Pamphlet was the shame and disgrace of the world which I feared then more than the provoking of my good God besides other under actors told mee until I did that I could not think my friends would supply mee as they would if that were done liberty and money were falsly promised mee And whereas it was sworn in Court that I was imployed I here protest before the Almighty God that I never undertook any imployment nor ever any one motioned it to mee or I to any but I went over in a poor desperate condition supported by others And here I dare not say that any one bribed mee no none did but I was hastily after a great sickness provoked to it and when I made a demur at the words barbarous and inhumane Rebels Captain Bishop said if you leave that out you do nothing So I let it pass being speedily brought before the Committee where I falsly swore it True I had done great services for them but not by imployment and Captain Bishop kept mee low with small pittances so that I was at his bow c. Richard Faulconer An Advertisement to the Reader Reader I Thought here to have given thee in the attestation of this confession and acknowledgement who were present when it was signed Also some further testimony of other practises of this Quaker and how poor Faulconer to his dying day cryed out against that Rogue Bishop for so it is languaged to mee But in regard the hearing of the Lord Cravens Case in Parliament is not yet past although they have taken cognizance of it already and have appointed to enter further upon it the beginning of their next Session I shall therefore forbear not doubting thou wilt hear further of it by some hand or other So that here is you see manifestly undeniably unjust proceedings here is perjury proved and confessed What 's this to Captain Bishop Hee declares in the presence of the Lord before whom hee feares and who searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and brings every work to judgement that hee is clear and innocent therein and that hee hath not used nor doth hee know of any indirect proceedings in this whole business of Craven and Faulconer Well God send him a good deliverance at the day of Judgement and to that end I heartily beg for him the grace of true repentance and pardon through the blood of Christ shed at Jerusalem And to further this work for his conviction wee shall endeavour to try and examine him here and clear I am that if any Jury in the world of discreet sober impartial and understanding men were to pass upon him they would give in this Verdict That hee George Bishop doth know of many indirect proceedings in the matter of the Lord Craven and Faulconer and that hee George Bishop himself hath used them and that therefore hee is not clear and innocent in this matter And now hear the evidence there is a book published entituled The Lord Cravens case This book was written by George partly to testifie the proceedings against the Lord Craven to answer the Narrative and to justifie Faulconer as to the confiscation and sale of his estate by judgement of Parliament related and argued and objections answered on the behalf of the Commonwealth together with a short examination of a certain Pamphlet entituled A true and perfect Narrative of the several proceedings in the case concerning the Lord Craven c. which is the Narrative before quoted wherein are all the proceedings against Faulconer Now this book the Lord Cravens case c. was printed by William Du-guard 1653. and that this book was written by George Bishop himself I suppose hee will not deny though no name bee to it the book is said to bee written on the behalf of the Commonwealth and this exprest in great Characters I would now but ask George this question why hee of all men in the world being but a Clerk or Secretary call him what you will to a Committee should undertake this private and personal quarrel against the Lord Craven in the behalf of poor perjured Faulconer and the Commonwealth I should think that a Clerk or Secretary if an honest man and impartial when hee had performed the date of his place should have sate him down and not espouse any personal quarrel unless hee were particularly concerned in it But sayes George that Pamphlet tends to the blemishing of the Parliament and their Ministers so hee page 1. of his book for so I shall call it all along as I have occasion to quote it and therefore hee puts pen to paper and writes that book Mark the Parliament and their Ministers are blemished Who those Ministers are at least one wee shall see anon 't

