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<P>Witne&s;&s;es produced AGAINST Mr. JOHN SHAW of <HI>Hull,</HI> Atte&s;ting the Publike Charge again&s;t him, and much more.</P>
<P>AS, To be
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<ITEM>A notable Turncoat and Time-&s;erver;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mo&s;t &s;candalous in his actions;</ITEM>
<ITEM>An enemy to good men; <HI>And</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A di&s;quieter of the peace of the place, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>SERVING For the Undeceiving of &s;ome, Informing of others, and &s;atisfying of all, as to the condition of the afore&s;aid M. <HI>SHAW.</HI></P>
<P>By one who hopes and waits, to &s;ee Corrupt men, and Unju&s;t things, le&s;s countenanced, and more &s;uppre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<Q><BIBL>PROV. 11. 10.</BIBL> <P>When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoyceth: and when the wicked peri&s;h, there is &s;houting.</P></Q>
<P>Printed at <HI>London,</HI> 1653.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_THat thou may&s;t under&s;tand what nece&s;&s;ity there was of pub|li&s;hing the&s;e Papers which by Providence came to my hands, thou art de&s;ired to take notice that Mr.</HI> John Canne, <HI>in a book intituled</HI> A voice from the Temple, <HI>hath in a mar|ginal note affirmed Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>to be</HI> a Turncoat <HI>and</HI> Time-&s;erver, <HI>a corrupt man, &amp;c. Whereupon Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>went to &s;ome in Authority, and made his complaint to them. What &s;atisfaction Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>hath had in private, it is not known; onely he reports that he is quitted of the Crimes, reputed a very hone&s;t man, and Mr.</HI> Canne <HI>ca&s;t and lo&s;t in his reputation with his friends at Court. This, and much more then this, hath Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>and his adherents given out, in Town and City, with unmea&s;urable boa&s;ting and in&s;ulation.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now in regard (not in reference to Mr.</HI> Canne, <HI>but) that the truth may no longer &s;uffer, hone&s;t and good men be abu&s;ed, and tho&s;e who are corrupt and naught, hardned in their evil ways; I take it my duty to publi&s;h the&s;e things, as knowing no other way (as the ca&s;e now &s;tands) to have truth and innocency cleared and ju&s;tified, and the mouth of iniquity &s;topped.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And how&s;oever particular per&s;ons are here mentioned, as M.</HI> Canne <HI>and M.</HI> Shaw; <HI>yet the truth is, the matter is of publike concernment, and takes in, as the intere&s;t of hone&s;t men, the Cau&s;e of Chri&s;t and his Churches in this Nation, (to which M.</HI> Shaw <HI>hath been an old profe&s;&s;ed enemy:) &s;o it is to di&s;co|ver and break in pieces a &s;elf-intere&s;t, and corrupt de&s;igne, which hath been too long carried on by a late prevailing party, in oppre&s;&s;ing the poor, and ob|&s;tructing ju&s;tice.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As for M.</HI> Shaw, <HI>I pity him, and pray for him, and &s;hall be glad if the&s;e things which he him&s;elf hath occa&s;ioned to be publi&s;hed, may do his &s;oul good. But I &s;hall not keep the Reader any longer from the particulars: onely let him ob&s;erve them well, and then judge.</HI></P>
<P>A Letter written by Mr. <HI>Shaw,</HI> to his good Lord and Ma&s;ter the <HI>Arch|bi&s;hop of</HI> York. The Original is in <HI>Hull</HI> to be &s;een, under his own hand and &s;eal; the &s;uper&s;cription thus:</P>
<LETTER>
<HEAD>For the mo&s;t Reverend Father in God, the Lord Archbi&s;hop of <HI>York</HI> his Grace, Primate of England, and Metropolitane, the&s;e pre&s;ent.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Letter word for word, followeth.</HEAD>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t Reverend Father in God:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>MY own unfitne&s;s at pre&s;ent to travel, joyned with &s;ome pre&s;&s;ing bu&s;i|ne&s;s of my own, compel me to this boldne&s;s, and (except your Grace pardon it) unmannerly pre&s;umption, thus to importune your Grace by a Me&s;&s;enger with this my Petition. I had re&s;olved ere now, according to my duty, to have waited on your Grace; but &s;till hoped for more peaceable times to do it in. In the interim, I am informed that the city of <HI>York</HI> pre&s;ented a Petition to the Lord Keeper on my behalf, for a pre|&s;entation to the Rectory of <HI>Alhallows</HI> in <HI>York;</HI> and another to your Grace, for your con&s;ent to their humble de&s;ire, your approbation of me, and your Graces Certificate accordingly to the Lord Keeper. And that your Grace would be plea&s;ed to excu&s;e my nece&s;&s;itated ab&s;ence, to par|don this my boldne&s;s in &s;ending this Me&s;&s;enger, for the &s;peedy &s;atisfaction of the &s;aid honorable Lord Keeper; and to afford to me your Certificate to my Lord Keeper, is my <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Who but a Time-&s;erver would beg thus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> a Benefice? <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1+ letters">e <HI>1 Sam. 2. 36.</HI></NOTE> humble &s;uit at pre&s;ent. I know innocencie it &s;elf is not free from accu&s;ation; therefore may I be &s;ubject to &s;landers. <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note how he &s;uffers in his good name, and for what.</NOTE> I hear &s;ome have pre&s;ented me to your Grace as no friend to the Kings Maje&s;tie or Epi&s;copacie: BOTH WHICH ARE SO NOTORI|OUSLY FALSE, that whoever reports them, either mi&s;took me or their own con&s;cience: which thing, if need were, THE WHOLE <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>And &s;o they will, as to be the greate&s;t Turn coat in York&s;hire, in&s;o|much as it is be|come a Proverb,</HI> John Shaw the Turn-coat.</NOTE> COUN|TRY WILL EVIDENCE AND DECLARE. Thus in all humili|ty and duty (though in ha&s;te) relying upon your Graces clemency and bounty, and encouraged by your many wonted favours to the Clergie and Learning it &s;elf; I humbly crave your approbation and certificate by this bearer, and a&s;&s;uredly <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">No lye.</NOTE> am</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Rotheram, <DATE>Augu&s;t 22. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Graces mo&s;t faithful &s;ervant, and daily Orator, <HI>John Shaw.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>I &s;hall not comment on the Letter. M.</HI> Shaw <HI>was true to the Proverb, and hath learn'd it by heart.</HI></P>
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<L>Dum fueris Romae, Romano vivito more:</L>
<L>Si fueris alibi, vivito ficut ibi.</L>
