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<HEAD>The In&s;inuation and Prote&s;t of <HI>Mr. George Carew:</HI> delivered to the <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> of the Principal Cities and Towns in <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand,</HI> who have voices in the Government of tho&s;e <HI>Provinces,</HI> and likewi&s;e to the <HI>Directors</HI> in the &s;everal Chambers of the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI>- and <HI>We&s;t-India Companies</HI> there re&s;pectively.</HEAD>
<P><HI>UPon the &s;econd day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1676. English &s;tile, <HI>George Carew</HI> of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ichmond</HI> in the County of Surrey in the Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> E&s;q; Admini&s;trator of the Goods and Chattels, debts and credits of Sr. <HI>William Courten</HI> and Sr. <HI>Paul Pyndar</HI> Knights decea&s;ed, (with there Wills annexed) and joyntly A&s;&s;ignee with others, of Sr. <HI>Edward Littleton,</HI> and likewi&s;e of the Commi&s;&s;ioners upon the &s;tatutes made concerning Banck|rupts again&s;t <HI>William Courten,</HI> Son and heir of Sr. <HI>William Courten,</HI> in right of all the goods, Credits, and Effects what&s;oever belonging to the &s;aid <HI>William Courten</HI> in any parts of the world: and general Procurator of the Proprietors and Adventurers with Sr. <HI>William Courten</HI> in his Enterprizes to the Ea&s;t-Indies, <HI>China,</HI> and <HI>Japan;</HI> In the &s;everal qualities afore&s;aid: The &s;aid <HI>George Car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w</HI> per|&s;onally appeared the day and year above&s;aid before me <HI>Godfrey</HI> van <HI>Hill,</HI> Notary Publique (&s;worn and admitted by the Soveraign Provincial Court of <HI>Holland,</HI>) re&s;iding in the Citie of <HI>Am&s;ter|dam,</HI> and in the pre&s;ence of the Witne&s;&s;es hereunder written, did &s;olemnly and openly a&s;&s;ert and declare the matters contained in the Aricles following, and prote&s;t again&s;t all per&s;ons what&s;oever hereafter mentioned in the Provinces of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand,</HI> for all dammages, co&s;ts, and Intere&s;ts alr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ady &s;u&s;tained or that may be &s;u&s;tained for or by rea&s;on thereof.</HI></P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> _WHEREAS <HI>King Charles</HI> the fir&s;t (of ever ble&s;&s;ed memorie) in the year <HI>1635.</HI> by His let|ters patents under the great Seal of <HI>England,</HI> for the rea&s;ons and E&s;pecial con&s;iderations there|in contained, granted Licence with certain Priviledges unto <HI>Sr. William Courten</HI> and a Select Company of Merchants of <HI>London,</HI> and other adventurers in a joint &s;tock with him to trade unto the <HI>Ea&s;t-Indies, China,</HI> and <HI>Iapan,</HI> and parts adjacent, in con&s;equence whereof &s;everal Fac|tories were &s;etled at <HI>Maccao, Canton, Carwar</HI> and other places, by vertue of contracts with the <HI>King of Spain,</HI> and <HI>Vice-Roys</HI> in tho&s;e other <HI>Kingdoms, Empires</HI> and <HI>Dominions</HI> re&s;pec|tively.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2.</HI> That &s;everal unkind Offices being done unto Captain <HI>Iohn Weddall</HI> and <HI>Nathanaell Mountney</HI> Commanders of the two Ships named the <HI>Dragon</HI> and <HI>Catharine</HI> by the Officers and Mini&s;ters of the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company of the <HI>Netherlands</HI> in their Navigations upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>India</HI> from Port to Port on their trading Voyages, and threat|ning the &s;aid <HI>Weddall</HI> and <HI>Mountney,</HI> that if they arrived in any places where the <HI>Dutch Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> traded, that they would affront them, and watch for their returning home, and by what accident or misfortune, (which as yet is not publickly known or di&s;covered) the &s;aid two Ships being richly laden for the account of the &s;aid <HI>Sr. Wil|liam Courten</HI> and Company to the value of <HI>one hundred and &s;ixty thou&s;and pounds</HI> Sterling, and coming from <HI>Iapan</HI> bound for <HI>England</HI> in the year <HI>1638.