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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>The</HI> CASE <HI>of &s;everal</HI> Hackney-Coachmen <HI>in and about the Cities of</HI> Lon|don <HI>and</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter <HI>and the Suburbs, occa&s;ioned by one</HI> Robert Murrey, <HI>and his Adherents, to the utter Ruin of many Families, for his and his Ac|complices private Intere&s;t.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THE &s;aid <HI>Robert Murrey,</HI> a common Projector, in the Year 1682 obtained an Act of Common Council in <HI>London,</HI> to re&s;train all but 400 Hackney Coachmen to ply in and about the City of <HI>London</HI> and Suburbs thereof, under the Penalty of Forty Shillings each Coach for every Offence: By which Project the &s;aid <HI>Murry</HI> did get clear to him&s;elf Four hundred and fifty Pounds, be&s;ides all Bribes and other Incomes; but the Coachmen that were oppre&s;s'd by the &s;aid <HI>Murrey</HI>'s Project, having obtained the then Attor|ny General's Opinion, That the &s;aid Act was again&s;t Law, &s;taid &s;everal Suits, and ca&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Murrey,</HI> or tho&s;e imployed to put the &s;aid Act in Execution.</P>
<P N="2">2. That then the &s;aid <HI>Murrey</HI> and his Accomplices did obtain an Order from Sir <HI>Edward Villers,</HI> then Knight-Mar&s;hal for the Liberty of the Verge <HI>(viz. We&s;tmin&s;ter, Whitehall,</HI> and St. <HI>James</HI>'s) to &s;uppre&s;s the Hundred Hackney Coachmen from plying with their Coaches within the Liberties afore&s;aid, and did with Money hire Men and keep them from their &s;aid Imployment, until one <HI>Thomas Cadman</HI> did &s;end his Servant with his Hackney-Coach to ply within the &s;aid Verge, after having &s;uffered Nine Weeks Re&s;traint, by means of the afore&s;aid Order, re&s;olving to &s;ee by what Right they held their Power; whereupon the Knight-Mar|&s;hals Men immediately &s;eized upon the &s;aid <HI>Cadman</HI>'s Servant, and kept him Pri&s;oner at <HI>White-Hall</HI> for above Six Houres, until he gave a Note under his Hand of Forty Pounds penalty to appear before the &s;aid Sir <HI>Edward Villers</HI> the next Day by Nine of the Clock: And the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Cadman</HI> appeared accordingly on his &s;aid Servants behalf before his Honour, and made him &s;en&s;ible of the Oppre&s;&s;ion, who was thereupon plea&s;ed to take it off, and never put it upon the &s;aid Coachmen after.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the &s;aid <HI>Murrey</HI> and his Accomplices afterwards Sollicited his Honour Capt. <HI>Cheek,</HI> then Governour of the <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> to keep the &s;aid One hundred Hackney Coachmen from taking up any Fare upon the Bulwark Wharfe before the <HI>Tower Gate,</HI> under the Penalty of Five &s;hillings for each Coach &s;o offending, &s;o that many poor men &s;uffered thereby, until the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Cadman</HI> Petitioned his Honour, and made him &s;en&s;ible of the Abu&s;e put upon them by the afore&s;aid <HI>Murrey</HI> and his Accomplices, &s;o that now the &s;aid <HI>Robert Murrey,</HI> ha|ving made what Mony he could of the &s;aid 400 Hackney Coachmen, came to tho&s;e he had formerly ruined, and by his deluding Speeches prevailed upon &s;ome poor Hackney-Coach|men and others not qualified for that Imploy, to a&s;&s;i&s;t him with Money to &s;ollicit the then Popi&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners to Licence 600 Hackney-Coachmen, and to pay more Money in one Year for working their Coaches in the &s;treets, to the Commi&s;&s;ioners and the &s;aid <HI>Murray</HI> and his Accomplices than all the &s;aid Hackney-Coachmen were worth, and if the Rich Men &s;hould pay the Poor Mens Debts; the Commi&s;&s;ion was Sealed and Security given in to the Lords of the Trea&s;ury in <HI>November,</HI> 1688. (as the &s;aid Coachmen are credably inform'd,) And if it had not plea&s;ed Almighty God to &s;end His Highne&s;s, the then Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> to their Relief at that very time, the &s;aid Hackney-Coachmen had been all ruined and undone by the unju&s;t and wicked Contrivance afore&s;aid.</P>
<P N="4">4. That when the &s;aid <HI>Murrey</HI> &s;aw the late King <HI>James</HI> was gone out of this Kingdom, and his Popi&s;h Commi&s;&s;ion of no effect, Did with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of a Friend or Two in <HI>London,</HI> for his own By-Ends &s;ince <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> la&s;t, get the Act of <HI>Common-Councel</HI> revived. And the &s;aid Coachmen being informed, that the &s;aid <HI>Murrey,</HI> and &s;everal others, are endeavouring, for their own private Intere&s;t, and to the Prejudice of your Petitioners, to procure one or more Bills, of their own framing, to be brought into this Honourable Hou&s;e, for the Regu|lating of Hackney-Coaches. The &s;aid Coachmen therefore humbly de&s;ire that the Act made for Regulating of Hackney-Coaches in the <HI>13th</HI> and <HI>14th</HI> Years of King <HI>Charles</HI> II. may be vived, with the Addition only of One Hundred Coaches. And that they may be &s;ettled at the &s;ame Yearly Rent that was Limitted by the &s;aid Act.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore we mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech Your Honours to take the Premi&s;es into Your Serious Con&s;ideration; And we and all the re&s;t, as in Duty bound, &s;hall ever Pray,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<ITEM>Thomas Cadman,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thomas Whittle,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Peter Welch,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Hurt,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sheldarick,</ITEM>
<ITEM>George Loverick,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Beaver,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Hugins.</ITEM>
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