Treaty Furthermore That if the King and his Privy Council could not agree there he would remove the Treaty to Breda at last cast himself on the Scottish Commissioners Accordingly an Agent was pitch't upon and resolved viz. Capt. Titus who is sent from these to Jersey and one hundred pounds raised amongst them to bear his charges Where he spake with the King Libeâ—ton the Scotch Commissioner Tels him from what party in England he was sent represents the Presbyterian party considerable had assurance Letters from the King to the Ministers and Presbyterian partyhere That he would give satisfaction to the Scots That to that end the Treaty was removed to Breda whither he advised them to send Commissioners and that he took notice of their non-compliance with the present powers This Treaty being ended Capt. Titus hearing that the Council of State understood that he had been at Jersey dares not go to England but sends a Letter amongst other things for one to come to him to Callice to receive the account of his Agency Upon the reading whereof these agree and send one of their confederacy to Callice who having received of Capt. Titus the account of transactions returned and to those who sent him gives the relation thereof and the Copy of the Kings Letter aforesaid the original being sent to Ald. Bunce in Holland for fear of miscarriage and Titus his Narrative also in Writing which were all of them then communicated Also that Titus was in debt having borrowed some money of Jermyn This occasioned the drawing of a * Note Commission enabling their Lord Willoughby of Parham Ald. Bunce Major General Massey and Capt. Titus to treat in the Name of the Presbyterian party in England with the King at Breda and to assist their brethren the Scots and when it was moved by some What power they had to send a Commission It was answered The King had sent to them so to do and they had also many secluded members whose Authority they look'd upon to be better then those at Westminster which together with instructions thereunto annext are sent by Mason Pâ—rcy's servant who came hither on purpose to give the King of Scots an account of proceedings and at Graves-End had those Papers brought him by three of the correspondents Letters also were drawn and sent to the Queen Perey and Jermyn Willoughby Massey Bunce c. to forwatd the Agreement and to act as authorized and Titus had more money The business being thus put into a likely way of issue private * Noâ—â— Fasts were by them appointed to pray for a blessing in the Treaty and for the continuation of the agreement afterwards and Percy wrote to them to lend 10000 l. to the King as that which would add much to the agreement with how it might be raised one of the Ministers moved a way viz. The Ministers thus to move their friends Sir you shall give me 20 30 40 50. l. c. for a charitable use but you shall not ask me wherefore but because they were not assured of the Kings giving satisfaction it was forborn This Treaty having produced the end designed the King sends his Letters to several of the * The substancâ— to this effect To acquaine the said Ministers with his Majesties agreement with the Scots and with what he would do for satisfaction in matter of Religioâ— and Presbyterian Government here in England That confidence of their assistance was one motive that induced his Agreement That they would now join heartily with him and the Scots in the endeavour of his restitution And that they having influence not onely upon their Parishes but also on other parts of the Kingdom would stir up not onely their several congregations but also other places where they had interest to join likewise with his Majesty for that purpose and that they would privately pray for him and his good success The Ministers to whom to be delivered to Edm. Calamy James Cranford Christoâ—â—er Love and VVilliam Jenkins to be by them communicated to to the rest of the Ministers in and about the City of London Ministers That if Note they could not live quietly in England they should come to him Three or four of them also he desired for his Chaplains and gave instructions to his General Agent to treat them civilly to give * Letters to them and the Presbyterians in the City from him and to press them to action But the Scots having got the King into their hands through the mediation and influence of these and so served their ends deale with them otherwise For though they did prepare as they promised at Breda to raise armes to put him in the Throne of England yet not Massy Titus nor the English whose interest in the Presbyterian party in England was made use of to bring the King and them together were considered Of this Massey and the rest complain to those here who very ill resented it and thereupon sent a long Letter to the Kirke and Committe of Estates complaining thereof attributeing it to their pride laying open in what condition they were which with much more was wrote with white ink in a Table Book and sent to Scotland Dunbar Fight followes after which great Rout most of the Kirke party the Scots being in need of their help court these here again and the Kirke and Estates and Massey wrote to them by Sea and Land signifying the cause of the Rout adviseing them to stand fast to the cause and Covenant desireing money and 3. or 5000 Muskets and Cases of Pistolls and Massey and Titus particularly pressed for mony because of their wants These Letters the correspondents aforesaid received considered of and agreed at that present to raise about three hundred pounds to send to Massey and Titus which the correspondents performed by 5. and 10. pounds c. a man and Letters were also by them returned to the Kirke and Committee of Estates and Massey Hereupon the Correspondencers begun to have life again the Scots preparations to be in the Feild are signified hither advice also to those here to Caution Stedfastnesse Timeing of a Party seasonably here and to write to the Kirke for Union c. These here return the same Cautions to them and advise Massey to take heed how he came into England and that he bring with him a strong party And from Scotland came hither returns of the Receipts of the money aforesaid and of the Letters to the Kirke and State afore-mentioned how seasonable they were how much union they effected how it brake the designs ' of the adverse Party and how considerable it made them And waies of settling intilligence were also signified and made use of At length in March 1650. 1651. came an answer to what was signified in the Table Book aforesaid by Coll. Bamfeilds man which gave an account of the State of Scoâ—land and in the same Packet Letters came from Bayly their former Correspondent
