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A91191	A full vindication and ansvver of the XI. accused members; viz. Denzill Holles, Esq; Sir Philip Stapleton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir William Waller, Sir Iohn Maynard Kts Major Gen. Massey, Iohn Glynne Esq; Recorder of London. Walter Long Esquire Col. Edward Harley, Anthony Nichols Esq to a late printed pamphlet intituled, A particular charge or impeachment, in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax and the army under his command; against the said members, by his appointment and the Councel of War.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1647 (1647)	Wing P3968; Thomason E398_17; ESTC R201693	28,820	49

the beginning of the Warre by a speciall order of Parliament And for the particular summes in that Article suggested to be received by him in money He saith that he never received any such money and was so farre from making any particular use of such either money or Provisions as were designed for supporting the Souldiers under his care to their prejudice in the least degre● that he hath dispursed above three thousand pounds out of his owne purse and by his credit for their support and reliefe more then was received He further saith that for the summe of 280 .l. in the Article mentioned by an accompt delivered to the Committee of Accompts in Iune 1644. he was so farre from intending the least prejudice either to the State here or that Kingdom of Ireland amongst other summes he charged himselfe with the said 280 .l. for 20. Butts of Sack which he should have received from one Whitscot who falling therein the said Sir Iohn converted the credit of the Ordinance for the said 280 .l. into clothes for his Souldiers as upon full examination and debate severall yeares since had thereof before the Committee of Accounts may appeare And by the said Accompt he is likewise charged with 300. l. in the Article mentioned for 120. paire of Pistols the most whereof he exchanged by order out of the stoares of his Kingdome for fire-locks which he sent over to the Souldiers of this Regiment and the remainder of the said Pistolls were delivered to his Troope and he never converted any of the said Pistolls to his owne use though he conceives he might have done having given allowance for them on his Accompt And for the money for the said Pistolls as no part thereof ever came to his hands so he conceives the same is yet due and unPaid to one Abraham Vandenbe●●d who provided the said Pistolls on the credit of the St●te For the sum of 700 l. for 2000. swords he knoweth nothing thereof nor ever received any such summe but acknowledgeth that he is charged by his said accompt with 175. l. for his part of 2000. swords which as the former summe of 280 li. hath been layd out with much more of his own for the service of the state So as the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy having prevented the informers by his accompt long since given in and there remaining so great a sum disbursed by him over and above what he hath received had he deteyned any part towards his own dis●ursements which he conceives he might justly have done yet could it not have been charged against him for so heyn●●s a crime and that in prosecution of the designe in the generall charge mentioned a● is impertinently layd downe in the said Article And for the other divers sinn●es of money suggested in general to have bin received from time to ●ime by the said Sir Iohn for the use of Ireland which are alleadged not to be imployedge by the several orders was directed and intended when he knowes the particulars he hopes to give a satisfactory answer therein and wishes that some few of his many accusers may be able to give ●s just an attempt for the many summ●● they have received in relition to their imployments as he hath done and is ready to doe for these few summes directed for his and his souldiers support in that hard war of Ireland And whereas by this article it is suggested that the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy hath within two yeares last past received severall sums of money Armes and other provisions for a Troop of Horse which he pretended he had raised in Ireland He saith that he never pretended to have raised any such Troop though he may with some confidence affirm he hath to his great charge these 5. yeares past maintained a Troop of horse which was formerly under the command of Captain Vp●on 〈◊〉 and after his death conferred on him which Troop he hath 〈…〉 cruised since his command thereof being about five yeares space during which time there was never received from the State in money above 7. weekes pay with some little provisions of clothes and Armes which he duely returned to 〈◊〉 said Troope with some addition of his owne for their better support in service judging it a most abhominable act to retaine any thing at all especially of so little designed for 〈◊〉 necessi●ous souldiers And whereas by the latter part of the Article it is most 〈◊〉 lously suggested that the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy for money and other rewardes hath preferred Io. Davis and William Sommers and others to be entrusted with the Irish affaires who have kept correspondency with the Enemy and defrauded the state of other gr●e sums of money and that he hath been privy to and a sharer is such thei● actions He saith that the said charge is most false and untrue in all the parts thereof wherein he is concerned and for the said William● Sommers he saith he never preferred him to be intrusted with any of the Irish affaires nor knoweth of any imployment he ever 〈◊〉 in that way it being notoriously knowne he never had suc● imployment since the Rebellion of Ireland began so as he was not in