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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56273	A vindication of Sr. Robert King's designs and actions in relation to the late and present Lord Kingston being an answer to a scandalous libel, lately sent abroad under the title of Materials for a bill of discovery against Sir Robert King, Bar., Anthony Raymond, Charles Gosling, [and others].	Pullen, Tobias, 1648-1713.	1699 (1699)	Wing P4196; ESTC R6735	50,330	236

to Wheedle him into a Consent of his Brother's making a new Settlement and to the laying aside the old Intails as the Libeller calls them in Munster and Connaught wherein the present Lord had Remainders immediately after the Death of his Elder Brother If Sir Robert King I say had had any such fraudulent and circumventing Design he would not surely have sent the Instrument inclos'd in a Letter into England to the present Lord's Grand-Mother the Lady Wimbaldon in order to be shew'd to and sign'd by her Grand-Son And as the Libeller does freely own that this Paper was shew'd to the present Lord Kingston by his Grand-Mother so he does not so much as pretend that her Ladyship or any other of his English Relations or Friends did either reflect on Sir Robert King for sending it or thought it improper for his Lordship to Sign it For tho' he tells us that his Uncle Sir Thomas Bernardiston Fee'd a Lawyer who was of Opinion that it was dangerous for the present Lord to Sign it whether he was Married or no yet Sir Robert King having never heard of any such Advice being given his Lordship nor ever receiv'd any such Intimation from the Lady Wimbaldon in her Answer to his Letter has reason to believe it to be an Excuse purposely fram'd by the Libeller in order to conceal the true Reasons of the present Lord Kingston's Refusal to Sign the said Instrument It has indeed been sometimes the Fate of some of the Nobility both in England and Ireland by reason of the Smalness of their Estates and for the Support of their Honour to Marry into Families much inferior to their own but then the Largeness of their Ladies Fortunes had made some Compensation for the Meanness of their Descent and the Protestants of Quality even in Ireland have had so due a Regard to the English Extraction and so warm a Zeal for the Protestant Religion that few can be found that have contracted Marriages with any Irish Papists tho' of the greatest Families and Estates but no single instance I believe can be given of any Protestant Gentleman of Noble Blood and of English Descent except the present Lord Kingston who with great Deliberation and against the repeated Advices and earnest Endeavours of all his Friends and Relations for several Years together Married an ordinary Servant Maid and an Irish Papist And the late Lord Kingston was the more sensibly affected with this Calamity and more provok'd with his Brother's Disgracing himself by that ignoble Marriage because the Woman he had made Choice of for his Wife was not only a Papist by Profession and of mean Irish Parentage and in a low Station amongst the Servants of his own Family but was also one who had neither Charms of Beauty nor gentile Behaviour nor Agreableness of Conversation to engage his Affections for tho' it may reasonably be hoped that the present Lady Kingston is a well accomplish'd Lady as having for these several Years past had all the Advantages that the Court of St. Germains could afford for Improving her to a Degree answerable to her present Quality yet certainly all those that knew Margaret Cahan when she liv'd a Servant-Maid in the late Lord Kingston's House at Abby-Boyle must acknowledge that she was then very far from having any Accomplishments either of Body or Mind to recommend her as a Wife to any Gentleman And therefore tho' the present Lord was so far carried away with an unaccountable Passion as to Marry a despicable and homely Woman as she then was yet it might reasonably have been expected that one who had been counted Wise shou'd have demean'd himself towards his offended Brother and the rest of his Relations with so much Modesty and Respect as might have testify'd a deep Concern not only for his own Misfortune but also for the Dishonour he had done his Family But on the contrary he was so far from taking such prudent Measures as might possibly at last have recommended him to his Brother's Favour that immediately after the late King Jame's Accession to the Throne he did not only publickly expose his Brother's Honour and his Uncle's Justice in a high reflecting Petition which he preferr'd to the King and in his Address to the House of Lords in England but did also within a while after to the unspeakable Grief of the late Lord and all his Relations openly Renounce the Protestant Religion and declar'd himself a Papist and merited so highly of the Popish Party and became so speedily famous for his bigotted Zeal that he was advanc'd to the Dignity of being one of the Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber to the late King James All which disobliging scandalous and dishonourable Actions of the present Lord immoveably fix'd and confirm'd the late Lord Kingston in the former Resolutions he had taken of Disinheriting him and Settling his Estate upon his Uncle and the Heirs Males of his Body Now because the Odium of the late Lord Kingston's Displeasure against his Brother is by the Libeller wholly cast on Sir Robert King and the Disherison of the present Lord is suppos'd by him tho' without the least shew of Proof to have been first fram'd at Sir Robert's Instigation and brought about by his Contrivance I shall in order to a full Vindication of Sir Robert's Innocency in this whole Affair produce the Testimony of such Gentlemen as by their personal Knowledge of all Matters relating to the late Lord Kingston's Settlement of his Estate are most fitly qualify'd to give their Evidence and by their establisht