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A91211	The lyar confounded, or A briefe refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-case, mistaken-law; seditious calumnies, and most malicious lyes against the High Court of Parliament, the Honourable Committee of Examinations, Mr Speaker, with other members of the Commons House; and Mr William Prynne; wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant overcredulous people. Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary clemency towards him, their justice in their commitment of, and proceedings against him; for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them, with tyranny and injustice / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4002; Thomason E267_1; ESTC R212413	54,867	55

least contradiction proving much more against them then Mr Prynne relates of them And therfore Iohn Lilburn to use his own language here shews himselfe once more a Grand Lyar in giving such unseemly speeches to Mr Prynne for relating nought but truth and defaming traducing the witnesses produced by Sir Samuel whose persons conditions he knowes not in so grosse a manner upon the Delinquents own bare false reports 7. The seventh That Mr Prynne hath published to the world abundance of lyes and slanders not only against these Lay-preachers but also against Honourable Sir Thomas Fairfax and Honourable Cromwell and divers other chiefe Officers in the Army to whom the whole Kingdome owes so much honour and respect for all their faithfulnesse and good service done them which writes he is so insufferable unwarrantable unjust and abusive as I think was never done by any to the Parliament since they sate besides Mr Prynne And I am consident if I had done as much as he hath in that Book he meanes my Fresh Discovery and had beene such a firebrand as there he is I should hardly escape Tiburne O the intollerable Impudency of this Scribler whose lines are as full of lyes as a Dog of fleas In my Epistle to the Parliament before my Fresh Discovery I occasionally related That two Captain Pr●achers Hobson and Beamond apprehended by Sir Samuel Luke for bre●ch of an O●dina●ce of Parliament against Lay-Preachers did among other their lavash speeches MOST FALSLY AND SEDITIOUSLY AFFIRME That the Generall and all the Colonels in the Army were deeply engaged in their designe of preaching c. of purpose to vindicate the Honourable Victorious Generall and his Noble Colonels from this very notorious false slander most untruly cast upon them by these slanderers For doing them this right and honour I am thus most scandalously charged by Lilburne with publishing lyes and slanders against them with being a firebrand and deserving Tyburne who on the contrary justifies and pleades for these slanderous Delinquents in three whole pages and thereby slanders both the Generall and Officers in the highest degree whose Innocency I have vindicated from their misreports Certainly all Lilburnes friends who have any spark of Truth or Christianity in their breasts will for ever execrate and renounce such an abominable impudent slanderer as this who dares affirme such grosse untruthes even in print and I wish his publike penitence for all his premised slanders may be such as none may ever conclude in his owne termes that since he hath beene a farre greater Firebrand in his last printed libellous Letters then Mr Prynne appeares to be in his Fresh Discovery he will hardly escape Tiburn if justly prosecuted for and censured according to his misdemeanors 8. The eighth is That in page 22. hee promiseth hereafter at some other time to anatomize Will Prynnes lyes and fooleries and destructive practises to the Common-wealth in supporting Sir Phillip Cartwright the Malignant governour of Iersey who by his meanes alone hath been as great an instrument of the support of the King and of his unjust wars as any hath been in England It seemes this Libeller for want of present matter intends to forge and publish some new lies and forgeries of me for the future which I shall as easily wipe off as those already charged on me As for my supposed destructive practises to the Common-wealth in supporting Sir Philip Cartwright he should say Carteret a man he never knew I shall give a brief account thereof because it most concerns the State to be truly informed of it and of the losse of Jersey It is very well known to the world what extraordinary favours and respect I received from Sir Philip Carteret and his Lady during my three yeares close imprisonment and exile in Iersey when all my kindred and friends by speciall order from the Lords were debarred any accesse unto me and none of my friends in England durst publikely to own me and that my brother Burton then close prisoner in Garnsey Castle did by his interest in the Governour there at my request procure him more liberty respect and better Accommodations then all his other friends could obtain for him In respect of which obligations I should have manifested my self a Monster of ingratitude had I not contributed my best assistance to support Sir Philips innocency honour and reputation against the malicious and injurious Accusations Aspersions of his inveterate backbiting Enemies who endeavoured only to defame and out