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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78460	Certain certificates serving to vindicate M. Sam. Eaton's righteousness and innocency, in receiving two sums of money, about which he hath been lately very maliciously traduced by some unworthy persons.		1658 (1658)	Wing C1687B; ESTC R176560	10,555	19

Certain Certificates serving to vindicate M. Sam. Eaton's righteousness and innocency in receiving two sums of money about which he hath been lately very maliciously traduced by some unworthy persons WHereas a Report hath passed from hand to hand in several places importing M. Eatons detaining in his hand the sum of twenty six pound or twenty eight pound which was intended for the poor by Col. Venables when yet he had other monies given to him by the said Colonel by which he might know that no part of the above mentioned money was intended for him We the Elders of the Church unto which M. Eaton relates think our selves obliged to testifie That we have diligently searched into this matter and have found it to be a gross lie forged fomented against him by persons of a distempered spirit who have born a grudge against him for attempting to heal their souls For first the sum was but twenty four pound sent over from Ireland in 1651. by order of the foresaid Colonel to the Deacons dispose Secondly M. Eaton received but 20 pound of this 24 pound Thirdly He took it not but it was allotted to him and ordered for him to receive by the Deacons And they had also special direction given unto them in a Letter written in the Colonel his name by M. Taylor that they should very fully distribute to M. Eaton and the sending of other monies over to him by the said Colonel to cut him off from having any part in this was a meer forged business there was no such thing as the Colonel himself confesseth The Letter that clears M. Eaton and the Deacons is extant through the goodness of God though it might have been lost in such length of time and the Colonel doth own it as written by his direction The persons that devised and first reported these monstrous untruths by a strange hand of God have been divided among themselves one casting it upon another and endeavouring to clear themselves with high appeals to heaven and since two of them have been for that and other miscarriages cast out of the Church and a third person is under a solemn admonition This we thought good to declare both for the clearing of M. Eaton and that all Calumniators might fear and tremble when they behold the righteous proceedings of God This is testified by October 11. 1657. William Barrit Thomas Partington William Linnie William Thomson WE whose names are hereunder written being the Deacons of the Church that meets in Stopport School-house having understood how maliciously M. Eaton hath been slandered for taking 20l which appertained not to him but was intended as was said by Colonel Venables who sent it from Ireland to the poor do think our selves obliged to clear him from such an odious aspersion and to testifie that M. Eaton did not take this 20l into his hands as he hath been falsly charged to have done but as it was ordered and appointed him by all or the most of us who have the power of dispose of all such monies as are given to the Churches use by any member of it And we do also certifie that the whole sum that was sent was 24l and that we had special direction given to us how to dispose of it in a Letter written by M. Taylor in Col. Venables his name which bears date Jan. 26. 1651. which Letter is yet extant in words to this effect That the Deacons should very fully distribute to M. Eaton if the necessities of private Brethren were not exceeding pressing Whereupon we ordered that M. Eaton should have 20l and that 4l should be given to the poor And we also signifie that there was not in this any special favour shewed to M. Eaton but that this distribution was made according to such rules of proportion as we had formerly gone by our Teaching Officer at that time having not any other maintenance to our knowledge but what came through our hands and for further confirmation of the truth of this our testimony we do hereunto subscribe our names Octob. 11. 1657. Edw. Tipping Tho. Newton Joh. Wharmbie Jam. Johnson I Do hereby cerifie that I did desire M. Timothy Taylor to return 24l for me to the Church of Duckenfield now meeting in Stopport and that I being very busie and wanting time he would write for me about the same he advised that if the want of private members were not very pressing M. Eaton might be very fully considered to which I consented and willed him to write what he thought fit and I should approve of it which he accordingly did for the substance of the Letter the date and other circumstances I must refer to the Letter which I now remember not I do further certifie that I received a Letter from M. Eaton concerning his Receipt of the above 24 or part of it which gave me satisfaction and I returned an answer to it but remember not the contents Dated Sept. 26. 1657. R. Venables WHereas M. Eaton hath been scandalously aspersed for getting 10l into his hands by his or his Agents for him pleading want which was intended for the poor I think it necessary to certifie that M. Eaton received nothing but what I being one of the Deacons of the Church to which he relates did put into his hands nor yet any thing but what was intended for him by Col. Venables as his words to me did import For thus it was in Sept. 1656. Col. Venables brought 10l to Stopport and put it into my hands whereupon I told him it came seasonably as to M. Eaton because he had lately borrowed money and his answer was he was glad that it came so opportunely for him by which words and he declaring no other use for which he intended it I conceived that his minde was that M. Eaton should have it and it was no mistake in me for he hath since testified so much under his hand And whereas it is charged maliciously by some that he or his Agents for him pleaded want and did thereby get such monies to himself I do hereby assert that I spake not one word of want but only said that he had lately borrowed money which was a truth Nor did M. Eaton wish me to speak such words nor did he know that I spake any such words till I told him neither did he know that Col. Venables had any intent of leaving any money in mine or any other mans hand nor did Col. Venables make any mention at all of the poor by all which it doth appear how falsly M. Eaton hath been charged and bow basely abused This is testified by me under my hand Tho. Newton BEing informed that some scandalous aspersion hath been cast upon M. Eaton as a robber of the poor for making use of 10l left by me in the hands of Thomas Newton one of the Deacons At the time I delivered it him I said that I gave it to the Churches dispose and he telling me that it came opportunely for he knew M.

