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The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended…
The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to show their dangerous error, who think that a general council, or college of bishops, is a supreme governor of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entitled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...The true history of councils enlarged and defended against the deceits of a pretended vindicator of the primitive church, but indeed of the tympanite & tyranny of some prelates many hundred years after Christ, with a detection of the false history of Edward Lord Bishop of Corke and Rosse in Ireland ... and a preface abbreviating much of Ludolphus's History of Habassta : written to shew their dangerous errour, who think that a general council, or colledge of bishops, is a supream governour of all the Christian world ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; to which is added by another hand, a defence of a book, entituled, No evidence for diocesan churches ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The like was before Published by Roger L'Strange.
Answ. I do not think Major Jennings knowingly made this Lye, but was directed by some bodies Report, and my sending him the Medal. I do solemnly protest, 1. That, to my Knowledge, I never saw Major Jennings: 2. That I never saw Man wound, hurt, strip, or touch him: 3. That I never spake a word to him, much loss any word here affirmed: 4. That I neither took the Picture from about his Neck, nor saw who did it: 5. That I was not in the Field, when it was done: 6. That I walked not among any wounded or dead; nor heard of any killed, but the one Man before mentioned. 7. That the Picture was never got from me with difficulty. But that this is the Truth: The Parliament had a few Men in Longford. House, and the King a• Lyndsel, about a Mile and a half a-sunder; who used oft to skirmish, and dare each other in the Fields between▪ My Innocent Father being Prisoner at Lyndset, and I being at Longford, resolved not to go thence till he was delivered. I saw the Soldiers go out, as they oft did, and in another Field discerned them to meet and Fight: I know not, that they had seen Jennings; But, being in the House, a Soldier showed a small Medal of Guilt Silver, bigger than a Shilling; a•d told us, That he wounded▪ Jennings, and took his Coat, and took that Medal from about his Neck▪ I bought it of him for •••• no one offering him more. And some Years after (the first ••• that ⟨p. 6⟩I heard where he was, freely desired Mr. Somerfield to give it him from me, that had never seen him; supposing it was a mark of Honour, which might be useful to him. And now all these Lies, are all the Thanks that ever I had.
Answ. I do not think Major Jennings knowingly made this Lye, but was directed by some bodies Report, and my sending him the Medal. I do solemnly protest, 1. That, to my Knowledge, I never saw Major Jennings: 2. That I never saw Man wound, hurt, strip, or touch him: 3. That I never spake a word to him, much loss any word here affirmed: 4. That I neither took the Picture from about his Neck, nor saw who did it: 5. That I was not in the Field, when it was done: 6. That I walked not among any wounded or dead; nor heard of any kild, but the one Man before mentioned. 7. That the Picture was never got from me with difficulty. But that this is the Truth: The Parliament had a few Men in Longford. House, and the King a Lyndsel, about a Mile and a half a-sunder; who used oft to skirmish, and dare each other in the Fields between My Innocent Father being Prisoner at Lyndset, and I being at Longford, resolved not to go thence till he was delivered. I saw the Souldiers go out, as they oft did, and in another Field discerned them to meet and Fight: I know not, that they had seen Jennings; But, being in the House, a Souldier shewed a small Medal of Guilt Silver, bigger than a Shilling; ad told us, That he wounded Jennings, and took his Coat, and took that Medal from about his Neck I bought it of him for no one offering him more. And some Years after (the first that