in by the jury against him And so what doth there remain as a ground of clamour For on these two hinges viz. That his information as to these words Barbarous and Inhumane Rebells was designed feigned and packt and that he wilfully and in malice and being corrupted thereunto sware it doth turn all the late endeavours for the Retrivall of this Estate and on these two Pillars is founded all the outcryes that hath been made of Fauconers Perjury and of the injustice and indirect dealing of the Parliament Counsell of State their Committee for examinations c. and of my selfe their secretary in order thereunto as the onely Game they had left to play and the last stone they had to turn for that purpose which neverthelesse after all this great a do is but as aforesaid by their own reckoning for after twenty Weeks sickness this was done my bodie being low and in much haste being much infeebled and three quarters of a year after I came over so that I did not then absolutelie remember whether the word Barbarous and inhumane Rebells were expunged saith the paper And that Fauconer drew the Petition and that he put into it those very words Drury and Brisca the onely witnesses against him at the tryal confessed on their Oaths though they said they were afterwards expunged so that as he solemnly protests he did not well remember wheher those words Barbarous and Inhumane Rebels which as I shewed you before he motioned to have put into the Petition and might therefore have some confused remembrance of them I say he could not well then in haste as he saith remember whether they were expunged or no saith R. Farmer Page 89. Here is the sum of this whole matter and the Criticisme on which it hangs and the narrow compass into which it is drawn by the friends of Craven and Fauconers enemies And thus hath their evidence over-turned their cause and their management thereof declared against their wils their jugling to Posteritie But whether the said pretended paper and the whole contents thereof be really Fauconers and of his hand writing and signing I shall offer a few particulars to men of understanding to consider and as I have said to those who are concerned to look after 1. I have by me a Declaration every line of his own hand writing and signing to the contrary which he sent to me to publish in his vindication without any fore-knowledge of mine direction or preocupation either of the thing or matter therein contained directly or indirectly which followeth in these words A Declaration of Major Ric. Fauconer Prisoner in the Upper Bench humbly tendred to all honourable persons of trust and imployment and to all other impartiall Readers HAving endured a strict imprisonment these two years His death prâ—vented the publishing of this Declaration and a quarter being exposed to all wants and extremityes that possible a prison can reduce a man unto languishing also in a deep Consumption contracted by my cruel sufferings And for that I perceive the malice of my adversaries to be most insatiable by rendring me daily more more odious thereby to invalidate my testimony concerning the Lord Craven I have therefore after a strict examination and scrutiny into my very soul issued forth this ensuing declaration most humbly tendring it to the just censure of all honourable persons of trust and imployment and to all other Impartial Readers And first I declare of my self that as by Birth and Education I claim a parity with the better sort of Gentlemen so my affections were shewed most early to the Parliament when the Fature Mountaynous troubles were but an Embryo In the service I continued constant in armes even to the latter time of the late war I also expended out of my Patrimony foure hundred Pounds and upwards in raising Horse in Wales as hath been and will be attested to by severall Officers under Major Generall Horton of all which I never received yet one Penny After this I undertook my imployment beyond Sea there I run many hazzards travelled many hundreds of miles through France Flanders Holand Iersey c. to and again peformed matters with all vigilant care On my return for England after a year and a halfes time in the Packet Boat of Ostend the said Boat was robbed and some seventeen or eighteen Passengers carryed Prisoners and my selfe onely and the Boatmen free surely in this I observed the hand of Providence then which preserved me to come safe to London where I rendred an ample account all of the whole Treaty at Breda and all the transactions with divers matters of importance As my services were many so I shall instance but one to avoid prolexity and by that the whole body of the other may be judged Expede Herculem At Breda severall commissions were granted by the Scotch King for the raiseing of horse and foot in divers parts of England by those numerous insurrections to have gained a Body of an Army whereby to have diverted the Lord Generall and the Army from hindering the Scotch in their design for England this was carried with much secresie by the principall Agents there the chiefest and most desperate of those insurrections as well as the rest notwithstanding the great secresie I gave a particular account of four Months before it hapned nay of the Colonell who was chief Agent and taken an actor with severall others By this timely hint the Parliament had time enough to prevent their enemies which they did and by crushing them all the intended insurrections in the West and Wales they vanished The Parliament and councill of State did solemnize a day of thanksgiving at Margrets in Westminster and orderd a day to be observed thorough the whole Nation for that great deliverance of which instrumentally under God I was the principal Author and Judge Jermine was pleased to tell Mr. Maynard who was most bitter against me that without that service of mine and some others neither he had set there nor Mr. Maynard pleaded there I wonder Drury and Brisco did not acquainâ— thâ— State with the intended dangers they both knew it aâ— Breda No they stayed to see the last man born of all the Royal Games and then came into England after they could act no more mischiefe as good Common Wealths men And now a word or two of them the chief evidence against me I have in part related what I have been what I have acted and what J am and let the indifferent man Ballance us Drury was alwayes a Papist in armes against the Parliament so irreconcileable an Enemy that after all endeavors at home he Petitioned the then Scotch King as himself confessed at the Upper Bench Court to be enabled to serve him as he had done his royal father one who went from Bredato Antwerpeto place his sonn there with the Jesuits this he cannot deny J am sure divers can testifie it For Brisco there was enough declared on Oath
