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A27251 A new light-house at Milford for the great pilots of England, for their safety, as well to avoyd the unremovable rock, Eliot, from their doore here, as to beware of the bishop and his clerks neer their harbour there. Beech, William. 1650 (1650) Wing B1681; ESTC R28901 32,478 29

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these few degrees of comparison with Mr. Eliot 1 MR. Eliot is upon record at VVestminster to have altered his opinion and practise towards the Publike foure times though there happened more alterations He doth charge me but with one turning to Sir John Pennington which I have to shew is a Peace of Non-sense 2 Mr. Eliot is an Array-Committee man and Commissione and a Soliciter against the State I am a Minister therefore must be no striker that 's his advantage he may strike me he thinks but I may not strike him 3 Mr. Eliots estate is said to be worth about 120 livre. per annum in the Country besides his practice in the City the bounty of the Parliament had made my yearly means equall with his if I had husbanded it so well as he 4 Mr. Eliot was put into the Gatehouse lately for wronging the Commonwealth 10000 li. in unlawfull debenters I have suffered imprisonments too but they were my wrongs and troubles for the Commonwealth 5 When Mr. Eliot speaks or Prints his good affection to the State he doth it to shift of his malignity and fashood and to weaken the Parliaments friends and to divide them and to scatter them for which he thinks he may live to have thanks but my good wishes that way have been still published not of revenge but of good will and to unite the Parliaments friends and to encourage the Souldiers over to Ireland witnesse THE PLOT FROM EDOM and LONDONS BLOWING UP BY LONDONERS VV. B. To the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esq Speaker c. For the Right Honorable the Parliament of England in behalfe of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND Being a slow Returne made by William Beech Minister now absent and in the Country Unto a loose and lying Pamphlet set forth by Squire Eliot still present in the City BLAZED By the said Mr. Eliot to blemish the Testimony of such as have any knowledge to give light of his Falsehood to the State that have intrusted him being yet upon an old designe of near 5 years practice to wrong the Parliament and the Commonwealth of 8 or 10000l more which is as truly theirs as their Mace WHerein the Accountant conceives he may not so far encourage the falsehood as he heareth but cannot see i● is contained in Mr. Eliots scandalous Legend as to honour it with repetition the standing loyalty of the Gentlem libelled against being so eminently beyond the strength of Mr. Eliots breath to blast by the test of his own hand writing if it were worth any thing by the Testimony of the present Commissioners of Pembrookshire and above all these the known clearnesse of the Truth but is bold to disprove as much of it as doth reflect on himself or that comes within this abstract of the many Testimonies given of him and of his doings and sufferings for the State of England during all the fixe times of Mr. Eliots turning to and fro which will serve as much for discoverie of Mr. Eliots falsehood as for Beeches Vindication It is certified by the Subscribers who have good report in this great Assembly to be men stedfast and sincere Honorers of your just Power and by such as will depose upon oath what they doe subscribe unto as being either fellow-sufferers eye-witnesses or otherwise very competent to testifie what they subscribe unto That this Accountant did at the first appearing of friends for the Parliament in Pembrookeshire go at his own charge for ought they could ever hear or can imagine from Milford to Bristoll to Col. Nat: Fines Sir William Waller the late Earl of Essex and from Bristoll did post up and down for halfe a year or thereabout to Redding London back againe to Bristoll to London again and then back again in great hazzard as they heard and understood by letters and good reports from time to time to procure the aid of Ships Men and Ammunition to put the said County and Harbor of Milford in a posture to serve the Parliament That the said place became accordingly very serviceable to the State that this Accountant did move first at the intreaty of some of the well affected Gentry there and having with him a message from Cap. Devereux Wyat an Alderman of Tenby now prisoner for debt in the Marshallsces For which Mr. Beech was apprehended by warrant from Judge Jenkins and indicted of high Treason as they heard at S. Dogmarls and they do well know that he was sent prisoner from place to place Haverfordwest Tenby Carmarthen and that he had they beleive suffered the Execution of a horrid death if he had not escaped out of their hands when one Mr. Freeman escaped about the time of a defeat given the enemy by the Parliaments forces there That M. Beeches said services and imprisonments occasioned thereby continued near two yeares and that he lost they beleeve three yeares profit save only a very little one of those years worth in times of peace 150l per annum at Muncton and his augmentation at Nangle the two last yeares as they are credibly informed that when Gerrard had scattered the Parliaments forces there in the year 1645 Mr. Beech was forced to flye with his owne and divers other distressed families by Sea to London That he hath served your Honours since at the Seidges of Basing and Denington and was 7 weeks prisoner at Wallingford as they heard also untill he was exchanged by Maj. Gen. Browne That he hath given divers publick Testimonies of his loyalty to the Parliament ever since That he hath sustained several arrests and imprisonments in London and at Westminster to their knowledge and as it appears to them in relation to his said services and troubles and debts occasioned thereby and during his attendance here which hath brought many sad inconveniencies upon himselfe and they beleive distresse upon his family Mr. Beech had Commission and imployment from his Excellency the late Earle of Essex and I have heard very much from persons worthy of credit of his great sufferings for that imployment Tho Cosen Secretary then to the said Earle The sum of this Certificate he hath with him aboundantly testified in severall parcells and hee would offer Mr. Eliots oath of his certaine knowledge in all the particulars but he waves it as uncertain and stained and nothing worth Cap. Ralph Grundy and Cap. Devereux Wyat have escaped the tongue of Mr. Eliot the best of any though they have felt the utmost of his hands he doth confesse even in his LEGEND that they do both deserve something and that they did love the PARLIAMENT a little but he is of opinion they have been rewarded enough seeing they escaped hanging and quartering before and only that they do favour Revolters he suspects because they doe not favour his wayes This being a large Testimony from an Enemy whom they did helpe to beat when he was an Arch Cabby they having subscribed their names and affixed their Seales