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A91211	The lyar confounded, or A briefe refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-case, mistaken-law; seditious calumnies, and most malicious lyes against the High Court of Parliament, the Honourable Committee of Examinations, Mr Speaker, with other members of the Commons House; and Mr William Prynne; wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant overcredulous people. Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary clemency towards him, their justice in their commitment of, and proceedings against him; for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them, with tyranny and injustice / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4002; Thomason E267_1; ESTC R212413	54,867	55

17 c. 15 26. c. 16. 13. 1 John 4. 6. c. 5. 6. A Spirit of Truth which guides true Christians into all Truth Upon this ground Solomon rankes h Prov. 6. 16. 17. 19. A lying tongue and a false witnesse that speaketh Lyes among those things which the Lord especially hates and abhominates And Saint John registers i Rev. 21. 8. c. 22. 15. Lyars and he that loveth and maketh a lye in the black Catalogue of those damned ones who shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone and shall be excluded the Caelestiall Jerusalem to k Mat. 25. 4● accompany the Devill and his Angels for Eternity in hell fire Yet notwithstanding this undeniable verity there is a new Generation of fiery zealots sprung up in the world of late who deem themselves brimfull of the Spirit of Truth and most others no better than Reprobates or Devils in carnate who like Jobs deceitfull friends are l Job 13. 4. Forgers of Lyes or like the m Tit. 1. 12. Cretians alway Lyars if not like those wicked ones whom David describes Psal 58. 3 4. They go astray as soon as they be born yea new-born into their factious separation speaking Lyes their poyson is like the poyson of the Serpent n Psal 52. 2 3 4. Their tongue deviseth mischiefes like a sharp rasor working deceitfully They love lying more than to speake righteousnesse they love all devouring words Yea o Jer. 9. 3. 5. they bend their tongues like their bow for lyes but are not valiant for the Truth and they will deceive every man his Neighbour and will not speake the Truth they have taught their tongues to speak Lyes and weary themselves to commit Iniquity even in Print being the very generation of men in the latter times of whom the p 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 3. 4. Spirit speaketh expresly that they should depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits speaking Lyes in hypocrisie having their conscience seared with a hot Iron false accusers sierce heady high-minded c. having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Among the whole rabble of this lying slandring Generation there is none more peceant then John Lilburn of late years a poor obscure Apprentice in London but now a Lieutenant Colonel and Ringleader of an Anti-Parliamentary Anabaptistical Faction who forgetting all the Laws of Christianity common Civility hath abused his best Benefactors yea the very high Court of Parliament who as himself confessed saved him from the Gallows and most grosly belyed traduced his ancient Christian friends in such a scurrilous virulent unchristian maner without any provocation as no age can parallel in sundry Printed Libels which he intitles Letters wherewith he hath poysoned the minds of many poor Ignorant people of his Sect and others with prejudices against the Parliaments proceedings and filled their mouths with bitter invectives calumnies and reports against those they formerly honoured most of any Mortall● and the very Raisers of John Lilburne to all the reputation he ever gained in the world to wit Master William Prynne whose Servant he was generally reputed to be and was contented to own that Title for his own emoliment though never capable of such an Honour and Dr. John Bastwick the Printing of whose Letany which he freely bestowed on him at his request was the best stock he had and that which first made him notorious to the Prelates their opposites and the present Parliament whereas otherwise he had lyen buried in obscurity among the rubbish of the meanest vulgar scarce known to any but him selfe For my own particular I so much undervalue all his scurrilous lyes and rayling invectives against my selfe that I deeme them more worthy scorn than answer and his Libellous seditious Letter to a Friend with that unto my selfe fitter to be refuted by the hangman hand than any others But because I am certainly informed by divers That this last Letter with other seditious Printed papers of his which he hath privatly scatred among his friends have done extraordinary hurt much incensed his ignorant mis-informed Brethren of the Separation and opened the mouthes of them yea of many Royalists and Malignants against the Parliaments proceedings in his and other cases as tyrannicall illegall arbitrary unjust and diametrally contrary to Magna Charta which this grand Ignoramus had never law enough to understand in the Language wherein it was first written nor in his mother tongue as appears by his very transcribing of it wherein he writes DISEASED for