Reputation for Integrity are the most Credible Witnesses in what they do attest The first Person that I shall mention is the Reverend Doctor Francis Quail who not only attended the late Lord Kingston in the Capacity of a Tutor for about a Year before his Father's Death but continued in that Station for many Years after and accompanied him in his Travels into France and had also the present Lord Kingston committed to his Care for some time by Sir Robert King Uncle and Guardian to them both The said Doctor Quail does declare and has depos'd upon Oath * Vide Dr. Quail 's Affidavit in the Append. No. 10. That he always observ'd in Sir Robert King a great Care of and Affection for the late Lord Robert and present Lord John And that the said Sir Robert at the time of sending the late Lord Kingston abroad being press'd by some Friends to permit the present Lord to accompany his Brother in his Travels refused to consent thereto saying It was not fit to expose them both together to the Hazard of the Seas and Foreign Parts And does further declare That he always observ'd a Backwardness in Sir Robert King touching such a Settlement in Exclusion of the present Lord and he verily believes the said Sir Robert never did either by himself or any other Person or Persons whatsoever persuade or solicit the said late Lord to make such a Settlement and that

say she will Marry crook'd Will as what she thinks of me Except she and you send me some Recompence for the Injury you have done me by your unworthy and dirty Thoughts I 'll never forgive you and do not let it come about by Mr. Pach any more Of Two so Wise as my Cousin and you I never saw Sir Martin act a more silly part read her Letter wherein I frighten her but it is for nothing else for I love her still as well as ever and that she shall see at last Read her Letters pray and promise you love GOD and Me. Shew this to no body but Cousin Sue and let her burn hers PARIS May 23. N o. X. Doctor Horneck 's Letter to Sir Robert King SIR I Had yours and am heartily glad my old Friend and Acquaintance is Alive and well I have been indispos'd with the Distemper of the Stone and Bloody-Water these Six Weeks Blessed be GOD there appear some signs of Recovery Concerning your Nephew the Lord Kingston I have almost forgot Particulars of so long standing or done so many Years ago yet I do remember he own'd he gave his Consent to the passing of the Estate to you only as is usual in such Cases pleaded Youth and Fear or some such Argument There is a Young-Man c. I am Sir Your Affectionate Friend And Humble Servant A. Horneck Sept. 22. For the Right Honourable Sir Robert King Kt. one of His Majesty's most Honble Privy-Council in the Kingdom of Ireland at Dublin N o. XI The late Lord Kingston's Paper Written with his own Hand containing Directions for drawing up his Lordship's Answer to Mr. King's Case THat Mr. King fell in Love I believe to be true but that his Wife is a Gentlewoman is as false as any false Supposition can be Her first Rise was to be my Poultry-Woman's Servant and her greatest to be my Dairy-Maid till she became his Spouse That it was upon this occasion I Settled my Estate from Him and Hers into a Family of good Extraction and not as he most unjustly says by the advice and desire of Sir Robert King my Uncle who was the only Man of all those that knew my Designs that Oppos'd so just a Settlement c. N o. XII The present Lord Kingston 's Letter to Sir Robert King Dear Uncle IT is not for want either of Duty or Respect that I have not waited upon you since my coming for England but because I know the Sight of so unpleasing an Object cannot be grateful to so near a Relation as you are Therefore I thought it better to live both private and retir'd from the sight of all my Relations and Friends than to give them a Subject to Discourse of which the Sight of me cannot continually choose but do I hope you will not take it ill seeing I have given you a true account of the Reason By this I shall soon be forgotten by you all and shall enjoy quiet of Mind by delivering my self from the bitter Reproaches due to me from so good Relations and tho' perhaps you may never see me yet as far as my power shall ever reach you shall ever find me Your Dutiful and Obedient Nephew Jo. King To the Honourable Sir Robert King N o. XIII The Deposition of William Conolly Esq WIlliam Conolly of the City of Dublin Esq Deposeth That having some earnest occasions with Robert Lord Baron of Kingston Deceas'd he repaired to Boyle about the fourth of October 1693 and stayed with the said Lord for several days in which time and at several times before he heard the said Lord Kingston express himself with great dissatisfaction and dislike of the present Lord Kingston and the dishonour he had placed upon the Family and often said That he should never Enjoy any part of his Estate and hoped his Uncle Sir Robert King would be just to him in his Intentions in that Matter tho' he expected much more from his Son meaning John King Esq to whom the said L d Robert said his Estate would come This Deponent further deposeth That the said Robert Lord Kingston said and expressed himself with concern fearing that the said Sir Robert King might be too easie prevail'd upon by the now Lord Kingston or words to that purpose The Cause of this Deponent's Discourse and Knowledge is that he was intimate with the said Robert Lord Kingston and was concern'd for him as his Agent and Solicitor Will. Conolly Jurat coram me 23 Decemb. 