any capacity to defraud the State The sayd Sir Iohn Clotworthy further saith that Iohn Dave● hath been contracted withall for great proportions of victu● Armes and Clothes for Ireland as a Merchant wherein the Committee of both Kingdomes and the Committee for the affaires of Ireland the consent of the houses first had have dealt with him after others refused such contracts as he then accepted and 〈◊〉 performed to most of which the said Sir Iohn was not pri●● and no participant at all with the said Iohn Davis in any of the particulars contracted for as is now and hath been formerly 〈◊〉 printed pampalets falsly suggested But that the said Iohn Dav●s was ever trusted with the affaires of Ireland other then as a Merchan whereby he had the opportunity in performance of his contracts with the State to lay out his own money by 〈…〉 and get it againe as he can whereof there may be now some doubt the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy is totally ignorant TO the 13. Wherein among other things secret intelligence to have been held with the Lord of Ormond by Cipher is layd to the charge of the said Sir Io. Clotworthy his answer is that he together with Sir Tho. Wharton Sir Robert King Sir Rob. Meredith and Richard Salway Esquire or any three of them being appointed Commissioners but not joyntly as is pretended to treat with the Lord of Ormond for the delivery of the Sword the city of Dublin c. After four daies treaty according to their Instructions the treaty not taking effect the Commissioners resolved That three of them should goe for Belfast and two of them come to London And whilest the Commissioners were in preparation for their departure upon severall just and warrantable occasions they repaired joyntly and severally to the Lord of

very words which were delivered unto Mr Holles by that Lord in the name of the Lord Savil and from him But Mr Holles was so far from being vindicative against those who had expressed so much malice against him and endeavored his 〈◊〉 as he wholy put it out of his thoughts never so much as sending to the L. Savil after his Composition ●as past in the making whereof he did him no differvice at all as in truth scorning it Another clause in the first Article is concerning a Letter sent from the Earl of Linsey unto Mr Holles containing as is layd in the Charge some secret design This was likewise examined in the House and by M. Holles himself first discovered unto the House contrary to what is in the printed Paper most falsly suggested and this done by him as soon as it came into his mind for when he received it which was very late one evening by a servant of the Lord Savils he immediately after fel sick which made him clean forget it nor doth he know what became of the Paper whether or no he burnt it the contents of it were only one line a recommendation of the bearer the Lord Savil the very words whereof were then fresh in his memory and by him repeated in the House when that satisfaction was given as there passed a V●te the 19. of July 1645. That the receiving of that note in the manner Mr. Holles did was no holding intelligence with the enemy There is a third part of this first Article of the Earl of Linseys moving for a Pass for Mr. Holles to go to Oxford and the Kings saying he did him better service in the Parliament then he co●ld do there which as likewise by the Lord Savil enformed to the Committee appointed for the examination of that business and so reported to the House which Mr. Holles then said and doth stil that he knew nothing of and was and is most confident that it is most false for that he never signified any such desire to the Earl of Lindsey or to any body else nor ever had it in his thoughts TO the second Article which charges M. Holles and Sir Philip Stapleton joyntly with sending several messages to the Earl of Dorset and Lord Digby and Sir Philip Stapleton singly to have sent one to the Earl of Dorset and then both Mr. Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton to have joyned in drawing Propositions and sending them privately to his Majesty They both of them do say for what concerns both and Sir Philip Stapleton for what concerns himself this being the only thing in all the Charge that is singly objected against him that the whole Article is false and untrue in all and in every part of it THe third Article lays a Charge on the eleven Members joyntly for meeting together at the Lady Carli●les Lodgings in White-hall and other places with other disaffected persons for holding correspondency with the Queen to put conditions upon the Parliament to bring in the King upon their own Terms and do such other things in prosecution of their evil designs as are in that Article mentioned To all and every branch whereof they do all joyntly and each of them severally give a ful positive and absolute denyal and affirm that the whole Charge of that Article is scandalous and false in matter and form Most of them declare that within the time there limited for those meetings to have bin and at no time before or since they have at all bin at her Ladiships lodgings o●ly Mr. Holles Sir William Lewis and Sir Philip Stapleton do acknowledg that by her Ladiships favour they have many times waited upon her both at her own Lodgings in Whitehall and elsewhere yet never to any such inten● and purpose as 〈◊〉 in the Article most falsly suggested but only to pay unto her Ladiship that respect which is due unto her a person of so great honor and desert from them and in truth from all others who are wel wishers to the welfare of this Kingdom And whereas it is said that they had a great power upon the Treasure of this Kingdome and thereby maintained the Queenes party assured her a Pension and undertook to doe more for the King then the