DISSEISED the meaning of which Law term I am certain he understands not and that his mistaken Law embraced by his disciples as infallible Oracles hath deceived many poor silly souls and is conceived to have been learned from my selfe whose servant heretofore and now he is generally cryed up to have been when as I blesse God I never entertained him in my service nor any such turbulent factious crosse-graind peece as he shews himself I have at the motion of some friends undertaken to passe a briefe censure on this his most seditious Letter so far as it trencheth upon the Parliaments and Committees most just Proceedings and my own personall reputation both which I shall clearly vindicate from his Malicious Lyes and intollerable Libellous slanders Wherein I shall pursue this method First truely State the Parliaments most just and favourable Proceedings against him which he most wilfully falsly and ungratefully mis-relates to alinate the peoples affections from and draw down an odium upon them without the least just occasion Secondly Rectify his grosse mistaken Law his mis-interpretation of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and manifest the Parliaments and Committees proceedings against him to be warranted by both not contrary to either much lesse to be utterly Illegall Tyrannicall Unjust and destructive to the Subjects Liberties as he scandalously reports them Thirdly Recite and answer this whole Jury of most grosse Lyes and Slaunders summoned from the very Vicinage of Hell and brought by him to the Bar to give in a Verdict intentionally against my Reputation but really against his own 1 To begin with the first of these Upon the publication of my Truth triumphing over Falshood Antiquitie over Novelty in defence of the Parliaments undoubted Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction against Papists Prelats Anabaptists Independents Royalists who oppugned the same Iohn Lilburne for whom I had done sundry Courtesies but never injured in thought word or deed I know not out of what malicious schismaticall or unchristian humour before ever he had read over my book a great part whereof he understood not Writ and sent me a most rayling virulent Letter dated the 7. of January 1645. wherein he scurrilously Libels not onely against my selfe but likewise against the Synod assembled by Parliament against the Ordinances of Parliament prohibiting the Printing of Libellous and Seditious Pamphlets Bookes without speciall License as contrary to the Libertie and

Priviledges of the Subject and learned of the Spanish Inquisition and against the Ordinance for payment of Tythes which he tells the Parliament is A CONTRADICTION TO THEIR COVENANT charging them thereby with no lesse then Perjury which Letter before I had leisure fully to peruse he published in Print without any License to the great scand all both of the Synode Parliament and their proceedings whereupon it was about 2. daies after complained of and some clauses therof read in the Commons House and thereupon this Order made and entred in the Commons Iournall Janu. 17. 1644. Ordered that the consideration of a Letter Printed under the name of John Lilburne be referred to the Examination and Inquirie of the Committee of Examinations and it is further referred to that Committee to summon the said John Lilburne and to examine him upon the writing Printing and publishing of the said Letter and to report the state of the whole businesse to the House The Committee is further to send for the Company of Stationers and toknow of them by whose default it happens that such scurrilous libellous and seditious Pamphlets are every day Printed and published they undertaking at the passing of their Ordinance to prevent all these Inconveniences that formerly grew by the licentiousnesse of the Presse and to enjoyn them to be more diligent in suppressing such licentiousnesse and to acquaint them that the House doth expect a better account of their Proceedings herein hereafter Immediatly after this Order made Iohn Lilburne was casually run into the eye with the head of a Pike about Moore-fields which for a time endangered both the losse of his life and eye too whereupon the prosecution of this Order was suspended No sooner was he recovered but he caused sundry false and scandalous Articles to be Printed against Collonel Edward King under whom he served for a time in Lincolnshiere till this Colonell committed and cashier'd him for his seditious and Schismaticall car●iage and bitter invectives against the Church and Ministers of England in the Country and Army which Articles he caused to be Printed and dispersed through London and Lincolnshire to defame this well-deserving Gentleman who hath adventured his life and spent his estate in his Countries Service No sooner had he Printed and vented these Libellous Articles here but he poasted into Lincolnshire to disperse them there In the meane time the Printer with one or two of the underhand dispensers of these libellous Articles being apprehended confessed that Lylburne gave order to Print them undertooke the payment of the Printer and had or was to have 200. Copies of them for himselfe to disperse privately among his friends In May following this Libeller returning to London