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<HEAD>The Ca&s;e of <HI>John Goudet,</HI> and <HI>David Barrau,</HI> Partners, Merchants.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">In relation to the Petition of the Lu&s;tring Company.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Pre&s;ented to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<P>ABout the Months of <HI>May</HI> and <HI>June</HI> la&s;t, and before, the &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau</HI>'s Letters were often intercepted and &s;topp'd here; many of them importing Advice of &s;everal Bills of Ex|change by them drawn on Places beyond the Seas, and others con|taining Remittances to di&s;charge the &s;aid Draughts; Bills of Loading, and other matters of the greate&s;t con&s;equence to Merchants: Which &s;eemed to be contrived to the end that the &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau</HI>'s Bills might for want of their &s;aid Advices and Remittances, return back pro|te&s;ted, in the time of their intended Confinement, and &s;o occa&s;ion their breaking.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> was on the 15th of the &s;aid Month of <HI>June</HI> taken up, and their Books and Papers &s;eized by Warrant from the Secretary of State, for &s;u&s;picion of Trea&s;on and Trea&s;onable Practices: And on the 13th of <HI>Novem|ber</HI> following, the &s;aid <HI>Barrau,</HI> and few days before, <HI>Peter Longueville</HI> (who was formerly their Partner) were al&s;o taken up by virtue of the like Warrants.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Longueville, Goudet,</HI> and <HI>Barrau,</HI> were obliged to give 6000 <HI>l.</HI> Se|curity each for their Appearance at the <HI>Kings-Bench</HI> the fir&s;t day of the follow|ing Terms: And the la&s;t day of la&s;t <HI>Michaelmas</HI> Term, nothing being alledged again&s;t him the &s;aid <HI>Goudet,</HI> though the &s;aid Books and Papers had been exa|mined by the Lu&s;tring Company, and a Report made thereof, he was di&s;|charged by the &s;aid Court: After which, having demanded the &s;aid Books and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> of Captain <HI>Henry Baker,</HI> who had them in his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and being de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">d the &s;ame, the &s;aid Court, upon a Motion made by the &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau</HI> the la&s;t day of la&s;t <HI>Hilary</HI> Term, ordered the &s;aid Books and Papers to be forthwith re&s;tored to them, and the &s;aid <HI>Longueville</HI> and <HI>Barrau,</HI> and their Bail, to be di&s;charged.</P>
<P>This not only put them the &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau</HI> to va&s;t Charges, but for want of their Books and Papers for Nine Months together, they are di&s;abled to proceed in their Bu&s;ine&s;s, and cannot avoid falling into a Confu&s;ion, if not &s;peedily relieved.</P>
<P>The Lu&s;tring Company notwith&s;tanding, who for &s;ome private hatred and jealou&s;y of Trade, have been the promoters of all the&s;e proceedings, to prevent the re&s;toring the &s;aid Books and Papers, and finding no Evidence again&s;t them the &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau,</HI> of any Trea&s;onable, or other evil Practices, as was by them &s;ugge&s;ted, have now by their Petition pre&s;ented to this Honourable Hou&s;e, prayed that the &s;aid Books and Papers may be exa|mined by Order of this Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau</HI> utterly deny ever to have had any Share in, or Knowledg of any Combination or De&s;ign again&s;t the &s;etting up here the Manufactory of Lu&s;trings and Alamodes, but on the contrary they have en|couraged and promoted the &s;ame to the utmo&s;t of their power, by &s;upplying with Raw Silk fit for that work, a great many private Ma&s;ter Weavers, who employed many Hundreds of poor People about it under them; and had brought it to a much greater perfection than the &s;aid Lu&s;tring Company, when they obtained a Clau&s;e in an Act of Parliament pa&s;t the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion, ex|cluding all others from making the &s;aid &s;orts of Goods. The &s;aid Raw Silk Imported by them the &s;aid <HI>Goudet</HI> and <HI>Barrau,</HI> being the Returns of con&s;i|derable Quantities of Cloath and other Woollen Manufactories of this King|dom; the Exportation whereof was and &s;till is their chief Trade and Bu&s;ine&s;s, as they are ready to prove by the Te&s;timony of the &s;aid Weavers and the <HI>Blackwell-Hall</HI> Factors.</P>
<P><HI>The &s;aid</HI> Goudet <HI>and</HI> Barrau <HI>hope therefore, that this Honourable Hou&s;e will plea&s;e to Order that their &s;aid Books and Papers &s;hall be forthwith Re&s;tored to them, according to the &s;aid Order of the</HI> Kings-Bench.</P>
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<P>The Ca&s;e of <HI>John Gouder,</HI> and <HI>David Barrau,</HI> Mer|chants.</P>
<P>In relation to the Petition of the Lu&s;tring Company.</P>
<P><HI>Pre&s;ented to the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons.</HI></P>
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