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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

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

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

Stephens told mee the youth informed him of so soon as hee came from Hollisters Now my Reader must know that Mr. Cowlishaw since his oath taken as aforesaid is failed in his trade and I wish it may not bee the case of many an honest man besides him And it 's strange it should not in such times as these are of dead trade in general But mark the bold daring and uncharitable presumption of these wretched Quakers who step up into the Judgement Scat of the Almighty and assign the particular causes of his dispensation as if those upon whom the Tower of Siloa fell were greater sinners than others because of that hand of providence or as if his oath were false because of this accident No hee still owns the truth of his deposition also And divers others there are in this City who can attest much to the substance of it But see the malicious spirit of these wretches and yet further seeing they could not draw off this young man from the truth of what hee had deposed nor yet any advantage by tampering with him against mee which was the thing intended for Hollister then told him hee had a hand in a book to that purpose Now not being able to compass their ends upon him Bishop by Hollisters instigation I believe for I suppose the young man is almost as much a stranger to Bishop as to my self who never spake with him but twice and that upon this occasion Bishop I say falls to reproach this young man and to stain his reputation as one of evil course and bad conversation from which hee would needs have us believe Quakerisme had restrained him and to which since hee left quaking hee affirms hee again returned page 28. of his Pamphlet How far 〈◊〉 young mans Father is concerned in this a person of quality Collonel Raymond a Justice of Peace in the Cou●● of Glocester I shall not inquire But for his comfo●● his Sons Right and the discovery of the spiteful malicious revengeful and lying spirit of these deluded and 〈◊〉 luding wretches I do affirm that both from his M●ster and Neighbours persons I am sure of better cre●● than Hollister or Bishop I received a most ample and 〈◊〉 Testimony of the youths most sober piously conformable and good conversation By which wee may see wh●● spirit these Quakers are of and how ready they are 〈◊〉 reproach all that are not with them A Generation of V●●pers and Adders that when they cannot reach the hea●● will bee biting at the heels of those who come near them and must vent their venome one way or other so th●● notwithstanding his cavillings the young mans Testimony stands good against him that these blasphemo●● words were spoken as is alledged Nor must his deny a●● no nor of many more pass for currant or bear weigh● against a positive affirmation so solemnly confirmed N●● is blaspheming language of the Quakers so strange or ra●● as hee would make for it is but the same which was spoken by one Simon Dring another of them as I have declared which allegation Bishop would also enervate annull because I do not name him to whom the words wer● spoken and from thence sayes it is of my own invention page 77. I was not I confess over-forward to mention the names of persons by whom things were related 〈◊〉 mee because all are not willing to have their names 〈◊〉 publikely mentioned But now for satisfaction I let him know it is on that is not ashamed to appear in the face of Captain Bishop and it is Mr. Timothy Parker whom I suppose he wi●● not deny to bee a person of credit and who is ready to attest the truth of what I have set down concerning it And for a further discovery of the impostures prevarications ●eceits and juglings of this generation I 'le give one instance more from a person of whose faithfulness I am assured who himself upon London rode meeting with one with whom hee had been formerly well acquainted and ●●owing him to bee turn'd Quaker amongst other discourse said unto him by way of dislike of his present ●udgment and opinions of Quakerisme you did look and ●ope for righteousness or justification by Jesus Christ the Quaker answered so I do still yea but replied the other Do you look to bee justified and to have your sins ●ardoned for that blood which Christ shed upon the Crosse whereunto the Quaker replied What can that blood bee worth which was shed so long ago This for substance will bee made good both parties I know very well and his Quaker not one of the dull simple or sottish sort of ●hem who know not the worst of their own opinions ●ut one of an ingenuous education and of abilities more ●han ordinary in comparison of the generality of them one acquainted with the mysteries of their own iniquity and blasphemous Doctrine And this not much unlike another but a Shee Quaker yet not of the simplest rank who being confer'd with by one who had heard much of their opinions and asking her by whom she hoped to bee saved she answered by Jesus Christ By what Jesus Christ said hee By that Jesus Christ that died at Jerusalem said shee What replied hee by that Jesus Christ that died at Jerusalem and that is now in heaven Yea said shee Whereat hee something wondring and yet suspecting some equivocation or mental reservation Where