conscious to himselfe of his guilt and of the Injury he had done the Parliament Assembly and my self in his forementioned published Letter declined the meeting of me face to face ever turning aside when as he came neere me Which I oft observing he one day met me full butt neere the lower end of Westminster Hall ere he espide me and then turned his back suddenly upon me to avoid me Whereupon I presently accosting him spake to him with all mildnesse to this effect Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne I am very sorry that you have so farre forgotten your duty to the Parliament as without any cause on their parts who have purchased your liberty and saved your life of Late to Libell against their Ordinances Proceedings and charge them with no lesse then breach of their Covenant to revile the Synod assembled by their Authoritie which never gave you any offence and so farre transgressed the Laws of friendship and Christianity towards me your ancient Friend as to raile against and slander me in Print in such a reproachfull unchristian manner as you have when as I have done you many Courtesies but never offered you the smallest Injury in word or deed I hope by this time you have seriously considered these Injuries of which the House of Commons hath taken speciall notice and I shall next desire you in a friendly Christian way to give some satisfaction to the House and my selfe for the Indignities done us by your Libellous Letter which had you not published in Print before I had leisure to peruse I had been silent But instead of giving an ingenuous answer to this just request he fell into an angry fit Using many unsitting insolent words to me in the open Hall and to shew his Billings-gate education among other uncivill speeches said A turd in your teeth if you were out of the Hall I would teach you to lay your hand on mine when as I onely touched his hand in a familiar manner with my finger using divers other harsh threatning words no waies beseeming him or me Wherupon I returned him this answer Sir I perceive you a man of such a fiery temper that there is no discoursing with you in any private loving way and therefore since you are so cholericke and refractory I hope you will not take it ill if you be called to an account for this your Letter in an other place before your betters according to a Vote already passed in Parliament where I presume you will remember your selfe better and not be so rude as now you are To which he replied to this effect Do what you dare against me I shall justifie my doings in any place Whereupon I answered That if this were his resolution he should shortly answer his Letter before the Committee of Examinations to which the House had referred it And so wee parted This Committee being soone after informed that Lilburne was returned to London on the 16 of May made a Warrant onely to Summon him to appeare before them the next day at two of the clock concerning the Printing and publishing of his Libellous Letter without any Licence contrary to an Ordinance of Parliament Upon which Summons he appearing May 17. confessed upon his Examination that he did write this Letter the originall whereof was produced under his hand that he not receiving an answer to it in three or foure daies space did thereupon cause it to be Printed without License But refused to declare the Printers name that Printed it Mr. Prynne being then present at his Examination informed the Committee That he did not desire to prosecute the businesse against him with rigour but only to make him confesse his Injuries to the Parliament and Assembly and crave pardon for them which if he would there doe he would freely remit all personall scandals and injuries done by him to himselfe desiring onely his reformation not his ruine or vexation Whereupon Lilburne desired this favour from the Committee That he might set downe his own Answer in writing touching the Printing and contents of his Letter and that if he might have co●●●●ient time to doe it he would deliver it in under his hand at the time appointed W●i●h the Committee out of their clemency freely granted though I beleeve they never

from the Committee for Examination for refusing to answer to such Questions as were propounded unto him by this Committee by Order of the House of Commons and for the reasons that he gave for the same And not to permit him to goe out of the same without further Order of the House or Committee Dat. 9o. Augusti 1645. Examinat per Radm. Briscoe Cler. de Newgate On Munday the 11th of August this comtemptuous obstinate deportment of his and refusall to be examined was reported to the House together with his commitment for it to Newgate whereupon the House unanimously made and entred these two Votes Die Lunae 11o. Augusti 1645. Ordered upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament that they doe approve of what the Committe hath done concerning Lievtenant Collonel Lilbourne Ordered upon the Question That Lievtenant Colonell Lilburne be tried at the next Quarter Sessions to be held for the City of London concerning the contriving making devulging and spreading DIVERS NOTORIOVS SCANDALS set forth in his name in a Printed Pamphlet under the Title of a Letter to a Friend AGAINST THE PARLIAMENT AND SEVERALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMONS HOVSE and the care hereof is especially referred to Master Recorder And by other subsequent Orders a Sollicitor and Councell were specially assigned in the behalfe of the Parliament to prosecute this businesse against him Yet notwithstanding this incorrigible Lib●ller and unparalleld affronter of the Higher Powers persevering in his villany and seditious practises since his commitment to Newgate hath compiled printed and privily dispersed another most pestilent mutinous Libell against the Parliaments power and proceedings to incense and muteny the people against them Printed in halfe a sheet as Libellous and seditious as his Letter and much of the same stra●ne for all which unparallel'd insolencies he shall no doubt be brought to a faire Legall triall and receive condigne punishment in due season This is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth of his Case and of the Parliaments and Committees proceedings against him every Tittle whereof will be justified and made good by a clowd of Witnesses being persons of Honour quality Piety Fidelity by the Parliaments and Committees Journalls Lilburnes owne Pamphlets and himselfe if he be not past all shame grace dares not gaine-say it in any particular Now this being the true state of his Libellous Seditious Incorrigible Contemptuous carriages toward the Parliament successively from time to time and of the Parliaments leasurely milde indulgent proceedings towards him I appeale to all the world yea to his best and most partiall friends and Confederates First Whether any mortall be he Papist Prelate Malignant Royalist or Cavalliere much lesse any profest Votary to the Parliaments service did ever demeane himselfe so Libellously Slanderously Seditiously Contemptuously Peremptorily Presumptuously and ungratefully to the Parliament the Committee of Examinations the Members proceedings of the House as this proud upstart Iacke hath done both in words writing deedes without the least shaddow of remorse or penitence Or whether any History records his Parallel Secondly Whether ever any Parliament Committee or other Court of Justice did with so much lenity patience and long-suffering endure so many reiterated multiplied Libels and publike affronts against their Jurisdiction Proceedings Justice Members without any just occasion or ground at all as this Parliament and Committee hath received from this Seditious Lying Libeller before they did commit him after so many preceedent questionings and admonitions Or whether any such patterne of Clemency Patience as they have used toward this incorrigible wretch can be produced out of any Parliament Rolles or Journals in preceeding Ages If not as I am confident none can then how desperately ingratefull and malicious is this Lilburne for taxing them with Tyranny Cruelty and injustice in their proceedings against him Thirdly Whether ever any proceedings were more Legall just and regular in every punctilio of Law or more consonant to Magna Charta the Petition of Right or Lawes of the Land then these against him And whether ever any man committed by Parliament had lesse cause to complaine of Injustice and Infringement of the Subjects Liberty then he Yet never did any man both in discourse and Printed Libels so raile against the Parliament for Tyranny Injustice breach of Magna Charta the Petition of Right the Subjects Hereditary freedome and liberty as he hath most causelesly and seditiously done of purpose to raise up tumults against and alienate the peoples affections from the Parliament his Emissaries scattering abroad these his seditious Libels among the Malignants in Kent and else where no doubt to excite them to a new Rebellion Having thus truely stated his case and the truth of the Parliaments proceedings I shall in the next place discover and refute his malicious Lyes and Forgeries against the Parliament and Committee of Examinations in his owne Printed Relation of his Case in his Letter to a Friend In this Lying Libell Pag. 3. he writes Yet notwithstanding since the first of May last I have by the Authority of the House of Commons BEEN THREE TIMES IMPRISONED before ever I knew mine Accuser or mine accusation or ever was suffered to speake one word in mine owne defence which I humbly conceive is contrary to Magna Charta And these Priviledges that I ought to enjoy by vertue of my having an interest therein The manner whereof he relates more largely Pag. 12. 13. 14 where he repeates the former words with this addition In againe I was called and told I must wait again to morrow I expressed my selfe againe and againe unto them to give mee leave to declare but one thing to them but heard I could not be till about two houres after waiting at the doore bemoaning and * Note here his seditious carriage crying out to those that stood by of the sad and deplorable condition that I and the rest of the Free people in England are fallen into to be so unjustly Imprisonned for the expence of our bloud for the just preservation of our just Freedomes that we should from Commitees of Parliaments themselves be Imprisoned we know not wherefore and when we come before them according to their owne command that we shal be * If the Committee hath businesse of great●● importance y●t John Lilburn must forthwith be heard and have p●ecedence of all others else Magna Charta the Subects Liberties are presently infringed remanded back again and not suffered to speake one word for our selves Heare ô Heavens and give eare ô Earth and thou righteous God that lovest justice and judgement and hatest and abh●orrest oppression and crueltie which makest wise men mad put forth thy hand and doe justice thy selfe upon the unjust and unrighteous Iudges of this age whom the people have set up for their good namely to preserve their Lives Liberties and Estates as their faithfull Stewards and Servants doe yet destroy what they would seeme to mainetaine