Army would doe who it seems are now ambitious in outstripping all others in acting for his Majesty It is very well known that these persons have not at all medled in money businesses have had least to doe with disposing of the publike Treasure and therefore could not pleasure others with it as least of all have they received any part of it for their private uses some of them having declared themselves in the House when the House was pleased to vote them considerable summes in recompence for their very great sufferings for the Common-wealth ☜ that they would receive nothing till the Publike debts were paid and none of them are the men that have growne great in these calamitous times and been enriched upon the ruine of others nor preferred themselves and their friends to higher fortunes then otherwise they could ever have aspired unto Therefore there is neither truth nor semblance of truth that they should be guilty of engaging the Publike Treasure and Stock as the Article charges nor would any have believed them if they had been so false and foolish as to have offered it In conclusion they say the whole charge in this Article is utterly false THe Fourth Article which chargeth Mr. Holles Sir Philip Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir Iohn Clothworthy Sir William Waller and Major-Generall Massey to have within the space of three moneths last past invited the Scots and other forraine forces to enter this Kingdome is by them averred to be utterly false as likewise that part of it which charges Mr. Holles to have sent unto the Queene to advise her to send the Prince into Scotland to come into this Kingdome in the head of an Army is by him declared to be most untrue and a meere invention of malice against him And in the last place where it chargeth the Eleven Members to have listed or caused to be listed divers Commanders and Souldiers without am●●rity of Parliament and to have encouraged Reform●d● Officers and Souldiers to gather together tumult●ously at Westminster to affright and assault the Members of Parliament there is nothing of truth in it and reflects more upon their Accusers then on them TO the Fifth Article which charges Mr. Holles Sir Philip Stapleton and Mr. Glyn to have bin obstructers of Petitions to the Parliament for redresse of Publike grievances They say that what hath been done by them or any of them in matters of Petitions was done in the House of Commons and onely there where they have upon occasion delivered their opinions concerning some seditio●s Petitions which they suppose to be the Petitions intended by the Article And for what is said of Mr. Holles and Sir Philip Stapletons affronting some Petitioners attending a Committee as

Ormond who seemed to be much troubled that the treaty took no effect professing the only cause thereof to be the want of the Kings assent which he said he hoped to gain desiring to have it so presented to the Parlia that he might acquaint the Parliament and the Commissioners then going for Be●fast with the Kings Answer and lest letters should be intercepted by the Rebels there was a Cipher agreed on which was known to severall of the Commissioners when it was delivered and of which the said Sir Iohn minded the other Commissioners at Belfast after their arrivall there and before any thing was written by the same from the Lo. of Or●mond And about a fortnight afterwards the Lord of Ormond by the meanes of one Captain Ward conveyed a little open paper in cypher directed to the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy who assoon as he received it did communicate the same to the rest of the Commissioners which being discyphered there was thereby intimated That he was more then hopefull they should shortly beare from him to their content To which the Commissioners returned an answer That they should be glad to beare of the content he was hopefull to give With all which and the other transactions of tha● affair the Committee of Der●y-House were made acquainted and reported the same to both houses before Sir Iohn Clotworthy came out of Ireland And the Houses having approved of the carriage and endeavours of the Commissioners upon the whole transaction of the busines have long since so far owned them there 〈…〉 they have given thankes unto them for the same This being the only particular wherein the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy is by this article charged to have held intelligence with the Lord of Ormond and that being by the advice of the rest of the Commissioners in manner as aforesaid and for so good an end as the giving his Lordship an opportunity of new application to the Parliament for rendring to them the City of Dublin and the other garrisons under his command which hath since that 〈◊〉 taken effect accordingly to the exceeding great advantage and strengthning this Kingdoms interest in Ireland the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy leaves it to the judgment of all equall minded men whether or no there be any just cause to exhibit such a th●● against him for the same especially by an Army pretending such good affections to Irelands welfare For the other part of the said Article concerning the said 〈◊〉 John Clotwortheys holding intelligence with the Lord Digby He directly denieth any such thing as being utterly false and untrue For he never saw the said Lord Digby these many yeare 〈◊〉 one night accidentally when being last at Dublin with the other Commissioners afore said he was sent to the Castle of Dub●●● by the said Commissioners concerning an Officer of Colo●● Moores that had received an Injury by some persons that rel●ted to the Lord of Ormond at which time the said Lord Digby came into the roome where he was but he had no discourse 〈◊〉 him in private nor