Truth vindicated, or, A detection of the aspersions and scandals cast upon Sir Robert Clayton and Sir George Treby, Justices, and Slingsby Bethell and Henry Cornish, Esquires, sheriffs of the city of London, in a paper published in the name of Dr. Francis Hawkins, minister of the Tower, intituled, The confession of Edward Fitz-Harris, Esq., &c. the coppy of which paper is herewith printed for the readers clearer judgment in the case.

I Do hereby declare, That Mr. Fitz-Harys, before he began to write any part of this Narrative, was more than once assured by me, that there was no hope of his life that I know of, whatever he should say; nor of his Salvation, if he should say any thing that he knew to be false: of which he being throughly sensible, and per∣fectly convinced, proceeded to write the Narrative a∣foresaid. And I continuing to admonish him upon e∣very point that was material, not to say any thing but what was exactly true, he took occasion, at several pe∣riods of his Narrative, to kneel down, and solemnly to protest the truth of every word therein contained. And this I do again declare upon the Faith of a Chri∣stian, and the word of a Minister of the Gospel.

Francis Hawkins.

FINIS.