him of his Offices of trust that themselves might step into them Among these his Adversaries one Bandinell an Italian Dean of Iersey who first introduced Episcopall Government and Iurisdiction into that Island a man of a very lewd and wicked life and a crafty Machivilian was the chiefe who came purposely over into England to procure a Benefice in Iersey for a distracted son of his and to complain to the Archbishop of Canterbury against Sir Philip for his courtesies and kindenesse unto me as the readiest means to obtain his desires but instead thereof this Parliament being assembled before his arrivall here and the Archbishop questioned he met with Articles of complaint against himself for severall grosse misdemeanors and oppressions done by him in that Isle as Dean for which he was committed by the Commons House for two or three moneths to the Serjeants custody after which he confederating with one Monsieur Samyres of Iersey who was justly questioned by Sir Philip for an astront against him as Deputy Governour in laying down his Captains staffe and command in the open field because he could not have his will in disposing of the Lieutenants place in his band to a person altogether unfit whom the whole company disliked they first of all secretly contrived divers false and scandalous Articles against Sir Philip to the Parliament without any name subscribed to them and inclosed them in a Letter desiring any wel-affected person who should take them to present them to the house of Parliament left them upon the Stocks at London where being found by one who passed that way they were presented to some Members of the House who gave Sir Philip notice thereof Not long after this Deane and Samyres drew up a large paper of Articles the very same in substance and for the most part in words with the former and delivered some Copies of them to sundry Members of both Houses but were not forwards to presse them to be read that so they might slander Sir Philip in the opinion of those Members by this underhand dealing to stay his return to Iersey and he be disabled to clear his innocency which Sir Philip hearing of procured these Articles which they left in the Earl of Stamfords hands to be read in the Lords House and so mooved his adversaries to make them good if they could that so he might clear himself from their false Accusations ere his departure from hence and not be slandered in his absence Whereupon at Sir Philips

That it was their cordiall desire not to look on the King or Parliament as divided one from another but united and would thus cordially adhere to both without siding against either c. Whereupon they humbly prayed they might enjoy their joynt favour and protection and the like liberty of Trade to both their Quarters as they enjoyed by ancient Charters between England and France during the Wars between both only with their Lawfull Commodities without doing prejudice to either side This Petition to the Parliament with Letters from Sir Philip to Mr. Pym were sent to London by one John le Coulter of Iersey bound thence for England with divers Letters from some English Captives in Argeir to their friends here about their Redemption who coming to London with the Letters and Petition presently met with some Iersey men opposites to Sir Philip and acquainting them that he had Letters from Sir Philip to Mr. Pym with a Petition from the Estates of the whole Island to the Parliament and desiring their direction how he might present them to Mr. Pym they presently procured him to be seised on by a Messenger as a Spye sent purposely over by Sir Philip whom they cryed up for a Malignant and Enemy to the Parliament without any colour or shadow of proofe took away all his Letters and the Petition which by this means was smothered and never presented to the House and if presented and Answered would doubtlesse have settled that Island in quietnesse and made Sir Philip and the whole Island firm to the Parliament After which by false suggestions they detained him above three moneths in their Custody to his great expence before I could procure his full release About the same time one Osmond Cooke a Souldier of Mount-Orguile Castle who attended on me in my Chamber during all the time of my close Imprisonment there and came into England about halfe a year before meerly upon his own private businesse to recover a house and some Lands in Beccles devised to him by his Uncle returning into Iersey from hence was in his passage thither by these malitious persons Informations seised on in the Western parts as a Spye to Sir Philip sent up Prisoner to London by Sea and there detained in Custody divers moneths Notwithstanding there was no proof of any thing at all against him but meer suggestions behinde his back the which to my knowledge were false Whiles these two parties were thus Imprisoned Sir Philips Adversaries by their malitious suggestions of his dangerous malignity and Enmity to the Parliament and importunate solicitations procured an Order from the close Committee for Major Lidcot and some other Officers with six very good brasse Ordnance and sundry Musquets Barrells of Powder Match and Ammunition to be sent into Iersey to apprehend Sir Philip as an enemy to the Parliament to besiege and take in