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<HEAD>The Report of the Committee of the Army upon a Reference from His HIGHNESS, in a Ca&s;e depending between <HI>Francis Farrington</HI> Plaintiff, and <HI>VVilliam Cham|berlaine</HI> Defendant.</HEAD>
<OPENER><DATELINE>At the COMMITTEE for the ARMY, <DATE>May 18. 1656.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>_IN pur&s;uance of a Reference from His Highne&s;s the Lord Protector of the 3^d of <HI>January</HI> 1655. whereby the Petition of <HI>William Chamberlaine</HI> of <HI>London</HI> Merchant (relating to a difference between him the &s;aid <HI>Chamber|laine</HI> and one <HI>Francis Farrington</HI>) is referred to this Committee, with direction to call for the Parties and exa|mine Witne&s;&s;es concerning the Particulars mentioned in the &s;aid Petition, and compo&s;e the matters in difference, or otherwi&s;e certifie the &s;ame to his Highne&s;s with their opinion.</P>
<P>Wee do humbly certifie, That having appointed a day for Hearing of the &s;aid Difference and given notice thereof to the Parties concerned) <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> per&s;onally appeared before us; but <HI>Farrington</HI> only by his Coun&s;el, and craved a Copie of the Petition and Reference, and time to put in an An&s;wer; which was granted, and a week's time given for bringing in the &s;ame, (which accordingly was brought in) and another day was appointed for both Parties to bee pre&s;ent, in order to a full Hearing of the matter in Controver&s;ie, and examination of the Witne&s;&s;es to bee produced on each &s;ide: On which day of Hear|ing, <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> with his Partie appeared, but not <HI>Farrington,</HI> nor any on his behalf. Whereupon this Committee proceeded to the peru&s;al of &s;everal Affidavits taken before a Ma&s;ter of the <HI>Chancery</HI> (and now remaining with this Committee); by which it ap|pear's, That the &s;aid <HI>Farrington</HI> is guiltie of &s;everal notorious and gro&s;s Cheats and Abu&s;es in the counterfeiting and forging of &s;everal Debenters or Publick-Faith-Bills to a con&s;iderable value, and pa&s;&s;ing &s;om of them upon purcha&s;e of Lands at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI>-hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> For which Cheats and Forgeries notice was given to the Parlament by one Colonel <HI>John Jack&s;on,</HI> and a Warrant i&s;&s;ued under the hand of the Speaker for the apprehending of him; upon which hee &s;ecretly conveyed him&s;elf to the <HI>Barbadoes</HI> under anoth<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Name. And upon Articles exhibited to the then Council of State by one <HI>Io&s;eph Briggs,</HI> a Warrant was i&s;&s;ued forth for the ap|prehending and taking into cu&s;todie the &s;aid <HI>Farrington,</HI> who was thereupon brought over into <HI>England,</HI> and remained here a Pri|&s;oner for &s;om time. The &s;aid <HI>Farrington</HI> upon a pretence that th'afore&s;aid Warrants were procured and the &s;aid Informations and Articles exhibited by the Petitioner <HI>William Chamberlaine,</HI> cau&s;ed the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> to bee arre&s;ted upon two &s;everal Acti|ons of thirtie thou&s;and Pounds each, at the publick Exchange, whereupon hee was forced to give &s;pecial Bail; And hee the &s;aid <HI>Farrington</HI> became non-&s;uited in both his &s;aid Actions. In defent of which the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> hath expended at the lea&s;t three hundred Pounds, be&s;ides lo&s;s of time, and great di&s;credit to him in the way of his Calling, as appear's by the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI>'s Affidavit taken al&s;o before a Ma&s;ter of the <HI>Chancery.</HI> And there beeing &s;everal other particulars wherein the di&s;hone&s;t and abu&s;ive Deportment of the &s;aid <HI>Farrington</HI> (and &s;om that adhere to him) in the pro&s;ecution of his malicious and ungrounded pretences a|gain&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> appear's (which would bee too tedious to relate). Wee do humbly take leav upon the whole, to certi|fie, That by what hath now appeared before us, and what wee have &s;een by former Informations exhibited again&s;t him to the for|mer Committee for the Army, and by what &s;om of us have di&s;covered of him upon other occa&s;ions, Wee do finde the &s;aid <HI>Far|rington</HI> guilty of &s;uch notorious Cheats and Forgeries, that (wee humbly conceiv) hee de&s;erv's the &s;evere&s;t puni&s;hment that can bee inflicted upon a Per&s;on for Crimes of that nature; hee beeing at this pre&s;ent (as wee are informed) in Cu&s;todie with the Serjeant at Arms for &s;om Acts of Forgerie, exceeding prejudicial to the Publick.</P>
<P>And in regard the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> hath been &s;o injuriou&s;ly and cau&s;le&s;ly arre&s;ted and pro&s;ecuted by him the &s;aid <HI>Farrington,</HI> (and lyable &s;till to bee farther troubled, unle&s;s relieved by Your Highne&s;s), Wee do take leav farther humbly to offer as our Opi|nion, That the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> ought to bee repaired by the &s;aid <HI>Farrington</HI> for the dammage hee hath &s;u&s;teined by his vexatious Suits; And that the &s;aid <HI>Farrington</HI> ought to bee made utterly uncapable of ever troubling him the &s;aid <HI>Chamberlaine</HI> or any other upon &s;uch cau&s;le&s;s and groundle&s;s pretences: Whi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> is humbly &s;ubmitted to His Highne&s;s Con&s;ideration.</P>
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<ITEM>John Clerke,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rich. Lucy,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Hilde&s;ley,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ger. Benet.</ITEM>
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<P>This is a true Copie of the Original, examined by <HI>Roz. Bowes.</HI></P>
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