all abominable lyes especially the last which I neither saw nor came into my thoughts And as for the rest of what thou sayest thou hast by information but dost not mention of whom and thy Queries whether I said not so and so to one in my study at White-Hall whom thou namest not when I shall see any thing relating unto me deserving an Answer under the hands of either of them to whom thou pretendest I may make a Reply To close this particular Had any thing been in design as R. F. and his Confederates would fix upon me otherwise might have been found then by medling with that Estate which could not otherwise beâ—â— expected then to raise a clamor to have answered such ends of which neither he nor his Accomplices might have once heard so much as a whisper but as J was clear so J proceeded boldly knowing that innocency would in the end triumph and my open contracting at that time was not vvithout reason as to the publike it being a demonstration to honest men that if J had knovvn any thing but honesty in the bottom on vvhich vvas grounded that Judgement J vvould not have contracted my self for part of the Estate vvhich by that Judgement vvas confiscated As for Major Fanconer J neither knevv him nor heard that such a man vvas beyond the seas till after his comeing from Breda vvhere he vvas at the time of the Treaty between the Scotch Commissioners and their King he was brought to me to give an account of what designs he knew there to have been hatch't against the Common-Wealth which I received according to the Trust committed to me by the Council in things of that nature and finding it to be of seasonable and great importance to the safety of the Common-Wealth it being of designs generally laid over the Nation and of several of the Heads and chief Actors therein particularly in Norfolk which a few months after brake forth into an open insurrection and it agreeing in many particulars with what I had received from other of my Agents I gave credit thereunto And this as J have said is the first knowledge J had of the man and that which gave the occasion of my conversing with him but as for any thing designed by me against Craven and then sending Fauconer over the Seas to effect and act it as hath been whispered into the ears of some in chiefest Authority or corrupting of Fauconer by moneys or otherwise to swear falsly or any knowledge or apprehension that he had in any particular untruly deposed or putting him upon straits of time or any other inconveniences whereby he might be surprised in his understanding or memory or using any provocation for that purpose or that he might give in a wrong information J am in the presence of the Lord who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and coming clear and innocent And thus much in reference to my self As to the STATE THE question in the Case is not Whether the Words Barbarous and inhumane Rebels were in the Petition of the Officers presented the King at Breda in which William called Lord Craven is said to have assisted or whether what Fauconer gave therein be a true Testimony as that on which the Parliament grounded their Vote of Confiscation at first and afterwards their judgement for sale of his Estate though it hath been the design and artifice of his Agents and Advocates and of R F. in particular thus fallaciously to state it and in prosecution thereof having got a Verdict of Perjury against Fauconer as to that clause onely have thereupon founded this loud lying outcry viz. That upon the single Testimony of that scandalous and perjured person the Parliament did give judgement for the sale of his Estate and have upon this Wheel turned all their late transactions for the retrival thereof to the undermining the Act of Parliament and blemishing their Justice But whether he the said Craven being a Native and Subject of this Commonwealth did not repair to the declared Enemy thereof viz. Charles Stuart Eldest SON to the late King then at Breda in Treaty with the Scotch Commissioners for the instateing of him into the Throne of England and where it was agreed to instate him by force of Arms into the said Dominion and where many of his Councellors of State and Officers were met and were there hatching and laying designs to be acted throughout the Common-wealth of England and which afterwards were endeavoured to be put in Execution And whether he the said Craven had not then and thereat and during the time of the aforesaid Treaty and the conclusion thereof where it was agreed as aforesaid converse and familiarity with the said King the declared enemy of the Common-wealth in his privy chambers and otherwise and with his Councellors of State select Juncto and Officers which to do is adherency to the declared Enemy of the Common-wealth and consequently Treason by the known Laws of the Land And that he the said Lord Craven hath so done is positively proved to say nothing of Fanconers Testimony to invalidate which as to what he hath said in this particular nothing hath yet been offered not onely by four Witnesses viz. Reyley Ketchingman Benson and Moubray sworn before the Vote of Confiscation and in consideration with the Parliament when they resolved that Vote but by Bardsey sworn before the Council of State and before the Parliament when they ordered his Name to be put in the Bill for his Lands to be sold and by Priswick sworn before the Commissioners for Sequestrations Nov. 18. 1â—51 and by Drury and Brisco in their Examinations which they owned upon their oaths at the Upper-bench on the Tryal of Fauconer where they being produced in Cravens behalf as the onely Witnesses for Fauconers conviction of Perjury proved his Delinquency And the Aherency aforesaid to the declared Enemy of the Commonwealth thus proved is * When I speak of that on which the Parliament grounded such their Vote and Judgement I speak Ex manifesto upon what the Testimonies themselves say but as for that which directed every individual member to give his Vote Judgmâ—nt and what further Evidence might be of or amongst themselves when they debated and pronounc't iâ— I meddle not with that on which the Parliamenâ— have grounded such their Vote and Judgement as aforesaid Against which and its proof nothing hath yet bren offered as J have seen or have heard So that Cravens Case as it is stated by his Agents and Advocates to have been grounded by the Parliament as to the Confiscation of his Estate on those Words Barbarous and inhumane Rebels and on the single testimony of Fauconer therein on which particular clause of his information onely they have endeavoured to fix a Perjury withall they have said thereabouts the clamors that have been made the noises raised are clean out of doors as is manifest for neither was the Parliaments Vote and