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<P><HI>But this was</HI> (<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So he told his Excellencie.</NOTE> <HI>he &s;aith) in the days of his ignorance, and when he knew no better. And in this we may believe him: for had he known that Monarchie and Epi&s;copacie would have been &s;o &s;oon laid a&s;ide, he would not have acted &s;o ba&s;ely and gro&s;ly for them as he did, &s;pecially the later, as appears by that which follows.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Cannot deny your de&s;ire of the di&s;covery of my knowledge concerning M. <HI>John Shaw,</HI> though I had rather have re&s;erved it till I was called thereto.</P>
<P>I have known him about thirty yeers, before he was a Preacher; and I have &s;een &s;ome of his ways, and heard of many at that time along. He
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was never to my knowledge lookt upon by any that were truely godly, as a man of any con&s;ideration, but rather an enemy to the Truth, and per&s;ecutor of it, and the &s;incere profe&s;&s;ors of it: Unle&s;s for a while he did deceive a few of well-minded people at <HI>York,</HI> with his fair (though deceitful) appearances. He is altogether lookt upon in the We&s;t parts of <HI>York</HI> &s;hire, as a coverous and worldly man, cruel with his <NOTE N="*" PLACE="PAREND"><HI>There is mention made in our Chronicles of one</HI> John Shaw <HI>Clerk, for all the world like him. It is worth the while to compare the&s;e two Time-&s;ervers together. See</HI> Speed, <HI>p.</HI> 705. Book of Martyrs.</NOTE> Tenants: an oppre&s;&s;or and hard dealer with tho&s;e he hath had to do, either in debts of his own, or of &s;uch as his father had left him.</P>
<P>He was always a conformable man in the days of the Bi&s;hops, and a pleader for the <HI>Innocent Ceremonies</HI> (as he u&s;es to call them) and a &s;harp inveigher again&s;t tender-&s;pirited men in tho&s;e days, who did refu&s;e conformity and &s;ub&s;cription to them.</P>
<P>I have not known him by any, either of them that were within, or of them that were without, lookt upon as a man of a good and <NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="marg">Let tho&s;e to whom he is re|ported to be an hone&s;t man, con|&s;ider the per|&s;ons who they are that give on &s;uch a report of him.</NOTE> pure con|&s;cience; but always a complyer to the ruling times, and to great men, of what condition &s;oever; and with men of Religion, for his own world|ly advantage, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>This is what at pre&s;ent I can pre&s;ent unto you, and &s;hall be ready to di&s;cover particulars as to the making good of the&s;e in due time, when I &s;hall be called thereunto, and in the while am</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble &s;ervant, <HI>R. A.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>We have his character here in brief, &s;o clearly and fully related, as I &s;hall adde nothing to it; onely there are hundreds which know the &s;ame to be true, and are ready to bear witne&s;s to it of their own knowledge. The</HI> Gui&s;es <HI>took the Romi&s;h part, not for any Religion which they cared for, but being the &s;tronger &s;ide, by which they might get both credit, honour, preferment: &s;o M.</HI> Shaw <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">I have heard &s;ome who know him well to &s;ay, that if it were to read the Ma&s;s|book, or Alco|ran, he would do it for pro|fit, &s;uch is the covetou&s;ne&s;s of his heart.</NOTE> <HI>all along hath run with the times, right or wrong: like a flying fi&s;h, if pre|ferment be among the birds, he is ready to flee after it, with the birds; and if it be among the fi&s;hes, then among the fi&s;hes he will &s;wim after it. But to proceed.</HI></P>
<P><HI>There was publi&s;hed in print a &s;candalous pamphlet again&s;t M.</HI> John Canne, <HI>intituled,</HI> The humble Petition of divers well affected per&s;ons within the Town of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull: the which being &s;een by the Officers of the Ga|&s;on there, they immediately drew up this Petition, and &s;ent the &s;ame to his Ex|cellencie, in the words following.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>To his Excellencie the Lord General <HI>Cromwel: The humble Petition of the Officers of the Cari&s;on, and divers well-affected per&s;ons in the Town of</HI> King&s;ton <HI>upon</HI> Hull,</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>THat your Petitioners having lately &s;een in this place a Petition in print, intimating, in the names of divers pretended well affected per|&s;ons, a grateful acknowledgement of your Excellencies &s;ucce&s;sful &s;or|vices; further intimating provocations put on them, for the vindication of their Pa&s;tor M. <HI>Shaw,</HI> again&s;t the accu&s;ations of M. <HI>John Canne,</HI> who&s;e pains, approved fidelity, and experienced piety, &s;hould we not endea|vour to ju&s;tifie, and witne&s;s with and to the world, we &s;hould not onely &s;hew our &s;elves &s;lothful, in the &s;ilent &s;uffering of Religion, hone&s;ty, and innocencie to be traduced; but al&s;o fail in the di&s;charge of our duties to your Excellencie, to whom we owe an account of our experiences in the particulars of this place, &s;o publikely importing.</P>
<P>Therefore, that we may not trouble your Excellencie with recrimina|tions in the like kinde, which we might in many re&s;pects multiply, we &s;hall onely pray, That the Articles which are or will be &s;hortly exhi|bited again&s;t Mr. <HI>Shaw,</HI> may by per&s;ons in this place approved for piety and fidelity, be <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This he will never yeeld to.</NOTE> examined and certified, that &s;o it may appear who have been the greate&s;t &s;ufferers, or who have lyen under the greate&s;t and ju&s;te&s;t Taxations, who have been the mo&s;t pure &amp; pious di&s;pen&s;ers of holy Ordinances, who the mo&s;t powerful and Evange|lical Preachers, who the free&s;t from hypocri&s;ie, griping, covetou&s;ne&s;s, &s;elf-&s;eeking, time-&s;erving, carnal Go&s;pelling, worldly mindedne&s;s, or undermining; who the mo&s;t impudent oppre&s;&s;or, and oppo&s;er of Gods people, or belyer of the Truth, in pretending a publike charge of the Parliament, for &s;upporting the one or other partie; who have been herein the mo&s;t innocent, pious, or impartial, that they may have protection, without the te&s;timony of the&s;e three worthy per&s;ons (yet by your power &s;uppre&s;t) to whom Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> is &s;o well known, and without who&s;e contradiction, vote, verdict, or re&s;olution, (ble&s;|&s;ed be God) we now believe his mi&s;taken innocencie may receive a &s;entence and EXPULSION FROM THIS PLACE, where his &s;pirit or impiety hath heretofore (to the di&s;turbance of the peace of this place) &s;o powerfully prevailed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>And your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