</HI> So mi&s;carryed, that from the time of their departure to this day the Proprie|tors never heard what became of the men, Ships, or Goods.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> That afterwards the &s;aid <HI>William Courten</HI> Son and heir of <HI>Sr. William,</HI> with the re&s;t of the Proprietors and Adventurers, in the year <HI>1641.</HI> Set forth (among&s;t others) the Ships named the <HI>Bona E&s;peranza</HI> and <HI>Henry Bona Adventura</HI> with moneys and merchandize for &s;upply of the &s;aid factories.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> That <HI>William Courten</HI> in the moneth of April <HI>1642.</HI> having a&s;&s;igned his share and &s;tock in the &s;aid Ships and Company to <HI>Sr. Edward Littleton</HI> for payment of debts, and <HI>Sr. Edward Littleton</HI> in the moneth of December <HI>1642.</HI> having a&s;&s;igned &s;everal &s;umms of money out of the &s;aid Ships lading and fraights unto <HI>Sr. Paul Pyndar,</HI> the &s;aid Ships and their lading were &s;urprized in the year <HI>1643.</HI> by the Officers of the <HI>Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> who took them into their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion with all the books, papers, writings, contracts and journals on board, and detained and converted them to their own u&s;e, again&s;t all the Laws of property and common right.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> That <HI>William Courten</HI> in the year <HI>1644.</HI> Ab&s;ented him&s;elf from his Creditors and became in&s;olvent, yet com|bined with <HI>Jacob Pergens</HI> of <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> in the year <HI>1648.</HI> unto whom <HI>Courten</HI> made a &s;ub&s;equent a&s;&s;ignment of his share and &s;tock afore&s;aid, which indirect practice being come to the knowledge of <HI>Sr. Paul Pyndar</HI> and <HI>Sr. Edward Littleton,</HI> they intimated their right and property by <HI>Ionas Abeels</HI> unto the <HI>Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> interdicting the <HI>Directors</HI> at their Chamber in <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> from any tran&s;action with the &s;aid <HI>Pergens,</HI> prote&s;ting for all co&s;ts, dammages and intere&s;ts, as by the Notarial Acts appears: yet <HI>notwith&s;tanding</HI> in the year <HI>1649. Pergens</HI> and the <HI>Directors</HI> of the <HI>Company</HI> made a colourable agreement for <HI>Courtens</HI> pretence of Action, for <HI>Eighty five thou|&s;and gilders,</HI> upon Caution of <HI>Peter Boudaen</HI> to indemnifie the <HI>Company</HI> again&s;t <HI>Pyndar</HI> and others.</P>
<P N="6"><HI>6.</HI> That in the year <HI>1660. King Charles</HI> the Second being re&s;tored to His <HI>Crown</HI> and <HI>Kingdoms,</HI> the Proprietors and joynt Adventurers with <HI>Sr. William Courten</HI> addre&s;&s;ed them&s;elvs to His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> for relief concerning the &s;aid &s;poils and dammages, who recommended the &s;ame to the <HI>States General,</HI> and provided by a &s;pecial agrement in the <HI>15.</HI> Article of the Treaty concluded at <HI>London,</HI> in the ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r <HI>1662.</HI> that tho&s;e dammages and &s;poils should be Amicably com|po&s;ed by conferences of <HI>State</HI> at the <HI>Hague</HI> between <HI>Sr. George Downing</HI> and the <HI>Deputies</HI> of the <HI>States General</HI> for En|glish affairs: Whereupon <HI>Mr. John de Wit</HI> and <HI>Mr. Peter van Dam</HI> Advocate of the <HI>Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> with &s;everal <HI>Directors</HI> had &s;undry conferences and debates with <HI>Sr. George Downing</HI> in the years <HI>1663.</HI> and <HI>1664.</HI> in the Chamber of the <HI>States General:</HI> but the <HI>Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> would not come to any po&s;&s;itive Agreement concerning the &s;aid dam|mages,
