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<NAME>John Latta</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament.
<HI>The humble Petition of Sir</HI> Paul Pyndar, <HI>Sir</HI> John Jacob, <HI>Sir</HI> Job Harby, <HI>Sir</HI> Thomas Dawes, <HI>Executor to Sir</HI> Abraham Dawes, <HI>late dccea&s;ed, Sir</HI> Nicholas Cri&s;pe, <HI>Sir</HI> John Nulls, <HI>and Sir</HI> John Harri&s;on, <HI>Knights; late contracted Farmers of the Cu&s;tomes, together with their Creditors.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>HUMBLY SHEVVING,</OPENER>
<P>_THAT the &s;aid Farmers, having hereunto annexed a &s;hort Remon&s;trance of the &s;tate of their pre&s;ent &s;ad condition; with the Cour&s;e of their proceedings with His late Maje&s;ty and this Honorable Hou&s;e; and how far, and in what manner, both His Maje&s;ty, and the Hou&s;e, have thought fit to di&s;charge and &s;atisfie their di&s;bur&s;ements and ingagements, formerly a&s;&s;igned upon a Contracted Farm, to be paid out of the Receipt of the Cu&s;toms, which were otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed of by the Parliament. And &s;ince having other &s;ecurity appointed by His Maje&s;ty for their &s;atisfaction, with reference and order (upon their former Petition) that Ordinances &s;hould be prepared for their relief, according to the former ingagements of the Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>YOur Petitioners therefore doe humbly pray, That this Honourable Hou&s;e would vouch&s;afe the reading this &s;hort annexed Remon&s;trance, and &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider the heavy pre&s;&s;ure and burden your Petitioners have long &s;u&s;tained, by &s;o great a Debt contracted upon them; and that report may be made of the true &s;tate and condition of their ca&s;e, from the Committee of the Navy, long &s;ince referred and examined by them; whereby your Petitioners may receive a comfortable relief and &s;atisfaction, for their Debt due unto them, by &s;uch wayes and means as have been propounded, and that in order thereunto, &s;ome Acts may be prepared, according to former directions of this Honourable Hou&s;e: And we your Petitioners, with all ours, &s;hall ever have occa&s;ion to acknowledge your Ju&s;tice.</P>
<CLOSER>And daily pray, &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A brief Remon&s;trance of the &s;tate of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Sir <HI>Paul Pyndar,</HI> Sir <HI>John Jacob,</HI> Sir <HI>Job Harby,</HI> Sir <HI>Thomas Dawes,</HI> Executor to Sir <HI>Abraham Dawes,</HI> decea&s;ed, Sir <HI>Nicholas Cri&s;pe,</HI> Sir <HI>John Nulls,</HI> and Sir <HI>John Harri&s;on,</HI> Knights; late contracted Farmers of the Cu&s;tomes, for their Debt owing by His late Maje&s;ty unto them thereupon.</HEAD>
<P>_AFTER their &s;ecurity of the Cu&s;tomes was otherwi&s;e di&s;po&s;ed of by the Parliament, the &s;aid contracted Farmers did apply them|&s;elves by Petition unto His &s;aid Maje&s;ty, for their &s;atisfaction by &s;ome other branch of His Revenue.</P>
<P>Which Petition was by His Maje&s;ty referred unto His then Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Trea&s;ury, to con&s;ider &s;ome way of &s;atis|faction of the Debt then due unto the Farmers.</P>
<P>Whereupon the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Trea&s;ury, did by their Certificate unto His Maje&s;ty, dated the 15^t^h^. of <HI>May,</HI> 1642. propo&s;e and advi&s;e His Maje&s;ty the be&s;t and mo&s;t advantageous way for the &s;atisfaction of the Farmers &s;aid debt, to be out of the &s;ale of &s;uch His Forre&s;ts lands, Chaces and Parkes, as are annuall charges unto His Maje&s;ty, and &s;erve not for His royall di&s;port, whereby His Maje&s;ty &s;hould not only pay His Debt, but much advance His Revenue.