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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56273	A vindication of Sr. Robert King's designs and actions in relation to the late and present Lord Kingston being an answer to a scandalous libel, lately sent abroad under the title of Materials for a bill of discovery against Sir Robert King, Bar., Anthony Raymond, Charles Gosling, [and others].	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.	1699 (1699)	Wing P4196; ESTC R6735	50,330	236

say she will Marry crook'd Will as what she thinks of me Except she and you send me some Recompence for the Injury you have done me by your unworthy and dirty Thoughts I 'll never forgive you and do not let it come about by Mr. Pach any more Of Two so Wise as my Cousin and you I never saw Sir Martin act a more silly part read her Letter wherein I frighten her but it is for nothing else for I love her still as well as ever and that she shall see at last Read her Letters pray and promise you love GOD and Me. Shew this to no body but Cousin Sue and let her burn hers PARIS May 23. N o. X. Doctor Horneck 's Letter to Sir Robert King SIR I Had yours and am heartily glad my old Friend and Acquaintance is Alive and well I have been indispos'd with the Distemper of the Stone and Bloody-Water these Six Weeks Blessed be GOD there appear some signs of Recovery Concerning your Nephew the Lord Kingston I have almost forgot Particulars of so long standing or done so many Years ago yet I do remember he own'd he gave his Consent to the passing of the Estate to you only as is usual in such Cases pleaded Youth and Fear or some such Argument There is a Young-Man c. I am Sir Your Affectionate Friend And Humble Servant A. Horneck Sept. 22. For the Right Honourable Sir Robert King Kt. one of His Majesty's most Honble Privy-Council in the Kingdom of Ireland at Dublin N o. XI The late Lord Kingston's Paper Written with his own Hand containing Directions for drawing up his Lordship's Answer to Mr. King's Case THat Mr. King fell in Love I believe to be true but that his Wife is a Gentlewoman is as false as any false Supposition can be Her first Rise was to be my Poultry-Woman's Servant and her greatest to be my Dairy-Maid till she became his Spouse That it was upon this occasion I Settled my Estate from Him and Hers into a Family of good Extraction and not as he most unjustly says by the advice and desire of Sir Robert King my Uncle who was the only Man of all those that knew my Designs that Oppos'd so just a Settlement c. N o. XII The present Lord Kingston 's Letter to Sir Robert King Dear Uncle IT is not for want either of Duty or Respect that I have not waited upon you since my coming for England but because I know the Sight of so unpleasing an Object cannot be grateful to so near a Relation as you are Therefore I thought it better to live both private and retir'd from the sight of all my Relations and Friends than to give them a Subject to Discourse of which the Sight of me cannot continually choose but do I hope you will not take it ill seeing I have given you a true account of the Reason By this I shall soon be forgotten by you all and shall enjoy quiet of Mind by delivering my self from the bitter Reproaches due to me from so good Relations and tho' perhaps you may never see me yet as far as my power shall ever reach you shall ever find me Your Dutiful and Obedient Nephew Jo. King To the Honourable Sir Robert King N o. XIII The Deposition of William Conolly Esq WIlliam Conolly of the City of Dublin Esq Deposeth That having some earnest occasions with Robert Lord Baron of Kingston Deceas'd he repaired to Boyle about the fourth of October 1693 and stayed with the said Lord for several days in which time and at several times before he heard the said Lord Kingston express himself with great dissatisfaction and dislike of the present Lord Kingston and the dishonour he had placed upon the Family and often said That he should never Enjoy any part of his Estate and hoped his Uncle Sir Robert King would be just to him in his Intentions in that Matter tho' he expected much more from his Son meaning John King Esq to whom the said L d Robert said his Estate would come This Deponent further deposeth That the said Robert Lord Kingston said and expressed himself with concern fearing that the said Sir Robert King might be too easie prevail'd upon by the now Lord Kingston or words to that purpose The Cause of this Deponent's Discourse and Knowledge is that he was intimate with the said Robert Lord Kingston and was concern'd for him as his Agent and Solicitor Will. Conolly Jurat coram me 23 Decemb. 1698. J. Coghill N o. XIV The Deposition of Nola Murphey taken before the Reverend Dean Anthony Cope One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Roscommon THE Examinate being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists deposeth That being a Servant with Sir Robert King his Lady and her Mother for above Forty Years was intrusted by him as his House-keeper with several Goods and Papers on his going for England before the late Troubles most of which she the Deponent dispers'd amongst such of the Irish as she thought would keep them safest and give them back again and tho' in the Troubles some Irish Officers and Soldiers came to her Master's House where she was left and threatned to send her to Goal if she did not tell where she had the said Goods yet she would not tell them let them say what they would But this present Lord Kingston coming to the House with several in his Company he soon after his being in it took the Deponent from this Company and went with her into the Room call'd the Nursery where he enquir'd very privately when she heard from his Uncle and Aunt and the Children and spake so very tenderly of them using often the word his dear Uncle and Aunt and dear Cousins that she could have trusted him with all the Things and Papers she had in the World of her Master's and did believe his Lordship spake from his Heart because of his being long and often in her Master's House and she observ'd what great Kindness and tender Care her Master and Lady had of his Lordship as if he were their own Child and after all his kind Words his Lordship said Nola what you have of my Uncle's let me know for if he had a Thousand Pounds worth I would not take a Penny worth of them for my self but keep it for him fearing others should take it from him but be sure you shew me every thing of his that you have let the World go as it will I hope they will not lose their own And when he was leaving this Deponent his Lordship said Nola If what I have said to you were heard or known this would be cut off drawing his Fingers cross his Neck by which the Deponent thinks he meant that his Head would be cut off By these and other fair words she the Deponent went next day to Boyle and shew'd him some Things and all the Papers which were her Master 's and when his Lordship came to the

