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A40899	The Lord Cravens case stated; and the impostor dethron'd by way of reply to Captain George Bishop, a grand Quaker in Bristoll. Wherein is briefly hinted, the rottenness of the Quakers conversion, and perfection, in general, exemplified in this busie bishop; in special instanced in his practises against the estate of the Lord Craven, life of Mr. Love. By occasion whereof, this truth is asserted, viz. if we may judge of the conscience, honesty, and perfection of Quakers in general, by this man in particular, a man may be as vile a person, as any under heaven, and yet a perfect Quaker.	Farmer, Ralph.; Bishop, George, d. 1668. aut	1660 (1660)	Wing F442; ESTC R218269	94,789	137

were familiarly acquainted with Hollister for whom this daring man doth thus protest hee being by mee charged in special for turning Quaker upon faction and discontent before ever I saw their book which was but lately published it is a book published by and in the name of that Church as they call themselves whereof hee was a member or rather Master till hee fell away to the Quakers and drew away from them as they say in their Epistle to the Reader eighteen or nineteen with him in the tenth and eleventh page of which book they say they did observe in what height of discontent hee came home from that thing call'd a Parliament and continued in that posture viz. of discontent till a new Religion came which was the Quakers which say they presently within few daies or weeks hee imbraced So that I can nor I think will any considering man look upon him no otherwise than as one of those Knights of the Post as they call them who will say or swear any thing and this to let you see the spirit of the man And now to proceed hee professes and as you see boldly protests his innocency in the matter of the Lord Craven and Faulconer nor hath hee used nor doth hee know of any indirect proceeding in that whole business Now that my Reader who is a stranger in this matter may go along with mee with understanding I shall as briefly as I can lay the whole business before him The Lord Craven having been for many years long before the troubles in England resident in Holland and imployed in their service having a command under the Prince of Orange the Scots King going to Breda the Lord Craven came thither in attendance upon the Prince of Orange during the Scotch Kings residence at Breda divers officers souldiers formerly in the service of the King his Father being in great distress and like to perish drew up a Petition for relief of their necessities Now Faulconer aforesaid having been a souldier a Major in the Parliament service and being as upon his death-bed hee confest in a poor desperate condition and going over to Breda as a Spy strikes in with these Cavileers as one of them and was intreated by them to drw the aforesaid Petition which hee did in drawing thereof Faulconer moved that they might Petition the Scotch King that they might bee entertained by him to fight against the Commonwealth of England by the name of barbarons and inhumane Rebels but those honest Cavaleers answered that they were souldiers of fortune and it was uncivil language and they would not have it in and so the Petition being drawn up by Faulconer according to their minde was delivered to the Scotch King who it seems promised to consider them About three weeks after the Scotch King being to depart from Breda next morning these Cavaleers not finding answerable relief according to the former Petition and the Kings promise they drew up another short Petition to put him in minde of his promise and meeting the Lord Craven there who they knew to bee a friend to souldiers they entreat him to further that their Petition hee knowing nothing of the former nor did it appear that the Lord Craven promoted this second Petition which if hee had there was not any thing offensive but the Scotch King went away next morning without giving any relief to the per●●●ners as Captain Brisco one of them swears at Faulconers tryal insomuch that Faulconer being discontented that hee got no moneys said as hee was going into the Town This is a horrid thing that wee should bee in this case to follow a thing they call a King God dam me I will go into England and do all the mischief I can as Col. Drury another of the Petitioners informed at Faulconers tryal of which afterward Now that you may better know what a manner of person this Faulconer was and how fit for any desperate undertaking it was at his tryal sworn against him that hee drunk a health upon his knees to the devil in the open streets at Petersfield and that then hee used these words I have spent my brothers estate and my own I will never want money for whilst there is any in the Nation I will get one way or other and I will doe something of infamy to bee talkt of that the name of Faulconer shall never die One James Greham swore against him that after the siege of Exeter in a Cellar there hee the said Faulconer put into Grehams hand a two and twenty shillings piece of gold swearing Dam him blood and