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<P> A true CONFUTATION Of a Fal&s; and &s;candalous Pamphlet, entituled, The true &s;tate of the Ca&s;e of Sir Iohn Gell, Lately publi&s;hed to deceiv the People, and to &s;mother Sir <HI>John Gell's</HI> Confederacie with Colonel <HI>Andrews</HI> and others, under Oath of Secrecie, to de&s;troie the pre&s;ent GOVERNMENT.</P>
<P>Or a &s;ober VINDICATION of the COUNCIL of STATE, and High Court of JUSTICE from the impudent a&s;per&s;ions of that PAMPHLET.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed to undeceiv all the well-affected of this COMMON-WEALTH.</P>
<P>By <HI>John Bernard</HI> Gent. Captain of a Troop of Hor&s; in the Service of the Parlament.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Will. Du Gard.</HI> 1650.</P>
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<P>_THe <HI>Pamphlet</HI> wee have to deal with, is a vafrous piece, made up of divers &s;orts of Scandals (of things and per&s;ons) &s;om pointing directlie at the pre&s;ent Go|vernment, others in a more oblique line. And &s;om are the &s;candals of per&s;ons, to leav an <HI>odium</HI> upon particular men. Wee think not to cut our waie through the whole Pamphlet, or follow as it lead's to everie particular page. The chief &s;trength and &s;ub&s;tance of the whole lie's in the two fir&s;t pages, wherein the Pamphletier pretend's to give a true ground, or <HI>&s;tate of the Ca&s;e of Sir John Gel.</HI> And here wee &s;hall laie our batteries, and put it to the i&s;&s;ue in this &s;hort <HI>An&s;wer,</HI> whether the Man in this great undertaking deale's indeed trulie, or but prevari|cate's. The <HI>Argument,</HI> as hee call's it, or <HI>Conclu&s;ion</HI> contein's the re&s;ults upon the whole, and his illa|tions and inferences, which mu&s;t needs bee fal&s; from fal&s; premi&s;es. And it is too great a conce&s;|&s;ion in anie wi&s;e man to argue with his Antagoni&s;t (otherwi&s;e then <GAP DESC="foreign">) upon a fal&s; principle. It is to invert the true rules of Logick, and change all into fallacies. Allow this, and the Sophi&s;ter will conclude the day to bee night, and truth error, and light darkne&s;s, and turn the hone&s;te&s;t man li|ving with his heels upwards and conclude him a verie knave. I have (the better to enable the Rea|der
<PB N="2" REF="3"> to a true judgment of the thing in que&s;tion 'twixt mee and the Pamphletier) di&s;tingui&s;h'd the things contein'd in the two fir&s;t pages with a le&s;&s;er Character, and the An&s;wer with a greater.</P>
<Q>Pamphlet. <HI>That</HI> John Bernard, <HI>with one</HI> Pits <HI>(by the name of</HI> Smith) <HI>de&s;ired</HI> M^r Andrews <HI>to join with them in a plot, to &s;urpri&s;e the I&s;le of</HI> Ely.</Q>
<P><HI>An&s;wer.</HI> It is an ill <HI>Omen,</HI> when the man &s;tumble's at the thre&s;hold, and offend's again&s;t the truth at the fir&s;t &s;etting out. In his Pamphlet hee &s;aye's, that Lievt. <HI>Pit</HI> de&s;ired M^r <HI>Andrews to join in a plot &amp;c.</HI> It is appeal'd to M^r <HI>Andrews</HI> him&s;elf, who in his own Narrative &s;ent by him&s;elf to the Council of State, and now remaining with the High Court of Ju&s;tice, &s;aie's expre&s;lie, that Lievtenant <HI>Pit</HI> (whom hee call's there by the name of <HI>Smith)</HI> was an ab&s;olute &s;tranger to him (the &s;aid <HI>Andrews)</HI> till the 18 of <HI>March</HI> 49, which was (but) 6 or 7 daies before M^r <HI>Andrew's</HI> apprehen&s;ion at <HI>Grave&s;end.</HI></P>
