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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

most Wicked Oaths and Imprecations denyed that I sent for him This he undertakes to prove by the Testimony of three Boys of the Wonder-Tavern how they were induced to give it I will not enquire at present but can prove some of them have since disowned it But the Truth of the matter was thus I and one Thomas Jennings a Cloth-drawer a very Honest man and Ingenious above most of his Quality but frolicksome and apt to Droll went to the Old Dog Tavern and having seated our selves in the Kitchin no very fit Room for carrying on an Intrigue Jennings having an occasion to speak with one whom he thought might be at Sam 's Coffee-house ordered one Thomas Harris a little Boy in the House who has since own'd himself not to be above 12 years old tho' Thompson advanced him to 20. to go thither to Ask for him and knowing Mr. L'Estrange frequented that Coffee-house and what a kindness he had for me merrily added If he be not there Inquire for Mr. L'Estrange and tell him here are one or two would speak with him And tho' he spoke it with such an Air of Droll that it might be easily known to be wholly Jest nor was it imaginable a person of Mr. L'Estranges figure would on such a slight Invitation without sending any Name regard it yet the Messenger being a raw Boy not finding the Person he first ask't for there very formally it seems dispatcht the latter part of his Message and Mr. L'Estrange being in the Coffee-house and perhaps understanding from the Lad I was in the Company presently after several Persons came to us from Sam 's and began to quarrel with me for sending for Mr. L'Estrange which I being wholly innocent of as earnestly as justly denyed I having never had the least thought of any such matter For as I had no Business with the Gentleman so I had little reason to desire his Company but that I used any such Oaths and Imprecations is false And tho' of all mankind the Observator may be the unfittest to upbraid any body with swearing I shall here subjoyn the Affidavit of the said Jennings who sat close by me during all this time Thomas Jennings Citizen and Haberdasher of London maketh Oath that on Friday the 16 th of June Last about ten of the Clock in the Evening this deponent went with Mr. Miles Prance to the Old-Dog Tavern within Ludgate and sate down in the Kitching with him and this deponent sent one Thomas Harris Servant to Mr. Allen that keeps the said Tavern to Sam 's Coffee-house to enquire for a friend of this Deponent that he heard was there and if he was not there to enquire for one Mr. Roger L'Estrange to tell him there was one or two would speak with him and some time after there came three or four persons from Sam 's Coffee-house into the aforesaid Kitching where Mr. Miles Prance and this Deponent were and began to quarrel with Mr. Prance and using provoking words to him to know his Reason why he sent for Roger L'Estrange which he denyed he did but not with such Imprecations as by God's wounds and by Gods Blood and God dam ' me as this Deponent to the best of his knowledge heard who was in the same Kitching with Mr. Miles Prance all the time this deponent saith further that he Enquired twice of the aforesaid Thomas Harris that he sent whether he ever heard Mr. Miles Prance swear such Oaths who denied he ever did as I this deponent can prove by witnesses Thomas Jennings Jurat 8 die Augusti 1682 Coram Job Charlton For further Confirmation hereof if the Attestation of a dying man may add any weight this Mr. Jennings being since dead in May 1683 during his sickness he voluntarily Endors'd the aforesaid Affidavit with his own hand which is known to hundreds for the man was acquainted with Persons of most Conditions in this City and ready to be produced to any that desire it in these words March the 7 th 1682 3 I Thomas Jennings being in a weakly state of Body not knowing whether I shall live a week do Attest all that I have sworn on the other side before Sir Job Charlton is truth witness my hand Thomas Jennings Written in the presence of John Horton Robert Pimm And on this Issue I must leave this matter there 's no sence against a Flail 't is plain we were in a Tavern Kitching the Boys say I sent for Mr. L'Estrange the most improbable thing in Nature and then deny'd it with Oaths Mr. Jennings swears that he sent for him and not I and on his death-bed Confirms that he who sat next to me heard me not Use such Lew'd Oaths as they pretend and that the Chief witness disown'd it afterwards which is further probable in that none of the Persons sent by Mr. L'Estrange and whom I discoursed who might sure have taken notice of it as well as 2 or 3 Ubiquitary Drawers have appeared to Attest it And this I think enough at present for that Business Another thing that Mr. L'Estrange often harps upon is That I should Swear he was a Papist and this he makes to be the ground of his quarrel with me Now if I never Swore nay never so much as Said any such thing 't is then plain that either Mr. L'Estrange has some other deeper and important design in his continual Out-cries and baiting me thus or else that he has troubled the World with so many sheets of Railing upon no Provocatiom and to as little purpose The words of my Affidavit were as follow Midd ss THe Information of Miles Prance taken upon Oath the 25 th of October 1680 before the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and the Earl of Craven two of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the said County This Deponent saith That about three years since he saw Mr. Roger L'Estrange three or four times kneeling at Mass in the Queens-Chappel Miles Prance Here 's not one word of his being a Papist for he might have come out of Curiosity to observe whether the Ceremonies here were the same with those in other Mass-Houses beyond the Seas where he acknowledges he has been at that Idolatry forty times or it maybe being a Lover of Musick he came only to hear the delicacy of the Voices whatever brought him in thither there he was let him protest never so much and write a thousand Observators to the contrary He says indeed I could not say I saw him receive 't is very right and so I told His Majesty and the Honourable Lords of the Council for I saw no such thing and therefore I Swore to no more than I saw 't is the fairer Argument that what I Swore was Truth But as I never Swore so neither did I ever Say he was or is a Papist for I must avow I do not know what Religion the Gentleman has been is or may be of nor whether he have any