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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55624	A modest and true account of the proceedings against Mr. Abraham Anselm, late secretary to the late admirals of the Fleet as they happ'ned and were brought on before the Right Honourable Their Majesties Principal Secretary of State, Their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council, Their Majesties Council at Law, and as they were examined by the Grand Jury for the county of Middle-Sex at the sessions held at Hick's-Hall, September the sixth, 1693 : in a letter to a friend : together with an answer thereunto.	Praed, John.	1694 (1694)	Wing P3164; ESTC R8895	11,954	32

much to his Commendation for when he had written home to his Corrispondents in offence to Mr. Williams and in defence of himself he shew'd him what he had written and what Answers he had received thereto But Mr. William's dealt not so honourably with him for he writ home a secret Letter as full of Scurrility as some Mens Discourses are And because it is so I shall conclude this Letter with the least part of that Venice the 9th of May 1681. I Was not a little startled when lately Mr. Anselm Recommended to my perusual the Contents of yours to him in proprio dated the 25th past I easily observed thereby how I have been represented by one whose corrupt Judgment hath been so far from discerning his own Interest that he hath ever perverted the designs that others have put on foot for his good c. It is strange you should lay so much weight on the report of such a fellow that found no foundation to raise himself but on the failings of another What a condition think you had I been in had that unnatural Brute any thing material to writ of but because he wanted Subject he made a Contrivance of Impudent Lyes to give plausibility to his most Ignominious and I had almost said Inhumane Ingratitude c. But were there any need to give the Portraict of this Informer I could do it at large and unto his Confusion I JUST now met with the MEMOIRS of the Present State of Europe for the Month of August 1693. and therein is this Passage MR. Anselm Secretary to the Admirals having been charg'd for holding a Correspondency with the Enemy is brought up to London The principal Witnesses against him are Captain Rowe and Captain Wallis and one Praed a Tradesman and Citizen of London who have all Three been confronted by him before the Privy Council and charge him with having in these Two Years last past Corresponded Criminally with a Brother of the Marquess Albeville I am told that there is more Truth in this then the World is aware of for Sir Richard White being a Spanish Chevalier is of nedr Relation to Albeville the Envoy formerly from King James at the Hague as also with having endeavoured to debauch a Sea-Officer into the Service of France where they say he promised kins he would get him the Command if to Ship of 80 Guns The Attourny General hath Orders to prosecute him And in the mean time another Secretary is sent down to the Admirals It must needs be that either Mr. Anselm or some other hath given notice to the Enemy of all that did pass Because they have taken their measures so that it cannot be doubted but that they were well instructed They write that since this he hath been discharged out of the hands of the Messenger who had him in Custody upon his giving security to appear at all times when ever he is called for By which and what follows you may see how some things are represented London Gazette from Munday October the 23d to Thursday October the 26th 1693. By the Lords of their Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council WHereas a Report has been raised and spread by Henry Kilegrew Esq Sir Ralph Delaval and Sir Cloudsly Shovel Knights Admirals of their Majesties Fleet that the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Falkland one of the Lords of their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council did upon reading a Paper at the Board stiffle something that was material to their Justification The Lords of the Council having considered of and Examined into the matter are satisfied and do declare that the said Report is False and Scandalous Altho' upon the said Examination it doth appear that something happned which might mistead the Admirals into that Error And it is Ordered in Council that this be Printed and Published in the Gazitte W. Bridgman AND NOW I have appeal'd to a Man of Impartial Honour and Apprehension I will hope it does appear that I have been no Malitious Informer if it doth appear I know you will Affirm it not so much against Mr. Anselm as in favour of your most Effectual Friend And Humble Servant John Praed My Dear Friend I Receiv'd your Letter and being pleased with the the Perusal thereof I read it over and over according to Prescription I have met withal in one part of the Turkish-Spys I have likewise shewn it to some of your Friends and mine and we are all exceeding glad to see you vindicate your self so upon all Occasions that the World may not believe you are one of those Villains that ought to be made Examples of And since you dar'd to speak the Truth so much against your own Interest to Serve your King and Country Let me prevail with you to Print your Letter for the Publick Good and your own Reputation The Supposition I have that you design'd so do puts me in mind of this Passage in the Description of Russia Juan Vasiloreidg one of the Emperors of Russia nail'd a French Ambassadors Hat to his Head for putting it on before him At which time Sir Jerome Boze Ambassador from Queen Elizabeth put on his Hat and Cockt it saying That the French Ambassador represented a Cowardly King of France but he the Invinsible Queen of England who vail'd Her Bonnet to no Prince in Christendom and was both able and willing to vindicate her Minister Look you there quoth the Emperor to his Boyars Which of ye all dare do so much for your Master as this Man doth for his Mistress FINIS

