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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Kings Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<HEAD>The Humble Petition of <HI>Thomas Kyna&s;ton</HI> Merchant, <HI>George Porter</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Son and Heir of <HI>Endimion Porter</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Adventurers in the Joint Stock with Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> to the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies, George Carew</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Administrator of Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> and Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar, Charles</HI> Earl of <HI>Shrewsbury,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Meres</HI> K^n^t^. Executor of Sir <HI>Era&s;mus de la Fountain</HI> K^n^t^. Decea&s;ed, <HI>George Cole</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Thomas Coppin,</HI> and <HI>Charles Whitaker</HI> <ABBR>E&s;qs</ABBR> on the behalf of Them&s;elves, and Others; With many Orphans and Widows, Creditors of Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> and his Son; and Sir <HI>Edward Littleton,</HI> and the late Earl of <HI>Bridge|water,</HI> Decea&s;ed.</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat there is 150000 <HI>l.</HI> and upwards due to Us from the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> by rea&s;on of their violent Depre|dation upon the Two Ships, the <HI>Bona E&s;peranza,</HI> and the <HI>Henry Bona Adventura;</HI> which Debt and Damages was re&s;erved by Your Maje&s;ties Treaty <HI>Anno</HI> 1662. for Satisfaction.</P>
<P>That in the Year 1664. Our &s;aid Wrongs and Damages were proved before the Commons of <HI>England,</HI> and Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable <HI>Privy Councel,</HI> and admitted by Your Maje&s;ty as a Ground of that en&s;uing War again&s;t the <HI>&V;nited Provinces.</HI></P>
<P>That Your Maje&s;ty upon Report of the <HI>Admiralty Court,</HI> owned our &s;aid Right and Claim in the Premi&s;es under the Great Seal, and gave us Letters of Repri&s;al in the Year 1665. with &s;pecial Provi&s;oes and Limitations to continue in force, as well in Peace as in War; But afterwards our &s;aid Right and Claim &s;eemed for &s;ome time to be &s;u&s;pended: For &s;ince that our &s;aid Right and Claim hath been Revived, and again been owned by Your Maje&s;ty, with Intentions that We &s;hould receive Reparations at the next Treaty, as appears by &s;everal Orders and Refer|rences from Your Maje&s;ty, and the Lords of Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Councel, and Reports thereupon hereunto annexed; All &s;ignifying, that in Ju&s;tice and Honour Your Petitioners ought to be &s;atisfyed in this particular Ca&s;e. And accordingly in the Month of <HI>July</HI> 1672. Your Maje&s;ty did by Your Letters, Com|mand Your <HI>Plenipotentiaries</HI> then in the <HI>&V;nited Provinces,</HI> to provide Satisfaction for Your &s;aid Petitioners. And after that again, Your Maje&s;ty Commanded Your <HI>Plenipotentiaries</HI> at <HI>Cologne</HI> to the &s;ame purpo&s;e. Yet hitherto no Satisfaction, or Reparation hath been made unto Us, or any of Us.</P>
<P REND="indent italic">Wherefore Your Petitioners do Humbly Be&s;eech Your Maje&s;ty, either to Per|mit &V;s to make &V;&s;e of our &s;aid <HI>Letters Patents</HI> for Repri&s;als Legally obtained, and remaining upon Record; Or to u&s;e &s;uch Effectual Means with the <HI>States</HI> of the <HI>United Provinces,</HI> or their <HI>Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> to make &V;s &s;ome Satisfastion for our &s;aid Lo&s;&s;es and Damages out of the 800000 <HI>l.</HI> Pattacones payable to Your Maje&s;ty by the la&s;t Treaty; Or that we may receive Satisfaction otherwi&s;e according to Ju&s;tice.</P>
<CLOSER>And Your Petitioners &s;hall, as in Duty Bound, ever Pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></CLOSER>
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