Judgement grounded upon those words nor on Fauconers single testimony therin but otherwise as aforesaid nor is there any â—eed at all of Fauconâ—â—s testimony to prove that on which their vote and Judgement was so grounded And thus the Deceptio Visus Blind or Foggy Mist of Barbarous and Inhumane Rebbels Corruption Perjury c. raised to deceive the understandings of men into an apprehension as if there were never the like horrible injustice Indirect proceedings used and exercised being struck aside removed and dispel'd the true and substantial ground of the Parliaments Vote and Judgement is apparently to be seen and the reason of the justice to every sober understanding Thus much for the ground As for that which gave the Parliament occasion at first to take Cognisance of this matter and their particular Votes thereupon and the Appeale made in his behalfe from the Judgement and Jurisdiction of the Parliament to a forraigne power viz the States Generall of the Vnited Provinces instead of addressing himselfe to the Parliament in his defence and the particulars thereof and this whole businesse I refer the understanding Reader to the relation of them all at large in the Book aforesaid intitled the Lord Cravens case c. and to the answers of the objections raised therein on his behalfe and upon serious consideration of the whole let such judge Whether the manner of the Parliaments proceedings therein be not cleared as is the ground of their Judgement For though such an Appeal was made as I suppose never the like before was hard of Arraigning and charging the Justice of the Parliament in their proceedings on that cause and Judgement therein with oppression and injustice as grounded on proofe ridiculous and utterly false or if true yet frivolous and not applicable to the cause whereon the Judgement was given against him And in case that there had been proofe yet affirming that there is no Law in England to warrant such proceedings And so concludeing the Judgement to be unjust and void And demanding that the same be annulled cancelled and revoked that the Witnesses be as perjured calumnâ—ators and he put into the possession of his estate again alledging that he was a sworn servant to that State and therefore not to be condemned by the Parliament for his curtesie and duty as he calls it towards their Lord. And pressing them thereunto from their usuall goodness in upholding and assisting the oppressed and for the redress of their own honour and upholding of their power authority and prerogative c. And though the Laws of this nation are so severe and strict against such as make their Appeals to Forraigne Jurisdictions from the authority and Jurisdiction of their own Country viz. That such Incurre Premunire which is forfeiture of their Liberty and estates and all thâ—â— have but life this crime being in effect a deniall of the supremacy of the Jurisdiction of their own Country and the Subordinateing and subjecting it in that particular to that State to whom the Appeale is made And though the Parliament had a full relation of the said Appeale from their * VVâ— have here with sent your Lordships an appeale in the behalfe of my Lord Craven from the justice of the Parliament of England unto the Assembly here which as the papers beaâ—â— is intended to be dâ—livered to us and which whether it be or not we do intend to take a convenienâ— time to Vindicate the honor and power of the Parliament and shall do the same upon the other Paper herewith sent concerning the Queen of Bohemia whereby the King of Scotland is asserted likewise to be King of England c. Sâ—y thâ— Ambasadors St. John and Strickland in their letter to the Council dated Hague May 30. 1651. Read 〈◊〉 Iune 6. 1651. In our Letter to the council you will see how the Prince Elâ—ctâ—r and my Lord Craven have fallen upon the Parliament in a tender Point your Lordship will see all the pâ—rticulars and we shall in due time do our duty here to present it In my judgement the Elector and queen and Craven have given you a good ground to do more then you resolved to do Saith Ambassador Stricklaâ—d in his Letter dated Hauge May extraordinary Ambasadors then in Holland by Letters dirceted to the Council of State and of the States generall taking Cognizance of the cause and assumeing Jurisdiction and authoritie judicially to proceed therein by receiveing all the Papers concerning the particulars aforesaid though for matters onely concerning the Common-Wealth of England and in behalfe of a person who was a Subject Native and Member thereof and causeing them to be Registred and permitting Witnesses to be produced and examined before them in his behalfe and in ordering their Commissioners appointed to Treate with the said Ambasadors to deliver the said Paper wherein amongst other particulars the then King of Scotes is affirmed to be King of Fngland in the name of the said States to the said Ambasadors c. And though the Parliament also received an account as aforesaid of their said Ambasadors high resentment of the said appeale and the reviveing and owning thereof by the States as absolutely Derogatory to the Undoubted interest Rights Power and Jurisdiction of the Parliament who have absolute power Jurisdiction and authority of it selfe without depending on any other State or Prince whatsoever c. And of the said Ambassadors answer thereunto sutable to their trust and the Independant Soveraingnty and honor of the Parliament of England who in so high a measure were reproached and slandered with the false-hoods and absurdities mentioned in those papers And of their Protestation therin against the matter of the said Papers and the States assumeing the Cognizance and Jurisdiction And of their Declaration that it did not in right or justice appertain to them to intermeddle therein c. And of their demands that the said papers and proceedings thereupon be cast out and the registers thereof vacated that nothing so Degrogatory to the honor and interest of the Common-Wealth of England might remain upon their Record to Posteritie or Note that might give ground to any subject or member thereof to seem to have cause to justifie any Treasonable practise against it though a sworn Servant to those States out of his duty to the said States or from any order of Note their ministers which he the said Lord Cravâ—n had done c. I say notwithstanding all these things and their knowledge of them yet the Parliament ordered and caused a Summons to be issued out Proclaimed and Printed July 3. 1651. for him to make his personal appearance before them on the third of September following whereby he had an oppertunity to alledge what he had to say in his own behalfe And although he neither made appearance at the said time limited in person it falling out to be the day on which thâ— King of Scots and his whole Army were routed at Worcester or by