examined before they ever acquaint them with their Accuser or Accusation or heare them speake one word in their own behalfe yet none ever deemed these ordinary proceedings of theirs either Arbitrary Tyrannicall or Illegall contrary to Magna Charta or the Subjects Liberties but most iust And shall not the Parliament the supremest Court have as great a liberty and power thus to summon and attach men upon informations against them onely to answer their Accusations when ripe for Examination as the meanest Iustice of the Peace doth dayly ex●rcise without exceptions How many thousands have the Lord Mayor of London the Courts of Guard and Committee of Examinations sent sor attached and restrained thus for a short space of their liberty till they could be examined before ever they knew their Accuser or Accusaton or could be brought to publike examination and yet not one of them ever made such an horrid outcry against the Legality of their proceedings as this Ignoramus who understands the Law and Magna Charta no more then a Iack-daw as one once said of a doting Lawyer But to proceed to his other falsehoods Page 7. he writes That during his imprisonment at Oxford he was ruined in his estate to the value of six or seven hundred pounds which he left behind him at Londō which he can clearly make appeare Which he likewise recites in two other printed papers This certainly is as grosse a lye as any of the former For his best and neerest friends will attest he was never worth halfe so much and the maine reason why he left the City and went into the Parliaments Forces was not so much for any good affection to the Parliaments cause as to protect himselfe against his Creditors arrests for these many debts which he incurred by renting of a Brew-house which both himself and his Father oft times told me when they repaired to me for advice in Law concerning it had quite undone and broke both himselfe and his friends who stood ingaged for him And this Libeller himself Pag. 5. insinuates as much complaining for want of recompence for his imprisonment TO PAY HIS DEBTS and buy him and his bread So that he was as much or more beholing to the Parliaments Service for protecting him from the arrests and executions of his Creditors as they were to him for any of his good services the praise whereof he hath now utterly lost and blemished by his evill Libellous and Seditious attempts against them Pag. 16. He most scandalously and falsely avers That many of the House of Commons tooke to themselves 3. l. 10. s. a weeke and some of them more and others of them great places worth 500 l. 1000 l. 1500 l. 2000 l. and more per annum and live in as great pompe superfluity and bravery as ever they did in their daies by the ruine of the Common-wealth when as thousands who have spent all they have in the world and done the Kingdome good service have not a bitt of bread to put in their mouthes c. This is a most notorious Lye the Lords and Commons having removed all their Members by a speciall Ordinance from all the Offices conferred on them by the Parliament though well deserving and fit to mannage them And when this slanderer shall make good this false charge by sufficient witnesses against any particular Members guilty of it he shall receive a fuller answer Page 5. He complaines that the Parliament and House of Commons who formerly owned him having served their turnes of him hee could never have Justice from them though he hath been as faithfull a friend to the Common-wealth as ever any they imployed And whereas Magna Charta saith Justice and Right we will deny to none we will deferre to none yet have I waited these foure yeares upon them at great expences and cannot get them to put their Votes in execution And now of late I have followed them about this six moneths to the expence of about 100 l. to get a Petition read that I might have justice and reparation but have been denied Justice and Right and could not get my Petition read which he ingeminates inculcates in sundry other pages To which I answer that it appeares by the next preceeding words that the Parliament served his turn first not he theirs First By inlarging him out of Prison and restoring him to his Liberty Secondly By hearing his cause and Voting his sentence in the Star-Chamber illegall and that he ought to have reparations Thirdly By saving him from an arraignement for his life before the whole House of Peeres about the Earle of Strafford when the King himselfe sent in an Accusation against him Aug. 4. 