the Castles secure the Island to the Parliament and desend their party there and withall got the Coyners Messeruies enlarged to go over with them into Iersey Maximillian promising to do great matters for the Parliament with the party he and his confederates would there raise and out of my cordiall affection to the Parliament and that Island acquainted Mr. Solicitor and others of the close Committee with the inconveniences and ill consequence of this rash design of which I having intelligence grounded upon meer misinformations of Sir Philips adversaries to effect their own ends informing them upon my own knowledge that both Castles in Iersey were so strongly scituated fortified that they must have an Army by Land and a Fleet by Sea to Block them up that an hundred men in each would maintain the Castles against all the Force the Island could make and three times more and therefore it was a ridiculous thing to imagine that a Major with five or six Gunners and Officers and that small force Sir Philips Enemies could raise there should take both or either of the Castles especially without a Fleet to assist them one of them being quite surrounded with the Sea at half Flood and above half the other at low water that the Castles to my knowledge were very well furnished with Ordnance and Ammunition for two or three years Siege that they could every tide receive fresh Supplyes of Victualls Men and what ever they wanted from France and elsewhere That the Islanders were generally rawe faint-hearted Souldiers who durst not come within Canon shot of the Castles much lesse approach a Breach and run upon the Canons mouth as they must do if they will take them That if they sent any Ordnance Musquets or Ammunitions thither which they needed at home they would all certainly be lost and that they who engaged them in this action did it more out of private ends and malice against Sir Philip then any publike good to the Parliament for admit the Parliament had the Castles and Island surrendred without a stroke they would cost them more the keeping then they were worth and draw a charge upon the State in these needfull times to no purpose but to waste the publike Treasure That in times of Peace the King received not one peny profit from the Island but only the Governour whose whole income in time of war would not maintain the Garrison souldiers requisite to keep one of the two Castles and that it could supply the Parliament neither with fighting men nor money nor Shipping in this time of War but must be supplyed from hence with all these And admit the King had it all in his absolute power it could do the Parliament no hurt at all since it could neither supply him with Souldiers Men Money Provisions nor Ammunition and far remote from England quite out of the road of our English Trade That the Inhabitants being generally very poor and having none but base French Coyne among them could yield the King no supply of moneys That Sir Philip Carteret and the States of the Island did now by Petition and Letter desire the Parliaments friendship and Kings joyntly and not to side with either as divided but United and that he would engage himself if they would give but a fair Answer to their Petition which was suppressed by the opposite party that Sir Philip and those Islanders of his party should continue firm unto the Parliament and their friends and never do one act of Hostility or unkindenesse on the Kings behalf against them and that the Parliaments and the Kings Ships upon all occasions should have all accomodations and ride safely in the Harbour there at their pleasure which was all the benefit we could reap if the Island and two Castles were totally in the Parliaments possession That if they sent any Ships or Forces thither to apprehend Sir Philip or Seise the Island and Castles by sorce especially by such infamous persons as the Coyners and some others were it would make Sir Philip and his party to stand upon their guard and perchance of friends or Neuters at

the most to turn professed enemies and side with them that were ill affected without any advantage to the State and draw much expence upon them which would end in losse and dishonour as experience would manifest and I would make appear by unanswerable Arguments before the whole Committee in the presence of those who put them upon this designe To which end I did put all this under my hand in writing and left it with some of the close Committee Whereupon there was some stop made of the Iersey Expedition for a week or two but afterwards some of the Committee crediting Sir Philips Adversaries who continually sollicited them and kept Osmond Cooke and le Coultre in Prison and promised a present Conquest of the Castles and Island Major Lidcot and some other Officers through their importunity were sent over thither with six great Brasse peeces Muske●s Powder Match and other necessaries Before the Major departed hence I meeting him at Westminster Hall informed him of the strength of the Castles the impossibility of taking them the Cowardise and treachery of the Islanders and of some of those who were to go over with him who would certainly betray him for their own advantage especially Maximillian the Coyner and therefore advised him to be very vigilant