A new LIGHT-HOUSE AT MILFORD FOR The Great Pilots of England, for their safety, as well to avoid the unremovable Rock Eliot from their door, HERE.  
As to beware of the Bishop and his Clerks, near their Harbour THERE.  
Printed for the AUTHOR. 1650.   

To every Individual Member of England's supreme Authority.  
Honoured Sir,  
IF I had thought it possible and convenient for one of my strength and distance to have made a particular account of the ensuing return to every Member of your great Assembly, I would have sent it with their names to their lodgings, because it doth as nearly concern them as their rest and safety there; but finding that task too great, and my acquaintance so little with any, but a few of them, I am bold to single but some Gentlemen, who do either know me, or that have ever spoken a word in favour of a business so just, or that have been abused to a belief of the contrary, or in whom I have observed by some ocul●r experience, that they will countenance an honest cause, though it be weak, and smitten to the ground. That they will plead for it in formâ pauperis, and that will lend their abilities of grace and nature, to extricate and free the simplicity thereof from all the winding intricacies of subtle adversaries, and the powerful secret knittings together of crafty men.  
I am importunately bold to entreat you, Honoured Sirs, for the Commonwealth of England's sake, and for the oppressed Commons sake, against all Eliotizing monopolizers, and against such as do engross great friends, and good causes, to make sale of both again, that you would offer to Mr. Speaker these my humble observations, and a few of my many sad experiences, together with the sum of my SLOW return, following next unto this my address to you. As also the mixture of my fears and s●g●s thereupon; That,  
Recriminations among fellow servants, when they be loud, do claim to be taken notice of by such Honourable Courts, and persons, as do prize their Honour at any good rate, for when such attendants do throw foul aspersions upon each other, and in their Master's presence in the palace, or if it be cast abroad at their doors, or in the L●●●y, some unseemly spots of those Aspersions do usually fall upon the Parliament Robes of their Masters, both in the evil eye, and by the biting tongue of such beholders as do malign (and to others it can be no pleasing sight) and that do wish ill to the weal of that FAMILY; especially if that FAMILY be political and great, not economical and less, or if that Family be a COMMONWEALTH as yours is, not a kingdom as yours was, there will be many evil eyes indeed, that will fountain out into streames●f laughing and rejoicing tears at such a sight, to observe so gross and public a discovery of cross humours and dangerous diseases in your body politic, your New commonwealth; diseases that be so dangerously intricate, and contrary to each other, that what doth heal a less distemper, is the heightening of a greater danger, if greater heed be not taken by MEN of greatest skill.  
There be notes taken, Honoured Sirs, by such as do constantly pay you, and the Commonwealths REPRESENTATIVE, greatest Tribute of duty and of sincere love to their just proceedings, and by myself also who have a full note book, and who have given up my life as freely, and is as nearly bound up with yours in the public adventures (let Mr. Eliot libel) as any one man in England; and from those notes thus taken, I do observe unto you (and I know the wisdom of the STATE do more then strongly suspect it) that the Parliament have now a more mixed number of writers then ever they had; some foolishly thinking that the COMMONWEALTH is dying, and therefore do catch what they can (that's Mr. Eliot's case;) it is thought he would not have made such a simple bargain else, in buying and selling 10000l. worth of suspected debentures so easily, if he were not of that dangerous opinion, having so much money, and having had so good trading.  
Others know, f●●se enough, if they be outed of their present employment, yet they have learning and knowledge to give new intelligence to new visitors and inquisitors, when times should alter; and they know too where, to be entertained, though for the when, they are to seek.  
Sir, I do beseech you to inquire whether Mr. Eliot did ever make a motion against Judge Jenkins he hath made many against those that were judged, and to be judged to death by this Judge I do undertake Mr. Eliot may have ample testimony of his good affection to the State from the Parliaments greatest enemies in Wares, and from some that be fled into France too; for Sir, hath he turned so oft for nothing? And hath he been their Solicitor general for nothing? And hath he brought them off from their malignity for a bare Fee. Indeed Gentlemen, he is not such a fool neither. He doth not move 〈◊〉 nothing; a collop will not serve his turn, though he libels that it may serve the 〈◊〉 of others.  
Sir, This pit is deep, and there be very few (as have wives and children) that dare go thus far after him. I dare go thus far, and I would undertake to bring it before the Sun (but that I cannot be at the charge) that Mr. Eliot's good affection to the State is (no simple, but) a very mixed and a compounded good affection to the State, and that it hath in it, more of revenge upon the Parliaments friends for beating him, and his friends, when he was an active enemy to them, than it hath of entireness to the Parliament, by whose power he was beaten; Revolters, or not Revolters, the case is all one with him; such as would not stir from their loyalty, by the first part of his cunning, shall starve for their loyalty in the height of his practice. And Sir, I can point you out the pr●●batum est, or else let me be a libeler too, and be punished for one, and let him escape, and be rewarded for all the good affection of us both.  
And Sir, there be other spectators that will be at your door too, let your wisdom do what it can to prevent them; and those have kindred, and friends, and business to do there; and they can read, Print, and spy out the differences between us, before any of YOU have leisure to read thus far; these will speak loud enough what they see, and will speak worst of the best, and ill of all, and of your GREAT ASSEMBLY too worst of all, when they get them out of the Lobby, and they will have the boldnesses to do it in Mr. Eliot's company too.  
O how will the game please your enemies, to see your wounded friends (be they sound or rotten, it matters not) bleeding in the press one against another! their names putrifying in Print! their estates wasting by delays in judgement! and no physician or chirurgeon provided to stench their wounds bleeding▪ nor yet to wash away the blood tainting, nor yet to squeeze out the corruption spreading and annoying; no, nor yet any Judge in readiness to punish the offender in four or five years attending at their doors, O how many bleeding Patients have swooned and sunk there, when but a touch would have cured them of their evil! doth not the strong man rejoice in his strength, that he is so 〈◊〉 to oppress? And will he not turn Atheist in one half turning more (if he be not there already) seeing he can thrive so by turning, and falsehood? Must not the weakest to the wall, and die of his wounds? Alas, Honoured Sir, who shall pay for the cure of truth and loyalty thus wounded by treachery and falsehood? Truly Sir, there are not a couple of such poor undone friendless wretches in the Commonwealth of England as these be, viz. The truth of things, and loyalty of persons. And what, Sir, if truth (as it is very bold) should be so daring as to strike out the teeth, and slit the nose, and put out the very eyes of falsehood by the weapon of a true discovery. Indeed, Sir, falsehood is rich (speaking truth would make it die a beggar, that it knows false enough) and by the help of truth's Apes (glozing, and feigning, and counterfeiting) it hath gotten marry friends, good men! great men! and doth it not know the way to get Ar●●…s to put in artificial eyes, the likeness of a nose, and another row or rows of counterfeit teeth, and these they find will serve their turn for a time, though truth and its discovery are resolute, not to give over until these counterfeit Mock-truths be knocked off again, and for ever, or the will lie by it for ever, until judgement relieve her, and send falsehood to its own place, to the lower gatehouse, to the lowest of all dark houses and Gate-houses. In the mean time, I would to God, there were a standing Committee to inquire speedily into things, whether they were natural or artificial, it would not be a penny charge to the Commonwealth, to put the saddle upon the right horse.  
Sir, by all these hintings upon Mr. Eliot's name, your wisdom will soon find, that there is such an unmannerly contest, as formerly there hath been between Mr. Eliot and others; so now there is such another between that Squire and my self, a Minister in Hampshire, Mr. Eliot remembers the place in his late Legend. I was bold not long since to wish well, that some truth of this Squires great falsehood to the Commonwealth might be taken notice of by the STATE (and it seems the man took cognizance of it in the same libel) because truly Sir, I do know him and his ways (I wish I had but the tith of his acquaintance, and credit to be believed in behalf of the State, though I had never a sheaf of tithe more in the Country, nor yet a penny for it; yet I comfort myself with this still, that many precious truths have been brought to light by men of no credit, obscured men at first.  