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty by His Letter, dated the fir&s;t of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1642. from <HI>Yorke</HI> directed unto His &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Trea&s;ury in an&s;wer to their Certificate of the 15^t^h^. of <HI>May,</HI> 1642 afore&s;aid, and taking thereby con&s;ideration of a Petition then exhibited unto His Maje&s;ty at <HI>Yorke,</HI> with a &s;cedule of the Farmers Debt, together with intere&s;t incurred for the &s;ame, which Hee &s;ends to the Commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;ignified that for the rea&s;ons in the Certificate mentioned, Hee was very well enclined to di&s;charge the Farmers &s;aid Debt, and re&s;olved by all po&s;&s;ible wayes and means &s;peedily to &s;atisfie the &s;ame; And therefore did thereby require with all convenient &s;peed, a Li&s;t of all His Parkes, Forre&s;ts, and Chaces to be pre&s;ented unto Him, to the end Hee might &s;peedily give further order how to di&s;po&s;e of them. And His Maje&s;ties Surveyour generall was for the more &s;peedy effecting His plea&s;ure, required thereby to give particulars and con&s;tats of the premi&s;es unto the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners: Which was done accordingly by the &s;aid Surveyour generall.</P>
<P>And now the Farmers bu&s;ine&s;s being brought to this mature condition, upon the very point of &s;atisfaction, to be &s;etled for their Debt, in the way afore&s;aid, the difference with His Maje&s;ty and Parliament then ari&s;ing, and &s;o continuing, did hinder the Farmers from any further applications unto His Maje&s;ty then what afore&s;aid.</P>
<P>Yet notwith&s;tanding the Farmers groaning under &s;o great a burden of Debt, could not but endeavour all means before them offered, and being made more mi&s;erable by a great fine paid by them to the Parliament, <HI>Anno</HI> 1641. (the &s;um being <HI>165000l.)</HI> the Hou&s;e then con&s;idering the greatne&s;&s;e of the Fine, and the &s;peciall u&s;e and &s;ervice the Common-wealth did receive at that pre&s;ent, by the &s;peedy payment thereof, for the then disbanding of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Armies; the &s;aid Farmers were then promi&s;ed, that care &s;hould be taken for the &s;atisfaction of their Debt in due time.</P>
<P>Hereupon the &s;aid Farmers in <HI>May,</HI> 1645. did renew their reque&s;t unto the Hou&s;e of Commons by Petition, for order and directions, that their Debt and engagements might be di&s;charged and &s;atisfied.</P>
<P>The Hou&s;e the 14^t^h^. of <HI>May,</HI> 1645. ordered, That the &s;aid Petition &s;hould be referred to the con&s;ideration of the Committee of the Navy, who were to prepare Ordinances for the relief of the Petitioners, according to the former engagements of the Hou&s;e, and they had power to receive &s;uch propo&s;itions as &s;hould be tendered unto them by the Petitioners.</P>
<P>In pro&s;ecution hereof, the Farmers did attend the Committee of the Navy &s;everall dayes, and did by their order, pre&s;ent unto them an Accompt of His Maje&s;ties Debt then due (being <HI>276146 l. 15s. 11d</HI> &frac14;.) And further did give an accompt of their proceedings and former engagements of His Maje&s;ty to be &s;atisfied their Debt out of His Forre&s;ts, Parkes and Chaces, as is aforementioned at large: And delivered unto the &s;aid Committee a copy of His Maje&s;ties &s;aid Letter, of the fir&s;t of <HI>Iune,</HI> 1642. together with a particular Li&s;t of the names of His Maje&s;ties Forre&s;ts, Parkes and Chaces, which was formerly delivered by the Surveyour generall unto His Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Trea&s;ury.</P>
<P>The Committee of the Navy after &s;erious debate of this bu&s;ine&s;s, did in fine (as we were informed) come to this re&s;olution, and ordered a report to be made forthwith unto the Hou&s;e, in an&s;wer unto the &s;aid reference, &s;hewing to the Hou&s;e, how the Petitioners might receive relief, according to the ju&s;tne&s;s of their de&s;ires.</P>
<P>This report the Farmers have often &s;ollicited, to be made, but the Hou&s;e being taken up with generall and publick bu&s;ine&s;s, could not admit of an opportunity or &s;ea&s;on to hear this particular, &s;o that it remains ever &s;ince in this condition unreported. And without &s;peedy relief herein, the &s;aid Farmers mu&s;t peri&s;h in pri&s;on, to the utter ruine of them&s;elves and families, together with many hone&s;t men, women, and orphans, for this engagement unhappily become their Creditors.</P>
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