1641. for his seditious carriage To which he might have added and doth elsewhere relate a fourth by saveing his necke from the Gallowes at Oxford and purchasing his release by an exchange from thence to which I contributed my owne best assistance But did the House ever imploy him in any publike service to serve their turnes Surely never for ought I could learne and if they had they should have heard of it to purpose in this Letter What an ungratefull lying Merchant then doth he shew himselfe thus ill to requite the House of Commons for this their extraordinary favours to use such scandalous false speeches and Libellous invectives against them that having served their owne turnes of him he could never have Iustice from them since c. Yea but he hath waited above foure houres space and can have no reparations for his losses according to their Votes But is this the House of Commons fault Have they been backewards to doe him right or rather hath not he beene negligent and wanting to himselfe in procuring a transmission of his cause to the Lords without whose concurrence his sentence cannot be reversed nor his dammages ascertained and repaired Surely it is very well knowne to the world that my owne Sufferings Imprisonments Losses transcended his by many degrees and that the Commons Voted me Reparations and Dammages for them long before they passed their Votes for him that never yet received one farthing recompence for all my Losses Dammages eight yeares Imprisonment Exile the losse of my calling and estate in any kinde whatsoever though I presume I have done far greater more and better Services for the State Church Parliament then ever he performed for them Yet did I never complain either of or against the Parliament for breach of Magna Charta in not doing or delaying to do me Right or Justice neither had I just cause to do it since the weightier publike affaires of three bleeding Kingdomes Churches and our Bloody Wars and Schismes in all three have ingrossed all their time thoughts and deprived them both of vacancy opportunity and since of present meanes to right me in this kind in these necessitous times The like I might say of my Dear Fellow-sufferers Doctor Bastwicke Mr. Henry Burton Mr. Peter Smart Dr. Leighton Mr. Walker and

That it was their cordiall desire not to look on the King or Parliament as divided one from another but united and would thus cordially adhere to both without siding against either c. Whereupon they humbly prayed they might enjoy their joynt favour and protection and the like liberty of Trade to both their Quarters as they enjoyed by ancient Charters between England and France during the Wars between both only with their Lawfull Commodities without doing prejudice to either side This Petition to the Parliament with Letters from Sir Philip to Mr. Pym were sent to London by one John le Coulter of Iersey bound thence for England with divers Letters from some English Captives in Argeir to their friends here about their Redemption who coming to London with the Letters and Petition presently met with some Iersey men opposites to Sir Philip and acquainting them that he had Letters from Sir Philip to Mr. Pym with a Petition from the Estates of the whole Island to the Parliament and desiring their direction how he might present them to Mr. Pym they presently procured him to be seised on by a Messenger as a Spye sent purposely over by Sir Philip whom they cryed up for a Malignant and Enemy to the Parliament without any colour or shadow of proofe took away all his Letters and the Petition which by this means was smothered and never presented to the House and if presented and Answered would doubtlesse have settled that Island in quietnesse and made Sir Philip and the whole Island firm to the Parliament After which by false suggestions they detained him above three moneths in their Custody to his great expence before I could procure his full release About the same time one Osmond Cooke a Souldier of Mount-Orguile Castle who attended on me in my Chamber during all the time of my close Imprisonment there and came into England about halfe a year before meerly upon his own private businesse to recover a house and some Lands in Beccles devised to him by his Uncle returning into Iersey from hence was in his passage thither by these malitious persons Informations seised on in the Western parts as a Spye to Sir Philip sent up Prisoner to London by Sea and there detained in Custody divers moneths Notwithstanding there was no proof of any thing at all against him but meer suggestions behinde his back the which to my knowledge were false Whiles these two parties were thus Imprisoned Sir Philips Adversaries by their malitious suggestions of his dangerous malignity and Enmity to the Parliament and importunate solicitations procured an Order from the close Committee for Major Lidcot and some other Officers with six very good brasse Ordnance and sundry Musquets Barrells of Powder Match and Ammunition to be sent into Iersey to apprehend Sir Philip as an enemy to the Parliament to besiege and take in the Castles secure the Island to the Parliament and desend their party there and withall got the Coyners Messeruies enlarged to go over with them into Iersey Maximillian promising to do great matters for the Parliament with the party he and