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<P>THE CONFIDER In FALSHOOD CONFOUNDED. Being an ANSWER to An Abu&s;ive BOOK Lately publi&s;hed by <HI>William Wright</HI> of <HI>Dublin,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Thomas Carleton</HI> his Te|nant in the fir&s;t place: And <HI>Will. Edmond|&s;on, John Burnyet, Abraham Fuller,</HI> and <HI>Franc. Randall,</HI> Arbitrators, in the &s;econd place; equally cho&s;en to end &s;ome difference be|tween the &s;aid <HI>William Wright</HI> and <HI>Thomas Carleton, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the Year of our Lord 1684.</P>
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<HEAD>The Confider in Falshood con|founded: being an An&s;wer to an abu|&s;ive Book lately publi&s;hed by <HI>William Wright</HI> of <HI>Dublin,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Thomas Carle|ton</HI> his Tenant, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE fir&s;t thing I ob&s;erve in his Book, is, That he would make the World believe that the Quakers deceived him; and with this news he would tingle their Ears, there|by to make his Monologies, or Book of Bables, more taking with the Reader; and the rea&s;on he lays down in the 9th page of his Book: he con&s;iders that in all reports that are &s;pread abroad among&s;t men, be they never &s;o fal&s;e, there are &s;ome that believe them, e&s;pecially where the party concerned &s;tirs not in vindication of him&s;elf. The&s;e and the like con&s;iderations moved him, as he &s;aith, to do what he did.</P>
<P>And in the 20th page he &s;aith, <HI>one mans &s;tory &s;eems fair and hone&s;t till another be heard;</HI> &s;o that from his own &s;aying it may be concluded, be his reports ne|ver &s;o fal&s;e, they will &s;eem fair and hone&s;t, and be believed for truths by &s;ome whil&s;t <HI>Carleton</HI> and the Arbitrators &s;ay nothing for them&s;elves; and no doubt many &s;uch his Book may meet with in the world as will be ready to give judgment before they hear both parties.</P>
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<P>But the Quakers did not deceive him, for it was his own fal&s;e heart, and leaning to lies for refuge, and for his great tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion again&s;t God, that he was deluded and decieved, and fell into great and fore temptation: If we may believe his own report of him&s;elf and what he hath written with his own hand; in the fir&s;t page of a Book he writ again&s;t his own Wife about 7 or 8 years before this Arbi|tration was; &s;o what can we expect when he cannot conceal the infirmities of his own fle&s;h; but writ Books, yea black Books as he calls them, again&s;t his own Wife and &s;pread them abroad. And to my knowledge it hath been his practice for many years to write Libels and &s;candalous &s;croles again&s;t divers men he hath had to do with, which he dare not publi&s;h in print as he does the Quakers; but like a Serpent in the dark would impeach other mens hone&s;ty and advance his own; but &s;uch black, dark Books and &s;croles mu&s;t needs proceed out of the bottomle&s;s pit where all &s;uch things are hatched.</P>
<P>But to come to my purpo&s;e, that is to an&s;wer to his high charges, and to give a little more light and under&s;tanding to the unbia&s;&s;ed Reader, that he may not err in judgment by believing all <HI>W. W.</HI> hath put in print; for I remember it was &s;aid of old, He that is fir&s;t in his own Cau&s;e &s;eemeth ju&s;t, but his neigh|bour cometh and &s;ercheth him out.</P>
<P>Page the 4th. <Q><HI>He &s;aith</HI> God defend that he &s;hould either wittingly or willingly write one word but what &s;hall be real truth.</Q></P>
<P>So if the Reader will take his &s;erious a&s;&s;ertions for truths, he may be deceived; for I am able (the
<PB N="7" REF="4"> truth being on my &s;ide) to make it appear in &s;everal places of his Book, that he hath both wittingly and wilfully writ that which is not true again&s;t <HI>Carleton</HI> (though &s;ome may be apt to think <HI>W. W.</HI> is no &s;uch man) for all his large pretence to the contrary; yea things that he knew was not true long before his Book was writ; but I &s;ee by experience men that &s;tand in di&s;obedience and rebellion again&s;t Gods witne&s;s in them&s;elves, grow wor&s;e and wor&s;e, de|ceiving and being deceived.</P>
<P>Now I &s;hall proceed to examine his high and fal&s;e Charges one by one, and give my An&s;wers as truly and briefly as po&s;&s;ible, without tautology or need|le&s;s reiterations as he hath often done in his Book.</P>
<P>Charge 1. page 4. <Q>I let to <HI>Carleton, &s;aith he,</HI> 184 Acres of Land, and there being &s;ome odd Acres, part whereof being Turf-bog, I re&s;erved to my &s;elf for firing for my other Tenants, and al&s;o for Clay for my own u&s;e, and that I &s;hould &s;ell his Clay, hinder his Tennants from digging Turf, and dig Turf there my &s;elf, and al&s;o my Tenants, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That he re&s;erved any odd Acres, either of Turf-bog or Clay, by any expre&s;s Covenant in my Lea&s;e, or any expre&s;s words in our bargain, that I ab&s;olutely deny: It is true, there are &s;everal Ex|ceptions and Re&s;ervations in my Lea&s;e, (which hitherto I have duely ob&s;erved and kept) but not a word of any odd Acres of Land or Bog, <HI>&amp;c,</HI> &s;o why &s;hould that re&s;ervation be wanting (if any part of our bargain) when the other was put in; he knows, and I know, very well, he would have excepted 4 Acres when we were about the bargain