wounds hee would bugger his soul to hell Another swore that dam him and sink him were his usual expressions One Bradley testified that hee heard Faulconer say our Saviour Christ was a bastard and a Carpenters son and carried a basket of tools after his Father Mr. Thomas Dyer of Bristol being produced as a witness did declare that Faulconer confest to him that hee had ten pound of a man by procuring one to personate Captain Bishop Thus a Citizen desiring Faulconer to get Captain Bishop to do a business for him hee promised Faulconer twenty pound ten pound in hand and ten pound afterward Faulconer got one to personate Captain Bishop and to go along with him to the Citizen which man so personating Captain Bishop promised the Citizen upon the account of Major Faulconers good services for the publike to afford him his best assistance in effecting what was desired in his Petition and so Faulconer got the ten pound It was also proved that Faulconer was committed to Goal in the County of Middlesex for suspition of felony and thence by order from the Lord Chief Justice Rolls to Newgate and that hee had been committed to Ailsbury Goal upon suspition of felony robbery and murther Now this Faulconer having been over at Breda as aforesaid and returning into England George Bishop being Clerk to the Committee for informations has to do with him from whence hee receives information of divers plots and designes of the adverse party to the Parliament But to come to the business the Lord Craven having a great Estate in England of Land besides brave houses one in particular that cost twenty thousand pound the building besides brave and gallant woods and timber being thus beyond Sea and never acted against the Parliament in armes a long time after Faulconer had been over and given in his informations of enemies actings and having said nothing of or against the Lord Craven an information is drawn up against the said Lord Craven in Faulconers name as the informant which is as followeth Faulconers Examination Who saith THat about a Fortnight before the conclusion of the Treaty at Breda the Lord Craven the Queen of Bohemia and her two Daughters came to Breda to the Scots King Charles and went not thence till the King went to Housteidike a house of the Prince of Oranges that during that time this Informant saw the Lord Craven divers times

in presence with the said King and every day with the said King at the Court there hee being there with the Queen of Bohemia and her two daughters to take their leave as they said of the King of Scots before hee went to Scotland That several Officers about thirty in number made a Petition to the said King to entertain them to fight for him against the Commonwealth of England by the name of barbarous and inhumane Rebels either in England or Scotland for the recovering of his just rights and re-instating him in his Throne and deputed this Informant and Colonel Drury to present the said Petition who indeed drew the same that when the Informant and some other Officers came to the Court at Breda intending to present the said Petition immediately to the Kings hand but finding the Lord Craven very neer to him likewise the Marquess of New-castle who presented his brother Sir Charles Cavendish to kiss the said Kings hand the evening before the said Kings departure who this Informant saw kiss the Kings hand accordingly The Lord Wilmot the Earl of Cleveland the Queen of Bohemia the Lord Gerrard c. and a great buttle of business This Informant with Colonel Drury applied themselves to the Lord Craven entreating him to present the Petition to the Queen of Bohemia to present it to the King of Scots The said Lord Craven taking the Petition and reading the same cheerfully said to Colonel Drury and this Informant there is the Queen of Bohemia deliver it to her and I will speak for you upon which they applyed themselves to the said Queen and shee presented the Petition after which the King of Scots the Lord Craven the Marquess of New-castle the Queen of Bohemia with some other Lords went into a with-drawing room where this Informant and company could not enter but the Lord Craven came forth of the with-drawing Chamber and told this Informant and company that they should receive an answer from the Queen of Bohemia to their Petition and that hee had spoken to the Queen of Bohemia in their behalf who afterward came and told this Informant and company that shee had delivered their Petition and that the King had taken order for it The next morning at three of the clock the King departed but this Informant and company had their quarters satisfied by the Princesse of Orange according to the said Kings Order upon their Petition and thereby to inable them to follow the said King in the prosecution of these wars against the Parliament of England which was the effect of their aforesaid Petition That this Informant saw the Lord Craven very often and familiar with the said King and enter with the said King into the with-drawing Chamber and staid there the last night the said King was at Breda very late Richard Faulconer To this