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land_n	father_n	son_n	tenant_n	1,509	5	10.0474	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08625	The confider in falshood confounded. Being an answer to an abusive book lately published by William Wright of Dublin, against Thomas Carleton his tenant in the first place: And Will. Edmondson, John Burnyet, Abraham Fuller, and Franc. Randall, arbitrators, in the second place; equally chosen to end some difference between the said William Wright and Thomas Carleton, &c.	Carleton, Tho. (Thomas)	1684 (1684)	Wing C588B; ESTC R221232	14,002	34

which I never repented to this day and I never served another neither was I ever served with any upon my own account save once for Tithes in England nor Ireland in all my life and I have dealt and exchanged several hundreds of Pounds before I dealt with him ergo not so much given to vexatious Suits as himself so if serving a Writ be any error or sin I believe his Conscience is far more defiled with that sin than mine is witness his many letigious Suits for many years in most of the Courts in Dublin Then he tells a tale of Nuts I never had a Nut upon any such account but I think as himself saith in his Book concerning the Arbitrators he is drunk but no with Wine Charge 10. Is but the 4th over again to make them numerous and fill a Book or else the man forgot himself Charge 11. Thomas Carleton said to James Eustace one of Wrights Tenants that his Landlord would serve him as he served sixteen poor men in the County of Catherlough who were indicted upon Wrights account and he let them all go to Prison and never regarded them but they were glad to shift for themselves c. Answ This is an absolute Forgery as it is laid down for I never heard of so many being inindicted nor of any one of them going to Prison what I had was from William Wright his own mouth in Carloe streets I believe he told me then of nine I am certain I never spoke of their going to Prison neither of so many being indicted I sometimes tell what I hear but never what I hear not nor know not I remember I told Eustace who then came as he said by W. Wrights order to dig Turf upon my Land and he came to my bed side where I was lying lame to tell me what he intended to do so I charged him not to do it without my leave for he had no Land there I told him there were several poor men indicted upon his account at Carloe and I bid him not be so confident for if I should indict him for it it might be he would not bear him out but leave him to snift for himself and upon this he forged that story against me and this is the sum of all the Reproaches Scandals and Lies with which he hath so often stuffed the leaves and lines of his Book which he seems to lay down as the first motive of all our differences so now let the Reader judge But I I know there was another thing was the occasion of all which had I answered all these things had never been alledged nor the world never heard so much of our difference and that was my refusing to turn Tenant to his Son Ebenezer who came with a Deed of Gift from his Father in which Deed of Gift he mentioned all the conveyances of the Reversions of that Lease by which he holds Ballinicargie and by which he sets it to me I say he makes a recital of all to himself but makes no mention of me or any other Tenant upon the Land neither binds his Son to perform any Covenant of his to the present Tenants and after reserves power to himself to revoke or disanul the same Deed of Gift at any time hereafter by giving his said Son a Twenty shilling piece of Gold which had I done and once altered my property I suppose I might then have been Tenant at will and repented at my leisure so because I would not be taken in this snare have produced all these occasions and since that in a Letter I have yet to show under his own hand he saith he made it his business both in City and Country to inform himself what I had said against him so that it seems he wanted occasion till then So now let the world judge what usage I have had or am like to have Charge 12. But to aggravate his reflecting malice against Wright saith he he said to Thomas Booth that his Landlord would serve him as he served Francis Thornhill to whom saith he Wright never did the last injury to the value of a farthing Answ Whether I might say any such thing to Booth I do not well remember I examined Booth and he denied once or twice that he told him any such thing but since I perceive he does say it but in short Francis Thornhill complains loud enough of the wrongs he had by him which I shall not now argue but to strengthen his Plea against me he went to Francis Thornhill to get something under his hand to clear him who told him he had rather his Hand was cut off then ever it should do such a thing This I had since from Francis Thornhill his own mouth In page 9. he demands satisfaction for advising Thomas Booth to dig Turf in his Meadow there is but a Ditch between it and my Bog and though it was once laid up for Meadow it was so bad that it is now turned to pasture again as mine is and for ought I know was as good Bog and as fit for Turf as mine is And further he saith I said this to aggravate my reflecting malice against Wright c. What I said to Booth if ever I said it was long before for ought I know a year or years before I hindred Eustace to dig Turf but if I should reckon what provocations and aggravations he hath given me of far greater moment then this I might make large Volumes whether it was not malice in him to keep all these things in store and read them amongst his familiars over his Cups in an Ale-house In page 8. he saith He hath put down but about half and what he hath put down is all true So here the World has his word for it believe it that will when any one has tried him so far as I then they will know better what to believe Further He saith he hath left out nine or ten for brevity sake But rather for want of being true say I. Page 9 and 10. He makes a repitition of 8 or 9 of them over again only I suppose either to make his Book or my Crime bigger Next thing I take notice of is page 17. where he saith he had set one hundred forty Acres of Ballynicargie to Stephen Racks and Robert James seven years before ever Carleton was concerned which saith he if I had let to Carleton were to bring an old house over my head and I were a fool and a mad man Who would think such a man that is so serious and stands so much upon his reputation and professes so much honesty truth and just dealing in words could be contradicted For such a Fool a Madman is William Wright for all his vapor of seeming honesty that he set forty Acres of that same one hundred forty to Thomas Trafford but one year before Carleton was concerned with all that Carleton now holds took his earnest drew Articles hath his earnest yet but

