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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95822	February 24. 1644. The most true and unanswerable answer of Charles Vaghan, to the most false and scandalous aspersions of Mr. Philip Francis, set forth in his last answer to my reply to his	Vaughan, Charles, gentleman.	1645 (1645)	Wing V118; Thomason E258_29; ESTC R212481	9,553	8

Parliament To this Mr. Francis saith that he discharged them out of Prison but not of their Assesment but took 800 l. in part of the 1720 l. and the rest they are liable to still whereas by his usurped unlimited power hee sent those Malignants out of the Town into the Enemies Quarters where they fight against the Parliament so that now we have no power to raise the rest no more than we had to get Sir Alexander Carew again when Mr. Francis refused to secure him and let him goe away when hee was in Plimouth Ninthly Why Mr. Francis or any other would not suffer the 800 l. which hee had upon Assesment of Mr. Kelland and the rest to be disposed by the Commissioners of Assesment according to the Ordinance of Parliament hee shewes no reason nor indeed can Tenthly As for my books of Account I have offered to prove to the Accountants of the Kingdome that the Enemy hath them all and I have done all that I can to procure them but I beleeve Mr. Francis doth and will hinder it knowing that I shall prove him false thereby and it is a simple argument for him to say that I have my Accounts because I remember 734 l. which was payd to Major Herbert which I remembred the better by conferring with my man who payd it and it being the greatest summe that I ever payd at one time to one man for Officers onely Eleventhly Whereas Mr. Francis saith That I and my man might have come out of Exeter with the Earle of Stamford and then we had passed very safely and secure as the rest of the Earles company did and so hee inferres that I might have brought my Accounts with me I did come out with the Earle and yet was robbed by the Enemy of all that I had and so were many other as is too well known Thirdly I come to Mr. Francis most unchristian and false slanders of the dead and absent most faithfull men to the Parliament First that worthy and ever to be honoured Colonell Gold As 1. Whereas Mr. Francis saith That there is a great deale of money due from the said Colonell to the Parliament all men that will speak truth know and beleeve that he is out of purse and stands ingaged many thousand pounds for the Parliament 2. Whereas Mr. Francis saith That Col. Gold prest the Committee in Plimonth and Deputy Lievtenants to search every mans house in the Town and to take from them by force all such money and plate as should be found in their houses if they would not part with it otherwise It will be proved that some wel-affected in Plimouth who had plate the Souldiers being like to mutiny for want of pay offered their plate to the Colonell and desired that the rest who had plate might be intreated to part with it also so as the Colonell and some of Mr. Francis friends would be engaged to pay the value of it which the Col. thereupon moved and offered to be engaged but Mr. Francis friends refused and so there was nothing more done in it 3. Whereas hee saith That Col. Gold owed Mr. Kelland 1000 l. by bond and that Mr. Kelland was often offered at Dartmouth and Plimouth that if hee would deliver up the bond they should be all freed It will be proved by Arthur Vpton Esquire and Mr. Richard Nicholl who are here and divers others that Mr. Kelland himselfe offered to deliver up that bond if they might have been freed but it was refused neither was the 1000 l. the Colonels debt but borrowed for the Parliament for which he and others were bound and Mr. Francis had 800 l. of the same money as appears by his own Account and therefore it is a most wilfull false slander Secondly Mr. Francis falsly accuseth Thomas Gewen Esquire As 1. That hee is indebted to the State for money which he received for Assesments and Sequestrations and refuseth to give an Account Whereas the truth is that about October 1643. Mr. Francis and some others whom hee procured to joyne with him required Mr. Gewen to give them an Account at which time he desired to see by what Authority they required it but they would not show nor indeed had any yet Mr. Gewen to take off all exceptions and jealousie delivered them an Account of all his receipts and disbursements which was examined and allowed by Col. Gold Mr. Beare and Mr. Champneys the Parliaments Commissioners whereby it appeared that there was 232 l. 19 s. 8 d. due to him and to manifest his desire to have his Account taken hee then writ up as some Parliament men know to procure an Ordinance for the taking of his owne Account first and after the rest of the Accomptants in Plimouth but before it could be had the Ordinance for taking all the Accounts of the Kingdome was made so that its plaine that hee was desirous to have his Account taken and he is ready to give it to those who have now Authority there to take it but Mr. Francis stays purposely here as is conceived because he would not give his own Account knowing that it will be proved false by many in Plimouth 2. He chargeth Mr. Gewen to have held intelligence with Peter St Hill Esquire Which was thus whilest the Siege was before Exeter Mr. St Hill writ to Mr. Gewen about the exchange of Prisoners and withall desired there might be peace profering to doe his best therein perswading Mr. Gewen to the like which hee shewed to all the Gentlemen of quality hee met with and by the same Messenger returned an answer to convince Mr. St Hill of his error and to justifie the Parliaments Cause in an excellent manner as will be proved the Letter being seen Thirdly The like charge Mr. Francis hath against Mr. Nicholas Row but he was acquitted thereof by the Councell of Warre in Plimouth Thus Mr. Francis falsly accuseth the best-affected to the Parliament but when himself was told by his friend Mr. Wills a godly Minister in Plimouth that it was reported that hee privately received a Letter from the King and was advised by Mr. Wills to question the party in Plimouth who was said to have brought it to him hee looked as pale as his band and would not question it lest it should be proved Fourthly He falsly accuseth Rich. Verman That Major Herbert gave him 3l. when hee paid him the 734 l. Which the Major being now spoken with will not depose Fifthly Whereas Mr. Francis saith That Mr. Keckwich bought Rice of Captain Battin with the Parliaments money at 24 s. per Cent. upon engagement to sell it at Plimouth at the same rate yet hee sold it for 30 s. 34 s. and 36 s. per Cent And having received Dollers at 4 s. a peece he paid them to the Souldiers in Plimouth at 4 s. 4 d. a peece To manifest Mr. Francis his falsity therein I have these Certificates which follow viz. VVHereas we have seen a printed Paper published