<P>And for that of <HI>Iohn Bernard's</HI> beeing charg'd by the Pamphletier to invite Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews to the plot &amp;c.</HI> If Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> affirm's, and <HI>Iohn Ber|nard</HI> denie's, and leav the plot where hee found it fir&s;t, to wit, with Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews,</HI> wee &s;hall ex&s;pect &s;o much ju&s;tice from the un-prejudic'd &s;tander by, as to credit rather <HI>Iohn Bernard</HI> (a friend) denying upon his oath, then Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> (an Enemie) affirming on his bare word.</P>
<Q>Pam. <HI>That</HI> Andrews <HI>was thought to bee &s;omwhat inclinable thereunto:</HI> Bernard <HI>com's to the Lord Pre|&s;ident</HI> Brad&s;haw, <HI>and acquaint's him with it.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That Ma&s;ter Andrews <HI>was thought &amp;c.</HI> by
<PB N="3" REF="3"> this Pamphletier's leav, it is (more then thought) known, acknowledg'd by Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> him&s;elf in the fore-mention'd Narrative, that the plot to &s;urpri&s;e the I&s;le of <HI>Fly</HI> was a brat begot of his own brain in the year-44. Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrew's</HI> own words are&mdash;A <HI>de&s;ign in the time of War laid by mee for the taking of the I&s;le of</HI> Ely. It was M^r <HI>Andrew's</HI> own plot <HI>ab o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o</HI> by his own confe&s;&s;ion: and however the Pamphletier would dawb it over, and gull the world that M^r <HI>Andrews</HI> was (but) <HI>thought</HI> to bee &s;omwhat <HI>inclinable thereunto,</HI> yet let M^r <HI>Andrew's</HI> own hand &s;peak his heart in this matter. <Q>They are his verie expre&s;&s;ions to a title all of his own hand|writing, and at this daie remaining with the High Court of Iu&s;tice, viz<HI>&mdash;I approve the putting of the Reformadoes forward to pro&s;ecute the getting of their arrears out of the fines or forfeitures of per&s;ons delin|quent, but not that they bee further acquainted with the de&s;ign, then to bee readie in general terms when they &s;hall &s;ee cau&s;, and the place &s;ecure to repair to &amp;c. I would that Captain</HI> Iohn B. <HI>go along with mee on Thur&s;daie next into C. Shire, and receiv &s;a|tisfaction there concerning the de&s;ign, and to pa&s;s to Sir I. G. and acquaint him with it, and from him again bring to a place which at parting with him I &s;hall agree with him upon an a&s;&s;urance how far hee will ingage, and how &s;oon bee readie. That don I will po&s;t a &s;ervant over, or go my &s;elf and get out Commi&s;sions for officers General with power to give Commi&s;sions to officers in|ferior, &amp;c To draw in the Reformadoes, they are to bee a&s;&s;ur'd to have Comm&s;sions an&s;werable to their former qualities, and paie as they mu&s;ter; to which end an</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="4" MS="y"> <HI>E&s;tabli&s;hment &s;hall bee had:</HI> thus M^r <HI>Andrews.</HI> And when examin'd upon this paper of his be|fore the Council of State hee confe&s;&s;&punc;d ingenu|ou&s;ly <HI>that by the de&s;ign (there) &s;poken of, was meant the &s;urprizal of the I&s;le of</HI> Elie, <HI>and by</HI> Iohn B. Iohn Ben&s;on, <HI>and that by</HI> S^r <HI>I&punc; G. was meant</HI> S^r <HI>Iohn Gell,</HI> though the Pamphletier <HI>would have kept us in the dark as</HI> to all <HI>this,</HI> yet <HI>wee &s;ee</HI> M^r <HI>Andrews</HI> in this far <HI>honester</HI> then the other) deal's more plainly in the matter.</Q></P>