THE CONFIDER In FALSHOOD CONFOUNDED Being an ANSWER to An Abusive BOOK Lately published by William Wright of Dublin against Thomas Carleton his Tenant in the first place And Will. Edmondson John Burnyet Abraham Fuller and Franc. Randall Arbitrators in the second place equally chosen to end some difference between the said William Wright and Thomas Carleton c. Printed in the Year of our Lord 1684. The Confider in Falshood confounded being an Answer to an abusive Book lately published by William Wright of Dublin against Thomas Carleton his Tenant c. THE first thing I observe in his Book is That he would make the World believe that the Quakers deceived him and with this news he would tingle their Ears thereby to make his Monologies or Book of Bables more taking with the Reader and the reason he lays down in the 9th page of his Book he considers that in all reports that are spread abroad amongst men be they never so false there are some that believe them especially where the party concerned stirs not in vindication of himself These and the like considerations moved him as he saith to do what he did And in the 20th page he saith one mans story seems fair and honest till another be heard so that from his own saying it may be concluded be his reports never so false they will seem fair and honest and be believed for truths by some whilst Carleton and the Arbitrators say nothing for themselves and no doubt many such his Book may meet with in the world as will be ready to give judgment before they hear both parties But the Quakers did not deceive him for it was his own false heart and leaning to lies for refuge and for his great transgression against God that he was deluded and decieved and fell into great and fore temptation If we may believe his own report of himself and what he hath written with his own hand in the first page of a Book he writ against his own Wife about 7 or 8 years before this Arbitration was so what can we expect when he cannot conceal the infirmities of his own flesh but writ Books yea black Books as he calls them against his own Wife and spread them abroad And to my knowledge it hath been his practice for many years to write Libels and scandalous scroles against divers men he hath had to do with which he dare not publish in print as he does the Quakers but like a Serpent in the dark would impeach other mens honesty and advance his own but such black dark Books and scroles must needs proceed out of the bottomless pit where all such things are hatched But to come to my purpose that is to answer to his high charges and to give a little more light and understanding to the unbiassed Reader that he may not err in judgment by believing all W. W. hath put in print for I remember it was said of old He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his neighbour cometh and sercheth him out Page the 4th He saith God defend that he should either wittingly or willingly write one word but what shall be real truth So if the Reader will take his serious assertions for truths he may be deceived for I am able the truth being on my side to make it appear in several places of his Book that he hath both wittingly and wilfully writ that which is not true against Carleton though some may be apt to think W. W. is no such man for all his large pretence to the contrary yea things that he knew was not true long before his Book was writ but I see by experience men that stand in disobedience and rebellion against Gods witness in themselves grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived Now I shall proceed to examine his high and false Charges one by one and give my Answers as truly and briefly as possible without tautology or needless reiterations as he hath often done in his Book Charge 1. page 4. I let to Carleton saith he 184 Acres of Land and there being some odd Acres part whereof being Turf-bog I reserved to my self for firing for my other Tenants and also for Clay for my own use and that I should sell his Clay hinder his Tennants from digging Turf and dig Turf there my self and also my Tenants c. Answ That he reserved any odd Acres either of Turf-bog or Clay by any express Covenant in my Lease or any express words in our bargain that I absolutely deny It is true there are several Exceptions and Reservations in my Lease which hitherto I have duely observed and kept but not a word of any odd Acres of Land or Bog c so why should that reservation be wanting if any part of our bargain when the other was put in he knows and I know very well he would have excepted 4 Acres when we were about the bargain at C. W. his house at Clahamman and I would either have all as it was entirely fenced in as saith my Lease or I would have none upon which we broke off and paid our reckoning at the Inn and after he was out of doors and ready to take Horse he turn'd in again and said he would not break with me for them I should have them and so granted me the whole all within the Fences to my understanding and others that were by and into the whole put me in possession and the whole I have enjoyed these five years last and have nothing but my bargain both by the bounds of my Lease and plain express words which J. N. can witness who was then standing by also T. A. who before treated with him upon the same bargain broke off for 4 or 2 Acres of Bog some days or weeks before as I was like to have done if he had not granted them without any further reservation or exception for confirmation of this take T. A. his Certificate as follows This is to certifie all whom it may concern That I went to Ballynicargie to take it of William Wright and he shewed me the very Lands that Thomas Carleton now enjoyeth and he and I agreed of the price and I was to have a lease according to the bounds and when he came to write Articles he would have accepted 4 or 2 Acres of Bog upon which I left him and it because I could not have it as we had agreed Witness my Hand this 17 th day of May 1684. Thomas Anslow his mark And whereas he accuses me of selling Clay I never did by positive Sale only the Clerks of the Iron works gave me something what they pleased themselves in consideration for the Clay they got And if I had I sold none of his for the Land being mine the Clay was not his Charge 2. page 4. Carleton to spare his own Wood in the Year 1680 set his man Charles Smith to cut down and take away all the Birch Trees that grew upon a new