<PB N="8" REF="5"> at <HI>C. W.</HI> his hou&s;e at <HI>Clahamman;</HI> and I would either have all as it was entirely fenced in (as &s;aith my Lea&s;e) or I would have none; upon which we broke off, and paid our reckoning at the Inn; and after he was out of doors and ready to take Hor&s;e, he turn'd in again and &s;aid <HI>he would not break with me for them. I &s;hould have them,</HI> and &s;o granted me the whole, all within the Fences to my under&s;tanding, and o|thers that were by, and into the whole put me in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and the whole I have enjoyed the&s;e five years la&s;t, and have nothing but my bargain, both by the bounds of my Lea&s;e and plain expre&s;s words, which <HI>J. N.</HI> can witne&s;s who was then &s;tanding by; al&s;o <HI>T. A.</HI> who before treated with him upon the &s;ame bargain, broke off for 4 or 2 Acres of Bog &s;ome days or weeks before, as I was like to have done, if he had not granted them; without any further re&s;ervation or exception: for confirmation of this take <HI>T. A.</HI> his Certificate as follows.</P>
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<P>This is to certifie all whom it may concern, That I went to <HI>Ballynicargie</HI> to take it of <HI>William Wright,</HI> and he &s;hewed me the ve|ry Lands that <HI>Thomas Carleton</HI> now enjoy|eth, and he and I agreed of the price, and I was to have a lea&s;e according to the bounds, and when he came to write Articles he would have accepted 4 or 2 Acres of Bog; upon which I left him and it, becau&s;e I could not
<PB N="9" REF="5"> have it as we had agreed.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Witne&s;s my Hand
<DATE>this 17<HI>th.</HI> day of <HI>May</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Thomas An&s;low his mark.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>And whereas he accu&s;es me of &s;elling Clay, I ne|ver did, by po&s;itive Sale; only the Clerks of the Iron works gave me &s;omething, what they plea&s;ed them&s;elves, in con&s;ideration for the Clay they got: And if I had, I &s;old none of his, for the Land being mine the Clay was not his.</P>
<P>Charge 2. page 4. <Q><HI>Carleton</HI> to &s;pare his own Wood in the Year 1680, &s;et his man <HI>Charles Smith</HI> to cut down and take away all the Birch Trees that grew upon a new double Ditch of <HI>Wrights: &s;aith he</HI> &s;ome of them being a|bove 3 foot in circumference.</Q> And in page 9. <Q><HI>he &s;aith,</HI> They were cut out of &s;ea&s;on for the &s;tumps are dead.</Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That my man cut 3 or 4 Birches I &s;uppo&s;e may be true, though &s;ome of them, as I under&s;tand, was dead, or dying before; but that the Ditch was his, that is a lye, for the double Ditch was mine, and with no little trouble have I maintained it the&s;e &s;everal years; for the Wood-cutters, Fellers, Stri|pers and Colliers made &s;everal ways over it to my great damage, often occa&s;ioned my Cattel to go out: But what had Wright to do with Birches, or any o|ther Wood upon the Land during my Lea&s;e; he ex|cepted none but Oak, and but &s;ome of that too, as
<PB N="10" REF="6"> by my Lea&s;e may appear: but he wanted matter to make me criminal, and to aggravate it the &s;tumps are dead; &s;o were hundreds more cut by him or his people before I came there, and by divers of his Te|nants &s;ince, who for years together I could not re|&s;train until I &s;erved one of them with a Writ, which is another Charge in his Book: one thing I shall here mind the Reader of, which was an expre&s;s bar|gain between him &amp; me, in behalf of <HI>William Fettrel,</HI> the man that bought the Oak Wood of him; which was that I &s;hould let the &s;aid <HI>W. F.</HI> have Birches to build a Bark-Mill; and he promi&s;ed to give me as much Oak, number for number, when they were &s;trip'd. They had of Birches 96 pieces, be&s;ides 6 or 7 pair of Couples and Knees, but to this day he never gave me one &s;tick of Oak in con&s;ideration, which is (be&s;ides the abundance his Tennants out off for 2 or 3 years,) far more con&s;iderable than twice 3 or 4 in my own Hedge; but breaking word and promi&s;e is made a laughter with him, for when I have charged him with his promi&s;e he would laugh, and &s;ay, <HI>there is never a promi&s;e made, but it is either broke or kept.</HI></P>
<P>Charge 3. page 4 &amp; 5. <Q><HI>Carleton, &s;aith he,</HI> is bound by Covenant in his Lea&s;e to keep all the Hou&s;es, Walls and Ditches in good repair, which he failing to do, <HI>Wright</HI> is damnified at lea&s;t 30 &s;hillings in his Bedding and Papers in a Clo&s;et he re&s;erved for him&s;elf.</Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That he re&s;erved liberty of that Clo&s;et to him&s;elf, I grant, but upon what terms, <HI>viz.</HI> when he came there about the ordering and di&s;po&s;ing of Tim|ber and Bark, mo&s;t of which was over and di&s;po&s;ed of from him 4 years agoe, he was but to have that
