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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95944	A vindication of my Lord Windsor's late proceedings with Mr. John Griffith, occasioned by his vain aspersions. / And undertaken by an unknown servant of his Lordship.	Unknown servant of his Lordship.	1650 (1650)	Wing V485; Thomason E594_16; ESTC R204695	4,623	8

A VINDICATION OF My Lord WINDSOR'S late Proceedings WITH Mr. JOHN GRIFFITH Occasioned by his vain Aspersions And undertaken by an unknown Servant of his Lordship IT is I confess an officious presumption in me to undertake the defence of a Gentleman so eminently known by the clearness of his Reputation as my Lord Windsor is to most of the English Gentry especially since my Lord himself is so much ashamed to have any more to do with his unworthy Detractor that I have often heard him say He will rather cast himself upon the hazard of Censure amongst those who are strangers to his person and proceedings then blemish his discretion by continuing to answer that impudent man in his folly Yet since Mr. Griffith hath so lately proceeded to the highest act of unworthiness as to post a man up for a Coward who fought with him dismounted him and not onely gave him his life but saved him the shame of begging it my duty and service to his Lordship is of such force That without either his consent or privacy I think my self bound in Justice to his merit thus far to publish his defence by giving a true Narrative of the occasion and ground of the Quarrel the circumstances of the Fight and the subsequent proceedings of both parties It is scarce unknown to any how Mr. Griffith made violent assault upon the unspotted chastity of the Lady Calvely in her Husbands time in pursuance whereof not to reckon up his frantick addresses he killed one of her Servants for which he fled the Land and finding his beastly lust divulged by the disdain and scorn of that vertuous Lady and the sad accident of the murther of her Servant the heat of his amours was soon converted into the depth of malice and lest her chastity should triumph over his bruitishness he began to publish doubtful discourses tending to the undermining and blasting of her Reputation It fortuned that the Lady soon after became a Widow and Mr. Griffith then conceived new hopes of enjoying her in a lawful way of Marriage which made him although absent imploy watchful eyes over her My Lord Windsor upon the common stock of civility to all Ladies did frequently visit her This so much stirred the jealous part of Mr. Griffith that although he never saw the face of my Lord Windsor he writ a Letter to him on the 16 of January from Callice wherein he seemed to lay a peremptory claim to the Lady and told my Lord That either he must desist from those his addresses or give him a meeting at Callice To this my Lord returned answer That he was indeed a great Servant to the Lady Calvely That if the whole Kingdom did not speak her to be a woman of an untainted repute he should not need Mr. Griffiths advice to desist and that since his language was so peremptory he did not decline the giving of him a meeting at Callice or where he should appoint Griffith replyed on the 17 of Febr. That he had sent a Servant to know the time of his Lordships coming over and like Dametas concludeth thus My Lord when you do understand all things truly I doubt not but you will judge that I had reason to do what I did On the 24 of the same Moneth he writ a large Letter full of the most scurrilous sordid ungentleman-like railing both against the Lady and my Lord that none but Mr. Griffith or one of the Oyster-wives at Bellinesgate could utter which in tenderness of the Ladies name and the Readers stomack I omit To both these my Lord answered on the 15 of March to this purpose That it was unworthy of him to reply to all his ugly railing and bawdy discourse That were there no such woman living as my Lady Calvely he would go to the farthest part of the Earth to fight with him That if the Parliament or Army did not hinder him by some unexpected restraint he would be with him within a Moneth and accordingly his Lordship went over fourteen days before the Moneth was expired and sent him word of it to Callice he told the Messenger upon reading the Letter that he wondred at his Lordships coming and asked if he had any quarrel to him and let fall many expressions betraying a great unwillingness to fight in the end he writ a very civil Letter promising that within four days his Lordship should see him yet came not in three weeks after My Lord perceiving his long stay whereby the business began to grow into discourse at Bruxels retired from thence to Bridges but left a Letter for him which he received the same day wherein his Lordship told him That he would stay a week more for him but in case he heard not from him by that time he would wait no longer When this week was passed my Lord sent his Second and one Mr. Raynolds to Bruxels where they found him out highly ranting against his Lordship upon a supposition that he was gone for England but when his Lordships Second told him that he came from him to finde him and appoint the time and place he swore deeply that he would not stir out of the Town till he saw him although he was but ten leagues distant His Lordship was contented to humor him in that too hoping to give a sudden dispatch to the long protracted Combat and went back to him There Mr. Griffith used many discourses the greatest part tending to an evasion of fighting and a flat denyal of having sent his Lordship any Challenge but his Lordship threatned to declare him a Coward if he did not give him present satisfaction Then indeed he sent his Second to receive the time and place whereof both he and his Second failed and in stead of coming he so much published the appointment that although his Lordship rid the first night from Bruxels to the Sass in Holland he was there clapt up but made an escape to a Countrey Village where both a Guard from the Spaniards and the Hollanders came to search for him and after eight hours seeking they found him and carried him away Prisoner to Gaunt Castle where he was detained till he engaged his Promise not to fight with Mr. Griffith As soon as he had passed his Parole he sent to him again to let him know That his honor was more concerned in fighting with him then in being a true Prisoner and therefore desired him to meet Hereupon a second day and hour was agreed on and my Lord came precisely at the time but Griffith appeared not till four hours after When they met and were prepared for the fight Mr. Griffith although the Challenger stood a long time without advancing whereat my Lord being ashamed on his Adversaries behalf caracolled toward him and after the discharge of their first Pistols my Lord gained the Crupper of him and chased him round the Seconds who stood as witnesses onely but did not engage and Griffith discharged his second Pistol at my Lords Second