were added these two following examinations Colonel Hugh Reyleys Examination Who saith THat during the late Treaty at Breda this Informant did oftentimes see my Lord Craven with the now King of Scots in his Bed-chamber and also walked abroad with him there being no man more conversant with the King than hee That the said Lord Craven during the said Treaty did twice go to Rotterdam and Dunhagh and back again being imployed as was commonly reported at Court there by the said King that the said Lord Craven had a charge from the King to look to one Mrs. Barlow who as is reported and he believes to bee true had a childe by the King of Scots born at Rotterdam which hee did and after the King was gone for Scotland the said Lord Craven took the childe from her for which shee went to Law with him and recovered the childe as is reported Hugh Reyley Captain Kitchingmans Examination Who saith THat the said Captain Thomas Kitchingman in April and May 1650. saw the Lord Craven several times with the King of Scots at Breda and waiting upon the said King several times at his Table at Breda This Informant also saw the Earle of Oxford at the same time with the King of Scots at Breda waiting upon the said King at his Table and saw the Lord Craven and the Earl of Oxford many times going into the withdrawing rooms after the said King This Informant also saw the Lord Craven and the Earl of Oxford in a Bowling-alley in Breda Castle with the said King Tho. Kitchingman In these two latter Examinations Reyl●ys was but report you see there was nothing that would render Lord Craven criminous But upon this his estate was ordered to bee confiscate and afterward sold and sold it was and is accordingly Of the endeavours of the Lord Cravens friends to prevent it and what was agitated in Parliament I shall not mention for that I refer the Reader to a printed piece entituled A true and perfect Narrative of the several proceedings in the case concerning the Lord Craven printed by R. White 1653. Now if this information of Faulconer bee the onely material testimony upon which the Lord Cravens estate was sequestred and that Faulconer in this information was perjured and forsworn and this bee a false information then this will clearly follow that there was indirect proceedings in some body in this business and that this information of Faulconers was and is false and hee perjured in it and forsworn appears by two most pregnant testimonies neither of them to be denied First by his legal tryal and conviction Secondly by his own confession on his death-bed For Faulconers tryal and conviction of perjury in and for this very information that appears by the Records thereof for the Lord Cravens friends prefer'd an Indictment of perjury against him in the County of Middlesex which Indictment was found against him one Sir Henry Blunt being foreman of the Jury Delayes were used to hinder Faulconers pleading to it notwithstanding the Prosecutors for the Lord Craven had procured a Habeas Corpus to bring him to the Bar to plead to the Indictment which hee failing they procure another Habeas Corpus hee yet gets further time and a peremptory day assigned by the Court or else Judgement to bee entred against him And the very last day when needs must and not before when the last roll was out hee pleaded not guilty Now Paulconer having pleaded not guilty a Jury is summoned Councel appear in the Vpper Bench at Westminster Mr. Maynard Mr. Hales Mr. Twisden Mr. Philips Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Drury for the Commonwealth and the Lord Craven Mr. Windham Mr. Letch Mr. Lechmore and Mr. Haggat of Councel for Faulconer where upon five hours debate the said Faulconer was found guilty of perjury in this very matter against the Lord Craven the whole proceedings whereof you have fully related in the Narrative before mentioned This tryall and conviction of Faulconer was May 20. 1653. Hereupon Faulconer was committed to the Upper Bench prison in Southwark where hee lay till hee died Now for the second evidence of Faulconers perjury in

the high dishonour of God in their unchristian principles and practises too well known and in prophaning the Sabbath by multitude of their Proselites flocking from all parts of the Country round about us upon that day But now so it is that one James Naylor a most eminent Ring-leader and head of that Faction hath lately appeared here among us more high than ever in horrid and open blasphemies expressy avowed and owned by his neerest followers as that hee is the onely begotten Son of God and that there is no other than hee that hee is the everlasting Son of righteousness and that in him the hopes of Israel stands that hee is the King of Israel and Prince of Peace and calling him Lord and Master saying his name shall bee no more called James but Jesus All which are no other than the natural issue of their Scripture-denying principles And now wee desiring to follow the Ductures of Divine Providence which hath brought their iniquitie to a height at such a time as this is when the Legistative power of the Nation is sitting in whom