<PB N="11" REF="6"> liberty when he came upon that occa&s;ion, and not otherwi&s;e: &s;o if he had cleared the Room as he ought to have done when he went away, there could have been no &s;uch damage to him; which as I am inform|ed is not for want of repair neither, but rather by Moth, Mice or Rats, for this is the effects of Fraud and a wrongful detainer; for he hath detained this Clo&s;et and two others from me and my A&s;&s;igns ever &s;ince I came there, contrary to the Cove|nant of my Lea&s;e, for which I want &s;atisfaction, for I have the great damage and wrong, though he hath made fir&s;t complaint, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> So this is the way he re|quites me for my kindne&s;s and forbearance; &s;o I think it is now high time for me to amend that mat|ter, and let him take his Moth-eaten-Clothes and Papers away, and pay for the time he hath detained them unju&s;tly.</P>
<P>Charge 4. page 5. <Q>That he and I went to one <HI>Pridham</HI> a Clerk, and how I would not pay one half of the Charge for ingro&s;&s;ing the Lea&s;e in Parchment.</Q></P>
<P>But he &s;hould have &s;aid him&s;elf would not; for I no &s;ooner propo&s;ed to do it, being I was to &s;tay in Town, but he quickly clo&s;ed with it, and &s;ent <HI>O. W.</HI> to one <HI>Tayler</HI> a Cou&s;in of their own for Parchment to engro&s;e the Lea&s;e; &s;o I &s;aved him his part of the 18 &s;hillings the man demanded: I think it is very fit he &s;hould now pay that would pay me &s;o for my forbearance, with &s;o many ba&s;e and abu&s;ive aggra|vating exclamations, as may be &s;een pag 5, 7, 9, 22, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of his Book, where it is multiplied as &s;o ma|ny various actions to make me the more criminal; which was, that I &s;hould deceitfully, and like a di&s;|hone&s;t man, contrary to the tru&s;t impo&s;ed in me,
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<Q>thru&s;t &s;everal things into the Lea&s;e, that was not, <HI>&s;aith he,</HI> in the Original rough draught; nor never &s;poke of, <HI>&s;aith he,</HI> in making the bargain, to the be&s;t of his know|ledge;</Q> and all the&s;e &s;everal things being examined, (by a judicious Reader) is but one thing nominated in all his Book, and that is this, pag 7. that I &s;hould put in the&s;e words, <Q>Save only what Oak-Timber the &s;aid <HI>Tho. Carleton</HI> his Executors or A&s;&s;ignes &s;hall have need of, or &s;hall have occa&s;ion to u&s;e or expend upon the Premi|&s;es, which he or they is to have while it is there.</Q> This is all, and all this is more than is true, (<HI>ergo</HI> a lie) for I thru&s;t it not in, it was agreed on before; for I have yet to &s;hew, and that to my comfort now, in the fir&s;t Articles of our Bargain, writ, &s;igned and &s;ealed with his own hand, where he him&s;elf hath granted that Covenant of the Timber, and three Witne&s;&s;es to the &s;aid Articles, <HI>viz. James &V;nderwood</HI> an Attorney at Law, <HI>Tho. Trafford</HI> and <HI>Will. Errat;</HI> take T. T. his Certificate.</P>
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<P>Whereas <HI>Will. Wright</HI> in his Book lately printed hath charged <HI>Th. Carleton</HI> of deceit|fully thru&s;ting in into his Lea&s;e that clau&s;e of liberty for Oak Timber, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> This is to cer|tifie the truth to all, that I was pre&s;ent when the &s;aid <HI>Wright</HI> and <HI>Carleton</HI> did &s;ign Ar|ticles of their &s;aid Bargain, and that the &s;aid Articles were writ by <HI>Wright</HI>'s own hand, and that the &s;aid Covenant for the
<PB N="13" REF="7"> Timber was in it, and I was a &s;ub&s;cribing Witne&s;s thereunto.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my hand
<DATE>this 2d. of the 4th. Month, vul. <HI>June</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Tho. Trafford.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>Al&s;o take this Certificate following.</P>
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<P>This is to certifie all whom it may concern, That we have this day &s;een Articles of Cove|nant and Bargain made the 19th. day of <HI>A|pril</HI> 1679. between <HI>W. W.</HI> and <HI>T. C.</HI> where|in he the &s;aid <HI>W. W.</HI> hath granted to the &s;aid <HI>T. C.</HI> what Oak-Timber he hath occa&s;ion to u&s;e upon the premi&s;es, and he is to have it &s;o long as it is there: And we are well &s;a|tisfied the &s;aid Articles are writ, &s;igned, and for ought we know &s;ealed too with <HI>W. W.</HI> his own hand.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our hands
<DATE>the 23d. of <HI>May</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Thomas King</ITEM>
<ITEM>Michael Holme.</ITEM>
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<P>And further I am per&s;uaded that this Covenant is in one of the rough draughts &s;till, if it could be &s;een; <HI>but,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>not in the Original;</HI> and thus he would delude the World to make <HI>Carleton</HI> odeous: Which he calls the Original is the que&s;tion? for there were
<PB N="14" REF="8"> three rough draughts; one was corrected by my hand, which was the la&s;t of the three; &s;o let all the World judge what hone&s;ty appears in this allegation, and whether this is not wittingly and wilfully done. And if he were not a vexatious and letigious man, he would have been a&s;hamed to have &s;hown his fol|ly and deceit &s;o far, as to &s;huffle from the covenant of a Deed under hand and &s;eal to a rough draught of his own &s;ubtil devi&s;ing. Does People u&s;e to make void a compleat and perfect Lea&s;e, five years after it is made, by the abrupt and crooked lines of a rough draught, &s;ure the man is hard put to it, that nothing &s;hort of Printing could &s;erve to make him&s;ef and his actions rediculous to the world, and that which is wor&s;t of all, mu&s;t &s;pread his own infamy in City and Country, with his own hand. And further, when Covenants under hand and &s;eal are thus wil|fully wre&s;ted, by making wilful lies, what u&s;age may I expect in other things? let all the World judg.</P>