Sir, Indeed, I do know the ma●, as well as (if not better then) any man in England, not excepting the woman that gave him suck; I have endured hard travel, and have been at some cost to trace him. He again for my complaints of him, libels against me, but it is to be understood, it is upon the plea of se defendendo. Felons when they be pursued, do the same thing, though they make not the same plea: Honest men, who will adventure to catch them for the Collop of 10 li. given them by the State out of the Commonwealths Treasury, are upon their peril upon that oft-bloody plea of se defendendo made and done upon the prosecutor by the felon; by this and no other instinct (for Mr. Eliot was quiet enough before, near five years together) This Gentleman doth now take up as much dirt as he can hold in both hands, and throws it at me; that I might run in the other sid of the hedge, because he hath taken the high ways, where is dirt enough, and when he hath stood with whips and wands (like some notable great, rich, crafty beggar) these five years, whipping none but such as whipped him most when he was a Rebel against the State, and of the Array to keep Tyranny on foot still, and his dirt he keeps to throw on me, and such as myself, because he could not have me quartered by the judgement of Judge Jenkins, and Judge Turner, when the Earl of Carbery, (it was the spite of him and others▪) snatched me away from their cruel, civil, to his mild military power, being then Commander in chief for his late Majesty. (Indeed the Earl told me in his garden at Golden grove that he was Maligned much, for favouring me so much, and could do it no longer for the cry that was against me, wherein Mr. Eliot made not the least noise) so that it may be taken for a made circumstance, (if it be admitted for a proof) that Mr. Eliot's good affection to the State, (the Lord free them from many more such good affections, as his will appear to be, when the deeps be discovered) was not good affection, God knoweth, but REVENGE on those that served the State, and had good affection before him, as appears by the destruction he still works upon those that could never be driven by all his strong breaths, and Ropes, and Gi●●es, unto Revolt, by an unheard▪ of Treachery, and by many powerful Impulsives. But revolters are served in their kind (did I plead for, or justify them? for shame 〈◊〉) but they have answered the Law you have for it, ONE was shot, M. Eliot knows it. I am sorry he was principled no better. I did once suffer wrong by that man (Mr. Eliot knows it) but it was upon Mr. Eliot's Law-brothers report to wrong me of what money I had laid out, chiefly by his letter. I with Mr. Eliot were better swayed by better ends than the shot man was. I fear it much. O ye depths, be you discovered! And bring ye, out of your treasures Mr Eliot's constant good affection to the State! And all his cordial ends for their honour! ye must render these things at last, if ye do it not now, O ye depths!  
Sir, I did say, Mr. Eliot did throw dirt upon me with both hands, yet this I must say also of his Printed boldness, that it had many blushing and cleansing Parentheses in it: He doth a little hold down his head in these expressions of his, HE DID HEAR SAY, and FOR aught IT DID APPEAR, and HE IS CONFIDENT &c. that these and these things were true of Beech. (For I have seen his legend since the penning of that which followeth next.  
I could give you sir, a true Pedigrea, how that the REPORTS he speaks of were Maggots of his own, and his uncertain Ally brothers blowings, in their several and changeable postures, between the late King and the present Praliament. And for what cause their breath became so strong, I can tell too, as little to their credit as any thing that can be spoken of unthankfulness, and unworthiness, and unfaithfulness: (only I shall say little of the dead) and I need not go to Wales to prove it neither, it will be proved between Westminster and Lambeth, besides the Hands and Testimonies, I have to show that will pass the approbation of any Court or Committee, as an abstersive from his dirt. That of my conjunction with Sir John Pennington will appear nonsense. And then again, Mr. Armiger Warner (the States trusty Messenger) calls Mr. Eliot Knave, because he hath the original Warrants in his hands, which Mr. Eliot calls counterfeits, and that Beech employed Mr Warner. And for the other libelling business, in such a message at the Committee for complaints, Mr. Eliot did not think (when he libelled) how filthily that will smell against him, when I should be provided to stir it. This I affirm at present, He went out of that Committee as red (Near the matter) as the Scarlet cloak which he had then upon him, Scarlet, that was most unsuitable for his discovered unworthiness.  
Sir, I am bold without any Ifs, or and's, and without any ambiguous or shifting Parentheses; and I do hereby accuse Mr▪ Eliot (in this Bill) of as much falsehood to the State, as 8 or 10000li. and their honour amounts unto. And I do know, that his longer stay at the Parliament door, is as dangerous to particular men, as the ill success of all good friends and causes (within his reach, and within the precincts of his unlimited Agency) comes unto, if it be so, that these good men, and causes, do not strike sail to his courtesy, nor yet prove Pander to his falsehood. He hath a very blasting breath, and will be worse than a North East wind would be to the multiplying of f●●●●, and growth of Plants, both to them, and to their causes, if they will be stubborn and not submit to him. Alderman Devereux Wyatt doth know it, with a witness poor gentleman.  
Sir, This is a Truth so well known to multitudes, that I could prove it as clear as the day, but that I am crippled, and am forced to lay down. And indeed, there will be no need of me to prove it, if you would inquire after it. And if you would be so worthy, as (in behalf of the State and Commonwealth,) to command captain Grundy at his lodging at Mr. raiments in Gardiner's law, if he be not marched with his Company to serve the State. Or for captain Wyatt in the Marshalsees, or at the poor widow Hopkins house near the blue boar in Tuttle street, undone by quartering the old captain, whilst he waited here. I blush to speak how much above the greatest part of a 1000li. it hath been my cost and detriment, since I was so lightheaded as to contend with this Goliath. Friends and Enemies do know I am sober, and do speak within compass.  
I doubt men that do regard their families, and will not wound their consciences, and names, by neglecting their charges, will not easily be persuaded to tell the State of their wrongs and dishonours, men do begin to know they may buy repemtance at a cheaper rate and stay at home.  
Sir, I for my part do find it a very dirty employment, and the charge (though great) is nothing to the dirtiness of the employment, to men that desire to keep their Garments clean. Especially if they be men (as they say) of my cloth and order. Mr. Eliot hath a huge advantage, he can say so much truth, in effect, but it is to cover the falsities of his libel, that a Minister should be no striker, he presumes, he may strike, whom, and when, and where he pleases.  
Sir, the least specks and atoms of such businesses upon me, he knows, are like the droppings of hot lime upon my cloak, making me unfit for any Company. And sir, I am persuaded you may easily believe (as you know, or shall come to know of my condition, and in what rank it pleased the Parliament, to s●t me by their honourable Committee for Plundered Ministers, that not one man of a thousand would be hired for a greater sum (Than the quantity of the Collop which Mr. Eliot pleasantly talks of in his libel) to be made so dirty as his own or a hired pen and pate hath made me all along; if your wisdom should not have cast it off, nor would I have done it, sir, but that life is sweet, And I would seriously endeavour to preserve yours, and mine, from a violent drowning, during the little moment of my natural life; I do know my life to be deeply endangered in the bottom of your safety, and I do see M. Eliot boring hard, with his shadowed light in the bottom of the vessel: I do note how he doth cleave out the strong oak of your Justice (and it is that which must keep the State from sinking) by the most firm and spiny wedges of their own limbs and Members; And I do find that he doth shake hands with Parliament haters, as much as any one man in England, so near them, and more than is possible, for any professed hater of them to do, for fear of being sequestered. And I do apprehend the danger to be the greater by how much the more credit, he hath obtained of a well affected man, among so many of you.  
Sir, I do wind up my desires in this Clew: Be pleased to move that Capt. Wyatt be sent for to his poor lodging, I have named the place: And move that he may have speedy audience: And move that he may have a suit of clothes, and some refreshing victual after his weakening imprisonment: And if it stand with the wisdom of the Parliament to put a Commission into his hand for a Command at Sea: I do undertake, (and he hath undertaken enough) that he will be the same still; he will be faithful to his trust, and ●●ke an hundred ●imes, before he yield once: Mr. Eliot knoweth it, and so doth Judge Jenkins: For when those Dons came upon a Spanish design, with a half Moon to the River of Milford, the gallant old captain would not strike sail to them, but he would be, and was one of the fiery ships that did help, scatter, and sink these Welsh Spaniards, thou●h he consumed himself and his esate in the work. And doth not Don Eliot know, that though he himself took in his Spanish, and set up English Colours: And albeit he the s●m●man had obtained the Command and good opinion of a well-affected man, would the ol●blade strike to him? no, he did scorn it, though he sank twice by him, once at Westminster, and after that into the Marshalsces, because albeit he saw, that the man had the face of John Eliot Esquire, yet he plainly discovered the bloody heart, and cruel hands of Don Eliot the Spaniard.  
Your bold but loyal servant, William Beech.   

