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A80504 A copy of a letter vvritten to a private friend, to give him satisfaction on some things tovching the Lord Say. 1643 (1643) Wing C6173; Thomason E72_5; ESTC R23237 4,385 9

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A COPY OF A LETTER VVritten to A Private Friend To give him satisfaction in some things TOVCHING the Lord SAY LONDON Printed by R.B. for I. O. and are to be sold by I. S. 1643. To the Reader REader I having received a Letter from a friend whom I doe give credit to in answer to some things I proposed to him to be satisfied in by which I am abundantly satisfied touching that Noble person who is the subject of the said Letter I thought my selfe bound for the information of others to commend the same to publike view not doubting but some who are prejudiced by the Reports that have flowne abroad will be thereby set right in their judgements which is all I desire in publishing it A Copy of a Letter written to a private friend to give him satisfaction in some things touching the LORD SAY SIR TO satisfie you concerning my Lord Say because I perceive you to be so prudent as not willingly to forfeit your discretion by running with the giddy multitude into those distempers of heats and colds but would receive information from those that know more then your selfe before you will judge It becomes every wise man to be constant to the principles which he hath laid down to himselfe upon the most mature deliberation and this as to things so to persons otherwise I should without prejudice to him call both his Reason and Religion into question And therefore concerning that Lord give me leave to be confident and I think you will beleeve me that I know him much better then those that talk so much against him having had 28 yeares experience of him in which time hee hath passed through very many various conditions the times at sometime courting him with their smiles at other times falling foule upon him with their frownes yet hath he beene the same in all for if hopes or promises of promotion on the one hand or threatning and imprisonment on the other would have altered him from a Patriot to a Courtier he had beene one long ago To passe over his suffering imprisonment nine months together in the nineteenth or twentieth year of King Iames for discountenancing a benevolence in the County of Oxford when the Court began first to runne extravagant courses to get money that so they might rule in an arbitrary way without Parliaments And that in the following Parliament in the one and twentieth yeare of King Iames when the now King then Prince and the Duke of Buckingham were returned from Spaine hee was as much courted with offers of preferment by him that had them at his dispose as he was before discountenanced with imprisonment and other pressures which I could more fully declare unto you but that I would not be tedious And how it cost him some hundreds of pounds in opposing the ship-money and his refusing that dangerous oath at Yorke but I will not trouble you with too large a discourse onely this let me bee bold to say in the generall That as he hath had a repute of being famous both for Religion and Reason I that have had the happiness to live near unto him for many years have alwayes observed him in all the various changes he hath met withall never to vary from his principles but how ever things have gone abroad or at home whether he hath had applause and encouragement from men on the one hand or hard measure on the other for he hath had experience of both hee hath beene the same still walked as closely with God and done his duty as faithfully towards men it being alwayes a setled principle in him That want of successe from God or finding unthankefulnesse from men must not hinder a pious man from doing his duty to both And whereas you gave me a touch that many men yea honest and godly men question whether he be right for Religion or no beleeve me Sir I speake it from my heart and in the uprightnesse of my spirit I doe not know a man in this Kingdome right and sound for the power and truth of Religion if he be not And I would have you beleeve me that I know him well as having had the advantage of a long time of experience Againe they charge upon him that he favours Papists and Malignants because he protects two of their houses will they not allow him a house or two instead of three houses of his and 2000 l per annum land which is kept from him for doing them service and yet they doe not that for he is to pay such Rent for that house in the Countrey which is allowed him to refresh himselfe sometimes with fresh ayre as the Committee for Sequestrations shall lay upon it Another instance by which they would prove he favours Papists is a report from one of the Captaines at Windsor that he wrote a Letter to Colonell Venne on the behalfe of two Popish women who had Popish Trinkets and some money taken from them there that it might be restored unto them now to shew you that this is most false I will shew you upon what foundation this slander was built one of those women came to his LP s Secretary with a Petition expressing how their money and Truncks were taken from them by some of Colonell Vennes souldiers as they were travelling into Wiltshire whither they had a Passe and desired him to procure my Lord Say to get their Petition read at the Committee for the safety of the Kingdom but he knowing the multitudes of busines his Lord had stil upon him told her he would write himself to Col. Venn having intimate acquaintance with him to desire him to examine the businesse and doe them right which he did upon his own interest and acquaintenance onely in his owne name not thinking that either of them had been Papists till he received Colonell Vennes answer which signified so much and then he stirred no further for them And for the great summe of money hundreds of thousands pounds charged upon him though it be ridiculous to think that any man could get such vaste sums convert to his own use without being discovered to many yet I dare assure you having heard it confidently affirmed by him that receiveth and issueth out all moneyes for him that hee never converted a hundred pounds or a hundred pence to his owne particular use for it so passes through his hands that hee could not be ignorant of this business he receiving and disbursing all that he hath had from the State save onely what hath bin paid upon bils of Exchange to some Bristow men which he had orders for and can give full satisfaction for upon accompt and for what money hee received during the short time he was Colonell the account lyes upon his Secretary and not upon my Lord who medled not with a penny of that money Nay I will adde this further that hee hath lent besides 1000. l. which he lent upon the propositions sometimes 200. l. sometimes 300. l.