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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63112	Truth vindicated, or, A detection of the aspersions and scandals cast upon Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby, Justices, and Slingsby Bethell and Henry Cornish, Esquires, sheriffs of the city of London, in a paper published in the name of Dr. Francis Hawkins, minister of the Tower, intituled, The confession of Edward Fitz-Harris, Esq., &c. the coppy of which paper is herewith printed for the readers clearer judgment in the case.	Treby, George, Sir, 1644?-1700.; Fitzharris, Edward, 1648?-1681. Confession.	1681 (1681)	Wing T2107; ESTC R11729	17,499	36

Parliament and that the Sheriffs consulted and confederated with them to suborn Fitz-harris to be a Witness of the Popish Plots and Practices which they had declared to the world or at least that some Lords and Commons were privy and parties to the Subornation of Fitz-harris by the Sheriffs to sware as they should instruct him and that those Lords and Commoners intended to use their Interest with his Majesty for his Pardon to make him though false their legal Witness But as in truth there was no Parliament sitting whilst Fitz-harris was in the Sheriffs custody nor in ten days after and the place of their sitting is well known was to be at Oxford and not at London so there were no instructions for him to confirm or swear to either from Lords or Commoners none of the heads mentioned nor any others brought to him by the Sheriffs or either of them no address for his Pardon imagined or thought of by either Lords or Commons nor mentioned by the Sheriffs or either of them no meeting for any such intent no discourse between the Sheriffs and any man or men under the Sun about such an Address every circumstance of this Hellish Tale coming out of the forge of the Father of Lyes Yet it may be this was thought a hopeful invention to take off from the credit of all the Evidence given in Courts of Justice concerning all the Popish Designs enumerated under those Heads and Instructions and indeed it seems to be a crafty way to throw dirt at all those solemn Declarations made in Parliament concerning the Abettors of those Popish and French Designs and the adherents to them by whose countenance all their Plots have been managed that have so endangered the King and Kingdom And though this false poysonous tongue seems to spit its venom directly at the Sheriffs yet it endeavours to do the greatest mischief to the King and the Parliament and to defame to the whole world all the late Proceedings of Parliaments against the Popish Plotters and their favourers The mock-confession goes on further to defame if his tongue be a slander Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby Justices of the Peace for the City darkly insinuating that they would have induced him to say more than was true and plainly saying that what he deposed before them concerning Father Patrick was forced out of him and was not true and he so represents Sir George Treby's carriage in taking his whole Examination that he would have the whole thought to be of no validity But doubtless Mr. Fitz-harris did not nor could he possibly have believed himself if he consented to have it written that Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby dealt unfairly with him or forced out of him either what he swore concerning Father Patrick or any thing else of his Confession He knew very well that they came to take his Confession not officiously but upon his own earnest reiterated intreaty at several times to each of the Sheriffs apart that some Justices of the Peace might be sent to him to whom he might make a full discovery of matters not before discovered in the Grand Popish Plot as he called it He knew also that they came not till Thursday in the afternoon the tenth of March and that he had been thrice examined by the Secretaries of State Lord Conway Sir L. Jenkins and the Attorney-General before Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby ever saw him and he was conscious to himself that he had first sworn before the Secretaries all that he would now retract concerning Father Patrick as forced out of him by Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby and the other matters also in substance that are contained in his Printed Examination by Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby except that one passage in it about De Puy and the whole House of Commons at Oxford are Witnesses herein That when Sir George Treby read Fitz-harris's Examination to the House Mr. Secretary Jenkins declared That he had before confessed the same in substance to the Lord Conway the Attorney-General and himself except that about De Puy Yet for what reason we know not the contrivers of this Sham-retractation or declaration took no care to retract or excuse his swearing the same matters before the Secretaries of State Perhaps because those Examinations were never Printed and scarce any Foreigners nor many English men did know that Fitz-harris had thrice sworn to the same Confession in substance before the Secretaries of State which he did the fourth time before Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby Besides it best answered the design of this Sham-confession to conceal the first Examinations as much as could be and to represent it to the world as if Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby had forced out of him the Confession of all those Popish Treasons mentioned in his Printed Examination as it was reported to the Parliament There 's a Trial of skill also for the same purpose in this mock-confession to wrest some of Sir Robert Clayton's and Sir George Treby's words from their honest sense wherein they were spoken and to separate them from their other words properly joined with them as the Devil used the Scripture that they might seem to imply a wicked intent to draw Fitz-harris to say what was not true When it was late in the night and Fitz-harris complained he was tired having been about three hours upon Examination and was asked what he could say concerning Godfrey's Murder and he answered in general only something Could any thing be replied more harmlesly by Sir Robert Clayton than to wish him to recollect himself against the next day when it was intended to examine him further if he had not been removed out of their power Yet even these words of Sir Robert Clayton's are recited as if they imply'd some ill practise by him upon the Examinant or at least some sinister intent of his in that matter The Sham-confession further craftily insinuates tho' it doth not expresly say it that this wretched mans Depositions about the Counsels held at St. James's and Windsor concerning Godfrey's Murder were taken by Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby which is utterly false then the Confession declares that he was put upon what he said against the Queen and the Earl of Danby about that Murder and that Sir George Treby would have had him say that the Duke the Lord Bellasis Arundel and Powis were at the Consult and that he had seen them go to it at St. James's Surely these Sham-Confessions are thus methodized and put together in hope to abuse or deceive the world into a Belief or Opinion that whatsoever this Fitz-Harris Deposed first and last about the Popish Plot and Godfrey's Murder was done by the Practices Force and Inducements of the City-Sheriffs and the Justices of the Peace Whereas it is most notoriously known that it was upon Fitz-Harris's own Motion to the Judges of the Kings-Bench that his