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<ITEM>Robert Overton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Elton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Greenle&s;d,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Fugil,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Brad|&s;haw,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Rakes,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Luddington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Leppington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>James Tho|mas,</ITEM>
<ITEM>W. Elward,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mr.</HI> Waterhou&s;e,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edw. Rigge,</ITEM>
<ITEM> Thomas Brown,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Laten,</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Jo. Smith,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Hogg,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Graves,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Maultby,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;eph Rakes,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Winter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Richer&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Calter,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;eph Cu&s;tis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lancelet Gib&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Andrews,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Fugil,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Fugil,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Newhou&s;e,</ITEM>
<ITEM>A. Nead,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Aacon,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Abr. Stracie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Daffurn.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>As I ob&s;erve the clo&s;e of this Petition, how they de&s;ire M.</HI> Shaws expul|&s;ion from the place, for the peace and &s;afety of it; <HI>it makes me to remem|ber a &s;peech of a gallant Captain, when there was a hot debate between</HI> Cae|far'<HI>s and</HI> Pompey'<HI>s &s;ouldiers, he cryes out often to them,</HI> Nil ni&s;i Cae&s;aris capite delato: <HI>Never &s;peak of peace (&s;aith he) if Cae&s;ars head be not taken away. So I under&s;tand to be the opinion of the Officers of that Gari&s;on, Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>having there beaded a faction, the &s;ame mu&s;t be broken, to &s;ettle a firm peace among the people.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Concerning the Articles mentioned in the Petition, they are the&s;e.</HI></P>
<P N="1">I. That M. <HI>John Shaw</HI> is reputed a very time-&s;erving and &s;elf-&s;eeking <NOTE PLACE="marg">This was his con&s;tant cour&s;e a little while before the Bi|&s;hops were put down, as 100 will te&s;tifie.</NOTE> man; witne&s;s his &s;iding with the Bi&s;hops in one place, and his &s;peaking again&s;t them in another, according to the di&s;po&s;ition of the place and per&s;ons among&s;t whom he preacht. For how&s;oever in the Letter to his Lords Grace of <HI>York,</HI> he profe&s;&s;eth him&s;elf to be for the King and Epi&s; copacie; yet at the &s;ame time, where he &s;aw the people would bear the contrary, he would &s;peak again&s;t the &s;ame things. Hence it is, that the Bi&s;hop in his an&s;wer to the Letter (the original of which is likewi&s;e in <HI>Hull)</HI> tells him that there are &s;ome particulars &s;pread abroad about him, and <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note, the Bi|&s;hop would not believe him.</NOTE> de&s;ires to be re&s;olved by him. I &s;hall &s;et down the very words.</P>
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<ITEM>1. <HI>Whether you did &s;tir and act an endeavouring to get hands to alter Epi&s;|copacie, and the Government Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, contrary to your vow in your Ordination.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. <HI>Whether you did preach out of your Pulpit unto your Auditory, particularly not to chu&s;e Sir</HI> William Savil <HI>Knight of the Shire.</HI> Which &s;urely was no Pulpit-matter, nor a theme any way tending to &s;ave &s;ouls.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. <HI>Whether you are at pre&s;ent (what&s;oever opinion you were of) conformable to his Maje&s;ties Laws Eccle&s;ia&s;tical, wherein you know your Ordinary mu&s;t be &s;atisfied, before you can be in&s;tituted.</HI></ITEM>
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<P N="2">II. He hath frequently oppo&s;ed the Gari&s;ons Chaplains <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He was an o|pen and known enemy to Mr. <HI>Oxenbridge,</HI> for witne&s;&s;ing again&s;t his cor|rupt ways. Mr. <HI>Oxenbridge</HI> found him a malicious ene|my to him.</NOTE> M. <HI>Oxenbridge</HI> and M. <HI>Canne</HI> in the exerci&s;e of their Mini&s;tery, which he hath by his &s;candalous accu&s;ations endeavoured to a&s;per&s;e, and al&s;o to di&s;appoint them of a place to teach in, urging others in Authority to do the like.</P>
<P N="3">III. He hath bitterly reproached the Army, as guilty of Herefie, Bla&s;phemie, Schi&s;m; whereby divers have undoubtedly been alienated in their judgements and affections from the Army and their adherents.</P>
<P N="4">IIII. Upon the Scots Army coming into <HI>England,</HI> Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> &s;et up his Presbyterian Government, and prayed in the&s;e or the like words: <HI>Lord, there are two Armies now in the field, they both pretend thy Cau&s;e; its
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not in man to judge, give thou a perfect let.</HI> Major <HI>John Bourn</HI> was pre|&s;ent when he prayed to this purpo&s;e.</P>
<P N="5">V. His underhand complaints again&s;t the Governour, during the <NOTE PLACE="marg">* He is noted generally for a mo&s;t perfidious per&s;on.</NOTE> time of his pretended friend&s;hip to him; his &s;upplanting Mr. <HI>Stiles</HI> of the Vicarredge and Charterhou&s;e; whil&s;t with Crocodile tears he &s;eemed to deplore his departure from this place: his in&s;inuation with per&s;ons in place and power, with their mutual &s;erving one anothers ends and aimes at <HI>London,</HI> and in the Country, are not unknown.</P>
<P N="6">VI. His oppre&s;&s;ion of the poor, and beating of the blind man; where|in he behaved him&s;elf more like St. <HI>George,</HI> then like St. <HI>John.</HI> His pro|fering to for&s;wear what was found by the Jury, and evidenced upon Oath in open Court, are of notable, if not <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">How he hath mo&s;t wretched|ly &s;or&s;worn him&s;elf, thou &s;halt finde in its due place hereafter.</NOTE> abominable memory.</P>
<P N="7">VII. His threatning a poor blind member of the Ho&s;pital, for com|plaining to the Parliament again&s;t him; his thru&s;ting him forth of the Ho&s;pital by the &s;houlders, bidding him go againe to the Parliament, di&s;charging him of his pay and place; although he had no power by the Donors will &s;o to do: with other unchri&s;tian practices and oppre&s;&s;i|ons will evidence, and upon examination make appear, how Epi&s;copal, how Prelatical, how Presbyteran, how Arbitrary, how Oppre&s;&s;ive, how Proud and ob&s;tinate a &s;pirit he is of.</P>