<PB N="2" REF="2"> then his Maje&s;tie in the year following granted &s;pecial repri&s;als unto <HI>Sr. Edmund Turnor</HI> and this <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> their Executors and a&s;&s;igns to be in full force and effect untill the &s;umm of <HI>151612.</HI> pound Sterling should be recovered with Co&s;ts and Dammages from the <HI>States General</HI> and their Subjects: as by the Copie of the &s;aid letters Patents un|der the great Seal of <HI>England</HI> hereunto annexed appears.</P>
<P N="7"><HI>7.</HI> That <HI>James Boeve</HI> at the reque&s;t of this In&s;inuant, in the year <HI>1666.</HI> gave a Copie of the &s;aid Patent unto <HI>Mr. Peter van Dam</HI> to shew the Company that they might under&s;tand how His <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> had granted a power out of him&s;elf unto particular per&s;ons, according to the Law of Nations, and &s;o made the <HI>Soveraign demand</HI> into a &s;pecial grant upon record, (again&s;t which there is no averrment,) whereof the Company was obliged to take notice, and that nothing could obliterate or make void the &s;aid Patent, but &s;atisfaction of the dammages or a compo&s;ition with the per&s;ons intere&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid grant, (wherein the <HI>King</HI> was not deceived) being &s;uch a Iudicial Act no ways re|pugnant to the Laws of God or Man, whereby tho&s;e &s;poyls and dammages done and committed in times of Peace and common Amity, should be recovered or repri&s;ed in the like times, if the <HI>Ea&s;t-India Company</HI> would not be inclined to make re&s;titution by amicable means.</P>
<P N="8"><HI>8.</HI> That notwith&s;tanding the advice and admonitions, the <HI>Ea&s;t-India Com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">any</HI> of the <HI>Netherlands</HI> would not take any Cognizance thereof, but on the contrary <HI>John de Witt</HI> and others, upon the &s;urpri&s;e at <HI>Chattam,</HI> pre&s;umed that &s;uch a <HI>&s;olemn grant</HI> could be mortified and extinguished by general words at <HI>Breda,</HI> without other &s;atisfaction then new aggravations, for which the land mourns.</P>
<P N="9"><HI>9.</HI> That in the year <HI>1671.</HI> the Proprietors and Intere&s;&s;ed in the <HI>Bona E&s;peranza</HI> and <HI>Henry Bona Adventura</HI> having made new addre&s;&s;es to his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> in Council, the &s;aid Cau&s;e was revived by &s;everal orders, references, and re|ports, all &s;ignifying, that the <HI>King</HI> was obliged in Iu&s;tice and Honour to require &s;atisfaction from the <HI>States General</HI> and their Subjects for the &s;aid Ships according as it was &s;etled in the &s;aid letters Patents. <HI>The States General</HI> having cancelled all treaties by breach of Covenants.</P>
