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<HEAD><HI>Mr. HEWER's Reply TO THE Petition</HI> of the <HI>Tanger-Inhabitants.</HI></HEAD>
<P><LABEL><HI>Article</HI> I.</LABEL> <HI>THat in the Years</HI> 85 <HI>and</HI> 86 <HI>there were granted me (as Trea&s;urer for</HI> Tanger) <HI>two Privy Seals of 50000 l. each, for paying the Arrears due to the Petitioners and Garri&s;on there, at the time of its demoli&s;hing.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;wer.</LABEL> 'Tis acknowledg'd.</P>
<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> II.</LABEL> <HI>That I have receiv'd upon the&s;e Privy Seals</HI> 90000 l.</P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> The Total receiv'd thereon is 72200 l. and no more; there re&s;ting unpaid of the &s;ame at this day 27800 l.</P>
<P><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> A <HI>Con&s;tat</HI> from the <HI>Exchequer,</HI> under the Hand of Sir <HI>Robert Howard.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> III.</LABEL> <HI>That I did for a long time clande&s;tinely keep from them, the knowledge both of the &s;aid Seals and Mony; making to my &s;elf in the mean time con&s;iderable profit of the &s;ame.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> The little Truth, or po&s;&s;ibility of any, in this Sugge&s;tion, ap|pears;
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<ITEM>1. From the diver&s;ity of the Publick Offices (acce&s;&s;ible to all En|quirers) through which every Privy Seal, as well as Exchequer Payment, nece&s;&s;arily pa&s;&s;es; to the rendring the concealment of either wholly im|practicable.
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<ITEM><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> The known <HI>Number</HI> (no le&s;s then 6) and <HI>Methods</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>Offices.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>2. From their having had in con&s;tant Pay, a <HI>Me&s;&s;enger</HI> and <HI>Solicitors</HI> of their own appointment and Number, daily attending between the <HI>Trea&s;ury,</HI> the <HI>Exchequer, Them&s;elves,</HI> and <HI>Me;</HI> for the looking after and adverti&s;ing them of every day's proceeding, relating to this Affair.
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<ITEM><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> Their own Hands.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>3. From a <HI>Compari&s;on</HI> ea&s;ie to be made, of the <HI>Dates</HI> of my Receipts for Monies out of the <HI>Exchequer,</HI> and tho&s;e of theirs upon their Payments from <HI>Me.</HI> Which will be found &s;eldom di&s;tant 3 days, never 7; but on the contrary, the advancements of Mony on my &s;ide for the mo&s;t part to pre|cede by much greater di&s;tances, the actual Payments from the Exchequer to me.
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<ITEM><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> Sir <HI>Robert Howard</HI>'s foremention'd Certificate; their own Original <HI>Acquitances;</HI> and my frequent <HI>Reports</HI> of both to the Lords of the Trea&s;ury.</ITEM>
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<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> IV.</LABEL> <HI>That I have (be&s;ides my Salary from the King) taken from them upon every Payment,</HI> 12 d. <HI>poundage and</HI> 4 s. <HI>per</HI> l. <HI>Compo&s;ition-Mony, amounting together to</HI> 25 per Cent. <HI>nece&s;&s;itating them to compound or &s;ell me their Arrears upon my own Terms.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL>
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<ITEM>1. That 12 <HI>d. per l.</HI> was by <HI>Their</HI> own joynt Order to <HI>Me</HI> in writing, &s;topt out of every of their Payments; to be di&s;po&s;ed of by a di&s;tri|bution