restrain him from lying The truth is according to that principle of his that hee whoever once truly believed can never by any sin or wickedness whatsoever loose the love and favour of God His being ready to die in conjunction with a perswasion of his Saintship should rather bee a temptation upon him tolie or commit any other wickednesse than an ingagement upon him to refrain lying I have done with that but I pray that you may finde more favour and mercy from God than hee found from you and to that end let him grant you grace to repent of these pightful and most cruel prosecutions As for your Prosecutions of him in his life and of his tryal I shall not enter upon the story of although I have relations of it it would prove too large an undertaking nor will I insist upon your rotten and unsavoury language of the Ministers of the Gospet whom in scorn you call his Clergie companions you were fairly disposed for quaking then nor will I debate the cause which you maliciously in your former book the Lord Cravens case charge upon Presbyterians in general wherein how rash heady uncharitable and unchristian you are let your self consider In page 22. of that book you speak it which because it tends also to discover the suspition that even yourself had of the injustice of sequestring the Lord Cravens Estate and do therefore endeavour to extenuate it from the circumstancy of the time when it was done I shall lay before the Reader and thus you give it forth The tme when the Parliament gave judgement upon his estate that 's right not upon his person that had not offended was when the Commonwealth was deeply imbroi●●d in wars and designes lay every where to blow up this Nation in all parts thereof their Army in Scotland and the Scots drawn into the field after their rout at Dunbar ready to serve the desperate and great designes and conspiracies laid by Mr. Love Those of the Presbyterie and the Kings Partie then ripe and readie to break forth in all parts all of which were the effects of that Treatie at Breda where the Lord Craven was often with the King and his Privy Councel But doth any one person so much as say that hee came to treat or did treat not one and assisting his Officers in their Petition for relief to bee in a capacitie to serve him which you see was proved to bee a lye and some of whom served in those designes and otherwise and of which the Parliament were sensible what was this to the Lord Craven and the Lord Craven had manifested to most that conversed with him his disaffection to the Parliament and Supreme Authoritie no such thing is charg'd against him in such times and cases have many considerations as the reason of their actions which those who are without doors neither know nor apprehend nor are to take upon them so to do Thus hee The language in the last part of it is inconsistent and incoherent a kinde of non-sense but this clearly is his meaning viz. that the times being dangerous as hee describes them have many considerations and reasons to sequester the Lord Cravens estate which those who are not his Judges no nor bee himself are to know or apprehend nor must enquire into In plain English the Lord Craven must lose his estate and none must ask a reason why Are not these sweet doings As hee himself sayes in another case page 19. But to go on with the matter of Mr. Love Mr. Love and the Presbyterie are designing the Nations ruine sayes George if you may bee believed and how honest you are even in your most serious protestations and appeals to God appears already But if you suppose and that 's enough with you that Mr. Love or the Presbytery designe the Nations ruine you will bee sure right or wrong to accomplish these I have heard say heretofore of the Marches in Wales that a cause there did seldome fail for want of prosecution and good witnesses you were a notable man to make an agent there well or ill fare him who if a cause bee not good can make it so I shall not as I said ingage to the whole of your prosecution against him I shall only notifie what I finde concerning your self in a book written and published by Mr. Love himself which in the close hee sayes was finished the last day but one before his death and at such a time what ever you say men are most serious and to bee believed The title of it thus A clear and necessary vindication of the principles and practices of me Christopher Love c. which book hee sayes hee writ for the vindication of his name from those obloquies and reproaches which by the Sons of Slander were cast upon him was not this you George who would fain have his name to bee buried and rot above ground before his friends could bury his body under ground In this book of his hee complains that whereas at his Tryal hee had a Notary to write for him they took away all the books from him so that nothing might come to publick view but with what additions or ialterations they pleas to his greater disadvantage But hee sayes his hope is that some faithful pen or other hath writ his defence and the Witnesses depositions which is done and I have and according to them hee desires that his innocency bee judged by indifferent and unprejudicated men it contains seventeen sheets very large paper and very small print I shall not meddle with ought thereof I shall only give in what I have from Mr. Loves own book In page 36. hee desires his Readers that if other slanders for hee had answer'd and wip'd off many should be cast upon him that they would have so much charitie not to believe reports raised upon him when hee shall bee silent in the grave and not able to speak in his own vindication And page 37. hee saves 'T is very likelie that they his Prosecutors will not publish the depositions