it is to provide wholesome and good lawes against the growing evils of the times wherein the Lord eminentlie in our apprehensions calls for your zeal for his glory Wee humbly make our applications to your Honours and with profession of our abhorrency and utter detestation of the damnable and blasphemous Doctrines of the Quakers which tend in their own nature to the utter ruine of the true Christian Religion and civil Government both in Cities families and all relations as would too soon appear had they power in their hands and who now not as heretofore tacitly and by way of implication but openly and expresly dishonour that sacred Name by which wee are called and trample upon that blood by which wee are justified by making others sharers with him in his incommunicable excellencies And do therefore humbly pray that your Honours would now take up the reines of Government into your hands which have too long lain loose in this particular and to curb the insolencies of all ungodly persons who in this or any other way do or may eclipse the glory of our Christian Profession by their unbridled and licentious liberties that so the reproach not only of this City but of the whole Nation and Government may bee rolled away And the glory of this work being acted by your hands might render your names worthy to bee enrolled amongst the number of those faithful Confessours to whom the honour of our dearest Lord hath been more precious than their lives and all worldly enjoyments And wee shall daily pray c. So that here you see George can make and feign an occasion to usher in his friendlie Letter in Naylors behalf and yet would not seem to own him this is not the first of Georges collusions and packing in this kinde I 'le but minde him of the like practise and that was about our Burgesses chosen for the Parliament 54. where having fram'd a Petition against the Election putting to the hands of several persons that knew not of it in a base and wicked way as was proved to the Lords of the Councel Besides this piece of knavery which was most gross their Petition presented to his Highness and his Councel with their Narrative of the proceedings in that Election petitioned that the parties nominated by them might bee approved and established And who were they but George himself for one as by their Narrative Art 5. appeareth Now when they thought to have surpriz'd us by short summons to appear before the Councel as one of their own party acknowledged afterwards and supposed wee would not appear or not provided which contrary to their expectation wee were having gotten Copies of their Petition and Narrative before hand and so were fitted accordingly when wee came to the hearing they had foisted in another Petition not that which was presented with their Narrative And in this second there was no Petition to confirm himself as the former with reference to the Narrative as aforesaid prayed And then George very finely with his guilt sword did not appear there as hee said for himself but for those honest men that were with him Seriously you would have smiled knowing of him how demurely and how simply honest hee did look Now this trick George wee took notice of but never told you of it till now having enough else to lay you then But now wee tell you of it that you may see wee know you better than you are aware of And that the world may know further what a one you are I 'le acquaint them with one thing more Do not you know who it was that a little before that Election said that wee must chuse such Parliament men as should hold my Lord Protectors nose to the grinde-stone And yet see how this lamentable creature doth glose and glaver and cog and fawn and flatter speaking against the very light within him And this is in their said Petitions which that you may see that base practise and the high conceits of himself and his party as the only Saints and fit for Quakers I 'le lay before you To his Highness Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. The humble Petition of divers free Burgesses and Inhabitants of the City and Councel of Bristol Sheweth THat your Petitioners and divers other Burge sles and Inhabitants of the City and Councel of Bristol viz. the generality of the godly faithful and constant friends to the Parliaments interest came to the place and at the time appointed by the Sheriffs for the chusing of Burgesses to sit in Parliament according to the qualifications in the instrument of Government supposing that those that had been faithful to the cause of God and the Nation should have received countenance and have been owned by those who were to execute your Highness Commands in a business of so great weight and concernment as the Election of Burgesses to sit in Parliament for the carrying on and securing the common interest of liberty contended for and brought through by the good hand of the Lord such Seas of Bloud and multitudes of other unspeakable sufferings and ruines of the Saints and good people of the Nations amongst whom that your Petitioners and their friends have borne no small share and proportion That contrariwise they found those who all along both in principle and practise have bitterly opposed the cause of God in the behalf of the late King and your Petitioners and other their friends from prosecuting the same countenanced and incouraged to avote and undertook by the Sheriffes to bee born out in so doing and your Petitioners with other friends with a very high hand affronted abused threatned and some of them though rightlie qualified denied to vote as by the Narrative of proceedings hereunto annexed more particularly may appear to which your Petitioners humbly refer your Highness as that which they own