<PB N="2" REF="3"> of their own, among &s;everal <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> by them&s;elves named (of whom <HI>My Self</HI> but one) in expre&s;s Requital for a <HI>Service,</HI> nothing relating to my <HI>Trea&s;urer&s;hip,</HI> which they then own'd to have been done them in the col|lecting, examining, and adju&s;ting, the numerous, perplex'd, and clamorous <HI>Reckonings</HI> and <HI>Scores</HI> depending at <HI>Tanger,</HI> at the time of its demolition, between <HI>Them</HI> and the <HI>Military Officers</HI> there. A Work of &s;everal <HI>Months</HI> continu'd Labour; and what for the <HI>Moment</HI> of it, they owe the Recovery of their whole <HI>E&s;tates</HI> there entirely to. And for the acknowledgement thus made for it; as it was on <HI>My</HI> part neither de&s;ired nor expected, but came long after the <HI>Service</HI> was done; &s;o was it done with &s;o declared a Satis|faction on <HI>Theirs,</HI> as to have been afterwards by them&s;elves not only fre|quently confirm'd; but in a <HI>Repre&s;entation</HI> of their own, to the Lords of the <HI>Trea&s;ury,</HI> touching the Method of <HI>My</HI> then Payments to them (even with this <HI>Defalcation</HI>) reckon'd for no <HI>Abatement.</HI>
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<ITEM><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> The Originals of their &s;aid <HI>Order, Repre&s;entation,</HI> and other Papers under their Hands.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>2. That as to the 4 <HI>s. per l.</HI> the pretended <HI>Compo&s;ition-Money;</HI> I have it to ob&s;erve, that for &s;o much of their <HI>Debt,</HI> as the Lords of the <HI>Trea&s;ury</HI> thought fit to enable me to di&s;charge with <HI>Mony in &s;pecie,</HI> the &s;ame was &s;trictly made good to them as I received it, without the lea&s;t <HI>Defalcation,</HI> other then that before mention'd. But when, upon the <HI>Lords</HI> becoming le&s;s &s;atisfied herein, from &s;ome later Notices that toucht the general <HI>Merit</HI> of the <HI>Petitioners</HI> Claims, and their being thereby led to a <HI>Backwardne&s;s</HI> in further burthening the <HI>King</HI> with the Charge of <HI>Extraordinary Intere&s;t</HI> for rai&s;ing Mony for them, the <HI>Petitioners</HI> found them&s;elves unable by any applications to obtain, for many <HI>Months</HI> together, any further Supplies; notwith&s;tanding a <HI>Propo&s;ition</HI> they had long before made to their <HI>Lord|&s;hips,</HI> of abating 6 <HI>per Cent. per Annum</HI> for two years, towards the ea&s;ing his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> in that Charge. They became re&s;tle&s;s <HI>Soliciters</HI> to me, for the imploying my <HI>Credit</HI> (with the aid of the <HI>Allowance</HI> they had &s;o un&s;uc|ce&s;sfully offer'd to the <HI>Lords</HI>) for procuring them the advance of their Monys upon the <HI>Fonds</HI> I &s;hould next be &s;upply'd with towards it. Which from my regard to the Condition of the <HI>Petitioners,</HI> and at the in&s;tance of the late Noble Lord, my Honoured Friend the Lord <HI>Dartmouth,</HI> their known Patron, I was prevail'd with to do; and did it with &s;uch effect, as by my own <HI>Credit</HI> alone, and <HI>Friends,</HI> to have rai&s;ed them every <HI>Penny</HI> they have &s;ince receiv'd; and with it clear'd the whole of what either of <HI>Right,</HI> or by <HI>Promi&s;e</HI> in his Maje&s;ties Name from that <HI>Noble Lord,</HI> they then had, or now have to pretend to, payable by my hand, from the <HI>King.</HI> And this upon terms of <HI>Abatement</HI> &s;o much beneath what is here &s;ugge&s;ted of 4 <HI>s. per l.</HI> and yet more, that of 25 <HI>per Cent.</HI> as not to have ex|ceeded 2 <HI>s. per l.</HI> or 5 <HI>per Cent.</HI> Which is lower by 1 <HI>per Cent.</HI> than what them&s;elves (as before) had offer'd to the <HI>Lords</HI> for the &s;ame <HI>Service,</HI> with no acceptance; and was not only received as an <HI>Office</HI> mo&s;t grateful to them at the time of its <HI>Tran&s;action,</HI> but has ever &s;ince with like <HI>Thank|fulne&s;s</HI> been on all occa&s;ions acknowledged to me by them for &s;uch.