<P>But the Pamphletier (now) venture's (impu|dently enough) upon the Lord Pre&s;ident <HI>Brad&s;haw,</HI> and there the Shoo wring's extremely. For no fewer then eleven &s;everal times hee bring's this Honorable and publick Mini&s;ter of State upon the Stage. And the Lord Pre&s;ident's crime is, that hee entertain'd M^r <HI>Bernard's</HI> di&s;coverie of a real plot to de&s;troie the State. The Man's anger is, not that the State is de&s;ign'd upon by evil and unthank|full men; but hee would have them pro&s;per in their wickedne&s;s, and it offend's (even to rage) that a|nie true and faithful patriot &s;hould wake and watch in the pre&s;ervation of the Common-wealth, and bring to light things that lie hid in darkne&s;s; other|wi&s;e, why not com to the Lord Pre&s;ident with our hone&s;t matters? (&s;uch as are di&s;coveries of the plots of Knaves upon the State) and why not ac|quaint him with them? But the Pamphleter's anger is &s;till and his fellows, that there are in the Land, Courts of Ju&s;tice and publick Mini&s;ters to puni&s;h Trea&s;ons and Rebellions, and the wicked actings of men again&s;t the State. It bring's to remembrance
<PB N="5" REF="4" MS="y"> a plea&s;ant &s;torie of a famous Thief in Queen <HI>Eli&s;a|beth's</HI> daies, that Petition'd the Queen for the good behavior again&s;t the Lord Chief-Ju&s;tice <HI>Popham,</HI> becau&s; hee &s;ought his life in all places, and hee went in danger of him (continually) for his life. May bee wee &s;hall have S^r <HI>Iohn Gell's</HI> friends (&s;uch as this Pamphletier and others) Petition for the good behavior again&s;t the Council of State and High Court of Ju&s;tice, becau&s; in all their treache|rous de&s;igns upon the State, they go in danger of their lives.</P>
<Q>Pam. <HI>The Lord Pre&s;ident bid's</HI> Bernard <HI>go forward with the plot, as</HI> Bernard <HI>declare's in Court at the trial of</HI> Andrews.</Q>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Not an hone&s;t man but will &s;ay it was the dutie of the Lord Pre&s;ident and Council of State, and their Honor both to intend the good and &s;afe|tie of the publick, and to that end to <HI>bid</HI> and incou|rage <HI>Bernard</HI> to pur&s;ue the treacherous plot to a full di&s;coverie. And <HI>Bernard</HI> declare's (not <HI>in Court</HI> onely, but) again and again in his Vindication (here) that (be&s;ides the Lord Pre&s;ident and Council of State) Hee had the incouragement of divers others, friends and true lovers of this Com|mon wealth, to follow clo&s;e and not give over to &s;ound the plot (for it lay deep) to the verie bot|tom.</P>
<Q>Pam. <HI>That</HI> Bernard <HI>did go again with</HI> Pitts <HI>to</HI> An|drews, <HI>and told him that if hee would draw an Oath of &s;ecre&s;ie and &s;ign and &s;eal the &s;ame, then</HI> Bernard <HI>would help him to</HI> 200 l. <HI>to bear his charges beyond Sea, to get Commi&s;sions to rai&s; men for the effecting the &s;aid plot.</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="5"> <HI>And that both</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pitts, <HI>did promi&s;e to &s;ign and &s;eal the Oath of &s;ecre&s;ie likewi&s;e.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An&s;w. That</HI> Bernard <HI>did go again with Pitts &amp;c.</HI> Still the &s;uppo&s;ition is fal&s; of the acquaintance (to anie proportion of time) betwixt Lievt. <HI>Pitts</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews,</HI> when <HI>Pitts</HI> was not known to him (as before atte&s;ted from <HI>Andrew's's</HI> own mouth) till within &s;ix or &s;even daies of his apprehen&s;ion at <HI>Grave&s;end.</HI> The other things charged by the, Pamphletier, <HI>viz.</HI> of <HI>Bernards</HI> helping <HI>Andrews</HI> to 200 <HI>l.</HI> and <HI>Bernard</HI> and <HI>Pitts</HI> promi&s;ing to &s;ign the Oath of &s;ecrecie, it is referr'd to <HI>Bernard's</HI> Remon|&s;trance of <HI>Sept.</HI> 10. now publi&s;hed in print, where 'tis &s;poken in this particular to full &s;ati&s;faction.</P>
