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<HEAD>A Brief Abstract and Narrative of the &s;everal <HI>Spoils, Depredations, Lo&s;&s;es</HI> and <HI>Damages,</HI> &s;uffered by Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar,</HI> and <HI>William Courten</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>decea&s;ed,</HI> annexed to a Petition of the Proprietors and Creditors, depending in <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_SIR <HI>William Courten</HI> in the year 1626. being informed by &s;everal Ma&s;ters of Ships imployed in his Service, that there was an I&s;land near the <HI>Caribbees,</HI> not Inhabited by any People or Nation what&s;oever; and that the Soyl was good, and well Scituated for Plantation and Defence; whereupon Sir <HI>Wil|liam Courten,</HI> at his proper Co&s;ts and Charges, Equipped and Furni&s;hed &s;e|veral Ships with Men, Women, and all kind of Materials and Provi&s;ions nece&s;&s;ary both for Planting, and to defend them&s;elves.</P>
<P>In the year 1627. the Factors and Servants of Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> having made &s;everal Plantations, procured divers <HI>Indians</HI> from the Main-Land, with all &s;orts of Seeds and Roots to in&s;truct the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in Planting Tobacco, Indigo, Cotton, Sugar-Canes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and named the I&s;land <HI>Barbadoes.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> then procured Letters Patents dated 27th. of <HI>February</HI> 1627. for the Government of the &s;aid I&s;land, in the name of the <HI>Earl of Pembroke,</HI> who gave a Deputation (by Sir <HI>William Courten</HI>'s appointment) to Captain <HI>John Powell,</HI> with In&s;tructions for the Govern|ment thereof conformable to the Laws of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> being &s;o legally po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of the &s;aid I&s;land, as the fir&s;t Occupant, and in the quiet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion thereof for the &s;pace of two years, and upwards, having expended thirty thou&s;and Pounds Sterling in Materials, Provi&s;ions, Fortifications Plantations and Buildings: <HI>James</HI> late <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> in the year 1629. under a pretence of being Lord Proprietor, by Patent, of all the <HI>Caribbee</HI> I&s;lands, did, by Force of Arms, and other indirect Practices of &s;e|veral Per&s;ons, under his pretended Grant, forceably enter into the &s;aid I&s;land, and di&s;po&s;e&s;&s;ed Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> of his Forts, Hou&s;es and Plantations, to the ine&s;timable Damage of Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> his Heirs and Creditors, again&s;t the Laws and Originals of all Right and Property.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Car&s;lile,</HI> in tho&s;e days, being more powerful at Court than the Earl of <HI>Pem|broke;</HI> Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> by all his Addre&s;&s;es to the King and Council, could not find any Relief; And there being no Parliament from the time of that violent Entry and Intru&s;ion for the &s;pace of 12 Years together, during Sir <HI>William Courten</HI>'s Life, and his Sons Pro&s;perity, the &s;aid <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>Carli&s;le,</HI> and his Complices, took advantage therof, to continue the Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and granted a long Lea&s;e of the &s;aid I&s;land to the Lord <HI>Willoughby,</HI> which expired in the year 1669. who granted &s;everal parcels of the &s;aid I&s;land to &s;everal Planters and others, at yearly Rents.</P>
<P>In the year 1646. Several debates ari&s;ing between the Lord <HI>Willoughby,</HI> and the old Planters, concerning the original Right of the I&s;land and Plantations; Complaint was made thereof to the Long Parliament; Whereupon the Merchants of <HI>London</HI> claiming &s;everal Plantations by Purcha&s;e, trumpt up Sir <HI>William Courten</HI>'s Title to &s;helter them&s;elves again&s;t the Earl of <HI>Carli&s;le</HI>'s Patent, which was declared null and void. And <HI>William Courten,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Son and Heir of Sir <HI>Willi|am Courten,</HI> having ab&s;ented him&s;elf, for his own and his Fathers va&s;t Debts, occa&s;ioned by the &s;aid Spoi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s, and other Lo&s;&s;es hereafter mentioned, the Lady <HI>Katherine</HI> his Wife, appear'd in defence of his Right.</P>
