HEE saith that there was such a Warrant as is set forth in the Petition directed to Sir Adam Loftus Knight, then and now Treasurer at Wars for Ire­land, for the payment of 603 l. 13 s. 0 d. to part of the Train of Artillery, belonging to the Army, of 8000 Irish raised in the yeer 1640. then intend­ed against the Scots: of which summe there was no part thereof mentioned, or intended to be due to the Petitioner, who was onely then appointed a ser­vant and Agent, to receive there monies for them: Upon which Warrant this Respondent being then Deputy to Sir Adam Loftus, did at severall times pay unto the Petitioner, and others for the said Train of Artillery: and by directions of the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland: the summe of 500 l. or there-abouts, for which the said Sir Adam Loftus hath severall Acquittances to produce: unto whom this Respondent hath lately given up a full Ac­compt of all matters then committed to his trust and charge: And as for the remain of the said Warrant: neither could the said Sir Adam Loftus, nor the Respondent his Deputy, pay the same to the Train of Artillery, as was intended; as likewise divers other Warrants for great summes: for want then of Monies in the Kings Exchequor, the Treasure being so exhausted by the foresaid Irish Army; and that Army being then to bee disbanded, there wanted Monies for that purpose: so that Sir Adam Loftus, to prevent the dangerous consequence that might arise, by those rude and barbarous Souldiers, in their disbanding: Did then ingage himself, his eldest Son, Sir Arthur Loftus, and divers others of his Friends, with this Respondent: and took up great sums of Monies upon their credits, to help to disband them with quietnesse: which great sums his Majesty is to make satisfaction for hereafter, and for which the said Sir Adam Loftus his Friends, and this Respondent are still ingaged, by reason the Rebellion there, breaking out so suddenly, there came in no part of the Kings Revenues of Ireland, to discharge their foresaid ingagements, nor many other great summes of Monies, disbursed then, and before for the King. This Respondent further saith, that upon payment of part of the foresaid summe of 603 l. 13 s. 0 d. to the Petitioner, as is abovesaid, he the said Petitioner did at that time deliver up the foresaid warrant to this Respondent, being necessary so to doe: that it might be produced before the Commissi­oners of Accompts, to passe so much as this Respondent had truely paid thereof, and no more, which Warrant doth remain on Record, in the Office of the Auditor-Generall of Ireland, by which the whole truth of this Answer may fully appear: And this Respondent doth beleeve, that either himself or his Servant, did then give the Petitioner a note in writing, declaring what summes were then paid to the Petitioner, on the foresaid Warrant, and what did then rest unpaid thereof: This Respondent also saith, and is able to make it evidently for to appear, by authentick Records, that hee hath not passed any more of the said Warrant on his Accompts, than truely, and Re-vera, he hath paid thereof, and for which hee hath Acquittances to produce: Nor hath this Respondent taken poundage for any more of the said Warrant, then hee hath truely paid and passed in his Accompts, as of right hee ought to doe, and which was just and lawfull for him to take: neither did this Respondent ever desire, or intend, or if he were willing so to doe; was it in his power to make use, advantage, or profit, of the remain of the foresaid Warrant, which rests yet unpaid, as is suggested by the Petitioner: And further, this Respondent saith, that if the Petitioner have any such Certificate from the Clerk of the Pells, (as hee alledgeth hee hath) it is apparently false, or the Clerk is there­in very much mistaken; for that the Petitioner alledgeth his Certificate to bee made about foure or five years since, in July 1641. at which time the fore­said Warrant was not past on any Accompt, untill May last, 1646. Since which time the Petitioner cannot say, that hee had any Certificate thereof from the Clerk of the Pells: And therefore this Respondent humbly prayeth, that hee may bee dismissed with such reparations as this Honourable House shall think fit.