<P><HI>Neither did the Officers of the Gari&s;on, and other Godly and well-affected per&s;ons in</HI> Hull, <HI>think them&s;elves bound to appear in the Vindication of Mr.</HI> Canne <HI>from that fal&s;e and &s;candalous libel, &amp; to lay open the impiety and ba&s;e|ne&s;s of Mr.</HI> Shaw; <HI>but the</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Shaw was</HI> &s;o impudent as to affirm, before col. <HI>La&s;&s;els</HI> and <HI>M. S. Nicholas</HI> that he had a Letter from this &s;ame Church: the which he knew was a lye.</NOTE> <HI>Church of Chri&s;t inhabiting in the &s;aid Town, pre&s;ently hereupon gave in likewi&s;e their te&s;timony and witne&s;s, in the&s;e words following.</HI></P>
<LETTER>
<HEAD>To his Excellency the Lord General <HI>Cromwel.</HI> The hum|ble Addre&s;s of the Church of Chri&s;t of <HI>Hull:</HI> for and on the behalf of Mr. <HI>John Canne</HI> Chaplain to the Gari&s;on.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellencie,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe manifold advantages which the good people of this Nation have through the ble&s;&s;ing of God received by your means, is, and ever &s;hall be thankfully acknowledged by us, and is matter of encouragement to this pre&s;ent application: And we count it a great mercy, that God hath given you a heart &s;o ready at all times to comply with the de&s;ire of his people, having made you as an Angel of God, to di&s;cern between things and things.</P>
<P>Upon which con&s;ideration, and the &s;ence of our duty, we are con&s;train|ed to pre&s;ent tho&s;e en&s;uing lines to your Excellencie, in the behalf of our Chri&s;tian friend Mr. <HI>Canne,</HI> whom we conceive to be extremely traduced, in a Paper which we have &s;een in print, intituled, <HI>A Petition of divers well-affected per&s;ons within the Town of King&s;ton upon</HI> Hull:
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of which Petition, and the per&s;ons therein concerned, we &s;hall &s;ay lit|tle, it being not our purpo&s;e to defile our &s;elves with raking into the puddle of other mens faults, (though too much might be &s;aid) but &s;hall rather leave the examination of Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI>'s bu&s;ine&s;s to &s;uch as &s;hall be de&s;igned for that work. Neither &s;hall we reflect any thing upon our Magi&s;trates, which the &s;ub&s;cribers &s;o much applaud; hoping the Su|preme Authority will &s;ettle &s;uch a Magi&s;tracie in the Nation, as &s;hall not be oppo&s;ers, but encouragers of the godly party, and &s;uch as will be&s;t &s;uit with the Government of this Commonwealth. Nor &s;hall we in&s;ert how much we judge that Petition doth <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">It is &s;aid Dr. <HI>Wittie</HI> was Penman of that Pamphlet, a known treache|rous enemy to the proceedings of the Army all along. This is be that kept a va|pouring when our Army went fir&s;t into <HI>Scot|land,</HI> and would lay wa|gers we &s;hould be all de&s;troyed</NOTE> reflect upon your Excellencie and Councel of Officers late proceeding in the di&s;&s;olution of the late Parliament, the expre&s;&s;ion being &s;o obvious to every eye, and like an open Ca&s;ement lets you &s;ee the &s;en&s;e thereof. It being our main in|tendment to give in our te&s;timony concerning Mr. <HI>John Canne,</HI> whom they have endeavoured to render odious, not onely to your Excellencie, but to the world; and &s;o at once weaken his reputation with tho&s;e that have been your Excellencies true&s;t well-wi&s;hers.</P>
<P>We could no longer &s;it &s;till, le&s;t by our &s;ilence we &s;hould be found be|trayers of his integrity. We are bold to witne&s;s with him, and of him, that, to our knowledge, &s;ince his abode among&s;t us, (which hath been &s;ome yeers la&s;t pa&s;t) he hath diligently, (and, &s;o far forth as we can judge, faithfully) and laboriou&s;ly preached the Go&s;pel, and opened the my&s;teries of the Kingdom, to the profit and comfort of tho&s;e that have heard him; and was at all times, and upon all occa&s;ions, a clear owner of the work of God in this age, as fore&s;eeing it all along; and both pub|likely and privately manife&s;ted his good affection thereto, and that upon the pure&s;t grounds, without any &s;elf-advantage thereby, as was &s;uffici|ently manife&s;ted by his con&s;tant pains in preaching, though he met with great di&s;couragement, his pay being detained for many months to|gether, which was all that he had for the livelyhood of him&s;elf and fa|mily. It would be too large to call in his owning of per&s;ecuted Truths under Epi&s;copacie, and his <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Which was al|mo&s;t 17 yeers, occa&s;ioned by &s;uch time-&s;er|vers as was <HI>Shaw</HI> and the like.</NOTE> long bani&s;hment, by rea&s;on thereof, from his native Country, in which time he &s;uffered great hard&s;hip, with much patience and con&s;tancie; which may be a &s;ufficient re&s;timony of his pie|ty and integrity.</P>
<P>All which we leave to your Excellencies mo&s;t pious and &s;erious con&s;i|deration, de&s;iring he may be encouraged and looked upon accord|ingly; being convinced in our judgements, that he <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Shaw</HI> was &s;o impudent, as to affirm before the General, that the cau&s;e of Mr. <HI>Canne</HI>'s oppo&s;ing him, was to get away from him the Charter-hou&s;e. An untruth for which he hath no colour or pretence.</NOTE> intends and &s;eeks nothing, but that all inju&s;tice and oppre&s;&s;ion may be removed, and that righteou&s;ne&s;s may take place.</P>
<P>This we took our &s;elves bound to certifie on his behalf, as Chri&s;tian du|ty becoming us, and not out of any other relation which we have to him. We &s;hall no further pre&s;ume upon your Excellencie, but &s;ub&s;cribe our &s;elves</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Excellencies humble &s;ervants,
<LIST>
<ITEM>Robert Luddington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Overton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Atkin&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tim. Lumm,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert
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Leppington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Pecket,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lawrence Scortreth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Kitchin,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Ee|thel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Andrews &s;enior,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Daffurn,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Boaz Britain,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Kent,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ralph Ca&s;&s;e,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Elckar Pots,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Hill,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Norwood,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Michael Hogg,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;hua March,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Anthony Dickon,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edward Andrews <HI>jun.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>Concerning that &s;candalous Pamphlet which the Officers of the Gari&s;on and the Church mention in their Petitions, it is nece&s;&s;ary that &s;omething be added, to the end the matter may be the better under&s;tood.</P>
