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A52633	A narrative of the excommunication of Sir John Pettus of the county of Suffolk, Knight obtained against him by his lady, a Roman Catholick, and the true state of the case between them with his faithful answers to several aspersions raised against him by her, to the prepossessing the judgments of some honourable persons and others.	Pettus, John, Sir, 1613-1690.	1674 (1674)	Wing N185; ESTC R23115	13,266	21

I never accepted of Place Office or Imployment or any advantage more then my own preservation by him and by his Kindness which I esteemed greatest of all I was preserved from the pressures of Oaths or Renunciations and by his assistance I did Courtesies to many never any injury to any and though in the highest of his power my Lady did run from me yet I never made use of into reduce her or revenge my self on those who perverted and inveigled her from me though tempted to it And that I may stand right in your Majesties Esteem and free others of the least doubt of my Fidelity I freely offer That if she or any else have any matter to charge me with I desire they may proceed in the charge and I do protest that although her Scandalous Petitions here and else where are contrary to and thereby an affront to your Majesties Act of Oblivion granted soon after your Return yet in this case I will decline it or any Priviledges I have by being a Member of Parliament and stand wholly upon the Justification of my Integrity and being well assured in my self that my Principles would not suffer me to be insnared into any act or pretence of Disloyalty more then a quiet submission to the present Power over me and I wish all men would as I do discover their Principles and you would be more safe in your Subjects Sir I do without wavering own my self a true Protestant and Professor of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England being the best Reformed Church in Europe in its Foundations though it may be not at this time in its Practice Doctor Hammond was my Tutor as to the Doctrinal part Admired Hooker to the Discipline and I doubt not but I shall alwayes adhere to the Principles of being dutiful both to God and the King and though Coll. Fleetwood and I did not agree to all the Fundamentals of this Church yet no man can perswade me from my gratitude towards him for I do own as I said the former part of my Life and Fortunes to him and what I can do with safety to your Crown to preserve him I shall do it And I hope my Reasons being thus grounded and known it will give no offence to your Majestie or any else And I have this Satisfaction in my self that your Majestie would not have committed so many weighty Trusts to me if you had the least doubt of me and therefore setting aside these groundless tattles of my Ladies I shall go on in my Continued Obedience to your Commands and Care of your Majesties Affairs without regard to this undeserved Aspersion She accuseth me of breach of Promise to the King and Counsel In not paying her 104 l. per annum This hath made a great noise about the Court where I would gladly preserve my just Interest and therefore I shall be the clearer in my Answer That after she had got the Excommunication in 72. as aforesaid lest she should as I suppose offend his Majesty in further proceeding it being gained as a Contempt to his Majesties Prerogative by the Act of Edw 2. cap. 9. she Petitions the King and Councel to confirm the same so I attended the Board 31. of Octob. 72. where I represented the Proceedings of the Spiritual Court and pray'd it might be honourably discharged that my Goods and Jewels might be restored and her Scandalous Petitions and Libels taken off their Files c. But the Board being kinder than the Spiritual Court insisted to have me pay 40 s. per Week But I acquainted them with the present condition of my Real Estate out of which nothing could be paid to her But gave in a Particular in writing of the several great Debts owing to me and by whom and told the Reasons why I could not get them in without her and other assistances and out of that personal Estate I was contented to allow any Weekly sum they should think fit This with other Discourses to the Board occasioned one of them my Honoured Friend to rise from his Seat and came and advised me not to Capitulate with his Majestie who was then present which advice being from a Friend I could not but apprehend but his Majesty would some way or other assist me though he thought it not proper to declare it publickly So I did yield to pay her 40 s. per Week and did pay her accordingly for 25. weeks But finding that she would not concurr with me in any thing to get in her Fathers Debts or others and that no consideration was taken of my Reputation or Incouragements and the Points about Alimony still lying undecided I did stop my hand from paying any more to her Since which I was again summon'd to the Board viz. in Apr. 74. where I did attend and she also present and the Board not