<P N="10"><HI>10.</HI> That in pur&s;uance thereof, the Original Orders and Reports and His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> letters were &s;ent expre&s;s with this In&s;inuant and others, to the <HI>Plenipotentiaries</HI> from the <HI>King</HI> at <HI>Utrecht</HI> and <HI>Cologne</HI> to in&s;i&s;t upon &s;atisfaction accordingly, the <HI>King</HI> having intimated therein, that His care in this affair should be as much to protect his Subjects in their Iu&s;t rights as to A&s;&s;i&s;t them in the recovery thereof, all which came to the knowledge of the <HI>States General.</HI> The <HI>States</HI> of <HI>Holland</HI> having taken away the &s;aid papers &amp; orders from this <HI>In&s;inuant,</HI> whom they detained a clo&s;e Pri|&s;oner at the <HI>Hague</HI> twenty moneths, where he and his &s;ervants were affronted contrary to the Laws of Nations having Pa&s;ports from the <HI>States</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners at <HI>Hampton Court.</HI> on the <HI>5.</HI> of Iulij <HI>1672.</HI></P>
<P N="11"><HI>11.</HI> That to take away all differences and di&s;putes concerning the &s;aid Ships and their lading, the <HI>States General</HI> (as they do alledge) in the la&s;t Treaty at <HI>London</HI> agreed to pay <HI>800000.</HI> Pattacons at <HI>4.</HI> &s;everal payments, the fir&s;t being only made, whereof this In&s;inuant received fifty pounds from <HI>Alderman Backwell,</HI> by order of the Right Honorable <HI>Thomas Lord Vi&s;count Latimer,</HI> Lord High Trea&s;urer of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>150.</HI> pound from the <HI>States</HI> of <HI>Holland,</HI> towards his extraordinary expences and incident di&s;bur&s;ments during his Impri&s;onment.</P>
<P N="12"><HI>12.</HI> That the <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> upon his relea&s;ment (without any prejudice to his further right and demands again&s;t all other per&s;ons,) a&s;&s;igned <HI>5500.</HI> pound Sterling to <HI>Mr. Marke Fletcher</HI> of <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> which money was re&s;ting in, the hands of <HI>Iacob Pergens</HI> a tru&s;tee of <HI>Courten,</HI> (being particularly granted before to <HI>Sr. Paul Pyndar</HI>) in le&s;&s;ening of the debt and dammages concerning the &s;aid Ships their fraights and lading, the payment whereof <HI>Pergens</HI> al&s;o ob&s;tructed by extrajudiciall and impertinent orders of the <HI>States of Holland.</HI></P>
<P N="13"><HI>13.</HI> That although this <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> hath the greate&s;t confidence in the Iu&s;tice and Honour of the <HI>King</HI> (who can do no wrong) yet being obliged in this Ca&s;e to u&s;e his diligence wherein &s;o many Families of Orphans and Widows are concerned, (who&s;e bread is eaten by &s;trangers) the <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> therefore hath not been wanting to ad|dre&s;s his humble reque&s;ts &s;everally to the <HI>King</HI> of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> and the <HI>States General</HI> concerning the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="14"><HI>14.</HI> That this <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> being further obliged, by the importunities of &s;everal Creditors claiming under his Ad|mini&s;tration to put your Lordships of the common Councell of the &s;everal and re&s;pective Cities and Towns in <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand,</HI> in remembrance, as al&s;o the Directors of the &s;everal and re&s;pective Chambers of the <HI>Ea&s;t</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-India Companies</HI> of the <HI>Netherlands,</HI> that untill &s;atisfaction and reparation be made according to the true intent and purport of the &s;aid letters Patents, the demands continue upon record <HI>(in &s;tatu quo)</HI> the price of &s;o much <HI>English</HI> bloud and trea&s;ure already &s;pent in the vindication thereof.</P>