telling him I much feared he would soon return thence with losse and dishonour and without any successe which I acquainted him with out of my good affection to himself and the State the importunity of Sir Philips Adversaries having engaged the Parliament and himself in this designe which I endeavoured to hinder but could not and therefore had done my duty Soon after they set sayl for Iersey and there Landing with their Ordnance Arms Ammunition summoned in the Country to beleaguer the Castles which they did at a distance out of danger of Canon shot for a little space But Captain Carteret arriving there with about fifty new Souldiers after Sir Philips death who died in the new Castle during the Leaguer the event proved answerable to my Predictions the Canons Musquets and Ammunition sent thither were all lost and taken by Captain Carteret the Major basely deserted by the Islanders the Dean Messeruy others that went over with him from hence who revolted to the other side and with the hazard of life was forced to make his passage through the Enemy and to flye thence by night in a small Boat and returne for England to the great dishonour and expence of the Parliament And by this means the Island was totally lost to the Parliament and of reall Friends or Neuters at the most made their professed Enemies Whereas if my advise had been followed this vast expence had been saved this dishonour prevented and the Island continued firm to the Parliament which hath been thus abused by Sir Philips opposites meerly out of private spleen and ambition to gain his places which God knows they had neither wisdom nor ability to manage And this is Mr. Prynnes destructive practises to the Common-Wealth in supporting Sir Philip Cartret whom this slanderous Libeller onely upon false reports stiles the Malignant Governour of Iersey and as great an instrument of supporting the King in his unjust warres as any hath beene in England which is certainly a most loud Lye since it hath not at all been proved none I beleeve can say that Sir Phillip ever supported the King in his warres with Men Money Ammunition nor ever did the least hostile act against the Parliament but onely defended himselfe when causelesly sent for and terribly assaulted by his Enemies sollicitations and mis-informations to the Parliament how ever this is certaine that I never supported him in his Malignity or since he turned Malignant if he proved such a one after the Majors arrivall there And Major Ledcot will informe this slanderer and all the world as he did in Westminster Hall and in my chamber upon his return from this Iersey expedition that it had been happy for the Parliament and Island too had my advice agrinst that most improbable designe been hearkned to that those who put the Parliament on this Expedition were most of them false dishonest men byassed with private interests who deserted him for their own advantage And that he found every tittle I had informed the Parliament and himselfe before his voyage to be true by wosull experience And therefore Iohn Lilburne may save the labour of anatomizing Mr. Pryns destructive practises to the Commonwealth in this particular of Iersey and support of Sir Phillip Cartret wherewith hee promiseth to abuse the world ere long And to that purpose hath imployed Anabaptists from Iersey who were the principall fomenters of this Expedition to make a present underhand Inquisition of my carriage in this businesse which they are now very busie about enquiring of every Iersey man and others as divers of the parties have lately informed me what they know or have heard concerning me and my carriage in Iersey and holding intelligence with Sir Phillip And I shall onely desire him to take notice that the Dean Sir Phillips principall enemy who betrayed Major Lydcot being since imprisoned in Iersey and attempting an escape broke both his legge and necke over the Castle walls that Messeruy another principall actor who proved treacherous is since executed in Iersey for his coyning that Monsieur Kiddel a great stickler against Sir Philip because he could not have one of his daughters for his wife was a person so scandalous for his drunkennesse and Venery and storing Garnsey with a specious generation of Bastards that he was inforced to fly thence into England That both the Gurdons Lawyers and others who were most active in this plot and made most friends in Parliament are professed Anabaptists and now grown so insolent that they threaten and abuse their other Countrymen who will not joyn with them in their Anabaptisticall Religion and Church and promise to themselves all the Offices and government of the Island when reduced and to set up their Religion there cum privilegio That Monsieur Daristux was late a zealous popish Monk who deserting his orders some say for incontinency and advanced by Sir Phillips means to a living there to my own knowledge proved a most ingratefull wretch towards him and a meere fire-brand in the isle and since his coming over a chief incendiary in the French Church in Norwich which he hath in a maner quite ruined dissolved and these were Sir Phillips chief opposi●es who engaged the Parliament in the invasion of the Island of Iersey for their own privat ends and have quite undone both Iersey and Garnsey too and put the Parliament to a vast expence only to make the Islanders Governors of them their Enemies who upon my certaine knowledge were once and I beleeve would still have continued their faithfull friends or at least remained Neuters and not attempted ought against the Parliament or any really adhering to them And for a close of this particular I shall averre

