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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

Article Sir William Lewes denyeth his protecting any Delinquents in South-Wales as is untruely aleadged And as for the Earl of Carbery he did no more then move in the house of Commons to make good what Major Generall L●●●horn had promised and pressed for on his behalfe by his letters to the Speaker and Committee of both Kingdomes representing the advantages that came to the parliament by his conformity and 〈◊〉 it would further their service to oblige him For Mr. Carve of Glammorgan Mr. Herbert of Breck●●●●shire after their long imprisonment they being upon their Compositions at Goldsmiths Hall he did but move the ascertaining of their Fines according to the rules prescribed to the 〈◊〉 there having observed that delayes brought a prejudice both to the Parliament and the parties 〈◊〉 by abusing the one in their authority the other in their estates And for Mr. Herber● after his sight of some high Articles drawn up against him by Mr. Rumsey he never spake in his behalfe he yet continues a prisoner in Ely House For Mr. Morgan of Bre●kno●kshire he is one the said Sir William hath ever used with no more then a civillity sutable to their being countrymen and of many yeares acquaintance which he beleives no good man can looke on as an offence For Mr. Gwyn Mr. Lewes of ●adno●shire ● of the Committee in that county and those that by Major Generall 〈◊〉 cert●ficate and Colonell Birth his publique testimony had furthered the reducing of that county he did but publiquely move in the house that some disputes concerning them and some differences between them and others of the Committee for that county might be referred to the Committee for Gloucester 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Row which he did out of his desire to serve the Parliament by keeping peace in those remote parts and for no ends at all of his own And further faith he was never so much as present at any debate concerning the sequestration of any other person whatever in either of the forementioned Counties save these above● named nor ever so much as motioned to any Member of either House Committee man o● other either the remitting or favorable compounding with any upon any Termes not warrantable by the rules prescribed or their compounding with any that were incapable thereof nor did ever animate or incourage any 〈◊〉 this unhappy difference to continue their fidelity to the Kings cause promising them th●● if they would ingage their Frien●● with the King for him he and his would be their Friends in the Parliament as is untruly fur●●shed looking upon that kind of conditioning as a thing below the thoughts of a Gentleman What the Delinquents in those parts say of him or how they 〈◊〉 upon him or how they or any others looke upon those that ●rge him or what shall be his or their lot at his Majest●●s coming to London he is ignorant of but hopes that a 〈…〉 will discover both 〈◊〉 and them in their 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 every mans returne may be according to the singlenesse and i●●●grity of his affections to the publike peace and welfare of the Kingdome And farther he saith that there being an order for the nomination of Justices of the Peace for the County of Brecknock he humbly named Mr Roger Vaughan now high sheriffe of that County to be added to the Committee formerly named by the House Mr. Meredith Lowis Master George Parrey and Mr. Edward William● as the fittest persons he knew of to supply the necessitie there was of justice in that county and although he cannot say that when the Kings forces had a power in those parts but that many of them may have done that which is not justifiable yet for his Brother Master Thomas Lewes who was formerly one of the Committee he is confident his innocency is equall with any mans in that County and his sufferings as great as any of double his fortune inhabiting there he having been carried prisoner by Sir William Vaughans command to Ludlow Castle with one Master Hugh Williams where they continued till he layde down eightscore pounds for their inlargement And he can confidently affirme that no man is left out of Commission that any honest man can pretend either by his estate or affections to the Parliament to deserve to be therein imployed and he could heartily wish that he or they that give information on this article would have advised who else should have bin recommended for Committee-men or Justices And for Master Edward William● being made ●ollicitor his Commission was delivered upon certificate from three of the foure Gentlemen who are the only persons resident in the County of those that are named for the Committee there and he beleeves he hath been so carefull in his duty that neither corruption nor remiss●es can be justly charged or proved against him And the said Sir William saith that his sonne was chosen Burgess for the Burrough of Brecknock by the unanimous assent of the Burgesses who adjudged him a fit person to serve for them and his fitne● for that place he desires may be determined of by th●se amongst whom he hath the honour to sit who have seen his demeanour and are the only proper Judges thereof but that he kept the writ eight moneths in his Custody in order thereto is most untrue For at his being in Brecknock-Shire in July 1646. having carried the writ down with him and finding at Ragland that Worcester was then but upon delivery to the Parliament and that the Commissioners of peace for that County were those that contin●ed in their authority by their old Commission thought it then no fit time for a publique meeting in that Town upon such an occasion lest some ill consequence might have followed thereon and thereupon at his returne acquainted Master Prideanx one of the then Commissioners for the great Seale therewith and with his approbation returned the writ to Master Scoble the Register in whose custody it continued till he againe called for it some five weekes before the election TO the 17th Article the said Sir Wil. Lewes acknowledgeth that by the ever Honourable the Earl of Essex his Commission and the approbation of both Houses of Parliament he was in the beginning of these troubles made Governour of Portsmouth though not only without his desire but against it as it is well● known to Sir Iohn Evelyn of Wilt●● a Mer●ber of the Honourable House of Commons That during his service there he received much of the publike Treasure for which he gave such an Account as that he had his discharge from the Committee for Accounts bearing date the 15th day of March 1644. And the said Committee comming to the House of Commons with their Certificates of that Account and others did there publikely attest it to be both just and fr●●gall whereupon the house was so favourable as to vote on the 3. of April 1645. their approbation of his Account so presented unto them and to Order that the Committee of

