An
Answer
to
a
Printed
Paper
called
The
Lord
Craven's
Case
.
THe
many
Reasons
offered
for
Reading
the
Lord
Craven's
Petition
in
order
to
his
relief
,
whereby
the
Honour
and
Justice
of
the
Parliament
is
endeavoured
to
be
aspersed
,
and
the
security
of
the
Purchaser
,
endeavoured
to
be
weakned
,
in
short
are
these
:
That
the
Resolve
of
Parliament
(
March
1650
)
declared
that
he
was
an
Offender
,
within
an
Irish
Resolve
grounded
upon
Letters
from
Sir
Charles
Coote
,
and
that
his
Estate
was
confiscate
,
the
same
moment
the
Information
was
read
against
him
.
Without
-
Charge
.
-
Impeachment
.
-
Legall
Summons
.
-
Or
,
Hearing
.
Four
moneths
after
Confiscation
there
was
a
Resolve
in
the
nature
of
a
Summons
dated
in
July
1651.
requiring
an
appearance
Septemper
following
.
Several
Petitions
in
his
behalf
read
in
Parliament
before
passing
the
Bill
of
Sale
,
offering
to
prove
one
Fawkner
the
single
witnesse
upon
which
the
Confiscation
was
grounded
.
That
Fawkner
was
afterwards
convicted
of
Perjury
in
the
Upper-Bench
upon
that
deposition
,
and
that
Fawkner
was
a
debauched
Person
.
That
Fawkner
since
the
Conviction
,
upon
his
death
he
confessed
himself
perjured
in
that
particular
,
and
some
Paper
to
that
purpose
.
That
the
Lord
Craven
hath
made
several
Addresses
for
relief
ever
since
the
long
Parliament
.
That
most
of
the
Purchasers
have
had
such
beneficiall
Bargains
,
as
that
they
have
already
re-imbursed
themselves
the
purchase
money
.
That
the
last
Parliament
were
pleased
to
hear
the
Case
at
their
House
,
and
that
it
did
not
take
up
above
an
hour
and
halfes
time
,
and
nothing
then
offered
against
the
Proceeding
of
the
Parliament
,
but
the
Journals
of
Parliament
,
Fawkner's
Conviction
and
his
death-bed
Confession
.
The
State
of
the
Lord
Craven's
Case
,
of
which
there
hath
been
so
much
talk
and
clamour
,
fomented
by
all
manner
of
Persons
disaffected
to
the
Government
,
to
the
great
scandal
of
the
Publique
Justice
of
this
Nation
,
is
in
short
but
this
:
(
viz.
)
By
an
Act
of
Parliament
,
the
Lord
Craven's
Estate
,
August
.
4.
1652.
amongst
several
other
Delinquents
was
exposed
to
Sale
,
to
satisfie
the
Publique
engagements
of
this
Nation
;
in
pursuance
whereof
,
there
was
sold
as
much
of
his
Estate
,
as
the
purchase
money
amounts
to
almost
Two
Hundred
and
Fifty
Thousand
Pounds
,
and
was
conveyed
to
above
Five
Hundred
Original
Purchasers
,
dispersed
in
several
parts
of
the
Nation
,
and
since
conveyed
to
divers
other
Persons
:
all
which
have
been
in
possession
ever
since
.
All
which
Sales
are
endeavoured
to
be
avoided
,
upon
the
Reasons
aforementioned
of
which
every
one
will
receive
a
full
and
satisfactory
Answer
.
To
say
that
a
Resolve
of
Parliament
there
was
called
an
Irish
Resolve
,
is
grounded
upon
Letters
from
Sir
Charles
Coote
,
the
Particulars
of
these
also
not
appearing
,
is
a
bold
and
confident
Assertion
,
and
certainly
not
true
;
because
it
is
likewise
mentioned
,
that
other
Informations
were
read
in
against
him
:
it
seems
so
clear
an
evidence
of
his
delinquency
,
that
it
produced
that
immediate
Resolve
of
the
House
,
so
much
complained
of
.
As
to
the
second
,
What
Delinquent
was
there
in
any
of
the
three
Acts
that
had
any
Formal
Charge
,
Impeachment
,
Legall
Summons
,
or
Hearing
,
that
appears
upon
the
File
in
Parliament
,
against
any
of
them
;
And
yet
here
it
appears
by
their
own
shewing
,
there
was
both
Charge
and
Informations
;
and
more
appears
against
the
Lord
Craven
then
against
all
the
Delinquents
in
the
three
Acts.
It
appears
by
their
own
third
and
fourth
Reasons
,
that
before
the
Bill
of
Sale
passed
in
1652.
there
was
Summons
sent
out
;
which
undeniably
appears
,
(
by
his
correspondency
with
Agents
here
,
and
his
taking
notice
of
every
passage
)
did
come
to
his
knowledge
,
and
several
Petitions
preferred
in
his
behalf
;
several
long
debates
in
Parliament
,
betwixt
the
first
Resolve
and
the
Bill
,
being
near
two
years
time
,
and
the
most
part
of
that
offered
before
the
Bill
of
Sale
,
that
have
or
can
be
offered
since
.