For my credit to be believed, I am bold to enter into these few degrees of comparison with Mr. Eliot.  

1 MR. Eliot is upon record at Westminster to have altered his opinion and practice towards the public four times, though there happened more alterations; He doth charge me but with one turning to Sir John Pennington, which I have to show, is a Peace of nonsense.  
2 Mr. Eliot is an Array-Committee man, and Commissione, and a solicitor against the State, I am a Minister, therefore must be no striker, that's his advantage, he may strike me, he thinks, but I may not strike him.  
3 Mr. Eliot's estate is said to be worth about 120 li. per annum in the Country, besides his practice in the City, the bounty of the Parliament had made my yearly means equal with his, if I had husbanded it so well as he.  
4 Mr. Eliot was put into the Gatehouse lately for wronging the Commonwealth 10000 li. in unlawful debentures. I have suffered imprisonments too, but they were my wrongs and troubles for the Commonwealth.  
5 When Mr. Eliot speaks or Prints his good affection to the State, he doth it to shift of his malignity, and falsehood and to weaken the Parliaments friends, and to divide them, and to scatter them, for which he thinks he may live to have thanks; but my good wishes that way have been still published, not of revenge, but of good will, and to unite the Parliaments friends, and to encourage the soldiers over to Ireland; witness, THE PLOT FROM EDOM, and London's BLOWING UP BY LONDONERS.   
W. B.   