his confederates would there raise and out of my cordiall affection to the Parliament and that Island acquainted Mr. Solicitor and others of the close Committee with the inconveniences and ill consequence of this rash design of which I having intelligence grounded upon meer misinformations of Sir Philips adversaries to effect their own ends informing them upon my own knowledge that both Castles in Iersey were so strongly scituated fortified that they must have an Army by Land and a Fleet by Sea to Block them up that an hundred men in each would maintain the Castles against all the Force the Island could make and three times more and therefore it was a ridiculous thing to imagine that a Major with five or six Gunners and Officers and that small force Sir Philips Enemies could raise there should take both or either of the Castles especially without a Fleet to assist them one of them being quite surrounded with the Sea at half Flood and above half the other at low water that the Castles to my knowledge were very well furnished with Ordnance and Ammunition for two or three years Siege that they could every tide receive fresh Supplyes of Victualls Men and what ever they wanted from France and elsewhere That the Islanders were generally rawe faint-hearted Souldiers who durst not come within Canon shot of the Castles much lesse approach a Breach and run upon the Canons mouth as they must do if they will take them That if they sent any Ordnance Musquets or Ammunitions thither which they needed at home they would all certainly be lost and that they who engaged them in this action did it more out of private ends and malice against Sir Philip then any publike good to the Parliament for admit the Parliament had the Castles and Island surrendred without a stroke they would cost them more the keeping then they were worth and draw a charge upon the State in these needfull times to no purpose but to waste the publike Treasure That in times of Peace the King received not one peny profit from the Island but only the Governour whose whole income in time of war would not maintain the Garrison souldiers requisite to keep one of the two Castles and that it could supply the Parliament neither with fighting men nor money nor Shipping in this time of War but must be supplyed from hence with all these And admit the King had it all in his absolute power it could do the Parliament no hurt at all since it could neither supply him with Souldiers Men Money Provisions nor Ammunition and far remote from England quite out of the road of our English Trade That the Inhabitants being generally very poor and having none but base French Coyne among them could yield the King no supply of moneys That Sir Philip Carteret and the States of the Island did now by Petition and Letter desire the Parliaments friendship and Kings joyntly and not to side with either as divided but United and that he would engage himself if they would give but a fair Answer to their Petition which was suppressed by the opposite party that Sir Philip and those Islanders of his party should continue firm unto the Parliament and their friends and never do one act of Hostility or unkindenesse on the Kings behalf against them and that the Parliaments and the Kings Ships upon all occasions should have all accomodations and ride safely in the Harbour there at their pleasure which was all the benefit we could reap if the Island and two Castles were totally in the Parliaments possession That if they sent any Ships or Forces thither to apprehend Sir Philip or Seise the Island and Castles by sorce especially by such infamous persons as the Coyners and some others were it would make Sir Philip and his party to stand upon their guard and perchance of friends or Neuters at

thus much of my owne knowledge to doe deceased Sir Phillip right against his slanderers 1. That during my imprisonment in Iersey and ever since I found him a reall Friend to the State and Parliament of England in all his discourses and actions and a man as much joyed at the calling of this and the former Parliament and as much grieved and complaining at the dissolving the last Parliament as any 2. That he was a man most cordiall and helpfull to poor distressed Protestants and Ministers in France during the late wars and persecutions against them there a noble harbourer and entertainer of them and theirs upon all occasions and more cordially assistant to and honoured beloved by them and more complaining of our Courts treacheries towards them especially in the losse of Rochell then any English Subject whatsoever and both the Islands of Iersey and Garnsey put together 3. That he was the greatest favourer advancer incourager of godly Ministers of any in that Island and more charitable helpfull to the poor and sick upon all occasions then all the Island besides there being scarce one day in the week wherein his Lady at her own expence did not freely at Sir Philips cost send Physick and cordials to divers diseased persons of all sorts 4. That his Family was the most orderly pious Religious courteous Hospitall and best nurtured by far of any in the Island generally honoured and respected by all persons of honour in Normandy Brittany Picardy England and Iersy too 5. That he was an enemy