As
to
the
fith
and
fixth
Reasons
,
all
grounded
upon
false
Supposals
,
that
the
Confiscation
and
Bill
of
Sale
,
was
only
grounded
upon
the
depositions
of
Fawkner
:
It
is
most
clearly
otherwise
,
there
being
no
lesse
then
the
Informations
of
seaven
other
Persons
,
(
viz.
)
Kitchinam
,
Roley
,
Benson
,
Mawbray
,
Drury
,
Briscoe
and
Bradsey
,
all
produced
in
Parliament
against
him
,
besides
what
might
be
offered
by
every
individuall
Member
,
impossible
now
to
be
known
.
And
besides
all
this
,
in
May
1651.
there
is
an
Appeal
from
the
Justice
of
the
Parliament
made
on
his
behalf
,
to
the
States
of
Holland
,
and
sent
over
hither
by
our
Embassadours
then
there
,
and
read
in
Parliament
the
sixth
of
June
1651.
which
adds
a
further
Charge
:
So
as
to
lay
all
the
ground
and
stresse
of
the
Bill
of
Sale
upon
the
single
Evidence
of
Fawkner
only
,
must
needs
be
a
wilfull
mistake
,
in
the
Publisher
of
the
Printed
Paper
.
As
to
the
Conviction
of
Fawkners
perjury
,
which
was
only
in
the
words
barbarous
and
inhumane
Rebels
,
and
his
Confession
since
,
although
admitting
it
should
be
true
,
it
hath
not
such
weight
in
the
case
,
yet
how
easie
it
is
to
convict
the
truth
of
perjury
by
such
Witnesses
as
were
then
produced
against
Fawkner
.
By
a
Jury
who
seldom
had
any
affectation
to
such
as
had
purchased
Delinquents
Lands
,
where
they
had
the
least
latitude
of
Evidence
to
find
against
them
,
cannot
be
unknown
to
any
person
that
hath
been
much
acquainted
with
businesse
this
seaven
years
last
past
.
As
to
his
Confession
since
his
Conviction
,
if
he
were
such
a
person
as
they
would
render
him
upon
his
tryal
;
It
's
a
wonder
they
should
lay
so
much
weight
upon
his
Confession
,
since
,
so
as
he
that
was
a
Devil
before
to
do
them
mischief
,
must
now
be
made
a
Saint
to
serve
their
turns
;
and
whither
a
long
Imprisonment
at
their
mercy
,
and
such
continual
solicitations
as
he
must
needs
have
,
when
so
great
an
Estate
lay
at
stake
,
as
they
thought
upon
his
Testimony
only
;
whether
these
might
not
work
as
much
with
a
necessitous
person
,
as
his
pretended
terror
of
conscience
:
it
certainly
may
without
the
least
breach
of
Charity
,
be
fit
to
be
cosidered
.
The
seaventh
makes
strongly
against
the
receiving
any
Petition
in
the
Lord
Craven's
Case
;
for
if
there
have
been
so
many
Addresses
to
all
those
several
Powers
and
Parliaments
ever
since
the
Bill
of
Sale
,
to
the
great
charge
and
trouble
of
the
Purchasers
,
and
the
great
disparagement
of
their
Title
:
And
all
their
Petitions
and
Addresses
have
from
time
to
time
proved
altogether
ineffectual
.
It
is
certainly
a
plain
Evidence
of
the
unjustnesse
and
unreasonablenesse
of
their
desires
,
so
that
there
is
no
Justice
to
relieve
them
.
The
Eighth
is
utterly
denyed
,
the
Purchasers
generally
professing
,
and
many
of
them
ready
to
make
it
appear
,
they
have
not
as
yet
received
their
very
Interest
money
;
and
that
by
reason
of
the
continual
claim
and
pretences
that
are
made
by
the
Lord
Craven
and
his
Friends
,
they
are
altogether
disabled
,
either
to
sell
,
Mortgage
,
settle
or
dispose
of
their
Estates
,
upon
such
Advantages
,
and
tearms
as
other
men
may
;
so
as
in
truth
,
they
are
no
such
beneficial
Purchases
as
is
pretended
:
However
,
they
having
already
born
the
greatest
hazards
,
and
furnished
the
Commonwealth
with
Money
,
at
their
greatest
Extreamities
,
do
humbly
conceive
,
that
it
will
be
thought
very
reasonable
,
they
should
enjoy
their
Bargains
,
no
defects
either
natural
or
accidental
,
being
certainly
any
way
to
be
alledged
to
be
in
the
supream
Council
of
the
Nation
.
As
to
the
last
,
the
hearing
in
the
last
Parliament
,
what
was
done
the
Purchasers
knew
not
,
few
of
them
having
notice
,
and
no
defence
made
;
but
certainly
the
Lord
Craven
nor
his
Friends
can
resonably
expect
or
imagine
,
that
this
present
Honourable
House
of
Parliament
should
so
little
Esteem
the
Acts
of
their
Predecessours
,
or
the
Purchasers
so
slightly
neglect
their
Interests
,
many
of
their
whole
Estates
and
Portunes
depending
upon
that
Title
,
as
to
have
an
Act
of
Parliament
declared
to
be
unjust
;
and
the
Purchasers
ruined
in
so
short
a
time
,
or
upon
so
slender
an
Evidence
,
as
is
intimated
by
the
Printed
Paper
.
FINIS
.