To the Right Honourable William Lenthall Esq Speaker, &c. For the Right honourable the Parliament of England, in behalf of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND.  
Being a slow return made by William Beech Minister, now absent, and in the Country, Unto a loose and lying Pamphlet, set forth by Squire Eliot still present in the City. 
This was sent to London by Mr. Fifield April 15 1650, but was not Printed before June 3. Mr. Eliot much beholding to miscarriages and delays.  BLAZED  
By the said Mr. Eliot to blemish the Testimony of such as have any knowledge, to give light of his Falsehood to the State that have entrusted him, being (yet) upon an old design of near 5 years' practice to wrong the Parliament and the Commonwealth of 8 or 10000l. more, which is as truly theirs, as their Mace.  
WHerein the Accountant conceives he may not so far encourage the falsehood as (he heareth, but cannot see i●) is contained in Mr. Eliot's scandalous Legend, as to honour it with repetition (the standing loyalty of the gentleman (libelled against) being so eminently beyond the strength of Mr. Eliot's breath to blast, by the test of his own hand writing, if it were worth any thing, by the 
A short Answer to a long Legend  Testimony of the present Commissioners of Pembrookshire, and above all these, the known clearness of the Truth) but is bold to disprove as much of it as doth reflect on himself, or that comes within this abstract, of the many Testimonies given of him, and of his doings, and sufferings for the State of England, during all the fix times of Mr. Eliot's turning to and fro, which will serve as much for discovery of Mr. Eliot's falsehood, as for Beech's Vindication.  
It is certified by the Subscribers who have good report in this great 
Unstained Testimony.  Assembly, to be men steadfast, and sincere, honourers of your just Power, and by such as will depose upon oath what they do subscribe unto, as being either fellow-sufferers, eye-witnesses, or otherwise very competent to testify what they subscribe unto.  
That this Accountant, did at the first appearing of friends for the 
Beech a traveller at his own charge for the Parliament  Parliament in Pembrookeshire, go at his own charge (for aught they could ever hear or can imagine) from Milford to Bristol, to Col. Nat: Fines, Sir William Waller, the late Earl of Essex, and from Bristol did post up and down, for half a year (or thereabout) to Redding, London, back again to Bristol, to London again, and then back again in great hazard, as they heard and understood by letters, and good reports from time to time, to procure the aid of Ships, Men, and Ammunition, to put the said 
His good success  County and harbour of Milford in a posture to serve the Parliament, That the said place became accordingly very serviceable to the State, that this Accountant did move first at the entreaty of some of the well affected Gentry there, and having with him a message from Cap. Devereux Wyatt, an Alderman of Tenby, now prisoner for debt in the Marshallsces For 
C. Devereux Wyatt a forgotten friend of the Parliaments. Beech apprehended, and indicted of High Treason for the Parliament. His Escape. His losses at Muncton Nangle. Beech's flight by Sea. Taken Prisoner again by the enemy. Exchanged by M. G. Brown. Beech's family do suffer for Beech's loyalty to the Parliament  which, Mr. Beech was apprehended (by warrant from Judge Jenkins) and indicted of high Treason (as they heard) at S. Dogmarls, and they do well know that he was sent prisoner from place to place, Haverfordwest, Tenby, Carmarthen, and that he had, they believe, suffered the Execution, of a horrid death, if he had not escaped out of their hands, (when one Mr. Freeman escaped) about the time of a defeat given the enemy by the Parliaments forces there, That M. Beech's said services, and imprisonments occasioned thereby, continued near two years, and that he lost, they believe three years' profit, save only a very little, one of those years, worth in times of peace 150l. per annum, at Muncton, and his augmentation at Nangle the two last years, as they are credibly informed, that when Gerrard had scattered the Parliaments forces there, in the year 1645, Mr. Beech was forced to fly, with his own, and divers other distressed families by Sea to London, That he hath served your honour's since, at the Seidges of Basing and Denington, and was 7 weeks' prisoner, at Wallingford, as they heard also, until he was exchanged by Maj. Gen. Browne, That he hath given divers public Testimonies of his loyalty to the Parliament ever since, That he hath sustained several arrests and imprisonments in London, and at Westminster to their knowledge, and as it appears to them, in relation to his said services, and troubles, and debts occasioned thereby, and during his attendance here, which hath brought many sad inconveniencies upon himself, and, they believe, distress upon his family.  
Mr. Beech had Commission and employment from his Excellency the late Earl of Essex, and I have heard very much from persons worthy of credit, of his great sufferings for that employment.  
Tho: x, Secretary (then) to the said Earl.   

The sum of this Certificate he hath with him, abundantly testified in several parcels, and he would offer Mr. Eliot's oath of his certain knowledge in all the particulars, but he waves it, as uncertain, and stained, and nothing worth.  
Cap. Ralph Grundy, and Cap. Devereux Wyatt have escaped the tongue 
Cap. Grundy, Cap. Wyat.  of Mr. Eliot the best of any (though they have felt the utmost of his hands) he doth confess, even in his LEGEND, that they do both deserve something, and that they did love the PARLIAMENT a little, but, he is of opinion, they have been rewarded enough (seeing they escaped hanging and quartering before) and only that they do favour Revolters, he suspects, because they do not favour his ways. This being a large Testimony from an Enemy, whom they did help to beat when he was an Arch Cabby, they having subscribed their names, and affixed their seals long since to this testimonial.  

Ralph Grundy, his fellow prisoner.  
Devereux Wyatt his fellow sufferer.   

The substance of other Testimonies signed by Cap. Robert Moulton, and Cap. 
Milford haven. C. Ro. Moulton admiral. C. Rich. Swanley admiral.  Richard Swanley the successive admirals of a Squadron of Ships on the River of Milford in the year, 1644, and 1645.  
Wherein Cap. Moulton certifieth the credible report he hath heard of Mr. Beech's sufferings, and imprisonments by the enemy: And Cap, Swanley doth not only testify the same, but also how that Mr Beech (having escaped imprisonment under the enemy) did come aboard the Leopard (with one Mr. Freeman a Minister, and others) desiring the protection of the Parliaments ships, and Capt. Swanley gave order for their passage accordingly in the ship Lewis.  
From aboard the lion, 
The lion. The Leopard, An hundred hands more. Withered hands laid by. Winchester.  From aboard the Leopard.   
Your Accountant Beech doth offer an hundred hands more, if need be, to certify this known Truth, and he hath more hands, and good hands at present, but they are such as Mr. Eliot hath either blown upon, or that are withered by Revolt since, and that too, by strange and incredible ways and causes.  

Civitas Winton,  
We the Subscribers do certify that we have seen from time to time, near 5 years together, diverse public Testimonies of M. Beech's very good affection to the Parliament, and unto this present Government, and we have heard very much, from persons to be believed, of his services at the sieges of Basing, and Dennington Castle, and of his imprisonment at Wallingford for the same. Given under our hands this 28 of March, 1650. 
The Mayor Other Magistrates, &c. The Ministers. Large accounts contracted. John Baggs'.   


John Woodman,  
John Brain,  
Humphy Ellis,  
Tho, Lambard.  
Edmond Riggs Mayor,  
Tho. Musprat,  
Ro. Mason,     
Your Accountant having drawn up this short account of his long sufferings, had also prepared Ten other particulars to send after this by the Post, entitled, The PRESUMPTIONS upon which M. Eliot doth GROUND his Printed LIBELS, and Painted FALSITIES, but that he was unwilling 
Dirty Servants. Malignant's sport. The Parliament slow to hear just complaints, attested, bewailed. Good causes blown up by new friends, old enemies.  to gratify so many evil eyes that would soon have sight thereof, when they come to Mr. Eliot's hands, who would laugh to see your Honou●s attended upon by such dirty waiters. The sad experience that this Accountant hath had of Mr. Eliot's cunning, and his admirable success at every Turning, and the slow proceeds of justice, hath enforced him to a Resolve of Silence, who hath sadly found that he shall be more eased, and better able to express the Falsehood of this man, by short Interjections, then by long Orations: O, how many good friends and Causes (he is bold to speak truth) have been blown up by Mr. Eliot's digging under both, and by his LYING so long at your DOOR, it is high time (with submission to your wisdom be it spoken) to dismiss him of his Attendance. He hath blown up as many men, as ever came yet in the way of his Violence and Falsehood, or that ever were so bold as to Complain of him. He begins to fall upon your honourable Commit. for the Army, &c. taxing them of injustice, and their Registers of desperate 
Mr. Eliot in the gatehouse, bailed out. Bilot provided for all changes, an incomparable Doctor.  designs to ruin a well affected man, because he was committed by that Honourable Power of yows (as is said) to the gatehouse, for some foul practices. He is observed to be very vigilant in skinning over the sore before the corruption be out, but there is good hope your Honours will prove better State Ar●●●s then so; the Cunning Man hath a salve for every sore, to skin it over at least, and is provided for all changes, as well for great friends as good raiment, if the face of affairs should change oftener than it hath done.  
Your Accountant is quite tired, and not well in health (indeed he is 
Eliot (yet) cunning, strong, Beech weak,  sick) and he is able no longer to countermine the cunning of Mr. Eliot, he hath a strong arm, and a subtle head, there is a spring in his purse, and it comes secretly through the veins of a red earth; his friends be not few, and those he hath, be no fl●nchers, there is no visible prosecutor of his falsehood of this kind, but such as are almost as weak in the arm as himself. He is therefore lef● unto your wisdom, that may find him; and to his own wit, that may tail him; 
Eliot left to his own wit, and to providence.  and to providence that will foil him. In the interim, your wisdom will not blame his fear, when spying the denger, and Eliot a boaring, and himself in the bottom, he complains to the Pilots, and cry out to Him that steers (in chief) at the helm, Lord Have Mercy Upon Us.   