<P N="15"><HI>15.</HI> That the &s;upream Court of Iudicature at the <HI>Hague</HI> having denied the <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> admittance in a cau&s;e of inter|vention again&s;t <HI>Jacob Pergens</HI> upon a bond of <HI>3000.</HI> pound, wherein <HI>Sr. Iacob Catts</HI> la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Chancelor of <HI>Holland</HI> &s;tood bound unto <HI>Sr. William Courten;</HI> The <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> was renvoyed or removed to the <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> of <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> as Competent Iudges of <HI>Pergens,</HI> who had made his exception of Burger-right, where the <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> was ordred to &s;ue him; Neverthele&s;s both parties having proceeded in <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> and brought the Cau&s;e into a &s;tate for &s;entence, yet the <HI>Scheepens</HI> or <HI>Iudges</HI> refu&s;ed to pronounce the &s;ame; Although the <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> con&s;tantly &s;olicited the <HI>Lords</HI> thereunto throughout the whole year <HI>1676.</HI> Where at la&s;t they alleadged that the <HI>States</HI> of <HI>Holland</HI> had interdicted them from doing any Iu&s;tice therein, as by the deduction of the Ca&s;e appears.</P>
<P N="16"><HI>16.</HI> That the <HI>Scheepens</HI> or <HI>Iudges</HI> of <HI>Middleburgh</HI> and al&s;o the &s;upream Court of <HI>Iudicature</HI> at the <HI>Hague,</HI> have &s;eve|rally delayed and denied this <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> and <HI>Mr. Iohn White</HI> and <HI>Mr. James Boeve,</HI> the due admini&s;tration of Iu&s;tice and Equity upon diver&s;e Iudiciall Acts and decrees of the <HI>Prerogative Court</HI> of <HI>England</HI> whereby they were &s;ufficiently impowred to require an account of <HI>Peter Boudaen</HI> of <HI>Middleburgh</HI> Merchant decea&s;ed, and of his Sons and Heirs for &s;everal va&s;t &s;umms of money drawn out of <HI>England</HI> by <HI>Sr. Peter Courten</HI> in Company with <HI>Sr. William Courten</HI> and <HI>Iohn Moncy</HI> upon their Linnen trade and other Merchandizes, whereupon the <HI>Kings</HI> Subjects were not only defrauded, but the Iudicature of <HI>England</HI> wronged by tho&s;e Sini&s;ter Practi&s;es, fomented by <HI>Iacob Pergens, Pieter Bou|daen</HI> and his Sons. The <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> therefore on the <HI>6.</HI> day of November, <HI>1675.</HI> made an <HI>interdiction</HI> and <HI>prote&s;t</HI> at the &s;eve|ral Chambers of the <HI>Ea&s;t-</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-India Companies</HI> in <HI>Middleburgh</HI> prohibiting the <HI>Directors</HI> in the &s;aid Chambers to make any reparitions of monies <HI>(Pendente Lite)</HI> upon any Obligations or Actions unto <HI>Mr. Iohn Boudaen, Pe|ter Boudaen, Walter Boudaen, Henry Boudaen, Catharine Boudaen</HI> and <HI>Con&s;tantia Boudaen,</HI> Sons and Daugh|ters of <HI>Pieter Boudaen,</HI> or to transferr or aleniate any &s;uch Action or Obligation belonging to the &s;aid <HI>Boudaens</HI> or either of them, for that it appeared upon record in <HI>England,</HI> (as a Capital offence for which <HI>Sr. William Courten</HI> was committed to Pri&s;on) that &s;everal great quantities of gold (which <HI>Sr. William Courten</HI> had taken up at intere&s;t
<PB N="3" REF="2"> of his Creditors) was transported to <HI>Sr. Peter Courten</HI> at <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> who had indirectly imployed the &s;ame in pur|cha&s;ing of Original Actions in the <HI>Ea&s;t-</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-India</HI> Companies, and that &s;ince his death, the &s;aid <HI>Peter Bou|daen</HI> and his Sons taking advantages of the Civill warrs in <HI>England</HI> and the Iniquities of the&s;e times, have wholy refu&s;ed to account for the &s;umm of <HI>122138.