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<HEAD>The <HI>CASE</HI> of the <HI>Waggoners</HI> and <HI>Carriers</HI> of Goods and Merchandizes, through the &s;everal Roads of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Humbly &s;ubmitted to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.</HEAD>
<P>THAT in the Se&s;&s;ions of Parliament 1695, the &s;aid Carriers were heard (as to many Grievances and Oppre&s;&s;ions impo&s;ed on them by &s;everal pretended Informers) before a Committee of this Honourable Hou&s;e, who were plea&s;ed 14th of <HI>March</HI> 1695, to make their Report.</P>
<P>That it was their Opinion, the Petitioners had fully proved the Allegations of their &s;aid Petitions, and de&s;erv'd Relief of the Hou&s;e. And al&s;o that the Hou&s;e be moved for leave to bring in a Bill for explaining the &s;everal Acts relating to the High-ways, and for preventing the Abu&s;es ari&s;ing thereby.</P>
<P>To which the Hou&s;e agreed, committed <HI>John Littlehale,</HI> for oppre&s;&s;ing the Petitioners, to Cu|&s;tody of the Sergeant at Arms, and a Bill was then drawn up, and pa&s;t into a Law, Intituled, <HI>An Act for better amending and repairing the High ways, and Explanation of the Laws relating thereunto.</HI></P>
<P>By which, it was (among&s;t other things) Enacted, that all Carriers and Waggoners &s;hould be obliged to draw with double Shafts, and a Pole between their Wheel-Hor&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But it having been tried, it was found by experience to be impo&s;&s;ible to pa&s;s the &s;everal narrow Roads of this Kingdom, and Gate-ways of Inns, and Pa&s;&s;ages of Streets, Where the Petitioners mu&s;t Come to abide and lodge their &s;aid Waggons and Wares, with &s;uch double Shafts and Polls, for that they are not broad enough to contain the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>John Littlehale,</HI> and other Informers, have taken upon them to pro&s;ecute the Petitio|ners for Forfeitures committed, by not driving pur&s;uant to the &s;aid Act, which is impo&s;&s;ible to be done.</P>
<P>And &s;ome Ju&s;tices of Peace have been &s;o civil and encouraging to the&s;e Informers, to grant them Warrants for Di&s;tre&s;s of the &s;aid Carriers Hor&s;es, to levy the Penalties and Forfeitures incurred by their not complying with the &s;aid Impo&s;&s;ibility.</P>
<P>By which means, the &s;aid Carriers have &s;uffer'd very much, and are not able to go on with their Callings, unle&s;s the&s;e Grievances are redre&s;t. Some whereof are as follow. Particularly,</P>
<P>That the 6th of <HI>March</HI> 1698, Seven Hor&s;es were &s;eized from Mr. <HI>Ba&s;&s;e,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Leice&s;ter</NOTE> <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI> Carrier at <HI>Brown</HI>'s Well in <HI>Finchly</HI> Pari&s;h, upon Warrants granted by Ju&s;tice <HI>Munday</HI> of the <HI>Temple,</HI> and carried away by <HI>William Hull,</HI> Brother-in-Law to <HI>John Littlehale, viz.</HI> five Hor&s;es out of the wag|gon, which were all that it was drawn with; one Hor&s;e from Mr. <HI>Ba&s;&s;e</HI>'s Man, which he rode on, and a Gelding which he led in his hand. And the &s;aid <HI>Hull,</HI> a&s;&s;i&s;ted by two Soldiers, demanded 10 <HI>l.</HI> of him, for non payment of which, they &s;wore they would knock him off his Hor&s;e, and in a violent abu&s;ive manner forced all the &s;aid Hor&s;es from him, whereby he was nece&s;&s;itated to leave the &s;aid Waggon, loaden with Wares and Merchandizes, in the open Road, till he came to <HI>London,</HI> to get Money to clear them, or a Replevin. And afterwards when a Replevin was ob|tained from the Sheriff of <HI>Middle&s;ex,</HI> the &s;aid per&s;ons refu&s;ed to obey it, and forcibly re&s;i&s;ted the Officers, who came to execute it, and re&s;tore the &s;aid Hor&s;es.</P>
<P>At the &s;ame time and place, the &s;aid <HI>Hull</HI> and his Agents, by Mr. <HI>Munday</HI>'s Warrant,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nottingham.</NOTE> &s;eized &s;ix Hor&s;es from Mr. <HI>Wilkin&s;on</HI>'s Waggon of <HI>Nottingham;</HI> demanded ten Pounds of his man, and gave him the like Language and U&s;age.</P>
<P>The beginning of <HI>February</HI> 1698, the &s;aid <HI>Hull</HI> and his Agents &s;eized two Hor&s;es, two Collars, and two pair of Traces from the &s;aid <HI>Wilkin&s;on, Nottingham</HI> Carrier for four Pound, at <HI>Highgate,</HI> and the four Pound was paid to redeem them.</P>
<P>And at the &s;ame time and place, the &s;aid <HI>Hull</HI> and his Agents &s;eized two Hor&s;es,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Derby.</NOTE> two Collars, and two pair of Traces, from <HI>Samuel Locker</HI>'s Waggon, Carrier to <HI>Derby,</HI> for four Pound, and the four Pound was paid ro redeem them.</P>
<P>About the 21th of <HI>February,</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Hull</HI> and his Agents &s;eized two Hor&s;es in the Pari&s;h of <HI>Finchly</HI> for four Pound more from the &s;aid <HI>Locker, Derby</HI> Carrier.</P>
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