<P>Then Endeavours were u&s;ed by the Creditors, for annexing the &s;aid I&s;land to the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> by Act of Parliament, as a County Palatine, with a Provi&s;o contained therein, That an exact Survey &s;hould be made, and the Original Co&s;ts and Damages of Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> Levied upon an Equitable Tax for the Benefit of the Heir and Creditors, but the &s;everal Revo|lutions in the Government ob&s;tructed the &s;ame, yet continually Claimed ever &s;ince.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>VVilliam Courten, Endimion Porter,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Thomas Kyna&s;ton</HI> Merchant, and others, in Com|pany with them, in the year 1635. (The late King being informed that the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Compa|ny of <HI>England</HI> had wa&s;ted &s;everal great Joynt-Stocks by their ill Conduct and Management of that Trade,) were per&s;waded by the King to undertake Trading-voyages to the <HI>Ea&s;t-India's, China</HI> and <HI>Japan,</HI> and gave Sir <HI>William</HI> and his Partners a Patent accordingly; who made Contracts with &s;everal <HI>Vice-Roys,</HI> and &s;ettled &s;everal Factories at <HI>Maccoa, Carwar</HI> and other parts near the Sea-Coa&s;t; Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar</HI> having advanced the Sum of 36000 <HI>l.</HI> in that fir&s;t Expedition, under Captain <HI>John Weddall,</HI> Captain <HI>Nath. Mountnay</HI> and others, (the Ships named the <HI>Dragon</HI> and <HI>Katherine,</HI> Richly Laden, homeward bound) were lo&s;t, both Ships, Goods and Men, <HI>not without great &s;uspition of being Sunk or Burnt by the</HI> Dutch.</P>
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<P> In the year 1641. <HI>William Courten</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Son, and Heir and &s;ole Executor of Sir <HI>Wil. Courten,</HI> and his Partners, &s;et forth the Ships named, the <HI>Bona E&s;peranza,</HI> and <HI>Henry Bona Adventura (inter alia)</HI> upon the &s;aid Trading-voyages for &s;upply of their Factories, and in the year 1643. the Ship <HI>Bona Esperanza</HI> was mo&s;t injuriou&s;ly &s;eized, by two Men of War belonging to the <HI>East-India</HI> Company of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> in the &s;treights of <HI>Malacca,</HI> from whence both Ship and Goods Were carried to <HI>Batavia,</HI> and there <HI>de facto</HI> confi&s;cated, without any due Proce&s;s at Law, and converted to the &s;aid <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Companies u&s;e, under pretence that <HI>Courten</HI> traded with the <HI>Portugals</HI> their Enemies.</P>
<P>In the &s;ame year the Ship called the <HI>Henry Bona Adventura,</HI> with her Lading, was taken into the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Company, by other of their Officers, and men of War, near the I&s;land of <HI>Mauritius,</HI> and al&s;o converted to their own u&s;e, in all to the Damage of Mr. <HI>Courten,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Proprietors 85000 <HI>l.</HI> Sterling, as by evident proofs taken in the High-Court of Admiralty appears.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar</HI> having an a&s;&s;ignment of 5500 <HI>l.</HI> out of the &s;aid two Ships, imployed <HI>Jonas Abeeles</HI> at <HI>Am&s;terdam,</HI> in the year 1648. by procuration to implead the &s;aid <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Com|pany for the &s;aid Money, with Intere&s;t, who intimated Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar</HI>'s right, but could not obtain the &s;aid 5500 <HI>l.</HI> The Company alledging that <HI>Jacob Pergens</HI> had notwith&s;tanding <HI>Jonas Abeeles</HI> prote&s;t and interdiction given &s;ecurity by <HI>Peter Boudaen</HI> of <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> to &s;ave the Company harmle&s;s and indempnified from Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar;</HI> whereupon the Directors at the Chamber in <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> payed <HI>Pergens</HI> accordingly, without any right thereunto, Mr. <HI>Courten</HI> having a&s;&s;igned his Share and Intere&s;t to Sir <HI>Edward Littleton,</HI> and Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar,</HI> in the year 1642. towards payment of his Debts.</P>
<P>In the year 1654. upon a Treaty of Peace and common Alliance between <HI>Oliver Cromwel</HI> and the <HI>States General,</HI> when the <HI>East-India</HI> Company of the <HI>Netherlands</HI> payed the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> old Com|pany 84000 <HI>l.</HI> Sterling towards the Spoyls and Depredations at <HI>Amboyna.</HI> It was agreed that the Spoyls and Depredations upon the two Ships, <HI>Bona E&s;peranza,</HI> and <HI>Henry Bona Adventura,</HI> &s;hould be referred to the Prote&s;tant Cantons of <HI>Switzerland,</HI> to determine what Reparations &s;hould be made for the &s;ame; But they could not be per&s;waded to meet upon that Affair, or to inter|meddle therein. So the matter re&s;ted in <HI>&s;tatu quo.</HI></P>
