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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55631	A postscript to the Observators first volume, or, The answer of Miles Prance to several of those papers wherein he finds himself most traduced and slandered with some notes to be added to Observator Numb. 8 of the 2d volumn [sic].	Prance, Miles, fl. 1678-1689.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing P3175; ESTC R28157	35,305	24

words I have by the bearer hereof a Protestant Gentleman and Neighbour of mine sent you c. Which Parenthesis Protestant Gentleman will I think to any unbyassed understanding signifie no less than an Item given me that I should not take notice to him of the Writers being a a Priest or to call him Father Fincham as amongst Roman Catholicks is usual and without such Precaution I might have done Now this Gentleman that paid me the Money was as I understand a Justice of Peace near Leeds though I have forgot his Name if he be still living he cannot but remember it In a word whether Mr. Richard Fincham be a Popish Priest or no if Mr. L'Estrange that seems so intimate with the Family will be pleas'd to tell the World his Lodgings at present 't is odds but somthing more may be said In the interim here his Apologist the Observator Mr. Richard Fincham immediately upon this proceeding gave his Brother John Fincham an account of what had passed by the very next Post Who applyed himself forthwith upon the receipt of the Letter to Francis Bell Esq a Justice of the Peace in the said Isle before whom he swore this following Affidavit John Fincham of Outwell within the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge Esquire did upon the 5th of March 1678 make this following Affidavit before Francis Bell Esq one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace of the said Isle That whereas the said John Fincham is informed that one Mr. Prance hath lately declared upon Oath to the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council that he the said Mr. Prance was told by the said John Fincham that Mr. Richard Fincham his Brother was a Priest He this Deponent doth Swear and Aver that the same is wholly false and untrue and that he is and hath been so far from ever saying so that he doth depose he doth not know any such thing as his Brothers being a Priest nor did he ever know the said Mr. Prance or to his knowledge ever see him in his whole life This Affidavit being sent up to the Lord Chancellor the King and Council thereupon ordered Mr. Fincham's Discharge As to this Affidavit of Mr. Richard Fincham's as far as it contradicts mine I avow mine still to be true and if I am not misinform'd by the Civil Law at least a Domestick Witness that is one so near related is scarce allowable or at least lyes under suspicions but leaving that I shall only remark That the Gentleman swears he doth not KNOW any such thing as his Brother 's being a Priest which signifies no more than that he did not see him take Orders now can it be imagined especially at such a juncture as that was but the Gentleman had he not believed his Brother to be a Priest would have added nor believes him so to be or some such words Note also that the Observator says what I deposed was in February 79. And this Affidavit of Mr. John Fincham's he dates March the 5 th 1678 almost a whole year before which would intimate that Mr. John Fincham swore prophetically or by way of prevention But the Observator Numb 10. having recollected himself pretends 't was a mistake for want of a fraction and if it were so I believe it was the first Affidavit in England that e're was Dated with such a Fraction as 1678 9 but since he is pleased to lay the blame on the Sot of a Compositor as young Princes in Schools are whipt by Proxy and perhaps old Authors have the like priviledge let it pass But whereas Mr. John Fincham Swears he never knew Prance to his knowledge or saw him in his life I must remembe● that Gentleman besides my being in his Company at Mrs. Hall's afore-mentioned and else-where in London I once went to his House at the Request of his Brother the Goldsmith then living in the Strand to see a Child of his there and was Civilly entertained by Mr. John Fincham and did eat and drink there and another time before that he procured me a place at the Court holden at Wisbitch to hear the Tryals and Proceedings there where I stood just behind his back as he sat on the Bench. Trimmer Well-And here 's one Oath against t'other Ay and let the Readers impartially Impanell'd give their Verdicts Observator Patience I prithee in August 1679 Prance being in the Isle of Ely and finding that his Credit was sunk from Silver to Brass by the confounding a Deposition of Mr. John Fincham of which Prance never heard word or syllable till in this Observator January 26 1683. he burst out presently into Invectives against the said John Fincham and said he was a Papist and that he had a Priest in 's House and that he had sometimes 4 or 5 Priests and Jesuits and that he had seen him in the Company of as many in London All which he was ready to prove And these words were made out by the Informations of two Gentlemen of the Neighbourhood as they were taken before Francis Bell and Thomas Edwards Esquires Justices of the Peace within the said Isle on the 11 th and 12 th of August 1679. The Information of Edward Squire Gent. Chief Constable of the North part of the Hundred of Witchford taken before us Francis Bell and Thomas Edwards Esquires Justices of the Peace within the Isle of Ely c. August 11 1679. This Informant saith That on Fryday the 8th Instant he happened in the Company of one Miles Prance where discoursing about the next Election to be of Parliament-men Prance was very earnest for the Chusing of one Mr. Partherich for Knight of the Shire for Cambridg-shire declaring that he was a fit Man for that purpose And presently after he began to discourse of one Mr. Fincham a Justice of the Peace and said that he would prove him a Papist and that he hath a Priest now in his House and sometimes he hath four or five and that he the said Prance had seen the said Mr. Fincham in the Company of as many Priests and Jesuits in London and told this Informant that he wondered the Justices of the Peace should be so much Fools or had so little wit as to make him this Informant Chief Constable and said he would have most of the Gentlemen in the Country up with several other Reflecting and Scandalous Discourses upon as well the said Mr. Fincham as the Gentlemen in the Country Edward Squire The Information of William Gent of March taken ut Supra August 12 1679. This Informant saith that upon Fryday at Night the 8th of this instant August one Mr. Miles Prance and another person to this Deponent unknown came into the Company of him this Deponent He this Deponent having then some Neighbours in Company with him at the House of one William Phillipson in March aforesaid and after some familiar Discourse had passed between him the said Mr. Prance and this Deponent the said Mr.