of the Witnesses in Court but the private examinations taken from them in prizate and patche together by Master S. and Captain Bishop They were not ashamed sayes hee to proau●e them and read them in open Court And hee sayes some of the Witnesses had so much honesty left as to disavow them in open Court and therefore sayes hee believe nothing but what was sworn in open Court nor all that neither for some of the Witnesses swore falsely as sayes hee I made appeare in my defence In the same page I desire you sayes hee to take notice that there is a lying Pamphlet put forth entituled A short Plea for the Commonwealth In which there are many gross lies especially in things which relate to mee and which hee himselfe is best able to speak to Hee sayes there further it is not fit for him to enter the lists with him It becomes not sayes hee a dying man to write of

is the securest way to save ones ears to joyn the Ministers of the Parliament with the Parliament it self But the Parliament may bee honest though their Ministers may bee knaves and therefore George presently sayes that that book of his is not purposely to Apologize for the Parliament well then it is for some body else he would not have writ it to no purpose But why not for the Parliament Why sayes hee 't is a thing needless among true English men who are used highly to reverence actions of Parliament Mark here George would have actions of Parliament so highly rerenced that none might question this business 1 Pet. 4.15 c. Sure George would now say that Parliaments are so infallible But wee 'l take it for granted that this Apology is not for the Parliament but for their Ministers but who or what are they Sure it is some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some busie Bishop in another mans Diocess so the word signifies but 't is rendred in our translation a busie body in other mens matters matters they should not have medled in But who is it why 't is George Bishop busie George Bishop who had the transactions of all that business So hee sayes himself page 14. line 25. of his book two or three lines before hee hath these words How dare any thus falsly to charge a State with such gross wickedness as to corrupt Faulconer hee means And then goes on Though Captain Bishop himself writ the book yet hee speaks as if it were written by another and so playes behinde the Curtain which let the reader remember for his better understanding what I quote from that book of his but as there was not a tittle produc'd to prove corruption malice or wilfulness in the said Faulconer against the said Lord so Captain Bishop who had the transactions of all that businesse upon his oath cleared him of all These are Georges words Well then stop a little here and though wee break order in the form of proceedings in legal tryals you Gentlemen of this Jury who are to give your verdict in this matter of George Bishop I pray take notice Geo. you see upon his oath it was at Faulconers tryal clears Faulconer of corruption or malice against the Lord Craven Poor man hee intended no such thing at first against him no Faulconer was altogether a stranger to the Lord Craven and since hee came over hee confest to some of good credit that the Lord Cravens deportment at Breda where this horrible treason should bee by him committed and for which his estate is sequestred was altogether inoffensive as to the Commonwealth of England and that hee Faulconer understood nothing of the said business namely of that dreadful Petition for which hee was so sequestred more than that a consideration was desired to bee had of the present wants and great necessities of the Petitioners This you have in the fourth Petition presented to the Parliament on the behalf of the Lord Craven in the Narrative aforesaid page 19. Aye these were their words will George say But I answer they offered to prove them to the Parliament if they might have been admitted But to second this I 'le shew you what George himself sayes in his own book for Faulconers honesty simplicity and harmlesness as to the Lord Graven and this upon Bishopsoath if it bee any thing worth page 13. line the last but 10. he sayes that when Faulconer gave him accounts of designes against the Commonwealth The same hee bath again in page 42 43. hee said nothing to him of the Lord Craven nor of any thing of this passage of the Petition upon which the estate was sequestred nor notwithstanding many discourses with him said hee any thing till about five moneths afterwards and then but accidentally not of his own accord as page 43. Captain Bishop asking him who were at Breda with the King not thinking of the Lord Craven Faulconer reckoned the said Lord amongst the rest and being asked said something of that business which Captain Bishop not much valued them Thus hee How this was improved you shall see afterwards so that here Faulconer is cleared of any intention of mischief against the Lord Craven the man poor Faulconer is yet honest in this matter But yet you see hee was afterwards perjured and forsworn How comes this about Oh see what a fearful temptation 't is to