Queries sent Mr. Eliot for his knowledge 
Queries for M. Eliot at the highest Court.  to examine him upon, at or before the first sitting of the High Court of Justice in Excelsis.  
The Parliament of Saints glorified. Requiring his answer better than by spinning out loose and lying Pamphlets and Papers. Saints Love No lies.  
Mr. Eliot's Conscience upon Interrogatory.  
1 COnscience! dost not thou know the truth of all the forementioned 
Beech a prisoner. Tho. Wyat's house the head quarters of the enemy. Eliot no well-affected man.  Certificates concerning Beech, and did not thine eyes behold him a Prisoner to the enemy at Haverfordwest, and at the house of Tho. Wyatt, Mayor of Denby, (the headquarters of the Enemy.) And was thy Master Eliot a well-affected man then? And was he never Commissioner of Array? And was it not once the honour of thy neighbour Eliot to be thought the best friend that ever the late King had, for action, in the whole Association there? speak out, fear not, he is thine enemy too as well as Beech's.  
2 Doth not thy Neighbour Eliot hate this Querest since the year 
Eliot a bloody Cavalier.  1644. when thou knowest he laid so hard at his life, to Judge Jenkins &c. and for such treasonable practices (so termed then by him) as are mentioned in the testimonies above specified? and had he no hand in 
Eliot notable to frame Articles.  framing, nor giving instructions for drawing up the 19 Articles of high treason against Beech for the same? neither to the Judges, nor to the clerk that drew them, when he was Commissioner of Array, or a little before, mind him of it; ask, had he no good will to see the bloody execution of this Beech?  
3 Conscience! ask thy master, if he doth not know that Beech doth 
Beech under Judgement of the Law to Mr. Ro. Lort. Elict a subtle Tempter, presumed by visible circumstances. Col. Poyer.  lie under Judgement for a Debt, and that execution must follow of course, the first of the next term, upon the action of a Gentleman that calls thy master, uncle Eliot? and speak, was he not thy Master's Bed-fellow at Westminster when the Suit (of Lort, contra Beech) began? and was it not dost think, for Eliot's sake? nor yet by Eliot's instigation, it being so contrary to the former temper of the same Gentleman, who was more friendly to him in his behalf unto the Enemy, when Eliot sought his life. And did●t thou not hear that the Debt became due for a More, &c. used, and spent by Col. Poyer in the Parliaments service.  
4 Conscience! dost not know how much thy master Eliot was ashamed 
Originals.  before the Honourable Committee for Examinations near five years since, when Mr. Whittaker was present? and in the discovery of the same falsities, that he is bold since to cast abroad in print; and wert thou not then evinced of some unworthy passages, that made thy Neighbours Long— bold visage to blush then, though it hath lost the good behaviour of blushing ever since? And would not he have been the counterfeit beggar? and was not Beech the giver twenty pound cut of his own purse?  
5 Conscience! hast thou ever heard that this Querist hath besought 
truth's confidence in her trusties. Eliot excellent to speak for himself, witness all, &c. Eliot suspected, committed, &c. Mr. Eliot's worm. Mountebank Certificates. The Sun clouded eclipsed by great Mr. Eliot. He is a great Licenser. Elict near the Parliament.  the favour of one Member of this great Court towards himself, until there might be a fair hearing, but hath his neighbour Eliot neglected one hour? or left one member (or how many hath he left) unmolested, and unattempted to believe him to be an honest man still, though they begin (very many of those Honourable Gentlemen) to suspect him strongly? or else, it is thought they would not have committed thy master Eliot to the gatehouse, if they did believe he had not abused the commonwealth, and the honour of the Parliament.  
6 Conscience! dost thou not stir his thoughts in the night (when he is out of company) that there are many horrid Guilts chargeable upon his subtlety to bring about any evil thing by imposture, and misrepresentation? and by such Mountebank Certificates as he can get and subscribe unto (as Commissioner himself) with the smooth name of John Eliot, subscribed in a linking Italian? Can any truth be believed in any Court by his good will, where he hath any reputation? if it be as clear as the Sun, hath he not the darkness to cloud it, if not licenced by him? Hath not falsehood got a great patron of him? Dost believe, that the most inveterate malignity (foreign or domestiek) had ever such a friend in England so near the Parliament as Mr. Eliot is known to be? Cry aloud, O the nonsense of your good affections to the Parliament, Sir! People are afraid of it, because by subtlety and daily temptings you hinder their growth, and you cling about the soundest oaks of England. Sir, you will eat up their strength (their honour and safety) if you should be suffered to grow about them long? Conscience 
Eliot, like I●y. Cain's dog.  fall upon him, be thou Cain's dog, not to tear him in pieces, but only drive him out of the Lobby, and save the House, and smite him upon his face to repentance. Conscience, prithee tell him, 
Conscience, save thy cruel Master.  this query is made, not to his cunning to excuse him, but to thee Conscience, to condemn him. If thou be faithful, thou wilt build thine own ruined house, and thy Mr. Eliot's too; honest Conscience, be a friend to both, Beech doth entreat thee.  
Conscience! tell thy master Eliot, that he is false, as well to the State; as he is spiteful to Beech (but to the State most false, that had 
Mr Eliot the state's Prodigal, to bring down their Noble to nine pence. Eliot a quibl●r. Two great Witnesses.  honoured him so much) because he would bring down their Noble to ninepences, their 8000. li. to 500 li. and that in print.  
Conscience! tell him of the well-affected Legacies, bid him look upon the Will of Thomas Wyatt explained; suffer him not to quibble again, and say, it is a whelp of Beech's malice; say, thou knowest the birth of that truth, and that it is no whelp, but it is Truth, and mind him that the City of Bristol, and the town of Tenby, are witnesses to the true birth and being of it.  
Conscience! shake him by the shoulder, mind him of Beech's accounts, 
Beech's accounts stated, not registered. In Wales, Tho. Williams, sheriff, at Hiverfordwest. Jo. Sounder, Tenby bail, Tho. Phillip's Mayor, Carm. John manner. Wallingf. Collins, Martial Wilton, old Abraham, Westm. bailiff Rogers, woodstr. 1 Norman, 2 North. Eliot another Alexander. Unconquerable. Interjections.  so that he undervalue it not to nothing. Reckon to him, so much service in England (first) so desperate, so dangerous, so chargeable, so many troubles, imprisonments, losses, for that service; so many years in Wales before, in Eliot's Array ship, so many years in England since, in his Committee-ship; Debts before his flight, and scandalous Debts since his flight, and these much more scandalous; his imprisonment at Walling ford, one touch in Winchester, one at Westminster, two Shakes by bailiffs within three doors of Woodstreet Counter, such a well-affected enemy as Mr. Eliot, such an Alexander in the Lobby; Eliot a man so befriended, that he will be brought off, right, or wrong. Eliot so be-enemied, that they will take their money again, though he robbed upon the Common highway; enemies that will let him go gallant still: what mortal power can throw this Man? Great men either will not, or cannot do it? What can Beech do against this man?  
Conscience! shake him again; tell him from Beech, O! how many sad occurrences (since Beech's contest with your worship's falsehood) must Beech inter, and bury in the vast pit of interjections?  
Your strong breath, your dirty Pen, your false Tongue, your forehead, your Friends, your diligence to tempt, your dexterity in tempting, your credit to be believed, your slipperiness to get off, your money to compound, your hired White Pate, your privy Signet, Black Pate, unfathomable deceit! these, at Mr. Eliot's quarters; Then, Beech's debts! Imprisonments! scandal for that! grief of friends for that! joy of enemies for that! oft nonresidence from a neglected Flock! oft Non-presence with a dejected family! poverty upon plenty! opening evil mouths! stopping good mouths! woundings within! woundings without! And was not Mr. Eliot's falsehood a tempter to it? And would not Mr. Eliot's malice be (now) an Accuser for it? And will the man be so devilish, as to be an accuser and a tempter both? If a man might presume any thing from the Italian Character 
M. Eliot's nature, in his name.  of Mr. Eliot's hand-writing, there is that cruelty and cunning both discernible in his Name, the cruelty of his nature in the cunning of his name (Eliot) A winding Serpent, linking up the Italian letter (To) First, creeping up temptingly, then hissing forth terribly.  
Now Conscience, say, is not thy Master a spiteful Accountant to 
Beech not greedy by Mr. Eliot's testimony. Eliot no well wisher to Beech. A Collop is but 5l out of M. Eliot's starved flitch of 500l. Ruins within, seen by the walls without. Beech a lose● 400l. by Eliot's falsehood. A Collop of 200l. more cut out of Beech by the same art. Many more collops cut out of Beech in Engl. & Wales by Eliot, & his coarrayists. Beech's, Now or never. Eliot envious that Beech should have any other season but winter. C. Wyatt the state's Postmast. Beech their Post D●n. Eliot the Spaniard. His circuit, Eliot's payment rugged coin. Consciences sera nimis, &c.  tell the world in Print, that Beech is greedy? and yet that a Collop of the concealed estate will serve his Turn? what would a collop be out of Mr. Eliot's thin Flitch? It would exceed the proportion of a collop, if it should be above 5l. of the 500l. that this avoucher, falsely speaks of, and it is sure, he doth wish it neither thick nor large, nor wholesome for Beech's sake: let him know, that a collop (according to his deceitful proportion) will not repair a fourth part of the Walls that be fallen down in Beech's ruins (much less for all other debts and dilapidations that he knows of, false enough) that so by any means the State might see what a servant they had gotten of him. Beech would tell this false Avoucher, if he thought he would not be too merry, at the conceit, that his best friends do manifest unto him (very condolingly) how he hath lost, in the space of 3 or 4 years (since this contest) 3 or 400l. at least, in underletting the profits, that the bounty of the Parliament had bestowed upon him, besides the rich improvement he might have made, as well as others, of such bounty. That he hath expended besides that disadvantage, 200li. (and a rich purse) in a multiplied journed, to discover these dark ways of Mr. Eliot's, that so he might no longer undermine their justice, and therein their safety) who had dealt so well with him, and whose Power (next unto Gods) did preserve his life from a cruel death, when Elyot would have destroyed that life, as he hath done, ever since, the livelihood of that life, as well in England since, as in Wales before.  
Conscience! say, O the unfathomeable cruelty of my Master, acted upon Beech. ask him, why should not the man hope to have his Ruins and Debts repaired, and made up now that friends are Judges? Why will my neighbour be so envious now? now that he is a well affected man, as he saith, and Beech is so too, as he saith? And now that there is but a few of the kind? And now, that John Eliot is a friend. And Don Eliot is no accuser of Beech to Ie●kings the judge? cruel man! to hinder Beech such a precious season. Ask, was not old Wyatt the States Postmaster, and Beech their Post, and both on their own peril, and cost, when he was a Spaniard? Ask him if Beech shall be paid, at his riding the next Welsh Circuit, and bid him speak out, what shall be his pay? and what the coin of his payment then? shall it be kindness or cruelty? would it be cruelly, and cruelty? Don Eliot the Spaniard then? as it is Io. Eliot the Squire now? would it not be so? Conscience! for God's sake let not such a notable piece of deep deceit be covered still, but out with it, it will be thy bane else, and thou wilt rue it with thy Master, in a place where repentance cannot be had for tears.  
All Conscience! Conscience! lay it home to thy Master Eliot, 
Consciences season and her sera nimis. &c.  NOW or never for his good, or thou must do i● for ever to his grief, and thine too, Is not the sum of Beech's sufferings to be pitied? Is not his unhappiness every way (in the world) great? Is he not a madman indeed (as Mr. Eliot libels) to part with two good flitches for one uncertain 
Two birds fast, let go, for one in hope. Madness. Eliot's legend. True divinity in a seeming madness A libel cannot quite 〈…〉. Great men, good natures a●used. Waters of Contradiction and tears. Mr. G. F. R. D. R. M. The unremovable Rock. Eliot. M. Eliot privy to an Execution against Beech. M Eliot's addition of disgrace.  collop? two birds in the hand fast, for one bird in the bush hopping? Is he not mad (as to this enterprise) to persuade such a shaver as Mr. Eliot to procure him this collop? to catch him this Bird? hath a railing letter that rhetoric? Is not his Legend of words against Beech? a Legend of lies to patch up Mr. Eliot? Conscience, tell thy master, there is some Divinity in this work, sure, the reward of a collop, could not induce him to be so dirty, and say that Beech hath his sensus communis, though Mr. Eliot hopes he hath not; a libel cannot deprive him of it. All Mr. Eliot's great Friends shall not do it, they would not do it neither, if they knew the truth of it, and the truth of Eliot's falsehood.  
Tell him, Beech hath no warming encouragements from without, but all the colding waters of Contradiction that can be invented, cast on him to quench his Resolves against Eliot, Dearest Wife, his loving father, his kindest friends, do, every day cast water upon him, Water of tears, water of entreaties, water of their counsels, that he would not desperately cast himself away, upon the unremovable ROCK Eliot, nor dash his dear children any longer upon this MAN. Mr. Eliot's Executions, and bailiffs, and THREATS to throw more dirt and dirt upon him still, can no whit affright this man. Sure, say, there is divinity in the thing: His threatened Addition of Disgrace cannot stir Beech to fear the least thing. Conscience, query this matter to thy Master (and Beech hath done with thee) ask him of his design and of his meaning, in that Threat. He will provide an Addition of Disgrace to any that shall speak any thing that's ill of his dear falsehood. Is it not, that he will scribble more libels, and then to the press, and then scatter more of his lies in Print? Is not that his aim? but tell him, alas! there is no life in a printed lie, Men do suspect the truth of Printed things because of such wretched authors. 
No life in a printed lie. Clean sheets.  Tell him Beech doth intend not to strive much longer in this dirty kind of weapon, any otherwise then to wipe off his bispatterings: He hath given this order to the Printer, that some sheets be reserved from this impression, and kept clean from other uses for that purpose, until Mr. Eliot throw more dirt. The sheets are intended as an hedge only 
Eliot in the High ways.  between Beech and him, now that Eliot hath so long possessed the High ways, and Beech is forced to the other side of the Hedge, in the Country, this sheet is to wipe off these Aspersion. And Mr. Eliot may know the sheet when he seeth it by this Title.  
AN ABSTERSIVE FOR Mr. Eliot's DIRT, UNTIL THE 
An Abstersive.  UNCERTAIN DAY OF A CERTAIN trial.   