Petition so testified to the truth of his being seen to have subscribed it as might give the Parliament ground to take cognizance thereof for there came along with it so to witnesse and therefore the Parliament permitted it not to be read and if they had there was no other thing in excuse in that Petition but that he desired to be permitted to answer by his Friends and Council in regard the present conjunction of affairs there did not permit him to come in person yet they took not the advantage to make sale of his Lands till June 22. 1652. above nine months after his said limited day of appearance at which time and not before they voted his Name to be put in the Bill after the reading of his Petition then presented for his Lands to be sold the Rents and Profits being only received till then as is usual in Sequestrations And although until the said 22. of June there appeared nothing before them in defence and excuse of his not personal appearing then as aforesaid and in his Petition then read not a word thereof but to be heard by his Council Yet upon the Petition of his Friends they took his Case into debate again the day before the Act passed as a Law and on that very day as it passed as a Law viz. Aug. 4. 1652. they considered something that concerned the Entail of part of his Lands yea upon his own Petition Read Octob. 29. 1652. above two months after the Bil past engross'd and his Name therein as aforesaid they took in consideration his tender of a sum of money for the redemption of his Estate and debated twice thereupon But neither then nor at any time before during the space between the first Vote of Confiscation and the passing of the Bill which was full seventeen Months did they upon any debate take the said Vote into consideration again but notwithstanding the many great Debates Overtures and Influences in his behalf and the representation of Fauconers being convicted of Perjury as the last and great attempt did see cause to adhere still to the same and to rank his Name amongst other Delinquents mentioned in the said Act for his Lands to be sold Upon what weighty reasons and just grounds the understanding Reader may by this time plainly perceive through all the mysts that have been cast before it for whose right information in the truth of these things of which such a Dim is made in the World as well as for the vindication of mine own innocency and the proceedings and Justice of the State which R. F. in his Epistle to Craven tearms CLUB-LAW and saith it is the fortune of the Wars where many an honest man that stands by and means no harm gets a knock as well as those who began the quarrel I have been constrained to be thus particular Thus much as to CRAVEN Secondly for Christopher Love THE man is dead and in his ashes he hath answered long since the Justice of the State and before the Tribunal of him who hath with an outstretched arm delivered England from the Trayterous designs and Bloody Plots of him whilest alive and his Confederates Therefore I shall say little more then I am constrained to what is pretended to be by him charged on me before the time of his Execution choosing rather by silence to be exposed to the censure of some then by replying how manifest soever in my justification to seem to raise my defence upon the Grave of a dead man who whether he wrote so of me as is suggested I know not this I am sure of he cannot answer But of his Spirit alive in Ralph Farmer and the men of this generation and to the Treasons of him and his brethren and confederates whereof they were attained upon presumption of my having a hand in the discovery of which and bringing them to Justice he charges and seeks thereby to prove me not onely a blood-thirsty but a blood-sucking person I am constrained in my own and the vindidication of the State to speak and briefly to shew First in general What these Treasons are Secondly in particular how far they respect Christop Love First in general What these Treasons are No sooner was the breath out of the late Kings body but the men of this generation who before had strugled so much to break in pieces the Army and the honest interest wrapt up in it desperately engaged ENGLAND and IRELAND for that purpose began to entertain thoughts of setting up his Eldest Son King of ENGLAND in the subversion and overthrow of the Government of the Common-Wealth newly declared thereupon whether out of love and truth of heart to him and his party or to serve their own Domination and revenge I leave to him and his Friends to judge And the Scottish Nation having the same Game to play and not knowing how to effect it otherwise then by the discontented interests and influences of these men as an expedient or third party whom they had experienced well enough how to cajole engage under the pretence of a Kirk Covenant-interest acquaint them That they intended to apply themselves to the King in which application they would consider the Presbyterian party in England as themselves and that the Foundation of the Agreement should be the Covenant and desire a constant correspondency and good understanding between those here and them in Scotland This overture occasioned the first meeting of the men concern'd in the following Treasons at which the gracious disposition of the Prince was spoken of how that loyalty the sence of his sufferingâ— engaged them to attempt somthing in his behalf if he would close with the Scots and take the covenant and this produced the first Treaty at the Hague That Treaty bringing forth nothing the King of Scâ—ts sends to these men to procure another Treaty between the Scots and Him as the Scots had before for a Treaty with the King and assures them That if they could obtain it and the Scots to moderate their propositions he would give satisfaction to the Scots This they take into consideration and send to the Scots to make another application to the King and to moderate their propositions The Scots returned That they would make another application to the King but withall they said it should be upon the same Tearms for that the former breach at the Hague had occasioned rather the heightning of their Propositions then the moderating of them and desired them to make use of their interest with the King to give them satisfaction Hereupon these met considered of concluded and sent a Petition to the King for that purpose and Letters to the Queen Jermâ—n and Percy to perswade the King to give the Scots satisfaction These reâ—urned That however things seemed to them yet the King was resolved to give the Scots satisfaction that to that end a Treaty was appointed at Jersey Percy advised them to send one from hence to the