<P>Charge 5. page 5. <Q><HI>Carleton, &s;aith he,</HI> made Spars to his Fulling-Mill, all of fine &s;treight young Oak Saplings, from which <HI>Wright</HI> him&s;elf was prohibited by <HI>Henry Temple, E&s;q;</HI> and be&s;ides, <HI>&s;aith he,</HI> he lo&s;t the bark.</Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> A pack of lies who e're invented them; he is the man that now hath printed them. By his words he had nothing to do with the Tim|ber, and con&s;equently nothing to do with the Bark; &s;o what is this to him, the Tre&s;pa&s;s (if any were) were again&s;t <HI>H. T.</HI> E&s;q; only he would make his wil|ful lies manife&s;t by his own &s;cribling hand, and &s;how his wicked malice again&s;t me; for there is not one Oak-Spar in all the Mill-hou&s;e that we built the fir&s;t year before he &s;old the Timber, (which is the hou&s;e
<PB N="15" REF="8"> he means) as by this following Certificate may ap|pear.</P>
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<P>This we certifie that there is not one Oak Spar in all the Tuck-Mill hou&s;e that <HI>Tho. Carleton</HI> built upon the Lands of <HI>Ballynicar|gie</HI> the fir&s;t year he came there; and though <HI>W. Wright</HI> &s;ays they were all fine, &s;traight, young Oak Saplings, there is not one, and we are &s;ure the hou&s;e was never &s;tripp'd, nor a Spar altered, &s;ince it was fir&s;t &s;et up.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our hands
<DATE>this 23d. of <HI>May</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Edmond E. Chadwick.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Simeon Bins</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nicholas Richard&s;on.</ITEM>
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<P>Charge 6. is about a Dunghil, (which had they been right placed &s;hould have contained all his 12. or 21 before they went to the Pre&s;s) <HI>which,</HI> &s;aith he, <HI>he pre&s;erved to him&s;elf;</HI> neither by Word or Writing, &s;ay I; (this is &s;ome of his &s;ubtil mental re&s;erves) for he can &s;carce make any Bargain without &s;ome hid|den underhand re&s;erve, reach or other. As for the Dunghil, he a great while after begun to &s;ay <HI>he would have one of them;</HI> I &s;aid I thought it was fit it &s;hould &s;tay upon the premi&s;es; for the other Land was &s;et to Lea&s;e, and &s;o was that it laid upon, and this was all the hindrance I made: I put no
<PB N="16" REF="9"> body off from the work, nor &s;ee no body about to take it away; neither did I convert it all to my own u&s;e, as he &s;aith, for I left a great deal of it there when I removed to the other &s;ide of the Land: however a &s;tory of a Dunghil will &s;erve to fill a Book.</P>
<P>Charge 7. <Q>Yate Bars, and other materials, with Boards of divers &s;orts, and Wain Axletrees, left in <HI>Carletons</HI> cu&s;tody, were by him, his Servants or Workmen wa&s;ted, de&s;troyed, and made a|way, and how he &s;uffered his Carpenter to cut &s;ome of the &s;ea&s;oned Axletrees, and made Helves of it for Axes, Augures and Chi&s;&s;els; Yate Bars and Boards were di&s;po&s;ed of for &s;everal u&s;es for the &s;aid <HI>Carleton,</HI> &s;ome whereof <HI>Wright</HI> &s;aw cut to repair a pailed Fence, which <HI>Carleton</HI> or &s;ome of his family had either burnt or carele&s;ly lo&s;t for want of a Pin, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> In this Charge is couched &s;everal Lies or &s;ubtil A&s;&s;ertions; one Yate Bar and two Boards I made u&s;e of in the Parlor Chimney to break the wind off the Fire when my Wife was &s;ick, and this by him or his Wife is reputed little le&s;s then fellony, though I have often profered either to pay or return them; and all my Servants, People or Workmen that he can in&s;tance in his &s;ubtil and large Charge, is only a Carpenter that cut a piece of a &s;lit A&s;h for Chi&s;&s;el Helves, neither for Ax nor Au|gur that I know of; nor was it a &s;ea&s;oned Axle|tree, as he &s;aith, only a &s;lit A&s;h &s;ea&s;oned without door under the drop of a Hou&s;e Eves, where for ought I know it and its fellows &s;tood till &s;ome of them were rotten. And as for the Gate Bars and
<PB N="17" REF="9"> Boards he &s;aw cut to repair a pailed Fence, which <HI>Carleton</HI> or his family (why not &s;ome, or no bo|dy) had either burnt or lo&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> This is another of his witting and wilful lies, for he knew in his Con&s;cience this was a Lie; for the man that prepared the pailed Fence, did confe&s;s it to him before my face in <HI>Jo. Newbies</HI> hou&s;e in <HI>Dublin,</HI> that he did it when the Arbitration was; and he knew long before, that mo&s;t of this Charge, and &s;everal others, was fal&s;e, and wilfully (contrary to his own knowledge) laid again&s;t me; for the parties he knew that had confe&s;&s;ed to him &s;ome years before, that they did tho&s;e things unknown to me, and for their own private concernes, and not mine; and &s;till he wilfully and wicked|ly lays them to my charge; and what had I to do to drive a Pin in dry weather; it was another mans Fence; another man let it fall down, and another man made it up; and this he knew well enough; but who is &s;o wicked as them that pre|&s;umptuou&s;ly &s;ins again&s;t their own knowledge, as this man in many things hath done, which I am able to prove by more te&s;timonies than my own? yet who is &s;o oily and &s;mooth to &s;trangers as <HI>Will. Wright?</HI></P>