<P>Upon the Kings mo&s;t happy Re&s;tauration, in the year 1660. &s;everal Appliacations were made by the Proprietors, to his Maje&s;ty in <HI>Council,</HI> for Re&s;titution and Reparations of the Debt and Damages; Whereupon &s;everal Recommendations were made to the <HI>States General</HI> by His Ma|je&s;ty accordingly, and at la&s;t agreed in the Treaty 1662. that full and intire Reparations &s;hould be made for the &s;aid two Ships and their Lading, to the per&s;ons Intere&s;&s;ed and Injured.</P>
<P>In pur&s;uance whereof, Solicitations were made to the <HI>States General,</HI> and the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> for the &s;pace of two years together, without any effect.</P>
<P>In the year 1665. the Debt and Damages were &s;tated upon the Kings command, by Dr. <HI>Ex|ton,</HI> Judge of the Admiralty, which then amounted to the &s;um of 151612 <HI>l.</HI> &s;terling; whereupon Letters Patents for Reprizals pa&s;&s;ed judicially, under the Great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> to Sir <HI>Edward Turnor,</HI> Kt. and <HI>George Carew</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> their Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;igns, for recovery thereof, with Co&s;ts and Damages, on behalf of them&s;elves, and others intete&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>In which Patent it is expre&s;ly granted and declared by His Maje&s;ty, <HI>That the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion &s;hall remain and be in full Force and Power, to the &s;aid <HI>Turnor</HI> and <HI>Carew,</HI> their Executors, Ad|mini&s;trators and A&s;&s;igns, for recovery of the &s;aid</HI> 151612 l. <HI>with Co&s;ts and Damages, notwithstanding any Peace or Corre&s;pondency to be made or renewed between the <HI>King</HI> and the <HI>States,</HI> concerning any Publick or General Differences or Reprizals.</HI> And further, <HI>That although it &s;hould happen that all Ho&s;tility between the <HI>King</HI> and the <HI>States</HI> &s;hould cea&s;e;</HI> Yet his Maje&s;ty grants and declares, <HI>That this particular Commi&s;&s;ion &s;hould remain in full Force and Power, until the &s;aid Debt, Damages, Costs and Charges &s;hall be recovered, and received, or a Compo&s;ition be made for the &s;ame, be|tween the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company, and the &s;aid <HI>Turnor</HI> and <HI>Carew,</HI> their Executors, Admini&s;trators and A&s;&s;igns:</HI></P>
<P>In the year 1666. A third part of the &s;aid Debt was a&s;&s;igned to <HI>John Graham</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> and <HI>John Brown,</HI> Gent. on the behalf of them&s;elves and other Creditors with power to recover the &s;ame by Force of the Patent, as by the &s;aid Deed of a&s;&s;ignment, and Schedule of the Creditors an|nexed, dated the 14th. of <HI>May,</HI> 1666. appears.</P>
<P>In pur&s;uance whereof, &s;everal &s;mall Frigats were equipped and &s;et forth; But in regard the <HI>Hollanders</HI> and <HI>Zealanders</HI> traded under the Colours of <HI>Flemmings, Swedes, Hamburgers, Lubecker., Dantzickers,</HI> and others in <HI>Alliance</HI> with <HI>England,</HI> mo&s;t of the Ships and Goods ta|ken by Force of the &s;aid Patent, were claimed under tho&s;e pretences, and di&s;charged by the Ad|miralty; So that there was not <HI>(bona fide)</HI> 1500 <HI>l.</HI> reprized of the &s;aid Debt, Damages and Co&s;ts' as by the Regi&s;ter in the Admiralty appears.</P>
<P>In the year 1667, A Peace and common Alliance was concluded between the King and the
<PB REF="2">States General at <HI>Breda,</HI> wherein is mentioned, notwith&s;tanding the Kings &s;pecial Grant afore|&s;aid, that particular Letters of Reprizals ought to be comprehended and revoked by the &s;aid Treaty, although the Patent remains upon Record under tho&s;e Conditions, Grants, and Limi|tations, wherein the Subjects, by the common Law of <HI>England,</HI> are ve&s;ted both with an In|tere&s;t, and an Authority coupled together for recovering their Satisfaction.</P>
<P><HI>The &s;aid Grant being made of Common Right, as the Law directs, cannot be revoked or made void, or &s;u&s;pended by Proclamation, without Reparations to the Per&s;ons intere&s;&s;ed, other|wi&s;e the Laws and Statutes of this Realm would be rendered inneffectual, by a failer of Ju&s;tice.</HI></P>