bee in poverty and want it will put an honest heart into great straits I now think upon that prayer of honest Agur Prov. 30.8 9 Give mee not poverty lest I bee poor and steal and take the name of my god in vain Poverty is a sore tryal even to a good and honest heart but when it shall meet with a wretched and profligate spirit what will it not put him upon I minde that dreadful expression of poore Faulconer before expressed whilst hee was ranting and drinking healths to the devil I have spent my brothers estate and mine own I will never want money for whilst there is any in the Nation I will get it one way or other and I will do something of infamy to bee talkt of the name of Faulconer shall never die Oh how dreadfully did the Lord say Amen to this poor creature And what a lamentable thing is it for such a poor wretch to fall into the hands of such as will make use and advantage of his low condition Why you will say what 's the matter Do you ask what 's the matter look back upon Faulconers confession and there hee tells you hee was provoked to swear falsly How read the last words of his confession Captain Bishop kept mee low with small pittances so that I was at his bow At his bow what to do Hee Faulconer made a demur at those words barbarous and inhumane rebels whether they were in the Petition or no which hee did not then remember but now did and so it seems scrupled to swear to them and Captain Bishop said if you leave that out you do nothing and so sayes hee I 'le let it pass Being speedily brought before the Committee where I falsty swore it and concludes Captain Bishop kept mee low with small pittances that I was at his bow What think you of this Sirs Is this direct just honest proceedings to provoke a poor man in want to swear with a scrupling conscience and to that which now appears to bee false Hee was resolved it seems hee should swear something to the purpose Do you want any more evidence This is enough you will say but if you have any more produce it and pray tell us How do you conceive this game began Why I 'le tell you what George himself sayes as hee goes on in page 13. lines 3 last and so on to 14 and the same also page 42 43. of his book when Faulconer as before in that accidental discourse with Bishop five moneths after Faulconers coming over had mentioned the Lord Cravens being at

him with the malice of it as well as with the fact that so they might convict him of perjury which being done and hee to his conviction having since acknowledged it by his own confession and you having confest so much and taken so much upon your self to clear him of the malice all which they knew not till you confest it Now all this as afore considered they know what to say to you By the Law it seemes and as the Judges gave their opinion bare for swearing ones self doth not bring a man within the compass of the Law against perjury unless also it bee done maliciously and wilfully And now to deliver Faulconer from the crime and conviction of perjury George at the tryal discovers the rise and ground of all this business freeing Faulconer upon his own oath of any intention of evil and mischief against the Lord Craven as knowing nothing against him that might render him culpable or any way sequestrable as you heard before but George having consulted with some body else by handsome contrivance and manuagement hath brought it to this you now see and by this confession of Georges at the tryal and Faulconers at his death-bed it is now apparent by whom it was begun and effected even by him who as before hee confesses had the mannagement of the whole And now if there were a Starchamber Court or any place of tryal for such practises they know whose eares and estate to require in part of satisfaction In the mean time let the world judge of your innocency George you have a fair estate in land plate great store rings and jewels and cabinets and brave hangings c. you can live without the honest calling of a Brewer which you could not do before you have not been a bufie sishop to no purpose you have your reward but take heed it bee not in this life only It may bee you may come to a reckoning and give an account here for all these things but fure hereafter The present Parliament hath taken cognizance of the Lord Cravens cause and it is to bee hoped they will proceed so justly and impartially that the guilt of injusticer and oppression shall not lie at the doors of the Parliament of England and so become the sin of the Nation and draw a curse upon the while for the iniquity of a few However look you to your light within and let mee tell you thus much if it do not stare you in the face and fright you 't is a sign you are blinde and hardened I was desired to ask you who did trepan Colonel Andrewes into a design for which hee lost his life when as hee had given over all thoughts of engaging till hee was moved thereunto by a Trepanner as hee declared before his death And who it was that Trepan'd Sir John Gell into a misprision of treason And lastly who did trepan Mr. Love and some of that party These questions are proposed by those ho are no babes