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<HEAD>REASONS Why Sir <HI>John Champante</HI>'s two la&s;t Accompts, between him and the late Undertakers of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Revenue, Stated by Mr. <HI>Roberts,</HI> &s;hould not be open'd. Drawn out of the Proofs of the Cau&s;e.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>Roberts</HI> Authorized to &s;tate Ac|compts.</NOTE>_MR. <HI>Roberts,</HI> who was the Repre&s;entative of Mr. <HI>George Da&s;hwood,</HI> one of the Undertakers, with the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Secretary, and two Clerks of the Undertaking, made up, and clo&s;ed the &s;aid Ac|compts, by Virtue of an Authority from Sir <HI>James Hayes, John Stepney,</HI> and <HI>John Hays,</HI> E&s;quires, the only Per&s;ons then acting for the Undertaking, and who declared, when they gave <HI>Roberts</HI> the &s;aid Authority, that they had full Power from the re&s;t of the Partners and Undertakers, to tran&s;|act and fini&s;h all the concerns thereof. And &s;o my Lord <HI>Ranelagh,</HI> by his Letter of 22d of <HI>May,</HI> 1677. owns that their Signing would bind all the re&s;t; which he confe&s;&s;es al&s;o in his An&s;wer to Sir <HI>John Champante</HI>'s Bill in <HI>Ireland,</HI> as by the Decree in <HI>Ireland</HI> may appear.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">His Method, Care and In|du&s;ty in the &s;ame.</NOTE>In the making up, and &s;tating the&s;e Accompts, made up in the Method the Authority pre&s;cribes, Mr. <HI>Roberts,</HI> with the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of the &s;aid Secretary and Clerks, &s;pent above two Months exa|mining, and comparing them with Sir <HI>John Champante</HI>'s Day-books of Receipts and Payments, and with his Leidgers, and the other Books of the Trea&s;ury Office, and with the Weekly and Quarterly Accompts, which Sir <HI>John Champante</HI> con&s;tantly gave the Undertakers, and with the Entries of the Cheque and Controul, which Officers ap|pointed by the Undertakers, made of his daily Receipts and Payments; and likewi&s;e, with the Entries of the Clerk of the <HI>Pells,</HI> of the Auditor-General, and of the Chamberlains of the <HI>Exchequer,</HI> and with the Accompts of the Collectors of the Un|dertaking, and of the General Farmers, and with all the other Books and Papers, that might detect the lea&s;t Error in the &s;aid Accompts, or Surcharge Sir <HI>John</HI> with any Sums omitted, which the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Roberts</HI> very indu&s;triou&s;ly endeavour'd. And al&s;o with the Warrants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vouchers de|livered up.</NOTE> Orders, and Debentures, and other Vouchers maintaining the &s;aid Accompts which Sir <HI>John</HI> then deli|ver'd up, which have been &s;ince made u&s;e of by the Undertakers, to ju&s;tify their Accompts with the King, and accordingly lodg'd with the Auditor General, except tho&s;e which relate to the Charges attending the management of the Undertaking, which were lately in the Cu&s;tody of <HI>John Hays,</HI> Brother to Sir <HI>James Hays.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Roberts</HI> made up the former Accompts.</NOTE>The &s;aid Mr. <HI>Roberts</HI> was the Per&s;on relied on by the Undertakers, to make up the two former Accompts, which are &s;igned, and pa&s;&s;ed by the Undertakers; and his Care and Indu&s;try in the Service of the Undertakers was &s;o well known, and approved of, that long after the clo&s;e of the &s;aid two la&s;t Accompts, in the year 1678. the Lord <HI>Ranelagh,</HI> Sir <HI>James Hayes, George Da&s;h|wood,</HI> and <HI>John Bence,</HI> E&s;q; did by &s;everal Letters de&s;ire Mr. <HI>Roberts</HI> to take upon him the Management of the concerns of their late Undertaking; and particularly by a Letter of the 16th of <HI>July,</HI> 1678. write to Sir <HI>John Champante,</HI> to engage him the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Roberts</HI> thereunto.</P>