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<ITEM><LABEL>PROOFS,</LABEL> Their Propo&s;ition to the Lords, with other Evidences under their Hands, be&s;ides an Appeal to their own Memories.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Which</HI> being the Ca&s;e of the&s;e two <HI>Defalcations</HI> (both of them by their own <HI>De&s;ires,</HI> and both for their own <HI>Service</HI> only) I do, as <HI>Trea&s;urer,</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="3" MS="y"> utterly Di&s;claim the having receiv'd from any of them the lea&s;t <HI>Con&s;idera|tion</HI> in the Execution of my <HI>Office,</HI> other than the bare <HI>Salary</HI> allow'd me for it by the <HI>King.</HI> But &s;o much the contrary, as out of a &s;ingularity of <HI>Tenderne&s;s</HI> to the <HI>Petitioners,</HI> to have wholly remitted to them a Claim to <HI>Poundage,</HI> which Univer&s;al Practice through every Part of the <HI>Publick Service,</HI> both by <HI>Land</HI> and <HI>Sea,</HI> makes a Right of the <HI>Trea&s;urers,</HI> upon all <HI>Stopages</HI> for Debts made by Con&s;ent for the U&s;e of private <HI>Creditors.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And</HI> &s;o much I value my &s;elf upon the <HI>Sincerity</HI> of my Proceedings pa&s;t, and the <HI>Truth</HI> of all my pre&s;ent <HI>Allegations</HI> herein, as to be ready to repay <HI>Ten-Fold,</HI> for every <HI>Penny</HI> I &s;hall upon Proof be found to have directly or indirectly, by my &s;elf or others, taken or receiv'd, from any one of the <HI>Petitioners,</HI> upon any Account whatever, beyond what I here declare.</P>
<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> V.</LABEL> <HI>That through my unju&s;t Dealings, many of the&s;e Inhabitants have peri&s;h'd, and &s;ome of them in Goal.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> How far this may in <HI>Fact</HI> be true, I know not. But this I know; that as this is the fir&s;t time of my ever meeting with it; &s;o is it not (be it true) to be charg'd upon the want of any thing within my Cognizance due to them from the King, or within my own power to have been otherwi&s;e helpful to them in. Witne&s;s the <HI>Many</HI> of them, whom I have &s;uccour'd, both by my private Charity and other good Offices; And <HI>Some,</HI> who at this very day owe their <HI>Freedom</HI> to my only <HI>Forbearance</HI> of them, for Monies due and un&s;atisfied, which in their <HI>Di&s;tre&s;&s;es</HI> I have &s;upply'd them with, upon <HI>None</HI> or at mo&s;t upon <HI>Common Intere&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> Their own Memories, or (that failing) other Evidences ready to be &s;hewn them under their Hands.</P>
<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> VI.</LABEL> <HI>That I have</HI> 20000 l. <HI>upon the&s;e Privy Seals at this Day Re&s;ting in my Hands.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> So far is it from my being <HI>Debtor,</HI> either in this or any other Sum upon the&s;e <HI>Seals;</HI> that every <HI>Penny</HI> of <HI>Money</HI> I have pay'd to the People of this Place &s;ince <HI>Mid&s;ummer</HI> 1688. (which is now little &s;hort of 7 <HI>Years</HI>) has been out of my own <HI>Pur&s;e,</HI> to near 3000 l. more than ever I received thereon. And this, without a Farthing of it <HI>Reim|bur&s;ed,</HI> or any <HI>Fond</HI> yet &s;upply'd me for &s;ecuring its <HI>Reimbur&s;ement,</HI> to this Day.</P>