<P>In the year 1672. New differences being ari&s;en between the King and the States General, the per&s;ons intere&s;&s;ed and injured, concerning the <HI>Bona E&s;peranza,</HI> and <HI>Henry Bona Adventurae,</HI> made fre&s;h applications to the King and Council for relief in a publick way; Whereupon the &s;aid Debt and Damages was revived, and expre&s;ly declared by the King and Council that the Treaty at <HI>Breda</HI> was void, and of no effect; and that His Maje&s;ty would in this particular ca&s;e of <HI>Pyndar</HI> and <HI>Courten,</HI> (as he was in Ju&s;tice and Honour bound to do,) &s;ee that the Debt and Damages afore&s;aid, &s;hould be &s;atisfied and repayed, and gave In&s;tructions to Sir <HI>Lionel Jenkins</HI> and Sir <HI>Jo&s;eph William&s;on,</HI> his Amba&s;&s;adors and Plenipotentaries at <HI>Cologne,</HI> to that end and pur|po&s;e accordingly, as by the Original Orders, Declarations and Reports, may appears.</P>
<P>In the year 1674, Another Treaty of Peace and Common Alliance was concluded at <HI>London,</HI> between the King and the States General, wherein it was agreed that 800000 Patacoons &s;hould be payed to His Maje&s;ty by the States General, at four yearly payments; the fir&s;t upon Ratifi|ing of the Treaty, and by the 7th. Article thereof confirmed the Treaty at <HI>Breda,</HI> and all former Treaties, without any other notice of <HI>Pyndar</HI> or <HI>Courten</HI>'s Debt and Damages.</P>
<P>Upon the &s;aid Ratification 200000 Patacoons were a&s;&s;igned, and paid to <HI>Alderman Backwel</HI> for other Services, and the 600000 remaining were transferred to the <HI>Prince of Orange,</HI> upon pretence of old Debts due to his Father and Grandfather, from the late King, although the &s;aid Prince made his Fortune (in that War &amp; Alliance) of all the Blood &amp; Trea&s;ure &s;pent therein, being re&s;tored to his Ance&s;tors Honours and Offices, enriching him&s;elf, as Lord High Admiral by the tenths out of all <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Ships and Goods, taken the la&s;t War. And notwith&s;tanding the Proprietors of the <HI>Bona E&s;peranza,</HI> and <HI>Henry Bona Adventura,</HI> made &s;everal Addre&s;&s;es to the King and the States General re&s;pectively, that &s;ome part of the Patacoons might be appled to|wards &s;atisfaction of their Debt, Damages and Co&s;ts afore&s;aid, (which remains &s;till in <HI>&s;tatu quo,</HI>) yet nothing could be obtained in this &s;pecial Ca&s;e, incumbent upon the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company of <HI>Holland,</HI> the States General, and the Crown of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>In the year 1676. Several Actions depending at Law in <HI>Middleburgh, Amsterdam,</HI> and the <HI>Hague,</HI> upon Obligations, Bills of Exchange, and Merchants Accompts, amounting to 128600 <HI>l.</HI> or thereabouts, again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Jacob Pergens,</HI> and the Heirs and Executors of <HI>Peter Boudaen</HI> and Sir <HI>Peter Courten,</HI> who were Co-Partners with Sir <HI>VVilliam Courten</HI> in the Linen-Trade, were po&s;itively interdicted by the States of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand;</HI> And the Judges by expre&s;s Orders of the &s;aid States, prohibited from doing any manner of Ju&s;tice to the Heirs, Executors Admini&s;tra|tors, or A&s;&s;igns of Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar,</HI> Sir <HI>Edward Littleton,</HI> and <HI>VVilliam Cour|ten</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> decea&s;ed; upon pretence they were relea&s;ed, and di&s;charged by the two la&s;t Treaties of common Alliance between the King and the States General; (which are forced Interpetations again&s;t all common Sen&s;e and Rea&s;on) &s;everal Applications were made to the King and Coun|cil, that right might be done, by His Maje&s;ties mo&s;t gracious Interpo&s;ition and effectual recom|mendation to the States of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand,</HI> or by further Reprizals again&s;t tho&s;e two Pro|vinces re&s;pectively, but no Relief could be obtained thereupon, according to the merits of the &s;aid Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>In the Month of <HI>April,</HI> 1680. The Creditors, under <HI>Graham</HI> and <HI>Brown</HI>'s a&s;&s;ignment, con&s;i|dering the Premi&s;es, and that the States were at Peace with all Nations, and even with their Confederates the <HI>Algerines;</HI> The &s;aid Creditors agreed to &s;et forth 2 or 3 Frigats to reprize their proportion of the &s;aid Debt and Damages, in pur&s;uance of their Grant afore&s;aid, as A&s;&s;ignees under the Patent, and &s;o entred their Ships in the Admiralty, under the Command of Captain <HI>Compton Gwyther,</HI> Captain <HI>Roger Hawk&s;head,</HI> and Captain <HI>Thomas Wood</HI> accordingly.</P>