Law or Iustice executed the summons being ever the first proces and meanes to bring men to appeare before the Officers of Iustice who are to examine their misdemeanors complained of and so to informe them of them when they appeare and if men should know their particular accusers or accusations before their summons it would be a meanes First to make the Delinquents fly or hide away to avoyd the hand of Iustice if they could possibly make escapes Secondly to corrupt the Informers and witnesses that should prosecute to smother or ex●enuate theeir crimes Thirdly to furnish the Delinquent with premeditated answers and evasions and so introduce a totall subversion or pervertion of Iustice All which inconveniences a generall summons which the Lawes provide and allow of prevents In few words a summons to appeare without an actuall attachment of the person summoned is no imprisonment no outing of any man of his freehold lands goods franchises no sentence passed against him Therefore clearely no proceedings at all within the words or intent of Magna Charta or the Petition of Right as this New Lawyer out of his deep ignorance hath most magisterially resolved being one of those unintelligent Lawyers that St Paul speaks of 1 Tim. 1. 17. Desiring to be Teachers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirme These Premises make way for proofe of the second Conclusion to wit That the Committees sending for Lilburne in custody upon new information of the Stationers against him for printing his libellous Answer given in to them contrary to their expresse Order with scandalous marginall Notes and other schismaticall seditious Papers contrary to Law and severall Ordinances of Parliament is agreeable to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right not any wayes repugnant to them For the clearing whereof to the very meanest capacy we must distinguish between a warrant to apprehend a man in nature of a processe or attachment and the commitment of a man to a prison goale or Messenger upon his examination after an apprehension or attachment In the first of these a generall warrant made to a Sheriffe Constable Messenger or any other inferiour Officer upon a precedent particular information or vehement suspition is and ever was reputed just legall without expressing the name of the Accuser or particulars of the Accusation in the warrant For example If an information be given in to the Lord Maior of London or to the Chiefe Iustice of England or any Iustice of Peace that any particular person hath committed or is suspected to be guilty of such a Murther Robbery Treason Trespasse or offended any penal Law the breach whereof they have power to examine there is nothing so ordinary in daily practice and experience as to send a warrant to the Sheriffe Constable or other under Officer to apprehend and bring the party accused or suspected before them to answer such things as shal be objected against him The like is done daily in all Courts of Iustice upon complaint of Misdemeanours in and by both Houses of Parliament their Committees and Sub-Committees and hath been done of late in many thousand persons cases who neither did nor could of right so much as once complain of the breach of Magna Charta And I appeale to Iohn Lilburn or any other Officer or Souldier in our Armies whether the General Councel of warre and other Officers doe not every day almost upon complaints send for Souldiers and others in custody and apprehend them by the Marshall sometimes by a warrant in writing sometimes by a meere verball command without acquainting them before hand with the Accusers name or his particular accusation but only in generall termes to answer such things as are or shall be objected against them and did ever any Souldier yet complaine that this was tyranny injustice in their Generall the Counsell of warre their Officers or contrary to Magna Charta the Petition of Right and the Liberty of the Subject for which they fight What ground then hath this clamorous Libeller to raile against the Parliament or Committee of Examinations for sending for him in custody upon a precedent true just and vi●●ble complaint even the printing of these libellous Papers conttary to their expresse Order the priviledges of Parliament and Ordinances against unlicensed printing which inflict in this case imprisonment by this very Committee with other penalties upon such offenders Certainly none at all but only his owne seditious malignant venomous rankor against the Parliaments justice But certainly if others yet he of all men had least cause to complaine thus in this case because though the warrant was to bring him in custody yet he was not brought thither in custody as other prisoners ate but only summoned to appeare and that upon a more particular warrant then others expressing in generall termes the cause for which he was sent