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<HEAD>TO THE HONORABLE ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONS hou&s;e of Parliament, and to the Committees, for Grieuances <HI>of the &s;ame hou&s;e.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble petition of <HI>Edward Hopkins, William Barwell, Iohn Bellamy, Robert Vilet, Iohn Walter, Robert Wright,</HI> and other Wharfingers in and neere the Cittie of London.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas the petitioners and all others v&s;ing Wharfes for &s;ale of Fuell within and neere the Cit|tie of London, haue time out of minde had the v&s;e of a competent number of Carts and Carres as nece&s;&s;arily incident to their trade, to carry wood and cole for the nece&s;&s;ary v&s;e of his Ma|ie&s;ties &s;ubiects in and about the &s;aid Citie, vntill &s;ome of the Woodmongers in <HI>An.</HI> 3. <HI>Iac.</HI> (without the con|&s;ent of the re&s;t) did not onely procure them&s;elues to be incorporated by his Maie&s;ties letters patents, with power to make ordinances for gouernment thereof, but al&s;o for their owne lucre, and to the intent to op|pre&s;&s;e his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects and make a Monopoly thereof, vpon pretence of better gouernment, haue by colour of the &s;aid Letters patents made ordinances, whereby they haue drawne the gouernment of Carres into their owne hands, and &s;o prouided that neither Wharfinger nor other might v&s;e a Carre without licence from the &s;aid Companie; and vpon &s;uch as had licence for v&s;e thereof, laid an impo&s;ition of 17. <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> 4. <ABBR><HI>d.</HI></ABBR> <HI>per annum,</HI> and other great taxes, as &s;ometimes 40. <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> and at other times 4. <HI>lib.</HI> a man.</P>
<P>ANd the &s;aid Companie hauing &s;o &s;etled their &s;aid gouernment, did denie the v&s;e of Carres to diuers owners of ancient Wharfes v&s;ing the trade of Woodmongers, and either &s;old them out to others for 40. and 50. lib. a Car-roome, or el&s;e did farme them for 10 <ABBR><HI>s</HI></ABBR> and 12. <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> the weeke; by which meanes the &s;aid Car-roomes are appropriated to Tap&s;ters, Ale-hou&s;e-keepers, Scriueners, Ho&s;tlers, Bakers, and &s;uch like, not v&s;ing them&s;elues either Wharfe or Carre, and become priuate intere&s;ts, and go as Chattels to Execu|tours.</P>
<P>ANd when Wharfingers (in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;itie) v&s;ed any Carres for v&s;e of their trade, them&s;elues and their &s;eruants haue at &s;euerall times beene (by colour of the &s;aid Letters patents) committed to pri&s;on by the Ma&s;ter and Wardens of the &s;aid Companie, and there detained &s;ometimes 7 or 8 dayes; at other times their Carres haue beene by the &s;aid Companie or their mini&s;ters taken from them; and when they haue endeuoured by cour&s;e of law to relieue them&s;elues, they haue beene vnduly &s;taid.</P>
<P>BY which vniu&s;t cour&s;es the petitioners and diuers others being free of the Citie of London, haue beene mo&s;t vniu&s;tly denied the free v&s;e of Carres, and thereby hindred from v&s;ing their &s;aid trade, and infor|ced either to buy diuers Car-roomes, or to farme them at the &s;euerall rates afore&s;aid, to the vtter vndoing of them&s;elues, wiues and children, to the great inhan&s;ing and rai&s;ing of the price of Fuell, and the great grie|uance and oppre&s;&s;ion of his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects in and neere about the &s;aid Citie, and to the rai&s;ing of the price of cariages, with many other inconueniences.</P>
<P>IN tender con&s;ideration whereof, and for that the &s;aid Grant (accompanied with ordinances as a|fore&s;aid) is not onely a Monopoly, but the execution thereof tends to depriue his Maie&s;ties &s;ub|iects of their libertie, by vnlawfull impri&s;onment, contrary to the great Charter of the Liberties of England, and to the hinderance of Legall proceedings and &s;top of Iu&s;tice for their goods vniu&s;tly and again&s;t law taken from them, and to the de&s;truction of their trade, and is otherwi&s;e enormous and extreme grieuous to the petitioners and others his Maie&s;ties &s;ubiects, and may with the like co|lour be put in execution again&s;t Brewers, Scauingers, and diuers other trades; and for that the pe|titioners are ready to make good each of the &s;aid generals, with diuers particulars of euery &s;ort.</P>
<P>MAy it therefore plea&s;e this honorably A&s;&s;embly and high Coun&s;ell to take the premi&s;&s;es into con&s;ideration, and to appoint &s;ome time for the hearing thereof, and to take &s;uch cour&s;e to reforme the &s;aid abu&s;es, and puni&s;h the &s;aid offenders, as to iu&s;tice &s;hall appertaine:</P>
<CLOSER>And the petitioners (as mo&s;t bound) &s;hall euer pray for the long continuance and happie pro&s;peritie of this honorable A&s;&s;embly, and all the members thereof, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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