Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	city_n	great_a	siege_n	1,089	5	8.9397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40382	The answer of Philip Francis, merchant, late major of the borrough of Plymouth, in the county of Devon to the false and scandalous aspersion and accusation of Charles Vaughan, Gentleman.	Francis, Philip, 17th cent.	1644 (1644)	Wing F2058; ESTC R35683	13,472	15

Earls company did but Mr. Vaughan did divine that his man would lose his cloak-bagge and therefore left his accompts behind him and he had reason for thereby he did the Enemy and himselfe a cur●esie the Enemy in leaving not only his books of receipt with them but marginall notes thereon if he be not belyed what every one of the Parliaments friends in those parts had any way done for them which the Ca●aliers make pernicious use of against those p●●ons he likewise pleasured himself thereby not only ingratiating himself with the● but excusing himself thereby as he conceives from ever accompting with the Parliament for the vaste sums of money he hath received of theirs and that this is more th●n proprobable take a passage or two of his being Treasurer during the siege at the City of Exon which I have from very good hands The Souldiers being much arere of their pay and by reason thereof divers of them running to the Enemie and there being a great quatitie of Plate of the Parliaments in the said City in the Treasurers Custodie or his under Officers sufficient to have satisfied them and there being one 〈…〉 of the Mint sent thither by the Parliamint to Coine the said plate the said Vaughan would not permit him to do it but sent the said 〈◊〉 away and left the said plate intire in the said city to the Enemie on the surrender therof in the beginning of the said siege on pretence that there was not sufficient pay for the Souldiers you within the City kept out a great part of Sir Henry Russels Regiment who would willingly have adventured their lives for the Parliament in the defence of the said City and who were afterwards enforced to serve against the said City and a principall means of the losse thereof and therefore t is not impossible he should be guilty also of this good or rather ill Office of leaving his accounts for them But Mr. Vaughan must have some better shift to pallia●e his Pollicie then this or else he will appeare naked and naught for t is well knowne that all accountants of such considerable sums receive and pay by their servants as he did and have Copies Transcripts Breviates and Abstracts of their Accounts that their servants may not deceive them which are very portable and by which Master Vaughan might account if he had a minde to it and t is apparant by his exceptions and the Account of his Disburstments that he hath such a coppie or abstract for he can set down what he hath paid to any for the Parliament to a penny as for instance in his fifth Exception he sets downe what he had paid Colonell Harbert and onely forgot to deduct 3. l. which his Servant or rather setter had of him as the Colonell affirmes before he could get it But Master Vaughan alleadgeth that three moneths since to shew his unfained desire to have his accounts againe which hee well knowes will never be by petition he proposed to the Honourable Committee of Plimoth some meanes to have them againe and then let Master Francis do his Worst A fine fetch to delude the world delay his accounting and to get as t is said some part of some Malignants estate into his fingers but t is hoped that he will not be trusted further that hath no better discharged the trust already reposed in him The Necessarie vindication of his Credit and Reputation which no honest man is so unnaturally Cruell to as not to maintaine hath enforced the said Francis to this defence which he hopes as formerly will give satisfaction to all honest men notwitstanding any thing alleadged by Master Vaughan to the contrary that his accounts are Just and true and himselfe free from a scandalous aspersion raised by him Philip Francis FINIS