for and when he came he was neither committed to any prison nor forced to put in Baile nor deteined in the Messengers custody as a prisoner but remained with him one night at his free liberty as a friend and paid no fees nor any thing for his diet and lodging as the Messenger himselfe will depose And was this sending for an infringement of Magna Charta and the Lawes of the Land Certainly if it were it was only in his favour that he was not according to the Law of the Land Magna Charta and the severall Ordinances concerning printing presently committed to some Goale or other for his seditious Libels and Lies and there detained as he hath been since This case of summons and attachment by vertue of a generall warrant being cleare out of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right the sole question will be What commitment and imprisonment that is which is against Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and whether Lilburnes was such a commitment This will best appeare by the very Petition of Right it selfe and the originall case and votes in Parliament which were the grounds and occasion of this Petition The case was only this Divers eminent Gentlemen of the Kingdome in the third yeare of King Charles were sent for by Pursevants before the Lords of the Councell for refusing the loane of moneyes then set on foot contrary to divers Statutes and by them committed to severall prisons sundry monthes without expressing any cause of their commitment in the warrant And when for their deliverances they brought their Habeas corpus in the Kings Bench the Iaylors certified no cause of their deliverance or commitment but only the Kings speciall Command signified by the Lords of his privy Councell yet the Iudges would not bayle but remaunded them to prison Hereupon in the next Parliament complaint was made that this imprisonment and detaining of them in prison only upon the Kings bare Command without any other cause expressed was against Magna Charta and other Statutes and the Iudges remanding of them to prison upon such a generall

sollicitation only not theirs a day of hearing was appointed before a Committee of Lords in the Lords House whereat I was present The Dean and Samyres being called in they were demanded first whether they had any deputation or Cōmission from all the Islanders or any considerable part of them to exhibite these Articles against Sir Philip they being intituled Articles exhibited by the Inhabitants of the Isle of Iersey against Sir Philip Carteret and complaining for the most part only of generall grievances to the Island They answered they had no deputation from the States or Inhabitants of the Island to exhibite those articles but they doubted not but they would justifie and allow what they had done Whereupon Sir Philip produced a Deputation from the three Estates of that Island made in their generall Assembly under their common Seal deputing intrusting him for their Agent to the Parliament to inform them of some publick grievances of which they desired redresse and crave some confirmation and enlargement of their priviledges which Deputation certainly they would never have made to him had himself been the chief and only publick grievance as the Articles imported and such an enemy to their common good as was suggested Whereupon the Lords were fully satisfied the accusers silenced reproved by the Lords for abusing them the Islanders in presenting a Petition in their names without their privity and Commission against a person of honour deputed by them to the Parliament and state After which they demanded of them severally what they could object or prove against Sir Philip who answered that they could prove nothing for the present since all their witnesses were in Iersey and that they could attest little of their own knowledge only Samyres complained that Sir Philip had put him from his Captains place and ordered him to answer his contempt in England in refusing to take it up again whereupon Sir Philip answered that he had voluntarily laid it down in contempt for which he had power to Fine and commit him but in regard he was his kinsman and one of a weak estate he only gave him an admonition and used him with all kindnesse and civility which Samyres could not deny on whose part the businesse appeared so foul that they told Sir Philip because he did not committ him for his contempt then they would commit him now and the Dean too for their malicious libellous Articles which they could not prove nor say any thing to of their own knowledge But by Sir Philips importunity and request their commitment was taken off Soon after which Sir Philip was setled Deputy Governour of that Isle by order and approbation of both Houses and ordered to put it in a posture of defence against the French whereupon he returned to Iersey and I departed into the Country of which his malicious prosecutors taking advantage caused their false and scanscandalous Articles to be secretly Printed at their own charge and dispersed into divers Parliament mens hands and others about London and then carried the residue of them into Iersey where they translated them into French and dispersed them among their Acquaintance and the people as if they had been Printed by the