is the securest way to save ones ears to joyn the Ministers of the Parliament with the Parliament it self But the Parliament may bee honest though their Ministers may bee knaves and therefore George presently sayes that that book of his is not purposely to Apologize for the Parliament well then it is for some body else he would not have writ it to no purpose But why not for the Parliament Why sayes hee 't is a thing needless among true English men who are used highly to reverence actions of Parliament Mark here George would have actions of Parliament so highly rerenced that none might question this business 1 Pet. 4.15 c. Sure George would now say that Parliaments are so infallible But wee 'l take it for granted that this Apology is not for the Parliament but for their Ministers but who or what are they Sure it is some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some busie Bishop in another mans Diocess so the word signifies but 't is rendred in our translation a busie body in other mens matters matters they should not have medled in But who is it why 't is George Bishop busie George Bishop who had the transactions of all that business So hee sayes himself page 14. line 25. of his book two or three lines before hee hath these words How dare any thus falsly to charge a State with such gross wickedness as to corrupt Faulconer hee means And then goes on Though Captain Bishop himself writ the book yet hee speaks as if it were written by another and so playes behinde the Curtain which let the reader remember for his better understanding what I quote from that book of his but as there was not a tittle produc'd to prove corruption malice or wilfulness in the said Faulconer against the said Lord so Captain Bishop who had the transactions of all that businesse upon his oath cleared him of all These are Georges words Well then stop a little here and though wee break order in the form of proceedings in legal tryals you Gentlemen of this Jury who are to give your verdict in this matter of George Bishop I pray take notice Geo. you see upon his oath it was at Faulconers tryal clears Faulconer of corruption or malice against the Lord Craven Poor man hee intended no such thing at first against him no Faulconer was altogether a stranger to the Lord Craven and since hee came over hee confest to some of good credit that the Lord Cravens deportment at Breda where this horrible treason should bee by him committed and for which his estate is sequestred was altogether inoffensive as to the Commonwealth of England and that hee Faulconer understood nothing of the said business namely of that dreadful Petition for which hee was so sequestred more than that a consideration was desired to bee had of the present wants and great necessities of the Petitioners This you have in the fourth Petition presented to the Parliament on the behalf of the Lord Craven in the Narrative aforesaid page 19. Aye these were their words will George say But I answer they offered to prove them to the Parliament if they might have been admitted But to second this I 'le shew you what George himself sayes in his own book for Faulconers honesty simplicity and harmlesness as to the Lord Graven and this upon Bishopsoath if it bee any thing worth page 13. line the last but 10. he sayes that when Faulconer gave him accounts of designes against the Commonwealth The same hee bath again in page 42 43. hee said nothing to him of the Lord Craven nor of any thing of this passage of the Petition upon which the estate was sequestred nor notwithstanding many discourses with him said hee any thing till about five moneths afterwards and then but accidentally not of his own accord as page 43. Captain Bishop asking him who were at Breda with the King not thinking of the Lord Craven Faulconer reckoned the said Lord amongst the rest and being asked said something of that business which Captain Bishop not much valued them Thus hee How this was improved you shall see afterwards so that here Faulconer is cleared of any intention of mischief against the Lord Craven the man poor Faulconer is yet honest in this matter But yet you see hee was afterwards perjured and forsworn How comes this about Oh see what a fearful temptation 't is to bee in poverty and want it will put an honest heart into great straits I now think upon that prayer of honest Agur Prov. 30.8 9 Give mee not poverty lest I bee poor and steal and take the name of my god in vain Poverty is a sore tryal even to a good and