<Q>Pamph. <HI>That</HI> Andrews <HI>beeing in nece&s;sitie, upon</HI> Bernard's <HI>motion did &s;ign and &s;eal the Oath afore&s;aid.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It is the fir&s;t truth wee have obtain'd of the Pamphletier &s;ince wee met, that <HI>Andrews</HI> &s;ign'd and &s;eal'd the Oath. And becau&s; the bringing this dark and wicked plot to light is grudg'd at &s;o gene|rally, and the thing chri&s;ten'd by the Pamphletier (pag. 7.) by the prettie names of <HI>Fanta&s;ie,</HI> and <HI>Fi|ction,</HI> and <HI>Plaie,</HI> I &s;hall pre&s;ent you with the Oath it &s;elf, or Ingagement (a true Copie of it <HI>ad ver|bum)</HI> extracted out of the Original, now with the High Court of Ju&s;tice, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><Q><HI>WEE the Sub&s;cribers, (having fir&s;t taken our voluntarie oath upon the holie Evangeli&s;ts, to bee true, faithful, and &s;ecret each to other, in, and con|cerning our &s;ub&s;equent Ingagement; and not to impart the &s;ame, nor anie the de&s;igns what&s;o&euml;ver in order to</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="5"> <HI>the execution of the &s;ame, propo&s;ed, and to bee here|after enterprized to anie per&s;on (King</HI> Charls <HI>and the Lord</HI> Hopton <HI>excepted) but under the l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ke oath of &s;ecrecie, do &s;olemnly vow and prote&s;t in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pre&s;ence of God almight<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, That wee will do and u&s;e all our po&s;si|ble kill and endeavor (though to the hazard of our lives and fortunes) to &s;ettle and establ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">harls <HI>the &s;econd, our rightful and law<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ul Prin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, in his thron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of</HI> England, <HI>again&s;t all Rebels, u&s;urpers, or oppo&s;ers what|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&euml;ver. Signed with our hands, and &s;ealed with our &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">als</HI> Decimo Octavo Martii, &s;ecundo Caroli &s;e|cundi An. Dom. 1649.</Q></P>
<P>This is the Oath or Ingagement <HI>ali&agrave;s</HI> the Pamph|letiers <HI>plaie, phanta&s;ie, fiction</HI> to lead in to the plot laid not &s;o much for the I&s;le of <HI>Ely,</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">yn,</HI> and <HI>Yar|mouth,</HI> as for the ruine of the whole N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tion, Par|lament, Council, Soldierie, Government and all; and introducing a &s;trange thing, a &s;tranger King among&s;t us. It is left to everie man (not poi&s;on'd with this Pamphletier&punc;s principles) to make a judgment of this <HI>oath,</HI> whether per&s;ons that can lodg &s;uch vipers in their bo&s;oms, walk wich &s;uch killing daggers in their heads, that meditate nothing but murders, and the &s;laughters of the be&s;t friends of this Common-wealth, ought to bee tolerated with us, and not rather to bee ca&s;t forth (at lea&s;t) and pro&s;crib'd, both they the wretched Autors of the&s;e things, and all that adhere to them, and plead for them, though under the mo&s;t &s;pecious