<P N="1">1. As it was publi&s;hed, &s;o it was no other then a &s;candalous Libel, there being no mans hand or name put to it; onely &s;aid <HI>&s;ub&s;cribed by abundance of godly and hone&s;t men,</HI> &amp;c. but it &s;eems he that put forth the thing, was careful not to have their names known, for &s;o their godline&s;s and ho|ne&s;ty would have been called into que&s;tion.</P>
<P N="2">But 2. Though their names be concealed, yet <HI>(ex ungue leonem)</HI> it is ea&s;ie to ghe&s;s the condition of the men, by their reflecting upon his Ex|cellencie and Councel of Officers, as the Church doth very well ob&s;erve. Their own words &s;hew what they are: <HI>As for the&s;e three eminent and</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He that drew up that Petiti|on, might rather be called Dr. <HI>Simple</HI> then otherwi&s;e: for who but a fool or wor&s;e would &s;o ba&s;ely have &s;lattered fir&s;t his Excel|lencie, and then the Speaker, with one breath, their actions be|ing &s;o contrary, as light is to darkne&s;s.</NOTE> <HI>faith|ful Pa&s;riots</HI> (note Reader the men) <HI>the Speaker of the late Parliament, Ba|ron</HI> Thorp, <HI>and Sir</HI> Henry Vane, <HI>whom be unworthily taxeth,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>their un|tainted Honours may ju&s;tly require &s;atisfaction,</HI> &amp;c. And a little after, refer Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> to the te&s;timony of the&s;e men, <HI>being well known to their Honors.</HI> Do not the&s;e &s;hew them&s;elves to be well-affected to the pre&s;ent power? But I &s;hall not wring this filthy &s;ore too hard.</P>
<P N="3">3. What little hone&s;ty, and le&s;s godline&s;s, the&s;e men have, may ea&s;ily appear by their own words. For thus they &s;ay: <HI>Who&s;e inveterate wrath to the very calling of the Mini&s;tery in England, is known to be &s;uch, that even the con&s;ideration of that Ordinance of God, is enough at any time to put him into a</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A Doctor like expre&s;&s;ion, and worded brave|ly. But &s;uppo&s;e the Dr. &s;eeing his ignorance and vanity thus di&s;covered, &s;hould run him|&s;elf into a fury, the que&s;t. then would be, whe|ther any other Doctor had skil to make him ci|ther witty or &s;o|ber after. I leave this to Dr. <HI>Primro&s;e</HI> his judgement.</NOTE> <HI>fury.</HI> If the Author of that Petition, and the &s;ub&s;cribers to it, had not been &s;tark blinde, and gro&s;ly ignorant of a <HI>Go&s;pel-Mini&s;tery,</HI> and of the glorious light which &s;hines now thorow the nation, they would never have made them&s;elves &s;o contemptible &amp; &amp; ridiculous to the world. For who but a company of blinde people, Popi&s;h and &s;uper&s;titious, will now dur&s;t appear in the behalf of the <HI>earthly and carnal Mini&s;tery of Eng|land,</HI> as knowing that it is not Mr. <HI>Canne</HI>'s opinion alone, but it is gene|rally held and profe&s;t by the people of God everywhere, that the &s;ame, <HI>viz.</HI> their <HI>National Mini&s;tery</HI> (as derived from the Pope and Prelates) is unlawful and Antichri&s;tian, a wicked plant, and &s;hortly to be pluckt up by the root? He that toucheth the week of a candle, betters and mends the light, but burns and blacks his own fingers: &s;o the&s;e men, whereas they thought to have di&s;honoured Mr. <HI>Canne,</HI> they have added much to his reputation and credit, and rendered them&s;elves to the world, as a company of ignorant, &s;uper&s;titious, and blinde people: For what man that is &s;piritual, reading their words, but mu&s;t needs conclude thus, or to this purpo&s;e: <HI>The Doctor that drew this, was very &s;imple, and may for his work &s;ake be fitly &s;tiled</HI> Dr. SIMPLE. <HI>And the &s;ub&s;cribers to it, as ig|norant
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and blind as the Doctor. All of them &s;till in Babylon, under the yoke of Antichri&s;t and deep &s;uper&s;tition.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Though we finde not their names to the printed Painphlet, yet we may ea&s;ily ghe&s;s who the per&s;ons are, by this expre&s;&s;ion; Mr. <HI>Shaw hath been a pious and painful labourer in the Mini&s;try among us.</HI> For his piety, I leave that to the Te&s;timony and witne&s;s here a&s;&s;erted: But that he is <HI>a painful labourer,</HI> tho&s;e that hear him, know the contrary, as his matter to be meerly formal, legal, livele&s;s, not in the demon&s;tration of the Spirit and power of God. Be&s;ides, it is not unknown, that the &s;tories, and low things which he hath, is &s;till one and the &s;ame; changes often his Text, but not the matter; Like a &s;care-crow in a Garden or field to fright Birds: becau&s;e it moves not, the Birds are not afraid of it: &s;o his mat|ter being colworts often &s;od, nothing new but what they have heard him deliver <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ask <HI>Robert Wil&s;on</HI> how often he hath heard him to preach one and the &s;ame thing over and over,</NOTE> 10. 20. 100. times before; its rather a burthen to the people then any way profitable. If the &s;ub&s;cribers had not been either &s;ome ig|norant people as do not know what a painful labourer in the Mini&s;try is, or &s;ome that are ba&s;ely by a&s;&s;ed by a corrupt faction in the Town, they would not have &s;et their hands to a thing &s;o known untrue. For he hath not to this day opened the great &s;ecrets and my&s;teries of the Go&s;pel, but rather been an enemy thereunto, and to &s;uch as do believe and embrace the &s;ame. But to proceed to further te&s;timony.</P>
<P>In the <HI>&s;ixth Article</HI> before, there is mention made of Mr. <HI>Shaw his beat|ing a blind man, and proffering to for&s;wear the &s;ame.</HI> As this is a remarka|ble thing, and a bu&s;ine&s;s of high concernment; &s;o it is nece&s;iary that it be plainly and truly related.</P>