honest heart but when it shall meet with a wretched and profligate spirit what will it not put him upon I minde that dreadful expression of poore Faulconer before expressed whilst hee was ranting and drinking healths to the devil I have spent my brothers estate and mine own I will never want money for whilst there is any in the Nation I will get it one way or other and I will do something of infamy to bee talkt of the name of Faulconer shall never die Oh how dreadfully did the Lord say Amen to this poor creature And what a lamentable thing is it for such a poor wretch to fall into the hands of such as will make use and advantage of his low condition Why you will say what 's the matter Do you ask what 's the matter look back upon Faulconers confession and there hee tells you hee was provoked to swear falsly How read the last words of his confession Captain Bishop kept mee low with small pittances so that I was at his bow At his bow what to do Hee Faulconer made a demur at those words barbarous and inhumane rebels whether they were in the Petition or no which hee did not then remember but now did and so it seems scrupled to swear to them and Captain Bishop said if you leave that out you do nothing and so sayes hee I 'le let it pass Being speedily brought before the Committee where I falsty swore it and concludes Captain Bishop kept mee low with small pittances that I was at his bow What think you of this Sirs Is this direct just honest proceedings to provoke a poor man in want to swear with a scrupling conscience and to that which now appears to bee false Hee was resolved it seems hee should swear something to the purpose Do you want any more evidence This is enough you will say but if you have any more produce it and pray tell us How do you conceive this game began Why I 'le tell you what George himself sayes as hee goes on in page 13. lines 3 last and so on to 14 and the same also page 42 43. of his book when Faulconer as before in that accidental discourse with Bishop five moneths after Faulconers coming over had mentioned the Lord Cravens being at

power and hereupon you say that Drury shewing you the Subpena you asked him whether hee told them that hee was under the warrant of the Councel of State and under examination of their Committee of Examinations As to that particular amongst others but I must tell you hee was not under their examination to that particular of Faulconers perjury hee answered no. Then you say you asked him why hee had not acquainted you with the Subpena before hee went to Guild-Hall and was sworn yea there was his fault since hee was a prisoner under examination and under Parol To which as you say hee giving no reasonable answer but that hee knew not what the business was and such like when as as you say the Indictment could not have been drawn without the consent of and converse with Drury yea still there was the sin and who you say was the chief witnesse upon which it was grounded it being prepared and found that day and had hee not been committed by you Faulconer had been convicted that Sessions of that perjury which was afterwards proved and himself confessed But you go on and say That you perceiving thereby how hee did prevaricate and how things were done in design and combination against the State But stay Was it a design against the State that the Lord Cravens innocency should bee cleared Oh base Yes now I remember my self it was for then the design against the estate of the Lord Craven in all likelihood of Justice might have proved ineffectual But you go on and say further that you not knowing what other inconvenience might come to the State by his Druries further liberty since hee had made that use of it aforesaid reproved him therefore with that high language against him and the Lord Mayor as before which you do not deny received the Subpena from him and taking of his Parol returned him into custody from Munday evening to the Friday following And was it not to Friday evening following as well as from Munday evening before which you reckon up with a four nights and no longer and I say four dayes too so long that no proceedings could bee expected that Sessions against Faulconer The last day of the Sessions being no time for such prosecutions but calling over the Goal and concluding former businesses and then you say upon information of the poverty of Drury and that hee had no money to pay for his diet and lodging which you knew well enough before and have acknowledged when you gave him money for his supper and would not commit him lest hee should perish And now you say in meer charity when there was no opportunity for him at Sessions hee had his liberty upon his Parol again and enjoyes it Charitable wretch And did you in charity commit him Fie upon such base hypocrisie And then you go on with a company of blinde supposals to argue the improbability of your committing of him to the end to obstruct the proceedings against Faulconer which are so childish and coming in but by way of additional aid to your former answer which is your chief backler but a filly one I shall not