at all other then common talk severall person● being present Neither hath the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy 〈◊〉 the said Lord Digby deserted the Parliament ever exchanged letter Message or word with him directly or indirectly otherwise or at any other time then is hereby declared And whereas by this Article it is charged that in Order to 〈◊〉 secret intelligence of which he admires a whole 〈…〉 England should have such certain and publique Notice as to 〈◊〉 it a positive charg undertake to prove it upon oath were it●●●cret as they charg it as the Article all ●geth to have hi● hold by 〈◊〉 said Sir Io. Clotworthy with the said Lo. Digby the Lo of 〈◊〉 and the said Lord Digby ●●tely imployed 〈◊〉 S●●gsby who as the article saith pretends a designe about the Prince to c●me into this Kingdome the said Sir Iohn Clotworthy utterly denieth to have had any thought of any such designe or any knowledg of the said Slingsby or of his comeing into the kingdome until he heard that one Slingsby whom he yet knoweth not had been examined before the Committee at Derby house And the said Sir Iohn presumeth he hath to the said Committee confessed who imployed him and to whom he was imployed here TO the 14. which charges Sir Iohn Clotworthy Mr. H●lles and Sir Philip Stapleton with obstructing Articles exhibited against the Lord Inchequin calling back the Lord Lisle from the government of Ireland causing the command of the forces in that Kingdom to be committed to the Lord Inchequin he writing a letter to his Lordship upon the receipt whereof he should express he had direction to put out all those who favoured Independents They doe say they were so farr from keeping off proceeding upon those articles that they furthered it all they could and several times moved it in the House desirous to haue all cleared concerning the Lord Inchequin whom as they beleeved to be a man of honour and fidelity so if upon examination of his actions he appeared to be other they were resolved to declare their sense of him accordingly As for what concernes the Lord Lisle they say his Lordships time expiring which was but for one yeare either for him or any else to continue in that command the Parliament was pleased to dispose of the affaires of Ireland in an other way in the agitation whereof in the House they went according to their Iudgments and consciences without respecting any person living For the Command of the forces of that Kingdome which as to the Lord Inchequin can onely be understood of Ma●ster they doe not know that ever any thing was here done in it at all there having been no occasion for it as to their knowledg And as for the Letter mentioned to have been written by them 〈◊〉 any of them or from some other person by their or all of their direction they say as it is altogether uncertain and illegall so it is a meere fiction for they never did any such thing and tends to draw the Odi●● of Independents upon them to whose advancement both in Ixeland and elsewhere they feare they may prove obstructive as this Article clearly insinuates TO the 15. Sir Wil. Lewes and Mr. Glyn say that the Order o● the 13 of Aprill in the Article mentioned if there were any such relates to them only as Members of the Committe for whom they intend not to answer but in truth there was no such order it was only a report not an order and intended only for the county of Caermarthen how ever it came to pass the words were general and that was done in order to be reported to the house and accordingly was reported and after repealed by the Committee as they were informed And as for the publishing and sending thereof unto every Committee in Wales they know nothing thereof neither was it done by their or either of their directions or consents To the 16.

the Revenue should with their soonest and best conveniency pay vote him the summe of 415. l 16. s 8. d. part of what remained d●● unto him upon his said Account as appeared by the Certificate above mentioned which evidently disproves that part of the charge which doth most vnjustly accuse him for not accounting of which he beleeves his greatest Accusers are far more guilty then himself since he never heard any Certificate made to the house of their account● And wheras he is likewise Charged while he was Governor there frequently to have held correspondency and intelligence with the Kings party about the delivery up of the sayd Garrison some such aspersions having been very undeservedly raysed on him during his Command there the Committe of Lords and Commons for the safety were pleased to write to him to some up to London by their letter dated the 8 of June 1643. where the said Sir William pressing by his importunity the said Committee and Earle of Essex that they would Examine what ever could be alleadged against him to punish him if faulty and right him if injured upon the Earle of Essex his letter to the said Committee after a full Examination of the businesse the Committee by their letter gave his Lord ship this accompt following May it please your Excellency VVE have examined and debated the busines concerning Sir William Lewes as your Lordship did desire and out of all those jealousies and allegations which have been offered against him there amounts NOTHING as we can gather which can derogate from his honor or the publique confidence reposed in him in his command at Portsmouth This account we render to your Excellencie aswell to answer that which hath been referred to us by your Excellencies Letter as that which is required from us by Sir William Lewis his innocency this being the state of this busines it is left in the hands of your Excellency to repaire this worthy Gentleman in what manner you shall please And so wee take our leave and rest Westminster 29. Iuly 