The last will and Testament of Thomas Wyatt, late of Tenby in the County of Pembroke Mercer, deceased.  
EXPLAINED 
Explained.  To the right Honourable the Parliament of England, for the commonwealth of England, by Captain Devereux Wyatt, elder Brother to the Testator.  
Wherein is explained (also) Master Eliot's falsehood to the State, as much as 8. or 10000 li. amounts to, and their Honour.  
IThomas Wyatt, late Mayor of Tenby, having nearly 
The Testater a great Royalist. Protected by P. Rupert. Hath a good memory.  escaped the Rebels of Pembrookshire, being forced to fly from thence, for my loyalty to his sacred Majesty; and now enjoying the protection of his highness' Prince Rupert in Bristol, though sick in body yet of perfect memory; That the King's Majesty is strong in the West, and the Parliament weak in the Field, that my elder brother Devereux Wyatt is in actual arms against his Majesty, and stands a declared traitor and rebel 
C. Devereux Wyatt a proclaimed traitor at Oxford. Much loss by much loyalty. A crime not to have been treacherous. 1500. li. offered as a reward of treachery, refused. Col. D●. Gwyn. Loyalty stripped.  at Oxford for the same, whom I had in my former Wills made Executor of my whole estate▪ but he hath since made himself uncapable thereof by his said Rebellion, and did stubbornly refuse (to the ruin of himself and his nine Children) to yield up his rebellious trust of the said town when he had command thereof by the Rebels, and might have done it as well as I had adventured before him, and might have had 1500 li. to repair his losses by the Dunkirk pirates, which I did offer him by the mediation of Col. David Gwyn of Hawksbery in the County of Carmarthen, but he would not do it.  
I do therefore exclude the said rebel Devereux my elder Brother from enjoying any share or part of my Estate, giving him 5. li. to cut him off, &c. And I do hereby revoke all former 
Children suffer for their father's loyalty▪ Loyalty called, obstinate rebellion.  Wills, which (in the time of my sicknesses before the war) I had made in favour of him, and his many Children, making him Executor, if I had died before he had Rebelled thus obstinately.  
And for as much as Richard Wyatt my younger Brother, hath 
Rich. Wyatt in arms against the Parliam. maintains the war against them. The Parliament called, the Rebels at Westminster. Rich. Wyatt a counsellor. Weighty considerations. His prudence. His am●odexterity. He pays a Fine. He is become a well-affected man. 〈…〉. He is cunning. He is a dangerous I●former against 〈◊〉. C. Wyatt very angry with his Brother, for his brother's treachery to the Parliaments Cause. C. Wyatt put out of his Executorship of 8 or 10000 li for serving the State. The estate wholly personal. Carried out of Southwales to Bristol, when the Testater fled. A gallant piece of service at Milford, 1644. The Testator provident to keep his money, goods, &c. The Testator sickly feires imprisonment. The Rogues increase The Testators guilt granted. Tenby stormed, and took by force.  visited me in my sickness, and did stoutly garrison and maintain the Church and Steeple of Tenby against the Parliaments Forces there, in his own person; and did also offer, before the whole town assembled, five pounds, as a test of his loyalty to his King, to begin a benevolence, for the better carrying on of the war against the Rebels at Wistmonste, and was also of my chief counsel to betray (as the Rebels call it) the King's town to him; for these and divers other considerations, as also for his Great Prudence, (though the rebel Devereux will call it slyness, and subtlety, and treachery) that he hath wrought his (present) peace with the Parliaments Forces, by Sea, and Land, and hath paid a sum of money, (or Fine) which he intends shall go under the notion of loan-money to the State, and shall purchase him the name of a well-affected man thereby, and hath gotten a hand or two to certify so much against a wet day, by which his said Prudence, he hath obtained double Tickets to pass between (and unto) both the said Garrisons, the rebel's Garrison at Tenby, and the King's Garrison at Bristol (while Devereux like a mad, fiery, peevish old man was fighting for the Rebels) by which, the said Richard my Executor became very comfortable unto me in my sickness, and was also so provident for himself, and so faithful to me, as to inform me how the rebel Devereux (our elder Brother, and to whom I intended so much good) did threaten what strange things he would do, or cause to be do 〈◊〉 me, if ever I returned; and calls my loyalty treachery, because he doth allege, I did swear, and undertake to him, and to other the Parliaments Commanders there, that I would keep the town for the use of the said Rebels, which I did not, upon better consideration, though I had sworn to do it.  
I do therefore Nominate And Appoint the said Richard Wyatt to be the sole Executor of my whole estate, worth, as I believe, at the time of my slight 8. or 10000 li. which being wholly personal, and in money, wares, goods, debts due by Bond, Bill, upon Book, which I made a shift to send, and bring with me by Sea to Bristol from the prevayling power of the said Rebels there, soon after they had most audaciously taken the King's Fort at the Pill, and had made many of the King's good Subjects there their Prisoners in the year 1644.  
And because I did fear the Rebels would either take me Prisoner, and seize upon my money, goods, &c. for my pretended offence, or else force me to flight in a time of greater danger; I did rather choose for my liberties sake, to fly before the siege, and so preserve my estate too, because I found my body declining; and I dread to think of their Ship (which the Rebels call, The Rogues Increase) wherein they put their Prisoners, and which would soon have made an end of me in respect of my infirmities if they should have taken me in the town (given up by me) which soon after my flight they stormed and took, together with seven or eight hundred men, which I received in to serve the King, as aforesaid. 
Richard Wyatt, William Bowen, kind visitors, Informers. A metamorphosis, Quadrata rotundis. The Testator sequestered before his death A strange piece of Justice. The Testator will be a turn coat no more. Array-Committemen adjured to be kind to Malignants. Their new power exercised for Malignants. The Testators well-affected Legacies. P. Rupert's a great Legacy of 2500. li. The Parliaments estate shattered among Malignants.   
And whereas I am given to understand, by my said Executor, and my servant William Bowen, (who have been both with me oft times in my sickness) that Thomas Bowen Esq (my singular great Debtor) and the Brothers in Law and kindred of the said Thomas Bowen (who were lately Commissioners of Array, most of them, and who persuaded me first to deliver up the King's Town to himself) are now become (many of them) of the Committee for the Parliament there, and have sequestered me (some of them) for the pretended Crime which they made me guilty of, (if it were a Crime) and did engage their estates before the whole town, to save me harmless from, if I would freely deliver it up to the King; I do profess, that I do still to the last of my life, retain my unstained loyalty to his Majesty, and I do desire the said Thomas Bowen, and John Eliot Esquires, their Brothers and Kindred (and I do adjure them by their vows made unto me for my indemnity from that fact) to preserve my estate by their new Power for my said new Executor, he allowing and paying these ensuing Legacies, and Bequests to themselves, their friends, and kindred, and to the well-affected Gentlemen here named.  
Imprimis, To Prince Rupert 2500. li. which Mr. Eliot saith in his legend the Prince had of Thomas Wyatt, but it is false, his highness had but a Collop of it, and that also for his Protection there, & it was to be paid him again when the King came to his crown.  
Item, to I. W. a well-affected man of the same Garrison, a sum.  
Item, to W. W. a sum, of the same Garrison, and to M. M. of the same Garrison, another sum.  
Item, to A. B. C. D. E. F. well-affected men and women to the 
Mr. Eliot's willaffected men.  ruin of the Parliament, of the same Garrison, and elsewhere, great sums, as appears more at large by the original Will.  
And I do appoint John Eliot, and Thomas Bowen Esquires, and 
Jo. Eliot and other Commissioners of Array best overseers. The Testators bounty to them.  the other Gentlemen, mentioned in a Schedule with my said Executor (late Commissioners of Array, as is said, now well-affected Committee men) to be overseers of this my Will; and it is my desire that the said overseers should keep in their hands for ever, so much of the said Debts which they do owe me by specialty, and upon my shop-look, and remaining in the known hands of their 
They were in his books before his decease. His bounty moderated and limited.  nearest kindred, friends, uncle's, etc to the value aforesaid (which they do duly owe unto me for wares they had at my shop, and for moneys lent them) according to the discretion of my said Executor, and the need he shall have of their assistance, to preserve the estate for him, and from the rebel Devereux.  
I do also (and in special) discharge John Eliot of Norbeth 
Jo. Eliot an especial Legattee. His work is to solicit.  Esquire, and his Son John Eliot (my friends and neighbours, but especially the eldest) of all debts, dues, demands, judgements, executions, extents, &c. to solicit, and to retain counsel for my said Executor in the City, while he gathers up the money owing me in the Country; and it is my desire that my said Executor should allow any sum or sums of money, as he shall think fit to Mr. Eliot, or any other, provided that he, and they, do stoutly, 
His augmentation. Another task enjoined him. He must use his wits and friends to maintain falsehood.  and confidently engage all his and their friends, and reputation at any time (if the Rebels should ever overcome the royal Party) and effectually persuade that I myself, and my said Executor were well-affected men, and provided that he and they do so employ their wits, that neither the State, nor any friend of theirs may have any part of my estate of the value aforesaid.  
I do acknowledge, that upon some conflict of mind upon my bed 
The Testators conflict. Thoughts of his brother Devereux, makes his bowels yearn. Malignants do harden him. Devereux Wyatt a notorious rebel again. Fresh thoughts of his age, humanity, many children, his loss by pirates.  of sickness, and some yearning of my bowels towards the many children of my brother Devereux, I did rashly join him in the Executorship with my said brother Richard, few days since, before my servant Margaret Moody, but since I have received counsel by such as love me, and the King's friends, not to mention the rebel Devereux, lest it should bring a blemish upon my Will, and a forfeiture of the estate, the rebel Devereux being so notorious for his Rebellion everywhere; I do therefore charge Richard Wyatt my Executor to be good however, to the old age, and to the humanity of our said elder brother, and to his many children, in respect of his great losses at Sea, lately by Dunkirk pirates, before remembered, he, my said Executor having a good estate of his own besides, and but one Daughter to provide for.   