1698. J. Coghill N o. XIV The Deposition of Nola Murphey taken before the Reverend Dean Anthony Cope One of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Roscommon THE Examinate being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelists deposeth That being a Servant with Sir Robert King his Lady and her Mother for above Forty Years was intrusted by him as his House-keeper with several Goods and Papers on his going for England before the late Troubles most of which she the Deponent dispers'd amongst such of the Irish as she thought would keep them safest and give them back again and tho' in the Troubles some Irish Officers and Soldiers came to her Master's House where she was left and threatned to send her to Goal if she did not tell where she had the said Goods yet she would not tell them let them say what they would But this present Lord Kingston coming to the House with several in his Company he soon after his being in it took the Deponent from this Company and went with her into the Room call'd the Nursery where he enquir'd very privately when she heard from his Uncle and Aunt and the Children and spake so very tenderly of them using often the word his dear Uncle and Aunt and dear Cousins that she could have trusted him with all the Things and Papers she had in the World of her Master's and did believe his Lordship spake from his Heart because of his being long and often in her Master's House and she observ'd what great Kindness and tender Care her Master and Lady had of his Lordship as if he were their own Child and after all his kind Words his Lordship said Nola what you have of my Uncle's let me know for if he had a Thousand Pounds worth I would not take a Penny worth of them for my self but keep it for him fearing others should take it from him but be sure you shew me every thing of his that you have let the World go as it will I hope they will not lose their own And when he was leaving this Deponent his Lordship said Nola If what I have said to you were heard or known this would be cut off drawing his Fingers cross his Neck by which the Deponent thinks he meant that his Head would be cut off By these and other fair words she the Deponent went next day to Boyle and shew'd him some Things and all the Papers which were her Master 's and when his Lordship came to the

Robert King But this Deponent found Sir Robert against it and knows that he often refus'd to accept of the Settlement his Lordship intended to make on him at which this Deponent was displeased and spoke to Sir Robert about it and often heard her Husband say that Sir Robert was Mad to refuse an Estate so offer'd And the late Lord said if his Uncle would not accept of his Estate he would give it to another nay to any one rather than his Brother as this Deponent has been often told And this Deponent further deposeth That she believes Sir Robert King did not accept of the Settlement of the late Lord's Estate until he had the Opinions of some of the best Divines in England that it was lawful for him to accept thereof Jurat coram me 11 die Maii Anno Dom. 1699. John Ussher N o. XIX The Affidavit of Thomas Yeeden Clerk I Thomas Yeeden do know that Charles Holcroft Esq had a considerable Estate in the County of Golloway near and in Tuam That he sold the same several Years before the War of Eighty Eight some part to my self of which he Levied a Fine and common Recovery some unto Thomas Dean of Golloway Merchant some unto Nicholas Bermingham near Barnedarrick some unto James Johnston Clerk some unto Edmund Kelly of Fiddane in the same County That some of these said Persons understanding that the said Charles Holcroft made a prior Deed of his Estate unto the Right Honourable John Lord Kingston's second Son the now Right Honourable John Lord Kingston did commence a Suit in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery in Ireland against Sir Robert King Baronet praying the Deed to be brought into Court which as I was told was produc'd and what the Issue of those Proceedings were referr to the Rules then set down I have heard that the Deed was faulty The Management of that Suit against Sir Robert was left to Mr. Edmund Renell I heard that Charles Holcroft aforesaid had some Lands in Leicester which he dispos'd of to Robert Choppine Esq Deceased which I have heard was set for Eighty Pounds sterl a Year and no more All which I hereby Certifie and Depose Witness my Hand this Fifth of October 1698. Thomas Yeeden Sworn before me the Day and Year aforesaid Anth. Cope N o. XX. An Extract out of Robert late Lord Kingston 's Letter to Sir Robert King dated June the 29th 1688. Dearest Uncle I Know my Brother's Aim is Possession believing I may miscarry through the great Love our Country-Men have for me but if I could more firmly settle what I have I would and rivet it rather than it should be ever alter'd I am still Dearest VNCLE Your most Obedient and Most Humble Servant N o. XXI An Account stated under the Hand and Seal of Mr. John King the present Lord Kingston WHereas upon Ballance of Accounts with my Brother the Right Honourable Robert Lord Baron of Kingston as my Guardian it appears that I owe unto my said Brother the Summ of One Hundred Ninety Five Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Six Pence Three Farthings And whereas upon Ballance of Accounts with my Uncle Sir Robert King Baronet it appears that my said Uncle owes me the Summ of One Hundred Thirty Four Pounds Two Shillings and a Half Peny I do for the Satisfying unto my said Brother the aforesaid Sum of 195 l. 18 s. 6 d. ¾ hereby Assign and make over unto my said Brother his Executors Administrators and Assigns the said Summ of 134 l. 2 s. 0 d. ½ due unto me from my said Uncle and to give Discharge or Discharges unto him my said Uncle for the same which shall be as effectual to all Intents and Purposes as if the same was or were actually given by my self And I do promise covenant and undertake to pay unto my said Brother his Executors Administrators or Assigns upon or before the First Day of May next the Summ of Sixty One Pounds Sixteen Shillings and Six Pence Farthing to compleat the said Sum of 195 l. 18 s. 6 d. ¾ so due to my said Brother In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this Sixth Day of February 1683. John King ✚ Being present Ant. Raymond Fr. Quail Hen. Faell FINIS