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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the High Court of PARLIAMENT.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The humble Petition of <HI>Edward Hanchett,</HI> &V;&s;her of the late Court of Wards and Liveries.</HEAD>
<P>_HUmbly &s;heweth unto your Honours, That your Petitioner did purcha&s;e the Office of U&s;her to the Court, to him and his Heirs for ever, at the rate of 4000 l. it being an Office of in|heritance granted by Letters Patents under the great Seale of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>About 4. yeares after that your Petitioner was po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the &s;aid Office, the High Court of Parliament were plea&s;ed to take away the &s;aid Court, but in their ju&s;tice thought fit, that the Officers of the Court which had their places by Letters Patents under the great Seale of <HI>England,</HI> &s;hould have a competent &s;atisfaction for the lo&s;&s;e of their Offices, and in order thereunto, referred it to a Committee of their own Members to con|&s;ider and make allowances to the &s;everall Officers, who did upon &s;erious con&s;ideration allow to your Petitioner the &s;um of 3500 l. for the lo&s;&s;e of his &s;aid Office.</P>
<P>The great Officers of the &s;aid Court were Members of Parliament, and did procure the &s;atisfaction allotted to them; your Petitioner had the &s;ame Ju&s;tice for him, but not the &s;ame Friends.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid Order and Vote of the Hou&s;e, and your Peti|tioners con&s;tant, and faithfull adhering to the Cau&s;e and Intere&s;t of the Par|liament, even in their greate&s;t extremities, your Petitioner being &s;ent for by the late King to execute his Office at <HI>Oxford,</HI> upon paine of lo&s;ing it, and refu&s;ed to go, to the hazard of his utter undoing, if the King had prevailed, and your Petitioner as yet hath had no recompence.</P>
<P>Your Petitioner borrowed a great part of the money that purcha&s;ed the &s;aid Office; upon the di&s;&s;olution of the Court your Petitioner was di&s;a|bled to pay his Debts, and was &s;oon after clapped up Pri&s;oner in the Upper Bench, and there hath remained ever &s;ince, to his utter ruine and de&s;truction, having &s;old all his goods and per&s;onall E&s;tate to maintain him&s;elfe and his Wife, and &s;atisfie his Creditors what he could, that now your Petitioner is in a very &s;aid condition, not able to &s;ub&s;i&s;t, his friends having been wearied with &s;o long &s;upplying his great wants and nece&s;&s;ities, unle&s;&s;e this honoura|ble Parliament be plea&s;ed to con&s;ider his Cau&s;e that crieth for their Ju&s;tice, and afford him &s;uch reliefe as their Wi&s;domes &s;hall think convenient.</P>
<CLOSER>And your Petitioner &s;hall ever pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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