without any more abatement who after being taken and brought to Plimouth Mr. Francis refused to joyne with the rest of the Commissioners in committing of them and without yea contrary to the liking of the rest of the Commissioners after they were committed by the rest hee laboured to remove them to some friends house Seventhly he makes no answer to this quere viz. Whether it were thought fit at a generall Councell of Warre or whether Mr. Francis did not solicite some of them in private who were his friends to yeeld to his desire to compound with the said Malignants for 800 l. Eighthly he makes no answer to this which I said viz. That my books of Account which I left as safe as mine own Books and Evidences of great importance were all taken by the Enemy after Exeter was yeelded as the party from whom they were taken and divers others of worth and credit who are here can testifie Ninthly hee makes no answer to this viz. That there were plaine discoveries of Sir Alexander Carews intention to revolt before it was done As 1. by his secret intelligence and correspondence with Mr. Edgcomb and others of the Enemies side in Cornwall 2ly His going over secretly to Mount-Edgcomb to conferre with them 3ly The contents of a Letter written by him wherein he promised upon the procurement of his pardon and security of his estate which pardon was accordingly procured and his stock marked with Mr. Edgecombs marke to preserve them for him to performe what he had promised to them 4ly Overtures made to the Souldiers in the Iland to take his part and to make their peace with the Enemy and divers other things of this kind and all this made known to Mr. Francis with tender of proofe upon oath and hee was divers times urged by some of the most considerable honest men of the Town when Sir Alexander was in the Town to have stayed him there and secured his Person for prevention of the treachery or to have suffered them to doe it yet hee would not but shewed his dislike to those who brought such information and solicited him therein till the Iland was lost and by a miraculous providence of God recovered againe without any help of his Tenthly hee makes no answer to this viz. That I three times desired and earnestly pressed him to it in my Reply to have the difference between him and me examined upon oath I confidently affirming as it is true that it will be proved So that in all these things hee thereby acknowledgeth his guilt therein Secondly What hee pretends to answer is meere shifts and no Answer As First He answers not my charge against him concerning Sir Alexander Caren as before appears but tells a tale of his writing to the Parliament with the Answer thereunto which may be so but had the Parliament been truly informed of his offence in not securing Sir Alexander when he might and ought upon good proofe offered to him as afore-said it s like the thankes which he had would have been turned into punishment for had the Iland been lost as it was Gods wonderfull mercy that it was not Mr. Francis might have suffered in a high degree Secondly Whereas he saith that Captain Hancock assured him of the integrity of the Souldiers in the Iland It is not so for there were but seven or nine at the most who joyned with Captain Hancock and besides the assistance which Mr. Francis promised him was not performed as by the said Hancocks and Skinners Examinations appeares of which I have a Copie Thirdly Whereas Mr. Francis saith that there then appeared only cause of jealousie and no apparent cause of proofe against Sir Alexander Mr. Wills a godly Minister and divers others know that there was direct proofe offered to Mr. Francis as afore-said Fourthly Whereas Mr. Francis saith that he endeavoured to get Sir Alexander againe to Plimouth resolving to secure him if he came It appears by Capt. Hancocks and Skinners Examinations that Mr. Francis knew that Sir Alexander was jealous of being secured if hee came again to Plimouth and therefore it was folly if not worse to let him goe to the Iland where he strengthened his party and to expect that he would come again into the pit-fall and therefore I need not blush for having accused Mr. Francis so justly therein Fifthly Neither was Mr. Francis acquitted as he pretends upon examination of this and the rest of his misdemeanours in the Articles sent up against him to the Parliament for there was no examination thereof only because Mr. Trotell neglected to prosecute for which those of Plimouth were displeased with him and lately sent up one Mr. Arundell who is now dead to prosecute those and other misdemeanours against M. Francis Sixthly Now Mr. Francis pretends he fell not off to the Vtriusques as I charge him upon Sir Wil. Wallers blow at the Vizes because he saith hee after encountred the Enemy and forced them to fly which in a Pamphlet saith he is attributed to those who were never guilty of it meaning as I conceive Col. Gold by whose valour under God indeed it was done the Colonell having then his horse killed under him and mounting another that was also shot by the Enemy and it will be proved by many that it was then after-noon with Mr. Francis Seventhly In Mr. Francis Answer to my Reply to his Account he excepts that I replied only to two of his Answers to my Exceptions to it which is true because as I said and so say still that I desire that neither my Exceptions nor his Answer might be beleeved on either of our bare affirmations but that it might be examined upon oath and therefore I earnestly urged him three times in my Reply to have it examined but he likes not to heare of that and therefore saith nothing to it knowing that it will be proved Now I could instance in divers particular unallowable demands in his Account but because it would make my Paper to swell too big and is fit to be spoken when his Account comes to be examined in the interim take onely this Certificate which I have from an honest Captain in Plimouth IN the thirteenth Article of Mr. Vaghans Exceptions to Mr. Francis his Account of the setting forth of two Ships It is true they wore the Parliament Colours but I never knew any service they were put upon for one of them carried deal-boards for Barnstaple and landed them at Appledoore and from thence the said Vessel went for Burrey in Wales where shee loaded coales and brought them to Plimouth for the owners use And for the other Ship as I remember shee went not from the Key of Plimouth And therefore in my judgement the 453 l. charged for them is an injury done the State Plimouth Jan. 8. 1644. Henry Hatsell Eighthly To my charge of his discharging Mr. Kelland and the three other Malignants of 920 l. which was assessed on them contrary to the Ordinance of