<PB N="8" REF="6"> pretences what&s;o&euml;ver. But the Pamphletier tell's, That <HI>Andrews his nece&s;sitie did provoke to this oath,</HI> (as if there were a nece&s;&s;itie of doing evil) and that <HI>Bernard</HI> wrought upon this nece&s;&s;itie, and mov'd <HI>Andrews</HI> to the thing. For the truth of this wee &s;hall appeal to no other witne&s;s then <HI>Andrews</HI> him|&s;elf, in his own Narrative &s;ent from the Gatehou&s; to the Council of State. <Q>His words are: <HI>About nine a clock of night</HI> March 19. 1649. <HI>I was &s;ent for by Captain</HI> A&s;hley <HI>and</HI> Ben&s;on <HI>to &s;ub&s;cribe the In|gagement which</HI> Ben&s;on <HI>had ingro&s;s'd.</HI> Again, in his Examination taken before the Council of State, the &s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> confe&s;&s;eth thus expre&s;ly: <HI>That his hand and &s;eal was to the parchment Ingagement (then) &s;hew'd to him (which was upon the</HI> 19 <HI>of</HI> March, 1649.) <HI>at a cook's &s;hop neer Tower hill, where</HI> A&s;hley <HI>and</HI> Ben&s;on <HI>then al&s;o &s;ign'd and &s;eal'd, and all tho&s;e took the oath of &s;ecrecie.</HI></Q> Here wee finde <HI>A&s;hley</HI> and <HI>Ben&s;on</HI> (by <HI>Andrews's</HI> own free confe&s;&s;ion) but no <HI>Bernard</HI> moving or inviting (in the lea&s;t) to the Ingagement. And for <HI>Bernard's</HI> &s;igning this Ingagement (for oath of &s;ecrecie nor hee, nor Lieut. <HI>Pitts</HI> did ever enter into) hee refer's to his Remon&s;trance of <HI>Sept.</HI> 10. 1650.</P>
<Q>Pamph. <HI>That</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Smith <HI>did &s;ign and &s;eal the oath al&s;o.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> And for this likewi&s;e wee refer to our Remon&s;trance above mentioned.</P>
<Q>Pamp. <HI>Then</HI> Bernard <HI>de&s;ir'd</HI> Andrews <HI>to write a Letter to &s;om per&s;ons of note to &s;ub&s;cribe the oath.</HI> An|drews
<PB N="9" REF="6"> <HI>thereupon write's a Letter directed to Sir</HI> Iohn Baronet.</Q>
<P><HI>An&s;. Andrews</HI> him&s;elf &s;aye's otherwi&s;e, that not at the reque&s;t or in&s;tigation of <HI>Bernard,</HI> but hee wrote his Letter to Sir <HI>Iohn Gell</HI> upon a Letter hee receiv'd from <HI>Ben&s;on</HI> to invite to that purpo&s;e. This Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> confe&s;&s;eth at large in his own Narrative &s;ent from the Gate-hou&s; (be&s;ides <HI>Ben&s;on's</HI> confe&s;&s;ion, now upon record, of the verie &s;amething.) More|over, <HI>Andrews</HI> &s;aith in that verie Narrative that the Letter here directed to Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> Baronet (with a blank, hee intended it verilie to Sir <HI>Iohn Gell,</HI> onely left out the name <HI>Gell</HI> for a blind in ca&s;e of &s;urpri&s;al. Here <HI>Andrews</HI> him&s;elf &s;peak's his own &s;en&s; in his own words.&mdash;<Q><HI>Hee wrote a Letter from New Inne at Grave&s;end to to Sir</HI> Iohn Gell <HI>which hee &s;ent by Mr</HI> Bernard, <HI>and that hee believe's the paper now &s;ub&s;cribed by the now Examiners di|rected for Sir</HI> Iohn (with a blank) <HI>Baronet is a true copie thereof; and that the Blank was intended for</HI> Gell, which was &s;o advi&s;ed, le&s;t the Letter &s;hould bee &s;urpri&s;ed.</Q> All this is confe&s;&s;ed by <HI>Andrews</HI> him&s;elf in his examination taken before the Coun|cil of State; be&s;ides that hee &s;aie's in his Narrative (to the very &s;ame purpo&s;e) &s;ent from the Gate|hou&s;.</P>
<Q>Pam. <HI>That a&s;&s;oon as this was don,</HI> Bernard <HI>had offi|cers readie, &s;eized on Andrews for High Trea&s;on, and then bring's the Letter directed to Sir</HI> Iohn Baronet <HI>to the Lord Pre&s;ident</HI> Bra&s;haw.</Q>