<P>At the Rehearing of Sir <HI>John Champante</HI>'s Cau&s;e in the Court of <HI>Exchequer</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> the Councel of the Earl of <HI>Ranelagh,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Stepney,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Ac|compts exa|mined by the Court of <HI>Exchequer</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Decreed con|clu&s;ive.</NOTE> with Two able Accomptants, appeared again&s;t the &s;aid Accompts, and were Armed with all Sir <HI>John Champante</HI>'s Books and Papers, which by Order of the &s;aid Court were put into their Hands for &s;everal Months, and had acce&s;s to all the Offices of <HI>Cheque</HI> in the &s;aid Kingdom, but were not able in the lea&s;t to fal&s;ify the &s;aid Accompts, all their objections being fully an&s;wered to the &s;atisfaction of that Court, who after Six Days &s;pent in the examination of the &s;aid Accompts, and hearing the Proofs, Decreed the &s;aid Two Accompts final and conclu&s;ive; Declaring, That they were Accompts, not only &s;tated by Mr. <HI>Roberts,</HI> but al&s;o by the Court of <HI>Exchequer.</HI> At which re-hearing, it appeared fully in the Depo&s;itions taken, and was al&s;o proved, <HI>Viva voce,</HI> in Court, That Sir <HI>John Champante</HI> had deliver'd up all his Vouchers, and that they were in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Undertakers.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Decretal Or|der in the <HI>Ex|chequer</HI> here.</NOTE>At the hearing of the Cau&s;e in the Court of <HI>Exchequer</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> in <HI>June</HI> 1688. which took up Eight days, the Court, by the Proofs, therein received full &s;atisfaction as to the method, care and indu&s;try of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Roberts,</HI> in &s;tating of the &s;aid Accompts, and of the ju&s;tne&s;s and exactne&s;s of them; and that Sir <HI>John Champante</HI>'s Vouchers were all delivered up in <HI>Ireland</HI> when <HI>Roberts</HI> &s;tated his Accompts, and that he was under an utter Impo&s;&s;ibility to come to a new Accompt; however out of tenderne&s;s to the now Appellants, and the other Defendants, it was referred to the Two Auditors of the Impre&s;t, in Ca&s;e the Defendants had any material Objections to offer again&s;t any of the particulars in the &s;aid Accompts, to in&s;pect and examine the &s;ame, and whether the &s;aid Accompts were made up and &s;tated in the method of the Two former, and wherein they did agree or differ from the &s;ame; and Sir <HI>John Champante</HI> was decreed to be examined on Interrogatories. It is now above Eleven Months &s;ince the &s;aid Decree was made, and yet the Appellants have not made any Objections, nor Exhibited any In|terrogatories.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Both Courts &s;atisfied as to the Memoran|dum of 12295 <HI>l.</HI></NOTE>And as to the Entry of the Memorandum relating to 12295 <HI>l.</HI> which occa&s;ioned the tran&s;cribing of &s;ome Leaves therein, with|out the lea&s;t alteration of any Article or Figure, it fully appear'd to the Courts of <HI>Exchequer,</HI> both of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> That it was a ju&s;t and fair thing, and &s;olely to the advantage of the Undertakers, tho they did endeavour to charge Sir <HI>John Champante</HI> with the contrary.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Above 12. years &s;ince Ac|compts, &s;tated and no Error detected.</NOTE>It's more than Twelve years &s;ince the &s;aid Accompts were fir&s;t &s;tated, and the Undertakers have ever &s;ince been in Po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion of all the Books and Papers that could any ways a&s;&s;i&s;t them in the &s;aid Accompts, which they have been never able, notwith&s;tanding their utmo&s;t endeavours, in the lea&s;t, to do: So that in the con&s;ideration of the matters afore&s;aid, it is humbly hoped that the &s;aid Accompts may be taken and remain as &s;tated and conclu&s;ive, and that Sir <HI>John Champante</HI> may not be put upon the Impo&s;&s;ibility of coming to a new Accompt, his Vouchers being delivered up, and his now Accompts having pa&s;&s;ed &s;uch &s;trict examination.</P>
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