1643. Your Excellencies very affectionate friends and humble Servants subscribed Bedford Pembrooke Mountgemery B. Denbigh W. Say Seale Io. Pym and others The which letter being carried to his Excellency after his perusall thereof he wished the said Sir Wil. Lewes to repaire again to Portsmouth and to take care thereof but he having vindicated his Innocency and to manifest how little he regarded either places of honour or gaine which others aspire to desired to be excused and quitted the imployment Why or upon what grounds the said Sir William with divers other persons who faithfully served the Parliament was left out of the Proclamation mentioned he knoweth not being up wayes privy to their councels nor what his Majesty was pleased to say of him but this he knoweth and it s generally knowne to that part of Hampshire where he lived that about October 1643. there was plundered from him by the Kings party to the value of between two and three thousand pounds meane whereof his lands being unstocked he made not three-pence of it in three yeares For his estate in Brecknock-shire which by the Charge is allowed to be worth about 600. l. per annum it was not held worth sequestring in those parts in regard of the taxes laid upon it and during the time of the troubles he made little profit of his estate there or elsewhere And as it is no argument that some Malignants in armes against the Parliament did hold correspondency with them because their estates in some places have not been yet sequestred through negligence of the officers or want of evidence so he presumes it can be no proofe of his complying with the King or his party in the Iudgement of any indifferent person or of his Accuse●s who now professe their correspondency with his Majesty without the houses privity in their late printed * Of Inly 8 1647. letters to both Houses because he was not sequestred upon the same or any such like occasion for ought he knowe● the case he beleeves of some other wel-affected Members As for concerning Col. Price his estate upon the sad complaint of Mrs Price of her necessities he wrote a letter to the Committee only to allow unto her the 5th part of her husbands estate according to the Ordinance of Parliament in that behalfe and to restore her wearing apparrel which had bin taken from her an extremity he had not heard of before used to any other which he hops his accusers who now desire iustice for and indulgence towards delinquents which they charge as a crime in others cannot dislike But for the letting of Colonell Prices estate he did not intermedle therein but beleeves the tenant that rents it at 50. l. per annum paye a full value for to the state considering it is charged with annuities of 120 l. per annum issuing out of it his Wives fift part and all taxes and contributions And the said Master Glyn as to the charge of this Article whereby he is charged to procure severall persons that have been Commissioners of Array in North-Wales to be named in Commissions of Peace and other Places of greater trust and command He saith the Article gives not any instance of any such person that he hath procured to be named a Justice of Peace or any other Place of trust or command except Col. Glyn his Brother made Governour of the Town and Castle of Carnarvon And for the said Col. Glyn he avers he was never any Col. in the King's Army but constantly declared his affection to the Parliament and for that cause he was in the beginning of the troubles besieged in his own house with Canon planted against it where he was taken prisoner his Armes seized upon himself charged with treason and intended to be proceeded against at Shrewsbury had not some persons interposed and procured his enlargement upon security that he should not beare Armes for the Parliament and as he hath suffered for his affection to the Parliament so he hath advantagiously acted for them by inviting Major-Gen Mitton to come into North-Wales joyning his forces with the said Major-Gen and relieving the Parliaments Forces with mony by reason whereof the County and Castle of Carnarvon was reduced to the Parliaments obedience of whose eminent services the house of Commons took speciall notice in a letter written unto him and for recompence of his sufferings for the Parliament and the great service done for them he was made Governour of Carnarvon for the safety of those parts and encouragement of the wel-affected there To the eighteenth Article 18. Whereby Master Glyn is charged to have taken rewards of severall persons for service done them in the house and in particular 100 li paid unto his Wife by the Drovers of Wales for service done them he saith that the same is a false and a slanderous charge and for the 100 li supposed to be given to his Wife who is

dead and cannot answer for her selfe the same is untrue for Master Glyn lent those poor men 100 li out of his owne Money to find them Bread which was afterwards repaid him when they procured money upon the credit of the Excise as will be justified by many persons of quality besides which there was no other 100 li that came to his Wives Hands To the nineteenth Article 19. Master Glyn answers First concerning Delinquents that the charge is generall and therefore he can make no particular answer but generally not guilty Secondly concerning the putting out of the Militia that he was no way concerned in it they were presented by the Common-Counsell and chosen there when he was not present and afterwards approved by both Houses and he cannot take upon him to give reasons to justifie the acts of both Houses or the Common-Counsell who are onely impeached by this charge and must plead not guilty of intermedling with putting in or putting out To the twentieth Article 20. where it is laid That Sir Philip