<P><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> My &s;everal <HI>Reports</HI> of the State of my <HI>Receipts</HI> and <HI>Payments</HI> to the Lords of the Trea&s;ury; with the general and particular <HI>State</HI> thereof accompanying this.</P>
<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> VII.</LABEL> <HI>They therefore Pray, That I may be obliged to Account for the &s;aid Monies.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> An <HI>Account</HI> goes herewith of every <HI>Sum,</HI> great and &s;mall, by me <HI>Receiv'd</HI> and <HI>Pay'd</HI> upon each of the&s;e <HI>Privy Seals;</HI> &s;hewing the <HI>Value</HI> of each <HI>Sum,</HI> the di&s;tinct <HI>Day</HI> of each <HI>Receipt</HI> and <HI>Pay|ment,</HI> the particular <HI>Hand</HI> from or to which the &s;ame has been &s;o <HI>Re|ceived</HI> or <HI>Pay'd,</HI> and on what <HI>Account.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> The Exchequer-<HI>Con&s;tat</HI> for my <HI>Receipts,</HI> and Original <HI>Acquitances</HI> for my <HI>Payments.</HI></P>
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<P><LABEL><HI>Art.</HI> VIII.</LABEL> <HI>And that I may Pay them their ju&s;t Due.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>An&s;w.</LABEL> The Gro&s;s of their <HI>Debt</HI> from his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> payable by <HI>Me,</HI> was cleared within the <HI>Year</HI> 1687, and the &s;mall <HI>Remainders</HI> thereof, &s;ince. So as to have left no one <HI>Penny</HI> of this their <HI>Tanger-Debt</HI> (to which alone his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> &s;tood Intitled by any Promi&s;e of the Lord <HI>Dartmouth</HI>'s) un&s;atisfied to any one <HI>Inhabitant</HI> of them (within my Notice) for full 6 Years pa&s;t.</P>
<P><LABEL>PROOF,</LABEL> The foremention'd <HI>Accounts</HI> and <HI>Reports,</HI> with their own Original <HI>Acquitances.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Which</HI> having &s;aid, and therein valued my &s;elf upon no <HI>Private A&s;&s;erti|ons</HI> of my own, or even my <HI>Oath</HI> (which yet, if required, I am ready to give) for the Truth of any Particular; but upon <HI>Evidences,</HI> either wholly in|conte&s;table, or &s;uch as the <HI>Petitioners</HI> them&s;elves are mo&s;t concern'd to &s;upport the <HI>Credit</HI> of; I take Liberty only of &s;ubjoyning this one <HI>Appeal</HI> for the <HI>Whole,</HI> to the Right Honourable the <HI>Lords</HI> of the <HI>Trea&s;ury,</HI> before whom this <HI>Matter</HI> has wholly lain. <HI>Whether</HI> within the Ten entire Years of its <HI>Negotiation,</HI> any one Word of <HI>Complaint,</HI> or <HI>Exception</HI> there|to, has ever come before their <HI>Lord&s;hips;</HI> from who&s;e Hands, and un|der the Protection of the <HI>Noble Lord</HI> before Named then Living, they could not have wanted a quick <HI>Relief;</HI> without needing to have Expo&s;ed, either <HI>Them&s;elves</HI> to the <HI>Con&s;equences</HI> of &s;o many Years <HI>Want</HI> of it, if Due: Or <HI>Me</HI> (if otherwi&s;e) to the <HI>Di&s;appointments,</HI> which &s;uch an <HI>Interval</HI> might have brought upon any <HI>Accomptant,</HI> le&s;s Fortunate in the Order and Pre&s;ervation of his <HI>Papers,</HI> than on this Occa&s;ion it has been my good <HI>Hap</HI> to be.</P>
<P><HI>And</HI> from whence it comes at this <HI>Di&s;tance</HI> to be now fir&s;t rai&s;ed by them, will receive a &s;atisfactory <HI>Opening,</HI> &s;o &s;oon as by this my <HI>An&s;wer</HI> and its <HI>Proofs,</HI> I &s;hall have acquitted my Self as I ought, to the <HI>Con|tents</HI> of their <HI>Petition.</HI></P>
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