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<Q>Pam. <HI>That the Lord Pre&s;ident kept the Letter, and lets</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pits <HI>have a copie of it.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In this the Pamphletier &s;peak's mo&s;t impu|dentlie fal&s;lie&mdash;<HI>that the Lord Pre&s;ident kept the Let|ter;</HI> for the Lord Pre&s;ident did not keep the Letter; nor had <HI>Bernard</HI> and <HI>Pits</HI> a copie of it. This is the verie truth, and to give undoubted witne&s;s to it, call forth Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> (once more) to repeat his examination
<PB N="11" REF="7"> taken before the Council of State; his con|fe&s;&s;ion is thus to a &s;yllable, viz. <Q><HI>That hee wrote a Letter from New Inne at Grave&s;end to Sir</HI> Iohn Gell <HI>which hee &s;ent by Ma&s;ter</HI> Bernard; <HI>and that hee be|leeve's, the paper now &s;ub&s;cribed by the Examiners directed for Sir</HI> Iohn <HI>(with a blank) Baronet is a true copie thereof, and that the blanck was intended for</HI> Gell; <HI>which was &s;o advi&s;ed lea&s;t the Letter &s;hould bee &s;urpriz'd.</HI></Q></P>
<P>In this verie confe&s;&s;ion wee have a candle of Ma|&s;ter <HI>Andrew's</HI>'s own lighting, to di&s;cover whether the Letter (&s;hewed to him by the Council of State at the time of his Examination) was the original Letter hee writ from <HI>Grave&s;end</HI> to Sir <HI>John Gell,</HI> or (but) a copie of it. Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrew's's</HI> An&s;wer in the Ca&s;e is mo&s;t po&s;itive, and without the lea&s;t he|&s;itation, to wit, that hee believ's that the Paper &s;hewed to him by the Council of State, directed for Sir <HI>John</HI> (with a blank Baronet) is a true <HI>Copie</HI> thereof. If a true <HI>Copie,</HI> then not the <HI>Original,</HI> as is mo&s;t fal&s;ly, and with malice enough, charged upon the Lord Pre&s;ident, to wit, that hee kept the original Letter in his own hand, and deliver'd <HI>Ber|nard</HI> but) a Copie to carrie to Sir <HI>Iohn Gell,</HI> when <HI>Andrew's</HI> him&s;elf confe&s;&s;e's the clean contrarie, <HI>viz.</HI> That the Letter &s;hew'd to him by the Council of State was the &s;ame (indeed) for matter with that hee wrote to Sir <HI>Iohn Gell,</HI> but not the &s;ame original and numerical Letter. Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> him&s;elf, in the pre&s;ence of manie Honorable witne&s;&s;es, ac|knowledging
<PB N="12" REF="8"> it no more then a Copie. Now if the Pamphletier &s;till hold's of the minde that the Original Letter (for all this) is with the Council of State, or with the Lord Pre&s;ident, Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> (his friend) tell's him to his face hee &s;peak's fal&s;ely, there's no <HI>original</HI> Letter there, nothing but a <HI>Copie.</HI> Or if Sir <HI>Iohn Gell</HI> can tell tidings of this Letter (&s;o much controverted) (and &s;uch a thing hee did in&s;i|nuate to the High Court at his Trial) hee &s;hould do well to produce it; but this is one of Sir <HI>Iohn Gell's</HI> tricks of <HI>Legerdemain</HI> and his complices, to &s;aie and un&s;aie, to boa&s;t of great matters, but <HI>na&s;citur mus.</HI> If Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> know's of this Letter, as hee would make all men believ, let him bring it forth that wee maie believ him at lea&s;t in this, to bee no hypocrite and Impo&s;tor-</P>