<P>When Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> was before his <HI>Exceilencie,</HI> in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Major</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">* He layed his hand on Major General <HI>Har|ri&s;ons</HI> &s;houlder, to &s;how what he did, as one|ly a bare touch|ing of him, and profe&s;&s;ed be did no more to the blind man, then be did to him.</NOTE> <HI>General Harri&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Colonel Tomlin&s;on:</HI> &s;o again afterward to <HI>Colonel La&s;&s;els</HI> and Mr. St. <HI>Nicholas,</HI> he made mo&s;t dreadful imprecations; as taking God to witne&s;s, and wi&s;hing that he might not &s;ee the face of God, or go out of the room, if he did beat the man, pu&s;h him, or throw him down, but onely laying his hand &s;oftly on his &s;houlders, de&s;ired, or bid him depart: this he prote&s;ted and took God to witne&s;s was all that he did. Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> told him at the &s;ame time that he <HI>trembled to hear him,</HI> as know|ing that he for&s;wore him&s;elf, and what he &s;aid was again&s;t his own know|ledge and con&s;cience, a &s;inning pre&s;umptuou&s;ly, and with a high hand. And that this is &s;o, to wit, that Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> in all his prote&s;tations, impre|cations, execrations, hath &s;poken fal&s;ely, we &s;hall make it evident by the te&s;timonies and proofes following. The form of the Inditement which was found by the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note, how&s;o|ever tho&s;e of the Jury were Mr. Shaws chiefe&s;t friends, yet could not but finde him guilty, the proof being &s;o full and clear.</NOTE> Jury again&s;t <HI>Mr. Shaw</HI> is thus.</P>
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<LETTER>
<P>AT the General Se&s;&s;ions of the Publike peace holden at <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <NOTE PLACE="marg">King&s;ton <HI>upon</HI> Hull.</NOTE> <HI>Hull,</HI> upon Thur&s;day the one and twentieth day of <HI>April,</HI> in the yeer of our Lord One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty three, in the Guild-hall of the &s;aid Town, before <HI>John Rogers</HI> Maior of the Town of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull, William Lister</HI> E&s;quire, Recorder of the &s;ame Town, <HI>Thomas Raikes, Henry Barnard, Nicholas Denman, Jo&s;eph Blaids, William Pop|ple, William Peck, William Dob&s;on, Francis Dewick, John Raye, Richard Wood,</HI> and <HI>Lancelot Roper,</HI> Aldermen of the &s;ame Towne, Keepers of the publike peace, and al&s;o Ju&s;tices by the Keepers of the Liberty of <HI>England,</HI> by Authority of Parliament, to hear and determine divers Felonies, Tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, and other mi&s;demeanours committed within the Town and County of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull</HI> afore&s;aid: Among&s;t other things it was then pre&s;ented <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quere, <HI>How tho&s;e men of the Jury upon Oath could finde this Inditement a|gain&s;t M.</HI> Shaw, <HI>and yet &s;ay in their Petition to his Excellencie, that they have</HI> not known him guilty of any &s;candalous a|ctions which might de&s;erve ju&s;tice to pa&s;s again&s;t him. <HI>The General is too wi&s;e to be deceived by &s;uch men.</HI></NOTE> upon the Oath of <HI>Robert Pea&s;e, Wil|liam Ram&s;den, Richard Wil&s;on, John Crowther, Robert Moor, Augu&s;tine Jen|kin&s;on, Marmaduke Patti&s;on, Martial Ripley, Samuel Lightfoot, James Net|tleton, Thomas Dewicke, John Harris, Richard Wood, Marmaduke Thomp&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Robert Winter,</HI> lawful and hone&s;t men of the &s;aid Town of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull,</HI> That <HI>John Shaw</HI> of the Ho&s;pital called <HI>Gods-Hou&s;e-Ho&s;pi|tal,</HI> neer <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull,</HI> in the County of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull</HI> Clerk, upon the Seventh day of <HI>February,</HI> in the yeer of our Lord One thou|&s;and &s;ix hundred fifty and two, at the <HI>Gods-hou&s;e-</HI>Ho&s;pital in the Coun|ty of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull</HI> afore&s;aid, by force of Arms, to wit, with hands, clubs, &s;tones, and knives, in and upon <HI>Ellerker Potts</HI> of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull</HI> in the County of <HI>King&s;ton</HI> upon <HI>Hull</HI> afore&s;aid, Baker, did make an a&s;&s;ault, and him beat, wound, and evil intreat, and other enormities of|fered, again&s;t the publike peace, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Witne&s;&s;es &s;worn:
<LIST>
<ITEM>Ellerker Potts,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo&s;hua March,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will: Wakeley,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Reynold Starr,</ITEM>
</LIST>
Examined by <HI>Char. Vaux,</HI> Clerk of the Peace.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>What the&s;e men &s;wore, as to the fact, and the manner how it was in the par|ticulars, is faithfully reported in a Letter &s;ent to his Excellencie by an hone&s;t man, and one of the Jury. The Letter is thus, word for word.</P>
<LETTER>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Excellencie,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Finde a great lothne&s;s upon my &s;pirit to di&s;turb your Excellencie in your more publike and weighty Tran&s;actions, by the interpo&s;ure of any particular concernments; yet for the great love I bear to Righ|teou&s;ne&s;s and Truth, I cannot be &s;ilent when at any time I behold (in my weak apprehen&s;ion) any &s;tain or blot thereupon. And moreover, that which emboldens me at this time to trouble your Excellencie with the en&s;uing di&s;cour&s;e, is, That I under&s;tood by Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> that of late there
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hath been &s;ome debates (before your Excellencie) betwixt Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> and Mr. <HI>Shaw,</HI> concerning the blinde men, and their Tryal in this Court; and that at that time Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> did <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Many horrible lyes he then told and no marvel if &s;ome there pre&s;ent did (at lea&s;t in part) be|lieve them con|&s;idering how often he call'd God to witne&s;s, and with what impudence and boldne&s;s he a|verred tho&s;e untruths which he &s;pake.</NOTE> calumniate Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> thereabouts, (which is very probable) for it is generally reported here, that Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> did ask Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> forgivene&s;s before your Excellencie, for his defama|tion of him; which is thought to come from Mr. <HI>Shaw,</HI> but doth much rejoyce and lift up Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI>'s friends, and a&s;toni&s;h Mr. <HI>Canne</HI>'s, it comes forth with &s;uch confidence. Now Providence &s;o ordered, that when Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> and the blinde man had their Tryal in our Court, <HI>viz.