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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94942	A true and perfect narrative of the several proceedings in the case concerning the Lord Craven, before the Commissioners for Sequestrations and Compositions sitting at Haberdashers-Hall, the Council of State, the Parliament and upon the indictment of perjury, preferred and found against Major Richard Faulconer, the single and material witness against the Lord Craven, concerning the petition to the King of Scots, vvhich as the said Faulconer pretended, was promoted at Breda by the Lord Craven, and wherein, as the said Faulconer deposed, the Parliament of England was stiled by the name of barbarous and inhumane rebels. Shortly after which oath the Lord Cravens estate was voted by Parliament to be confiscate.	Falconer, Richard, Major.; Craven, William Craven, Earl of, 1606-1697.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1653 (1653)	Wing T2536; Thomason E1071_1; ESTC R208200	44,802	51

or deed of the Petitioner not against the Parliament 4. That the Petitioner during all the Time of these late wars and differences in England did never engage or in the least manner appear against the Parliament of England 5. That the Persons that accuse him were utter strangers to him and the promotion of their Petition no way concerned him He humbly therefore offers to your Honours consideration how unlikely it should be that your Petitioner should hazard himself and his Estate in England which was known to be considerable in so unnecessary and unprofitable a business and so much contrary to all his former Deportments Wherefore the Petitioner humbly begs the favour of this Honourable Assembly that his Case may be considered and that this Honourable Assembly would be pleased to put his business into such a way as that he may be heard by his Counsel not doubting but thereby this honourable Assembly shall Receive so good an account of your Petitioners candid Deportment as may fully satisfie your Honours And your Petitioner shall ever pray At the same time a Member of the house delivered a Petition in Mr. James Chaloner the name of Sir William Craven and Sir Edmund Sawyer giving notice of some new Information to disprove Faulconers testimony which Petition the said Member moved that it might be Read and delivered it to the Clerk accordingly to be Read immediately after the reading of the Lord Cravens Petition but the Parliament thought not fit to permit the reading thereof which Petition remains with Mr. Scobel Clerk of the Parliament and was in these words viz. To the Supreme Authority of this Nation the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England The humble Petition of Sir William Craven and Sir Edmund Sawyer Knights on the behalf of William Lord Craven Humbly sheweth THat they having been a long time trusted in the affairs of the said A second Petition presented on behalf of the Lord Craven not permitted to be Read William Lord Craven have for these many Moneths attended upon the Parliament to get a Petition of the said William Lord Cravens presented in which his Humble Desire is that he may be heard That of late it hath come to their knowledge that the information given in by Faulconer the single Witness and against the Lord Craven in the material parts of his Accusation is altogether untrue and that it will be so made appear by several Witnesses then upon the place with the said Faulconer and now in Town and particularly by Col. Drury whom the said Faulconer mentioned in his accusation to be deputed with him to deliver the said Petition who as your Petitioners are informed can produce the first original draught of the said Petition of the said Faulconers own hand writing whereby it will appear as your Petitiners are likewise informed that there was not the least mention of the Parliament or Commonweath of England nor any such expressions as are mentioned in the said Faulconers information which your Petitioners thought themselves bound in conscience to acquaint the Parliament with that their Justice might the more clearly appear in a through examination of this business in such way as they in their wisdom shall think fitting And your Petitioners shall pray c. Afterwards the question being put upon Reading the aforesaid Petition of the Lord Craven whether he should be put into the Bill of sale to have his Estate sold it was carried only by two voices that his Estate should be sold there being 33. for the sale thereof and 31. against it The Votes which passed that day are as followeth Tuesday June 22. 1652. The house this day resumed the debate upon the Amendments of the The house devided the third time about the Lord Cravens estate additional Act for sale of Estates forfeited to the Commonwealth for Treason The question being propounded That William Lord Craven be put into this Bill for his Lands to be sold and the question being put that this question be now put it passed with the affirmative And the main question being put that William Lord Craven be put into this Bill for his Lands to be sold it was Resolved by the Parliament that William Lord Craven be put into the Bill for his Lands to be sold Hen. Scobel Cler. Parliam The Parliament not thinking fit upon the said Petition of Sir William Cravens and Sir Edmund Sawyers to permit the business concerning the Lord Craven to be put into a way of Examination and the Bill for sale being likely to pass within few dayes there was a necessity put upon the Prosecutors on the behalf of the Lord Craven to resort to the good Laws of England for remedy And thereupon and not before an Indictment was drawn in order to the conviction of the said Faulconer of Perjury which Indictment was the 12. day of July 1652. delivered to the Grand Jury at Guild-Hall London The Copy of which Indictment was as An Indictment of Perjury against Faulconer followeth Be it remembred that at the generall Quarter-Sessions of the Lond. ss publike peace holden for the City of London at the Guildhall of the same City on Munday the twelfth day of July In the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty and two before John Kendrick Mayor of the City of London Thomas Atkin Thomas Andrews and Thomas Foot Aldermen of the same City and others their fellow Justices Assigned to keep the publike peace in the City aforesaid And also to hear and determine divers Felonies Trespasses and other misdemeanors committed within the same City by the Oaths of Robert Dawks John Harvy William Pitcher Pelham Moore George Boddington Thomas Peirson Joseph Ruthorn Samuel Coleman Richard Payn John Drafgate Robert Trollaffe Richard Bartholmew John Robinson Robert Alkington and Thomas Wilmer good and lawfull men of the City of London then and there sworn and charged to Inquire for the Keepers of the Liberty of England by the Authority of Parliament and the body of the City aforesaid it is presented that the Bill following is true The Jurors for the Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority Lond. ss of Parliament upon their Oath do present That Richard Faulconer of Westbury in the County of Southampton Gent. Not having the fear of God before his eyes but moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil and minding and endeavouring to bring the Right Honorable William Lord Craven Baron of Hampsteed Marshall in the County of Berks in danger of the loss of his life and of the Sequestration confiscation forfeiture of all his Lands Goods and Chattels within this Commonwealth of England the tenth day of February In the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifty at the Parish of Mary Stainings in the Ward of Cripplegate London before Samuel Moyer Esq James Russel Esq Edward Winslow Esq Josias Barners Esq and Arthur Squib Esq then being Commissioners for compounding with Delinquents and for