<Q>Pamph. <HI>That</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pitts <HI>bring's the Copie, as they &s;aie, to Sir</HI> John Gell.</Q>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Surely this man will never &s;peak true a|gain&punc; twice Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews</HI> hath told him (if hee can believ a man of his own Religion) that the Co|pie of the Letter was left with the Council of State, and yet <HI>(nolit velit veritas)</HI> hee will have <HI>Ber|nard</HI> and <HI>Pitts</HI> bring this Copie (not the Original, but) the Copie of it to Sir <HI>John Gell.</HI> Be&s;ides hee tell's in his Pamphlet, <HI>that</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pits <HI>brought the Copie (as they &s;aie.)</HI> Who wiil believ this man, if ever hee &s;hould &s;peak true again, that drive's a full trade of verie tales. Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pits <HI>brought the copie to Sir</HI> John Gell, there's one; and <HI>they &s;aie</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="8"> <HI>&s;o,</HI> there's another. I think 'twere good this &s;ame copie of Ma&s;ter <HI>Andrews's</HI> Letter were hang'd up in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> Hall among&s;t the Scotch Clouts, to convince this Pamphletier and all his fellow infi|dels, thar there it is.</P>
<Q><HI>Pamph.</HI> That <HI>Bernard</HI> and <HI>Pitts</HI> both &s;aie, Sir <HI>John Gell</HI> did refu&s;e to act in the &s;ame plot, and &s;o burnt the Letter.</Q>
<P>An&s;w. Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pitts <HI>&s;aie &s;till (even what this Pamphletier plea&s;e's) but it will prove a que&s;tion &s;hortly, how Sir</HI> Iohn Gell, <HI>upon the deliverie of the Letter to him, &s;hould (all) on the &s;udden refu&s;e to act in a plot hee had waded in &s;om moneths with &s;o much zeal. Let</HI> Andrews <HI>bee heard &s;peak to clear the thing, the verie words in his own Narra|tive &s;ent from the Gatehou&s;, are the&s;e, viz.</HI> <Q>About the midst of <HI>December</HI> 49. I was invited to give <HI>S^r</HI> Iohn Gell a meeting, and among&s;t other di&s;cour&s;es, <HI>S^r</HI> Iohn Gell did take notice of his irrequital for his &s;ervice and his lo&s;&s;es, and the mi&s;application of his and other's &s;ervices to an end they intended not, <HI>and</HI> that hee de&s;ired to bee &s;o understood, and when oppor|tunitie &s;hould bee, to bee &s;o repre&s;ented to the Prince, and did intimate, that if ever hee took up arms again, it &s;hould bee for the Prince, <HI>and at</HI> &s;everal other &s;ub&s;e|quent meetings the di&s;cour&s;es <HI>were</HI> general, and much to this purpo&s;e.</Q></P>
<P><HI>And again in Mr</HI> Andrews's <HI>examination taken by the Council of State, hee confe&s;&s;eth verie di|&s;tinctly thus,</HI> <Q>viz. that S^r John Gell complain'd, hee
<PB N="14" REF="9"> had not his pay, nor was con&s;ider'd for his &s;ervice, and that hee intended not the end that was now brought a|bout, and desired to bee &s;o unde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tood by the King; <HI>And</HI> that the Examinant, upon opportun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tie, &s;hould &s;o repre&s;ent it, and his w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">llingne&s;s to do the King &s;ervice. <HI>Mr</HI> Andrews <HI>&s;aith further in the &s;ame Examination, that S^r</HI> Iohn Gell had twice or thrice in <HI>March</HI> la&s;t be&s;poken him to beget a good opinion of him in the King; <HI>And</HI> was not &s;atisfied in the waie hee had taken formerly, and that hee was &s;orrie for what hee had don again&s;t his Father, and if the King <HI>&s;hould hear</HI> hee was in arms, <HI>it</HI> &s;hould bee <HI>upon</HI> his &s;core. <HI>One thing more yet M^r</HI> Andrews's <HI>will tell us concerning this matter of S^r</HI> Iohn Gell's <HI>refu&s;ing to act in the plo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, how unlikely it is. The words in M^r</HI> An|drews's <HI>own Narrative &s;ent from the Gate hou&s; are the&s;e to a tittle, viz.