in the world and yet honest and they say this Bishop can if hee will give satisfaction in You know George what these things mean and I know what the last means and they advise mee to read a book concerning Mr. Loves designes and his death written and pen'd by you and they say it will give the reader further satisfaction But you have dealt as craftily in the printing of this as of the former printed so few and kept or given so at your own dispose that I cannot get it and I am not so free to send to you for this as the former because you do not quote it against mee But yet what I finde from other pieces I have met with in this matter I will communicate to you and the world and this the rather to shew you what an hypocrite you are in charging us Priests as in scorn you call us with blood-thirstiness and my self in particular as in the title of your Pamphlet you should have pulled the beam out of your own eye before you reproacht us with a mote in ours I suppose e're I have done though it bee prettily well done already you will at pear to bee not only a blood thirsty but a Flood sucking person And in the discourse of this I shall discover the ground of your so easie an entertainment of the thoughts or at least suggestions of forgerie in mee from those practises of forgery which I shall declare to have been really acted by you that you were a zealous prosecutor of Mr. Love unto yea and after death is so manifest that as impudent as you are you wil not deny that you prosecuted him after death appears by what you published against him when hee had no being to answer for himself wherein you endeavour maliciously to kill him twice and the latter with more cruelty than the former killing his good name and what in you lies making him a Reprobate and an out cost from God and glory I suppose you will own that piece call'd Mr. Loves case printed by Peter Cole as well as other books you publisht against him wherein you go about most unchristianly to undervalue debase and disparage that comfort and confidence hee professed to enjoy in and at his death and this upon several accounts which I will not recount to avoid tediousness one only I 'le mention to shew your spirit of envy and bitterness it is the Animadversions upon the first Section page 34. Mr. Love say you it 's more than probable was not only vehemently exhorted incouraged importuned but even solemnly by all the sa●red interests of high Presbytery conjured by his C●ergie companions to die like avaliant and resolute Champion of the cause and not to bewray the least grudging of any fear or repentance for any thing hee had acted upon the service thereof lest it should bee said of Presbytery her glory was stained and betrayed by the cowardise of her first-born And page 38. Here wee have the second part of the Theatrical flourishes of Mr. Loves confidence Much might bee animadverted but I forbear you have a strange spirit that his comforts and confidence in God trouble you And then you go on to charge him with hypocrisie and lying and other base imputations all along bespattering and bespotting and sullying him as you can even to his last I know what slight touches of charity you have now and then and at the close of that Pamphlet which are inconsistent with that you had charged him before as that hee acted the part of a most unchristian Calumniator upon the Scaffold in the very approaches of death page 38. But page 45. you most unchristianly reproach him and his doctrine Thus whereas in purging himself hee means Master Love from the aspersion of lying hee saith thus I hope you will believe a dying man who dare not look God in the face with a lie in his mouth intimacing say you as if his being ready to die was a bridle in his sips to

controversies which will beget dispute therefore sayes hee I shall not answer the book though I could easily do it but only sum up the many lyes hee relates concerning mee Thus hee And page 39. hee sayes hee supposes Captain Bishop writ that lying book And then Master Love goes on reckoning up his lyes in that book and shewes wherein and in the Margin writes the first lye The second lye and so on to the eleventh lye It will not bee to any purpose to set down the particulars because my Reader hath not the book whereby to judge of the truth or falshood I shall therefore content my self to give you what observations Mr. Love makes upon the man and his lying stories In one place hee sayes that if Bishop should name the person that should say the thing there mentioned every one that heard the tryal would cry out shame upon him viz. Bishop for telling such a lye Hee sayes another is a gross lye And another thing hee charges him with is a loud lye and sayes It is well there were many witnesses to contradict him And surely sayes hee if the Author of this book had not cast off al feare of God and regard to the good name of his Brother hee could not bee so impudent as to ashrme what hee did To another hee sayes 't is notoriously false and abominably false and that although hee was not asham'd to say of him as hee did in the general yet hee durst not instance in