to the Bishops Tyranny and Proceeding Innovations and was so reputed at Court by the Archbishop and used me and my brother Burton too by my interest in him with such noblenesse and respect when no other persons of quality durst to own us or stand our friends though we were meer strangers to him 6. That he was a man of more eminent parts for Government Iustice Peace War State affairs and all publike imployment then all the Islanders put together and an excellent Pen-man 7. That he was a faithfull constant friend and the only man in the Isle that I ever found or heard of sit to be trusted with the Government and eustody of it or to be relied on as a friend most natives having this Norman quality that never a two of them almost though allied and of the same blood do cordially love or really trust one another and will prove treacherous at any time to their neerest friends and kindred for advantage 8. He was the only man that by reason of his friends and acquaintance in France was either able or active to protect the Natives from injuries and to procure them Iustice and relief when injured robbed or wronged by seizing of their goods in France The only man able or willing to entertain strangers with noblenesse and freedom the best Iusticiary between man and man in the whole Isle and the most willing and able to do any publick good and procure favours for the Islanders whom I am certain have much repented his death and will hardly ever enjoy so good a Governour and reall friend to them as he was having now a Lyon to rule over them instead of a Lamb. 9. He was the only man that procured Schollerships and Fellowships in Oxford for the Islanders of Iersey with sundry Immunities both from England and France concerning Trade and did twenty times more good in to and for the Island then all his enemies put together and to my knowledge had done far more had he not been discouraged by his malicious and ingratefull prosecutors some whereof were obliged to him for their very lives and estates and all them for many more courtesies then ever they received from them It being one vertue in the Islanders of which I had experience in hundreds which I there helped and cured gratis to my cost and not one of twenty would so much as returne me verball thanks nor yet will those Sir Philips Lady recovered even from the very jawes of death and relieved both with food and rayment Lastly He was the only man of note in all the Isle setting all pretences and self ends aside that was really cordiall to the Parliament and best able and most willing to do them any service And I am confident would have continued so till his death and kept both Islands friendly and obedient to them had not those his malicious enemies of mean birth and fortune in respect of him by their Libels slanders and false informations to the Parliament and practises against him dis-obliged and engaged him to stand upon his guard till he could vindicate his own innocency and honour to the Parliament against the false suggestions of his enemies who never yet proved the least crime or offence against him and some of them the Messeruyes by name professed after to my self and others and acknowledged as much before the Committee of Examinations That they could testifie nothing at all against him and that he was the best Governour and Friend the Island ever had after they had so much traduced him for a Malignant and oppressor All which considered let the world judge what cause I had to support Sir Philips honour and reputation against such malicious scandalous conspirators who plotted his dis-grace and ruine and who are most guilty of the dis ingaging undoing and losse of Iersey and Garnsey Castle the Isl●nd to in effect and putting the Parliament to a vast unnecessary expence to satisfie their own malicious and ambitious designes to multiply the Parliaments enemies and dis-oblige their best and faithfullest friends His 9. slanderous lye against me is That he shall make it appeare that I have been a protector of those that have betrayed the strong holds of the Parliament into the hands of the Cavaliers Certainly most thinke I am guiltlesse of this except it be onely in prosecuting Col. Nathaniel Fincs an Independent so farre as a Councell of Warre upon his owne engagements prove for delivering up the strong hold and rich City of Bristoll the greatest losse which befell the Parliament since these warres into the hands of the Cavaliers in such a cowardly and unworthy manner that he had Iudgement given and passed against him for it as a Traitor and to have his head cut off For which just prosecution my Independent brother Robinson hath enveighed against me in Print belike because he desired to have more faults bewrayed 10. That I am a pleader of all Malignant Priests causes for money Certainly this is a lowd lye There have been hundreds of Malignant Priests with whom whom I was never of Councell many with whom I have refused to be of Councel rejecting both them and their fees which I might have justly taken Many against whom I have been of Councell being ten to one to those I have been of Councell for Therefore no pleader of All Malignant Priests causes True it is I have been of Councell with some good Ministers ●rticled against by some separatists