for the poor or to manifest your simplicity slavery or want of charity and if four pounds was reserved for the poor three pounds of that was put into M. Eatons hands as both he and Thomas Newton confessed but is not yet known what poor had it nor what became of the other twenty shillings Again you say it was by special direction in a Letter from M. Taylor in Colonel Venables name But none of the Deacons knew of the Letter except Thomas Newton before M. Eaton had the twenty pounds for they knew not of the money how could they then know of the Letter M. Eatons keeping the Letter in his own custody both from them and the Church imports that M. Eaton knew M. Taylor 's directions were not that he should have twenty pounds and the poor but four or that the Church would not be so uncharitable as to make so unequal a division which though we do not call it Church-robbing yet was it not a covetous interposing betwixt the poor and the money M. Taylor 's directions had been answered if M. Eaton had had the better half considering how many persons were to be relieved out of it for how many of your members then were and are poor and in debt we leave them to judge that know them whose conditions should have been first considered by M. Taylor 's direction by which Colonel Venables charity appeared who intended not the money should have been so divided If the power of disposing be in the Deacons sure it was according to Scripture and then the poor should have had it for where finde you that the Deacons should take care of the Church Officers But you are not ashamed to say that no special favour was shewed to M. Eaton in the division because it was according to the same rules of proportion you had formerly gone by and that he had no other maintenance to your knowledge but what came through your hands To which we answer The more common an evil is the worse it is and yet you say that was your common rule to make so unequal divisions betwixt M. Eaton and the poor But did none of you know or did not Thomas Newton know that M. Eaton had and hath an estate with his wife worth forty pounds per annum or thereabouts and that after the end of the first Wars he had forty pounds per annum from Sequestrations and that he hath bought Lands in Ireland to a good value and either Lands or Rents in Cheshire worth thirty four pounds per annum or thereabouts and that he had forty pounds or fifty pounds as Chaplain to Chester Garrison about 1651. Or did these or any of these come through your hands if so your sin was the greater to give him twenty pounds and the poor but four if they had it And if he kept these or any of these secret from you and pleaded necessity was it not to keep you to your unequal division to give him five times so much as to all the poor of the Church And why do you so since he hath no children to maintain nor kept any house since he was your Pastor which is about twelve years But the nature of covetousness is that much would have more which more appears for that he hath now also an allowance from the State of an hundred pounds per annum and we query whether when he went to wait upon the Lord Protector then Lord General in Scotland he had not an allowance from the said Lord General or else a levie upon the Church to defray his charge yea we query whether he had not both for we believe the Lord General was so Noble he would not let him serve him for nothing If the Letter from M. Taylor be extant why did you not print it for if M. Eaton and Thomas Newton ever be cleared it 's that must do it and not your piece-meal collections under which wit and words may make a truth seem a lye and a lye seem a truth and who knows your Author knows he is both full of wit and words to extenuate or aggravate to his own advantage his greatest temptation in publique being credit and in private profit which meeting together are like the sons of Zerviah too hard for a David without the help of an heavenly power which M. Taylor conceived to be amongst you as by his charitable caution appears of fully distributing to M. Eaton if the necessities of private brethren were not exceeding pressing And if it be the goodness of God that the Letter is extant why was it not discovered before the money came in question which though it was sent in 1651. was never known to the Church as we could ever hear of until 1656. and that it should now be discovered is so remarkable that it bespeaks it self to be the just hand of God that others may fear and tremble and beware of covetous under-dealing for truth seeks no corners But no cause of fear and trembling unto us as you falsly apply it unless for your and his unrighteous dealings And the aforesaid William Barret saith yet that he did not know of the money and at that time there was no Elder but he and M. Eaton Whereas you say we have since been divided amongst our selves with high appeals to heaven it 's an untruth for we were never divided As for Joyce Hall that told us we leave to answer for her self who spake truth in the main and if it had been a mistake in her it s no ground for you to boast in anothers infirmity except free your selves it 's true we did appeal to heaven and so we can yet do that what we testified was truth for we testified nothing but what Joyce Hall told us and did not assert that the report was truth being forewarned by William Barret aforesaid that M. Eaton did not so much matter the business of the money so he could entrap us and if it was so hainous in Joyce Hall to contradict her self what was it for M. Eaton to contradict himself twice in one thing with high appeals to heaven and afterwards when witnesses were ready to have proved the thing then and not before to confess the truth Is not this matter of trembling You say two of us have since for that and other miscarriages been cast out of the Church Why do you add this but to cast a vail before the eyes of the Reader to make him think that your abuse of so great an Ordinance will clear your innocency What you charged us with given since under your hands makes us not the subjects of Excommunication as we shall shew in their time and place but it seems that this discovery of the money was the main thing for which and also for other miscarriages of yours we had rather be out then in Your casting us out was but to cast an odium upon us for justly leaving you and to cover some nakedness of your own you apprehended would