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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B140731.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>PRO<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">OS<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">O<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> For the Rai&s;ing of 150000^l^. to be Advanced and Lent TO HIS MAJESTY.</HEAD>
<P>WHEREAS There is owing to the late Farmers of the Cu&s;toms, the Sum of 253242 <HI>l.</HI> 13 <HI>s.</HI> 5 <HI>d.</HI> or thereabouts, which they advanced aforehand unto His late Maje&s;ty, upon the Contract for His Cu|&s;toms, as by Tallies or Con&s;tars thereof may appear, a very large part whereof they borrowed and became ingaged for.</P>
<P><HI>It is Propounded,</HI> If the &s;aid Farmers and their Creditors, can and &s;hall rai&s;e the Sum of 150000 <HI>l.</HI> to be Advanced <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Lent His Maje&s;ty, and to be paid in within a Moneth, That then the &s;aid Money &s;o advanced and Lent, as al&s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;aid Debt of 253242 <HI>l.</HI> 13 <HI>s.</HI> 5 <HI>d.</HI> &s;hall be paid to the &s;aid Farmers and Creditors re&s;pectively, within the com|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;s of four year from the 24^t^h day of <HI>June</HI> next coming 1661. in manner following, <HI>viz.</HI> The money &s;o to be Ad|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">anced and Lent to be Repaid with Intere&s;t thereof, at three equal Payments, half yearly from the &s;aid 24^t^h of <HI>June,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">661. and the Principal money or old Debt of 253242 <HI>l.</HI> 13 <HI>s.</HI> 5 <HI>d.</HI> to be paid them by five equal Payments, half <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">early within the remainder of the &s;aid four years, after the three fir&s;t half years. All which to be &s;ecured by His Ma|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ties Cu&s;toms; and in ca&s;e of failing thereof, then to be furhter &s;ecured by the Exci&s;e.</P>
<P>If this Propo&s;ition &s;hall be acceptable to His Maje&s;ty, then in all humblene&s;s His Approbation under His Signe Manual, is de&s;ired for the better and more &s;peedy effecting thereof</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>April 9. 1661.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Sub&s;cribed by
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<ITEM>JOB HARBY.</ITEM>
<ITEM>JO: JACOB.</ITEM>
<ITEM>NICH: CRISP.</ITEM>
<ITEM>JO: HARRISON.</ITEM>
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<P>I approve of this Propo&s;ition, and the Lord Trea&s;urer is to perfait it.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>C. R.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>His Maje&s;ty having mo&s;t graciou&s;ly approved of this Propo&s;ition, the only Remedy for the &s;atisfaction of this great Debt, If it &s;hall plea&s;e the <HI>East India</HI> Company intere&s;&s;ed in that joint Stock, to double their remaining principal Deb<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and the re&s;t of the Creditors to double al&s;o their remaining principal Debts, We the &s;aid late Farmers (being di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">harged of all Obligations and Incumbrances what&s;oever, concerning the &s;ame Debt, both in our Per&s;ons and E&s;tates, thereby we may be made capable) will undertake by our &s;elves and friends to bring in 50000 <HI>l.</HI> to adde to the re&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he Doubling, to make up the &s;aid 150000 <HI>l.</HI> for which &s;ufficient &s;ecurity according to the Propo&s;ition &s;hall be pa&s;&s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;everal Feoffees to be indifferently nominat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d; whereupon we have fir&s;t here unto Sub&s;cribed, hoping that with|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n ten days after the Date hereof, the &s;aid Company and Creditors will al&s;o Sub&s;cribed, and that all of us may procure <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">heir Money according to the Propo&s;ition above&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated <DATE>the 20th. day of <HI>April,</HI> 1661.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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