taking upon them any compulsive power but finding that I was not altered from my resolutions they dismist us both Since which an honoured Lord interceded for her to whom I gave in writing several Proposals on my part and hers which his Lordship thought reasonable and upon her refusal hath not any further interceded for her and for brevity sake I shall onely recite what she was therein to perform being but the substance of part of what I did and do still insist on as both just and reasonable 1. That she should make a Submisse Petition to the King and Councel That the Excommunication may be honourably discharged it being contrived at a time when I was in immediate Commands to His Majestie and that she also desire that her Scandalous Petitions to the Board and Orders thereupon may be honourably vacated and that by order of the Board the Scandalous Libels in the Spiritual Court may be also taken off their Files 2. That she give in writing where and to whom her Jewels were pawned or sold and for what sums and what remains 3. What Pictures Books or other Rarities were delivered to E. M. C. F. M. S. M. C. all persons which I know but think not fit to nominate them at present or what of the like nature to any other persons unknown to me Notwithstanding which fair and just Proposals both for her and my self so soon as I was once more fixt to the Affairs of the Country she again revives the Excommunication and in June last caused it to be publisht once more in the Church And now what I did lately and intended to do for his Majesty the Kingdom and Country I shall briefly declare My House is within 6. miles of Dunwich and Sowthold Bay where the great Transactions between us and the Dutch in 72. and 73. gave Trouble enough to those who were in Imployments and having mentioned mine before I shall only say That I hope his Majesty and the Country are well satisfied of my demeanour therein and I am sure I have had the thanks from some of the Chief Officers of Prince Rupert's Dragoons the Earl of Oxford's Horse and many of Scombergs Army for composing many differences which might otherwise have risen between them in the Country and I dare be confident that the other Deputy Lieutenants appointed for that Division being diverted by sickness or other Justifiable Accidents will testifie my Care in supplying of theirs when they could not possibly attend And all these without any return or recompence to my great Trouble Charges and diversions from my private Concerns from his Majesty the Country or any else So soon as those two years were over I betook my self to the review of our Lawes for the Militia so as by some additional Act it might be put into a better posture with more safety to the King and Country and less fear on either side I had also digested all the Lawes for High-wayes intending to reduce them into one with an additional Method which might be more applicable to each County then any general Law can be I did also give in a Proposal to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in May last for the mending a Lane call'd Christmas Lane and the Haven at Dunwich and Sowthold very beneficial to the County without any Charge to the King or Imposition on the County But being diverted by this Lady so many years together It hath been as great a perplexity to my thoughts that I could not pursue them to maturity as the many fomented Vexations from her and others The Conclusion HAving stated her proceedings towards me there being many more which for brevity sake I omit and the Incouragements which she hath received from others grounded I presume upon her many false Accusations which I have truly really and as succinctly as I can answered as also shewn the publick Injuries which she hath done thereby I do affirm as a Conclusion That I never yet refused Cohabitation so as it may be safe to my Person and my remaining Estate and a mutual contentment in our future Conversations But that being thought difficult I also affirm That I never denyed Allimony but I think fit as useful to other Families and consequently to the Nation to be resolved whether in respect of her long absente and refidence beyond the Seas in places Prohibited she be capable of Alimony Then if she be Whether my Goods and Jewels ought not to be proportioned in the allowance or restored If not then the the Condition of her Forumes or mine are to be considered wherein I think my self a more Competent Judge then what can be Collected by any Judges barely and meerly from her Suggestions and shall endeavour to put a better certainty upon it then they with Justice can impose upon me Nor do I think it prudent to move further till some publique Submission and publication by some Order of Councel or otherwise be obtained for the Vindication of her Ungrateful and Scandalous Aspersions on me which I presumel are been the ground of the Excominunication intrencoing as I humbly conative on his Majesties Honour and I am sure on my Reputation which I ever valued as my Life FINIS