<P>Charge 8. Is about Twenty &s;hillings mi&s;take in Accounts, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Upon the ballancing of Accounts in <HI>Thomas-&s;treet,</HI> as he &s;aith, there I an&s;wered all he could charge (and more then I thought was due) and he was then, and is yet, Four &s;hillings in my debt; and after, he comes over again with this, I have bid him oft make it appear ju&s;t and due
<PB N="18" REF="10"> and I would pay it him, though I know it was &s;een in his Pocket-book put down with his own hand, that I paid it once to his own Ditchers, and that one would think was often enough.</P>
<P>But in &s;hort, let him produce &s;uch Papers and Bonds which he long &s;ince took away from me, whereby all tho&s;e Accounts may be examined, and this &s;hall be rectified, for I have no rea&s;on to pay it twice.</P>
<P>Charge 9. Is about &s;erving a Writ upon one of his Tenants for a Bundle of Wattles, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> This is another lie; for I gave the man leave to get Wattles; in his Charge to the Arbi|trators he calls them Two penny worth, here he &s;aith a Bundle; I believe it was &s;everal Bundles, for it was as many as wattled two Chimnies; for that I did not &s;erve the Writ, but for Injuries, Tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, &s;ome ju&s;t Debts and other abu&s;es I &s;erved a Writ upon him and &s;ome others which I never repented to this day; and I never &s;erved another, neither was I ever &s;erved with any upon my own account (&s;ave once for Tithes) in <HI>Eng|land</HI> nor <HI>Ireland</HI> in all my life; and I have dealt and exchanged &s;everal hundreds of Pounds be|fore I dealt with him, <HI>ergo</HI> not &s;o much given to vexatious Suits as him&s;elf; &s;o if &s;erving a Writ be any error or &s;in, I believe his Con&s;cience is far more defiled with that &s;in than mine is; witne&s;s his many letigious Suits for many years in mo&s;t of the Courts in <HI>Dublin.</HI> Then he tells a tale of Nuts; I never had a Nut upon any &s;uch account: but I think, as him&s;elf &s;aith in his Book
<PB N="19" REF="10"> concerning the Arbitrators, he is drunk, but no with Wine.</P>
<P>Charge 10. Is but the 4th over again to make them numerous, and fill a Book, or el&s;e the man forgot him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Charge 11. <Q><HI>Thomas Carleton</HI> &s;aid to <HI>James Eu|&s;tace</HI> one of <HI>Wrights</HI> Tenants, that his Landlord would &s;erve him as he &s;erved &s;ixteen poor men in the County of <HI>Catherlough,</HI> who were in|dicted upon <HI>Wrights</HI> account, and he let them all go to Pri&s;on, and never regarded them, but they were glad to &s;hift for them&s;elves, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> This is an ab&s;olute Forgery as it is laid down; for I never heard of &s;o many being in|indicted, nor of any one of them going to Pri|&s;on; what I had was from <HI>William Wright</HI> his own mouth in <HI>Carloe</HI> &s;treets, I believe he told me then of nine, I am certain I never &s;poke of their going to Pri&s;on, neither of &s;o many being indicted. I &s;ometimes tell what I hear, but ne|ver what I hear not, nor know not; I remem|ber I told <HI>Eu&s;tace</HI> (who then came as he &s;aid by <HI>W. Wrights</HI> order to dig Turf upon my Land, and he came to my bed &s;ide where I was lying lame to tell me what he intended to do,) &s;o I charged him not to do it without my leave, for he had no Land there; I told him there were &s;everal poor men indicted upon his account at <HI>Carloe,</HI> and I bid him not be &s;o confident, for if I &s;hould indict him for it, it might be he would not bear him out, but leave him to &s;nift for him&s;elf; and upon this he forged that &s;tory again&s;t me;
<PB N="20" REF="11"> and this is the &s;um of all the Reproaches, Scan|dals and Lies with which he hath &s;o often &s;tuffed the leaves and lines of his Book, which he &s;eems to lay down as the fir&s;t motive of all our diffe|rences; &s;o now let the Reader judge. But I I know there was another thing was the occa|&s;ion of all, which had I an&s;wered, all the&s;e things had never been alledged, nor the world never heard &s;o much of our difference; and that was my refu&s;ing to turn Tenant to his Son <HI>Ebenezer,</HI> who came with a Deed of Gift from his Father, in which Deed of Gift he mentioned all the con|veyances of the Rever&s;ions of that Lea&s;e by which he holds <HI>Ballinicargie,</HI> and by which he &s;ets it to me; I &s;ay he makes a recital of all to him&s;elf, but makes no mention of me or any other Tenant upon the Land, neither binds his Son to perform any Covenant of his to the pre|&s;ent Tenants, and after re&s;erves power to him|&s;elf to revoke or di&s;anul the &s;ame Deed of Gift at any time hereafter by giving his &s;aid Son a Twenty &s;hilling piece of Gold; which had I done, and once altered my property, I &s;uppo&s;e I might then have been Tenant at will, and re|pented at my lei&s;ure: &s;o becau&s;e I would not be taken in this &s;nare have produced all the&s;e occa|&s;ions; and &s;ince that, in a Letter I have yet to &s;how under his own hand, he &s;aith he made it his bu&s;ine&s;s both in City and Country to inform him&s;elf what I had &s;aid again&s;t him; &s;o that it &s;eems he wanted occa&s;ion till then. So now let the world judge what u&s;age I have had, or am like to have.</P>