said hee is that heaven In mee said shee and so discovered the juggle Now who but one who knowes them throughly but would have been satisfied with her first answers And who would have thought it needful to have carried on the question any further And so in the former any honest simple well meaning heart that is not acquainted with their collusions would have been satisfied with the first answer But you see how hard a matter it is for ever● one to discover them and how loth they are that wha●● they hold should bee fully known lest it should as 〈◊〉 deserves render them abhorred by all honest Christians And hence also you see how little they are to be believed in what they say having reserved meanings 〈◊〉 themselves and speaking contrary to the sense of tho●● expressions which are commonly used amongst Christians And now as the rest of his niblings at my Narrative an● observations thereupon I shall leave the truth to bee determined by the examinations themselves which hee cannot impeach nor will his affirmations negations 〈◊〉 wrestings any way impair And for matter of fact 〈◊〉 the rise growth and setling of these people among us appeal to those who were eare and eye-witnesses of the● things And for his atheological cavillings and Scripture wresting and misapplyings I refer to those who are judicio●● in such matters to conclude between us onely there ar●● some few things wherein I must observe unto my Reader the malicious and revengeful temper of this man in 〈◊〉 dealing with mee I confess neither the person of 〈◊〉 Opponent

or the things are in themselves worthy 〈◊〉 the thoughts of any serious man and I should therefore have past it over but that I minde my ingagement an● promise which is to let the world see in the instance 〈◊〉 my adversary that the conversion and perfection of Quaker if to bee estimated by this mans is very unsound imperfect and rotten notwithstanding all the● outward shewes and specious pretences any man eve● with half an eye as the saying is may easily discer●● by the matter and manner of his language that his design all along and throughout his whole Pamphlet 〈◊〉 to render mee all the wayes hee can obnoxious to danger and the displeasure of others that are above me●● wherein besides his malice his impotence is discerue● in that being not able to revenge himself upon mee h●● would bring mee within the reach of others who migh● do it for him And see how hee goes out of the wayes of truth and honesty to do it so revengeful is hee yea out of the way of his own profession so impetuously is hee hurried in his rage and passion for but minde his Courtship giving flattering titles and having respect to persons as they call our due tenders of reverence and honour to our Superiours in page 27. Justice Fell a discreet grave man one of the Judges of the Nation and Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster Well what of all this Why sayes George to mee Art thou assured hee will put up all this Oh sayes hee the instance is so foul and odious and so fill'd with scoffs and jeers that thy wickednesse therein is hard to bee exprest Thus hee there Oh lamentable Is it not pitty that any man much more a Minister of the Gospel and if you will a Priest should commit so great a crime Surely it can be no less than betraying Mr. Love to death or ruining some great mans estate by base practises perjury bribery or some such thing No but 't is as bad Why what is it Oh hearken and wonder In page 31. of my Narrative I produc'd Judge Fells wife as one bearing witness in the behalf of James Naylor and here 's my sin which hath rais'd all this out-cry I said such discerning folks cannot easily bee mistaken Ah poor impotent creature how hath rage and malice and hatred and envy besotted him Is not this man guilty of having mens persons in admiration for advantage that hee might have advantage against mee Or doth hee mock the Judge in giving him these titles so much contrary to their quaking principle The Lord help him to see the baseness of his Spirit But yet why doth hee add an c. to the criminous words quoted by himself Why surely to let the world see that his malice out-bid and out-brib'd his conscience for being convinced in himself that the words quoted would not bear so high a charge against mee as of a crime so great the wickedness whereof can hardly bee exprest hee would have it understood that the danger lay in the word c. which if it do 't is none of mine And let any one in the world read my book and say whether they can finde any thing else in that whole matter to bee charged as an offence upon mee And is this such an offence so heinous so grievous to say ironically that such discerning folk as Judge Fells wife cannot easily bee mistaken What 's this to the Judge May not a wise man a good man have a simple a perverse or a quaking wife which is not in his power to remedy further than to restrain her from their assemblies hee cannot change her judgment As for the Judge himself I meddle not I do not know him I have not heard to my remembrance other than well of him Well the Lord forgive my adversary and humble and alter him Sure I am this is far from that simplicity charity goodness that was and is in Christ Jesus Hence ex ungue leonem by this paw of the Lion or rather hoof of some more silly creature judge of the man or if you will you