</HI> pounds Sterling gotten into their hands, as by the ballance of the Books kept in <HI>England</HI> appears, and notwith&s;tanding the &s;aid In&s;inuation, interdiction and prote&s;t was read by <HI>H. van Rijckegem</HI> Notary Publick in the Chamber of the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Campany at <HI>Middleburgh</HI> before <HI>Mr. Gillis Mueniux, Iacob Hoorn, Mr. Daniel Fannius</HI> and <HI>Alexander de Munck</HI> Directors of the Company, and ordred by the whole Colledge to be regi&s;tred in their Books, and that this <HI>In&s;inuant</HI> did al&s;o on the <HI>3.</HI> March <HI>1676.</HI> new &s;tile, make a pre&s;entation to the <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> of <HI>Middelburgh</HI> in writing to avoyd all further troubles and inconveniences, that all differences, and accounts might be referred unto neutral Merchants and others there under mutual Obligations to abide their award, and final determinations, yet the &s;aid <HI>Boudaens</HI> have ob&s;tinately refu&s;ed to come to any account, or to re|ferr the &s;ame, but in contempt of all Laws and Pro&s;ecutions, admonitions and recommendations what&s;oever do keep the Effects of <HI>Sr. William Courten,</HI> and his Sons E&s;tates in their hands, to the prejudice of this In&s;inuant and all other Creditors claiming the &s;ame.</P>
<P>WHerefore this <HI>In&s;inuant,</HI> being al&s;o obliged by Sacred Oaths and Covenants in the Prerogative Court to u&s;e his utmo&s;t indeavours for &s;atisfaction of the &s;aid Creditors (who dayly quicken him by their memorials) doth &s;olemny prote&s;t, on the behalf of him&s;elf and the re&s;t of the Proprietors, and all other per&s;ons what&s;oever, (who&s;e moneys were lent upon the &s;everal Obligations of <HI>Sr. William Courten, William Courten</HI> E&s;q; his Son, <HI>Sr. Edward Littleton,</HI> the late Earle of <HI>Bridgwater, Sr. Paul Pyndar, Samuel Bonnell</HI> and <HI>David Goubard,</HI> yet &s;tanding out amounting unto <HI>two hundred</HI> &amp; fifty <HI>thou&s;and pounds</HI> Sterling and upwards) for all dammages, Co&s;ts and Intere&s;t &s;u&s;tained already or that shall be &s;u&s;tained by rea&s;on of the premi&s;&s;es, or any part thereof, again&s;t the worshipfull <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> &amp; <HI>Common Councell</HI> of the &s;everal Citties, &amp; Towns in <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand,</HI> that have their deputies in tho&s;e <HI>States</HI> Provincial, or Councel of <HI>State,</HI> Provincial Court of Ju&s;tice, or Supream Court of Judicature, at the <HI>Hague</HI> re|&s;pectively, and e&s;pecially again&s;t the <HI>Magi&s;trates</HI> of <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> and <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> and the Directors of the <HI>Ea&s;t-India</HI> Company there; In Witne&s;s whereof the In&s;inuant hath hereunto &s;et his hand the day and year afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Carew.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Declared and Sub&s;cribed in the Pre&s;ence of
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<ITEM><HI>Robert Parker.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Henry Meoles.</HI></ITEM>
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<SIGNED><HI>Godfrey van Hill</HI> Notary Publique.</SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>Mutatis Mutandis <HI>delivered in Dutch to the 18. &s;everal Cities in</HI> Holland, <HI>(viz)</HI> Dort, Haerlem, Delft, Leyden, Am&s;terdam, Tergou, Rotterdam, Gorcum, Schiedam, Schoonhoven, Briel, Hoorn, Enckhuy&s;en, Alckmaer, Medenblick, Edam, Mun|nenkedam <HI>and</HI> Purmerent.</P>
<P><HI>Al&s;o to the 6.</HI> States <HI>or Cities in</HI> Zealand <HI>as follow,</HI> viz. Middleburgh, Flushing, Camp-veer, Ter-goes, Zirickzee, Ter-tolen.</P>