The Oath of Margaret Moody servant to 
Devereux Wyatt joint Executor with Richard Wyat.  Thomas Wyatt deceased.  
MArgaret Moody coming newly to Tenby (the Parliaments 
The Oath of the Testators servant Maid.  Garrison) from Bristol (the King's Quarters) being duly sworn before the governor of Tenby, 
She was not hired to swear.  among other things whereupon she was examined, deposeth that Thomas Wyatt, her Master, died in Bristol last Sunday was fortnight, and that he left Devereux Wyatt, and Richard Wyatt joint Executors.  
Margaret Moody.   

This Explanation being the natural sense of the Testators Will, without the least wresting thereof, or addition thereto, but only what may serve to enlighten it, and to give forth the plain meaning of the dying man.  
THe explainer Devereux Wyatt further manifesteth:  
That the said unjust Will, according to this explanation, 
There is no well-affectedness in cozening the State. The Testator sequestered by his Debtors. Array-Committee men, and Mr. Eliot, (concealers and debtors) be notable shifters. The Testators personal estate carried out of South-wales, not capable of pardon by the Welsh mulct. A plain proof, how the Testator was sequestered. This estate is the Parliaments, Mr. Eliot can no longer hide it. Array Committee-men the grand concealers of the commonwealth.  hath been faithfully, yet treacherously, carried on, near five years together by Mr. Eliot, and by the concealers of the Committee there, who did sequester the delinquent Testator in his life time, as is said; and the evasion whereby Mr. Eliot (the Agent-Leiger in the City) and the concealing-debtors of the said Committée (resident in the Country) would shift of this sequestration, is this, that Thomas Wyat's said personal estate was conveyed to Bristol, when the Concealers there did sequester him in Tenby, and they could not reach it; howbeit, it is known to all the town of Tenby, that the concealing Committée there did summon your Explainer Devereux Wyatt and his Wife, Richard Wyatt (the pretended Executor) and William Bowen, late apprentice to Thomas Wyatt the delinquent deceased, and divers others, and did put them all to their oaths, to discover what part of Thomas Wyat's estate was in their hands, and where they knew any to be, and did declare it was all sequestered for the use of the State, and did charge all the Deponents to keep the same, and be accountable to the State for it, though there was nothing left behind him when he fled to Bristol but bedsteads, chairs, chests, stools, &c. save only certain great debts owing him, which one of the Deponents his apprentice William Bowen aforesaid, that kept the shopbooke, did (upon Oath also) discover to be in their own hands who did sequester his Master, and among their nearest friends and kindred to the value of near 2000 li. and in the possession of others that were then in arms against the Parliament, which they could not come at neither, nor would they, it appears, if they could, that they might preserve it (according 
They be best overseers of Malignants Wills.  to the malignant will and desire of the delinquent Testator) for the pretended Executor Richard Wyatt, a delinquent too as aforesaid; because they might presume he would not dare to demand any of the great sums in their own hands, being of the Committee; nor would he, they might 
They lose nothing by it.  think (being a delinquent to their knowledge, and practise also) stand much upon those sums owing by their nearest kindred, so he might have their favourable protection to enjoy 
They will be favourable to birds of their own feather. The glue knitting them together is, their common hatred of the first roundheads.  the rest quietly; and that which doth knit them all the closer together is this, that they were all alike equally enemies to the State, when the Explainer did forget his own case and benefit, and safety, to serve you.  
Now for as much as the truth of this explanation is clearly manifest by the testimony of two great Witnesses, the City of Bristol, and the town of Tenby, and that the substance of the whole is (and hath been) a year since proved by four Witnesses, at your Honourable Committée for advance, and how the commonwealth was thus wronged; and for that Mr. Eliot hath confessed enough in his printed papers, and 
It hath been proved by four Witnesses to be so. Master Eliot hath confessed it in print, that he is false, plainly. Mr. Eliot's contradictions He doth affirm things were and were not, in the same printed paper. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hall. He doubles. He is caught, and cries, quarter.  Libels to discover his own falsehood, corrupt ends, and his ill-will to the honour of your just proceed, and hath put his name John Eliot to many printed Copies, presented to the Members of this honourab●e Assembly. That this Mr. Eliot himself a Committée-man, did solicit, and retain counsel against the State, that this cause of Richard Wyatt, and his own was, and was not, good; he acknowledgeth in the same printed paper; That Richard Wyatt was his neighbour, and an honest man, and a well-affected man, and so was Thomas Wyatt (his Creditor) deceased. This goes for currant three years together, but when it was proved at your said honourable Committée about 14. months since, that neither of them were well-affected, nor yet Mr. Eliot honest, but all were proved delinquents; then Mr. Eliot grants that indeed, 'tis true, they were not so honest and so well-affected as they should be, nor himself neither, but that they had all of them need of a purge, and therefore craves pardon by the 
But doubles still.  Welsh Mulct newly come forth, for himself first, and then shows a bill or two under the Over-séers hands in the Country what they had given Richard Wyatt to purge out the malignity of the two great estates, his own and his deceased Brothers, which was the Parliaments long before; and they do in their said Bill acknowledge that they did (not 
The Purge. Physicians and Patient both purge together, yet both unsound still.  give, but) take 32. li. to cure Richard Wyatt in question of his malignity for both estates; for his own, and for that which was not his, nor in their power to compound for, and thereby to make him and themselves sound too from all their, and their friends scores, howbeit the pretended Executor, and his Agent, Mr. Eliot, and the Over-séers themselves are as unsound as ever they were, as to this distemper. The estate is the Parliaments, (and so should they have been in point of trust) and these men willnever be sound, nor at ease, nor yet will ever Justice be satisfied until they be (all of them) 
The arms of England. Justice the best Doctor.  cleansed of every part and parcel of Thomas Wyat's estate, and until the arms of England be stamped upon it; it will gnaw, and pain them at the very bottom of their belly and stomach, and there is no Cure in England for it without a 
Both must take a deep vomit, agency, and Executor. The State of England the most able and conscientious physician. Good hopes of the young Doctors of haberdasher's Hall. Mountebanks cannot cure Malig●●●●.  deep vomit. Things are like to go justly at haberdasher's hall, if the Parliament should not find leisure to make it a Chancery business (for their faithful Devereux Wyat's sake) and if the Agency depend upon some Scottish Mountebank to cure them, Montrolle may furnish them with some High Lander, but let them take heed, these may undertake the Cure, but they will pick their purses, and do no good for them neither.  
The Explainer would take no notice of Mr. Eliot's foul falsities in his Libelious shéet, touching himself and his friends that have been faithful, and yet are so (Faithful to the public, and friendly to him) and will be so found when his rottenness is throughly discovered; it 
Mr Eliot an impudent libeler. Rottenness searched, discovers and preserves soundn●s, else both are alike, if rottenness be left uncut. C. Wyat's debenture blowed upon by Eliot. Though as sound as an oak, yet burnt to ashes by Eliot's falsehood, and quite consumed (a year since) in this business for the S●●e. Malignity will have v●nt out of the welaffect●d man. Old Remembrances. Mr Eliot's spite that C. Wyatt is shot-free, and cannot revolt.  is his shift to talk and print Lyes only, the Explainer doth pray your Honours to note what Mr. Eliot Libelleth of his debenture; he faith, it is not stated aright, and that it is (like his own false ones,) unsound; and that his service was not so considerable, and he undertakes to tell you what a great sum this Explainer had for his debenture (although what ever he received for it,) there is three times more than that wasted in prosecuting this deep falsehood of his, and about this discovery for the commonwealth; (blush if you can Mr. Eliot:) And how satisfactory that sum received (he is ashamed to say how little he was forced to take) might be for all he had done and suffered, he doth acknowledge something of his doings and sufferings, and how the Explainer was but captain of the train Band, and therefore not capable of the pay of a soldier by the Ordinance, &c.  
He doth beseech you, to note the spirit from whence it proceeds, it is a spirit of Malignity, because the Explainer was one of them that did help to beat him by your power for his wretched Malignity (once,) he remembers it more than twice, and hath paid the Explainer home for it, who hath been twice a prisoner upon this account, and once in the Marshalsees, almost starved to death, till your Act of Grace did relieve him within these few days. It is his spite too, that all his guiles and subtle ways could not drive him to revolt with wretched Revolters, and so that he might have him shot to death, (a punishment due to Revolters) He is angry that your Explainer is (almost) the only Officer of that County now attending on you, that served you from the beginning without Revolt, and that 
C. Wyatt never served but onemaster.  never served but one Master which was, and is your just Authority.  
He doth beseech you to look upon this little pattern of 
A little pattern of a great piece of falsehood.  the large piece of Mr. Eliot's falsehood; the false man pawns his ragged reputation, that your Explainer was no other but captain of the train Band of the town; and yet indeed, the Explainer hath by him a Commission derived 
C. Wyatt a Field captain as well as of the train. He did keep Tenby, and in it 39 seamen, and 180 Land men a long time. The State not charged by it one penny. Mr. Eliot still grieved.  from the late Earl of Essex (almost worn out by age and oft looking upon) to be a Field captain; by which Commission, and power from the Ma. General there, he did keep the town of Tenby for your Honours, and did maintain and keep thirty nine seamen three months to manage the Ordnance, and the number of 180. men (the List of whose names he hath also with him) three years together, who did accordingly Garrison and keep the town safe for you, for which he never put the State to a penny charge, nor yet any of his men; but (to content his soldiers at all times) he gave money out of his own purse, pawned his plate, and made other hard shifts to please them; who did their duty, and were contenied, as Mr, Eliot (to his grief then, and also now) well knew, and doth know.  
But what are words? Mr. Eliot will find words too; He will to his old shift, and deny, and libel again; for if 
Mr. Eliot hath words and shifts. Truth would make himswel, and burst. His body used to falsehood from a false meaning. Truth will make him poor again when cleared up.  he should confess one material truth for truth's sake (Unless it were to make a Bawd of it) it would be his bane, he is so used to falsehood that he cannot live without it. Indeed Sirs, falsehood doth feed him with the best, and falsehood doth clothe him with the finest; one dram of Truth would send him packing, and make him as naked to the eyes of all honest men, as if he had no shift at all to cover him, it would turn him out of the Lobby to the gatehouse again, or in the fairest way to the Country as he came, his Candle out, and his dark lantern brought to light:  
Now this your Explainer doth humbly bend both his weak knees to your Henours, this fourth year, and ninth time of his kneeling before you in Print.  
First, He bends one of them, by way of thanks for that honourable 
One Knee bent in thanks.  Act of your mercy towards poor Prisoners, by which you have begun to snatch him from the oppression of Mr. Eliot, and freed him from a starving Imprisonment and from his groan IN THE MARSHALSEES which Mr. Eliot laughs at in his libel, by which he hath now the liberty that he may choose his place to die in.  
Next he bends his other weak knee in supplication to your 
The other knee bent inpetition.  justice, beseeching you that the business between Mr. Eliot, and himself: and the matter touching the concealed Estate of Thomas Wyatt deceased (so much petitioned about) may be examined. And because he fears the delay of a report. in respect of the many great affairs now pressing on you, and his own inability to continue long, unperished, without some just relief. Hunger being no less sharp near the blue (wila) boar in Tuttle-street at Westminster, than it was a razor near the White (fell) lion at the Marshalsees in Southwark.  
He prayeth that your Honours would refer the Examination of the business, touching this your concealed Estate, to the Committee at haberdasher's hall, or goldsmith's hall (if it stand 
Reference to the Committee at haberdasher's hall or goldsmith's hall. C. Wyatt the lawful Executor. He offers 500li. to compound for that which had now been his own, if he had hated the State.  with your wisdom so to do, or else to excuse him, because he hath no council to direct him what to do, or to take any other Course, as your wisdom shall direct you) and that you would empower either of your said Committees to admit of him (the lawful Executor, if he had unlawfully fought against you) to Compound for this Estate for 500li. (and the rather (something) for the MOTIVES underneath) which sum Mr. Eliot saith in Print also, he did hear Richard W●at (the Usurper or pretended Executor) say, it was worth no more than 500li. clearly. Or else if your Honours will Admit him to Composition, he will be faithful to you, and pay a third part of the whole Estate (that shall be cleared unto him) for any public employment. He doth not desire to Compound for it, unless he shall 
He hates Hugger-Mugger, he would have things proved. Mr. Eliot a false accountant.  clearly prove, (First) Thomas Wyatt the Delinquent testators will to be true, according to the EXPLANATION, for the Matter of it: And Mr. Eliot very false unto you in the concealing of it, and in undervaluing the Estate to 500li (it is because he suspects it may be yours) though there is cause of fear and doubt that there is a great deal of subtlety and intricacy in the shifting of it 
The Testators estate in Hucksters handling  away, because the Delinquent testator left it in the King's Garrison where he died, with ill affected brothers and cousins, &c. And where the Parliaments Friends had but few that did wish them well, or that will give them intelligence of the mystery▪ Besides the disadvantage your Honours will meet with of a Malignant executor, and so many Array Committee-men, Overseers, 
It is in a consumption  and Concealers of this falsehood, and Confiding men too. This your Estate Right Honourable must needs be in a 
Sic inconsumptum Titii, &c. Non perit ut possit, &c.  deep Consumption, when the Talons of so many greedy vultures have fastened on it 5 years together, sure, it hath not the renewing property of Titius Liver, to fill up again as it is consumed. It is hoped that your honours will employ your skill, and take it again from these vultures undigested, or else make it up again by slising some collops from the Livers of those vultures, and Connaturalize it with the consumed Liver of Titius, your Estate will be preserved if your honours do put forth such timely skill, or else you will find but one Lob, or little Lump of all that large Liver, and but one thin Collop of that whole estate, as Mr. Eliot well knoweth.  
He Prayeth, Therefore that the Whole Agency (the Overseers 
A remedy to recover it of its consumption.  and Agent both, Mr. Eliot and the Agency may be accountable to the Commonwealth for what shall appear to be Conveyed away from any possibility of recovering, if Richard Wyatt, the pretended executor should do, as he said he would do, before two Witnesses here at Westminster (who are ready to prove it upon oath) that rather than the State should have any part of it, 
Cap. Wyat's humble suit for 50li. to fetch in 500li. of composition money.  he would sell all he had and fly into France.  
And in the interim, The explainer doth beseech you to let him have 50li. to buy him Food and clothes, and to follow this business for the Commonwealth, and he doth hereby promise, to repay that 50li. and ten times as much more, in Composition money for the service of the Commonwealth again, because he knoweth the case to be so clear (if there should be an hundred Clouds for one Sun) if your Honours would but Refer it to an effectual way of Discovery. He doth assure you, that to his own clear and certain knowledge, your business can no more miscarry then the Sun can be always buried in a Grave of Clouds, and darkness, 
His assurance of the cause. Justice a Phoenix will come out of ashes.  before doomsday, if men will be just, or if not, justice will come out of the Ashes of Injustice. It is sure enough Justice is a Phoenix, a Rare Bird, there will be always one of that kind, MEN cannot hinder it, and just men will not go about to stop the current.   