in the behalfe of the Kirke and from their Lords Belcaris Argile Loudoun and Lowthian wishing â—hâ—m here to give Credit to Bamfeilds Negoâ—iation in regard he was a Cavaleire press for 5. or 10000. pounds in money to buy Armes to furnish and Ships to bring over from beyond the Seas into England 5000. old Souldiers propose a Generall to be chosen by these here to command them and promise repayment when as they said God should bless their endeavors so as to cause a free Parliament in England This Agent was returned with mony in his Pocket and a Bill of exchange to Bamfeild Presently upon the comeing of this Packet to them from Bamfeild â—homas Cook Generall Agent for the King of Scoâ—'s designs in Englaâ—d was taken Capt. Poâ—ter an Apothecary in Blackfryers Londâ—n one of these Correspondents was imprisoned Tituâ— his Letters and Papers mentioning the designs agitated by Bamfeild in England particularly the 5000. Souldiers from beyond the Seas as aforesaid expressing at large the pâ—rts from whence they were to March the place on which they were to Land in England the name â—f him in a Cypher who was to command in chief those fâ—rces with Letters from the Marquiss of Argyle and several Noble men of Scotland from the Queen concerning Titus his Nâ—gotiaâ—â—ons from France were brought with severall other things in their originalls by â—iâ—us his man to our extraordinary Ambassadors in Holland who sent them to the Councell of State and Christopher Love with divers of his Brethren and other confederates in the Cabinet Juncto of the transactions aforesaid were apprehended by order of the Councel upon the aforesaid and other Informations and upon the report of a large Narrative of those designs as they had been traced along by a member of the Council and Committe These apprehensions and discoveries put a stop to the treasonable proceedings aforesaid and gave occasion for the beginning of New but of an other nature viz the Examining and bringing to justice the Actors therein as aforesaid by order of the Council And not onely was the matter so highly Treasonable dangerous but the manner of transaction was as Private Subtil For their meetings were upon pretence of Religious Exercises the places either in Shops of Comerce or Ministers * Note Studies The way of communication as of news seldom any Letters produced in their originalls but by Copyes and those mostly in Characters which for some time were kept in a Book The person from whom it came as seldom asked that being generally known nor were any to enquire of names and the Letters and Papers also were before hand put under a Candlestick The contribution of mony was under pretence of Charitable uses for the Widow and Oâ—phans and poor distressed Gentlemen beyond the Seas This money generally brought in Baggs or papers layd down in Ware-houses Studyes and Chambers but nothing said when brought nor any seen to receive it For the Conspirators who agitated and carried on the Wheele of the design they were men Tenaciously fixt thereunto upon a mistaken Conscientious and Religious Principle having the Ministers in greatest admiration who were with them in Council divers of them Souldiers and some of them such as had served in the Army These trayned up at a Club another generation of such as had beâ—n Officers and others where they were instructed and informed as occasion served and as it seemed good to the former some of whom usually resorted thither for that purpose A third rank consisted of the chief and great men for Purse Conduct and Interest of which I shall here be silent in regard little as to them was produced at the High Court of Justice to whose proceedings and what was made there to appear I have confined for the most part what I have hitherto said of these Treasons in the general Secondly in particular how far they respect Christopher Love Titus Letter to say nothing of what preceded signifying his fearfulness to come into England and desiring one to be sent to Calice to receive an account of his Negotiations in Jersey as aforesaid was read in his House where he was present with divers others and where they concluded to send one to Calice to Titus In his study the person that was sent to Titus as aforesaid being returned gave an account of his Journey where Christopher Love was present many others and where was read Titus his Narrative in way of a Diary of proceedings at Jersey and the Copy of the Kings Letter as is before-mentioned There the Commission and Instructions to Willoughby Massey Bunce c. and the Letters to the Queen Jermyn Percy were read debated and concluded when some debate arose concerning what Authority they had to give or send a Commission being privat persons unto which it was answered The King having sent to them so to do was Authority sufficient Christopher Love said Come come let it goe There the Letters were read which were agreed to be sent to Scotland upon Masseys complaint for their being neglected in Scotland there the Letters from Massey Committee of Estates General Assembly after the fight â—â— Dunbar were read which desired Money Assistance Arms c. There he pressed for the raising of Money upon those Letters from Massey Titus Committee of Estates c. viz Four or five hundred pounds saying if they would not raise it themselves they must with their Friends and spake to some to lend on that account signifying the Contents of the letter for Money Arms c. and from whom which sum was brought down to three hundred pounds There some of the Mony was brought in and laid down in his Room where he was present There some of the Fasts aforesaid were kept and he officiated at the same Fasts and at other places There the Packet from Bampfield was read having a Letter L on it the Letters also from their Lords Belcarris London Argyle and from Bayly their Agent moving for five or ten thousand pounds for the furnishing of Arms and shipping for five thousand old Soldiers to be brought from beyond the seas the time when it should be repayed and for a General to be nominated by them for those Forces There forty pounds was thought convenient by him and others to be sent to Bampfield ten pounds to Bampfields man was paid and the other thirty pounds was sent by Bill of Exchange to Btampfield and a Letter wrote with B. on it brought to Capt. Potter for Bampfield and said by the party that brought it That it came from Mr. Love Christopher Love and another being spoken to before to draw up the Letter These are in brief the Treasons against the Common-Wealth and the manner of their transaction in which Christopher Love his Brethren and Confederates in the geral and he in particular were concern'd and for having to do in which he was executed unto which Doctor Drake Capt. Massey and Coll. Vaghan in one Indictment and