may take him both wayes A Lion or a Bear for his rage and fierceness and a more sottish beast for his filliness I have discovered the venom of his teeth in this the more fully to save my self and thee Reader some labour in being as brief as possibly I may in the following particulars and the next is his endeavour to traduce mee with traducing the Magistrates of our City And whereas I plead their excuse in that by their lenity at first over and above what other places in the Nation exercised towards these croaking frogs they gave them too much incouragement to nestle amongst us imputing this as just cause I had to their too much fearfulness and having been formerly over-topt and over-born by an over-swaying power by the usurpation of inferiour Officers exercised upon them and looking upon this as a part of their weakness and infirmities which because of the common frailty incident to all men even the best I did as being in the body and sensible of the same frailties Christianly and soberly alleviate not justifie how does hee most Pharisaically and proudly fall both upon mee and them in it And because I say and say now that the best Magistrates have their spots defects and failings hee concludes them to bee no Magistrates of God but men of sin evil doers and the born of the devil page 34. But because this nor any thing in my Narrative would afford matter to incense them hee runs abroad licking up the vomit of every malicious and venomous Spider to belch it out against mee and this lyingly too more suo for hee sayes that I endeavoured in the Pulpit to render them vile and odious one while likening them to Jupiters log and to George on horseback and reproaching them with the abilities of Tom Pain which hee puts in great letters as if I had mentioned his name in the Pulpit But what a bold and daring wretch is this to judge of my intentions and endeavours as if they were to render the Magistrates vile and odious When being call'd to preach unto them upon a publike occasion for administration of Justice The Lord knows my heart my endeavour was to render them honourable and precious by pressing them to discharge their duty and to that purpose I told them that Magistrates should not bee as Jupiters log which by lying still and doing nothing made the frogs bold with it and to leap upon and make sport with and that they should not bee as the picture of George on horseback with his arm and sword alwayes lifted up but never smiting telling them further that if the bare name ornaments and accoutrements of a Magistrate were sufficient then that poor creature that was then walking up and down in their presence might make a Magistrate but I utterly deny that I likened or compared them with or to either or named him And of

power and hereupon you say that Drury shewing you the Subpena you asked him whether hee told them that hee was under the warrant of the Councel of State and under examination of their Committee of Examinations As to that particular amongst others but I must tell you hee was not under their examination to that particular of Faulconers perjury hee answered no. Then you say you asked him why hee had not acquainted you with the Subpena before hee went to Guild-Hall and was sworn yea there was his fault since hee was a prisoner under examination and under Parol To which as you say hee giving no reasonable answer but that hee knew not what the business was and such like when as as you say the Indictment could not have been drawn without the consent of and converse with Drury yea still there was the sin and who you say was the chief witnesse upon which it was grounded it being prepared and found that day and had hee not been committed by you Faulconer had been convicted that Sessions of that perjury which was afterwards proved and himself confessed But you go on and say That you perceiving thereby how hee did prevaricate and how things were done in design and combination against the State But stay Was it a design against the State that the Lord Cravens innocency should bee cleared Oh base Yes now I remember my self it was for then the design against the estate of the Lord Craven in all likelihood of Justice might have proved ineffectual But you go on and say further that you not knowing what other inconvenience might come to the State by his Druries further liberty since hee had made that use of it aforesaid reproved him therefore with that high language against him and the Lord Mayor as before which you do not deny received the Subpena from him and taking of his Parol returned him into custody from Munday evening to the Friday following And was it not to Friday evening following as well as from Munday evening before which you reckon up with a four nights and no longer and I say four dayes too so long that no proceedings could bee expected that Sessions against Faulconer The last day of the Sessions being no time for such prosecutions but calling over the Goal and concluding former businesses and then you say upon information of the poverty of Drury and that hee had no money to pay for his diet and lodging which you knew well enough before and have acknowledged when you gave him money for his supper and would not commit him lest hee should perish And now you say in meer charity when there was no opportunity for him at Sessions hee had his liberty upon