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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95823	Some of Mr. Phillip Francis misdemeanours, and Sir Alexander Caryes treacheries discovered. The answer of Charles Vaghan, to the preamble of the answer of Mr. Phillip Francis of Plimouth, to the exceptions to the account of the said Mr. Francis given to the accomptants of the kingdome.	Vaughan, Charles, gentleman.	1644 (1644)	Wing V119; Thomason E257_10; ESTC R212483	7,325	8

Some of Mr. Phillip Francis misdemeanours and Sir Alexander Caryes treacheries discovered The Answer of Charles Vaghan to the preamble of the Answer of Mr. Phillip Francis of Plimouth to the exceptions to the account of the said Mr. Francis given to the Accomptants of the Kingdome Novemb 19. 1644 FIrst the said Charles Vaghan saith as in his former Answer in writing under his hand to the Honourable Committee for Plimouth is expressed That about February 1643. the Committee for sequestrations in Plimouth having a quantity of Pearle in their custody which was sequestred of the Lord of Marleboroughs and having great necessity of mony for the payment of the garrisons in the Fort and Iland tooke up 200 l. of Mr. Peter Keckwich and delivered him the Pearle to be carried to London to be sold by himselfe Mr. Nicholas Gould and me who am one of the Committee and Treasurer of the Sequestrations of that County About May 1644. Mr. Keckwich returning to Plimouth left the Pearle with me taking my receipt of them under my hand to dispose them as aforesaid to be sold for the greatest benefit of the State so as Mr. Keckwich might be paid his 200 l. and the rest that should be made of them might be returned to Plimouth for the use of the Garrison as was directed by the Sequestrators there who sent them to London After which time I received a Letter from the Lord Admirall who claimes an Interest in the said Pearle willing me to keepe them till his Lordship should come up The 24. of August 1644. a warrant was brought from the Committee of Plimouth to me to deliver the Pearle to Mr. Francis wherupon I then went unto the said Committee and humbly desired that the 200 l. might be had to satisfie Mr. Keckwich that so I might have up my scourity which he hath and that I might by order of the House bee freed from the claime of the Lord Admirall or that the Pearle might remaine with me till the busines should be reconciled or that the Lords and Commons for Sequestrations might determine thereof which I then conceived the said Committee for Plimouth upon hearing thereof thought reasonable and which is all that I desire which I also desired before Mr. Keckwich his said return to Plimouth when I acquainted the said Committee therewith whilst he was in London and therfore it is no new pretence by me as Mr. Francis suggests and I am confident that Mr. Keckwich did lay out the 200 l. for so it appeares by a Letter of Collonel William Goulds to his uncle Mr. Nicholas Gould of London Merchant wherein he writes thus viz. Sir The great necessity for monies for the payment of the Garrisons in the Fort and Iland hath induced me to take up two hundred pounds of Mr. Peter Keckwich giving him bills on you payable at 8. dayes sight which bills I hope he will not have occasion to make use of but if he have I shall desire you to make satisfaction of them he depositing some or all the Pearles in your hand for your indempnity which money being not paid by Mr. Gould the Pearle was left with me by Mr. Keckwich as aforesaid and I have heard many Merchants of London and men of great worth account Mr. Keckwich to to be a very honest man and he hath done very much for the Parliament and therfore Mr. Francis might have done better to accuse him when he was present to answer it As for Mr. Francis suggestions that Mr. Keckwich concealed the Pearle 10. weekes after he came to London He was absent being sent to Sir Iohn Meldrum in the North as the Committee for Plimouth know well but its true we were intreated from the sequestrators in Plimouth not to speake of it to prevent exceptions by any that might pretend claime to them and so retard the supply of Plimouth which was in great want and so I divers times told the Committee for Plimouth neither was it thought fit to trouble them with it seeing all sequestrators in England by Ordinance of Parliament have power to dispose of things sequestred by them And whereas Mr. Francis scandalously saith that Mr. Keckwich and I got the Pearle to be prized at a very low value I was not present nor acquainted with it till after but after I understood that Mr. Keckwich caused them to be valued by Mr. Thomas Smithes Mr. Iervis Andrewes and Mr. William Markham Goldsmiths of London who are very honest men and have very good knowledg in such things and I alwaies endeavoured to have them sold for the greatest benefit of the State as all know with whom I have had to do therein and that the benefit might go to Plimouth which hath brought me much trouble by Mr. Francis his meanes who may justly be suspected ever to have intended to get the Pearle for himself for when the Sequestrators in Plimouth would have had the Pearle from him to bee disposed for the paiment of the Garrison which were in great want he refused to be examined by them to discover where they were and some of his family being examined swore very desperately onely one Wood dealt ingeniously so that by degrees it was discovered that some thing wrapped up in Canvas and sealed up was delivered out of Mr. Francis house over the wall of his yard to a Cooper his next neighbour and brought back again into the house whereupon the Cooper being examined upon oath confessed that the box of Pearle was delivered to him over the wall and the same day fetched from him again and after the same day brought backe to him again and remained in his custody This double was made as the Sequestrators understood purposely to delude them upon the examinations for so the rest who were privy to it did upon the examinations discover Neither can Mr. Francis justly say as he pretends that I am incensed against him out of malice for I never indevoured any benefit therein to my selfe and there was never any difference between him and me but only in this for that I endeavoured that the benefit of the Pearle might be for the Garrison of Plimouth as the sequestrators directed But Mr. Francis gave out as if part of the Pearle were imbezelled by that Noble industrious faithfull vigilant and valiant Colonell Gould who is now with the Lord who under God was the cheife preserver of Plimouth and thereupon Mr Francis got an Order from the Committee of Plimouth for himself and Mr. Thomas Viner Goldsmith to compare the first Inventory which was taken of the Pearl with the Inventory which the said Collonel Gould and the rest of the sequestrators of Plimouth sent up of them under their hands and seales which being diligently compared by them they certified under their hands to the Committee of Plimouth That they found the Pearle to agree with both the said Inventories A coppie wherof I have under their hands and the Pearle was after valued by some who were