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A vindication of Henry Portington Esquire, being unjustly committed to Newgate, upon the information of a mad man
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Portington, Henry.
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1665
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A VINDICATION OF Henry Portington ESQUIRE Being Unjustly committed to Newgate UPON The Information of a MAD MAN London Printed 1665. The Preface READER I Beg your Pardon if I err in Form but in Truth not at all the Reasons which incite me to this trouble are First To clear me and our Party of that unworthy aspersion too much used by the Enviers of His Late Majesties Friends that I and such as I was drinking when we should be Fighting Secondly I was and am now to Imployed by twenty select Officers having no other Design but for promoting their Honors and endeavouring the advantaging their Dividends in the Indigent Moneys in which my expectation is frustrated to the Dissatisfaction and Ruin of us all for if they were to give me their shares I should be no gainer This I publish to the World that I may return as I came without blemish Yours Henry Portington A Vindication OF HENRY PORTINGTON Esq DIfficile est Satyram non scribere It's pain and grief to an ingenuous Soul to keep silence and see Apostacy and Parasitical Baseness flourish in the seeming Garments of belyed Truth and Loyalty to see these lurk undiscovered by the Wise would make the Tongue of the Stammerer to speak and the Pen of the Rude and Unlearned to write And however the galled will kick and the most guilty themselves will accuse us as guilty of the Crime of being Accusers and Informers this must not deterr or abash us I wish all Governours would so countenance the just Accusations of honest men that the dishonest might be discountenanced then should not Vice rise by the ruins of Vertue for to say truth Mercy to the bad is Cruelty to the good To connive at the faults of publick notorious Offenders is to justifie them in their wicked actions which is equally as hainous as to condemn the innocent for so the Divine Oracles tell us He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just even they both are an abomination to the Lord It will not excuse us that we never were of the number there will be cause enough to condemn us if we through a fond indulgence wink at them Parum interest faveasne sceleri an illud facias Sen. For my part had their unworthy practices been prejudicial only to my self I should have been content to have suffered in silence but who can endure to see his Majesty abused his Bounty frustrated the Parliaments Charity misimployed and other truly Loyal Subjects wronged For certainly when it pleased his Sacred Majesty at the request of his Parliament graciously to bestow that considerable summe of 60000 l. upon his truely Loyal suffering indigent Officers it was not his Majesties intention nor can it enter into the heart of man to think that it was intended for those that did never serve really under his late Sacred Majesty of ever blessed Memory as Officers in the late Warr nor yet for those that deserted his service much less for those that served against him and yet all of these lay claim to a share thereof and goe away with recompense whilest his Majesties constant loyal indigent servants who through all hazards and extremities have born Arms by the command of his late Majesty in the defence of the Kings Person Crown and Dignity and who have continued faithfull through the whole course of the late Warrs are exposed to scorn and penury This is no small abuse to his Majesty that his Bounty should be frustrate by falling into their hands to whom it was never intended Besides it may prove of dangerous consequence for that his Majesty may hereby mistake his Foes for his Friends whilest treacherous and undeserving persons receive the reward and character belonging properly to persons of Loyalty and Honour And if it be objected That those persons so obliged by the Kings Bounty will become faithfull ever hereafter And therefore there can be no danger in mistaking I answer That I wish they may prove so but they must excuse us if we somewhat fear that they who were so unthankful and faithless to that Saint-like King of glorious memory whose care and burden was so great whose Piety and Charity did shine so clearly will ever be truly thankful or faithful to any Sic notus Ulysses But this is not all that his Majesty is thus abused though it is most intolerable the Parliament is also abused in that their Charity is misimployed and well may they hereby be discouraged from making any request of the like nature for the future The Kingdom in general is abused and dissatisfied seeing their Moneys goe the wrong way and which is grievous in the eyes of all true Loyalists the late Warr raised by the Lords and Commons may now stand upon Record to be Lawful seeing those that ever fought against the King are joyned in the same qualification of Loyalty with those that only fought for him And thus his Majesties loyal and indigent servants that are publickly known to have stood all Extremities of Hazards and Necessities are discouraged and utterly out of capacity of doing further service for their King and Countrey whilest the Bread of the Children who acknowledge reverence and obey the King as the Father both of Church and State is given to Doggs What more is left remaining to his Majesties poor Sufferers but their Honour and that they may transmit that fair to Posterity I shall add my endeavour by declaring my knowledge concerning the Officers of the Northern Army wherein I served and when all those who served faithfully and constantly are known it will be easie to discern who are counterfeits IN the beginning of the Wars and late Rebellion I was Cornet to Captain Roger Portington and assoon as I knew how to Command I raised a Troop of my own consisting of 90. Horse which I recruited from time to time and hath at this day two Leiutenants Trumpeter and 38 Souldiers all times were we faithfully serving his Majesty through the extremity of the whole War not one revolting to the Enemy in the Regiment of Sir William Savill's after whose death we continued in the name of Sir George Savil commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Portington and here you shall have a hint of most of the Engagements our Regiment was in my self and my Troop never absent from any Upon the Convoy of the Queen Mother at her landing at Barlington to York At the fight of Seacroft-Moor under the Command of the Lord Goring where we took 800 Prisoners At Tankersley-Moor under Sir Philip Byron where we took 400. At the Seidge of Leeds At the Taking of Rotheram At the Taking of Howley-Hall At Asherton-Moor where we took 1600. Prisoners Colonel Heron and Howard slain and many of our Regiment At the taking of Bradford At the taking of W nckfield Mannor Colonel Dalbey slain all under the command of the Marquess of Newcastle At Harthington in Darbyshire where we took 300 of which I had the Convey to Chesterfield