his Parol again and enjoyes it Charitable wretch And did you in charity commit him Fie upon such base hypocrisie And then you go on with a company of blinde supposals to argue the improbability of your committing of him to the end to obstruct the proceedings against Faulconer which are so childish and coming in but by way of additional aid to your former answer which is your chief backler but a filly one I shall not trouble my self and the Reader with which if you think any thing worth print it and I 'le bee your bondman if it any way help you nay if it don't further discover your folly and I would have writ it but that 't is as long as impertinent and this is enough And your main answer which how it clears you let all or any man of common reason judge And say is George Bishop innocent in this matter And one thing more I find charg'd against you George which I suppose is an unjust and indirect practise Narr page 40. and used by you in the matter of Craven and Faulconer And in the Margin of the Narrative where this matter following is spoken to there is written Observe and 't is observable 't is short but home and therefore printed in another Character in these words By way of digression observe that Druries and Briscoes informations which Captain Bishop had taken above twelve moneths since and which tended to clear the Lord Craven hee concealed till this hour that hee produc'd the same in Court and never transmitted these two mens examinations to the Parliament though before the Bill of Sale did passe hee did transmit Bardseys and Kitchingmans re-examinations taken by himself and which hee apprehended made against the Lord Craven Here now is a heavy charge and certainly these proceedings if true are very indirect and hee cannot bee innocent But hear him speak for himself and I 'le give you every word And thus hee begins page 44. of his own book What Captain Bishops imployment was is already spoken his duty was to take and to keep such informations as concerned the Committee and to do with them according to their or the Councels or the Parliaments orders but neither the Council nor Committee ordered him to transmit them to the Parliament though they were not ignorant of them and several times shewed by him to some of the members of the Councel and to the Committee nor did the Parliament call for them or what papers concerning the Lord Craven were in the custody of the Councel or Committee nor take the depositions into debate after the first vote of confiscation and whether those examinations advantage the Lord Craven let the reader upon consideration of what is already mentioned and argued thereupon judge Nay but George let mee put in a word or two by the way it had been very honest and fair for you to have put down their examinations themselves that the reader might judge upon them for wee can't see them nor must wee take your word But you go on Nor were any papers at all transmitted by him meaning himself G. B. to the Parliament either for or against the Lord Craven for Bardseys examination when hee had taken it hee sent it in to the Councel for Bardsey to make oath thereof which after hee had made it was put presently into the hands of one of the members viz. Mr. Gourdon to report to the Parliament who received it and lodged it with Mr. Scobel it being not returned to Captain Bishop and for Kitchingmans re examination hee transmitted no such thing nor was any such taken whilst the Committee for examinations was in being Kitchingmans information being deposed by him at Haberdashers Hall Now J pray what 's all this to the purpose doth this excuse you will you give mee leave to interrogate you If you will not answer chuse let the reader judge You took such informations from Drury and Brisco did you not 'T is plain you did Did not their depositions excuse and acquit the Lord Craven and prove Faulconer perjur'd 'T is plain they did Had not Drury the original draught of the Petition under Faulconers own hand-writing which at his Tryal was produc'd and hee could not deny and which hee confest upon his death-bed to

and is now a member of this present Parliament one so cordial to the publike interest that I do profess when I afterwards saw him upon his return from the circuit my heart rejoyced that I had so appeared for him whom upon my own knowledge was so true a friend to the Parliament for I well knew him before by sight but did not know him by name to bee the person prosecuted I could tell you further George of others whom I have rescued from the jawes of ruine upon Parliamentary prosecutions and that upon base and packt knavery followed with perjury and by some of our own Officers which I my self have discovered and caused them to bee turned out So that George you must not sculk and hide your head under the shelter of the Parliament And for the rest that followes in your answer and excuse the reader will easily perceive you do but quibble and trifle upon forms and circumstances which makes nothing to the substance of the business I shall not need to mention your zeal and earnestness at the tryal of Faulconer in his behalf nor your reflecting upon the Judges in these words page 15. of your book The Judges in the issue summon'd not up the evidence which they should have done As for the Jury you bestow this upon them in the same page The Jury of