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<P>Charge 12. <Q>But to aggravate his reflecting malice again&s;t <HI>Wright, &s;aith he,</HI> he &s;aid to <HI>Tho|mas Booth</HI> that his Landlord would &s;erve him as he &s;erved <HI>Francis Thornhill,</HI> to whom, <HI>&s;aith he, Wright</HI> never did the la&s;t injury to the value of a farthing.</Q></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Whether I might &s;ay any &s;uch thing to <HI>Booth</HI> I do not well remember. I examined <HI>Booth</HI> and he denied once or twice that he told him a|ny &s;uch thing, but &s;ince I perceive he does &s;ay it; but in &s;hort <HI>Francis Thornhill</HI> complains loud enough of the wrongs he had by him, which I &s;hall not now argue: but to &s;trengthen his Plea again&s;t me he went to <HI>Francis Thornhill</HI> to get &s;omething under his hand to clear him, who told him he had rather his Hand was cut off then ever it &s;hould do &s;uch a thing, This I had &s;ince from <HI>Francis Thornhill</HI> his own mouth.</P>
<P>In page 9. he demands &s;atisfaction for advi&s;|ing <HI>Thomas Booth</HI> to dig Turf in his Meadow; there is but a Ditch between it and my Bog, and though it was once laid up for Meadow, it was &s;o bad that it is now turned to pa&s;ture again as mine is, and for ought I know was as good Bog and as fit for Turf as mine is.</P>
<P>And further he &s;aith, I &s;aid this to aggravate my reflecting malice again&s;t <HI>Wright, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>What I &s;aid to <HI>Booth</HI> (if ever I &s;aid it) was long before, for ought I know a year or years before I hindred <HI>Eu&s;tace</HI> to dig Turf; but if I &s;hould reckon what provocations and aggravations he
<PB N="22" REF="12"> hath given me, of far greater moment then this, I might make large Volumes; whether it was not malice in him to keep all the&s;e things in &s;tore, and read them among&s;t his familiars over his Cups in an Ale-hou&s;e.</P>
<P>In page 8. he &s;aith <Q>He hath put down but about half, and what he hath put down is all true:</Q> So here the World has his word for it, believe it that will; when any one has tried him &s;o far as I, then they will know better what to believe.</P>
<P>Further, <Q>He &s;aith he hath left out nine or ten for brevity &s;ake:</Q> But rather for want of being true, &s;ay I.</P>
<P>Page 9 and 10. He makes a repitition of 8 or 9 of them over again; only I &s;uppo&s;e either to make his Book or my Crime bigger.</P>
<P>Next thing I take notice of is page 17. <Q>where, <HI>he &s;aith,</HI> he had &s;et one hundred forty Acres of <HI>Ballynicargie</HI> to <HI>Stephen Racks</HI> and <HI>Robert James</HI> &s;even years before ever <HI>Carleton</HI> was concern|ed, which, <HI>&s;aith he,</HI> if I had let to <HI>Carleton</HI> were to bring an old hou&s;e over my head, and I were a fool and a mad man.</Q></P>
<P>Who would think &s;uch a man that is &s;o &s;erious, and &s;tands &s;o much upon his reputation, and pro|fe&s;&s;es &s;o much hone&s;ty, truth, and ju&s;t dealing in words, could be contradicted.</P>
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<P>For &s;uch a Fool &amp; a Madman is <HI>William Wright,</HI> for all his vapor of &s;eeming hone&s;ty, that he &s;et forty Acres of that &s;ame one hundred forty to <HI>Thomas Trafford</HI> but one year before <HI>Carleton</HI> was concerned with all that <HI>Carleton</HI> now holds, took his earne&s;t, drew Articles, hath his earne&s;t yet, but to this day would never perform his Bargain. See what hone&s;ty is here; Is not this to bring an old hou&s;e over his head? &s;o now &s;ee the impudence of the man. For further &s;atisfa|ction take <HI>Thomas Traffords</HI> Certificate.</P>
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<P>I do hereby certifie that <HI>William Wright</HI> did &s;et to me in the Year 1678. all the Lands of <HI>Ballynicargie</HI> that <HI>Thomas Carleton</HI> now holds, and 40 Acres more which he hath &s;ince &s;et to <HI>Stephen Racks</HI> and <HI>Robert James;</HI> I drew an Article of our bargain, and I was to have a Lea&s;e accordingly for a con&s;iderable number of years, and was to pay Thirty five Pounds <HI>per Annum,</HI> but to this day I could not have my bargain, (which I can make ap|pear was worth one hundred Pounds) but hath &s;huffled me off from time to time, in hopes to make more of it. And I can tru|ly &s;ay it was not my &s;eeking, but he and
<PB N="24" REF="13"> his Wife did often urge it upon me; if this be hone&s;t dealing let the impartial Reader judge.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my Hand