</HI> Wedne&s;daie 20. <HI>March</HI> la&s;t I wrote to <HI>Sr</HI> Iohn Gell to meet mee at dinner, hee promi&s;ed to com, but came not, and &s;ent his man to ex|cu&s;e him and defray the charge, and that afternoon I &s;aw him by chance, and hee told mee that hee had not &s;ub&s;cribed, nor would, but what hee had &s;aid to mee as touching his realitie to the Prince, I might ing<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ge my &s;elf for.</Q> <HI>Now put all altogether, and then let mee ask the Pamphletier what hee thinke's of S^r</HI> Iohn Gell's <HI>refu&s;ing to act in</HI> Andrews's <HI>plot and the re&s;t of them: and whether hee believe's it (&s;till) in truth that</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pitts <HI>did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ver utter &s;uch a thing.</HI></P>
<Q>Pam. <HI>That the Letter was brought to</HI> S^r <HI>Iohn Gell</HI>
<PB N="15" REF="9"> <HI>as</HI> Bernard <HI>and</HI> Pitts <HI>on a Saterdaie night after ten of the Clock.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It is acknowledged that <HI>Bernard</HI> and Capt. <HI>Pitts</HI> did bring <HI>Andrews's</HI> letter (writ at <HI>Grave&s;end)</HI> to S^r <HI>Iohn Gell,</HI> to his lodging (then) in the Sanctua|rie <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and did pre&s;ent the &s;aid Letter to Sr <HI>Iohn Gell's</HI> own hands about eight (not ten) a Clock, Saterdaie night: and what will the Pam|phletier infer hence?</P>
<Q><HI>Pam.</HI> Hear him&s;ef. that M^r <HI>Spittlehou&s; a Me&s;|&s;enger, had a warrant the next morning early (beeing the Lords daie) to apprehend</HI> S^r <HI>Iohn Gell;</HI> All this of this libeller is verie fal&s;: for neither had M^r <HI>Spittlehou&s; a Warrant the next morning early (beeing the Lords daie),</HI> nor indeed had anie Warrant at all (fir&s;t or la&s;t) to apprehend Sir <HI>Iohn Gell.</HI> True it is Sir <HI>Iohn Gell</HI> was apprehended by Warrant from the Council of State; but the Pam|phletier, for ha&s;te, mi&s;take's the Name, mi&s;take's the daie; the Warrant was not drawn up till Mundaie morning, <HI>March</HI> 25. 49. And then directed to Captain <HI>Thornton,</HI> and yet not executed by him (neither) till one or two a Clock that daie.</Q>
<Q>Pam. <HI>That it doe's clearly appear that the Lord Pre&s;ident was privie to all the&s;e proceedings.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>An.</HI> This ignorant &amp; malicious Pamphletier mu&s;t konw (unle&s;s hee and the re&s;t of them will bee igno|rant &amp; blinde for all the light) that it is mo&s;t con|&s;i&s;tent with the dutie of all publick Mini&s;ters of State to bee privie to the trea&s;onable plots, and
<PB N="16" REF="10"> practices of wicked men again&s;t the State, &s;uch as this of <HI>Andrews</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Gell,</HI> and the others of that confederacie. And wee hope it will ope the the Eie of Autoritie wider, and call to more jea|lou&s;ie and watchfulne&s;s, when the loo&s; pen of eve|rie vile Pamphletier &s;hall dare to arraign even Ju&s;tice it &s;elf, and the publick Admin&s;trators of it at the bar of Traitors.</P>
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