trouble my self and the Reader with which if you think any thing worth print it and I 'le bee your bondman if it any way help you nay if it don't further discover your folly and I would have writ it but that 't is as long as impertinent and this is enough And your main answer which how it clears you let all or any man of common reason judge And say is George Bishop innocent in this matter And one thing more I find charg'd against you George which I suppose is an unjust and indirect practise Narr page 40. and used by you in the matter of Craven and Faulconer And in the Margin of the Narrative where this matter following is spoken to there is written Observe and 't is observable 't is short but home and therefore printed in another Character in these words By way of digression observe that Druries and Briscoes informations which Captain Bishop had taken above twelve moneths since and which tended to clear the Lord Craven hee concealed till this hour that hee produc'd the same in Court and never transmitted these two mens examinations to the Parliament though before the Bill of Sale did passe hee did transmit Bardseys and Kitchingmans re-examinations taken by himself and which hee apprehended made against the Lord Craven Here now is a heavy charge and certainly these proceedings if true are very indirect and hee cannot bee innocent But hear him speak for himself and I 'le give you every word And thus hee begins page 44. of his own book What Captain Bishops imployment was is already spoken his duty was to take and to keep such informations as concerned the Committee and to do with them according to their or the Councels or the Parliaments orders but neither the Council nor Committee ordered him to transmit them to the Parliament though they were not ignorant of them and several times shewed by him to some of the members of the Councel and to the Committee nor did the Parliament call for them or what papers concerning the Lord Craven were in the custody of the Councel or Committee nor take the depositions into debate after the first vote of confiscation and whether those examinations advantage the Lord Craven let the reader upon consideration of what is already mentioned and argued thereupon judge Nay but George let mee put in a word or two by the way it had been very honest and fair for you to have put down their examinations themselves that the reader might judge upon them for wee can't see them nor must wee take your word But you go on Nor were any papers at all transmitted by him meaning himself G. B. to the Parliament either for or against the Lord Craven for Bardseys examination when hee had taken it hee sent it in to the Councel for Bardsey to make oath thereof which after hee had made it was put presently into the hands of one of the members viz. Mr. Gourdon to report to the Parliament who received it and lodged it with Mr. Scobel it being not returned to Captain Bishop and for Kitchingmans re examination hee transmitted no such thing nor was any such taken whilst the Committee for examinations was in being Kitchingmans information being deposed by him at Haberdashers Hall Now J pray what 's all this to the purpose doth this excuse you will you give mee leave to interrogate you If you will not answer chuse let the reader judge You took such informations from Drury and Brisco did you not 'T is plain you did Did not their depositions excuse and acquit the Lord Craven and prove Faulconer perjur'd 'T is plain they did Had not Drury the original draught of the Petition under Faulconers own hand-writing which at his Tryal was produc'd and hee could not deny and which hee confest upon his death-bed to

and is now a member of this present Parliament one so cordial to the publike interest that I do profess when I afterwards saw him upon his return from the circuit my heart rejoyced that I had so appeared for him whom upon my own knowledge was so true a friend to the Parliament for I well knew him before by sight but did not know him by name to bee the person prosecuted I could tell you further George of others whom I have rescued from the jawes of ruine upon Parliamentary prosecutions and that upon base and packt knavery followed with perjury and by some of our own Officers which I my self have discovered and caused them to bee turned out So that George you must not sculk and hide your head under the shelter of the Parliament And for the rest that followes in your answer and excuse the reader will easily perceive you do but quibble and trifle upon forms and circumstances which makes nothing to the substance of the business I shall not need to mention your zeal and earnestness at the tryal of Faulconer in his behalf nor your reflecting upon the Judges in these words page 15. of your book The Judges in the issue summon'd not up the evidence which they should have done As for the Jury you bestow this upon them in the same page The Jury of the affections of whom for the Parliament wee cannot yet understand neither took any notes nor ask'd a question yet in a very short time were agreed in their verdict and the next morning