Sergeant Major Goff and wounded him whereof he dyed within a week but my Lord to revenge this made a full thrust at him and tumbled him off his horse and having him thus at mercy thought it a greater Conquest to spare then take away his despicable life and thereupon wheeled off because he would not pursue the advantage Indeed Griffith had then the impudence to say My Lord if you are a gallant man alight and fight with me on foot which in good English signifieth no better then thus My Lord now you have disarmed me throw away your Sword if you are a gallant man and fight with me at Cuffs My Lord told him He would give him leave to get up on his horse again if he had not yet enough but Lieutenant Colonel Apsley Second to Mr. Griffith stepped in and said That was too great an advantage to be given and he being the onely Second left could not in honor suffer it My Lord then asked Mr. Griffith If he had any more to say to him he replyed He was his Servant and taking up the Pistols which my Lord had thrown away in the fight kissed them and gave them to his Lordship and so my Lord came off The most material of these Circumstances appeareth in a Letter written by Lieutenant Colonel Apsley to his Brother Sir Allain Apsley which I therefore here insert verbatim Gaunt 6 June New Stile DEar Brother Knowing that in all publike actions a mans Reputation is wracked by the inclination of of the parties affected either to the one or the other side I thought good to give you the true Relation of a mortal quarrel for these four moneths the onely discourse of this Countrey which was betwixt my Lord Windsor and Mr. Griffith the last of which chose me to be his Second and this Sunday morning we met betwixt Sass and Gaunt where we being engaged onely as witnesses to our Principals valour saw a very handsom Charge on each side with their Pistols but when it came to be tryed by the Sword my Lord had so much the advantage of the other Gentleman as he tumbled him clear from his horse At which seeing his Lordship unwilling to take an advantage of an Enemy in his power it rather invited me to part them then to stand still and see the death of one of them Mr. Griffith desired to fight again I being the onely judge left the other being accidentally wounded did believe dismounting from horse-back to be the same as disarming on foot and though my Lord would have freely consented to it that Mr. Griffith should mount and fight again I thought I should have been injurious to his Lordship if I should have consented to it c. After my Lord had spent Five or Six hundred pounds to give satisfaction to this unequal Enemy he returned home I dare say more ashamed of his Victory then his Adversary was of his Defeat and was very sparing of the discourse of it Indeed Mr. Griffiths Second had so much Honor in him as to do my Lord all right in his relations howsoever some have unworthily published stories in his Name to my Lords disadvantage Mr. Griffith finding himself fallen in the opinion of the world from the reputation of that great Kill-cow which he passed for amongst some hath since endeavored contrary to the Law of Arms to provoke my Lord to a second tryal and bring him to fight on foot where his own skill and in that his courage chiefly lieth and to this end hath multiplyed provocations against his Lordship by Discourse and Letters To the which his Lordship hath divers times made this answer That he will receive no more Letters from him nor endeavor to give him any further satisfaction since his Spirit is so restless and his Desires so exorbitant And in pursuance of this resolution his Lordship hath torn many of Mr. Griffiths Letters and burnt them unread before the face of those that brought them Yet the last week another Letter was brought his Lordship from Mr. Griffith by one Mr. Marbles if I mistake him not who required an answer to it my Lord tore it in his sight and gave it his Foot-man to burn saying He would afford Mr. Griffith no other answer as not esteeming him worthy of any other respect but if any Gentleman or Mr. Marbles himself would undertake to justifie Mr. Griffiths proceedings he would fight with him To this Mr. Marbles scraped some few legs and desired to be excused but within Two days after posted up a scurrilous disgraceful paper against my Lord in divers places of the Town which was surrounded with Knaves of Spades and Clubs proper Hierogliphicks of Mr. Griffiths honesty and wit and intended to have set out all his gallant acts in print but he was prevented by Mr. Speakers Warrant by vertue whereof he was apprehended and sent to Newgate This my Lord hath suffered without any the least distemper or trouble as conceiving Mr. Griffiths tongue or pen no Slander and that all these little Buffoneries serve but to blazon his own Baseness and Folly who if he were not quite out of his Wits or not yet quite out of his Pagery could not think this proceeding Man-like to argue my Lord a Coward because he dare not be mad But where lieth the Policy of all this ado to prove and publish my Lord Windsor a Coward For grant Mr. Griffiths Allegation true in that point What a poor Wretch doth he conclude himself who was dismounted by the man he endeavoreth to lessen I hope this Discourse will serve not only to vindicate my Lord who in this very business with Griffith is so far from suffering in the reputation of his Courage that most men have rather condemned him of precipitancy and rashness but likewise let the world see that Mr. Griffith is not fit for any Gentlemans conversation whether by way of friendship or defiance having broken the Laws of Honor in holding up his hand against a Gentleman who gave him his Life unless he will plead it a fresh injury That he is permitted to survive and contemplate his own Disgrace FINIS