the Admirals of the Fleet with it and withal told him I was the more apt to give credit to what he said for that about a Twelve Month since meeting Mr. Anselm and Sir Richard White in the Pall-Mall Mr. Anselm told me Jack I know that thou art an Honest Fellow and one that has great interest in the Tinners in the County of Cornwal and asked me what Men I could raise in case there should be a Design to bring in King James telling me that in Monmouth's Rebellion I was much for King James and hop'd I would be so still for that he had beard that I would have accepted of King James's Commission I answer'd I was for the Present Government and so we parted And about five Weeks since there came one Captain Peter Wall and acquainted me that the day before there called upon him one Captain Peter Rowe the same afore-mention'd Captain Rowe and discoursing with him about the Affairs of the Fleet and wondering how one Anselm came to be in so great a Post as to be Secretary to the Navy in regard he was a reputed Jacobite He told him that he was so much his Friend that he had unknowingly recommended him to a great Person of Honour as a fit Person to serve King James and that there came a strange Gentlement unto him and acquanted him that his Character was made known to a great Person of Honour from whom he came and that if he were willing to bring in King James again he might have a Ship of Eighty or Ninety Guns and would also tell him the Lord's Name but he refusing the offer as he told me the Gentleman went away and said no more But Captain Rowe finding that Captain Wall gave but little credit to what he said told him he had related the same thing to me and thereupon Captain Wall came to me relating the same Matter and ask'd me if I had heard any thing of it and I told him I had then Captain Wall asking of me what was the best Methods to be used being a National Concern I told them the best way was to write to the Earl of Nottingham and so likewise to the Admirals of the Fleet. And Captain Wall wrote to the Admirals Mr. Killegrew and Sir Ralph Delaval but had no retrurn from themselves but had two Evasie Letters from Mr. Anselm nothing of Answer to what Captain Wall writ or the Matters he accused him with which Letters Captain Wall has in his custody and Copies thereof I have now by me Captain Wall likewise wrote a Letter to Mr. Warre Secretary to the Earl of Nottingham which was Answered the 23d of May last a Copy whereof I have now by me and Captain Wall has the Original which was Answered by Captain Wall about two or three days after that but Captain Wall had no Answer since as he has inform'd me John Praed Sworn before me this 7th Day of June 1693. Nottingham SOME time after Mr. Anselm was sent for and soon after that again I received the following Order which was left at my Lodgings Mr. Praed is desired to attend at the Earl of Nottingham 's Office at Whitehall at Four of the Clock this Afternoon being July the 7th 1693. Francis Clarke Messenger Captain Wall Captain Rowe and my Self came accordingly and having been Examined seperately before the Privy Council Mr. Anselm and my Self were at last call'd in Face to Face And after the Two first Paragraphs of what I had Deposed before my Lord Nottingham were Read by Sir John Trenchard it was asked by my Lord Marquess of Winchester of Mr. Anselm what Acquaintaince he had with Sir Richard White and Mr. Anselm answered he had but little or that he had no great acquaintance with him Then it was asked if he were not Bail for Sir Richard White when he was Clap't up into Newgate upon the suspicion of the French Invasion he answered that he was Bail and when it was asked him what he was Bail for his Answer was for that Sir Richard was his Friend After that it was asked him if he had any more to say for himself and he Answered their Lordships that he had adventured his Life for his King and Country and that being more then I had done he hoped he should have the more and I the less Credit To which I answered by their Lordships leave that Mr. Anselm knew that I had adventured my Life for King Charles the II. and not for his Pay and that since my Case in Chancery was so lately brought to the Bar of the House of Lords their Lordships might please to Remember how much I have suffered for my Country and to consider the present Risque that I was running for attesting the Truth I so accidentally said without any design against Mr. Anselm UPON which we were dismist and sometime after the Two Captains and my Self were Ordered to attend the Kings Council which we did And on the 7th of September in the Morning I was served with the following Subpoena Ticket Mr. John Praed BY Virtue of their Majesties Writ of Subpoena to you and others Directed you are to be and personally appear before Their Majesties Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer at Hick's-Hall in St. Johns-street to Morrow being the 7th of this Instant September at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon to give Evidence on Their Majesties behalf against Abraham Anselm for high Misdemeanour against their Majesties And this you are not to Omit under the Penalty of 100 l. dated the 6th of September 1693. P. Cey To Mr. John Praed I Waited the same Day from Two till Eight and next Morning from Eight till Twelve of the Clock and then I was Sworn with the Two Captains and after them was called in before the Grand Jury I told them what I had to say and they asked me what Men I could pretend to raise in Cornwal I thought that was an Improper Question because I did not pretend to raise any and I answered it accordingly Then one of them asked me if Mr. Anselm was not in Drink or in Jest when he said the words I told them he could not be much in Drink because we had drunk but little but whether he was in Jest or not when he said these words I told them I could not so well tell because a Man may speak a thing seemingly in Jest and yet design it in Earnest But I told them as I told the Lords of the Privy Council that he spoke them after such a manner that I did not take so much notice of them until he became Bail as aforesaid for Sir Richard White And then another asked me if he did not speak the words seemingly in Jest I told them all that I was upon my Oath and my Conscience as well as they and that to my seeming he spake these words after this way of speaking some others And they asking me no more Questions brought it in Ignoramus But one of