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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91853	Innocencie vindicated. Or, A brief answer to part of a scandalous paper, entituled A true narrative of the occasion and causes of the late Lord General Cromwel's anger against Lieutenant Colonel Joyce, &c. And his proceedings against him, to cashier him from the Army. By Jo. Rix, once lieutenant to the said Lt. Colonel Joyce.	Rix, John.	1659 (1659)	Wing R1569; Thomason E988_17; ESTC R203474	6,912	8

to know his Excellencies pleasure as to my returning to my command at which the General said where is Joyce 's Articles I said In the Advocates hand the General then said I will have them prosecuted saying Lieutenant you shall fare never the worse for Joyce 's wickedness This I do declare to the best of my knowledge to be the first and all the encouragement I ever received from General Cromwel Now first considering the evil intended towards me by Lt. Colonel Joyce with what expence he had put me to without cause whether now was the greater evil in General Cromwel to make such a promise or having made it not to perform it I never receiving a penny or penny's-worth from him and I having signed to the Articles as a Witness when called could not do less then witness to what I knew to be truth and my conscience bears me testimony that I did it to the best of my remembrance without respect to any Reward promised and as for my prosecuting him it is false for Serjeant Tho. Knight was his prosecutor and whereas he saith I was encouraged again whenas before I could make nothing of it I answer That my evidences was before offered to the Commissioners in the Country but because I would not sign to the Articles as Prosecutor the Commissioners were so much Lt Colonel Joyce's friends that they would not receive any testimony to the Articles against him and I did refuse to signe them as Prosecutor because then my evidences would not have been valid being the chief Witness to make his false Musters appear and how he wronged the souldiers of their pay I say for that cause the Commissioners would not receive evidence to the Articles against the Lieut. Colonel though Serjeant Knight offered to signe them as Prosecutor no marvel therefore that the said Commissioners could make nothing of it as premised by Lt Colonel Joyce The next thing he charged upon me is That I should falsly swear That I should hear the Lt. Colonel say in Adistors in Portland about the death of Lockyer That he was sorry that Lockyer had not pistoled Cromwel In answer to this I first offer a Query 1. If the testimony of two honest Witnesses to one thing shall be accounted false swearing what testimony in our Age shall be accounted true swearing And that there was so in this case I do affirm and know the contrary cannot be proved 2. I reply by way of Reason why my Evidences could not be false 1. Because by my testimony the Court-Martial found Lt. Colonel Joyce a guilty person 2. Because the Court-Martial cast out the Evidences of some persons who by the means of Lt. Col. Joyce did swear against me as of persons forsworn but did not do so to my Evidence against Lt. Col. Joyce 3. Because the Court-Martial which did consist of many faithful men as I judge and many of them Lt. Colonel Joyce's great friends did upon the several Evidences by me produced c. judge him so guilty as to cashier him the Army And whereas the said Lt. Colonel declares That when he could not be perswaded out of his Commission during his imprisonment the which also he declares to be an effect of his bearing Testimony against the Armies Apostacy he still placing that in the Van of his sufferings which I am confident was in the Rear as hath already been declared And whereas he said That THEN Articles were drawn against him that was also false his own conscience knowing that Articles were drawn up against him and proof offered thereunto a month at least before his being imprisoned so no effect of his being imprisoned or refusing to lay down his Commission as declared by him nor of his boasting that he bare testimony against the Apostacie of the Army in the matter premised which was some months after In these things Lt. Colonel Joyce hath verified the use of an old Proverb viz. That a Lyer had need have a good memory otherwise he will contradict himself Again he saith That by the false and double swearing c. As to that of false swearing I have already made such answer as I hope hath given full satisfaction to every impartial Reader of my innocencie from that great sinne as also to believe that if Lt. Col. Joyce had either been a true man or a wise man he would not have published so false an accusation with so many known lies in print But whereas he accuses me with double swearing it is matter of sorrow in me to consider that his wicked actions should be so many as that I should be called upon to swear to more then one Article against him it not being reasonable to believe that I sware twice to one particular and as for my prosecuting him it was Serjeant Tho Knight as I have already declared and as for my being thereto incouraged as falsly suggested by him hath been replyed unto already in order as they stand in his paper Next the Lt. Col. saith That in his own Conscience he was clear of any crime or offence as his paper said unstable by Law Ah poor unstable soul didst thou mourn for thy wickedness almost 6 years ago hadst thou then so much sence of guilt as to use both lawful unlawful means to prevent thy coming to a Tryal the innocent and righteous man being bold as a Lyon I say what wast thou afraid of if thy conscience were clear as thou now seemest to have the confidence to affirm Sure it may be said to Lt. Colonel Joyce as it was to Simon Magus Thou art still in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity thy heart is not right in the sight of God repent therefore of this thy wickedness The next Charge is That after this I moved the General then called Protector for his promised Preferment 2. For my charges in prosecution It 's false that ever I made any motion to the Protector in any business relating to my self after the Protector was made Protector I not being free in my judgement and conscience to serve him either by Sea or Land But I gather by this Charge that his design is to render me to be a lover of the Protector as Protector and so unamiable as to the present Authority but the contrary to this is known unto my acquaintance whether Officers of the Army or others that I have still upon all occasions born a sober Testimony against the Government of this Nation to be by a single Person as Lord Protector or otherwise I having often jeoparded my life in the high places of the field in the service of the Commonwealth first under his Excellencie the Earl of Essex then some years in the Troop of the Right Honourable Colonel Nathaniel Rich and in the Troop and Regiment of Colonel Reynolds as Corporal and Quarter-master and after that I was Lieutenant to a Militia Troop in Norfolk and lastly some years Lieutenant to Lt. Colonel Joyce the