any particular nor sayes hee will any other in my life time whilst I can answer for my self To another hee sayes Hee that will bee so shamelesse to falsifie my Petitions which are made so visible will not bee ashamed to bely my words Where hee further sayes hee Bishop charged him that Master Calamy instructed him to speak as hee did and that it was that Alaster Calamies good tricks might not come to light both which together with what hee charged him before hee sayes are very false To another hee sayes hee wonders the man is not asham'd to fasten that upon him which hee did And again hee sayes if this man meaning Bishop hath belied others in his book whom hee names as hee hath done mee there is not one true Page in all his book And to the eleventh lye thus If this man were not an Athiest or an Antiscripturist the example of Ananias and Saphira might make him tremble lest hee should bee stricken down dead with a lye in his mouth And again this false and deceitful man would make the world believe that this were proved against mee and then concludes this matter thus These and many other falshoods might bee found in this book if I should make a through search into it Hee calls it sayes hee a short Plea but I may call it a long lye And 't is not sayes hee for the honour of the present Government to have a common lyar to bee a Pleader for their Common-wealth And amongst all these lyes thus generally hinted I have reserved one in special wherein Mr. Love charges him not onely with lying but also with forgery which hee brings in thus page 38. And because I am belied about my examination before the Committees and may bee more abused after I am dead therefore I am necessitated to discover that jugling and baseness of Mr. S. and Capt. Bishop about my examination which I thought never to have made publick Whiles I was examined sayes hee before the Committee that pragmatical fellow Captain Bishop who I suppose wrote this lying book did put in six or eight lines into my examination which I never said ☜ hee supposing that I would bee so meal-mouth'd as not to read it or to put my hand to his forgery without any more ado but I did to his shame make him blot out at least six lines in my examination which was but very short Some of the Committee did ingeniously say sometimes that I did not speak such words as Captain Bishop did put in By his abuse of mee who would not bee abused by him I cannot but think how hee injured other men Hee goes on I did refuse to put my hand to it seeing I was abused by Captain Bishop but told them if they would give mee a Copy of it I would subscribe my hand but they denied mee a copy which made mee suspect they did not intend to deal fairly with mee as I found true after And then goes on to shew wherein and that to their conviction and concludes thence thus Wherefore I beseech the Reader not to believe any thing that shall come forth either pretended to bee my examination or the examinations of other men against mee they are but the forgeries and contrivements of Mr. S. and Captain Bishop And well might M. Love think how this Bishop injured other men and that in the like kinde I have one instance more under the hand of a godly reverent and faithful Minister of the Gospel now being well known to most of the Inhabitants of this City and many in London so to bee who writes to mee that being to bee questioned about Master Loves businesse as hee was and imprisoned Bishop sayes hee was Clerk to the Committee of Examinations and wrote down all that I said and added divers things thereby undeavouring to insnare mee for which I sharply reproved him telling him that I knew his birth and breeding and therefore I did scorn to bee examined by such a one as hee was at which both hee and the Committee were much offended threatning to use much severity against me but the Lord restrained them Now George say Are not you a blood-sucker Were not the lives of these men at the stake Was not one of them actually put to death I 'le say nothing of the man I need not hee was known well enough in England his death is bewai●d by thousands and his name precious with many godly I was once drawn away by your dissimulations and lies to a prejudice against him but now I see that the most innocent when they fall into the hands of hucksters may bee rendred culpable What George what Are not only the estates of men great estates small bits with you but you can suck and swallow the bloods and lives of men Ministers of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus No marvel you turn Quaker turn Turk man or become a Jew to whom the name and Gospel of Christ and Christian is odious for shame bear not that sacred name any longer lest it bee blasphem'd by its enemis because of you Oh horrid and dreadful not onely bee a common lyar but to forge to put in and to add words on purpose to insnare men no marvel you catcht at Faul●oners words but once spoken and put them in hastily to take away ones estate when you forge and put in words many words whole lines in a short examination which were never spoken and this to take away mens lives And here ex