the affections of whom for the Parliament wee cannot yet understand neither took any notes nor ask'd a question yet in a very short time were agreed in their verdict and the next morning gave it into the Court that Faulconer was guilty of the perjury mentioned in the Indictment And then you go on and say That a man indeed without divining might have told which way the cause would go by the countenances of the Jury all along the tryal of the cause as was taken notice of by many honest men such as you are no doubt And then you sadly complain thus But this is what every honest man may expect in cases wherein the State is concern'd George is huge angry that Faulconer is found guilty of Perjury when the unpardoned traytors whom with the peril of their lives they discover to bee undermining the safety of a State in times of great danger in the field and under ground conspiracies working towards the general destruction thereof shall after the enemie is overthrown and prevented bee permitted to come into England when they can no longer do the Commonwealth mischief abroad and to be good witnesses against such honest discoveries risum teneatis amici in such Traitors own causes as to their lives as hath happened to one of the States witnesses Faulconer in the very case now in question And so you flirt upon the Jury again page 47. I will not comment upon it because I hasten to an end But the man is very angry with Judge and Jur and Witnesses and as before with the Lord Mayor as no friends to the State that Faulconer was found perjur'd which yet hee himself hath confest himself to bee But why is George so angry it seems hee is much concerned in it for though hee act for good affection to the State yet its reason that hee should bee consider'd and therefore in my information from London by a hand that is able to make good his undertakings I am thus told that hee George repaired to Drury house and contracted for about 300 pound a year of the Lord Cravens Land where and when this argument was used that hee might bee favourably dealt with and considered in the purchace for that hee was the man that brought the Commonwealth so great an estate and that but for him the Lord Craven had not been put into the Bill of Sale and accordingly hee was favourably dealt withal But Master Baker Surveyor General to the Trustees then reprehended the said Captain Bishop for so speaking the scandal whereof was it seems like to prove so great as well it might that hee relinquisht the contract and when in the last Parliament but this this contract was laid to his charge by the Committee of Parliament appointed to hear the Lord Cravens case and hee urg'd to answer whether hee did contract or not How sayes my information did hee prevaricate and shuffle with the Committee and put off an answer till hee did see there were those present that were ready to produce the contracts out of the book and then to his shame and admiration of the Committee hee did confess at last hee did contract for a considerable part of the Lord Cravens estate but that hee had since that time declined the same So that for all your pretences of publike interest you drove on a design of your own private and if the way had been honest you might have done it and you need not have declin'd it and to back this and so an end Did not you write to a Gentleman an acquaintance of mine and yours one imployed for the publike to inform you of the quality and worth of a Mannour of the Lord Cravens call'd the Mannour of Hinton Norton in Sommerset-shire and did not you afterward in your Study at White-Hall tell him that you inquired after it for that you expected that the Parliament should reward your good service you had done for the State in sequestring the Lord Cravens estate Or words to that purpose And now Sirs you that are to give your judgment upon George Bishop upon the whole matter what say you Is George clear and innocent Hath hee not used nor doth hee not know of any indirect proceedings in that whole business of Craven and Faulconer of which hee makes such a bold appeal to the Almighty Say is it any matter whether hee bee a Quaker or no or what he is And if wee may judge of the conscience honesty and perfection of the rest by him may wee not conclude as I undertook to make good That a man may bee as vile a person as any under heaven and yet a perfect Quaker If hee had repented of it and what in him lies made restitution it had been somewhat I should have said nothing for who will upbraid a man with that for which hee hath repented But hee still like a Quaker justifies himself as if he had done no evil and I easily perceive the bush under which hee hides himself and thinks no body sees him For after his protestation hee sayes Hee has had a large time of tryal wherein bee hath neither wanted enemies for the sake of truth nor they malice and opportunity to lay to his charge could they finde or were there any thing to be found against him Simple fellow I wonder hee could mannage so great a business with so little wit because the Lord Cravens friends did not indict him but Faulconer therefore hee sillily concludes they could finde or say nothing against him Doth hee not know that it was for the Lord Cravens advantage to lay all the blame upon Faulconer and to charge

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