gave it into the Court that Faulconer was guilty of the perjury mentioned in the Indictment And then you go on and say That a man indeed without divining might have told which way the cause would go by the countenances of the Jury all along the tryal of the cause as was taken notice of by many honest men such as you are no doubt And then you sadly complain thus But this is what every honest man may expect in cases wherein the State is concern'd George is huge angry that Faulconer is found guilty of Perjury when the unpardoned traytors whom with the peril of their lives they discover to bee undermining the safety of a State in times of great danger in the field and under ground conspiracies working towards the general destruction thereof shall after the enemie is overthrown and prevented bee permitted to come into England when they can no longer do the Commonwealth mischief abroad and to be good witnesses against such honest discoveries risum teneatis amici in such Traitors own causes as to their lives as hath happened to one of the States witnesses Faulconer in the very case now in question And so you flirt upon the Jury again page 47. I will not comment upon it because I hasten to an end But the man is very angry with Judge and Jur and Witnesses and as before with the Lord Mayor as no friends to the State that Faulconer was found perjur'd which yet hee himself hath confest himself to bee But why is George so angry it seems hee is much concerned in it for though hee act for good affection to the State yet its reason that hee should bee consider'd and therefore in my information from London by a hand that is able to make good his undertakings I am thus told that hee George repaired to Drury house and contracted for about 300 pound a year of the Lord Cravens Land where and when this argument was used that hee might bee favourably dealt with and considered in the purchace for that hee was the man that brought the Commonwealth so great an estate and that but for him the Lord Craven had not been put into the Bill of Sale and accordingly hee was favourably dealt withal But Master Baker Surveyor General to the Trustees then reprehended the said Captain Bishop for so speaking the scandal whereof was it seems like to prove so great as well it might that hee relinquisht the contract and when in the last Parliament but this this contract was laid to his charge by the Committee of Parliament appointed to hear the Lord Cravens case and hee urg'd to answer whether hee did contract or not How sayes my information did hee prevaricate and shuffle with the Committee and put off an answer till hee did see there were those present that were ready to produce the contracts out of the book and then to his shame and admiration of the Committee hee did confess at last hee did contract for a considerable part of the Lord Cravens estate but that hee had since that time declined the same So that for all your pretences of publike interest you drove on a design of your own private and if the way had been honest you might have done it and you need not have declin'd it and to back this and so an end Did not you write to a Gentleman an acquaintance of mine and yours one imployed for the publike to inform you of the quality and worth of a Mannour of the Lord Cravens call'd the Mannour of Hinton Norton in Sommerset-shire and did not you afterward in your Study at White-Hall tell him that you inquired after it for that you expected that the Parliament should reward your good service you had done for the State in sequestring the Lord Cravens estate Or words to that purpose And now Sirs you that are to give your judgment upon George Bishop upon the whole matter what say you Is George clear and innocent Hath hee not used nor doth hee not know of any indirect proceedings in that whole business of Craven and Faulconer of which hee makes such a bold appeal to the Almighty Say is it any matter whether hee bee a Quaker or no or what he is And if wee may judge of the conscience honesty and perfection of the rest by him may wee not conclude as I undertook to make good That a man may bee as vile a person as any under heaven and yet a perfect Quaker If hee had repented of it and what in him lies made restitution it had been somewhat I should have said nothing for who will upbraid a man with that for which hee hath repented But hee still like a Quaker justifies himself as if he had done no evil and I easily perceive the bush under which hee hides himself and thinks no body sees him For after his protestation hee sayes Hee has had a large time of tryal wherein bee hath neither wanted enemies for the sake of truth nor they malice and opportunity to lay to his charge could they finde or were there any thing to be found against him Simple fellow I wonder hee could mannage so great a business with so little wit because the Lord Cravens friends did not indict him but Faulconer therefore hee sillily concludes they could finde or say nothing against him Doth hee not know that it was for the Lord Cravens advantage to lay all the blame upon Faulconer and to charge