Stapleton Master Holles and Sir William Lewis have by their power and countenance obstructed justice in the cause between Alderma● Langham and Captaine Limery and that of John Gunter They answer That Master Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton being one afternoon in the Court of Request heard that the House of Peers were then to fit which made them go to see what the occasion was and comming into the Lobby found there the Earle of Rutland who told them their House met about a great Businesse betwixt Langham and Limery and some discourse passed concerning it when Master Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton said They understood that the merits of the cause was not at all in question onely the entertaining of it upon an appeale which they concelved was the common justice of the Kingdome and not to be denied to any Which having said they went away nor was it done in secret but spoken publickly and in the hearing of some of the Counsell for Limery And they doe utterly deny the speaking of any such words as are alledged to be said by them for they were so farre from engaging their interest in it as they doe not to this day know what the Lords did upon it And Sir William Lewis doth absolutely deny his being there present as all when any such conference was with the Earle of Rutland and cannot but observe there should be that significancy attributed to h●s presence and gesture as thereby to discover his thoughts and inclinations especially when he was not there in person And as for the cause instanced concerning John Gu●er he conceives it to be a suit depending in Chancery betwixt the Father and Sonne both neerly relating unto him but no further proceeded in then to Bill and Answer that he knowes of and what influence his countenance could have so early dayes in the beginning of a suit let all the world judge To the one and twentieth Article 21. which concernes Master Nichols onely he saith That although his election was voted to be voyd by the Committee of Priviledges whose meer votes exclude no Member from sitting in the house where no Witnesses were heard on his behalfe yet conceives his Election good and hopes it will be thought so by the House when they h●ar a true state of the cause And whereas they object it hath layne four yeer● unreported Master Nichols appeals unto the House and that worthy Gentlemen in whose hand that report lay being never prosecuted by his Competitor whether he hath not endeavoured to have that report made and the businesse determined and still continues his humble request to the House for the speedy determining of the same To the second clause Mr Nichols answers That he never used any threats menaces or indirect practises for the bringing in of any Members either out of Cornwall or any other County in the West And it is well knowne that those worthy Gentlemen there elected and now excepted against were fairly and duly chosen by their owne interest and publique demerits and their unbyased integrity is such that they detest the maintaining of a Faction or carrying on of any design other then the common good To the third clause of that Article Master Nichols saith That he continues in an Office of Master of the A●●nory in the Tower wherein he hath faithfully served the State for their advantage and that since the Selfdenying Ordinance passed the Houses he never received any penny of his F●e from the Committee of Revenue but confesseth to have received a rent of thirty four pounds a yeer or thereabouts and a Fine for two houses which he is to be ●●●●able for to the Parliament And it is well knowne that Master Nichols lost a farre better Office both for profit and esteem then this the Customers place of Plymouth and of all the Ports in the County of Cornwal for his fidelity to the Parliament and hath received no reparation for the same as divers others have had for their lost Offices Besides he hath been imployed in many long and chargeable Journeys and hath expended divers great summes of money in them which he hath borrowed of his friends and hath yet had no satisfaction from the Parliament in consideration thereof as some of his Accusers have had for meaner services To the two and twentieth 22. Master Nicholls saith That neither himself nor any other for him ever took any penny directly or indirectly for any thing done in Parliament or in any of their Committees wherein he hath had the honour to serve them in the same of greatest trust And whereas he is charged to bring Sir William Vuedall into the House upon his coming from York for the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds it is altogether false and scandalous Upon Sir William Vuedalls return from York he came into the House sat there without any question and sometime after had leave to retire himself into the Countrey and at his return to London neer two yeers after the dispute grew about his admittance into the House and he was admitted into it upon a solemn and serious debate without the motion or procurement of Master Nicholls which admission if undue is a charge against the whole House not Master Nicolls True it is that when Sir William Vuedall was at York and Treasurer of the Army there Master Nicholls having an Assignment made him by his brother Captain Humphrey Nicolls to receive an Arrear due to him for his Service in the North that he writ to Sir William Vuedall to send him that money whereupon Sir William Vuedall when he came to London sent him a sum of money as an Arrear due to his brother but whether so much as is specified in the Article he knows not by reason his papers and accounts of that businesse are not in Town As for Master Nicolls receiving of rewards he challenges all his Accusers many of them having had occasion to use his