the spirit and prophesied that in the last dayes men should be * Here are Teachers Traytors Traytors whereby the last dayes should be made perillous which before our eyes in this very age hath been fulfilled as aforesaid in the men of this generation with whom I have to do who notwithstanding pretend themselves to be Ministers of Christ Jesus and of his Gospel and the Successors of his Apostles O my people saith the Lord remember what Balaak King of Moab consulted and what Balaak the son of Peor answered from Shittim unto Gilgal from Scotland into England from England into Scotland from Scotland to the Hague from the Hague to England from England to Scotland again from Scotland and England to Jersey from Jerseâ— to Brâ—da from Breda to Dunbar from Dunbar to Fife from Fife to St. Johnstons from St. Johnstons to Worcesteâ— that ye may know the righteousnesse of the Lord. Thus far of these Treasons in the general and how far they respect Christopher Love in particular the effects of them and proceedings thereupon In the rehearsal whereof through this urgent and necessary occasion I have been the rather thus particular that those who are concerned may be awakened and look out ere it be too late for if this spirit which but the other day was struck down with such an astonishing stroke from heaven as the like thereof hath not been heard of in these later ages be so far already recovered out of its swoune gathered into such life confidence as that it dares to appear thus openly in the justification of them in whom it so work't acted as it hath in this R. Farmer 's Libel stiling them Ministers of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Servants of Christ whose Names are yet precious in the Churches as are the Expressions pag. 110. and Christopher Love aforesaid a chief designer and actor of them for which he was beheaded by sentence of the High Court of Justice as a man most innocent falne into the hands of Huck-sters of whom it saith I le say nothing of the man I need not he was well enough known in England in his death bewailed of thousands and his Name precious with many godly as are the very words pag. 110. and the detecting examining and bringing those their unparallel'd Treasons to Justice Rancour Malice Spightful and most cruel prosecution Blood-thirstiness Blood-sucking sucking and swallowing the Bloods and Lives of men Ministers of the Gospel as the same page hath it And the taking notice of his not bewraying the least grudging or repentance of his death for any thing acted therein though such were his actions as aforesaid a going about most unchristianly to undervalue debase and disparage that comfort and confidence he professed to enjoy at his death a killing of his good Name and endeavoring maliciously to kill him twice and the latter with more cruelty then the former with such like as it is set down pag. 106 107. And the discovering of those his and his other fellow-Traytors Treasons a Trappanning as it is termed pag. 105 106. and spending ten pages thereabouts and in reviling and abusing the State and their Ministers in the Examination thereof and doing Justice thereupon which I shall no further repeat I say If this Spirit be so gotten head thus above-board in print to manifest it self even whilest those are in Rule whom it sought to cut off and who were made the Battel-Ax of the Lord and his Weapons of War to the hewing down and cutting in pieces the men in whom it appeared and acted What under-ground-work upon rational grounds may hereby strongly be suspected to be forwarded and near perfection The tender eye of the Lord hath watched over and his outstretched arm delivered England as hath been said from its devillish contrivances and bloody Workings through the rolling of thousands of Garments in blood and multitudes of other sharp and sore extremities of War as the effects thereof Let those who are concerned look to it now out of a deep * This I felt wrote before the second Session of Parliament with an intent to have published it against thâ—â— their coming together but their sâ—â—ting was short and their dissolution sudden and some workings were discovered and I stopâ— the publication sence upon me do I give them warning Who may also take it into consideration Whether such an infamous Libel as this is wherein the proceedings of Parlâ—ament the Council of State Committee for Examinations c. and their Ministers in case of the former are so highly reflected upon charged and reproached with such horrible indirect dealings corruption and injustice and their deliberate Act and Judgment therein expresly tearmed CLUB-LAW the highest affront that can be given to an Act of Parliament The fortune of the Wars c. in the Epistle to the Delinquent himself to whom it is dedicated for Patronage as to a worthy and considerable person under the Name of Right Honourable A lover of his Countrey wherein the proceedings of them all in the case of the latter is called Trapanning spightful and malicious prosecutions c. and that eminent execution done by sentence of the High Court of Justice authorized by Act of Parliament in which the whole body of honest men to the interest of the Common-Wealth and the Army all of whom those Treasons sought to destroy are concern'd Blood-thirstiness blood-sucking of a man intimated as one most innocent faln into the hands of Hucksters c. For these Acts of Justice were the Parliaments and the proceedings therein had were in and by vertue of their Authority in order to the safety of the Common-Wealth and nothing was done by me but by vertue thereof in the discharge of my Trust wherein I exercised and have the answer of a good conscience serving my generation in uprightness of heart And what is said concerns and strikes at them and their Authority who gave the Judgement and the Sentence which so much troubles them and by whose Power they were acted though the direction be at me at whom it is revengefully flung supposing it their safest course that for so doing they have now their day and liberty as is plain to any sober understanding And lastly Wherein that Treasonable spirit which plotted the designs raised embodyed and carryed on those desparate and cruel Wars as aforesaid is warm'd and cherished I say Those who are concern'd may consider whether it consists with their Honor and Reputation and the Justice of the good and wholesom Laws of the Nation and due estimation and regard they would have given to their own Acts by the generations to come and with the safety of the Nations to permit such an infamous libel to pass up and down without a reproof By this time the serious Reader may plainly perceive who is the blood-thirsty and blood-sucking person that can suck and swallow the bloods and lives of men Whether I who had with others as aforesaid to