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

poor Service and all others to prove him guilty of receiving the least reward for any thing done by him in discharging of his publike trust And whereas it is charged That he discovered a design for the searching of Greenwich House He saith That about midnight in August as he takes it 1642 there came an Officer with some Souldiers to his lodging and brought with them a Warrant for him to sign for the searching of Greenwich House which Warrant he figned and by the same Officer he sent three lines written in an open paper to a Noble Lady who lodged in the House that she should not be frighted with the coming of Souldiers in such an unseasonable hour which Lady was no servant of the Queens but one that had given a cleer demonstration of her affection to the Publike by a large voluntary contribution upon the Propositions of Money and Plate So that he hopes this will not be thought a fault to send an open paper to a person of that quality for such purpose by the same Officer that was to put the design in execution As to the three 23 24 25. four and five and twentieth Articles which waste themselves in a scandal touching Master Long alone for to a printed imputation of cowardize covetousnesse and treachery where no particular person appear● to avouch the truth or give satisfaction for the falshood of such an Assertion no better name can be given he yet to give the world a taste of what truth they may expect in the rest returns unto these three this Answer That howbeit his education had not much acquainted him with Military emploiments before the late unhappy Wars which he thinketh to be the case of many who now reckon well of their abilities in that profession yet through the invitation of his Excellency the late Lord Generall Earl of Essex and the Committee of the safety of the Kingdom who thought it of some importance at that time to interest persons of estate and relations though not bred Souldiers in that emploiment he did accept the command of a Troop of Horse under his Excellency the greatest part whereof were raised by himself and his friends and in the Head of that Troop he charged at Edge-hill in the Regiment then under the command of Sir William Bel●ore which was the first that brake into the Enemy in which charge he lost his horse and being left dismounted did yet with his single pistoll in his hand give quarter to severall of the Enemies and was then by Captain Harecourt Quarter master of his Troop remounted continued out the Service of that day and the next and was one of the last Troops that brought away the A●●munition a thing happily not known to them who gave the information for this Article seeing it was the ill●hap of some Commanders that day to make an over-hasty retreat and of some others of no little Eminency now never to come there much lesse to charge though they quartered very neer the Field When the unexpected skirmish at Brainford happened his Troop as the greatest part of the Army besides was dispersed but so soon as he could get it together he went ●hither and stayed there till the businesse was at an end shortly after his Troop being to march towards Bristoll where some of his fellow Captains whose experience he thought as little as his own receiving sudden and great Commands he declined that Service under them and intended to return to his other in the House of Commons but some disaffections and backwardnesse to contribute to the publike Service appearing in some persons of quality in the County of Essex he was by Commission from his Excellency the Earl of Essex commanded thither and author●ed with other Gentlemen of that and the Counties of Herrford and Bedford to raise Horse Arms c. upon such as had not contributed c. Touching which emploiment without drawing the particulars into a long Discourse he saith that he acted nothing without the concurrence of two Gentlemen● at the least of his fellow Commissioners and therof and of what had been raised by them for the publike Service under that Authority he long before any Committee of Accompts setled did publish the particulars in print and thereof did immediately 〈◊〉 that Committee setled give and passe an Accompt upon Oath which course had others taken who are greater Accountan●● then hee there would happily have been lesse room for thi● Accusation The plundering and oppression in the Article mentioned he ●eckons as odious as it is an ●●true suggestion As for Master T●omas Manwood in the Article mentioned he much doubteth whether there be any such man residing in the County of Essex sure he is that no protection from the then Lord Generall his Excellency was disrespected by him and upon the ●●st enquiry Master Long can make the person intended by Master Thomas Manwood is no way eminent for his good affection and what was done towards him was well warranted by the Commission under which Master Long and those other Gentlemen of that Countrey were employed and nothing by countenance of that Authority was converted to Master Longs private advantage and so little hath the humour of covetousnesse with which the printed Articles charge him prevailed that there will be nothing found in his Accompts to be demanded for his Colonells pay an Omission of which he dares undertake to excuse them that are most willing to accuse him The Damages sustained by Master Long not pretended 24. but reall mentioned in the four and twentieth Article to be the inducement of that favour conferred upon him by the Chancery Office were under● considerations and together with his four yeers imprisonment and sufferance for his publick service in former Parliaments waighed by the wisdome of that House and his capability to execute that place usually discharged by able Deputies as now it is determined by that judgement which he dares not and thinks no men or company of men without those Wals ought to dispute and therefore to that quarrell more against both houses then himselfe he thinks himselfe bound to give and beleeves no wise honest English men will expect or well receive any other answer This onely he saith that neither the eminency nor profit of ¶ Some of thē in the sam Court as M. Speker and his Son M● Smith M. Love the Office can surely be the cause that it onely of all the Offices and Benefits accepted from the Parliament by other Members should be now subject to observation and made a matter of charge In answer to the five twentieth and perhaps for the weight of it 25. the last Article in that printed paper he saith That if any man hath which is not knowne to him seriously or in scorne used that s●urrilous phrase of Parliament-Di●●er towards him by reason of his more then ordinary diligence in perswading and pressing his Fellow-Members of the honourable House of Commons according to