<P><HI>There cannot be found the like Parallel in any Kingdom or Nation in the World, that two &s;uch Per&s;ons as Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> and <HI>Sir Paul Pyndar,</HI> that had &s;uch va&s;t Estates, &s;o imployed in the Service of their King and Country, that were ever &s;o neglected, and their Families after them, &s;o long appealing for Ju&s;tice, without any Redre&s;s, &s;till lying under tho&s;e Circumstances of Di&s;couragement, that no Relation or Servant of theirs, were ever preferred or admitted into any Publick Imployment &s;ince the Kings Re&s;tauration, not &s;o much as to a <HI>Land-waiters-place</HI> at the <HI>Cu&s;tom-hou&s;e.</HI></HI></P>
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<HEAD>To the Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es in PARLIAMENT A&s;&s;embled.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Humble Petition of <HI>Thomas Kyna&s;ton</HI> Merchant, (&s;urviving Partner and Adven|turer with Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> to the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies) William Courten</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Grandchild and Heir of Sir <HI>William Courten</HI> Knight, decea&s;ed; <HI>George Carew</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Admini&s;tra|tor of the Goods and Chattels of Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar</HI> Knight, decea&s;ed, with his Will annexed; <HI>Thomas Coppin</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> <HI>Gilbert Crouch</HI> Gent. one of the Executors and A&s;&s;ignee of <HI>Francis</HI> late Earl of <HI>Shrewsbury;</HI> and <HI>James Boeve</HI> Merchant, on behalf of them&s;elves, and divers other Families in <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat your Petitioners, their Ancestors and Te&s;tators, having been &s;poiled, grie|ved and oppre&s;&s;ed many years together, in <HI>Barbadoes,</HI> and other parts of the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Indies,</HI> as al&s;o in the Provinces of <HI>Holland</HI>and <HI>Zealand,</HI> and even at home, to their ine&s;timable lo&s;s and damages, and the mi&s;erable di&s;tre&s;s of many Orphans and Widows, who&s;e Monies (put out at Intere&s;t into the hands of Sir <HI>William Courten,</HI> and Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar</HI>) were imployed in Plantations, Navigation and Commerce, to the great Improvement of the Nation.</P>
<P>Your Petitioners made &s;everal Applications to His Maje&s;ty, and the Lords of His mo&s;t Honourable Privy-Councel, for Relief, and to others Delegated from the King, but could obtain no effectual Redre&s;s in the premi&s;&s;es, as by the Ca&s;es annexed appears.</P>
<P>That your Petitioners have been denied the ordinary cour&s;e of Law and Ju&s;tice in the due pro&s;ecution of their Rights and Properties, upon Civil Actions in <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zea|land,</HI> to the great Contempt of the King and Kingdom, and the particular and intollerable Lo&s;s and Damages of your Petitioners, and others His Majesties good Subjects, upon pretence that their particular Debts and Damages were di&s;charged and relea&s;ed by Treaties of Common Alliance.</P>
<P>That your Petitioners have likewi&s;e been ob&s;tructed in the due Execution of their Ju|dicial Proceedings in <HI>England,</HI> by Orders of the Council-Table; whereby they have been much prejudiced in their Liberties, Properties and Estates, contrary to the Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realm.</P>
<P>Now fora&s;much as your Petitioners are left without all other Remedy, and it being of mo&s;t dangerous Con&s;equence to all Civil Society and Commerce, to &s;uffer any failer of Justice to the Subjects of <HI>England,</HI> either at home or abroad; a nece&s;&s;ity lies upon your Petitioners, according to the inherent Rights and Priviledges of <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI> to make their applications to your Honours for Redre&s;s.</P>
<P>Your Petitioners therefore do mo&s;t humbly pray, That their Grievances and Op|pre&s;&s;ions may be taken into the most &s;erious Con&s;ideration of this Honourable Hou&s;e, That after Examination thereof by a Select Committee, your Petitio|ners may be relieved by an Effectual Recommendation made to His Maje&s;ty, or by &s;uch other ways and means as to your Wi&s;doms &s;hall &s;eem meet.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>And your Petitioners &s;hall ever pray,</HI> &amp;c.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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