</HI> the 21 of <HI>April</HI> la&s;t, that I was called to be of the Jury, and am thereupon de&s;ired to declare the truth of the carriage of the whole bu&s;ine&s;s that was in Court that day, to your Excellencie; which (by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance) I &s;hall do, &s;o far as I remember, or do call to minde, in every particular: <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>The day above-&s;aid, one <HI>Elleker Potts</HI> prefers an Inditement again&s;t Mr. <HI>John Shaw</HI> Clerk, for that he the 7 of <HI>February</HI> 1652. did a&s;&s;ault and beat the &s;aid <HI>Ellerker Potts,</HI> &amp;c. which to make good, the &s;aid <HI>Ellerker,</HI> with three more, were &s;worn, two whereof were blinde men, but gave in evidence what they heard &s;everally; which was, That the day above|&s;aid being at the Charter-hou&s;e or Gods-hou&s;e, and there di&s;cour&s;ing with Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> concerning their priviledges there, Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> fell into a great pa&s;&s;ion and rage again&s;t <HI>Ellerker Potts,</HI> and, as they &s;uppo&s;ed, ca&s;t him violently often to the ground, thrice at the lea&s;t; and they heard a womans voice &s;ay, <HI>Husband, what do you mean to kill the man?</HI> (which woman they believe was Mi&s;tre&s;s <HI>Shaw;)</HI> and likewi&s;s that they heard <HI>Ellerker Potts</HI> &s;on cry aloud, <HI>Oh wo is me</HI> (or to that purpo&s;e) <HI>Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>will kill my father.</HI> The&s;e two being heard and withdrawn, we called in the &s;eeing man, one <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">There was another took his Oath before the Governour of <HI>Hull,</HI> that he &s;aw Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> to throw him down.</NOTE> <HI>William Wakely,</HI> who was that day em|ployed by Mr. <HI>Shaw;</HI> who&s;e te&s;timony was the &s;ame with them before, <HI>viz.</HI> that at the time afore&s;aid he was pre&s;ent, and did <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This te&s;timo|ny will ri&s;e up in judgement again&s;t him.</NOTE> <HI>&s;ee Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>take</HI> Ellerker Potts <HI>by the &s;houlders, and throw him violently on the ground; and as he got up, ca&s;t him down again three times: and that Mi&s;tre&s;s</HI> Shaw <HI>came and took Mr.</HI> Shaw <HI>by the arm, and &s;aid, Fie, husband, do you mean to kill the man? and al&s;o the boy, as before recited. Whereupon, the Indice|ment was found.</HI> I &s;hall not further trouble your Excellencie at pre|&s;ent, then humbly to crave leave to &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elf,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Excellencies humble &s;ervant, and cordial well-wi&s;her. <HI>Robert Winter.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>You &s;hall have a Black-&s;mith that is u&s;ed to the frequent and dayly handling of Iron, hold a hot fire-coal in his hand and laugh, whil&s;t ano|ther would roar out: So tender are &s;ome men, that their hearts will &s;mite them for a little: but this man hath &s;o accu&s;tomed him&s;elf to lying, he is &s;o hardened in it, that his prote&s;tations, imprecations, execrations,
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though never &s;o fal&s;e, are not (as it &s;eems by this) &s;o much as felt or ap|prehended by him.</P>
<P>And here it may not be forgotten, as to demon&s;trate how <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Another noto|rious lye of his (which he fa|thered on Mr. <HI>Moor)</HI> was this <HI>viz.</HI> That the three blind men &s;hould come to Mr. <HI>Moor,</HI> and there confe&s;s that they had ex|tremely wrong|ed Mr. <HI>Shaw;</HI> and de&s;ired him that he would &s;tand their friend to regain Mr. <HI>Shaws</HI> fa|vour: for o|therwi&s;e they thought he would take a|way their pay, in that they had &s;o highly offend|ed him: this he affirmed to the General; and that Mr. <HI>Moor</HI> would ju&s;tifie it.</NOTE> accu&s;tomed he is to lying: when he prote&s;ted to Colonel <HI>La&s;&s;els</HI> and Mr. St. <HI>Nicholas,</HI> that he did not beat the blind-man, pu&s;h him, nor thru&s;t him downe; he affirmed withall, that <HI>he had a Letter from Mr.</HI> Luddingtons <HI>people, which was to clear him of the &s;aid fact, and blaming the blind-man, for his proceeding again&s;t him:</HI> and to make this good, he took a Letter out of his pocket, and &s;hewed it. Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> asked who&s;e hands were to it: he an|&s;wered, he would not tell him; but there was the Letter. Now how fal&s;e|ly he &s;pake in this, let all men judge, by this which follows.</P>
<LETTER>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Whereas we have &s;een in a Letter of yours to the Governour, dated the 7. of <HI>July</HI> the&s;e words, <HI>viz. That Mr.</HI> John Shaw <HI>affirmed that he had under the hands of Mr.</HI> Luddingtons <HI>people, that they did condemn the blind man and clear him;</HI> We do hereby certifie that he never had anything under the hands of the Church (which we &s;uppo&s;e he calls Mr. <HI>Ludding|tons people)</HI> nor from any particular member thereof. But we further affirm, that we did, and we do judge the blind men to be wronged, as ap|peared in open Court.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Robert Luddington,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Robert Overton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Pecket,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ed. Atkin&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>T. Lumm,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lawrence Scortreth,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Kitchin,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Bethel,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Dafforn,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Boaz Brittain,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Be&s;s,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ant. Dik&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Richard Newton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Edw. Andrew &s;en. Ralf Ca&s;s,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Mudie,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Norwood,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Michael Hogg.</ITEM>
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<P>The thing here is not onely denyed, and Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> proved a fal&s;e &s;peaker; but withal, the whole Church witne&s;&s;eth again&s;t him: and for the blind men, who&s;e te&s;timony I am &s;ure will be received and cre|dited before Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> and his party, who endeavour to countenance and bear him out in lying, oppre&s;&s;ion, and other &s;inful practi&s;es.</P>