The Explainers humble persuasives for a Composition.  

1 THat it is hoped your Court is wise, and just, as it is Great, and Honourable.  
2 That the Estate in question had (now) been his own in possession, (for a greater part than will easily be found out) if he had hated you, but, now, it is clearly at your dispose.  
3 That he hath served you faithfully without one Stagger or turn, neither could Mr. Eliot's Treachery, or his subtle wiles tempt him to revolt.  
4 That he refused 1500li. of his own brothers ready money, and would not betray your town of Tenby, betrusted with him, for love nor money,  
5 That the Delinquent testator (his younger brother) died without Wife or child, and he, himself, and his nine children are next in blood, and order of descent, or, at least, have an equality of right to injo, their part of the Estate.  
6 He is 700li. in debt more than he is worth, by Services, Losses, Burnings, Spoilings, and Layings out for your sakes.  
7 He hath lost his Executorship of this great estate (as well as the 1500li.) for not betraying your Town.  
8 He hath nine motherless children that are spoiled, scattered and unbred for their father's Loyalty.  
9 He hath lost 1700li. by Dankirk Pirates, commanded by one Bowden Sneacock, in the year 1640.  
10 He could obtain no Justice of the late King's council against the Spaniard, for this depredation, though he had wasted a year, and a half, and had spent 150li. in prosecution, by means of some Spanish minded Lords and Bishops in English Courts.  
11 That he hath as little Justice done him (now) at the Admiralty, as he had (of the King, council before them, and) of their Predecessors in that Office, though he hath been at the like expense of time and money, and although he hath had reference upon reference from the council OF STATE to them. They give under their hands (now) that his case is sad, and that the Spaniard hath wronged him, but for right, they turn him back again to the council OF STATE, and so he is like to be posted off till doom's Day, Besides he hath no money.  
12 He maintained 39 Seamen at his own charge 3 months, and 180 land soldiers 3 years in your service, beyond the rate of an ordinary captain, cost not the State one penny yet the men were all contented. (Mr. Eliot for shame!)  
13 He is aged.  
14 He hath not a penny to buy him bread, and is very ragged in Woollen and linen.  
15 That all this is true, and as true it is, as it is true that the Parliament of England, do sit at Westminster, and as generally known it is in the City of Bristol, and at the Town of Tenby (according to the proportion of such a business) as that there is a Parliament in England.   
DEVEREUX Wyatt.   

The Accountant must now contract his desires which he had more enlargedly provided, and doth humbly lay them before this great Assembly in these Branches.  

1 THat their Honours would refer the discovery of the Wyat's Case, according to Capt. Wyat's Petition, mentioned in the close of his younger brother Thomas Wyat's Will explained for the commonwealth, and for his relief from under a great Wrong.  
2 That their Honours would take up the Parsonage of Crawly into the hands of their Honourable power for plundered Ministers.  
3 That he himself may be stipendiary, and the profits taken up by some honest me as shall be presented to them, and that provision may be made for his wife and many children after his decease, which he hath cause to believe, may be soon, because of his own knowledge of the perishing estate of some of his vitals within, though his heart be sound to the flourishing condition of the commonwealth of England without.  
4 That the Farmers may enjoy what they have paid for (before hand) till Sept. next, (being that time of year he was settled there, stripped and in debt) to discharge fifth, assessments, &c. before hand, and which he did receive of them in money about this, smitten-down, true discovery, &c.  
5 That some thoughts may lead their Honours to enable him to pay his debts, that he doth lie under, for his posting up and down, and many other troubles for them, from the beginning of the wars till the present time of his great affliction, and for Mr. Eliot's cousin's execution.  
6 That Mr. Eliot may be restrained from all his ill practices and libelings, and that he may be dealt with according to Justice, and that they would regard their own honour and safety therein, and that they would so much as suspect him only, if it stand not with their wisdom to punish his great falsehood.  
7 That their wisdom might be seen in composing the unhappy differences in the County of Pembroke, between two eminent Families there, whose divisions were very intricate and lamentable, and it is feared are such yet; and that the County of Pembroke may be thought upon for her virgin love to their proceedings, and because the late defilement there amongst some of them, was done by rape upon her, her hair tied to the Stake, and great violence executed:   
And he shall pray, &c. William Beech.