behalf of the Commonwealth either tempted or drew forth nor do I believe any did the Treasons aforesaid which secretly lodged in the discontented brests of Christop Love and his Brethren for ought I know and I am perswaded his and their own spirit was the father and mother of those Conspiracies or to give them their own word back again the Trepannor of them all Nor if his bosom friend who was as his Confessor before his death cannot do I guess who of his generation or any other can give satisfaction to this question except this lyar who asks it though he saith I know what this last meaneth To the fourth I neither thirsted after the blood of these nor any man but these and all other who thirsted after the blood of the Common-Wealth and not onely endeavoured but put these Nations into War and Blood to effect it I sought to discover as was my place and Trust and their designs for that purpose upon which discoveries some of the chief of them were brought to Justice whereby the spilling of blood was much prevented my heart being more tender to the blood and being of a Common-Wealth such a one as England and the hundreds of thousands of innocent persons therein that it might be preserved then to one man who sought and designed its ruine and destruction and to me he that by design counsel and contrivance effects that which sheds the blood of men though he draw it not with his own hand is a Murtherer in a higher degree then he that violently doth the execution And whoso sheddeth Gen. 9. â— mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man is the Law of God unto which agreeth that of God in every mans conscience Now in case of the Treasons aforesaid there was one patticular which put it out of the capacity of pardon viz. The assuming unto themselves â— supreme Power within the Jurisdction of the Common-wealth to give Commission and Instructions to divers persons authorizing them to treat with a forreign State the Scots and the proclaimed Enemy to the Common-wealth Charls Stuart King of Scots for the setting of him by force of Arms into the Throne of England which Treaty they effected and at which Treaty it was so â—â—â—cluded from whence sprang the War aforesaid Whiâ—â—â—eing a most transcendant Act of High Treason and â—â—â—king at the very Root of the Authority then in beinâ— for it 's impossible that two Supreme Powers in oâ—e Common-Wealth can consist and if that War had â—â—complished the said result of the Treaty the Common-Wealth had not been the Parliament saw it not onely just but necessary for the safety of the Common-Wealth to make it exemplary in his Execution To the fifth and last I wrote many Letters when I was at White-hall and much business was upon me and went through my hands it is impossible for me to remember precisely all that I wrote so many years ago nor do I remember whether I wrote the matter of this Question but this I say Produce my Letter and what I wrote I shall not deny in the mean time and for the close of this case let Edmund Calamy and his Brethren take heed lest what this Lyar hath queryed concerning him and them they prove it to be a truth It 's good advice however it be received from him who knows what he saith and wishes no evil to him or them or any man but an irreconcileable Enemy is to the spirit of darkness which worketh in the dark by design war and blood-shed to set up its own dark domination over State and Conscience of which even of his and their generation as hath largely been made to appear England hath been of late made deeply sensible And now R. F. let me ask thee one question Is not the hand of Joab in this business were not those of Christopher Loves brethren confederates who were lately at Brist thy No Babes in the world and yet honest or some of them by whom those questions aforesaid were proposed and who desired thee to ask them of me and advised thee as aforesaid or from whom or by whose intimation or direction or instigation thou hast charged wrote and reviled as aforesaid Are not these thy Rowers and have they not brought thee into deep waters Thus much of the Case of Christopher Love and in vindication of the Proceedings and Judgement of Parliament and their Ministers in the Case of him and of the said William called Lord Craven from the scâ—ndalous allegations and iroâ—ical reflections of this Lyar R. F. in his Libel aforesaid as to both and in conviction of his false charges therein of corruption as to Fauconers Information and other indirect dealing in the Case of the one and of blood-thirstiness blood-sucking c. in the Case of the other and of all his mire and dirt cast up at me in the management of each on purpose to render me if he could the vilest of men Upon serious consideration of all which the wise and sober may judge whether his Exemplifications as he â—earms it prove me to be such a man as he hath represented me to be or the rottenness of the people called Quakers conversion and perfection in the general as he blasphemeth or that I am the busie Bishoâ— in medling with that which I should not as he affirmeth or whether that be a truth which he saith by occasion of my practises in special instanced against the Estate of the first and life of the last is asserted viz. If we may judge of the conscience honesty and perfection of the quakers in general by this man in particular a man be as vile a person as any under heaven and yet a perfect quaker as his Title-page and other parts of his Libel hath it Or whether I have not proved this to be a truth viz. If the conscience honesty and profession of the Ministers of England in general may be judged by Ralâ—h Farmer and what he writes in particular a man may be one of the vilest of men yea a notorious traytor and yet a professed Minister of the Gospel And lastly Whether by any thing he hath said the Declaration of my innocency in the Case of Craven is impeach't or convict Thus much in reference to the first part of this Rejoinder for the rest of his stuff as to the cases aforesaid I reckon it not worth any further Reply but do leave it to fall with its foundation which is thus raced down and overturned WHITE-HALL May. 1652. So much of the Examination of Coll. Edward Drury as relates to the business of Craven HE saith That whilst he was at Breda he this Examinaâ—t and several Officers of the King of Scots as Lievt Coll. James Bardsey Capt. John Brisco Capt. Tho. Huttâ—â— Capt. Tho. Hunt Major Rich. Fauconer and others to the number of five or six and twenty did joyn together in a Petition to the King for some