<P>One thing more I mu&s;t here give a hint of, concerning a writing which Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> reports that Colonel <HI>La&s;&s;els</HI> and Mr. St. <HI>Nicholas</HI> gave him under their hands, the which writing he h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">h <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">He gave out copies of it at <HI>Stilton</HI> in his way home, and &s;o hath done all the Country o|ver. M. <HI>Canne</HI> not knowing of any writing he he had, till af|terward.</NOTE> made a great improvement of, to the publick di&s;grace of Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> everywhere. Now I &s;hall not meddle with the Gentlemen at all; they be&s;t know what they did, and why. This onely I te&s;tifie in the behalf of Mr. <HI>Canne,</HI> that in the pre&s;ence of Mr. <HI>Dove,</HI> Mr. <HI>James Nelthrop,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Gill,</HI> Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> affirmed to Colonel <HI>La&s;&s;els,</HI> that when Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> and he were with him, he offered to prove what&s;oever he had written again&s;t Mr. <HI>Shaw,</HI> and did not deny or decline any thing that he had publi&s;hed, but &s;tood firm to the ju&s;tification of all, and every whit that was in the Book.</P>
<P>This Mr. <HI>Canne</HI> affirmed at fir&s;t, to Colonel <HI>La&s;&s;els</HI> and Mr. S. <HI>Nicholas,</HI> and to Colonel <HI>La&s;&s;els</HI> in the hearing of the three Gentlemen named be|fore:
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and how&s;oever he leaves the pro&s;ecution of the bu&s;ine&s;s again&s;t Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> to others more concerned in it, yet he hath &s;een and known, &s;ince the publi&s;hing of that book, &s;o much lying, for &s;wearing, and other ungodly actions done by Mr. <HI>Shaw,</HI> as he thinkes him to be a man far wor&s;e and more corrupt then he did before, and is per&s;waded that his &s;ins are now full and ripe, and that God will &s;peedily lead him forth with the workers of Iniquity. And in this he is the more confirmed by that &s;aying of <HI>Solomon, Though hand joyn in hands, the wicked &s;hall not be un|puni&s;hed; but the &s;eed of the righteous &s;hall be delivered,</HI> Prov. 11. 21.</P>
<P>Moreover, not onely is the thing thus pa&s;t again&s;t him by witne&s;&s;es &s;worn, and the <HI>Inditement</HI> found in Court; But his own con&s;cience (though his mouth for&s;weares it) hath &s;ince openly declared him guil|ty. And this appeares as clear as the Sun at noon-day: for why el&s;e hath he removed the bu&s;ine&s;s, from <HI>Hull</HI> to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> but in hope that the men whom he hath wronged, being blind, and &s;o not fit to travel, and poor, and &s;o not in a capacitie to follow the &s;uit &s;o far again&s;t him, he &s;hall by this device e&s;cape the la&s;h of Ju&s;tice?</P>
<P>Without doubt, had he not been con&s;cious to the evil of the fact, he would never have removed it from that town, where he hath &s;o many friends to act for him, as would acquit him right or wrong if they could. But he and his partakers there &s;ee the fact to be &s;o notorious, as that place is not for their turn, but &s;omewhere el&s;e (a great way off) mu&s;t be cho&s;en, where the truth may not be &s;o openly known and manife&s;ted again&s;t him.</P>
<P>How&s;oever I que&s;tion not, but as the Lord hitherto all <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Thus the un|truths which he &s;pake to his Ex|cellency, his publi&s;hing a &s;candalous, pa|per again&s;t Mr. <HI>Can,</HI> his in&s;ul|tations &amp; boa&s;t|ing in Town and Country, of a victory which he bad gotten, and cleared of all things laid to his charge, is by the ju&s;t hand of God, matter of &s;hame &amp; in|famie to him.</NOTE> along, hath turned all his crafty and evil de&s;ignes upon his owne head, and brought him to &s;hame by his owne doings, according to that in the Poet:</P>
<LG>
<L>&mdash;Non e&s;t lex ju&s;tior ulla,</L>
<L>Quam necis artifices arte perire &s;ua.</L>
</LG>
<P>He will do the like in this. For I know Judge <HI>Rolls</HI> to be a man of &s;o much ju&s;tice, con&s;cience, and experience, as Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> will not finde him to be &s;uch a man as he hath formerly found &s;ome of his old Ma&s;ters, <HI>viz.</HI> as corrupt and rotten as him&s;elf; but will &s;end him back, and the bu&s;i|ne&s;s likewi&s;e, to its proper place, where things may be fully examined, the truth known, and the offender receive his due and condign puni&s;h|ment.</P>
<P>There are &s;everal other complaints in my hand, as charges of high and great mi&s;deanours again&s;t Mr. <HI>Shaw;</HI> which I might have pub|li&s;hed, the witne&s;&s;es being ready upon oath to make good the &s;ame, <HI>viz.</HI> His <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">This Edward <HI>Andrews</HI> will te&s;tifie.</NOTE> oppre&s;&s;ion, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">M. <HI>Shepherd</HI> by woful expe|rience knows this to be true and others too.</NOTE> extortion, <NOTE N="&dagger;" PLACE="PAREND">Mr. <HI>Ram&s;del</HI> can &s;peak out to this, whom Mr. <HI>Shaw</HI> di&s;|&s;waded from taking the En|gagement.</NOTE> underhand tampering with men to alie|nate and di&s;affect them from the pre&s;ent Government, and cau&s;ing faction and divi&s;ions among the Magi&s;trates, and di&s;turbing the peace of the whole Town: but I &s;hall forbear here to mention them, becau&s;e it is expected, that tho&s;e who are in authority, for the love which they
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bear to truth and righteou&s;ne&s;s, and a holy zeal to &s;uppre&s;s incendia|ries and deceitful men, will grant a commi&s;&s;ion to &s;ome in that Coun|try, men of known integrity and hone&s;ty, not ingaged to carry on his de&s;igne, to examine the&s;e particulars, that the truth may be known, and the man no longer &s;uffered in his in&s;olencies, and born out as he hath been, to abu&s;e the be&s;t and true&s;t friends of the State, of his Excellen|cie, the Army, and people of God.</P>
<P>And for this end, I under&s;tand there are &s;ome here, in the behalf of the Gari&s;on, the Church, and the hone&s;t and good people of the Town, as endeavouring to procure &s;uch a Commi&s;&s;ion, as knowing well, if the &s;ame &s;hall be granted, the man will be proved wor&s;e then they have yet declared, either to his Excellency or any other again&s;t him.</P>
<P>I &s;hall conclude this di&s;cour&s;e, with a &s;tory &s;utable to the &s;ubject. When King <HI>Richard</HI> had taken in a skirmi&s;h, <HI>Philip</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bevois,</HI> a deadly enemy of his, he cau&s;ed him to be clapt up in pri&s;on, ca&s;ting Iron bolts upon his heel. Being complained of to the Pope, he writ to the King not to detain his dear &s;on, an eccle&s;ia&s;tical per&s;on, a &s;hepherd of the Lords; but to &s;end him back to his flock: Hereupon the King &s;ent his Amba&s;&s;adours to the Pope, wi&s;hing them to u&s;e the words of the Patriarch to their Father <HI>Jacob,</HI> when they had &s;old their brother <HI>Jo|&s;eph,</HI> and dyed his party coloured-coat in the blood of bea&s;ts, &s;aying, <HI>Hanc invenemus vide utrum tunica filii tui &s;it an non? This we have found</HI> (and &s;hewing the Armour with which he was taken) <HI>&s;ee whether it be the Coat of thy Son or no?</HI> No (replyed the Pope) its not the Coat of my Son; nor of my brother, but &s;ome Imp of <HI>Mars;</HI> let him procure his own freedome if he can. The application I leave to the Reader.</P>
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