upon him the said Sir Robert King and is morally assur'd he never did desire any one else to stir in it But on the contrary this Deponent hath often heard that the said Sir Robert King delayed perfecting or suffering to perfect such a Settlement by the late Lord Kingston even to the Incensing the said Lord Kingston and that he was so scrupulous that he would not consent that such a Settlement should be made until he had consulted the best Divines in England And this Deponent further deposeth that he heard from a credible Person That the said Sir Robert being ask'd by the late Lord if he was yet resolv'd to consent to the making such a Settlement answer'd That tho' he was satisfied it was lawful for him to accept of the Estate yet he had another scruple whether it was lawful for the said Lord to give it at which the late Lord Kingston flew into a Passion and said he would settle it upon Sir Robert's Eldest Son if Sir Robert would prove so shy and slow in his Result And this Deponent further deposeth That he never open'd his Mouth nor did he ever mention the least Syllable to the late Lord Kingston relating to the Disinheriting his Brother the present Lord Kingston or making over the Estate on Sir Robert King or his Heirs And this Deponent further deposeth That the said Sir Robert King gave Directions that the present Lady Kingston being then one of the Servant-Maids in the late Lord Kingston's House should be discharg'd having heard that there was too much Familiarity between her and the present Lord Kingston whereupon the now Lord Kingston spoke to this Deponent on the top of the Warren near the Town of Abby-Boyle to intercede with his Uncle Sir Robert King for her Continuance in her Service urging that the only way to prove the Report of her being with Child to be false was to let her stay and that would disprove it but if she were sent away the People here would conclude it true This Deponent further deposeth That after this Discourse with the present Lord Kingston he this Deponent walk'd after the said Sir Robert King towards Ballindrehit and press'd him to grant what the said Lord Kingston desired and after some pawsing the said Sir Robert agreed to it provided he this Deponent would go to Mrs. Horsey the House-keeper and desire her earnestly to have a care that for the future they were not too great and if any thing happen'd amiss it should lie at her door all which this Deponent told the said Mrs. Horsey Jurat coram me 28 die Julii An. Dom. 1698. John French N o. IV. The Right Honourable John Lord Baron of Kingston Plaintiff Sir Robert King Defendant Charles Gosling Esq his Oath CHarles Gosling of the City of Killkenny Esq came this day before Me and made Oath That for several Years before the late Troubles he having been in the Service of Robert late Lord Baron of Kingston the Plaintiff's Brother at Abby-Boyle in the County of Roscommon and he this Deponent having observ'd before the Plaintiff went to France a more than ordinary Familiarity between the Plaintiff being then a younger Brother and living in the House and one Margaret Cahan then a Servant in the House who usually made the Beds he this Deponent acquainted Sir Robert King the Defendant then the Plaintiff's Guardian therewith the said Robert Lord Kingston being then abroad in his Travels and that Sir Robert King the Defendant thereupon order'd one Mrs. Horsey the then House-keeper and a Relation of the Family to turn her out of the House who accordingly did so and she was for some time out of that Service until by the Plaintiff's means she was brought in again by the said House-keeper without the Consent or Privity of the Defendant as this Deponent verily believes for that he heard the Defendant severely reprimand and check the said Mrs. Horsey the House-keeper for so doing tho' this Deponent did not then think neither doth he believe it entred into the Defendant's Thoughts that his Nephew the Plaintiff would so much debase himself and his Family as to contract Marriage with her This Deponent further deposeth That the Defendant being then Guardian to the Plaintiff and having a tender Care of him to prevent any occasion of Leudness or Debauchery between him and the said Margaret did endeavour to get one William Teams then an Under-Cook in the House to Marry her offering him as a Portion with her the Summ of Thirty Pounds sterl or thereabouts to the best of this Deponent's Remembrance which he doth in his Conscience believe was merely out of the Kindness and the tender Affection he had to the Plaintiff This Deponent further deposeth That the Plaintiff soon after went for France and took the said Margaret Cahan with him without the Consent Privity or Knowledge as this Deponent verily believes either of his Brother the said Robert then Lord Kingston or of his Uncle the Defendant until afterwards that Notice was sent over from Paris in France by one Captain Samuel Pach the Plaintiff's then Tutor or Governour giving an account that the said Margaret Cahan was in Paris kept and maintained by the Plaintiff upon which such Care was taken that one Doctor Quail a Divine who had formerly Travell'd into France with the said Robert late Lord Kingston was sent over to Paris either to bring the Plaintiff back or remove the said Margaret from him but the Plaintiff having Notice thereof as this Deponent was credibly inform'd remov'd with the said Margaret from Paris and then Married her the said Margaret as was credibly reported This Deponent further deposeth That when the News came of the Plaintiff's being Married to the said Margaret the said Robert late Lord Kingston his Brother was so much troubled at it and so enraged against him that he soon after resolv'd to levy a Fine and suffer a Recovery of his Estate both in Connaught and Munster and told his Uncle the Defendant of his Resolution and that he would settle the same upon him and his Children and the Defendant thereupon advis'd him to the contrary telling him that tho' his Brother had Married so far beneath himself and his Family yet she might make a good Wife or words to that effect upon which the said Robert late Lord Kingston solemnly Protested and Swore That in Case the Defendant Sir Robert King would not accept of the Settlement he would settle the Estate on his Cousin Captain Francis King and his Children which this Deponent often heard the said late Lord Kingston declare and this Deponent does verily believe that he would so have done in case the said Sir Robert had not accepted of the same This Deponent further deposeth That after the Plaintiff was Married as aforesaid he often heard the Defendant very pressing with Robert late Lord Kingston the Plaintiff's Brother to Marry that he might have Issue to Inherit his Estate and never gave over till