<DATE>the &s;econd of the 4th. Month called <HI>June,</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Tho. Trafford.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>And again <HI>Thomas An&s;loe</HI> who here before hath certified, did treat with him about them forty Acres, and &s;o did <HI>Carleton</HI> him&s;elf; that very time that <HI>Carleton</HI> and he bargained, and the Lea&s;e to the&s;e two men was but made after <HI>Carleton</HI> came there, for he had the peru&s;al of it before it was &s;ealed; &s;o if he had &s;et them &s;e|ven years before (which he knows is not true) as he hath lately confe&s;&s;ed; then &s;uch a Fool and a Madman was he as &s;et them over again to one, and treat about them with two more that very Spring <HI>Carleton</HI> was concerned: So his ea&s;ie&s;t and &s;afe&s;t way to come off, is hone&s;tly to con|fe&s;s he hath wittingly and wilfully printed a lie.</P>
<P>But, and if he had &s;et this Land twice, it was but as he did about the Timber, and when I pleaded the Covenant of my Lea&s;e, then he for|ged that Lie, that I deceitfully put it in; and having forged it, mu&s;t per&s;i&s;t to maintain and publi&s;h it in print; and this &s;nare of the Devil he is fallen into.</P>
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<P>Page 22. He &s;ays <Q>I never did &s;o much as de|mand a &s;tick of Timber, to the be&s;t of his re|membrance.</Q> And yet in page 23 he half grants it; however, I do affirm I did do it, and can bring witne&s;s of it if need be, (which is more than I was bound to do by Covenant) I asked him for Timber to repair the old Man&s;ion-Hou&s;e; he bid me let it go down: I de&s;ired him give me &s;omething under his Hand to keep me undamnified, upon which he turned away from me as his manner is.</P>
<P>Page 26. He &s;aith, <Q>the Arbitrators were par|tial, and awarded for <HI>Carleton,</HI> and again&s;t him, who&s;e charge, <HI>&s;aith he,</HI> again&s;t your Brother <HI>Carleton</HI> was every word true.</Q> See how po&s;i|tive the man is in his own commendation; I grant it might &s;eem &s;o till <HI>Carleton</HI> was heard, for he knows how to &s;et a &s;mooth face upon a bad matter: But the truth of his twelve Charges I now recommend to every impartial Reader to judge of. And if the&s;e twelve, of his head choice, or rather ill choice where there is no better, be &s;o fal&s;e and frivolous, what can any one &s;uppo&s;e his other nine or ten may be which he forbears to mention, I &s;uppo&s;e from a con&s;ciou&s;ne&s;s in him&s;elf of their fal&s;hood and impertinency.</P>
<P>Page 30. He &s;aith <Q>Covetou&s;ne&s;s would not &s;uffer <HI>Carleton</HI> to be content.</Q> He &s;hould have taken that to him&s;elf; for <HI>Carleton</HI> was content well enough if he could have enjoyed that which he paid hone&s;tly for, and paid before hand too, and can make it appear, (if it were not for being tedious both to my &s;elf and the Reader) for I con|fe&s;s
<PB N="26" REF="14"> this kind of work is not plea&s;ant, but that I am engaged in my own and the Truths defence to take away tho&s;e blots and &s;tains he by his book of lies &amp; bables would be&s;patter me &amp; my Princi|ples with before the World; but for that, and for giving &s;atisfaction to divers who waits to &s;ee what I will &s;ay for my &s;elf before they conclude me guilty of all. I could have &s;at &s;ilent, with a quiet and clear Con&s;cience, notwith&s;tanding all he hath done, and could have left Judgment and Vengeance to the Lord, who will one day give true judgment between him and me. I &s;ay I can make appear how he hath endeavoured (af|ter he hath got my mony) to demini&s;h my bar|gain every year &s;ince I came there; &s;o it is cove|tou&s;ne&s;s in him will not let me enjoy &s;everal par|ticular things which I bargained for (though he was paid for five years before hand) which I am able to prove. It is covetou&s;ne&s;s in him will not let him keep his Word, Bond, or Bill of Arbitra|ment under Hand &amp; Seal to &s;tand to the judgment of four men, of whom he in a manner begged that &s;ervice, both by words and a Letter yet to be &s;een. When I and <HI>John Burnyet</HI> did often de|&s;ire him to take men of other Judgments; and when they have not an&s;wered his covetous, will, then a&s;per&s;e and abu&s;e them at this rate, &s;o far as either Tongue, Pen or Print can go: So I would have all warned how they arbitrate for him lea&s;t they come under the &s;ame doom.</P>
<P>And further, for all this great complaint he ca&s;ts upon them, as being no Chri&s;tians, but de|luded, and men led with a &s;pirit of delu&s;ion, wor&s;e then Turks, Jews or Infidels, and &s;aith they
<PB N="27" REF="14"> wanted nothing but <HI>Canibals</HI> teeth to have eaten him up, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and all this from varying very little from his own coun&s;el and advice, as may be &s;een in his Letter, page the 13th. which rightly con&s;idered by judicial and impartial Readers, doth con&s;ound and make void a great part of his own Book, and of his large complaints, both again&s;t them and <HI>Carleton;</HI> for by their Award they an&s;wered his own mind and de&s;ire in every thing &s;ave two.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t, they orderered two Surveyors to be equally cho&s;en, and what Acres they do find over and above 184 <HI>Carleton</HI> was to pay proportionable as he doth for the re&s;t; and <HI>Wright</HI> would have it quite off from <HI>Carleton,</HI> not allowing him it for payment.</P>
<P>The &s;econd thing was, that <HI>Wright</HI> mu&s;t pay both the Surveyors. This is all they have varied from his own coun&s;el and advice; and yet &s;ee how he exclaims and renders them.</P>