<P><HI>And to the 6. Chambers of the</HI> Ea&s;t-India <HI>Company,</HI> viz. In Am&s;terdam, Middleburgh, Rotterdam, Delft, Hoorn <HI>and</HI> Enckhuy&s;en.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE Honourable the Knights, Citizens and Burge&s;&s;es, in Parliament a&s;&s;embed. <HI>The Humble Petition of</HI> Sr. Edward Graves <HI>and</HI> Sr. John Ayton <HI>Knights,</HI> William Whitmore, Charles Whitaker, George Carew, William Hinton, Thomas Coppin, Gilbert Crouch <HI>and</HI> Richard Jones <HI>E&s;quires.</HI> Mary Loyd, He&s;ter Stiles <HI>and</HI> Elizabeth Bartlet, Widows, Richard Toomes, Iohn Gifford, William Morehead, Eu&s;ebius Mathews, <HI>and</HI> Thomas Hamond <HI>Gentlemen.</HI> Marke Fletcher <HI>and</HI> Iames Boeve <HI>merchants: On the behalf of them&s;elvs and many hundreds of His Ma|je&s;ties good Subjects of</HI> England, <HI>E&s;pecially concerned in the Ca&s;es annexed.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>Sheweth</OPENER>
<P>_THat Sr. <HI>William Courten,</HI> Sr. <HI>Peter Courten,</HI> and <HI>Iohn Moncy</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> Merchants traded in Companie many years together in the linnen Manu|facturs, and other Merchandizes, wherein <HI>Sr. William Courten</HI> had two parts of the &s;tock, and Each of the other a fourth part.</P>
<P>That Sr. <HI>Peter Courten</HI> &s;ettled him&s;elf at <HI>Middleburgh</HI> in <HI>Zealand,</HI> where he drew many va&s;t &s;umms of money out of <HI>England,</HI> which were taken up at Intere&s;t in <HI>London,</HI> and dyed indebted to the &s;tock of the Company, the &s;umm of 122138-10-16. Sterling, as by the ballance of the Books kept in <HI>England</HI> hereunto annexed appears.</P>
<P>That Sr. <HI>Peter Courten</HI> left <HI>Peter Boudaen</HI> of <HI>Middleburgh</HI> Merchant his Nephew &s;ole Execu|tour, who po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elf of all the Books of account kept in <HI>Zealand,</HI> and the E&s;tate both reall and per&s;onal of Sr. <HI>Peter Courten:</HI> and being afterwards que&s;tioned at Law by Mr. <HI>John White, James Boeve</HI> and <HI>George Carew</HI> &s;everally concerning the &s;aid monies; The &s;aid <HI>Peter Boudaen</HI> u&s;ed all manner of Sini&s;ter practi&s;es to avoid coming to any account, and took advantage of the late times and troubles, to ob&s;truct the ordinary Cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice during his life, as his Sons and Heyrs have &s;ince done the &s;ame; Whereby the due admini&s;tration of Ju&s;tice hath been often denyed, and the Judicial Acts and decrees of the Prerogative Court, and High Court of Chancery, &s;lighted and contemned in the Ordinary Courts of Judicature in <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Zealand,</HI> to the great oppre&s;|&s;ion of your Petitioners and many Orphans and Widows, claiming the Effects of Sr. <HI>William Courtens</HI> E&s;tate, and his Sons, as al&s;o Mr. <HI>John Moncies</HI> and Sr. <HI>Paul Pyndars</HI> gotten into the hands of the &s;aid <HI>Boudaens, Jacob Pergens</HI> and other Inhabitans of <HI>Am&s;terdam</HI> and <HI>Middleburgh,</HI> as by the deductions of the &s;everal Ca&s;es hereunto annexed appears.</P>
<P>Now forasmuch as your Petitioners are left without all other remedy (the <HI>King's</HI> recommendations to the <HI>States General</HI> for ju&s;tice being al&s;o &s;lighted and contemned) and it being of mo&s;t dangerous con&s;equence to &s;uffer the Iudicature of <HI>England</HI> to be wonged, and the rights and properties of the Subjects to be lo&s;t, through the erronious practi&s;es in forraign Courts of Iu&s;tice contrary to the Law of Nations:</P>
<CLOSER>Your Petitioners do therefore mo&s;t humbly pray, that your Honours would take their Grievances into your mo&s;t &s;erious con&s;iderations: And upon Examination thereof to repre&s;ent the &s;ame, by &s;pecial addre&s;s to His <HI>Maje&s;tie,</HI> that &s;ome &s;peedy and Effectual relief way be had therein, according to the Merits of the &s;aid Cau&s;es. <HI>And your Petitioners shall ever pray,</HI> &amp;c.</CLOSER>
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