Parliaments Authority and made good before them of purpose to raise a Faction against Sir Philip for which being there judicially questioned and Indicted they thereupon appealed to the Parliament pretending their Articles were there depending to take off which prosecution upon some mis-information of theirs against Sir Philip to the close Committee they procured a Warrant to send for him over into England as a Prisoner to answer to some charges against him contained in the former Articles Whereupon Sir Philip writ a Letter to the Committee acquainting them with the former malice of his enemies his discharge of these Accusations on a hearing before the Lords the cost and danger of his journy thence the inconvenience to the state of his present deserting the Island desiring that till some offence were really proved against him he might not thus bevexed upon a meer suggestion being a person of quality having so great a trust and setled there by a late speciall Order of both Houses offering to give Bond or any other security to the Parliament to answer any charge that his prosecutors should either in England or by a Commission in Iersey be able to prove against him so as they on the other side might enter into Bond to answer him dammages in case he should clear himself from all their accusations of which he made no doubt Whereupon the Committee were fully satisfied but not the prosecutors malice For one Maximilian Messervy and his brother who during my imprisonment in Iersey were accused for Coyning and venting counterfeit Coyne of all sorts both Gold and silver and Maximilian being imprisoned for his crime divers months the melting pot Mould Mettles sophisticated with some false Silver and Gold being found in his study which I my self there saw besides sundry single and double false Pistols which he vented unto others for which offence he had been executed had not he obtained a speciall pardon from the King by Sir Philips and Captain Carterets means falling about this time to their old trade of Coyning false gold and venting some of it both in Normandy and the Island Sir Philip upon complaint and proof thereof sent out Warrants and Officers to apprehend them and made Proclamation there usuall that none should convey them out of the Island notwithstanding they both escaped thence in the night in a small boat and fled into France and not long after into England Sir Philip upon their flight before their arrivall here writ a Letter to my self informing me of the particulars of the offence and proof against them craving my advise how to proceed now they were sled from thence and how to punish him that transported them contrary to his Proclamation to which I returned an Answer Upon these Coyners arrivall at London they siding with Sir Philips opposites complained of great injuries he had done them for their good affection to the Parliament and pretended they could ptove great matters against him concerning the State if they could but procure a Warrant to apprehend and bring him over prisoner and by the help of some friends they made here and their false insinuations they procured a Warrant from the close Committee for these two Coyners to go unto Iersey and apprehend Sir Philip and bring him over Prisoner to the Parliament which Warrant was signed and delivered to Ma●●●●●●ian Of which I casually having information and knowing what cr●●es they were guilty of and that Maximillian was as very a villain cunning ●heater as breathed having formerly cheated divers of my friends my 〈◊〉 did according to my bounden duty and the care I had of the Parliaments honour acquaint some of the Committee with this grosse abuse and the qualities of tho●● persons informing them what an extraordinary scandall and dishonour it

thus much of my owne knowledge to doe deceased Sir Phillip right against his slanderers 1. That during my imprisonment in Iersey and ever since I found him a reall Friend to the State and Parliament of England in all his discourses and actions and a man as much joyed at the calling of this and the former Parliament and as much grieved and complaining at the dissolving the last Parliament as any 2. That he was a man most cordiall and helpfull to poor distressed Protestants and Ministers in France during the late wars and persecutions against them there a noble harbourer and entertainer of them and theirs upon all occasions and more cordially assistant to and honoured beloved by them and more complaining of our Courts treacheries towards them especially in the losse of Rochell then any English Subject whatsoever and both the Islands of Iersey and Garnsey put together 3. That he was the greatest favourer advancer incourager of godly Ministers of any in that Island and more charitable helpfull to the poor and sick upon all occasions then all the Island besides there being scarce one day in the week wherein his Lady at her own expence did not freely at Sir Philips cost send Physick and cordials to divers diseased persons of all sorts 4. That his Family was the most orderly pious Religious courteous Hospitall and best nurtured by far of any in the Island generally honoured and respected by all persons of honour in Normandy Brittany Picardy England and Iersy too 5. That he was an enemy to