<P>Can it be paralleled for many Generations, that a man out of meer malice and envy, for &s;uch trivial impertinent occa&s;ions &s;hould traduce men (that even three days before he pitched upon for hone&s;ty and fidelity, and as he grants could have put his life in their hands; but &s;ure if they had cau&s;ed one finger to bleed he would &s;oon have changed his note;) &s;hould I &s;ay traduce men &s;o hatefully to the World? So we may &s;ee what &s;ome mens fair tongues and profe&s;&s;ion is worth; and though he &s;ay they gave more heed to <HI>Carletons</HI> lies (and yet cannot prove he told
<PB N="28" REF="15"> them one) then to his ju&s;t and true Complaints, whereas indeed they gave heed to his own coun|&s;el in his own Letter, which was, that if <HI>Carleton</HI> would wave his Complaints he would wave his, as is to be &s;een page 13. of his Book. And if they had been Men that would have been bia&s;&s;ed and led by the No&s;e either by him or <HI>Carleton:</HI> they were not fit for Arbitrators, but &s;uch as he that (will have their own will or nothing) &s;hould take &s;ome ba&s;e Sons of <HI>Belial,</HI> and no hone&s;t up|right men for Arbitrators; for I remember he told the Me&s;&s;engers that delivered the Award up|on the fir&s;t &s;ight that he would &s;pend one hun|dred Pounds upon <HI>Carleton,</HI> but he would have it as he would have it.</P>
<P>Al&s;o further at <HI>Wicklow</HI> Se&s;&s;ions about the be|ginning of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t <HI>Thomas Trafford,</HI> and he and I di&s;cour&s;ing of our differencs at the Se&s;&s;i|ons Hou&s;e door before divers of the Country, I then and there proffered him what&s;oever diffe|rences were between us I was willing to abide of any two Ju&s;tices upon the Bench; his an&s;wer was, he would abide the Judgment of never a Ju|&s;tice in the Country.</P>
<P>But now take <HI>Wrights</HI> re&s;olution or conclu&s;i|on, or to &s;peak his own phra&s;e, his pretty Rhime and Rea&s;on, which is worth the noting, <HI>viz.</HI> if <HI>Carleton</HI> had continued to have been &s;o kind as he was the fir&s;t two or three years, <HI>viz.</HI> made him welcome to Meat and Drink &s;everal Weeks at a time, and &s;everal times in a year which is again&s;t my di&s;po&s;ition (both in truth and nature) to mention or upbraid him with, but that he
<PB N="29" REF="15"> &s;eems to boa&s;t how well he hath &s;atisfied me, it may be he would not have printed this &s;candalous Book, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But this the Reader may note in his Book, or I &s;hall note it for him, that during that two or three years kindne&s;s he even then gathered up the&s;e impertinent crimes again&s;t me, and kept them to this u&s;e, either in a dirty Heart or Clo&s;et, and never had that moral civility to acquaint me in the lea&s;t with many of them until he brought them before the Arbitrators; and yet he el&s;e|where &s;ays he thinks he &s;atisfied me: If this be his good &s;atisfaction and gratifying kindne&s;&s;es re|ceived I have enough and am over paid; this I ac|knowledge to the whole world, other &s;atisfaction I had none, &s;ave one Barrel of Rye that I re|member.</P>
<P>La&s;tly what I have here writ and committed to print, is but to an&s;wer his high and fal&s;e charg|es, and to take off tho&s;e loud and large exclama|tions and complaints, or rather bundle of lies, whereby he de&s;igns to render me and my Prin|ciples odious to the World, and thereby gratifie his wilful and malicious humour; but I &s;ee the Lord hath bla&s;ted it already, before I put pen to paper. Wi&s;e men, and men of under&s;tanding of &s;everal profe&s;&s;ions and ranks &s;ees through it and beyond it, and doth very much condemn the mans conceited folly, thinking he had been wi&s;er then to have committed &s;uch a bundle of bables to print. However, for &s;atisfying of weaker capacities who may not have &s;o deep in&s;pection into things of that nature, but may
<PB N="24" REF="16"> conclude, all mu&s;t be true, becau&s;e he hath a&s;|&s;erted it in print: I &s;ay, as for clearing my inno|cency both as to per&s;on and principles, I have done what here I have done. And notwith&s;tand|ing all the provocation he hath given me, &s;hall not yet (as he hath done) commit to print the ma|ny injuries and wrongs I have received from him for the&s;e 5 years la&s;t pa&s;t, which had I known the mans temper &s;o well before as I do now, I &s;hould never have concerned my &s;elf &s;o much with him; for even in the time of my greate&s;t kind|ne&s;s to him (as he him&s;elf hath confe&s;t) when he &s;at very kind and familiar at my Table, and by my fire &s;ide, yet even then did he gather and pick up, or otherwi&s;e forge the&s;e impertinent crimes again&s;t me for want of weightier matters; &s;o that the world may &s;ee the hollowne&s;s of the man; &s;o that from my heart I have rea&s;on to thank God I have &s;o well e&s;caped his &s;nares, (for <HI>anguis &s;ub her|ba latet.</HI>) And from &s;uch I de&s;ire the Lord my God may ever pre&s;erve me, that they that waits for, and &s;eeks occa&s;ion as he hath done, may be di&s;appointed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thomas Carleton.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Written at <HI>Ballynicargie</HI> <DATE>the 4th. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> Month, vulgarly <HI>June,</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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