the Bishops Tyranny and Proceeding Innovations and was so reputed at Court by the Archbishop and used me and my brother Burton too by my interest in him with such noblenesse and respect when no other persons of quality durst to own us or stand our friends though we were meer strangers to him 6. That he was a man of more eminent parts for Government Iustice Peace War State affairs and all publike imployment then all the Islanders put together and an excellent Pen-man 7. That he was a faithfull constant friend and the only man in the Isle that I ever found or heard of sit to be trusted with the Government and eustody of it or to be relied on as a friend most natives having this Norman quality that never a two of them almost though allied and of the same blood do cordially love or really trust one another and will prove treacherous at any time to their neerest friends and kindred for advantage 8. He was the only man that by reason of his friends and acquaintance in France was either able or active to protect the Natives from injuries and to procure them Iustice and relief when injured robbed or wronged by seizing of their goods in France The only man able or willing to entertain strangers with noblenesse and freedom the best Iusticiary between man and man in the whole Isle and the most willing and able to do any publick good and procure favours for the Islanders whom I am certain have much repented his death and will hardly ever enjoy so good a Governour and reall friend to them as he was having now a Lyon to rule over them instead of a Lamb. 9. He was the only man that procured Schollerships and Fellowships in Oxford for the Islanders of Iersey with sundry Immunities both from England and France concerning Trade and did twenty times more good in to and for the Island then all his enemies put together and to my knowledge had done far more had he not been discouraged by his malicious and ingratefull prosecutors some whereof were obliged to him for their very lives and estates and all them for many more courtesies then ever they received from them It being one vertue in the Islanders of which I had experience in hundreds which I there helped and cured gratis to my cost and not one of twenty would so much as returne me verball thanks nor yet will those Sir Philips Lady recovered even from the very jawes of death and relieved both with food and rayment Lastly He was the only man of note in all the Isle setting all pretences and self ends aside that was really cordiall to the Parliament and best able and most willing to do them any service And I am confident would have continued so till his death and kept both Islands friendly and obedient to them had not those his malicious enemies of mean birth and fortune in respect of him by their Libels slanders and false informations to the Parliament and practises against him dis-obliged and engaged him to stand upon his guard till he could vindicate his own innocency and honour to the Parliament against the false suggestions of his enemies who never yet proved the least crime or offence against him and some of them the Messeruyes by name professed after to my self and others and acknowledged as much before the Committee of Examinations That they could testifie nothing at all against him and that he was the best Governour and Friend the Island ever had after they had so much traduced him for a Malignant and oppressor All which considered let the world judge what cause I had to support Sir Philips honour and reputation against such malicious scandalous conspirators who plotted his dis-grace and ruine and who are most guilty of the dis ingaging undoing and losse of Iersey and Garnsey Castle the Isl●nd to in effect and putting the Parliament to a vast unnecessary expence to satisfie their own malicious and ambitious designes to multiply the Parliaments enemies and dis-oblige their best and faithfullest friends His 9. slanderous lye against me is That he shall make it appeare that I have been a protector of those that have betrayed the strong holds of the Parliament into the hands of the Cavaliers Certainly most thinke I am guiltlesse of this except it be onely in prosecuting Col. Nathaniel Fincs an Independent so farre as a Councell of Warre upon his owne engagements prove for delivering up the strong hold and rich City of Bristoll the greatest losse which befell the Parliament since these warres into the hands of the Cavaliers in such a cowardly and unworthy manner that he had Iudgement given and passed against him for it as a Traitor and to have his head cut off For which just prosecution my Independent brother Robinson hath enveighed against me in Print belike because he desired to have more faults bewrayed 10. That I am a pleader of all Malignant Priests causes for money Certainly this is a lowd lye There have been hundreds of Malignant Priests with whom whom I was never of Councell many with whom I have refused to be of Councel rejecting both them and their fees which I might have justly taken Many against whom I have been of Councell being ten to one to those I have been of Councell for Therefore no pleader of All Malignant Priests causes True it is I have been of Councell with some good Ministers ●rticled against by some separatists