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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the RIGHT HONOURABLE HIS MAJESTIES JUDGES, Now Sitting in <HI>Oxon,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The Humble Petition of</HI> STEPHEN JAY, <HI>Clerk, Rector of</HI> Chinner, <HI>in the County of</HI> Oxon.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Humbly Sheweth,</OPENER>
<P>THat one <HI>Titus Brown,</HI> a very lewd and infamous Per&s;on, guilty of &s;everal Thefts and Burglary, about <HI>January</HI> la&s;t, by a forged Licence &s;et up an Ale-Hou&s;e in your Petitioner's Pari&s;h, (where two already were) but upon Peti|tion to the Ju&s;tices of that Divi&s;ion at their private Se&s;&s;ion, was &s;uppre&s;&s;ed ac|cording to Law by their Order of <HI>April</HI> the Seventh; and afterwards by the General Se&s;&s;ions at <HI>Oxon, April</HI> the Twelfth.</P>
<P>The &s;aid <HI>Brown</HI> thus &s;uppres'd, (under&s;tanding the little good will born to your Petitioner by one Mr. <HI>Allnut,</HI> for Cau&s;es well known to the Countrey) applied him&s;elf to the &s;aid Ju&s;tice, who receiving the &s;aid <HI>Brown</HI> into his favour, (though him&s;elf knew him to be very &s;candalous, and had been brought before him for A&s;&s;aulting on the High-way with de&s;ign to Rob, as the &s;aid Ju&s;tice then apprehended;) at <HI>Trinity</HI> Se&s;&s;ions following, on a Certificate in the Name of a Child of Twelve Years Old, very vigorou&s;ly moved the Bench for a Licence for the &s;aid <HI>Brown</HI> (after it had been denied the Day before on the account of the Order made the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion) and prevailed.</P>
<P>Your Petitioner and Pari&s;h much afflicted hereat, applied them&s;elves by Petition to the Honourable Judges of the A&s;&s;ize at <HI>Oxon, July</HI> the Fourteenth, who were plea&s;ed to refer our Complaints to the Examination of any two Ju&s;tices of the County, with Order to &s;uppre&s;s the &s;aid <HI>Brown,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>In pur&s;uance whereof, a meeting was appointed at <HI>Tet&s;worth,</HI> on <HI>Saturday, July</HI> the Thirtieth pa&s;t; your Petitioner writing to Ju&s;tice <HI>Allnut</HI> to be there, and accordingly he the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Allnut</HI> appeared, together with Sr. <HI>Thomas Tipping,</HI> to whom was pre&s;ented the Order of the Judges, with humble de&s;ire to Execute the &s;ame.</P>
<P>But &s;o it is (may it plea&s;e your Lord&s;hips) that he the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Allnut</HI> utterly refu&s;ed to execute the Order, though moved earne&s;tly by your Petitioner thereto, (Ten Witne&s;&s;es being pre&s;ent ready to be Examined on Oath again&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Brown)</HI> but the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Allnut</HI> pretend|ing Bu&s;ine&s;s left the whole Matter unexamined, to our great Amazement and Charge. And to your Petitioner (telling him only that if we could not have Ju&s;tice from him, we would have it el&s;e-where from his Superiours) <HI>Sirrah,</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>I could find in my Heart to cut your Pate.</HI></P>
<P>May it plea&s;e your Lord&s;hips; your poor Petitioner (though a Mini&s;ter) hath yet the Ho|nour to be extracted from a Wor&s;hipful Family, and (with all humility be it &s;poken) is Allyed to the &s;everal Families of Three Honourable Members of His Maje&s;ties Mo&s;t Honourable Privy Council. His Father lo&s;ing an E&s;tate of near 500 <HI>l. per annum,</HI> for his Loyalty to his late Maje&s;ty. He him&s;elf driven to &s;eek Bread in another Kingdom, during the Kings ab&s;ence; Though by Gods Ble&s;&s;ing is now re&s;tored to a plentiful E&s;tate: Is Patron, as well as Par&s;on of his Pari&s;h, which ingageth him ever to &s;eek the welfare thereof. And doth behave him&s;elf in all things as becometh a Mini&s;ter and a Gentleman; who by his con&s;tant Preaching and Ex|emplary Life hath gain'd in &s;ome Di&s;&s;enters to the Church, and pre&s;erves the whole Pari&s;h in it: Having owned the Epi&s;copal Government, by being Ordain'd by a Bi&s;hop even in <HI>Crom|well</HI>'s time. You Petitioner (dares not Ju&s;tifie him&s;elf before God, yet) is bold to|wards your Lord&s;hips, to hope that Protection and Security will be granted him by your Ho|nours, from &s;uch in&s;ulting Menaces again&s;t a Mini&s;ter of the Church (how unworthy &s;oever) in the di&s;charge of his Duty, and the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of Wickedne&s;s in his Pari&s;h. And that your Lord&s;hips will not &s;uffer &s;o Cau&s;le&s;s an Affront to be given him in the publick Yard of an Inn, and before many of his own People and Strangers, to his great Di&s;grace, on no other Provo|cation but demanding Ju&s;tice again&s;t a dangerous fellow. <HI>The very Heathen have ever honoured their Prie&s;ts.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>Your Petitioner mo&s;t humbly kneels to your Lord&s;hips for Redre&s;s, and ca&s;t's Him&s;elf and his Complaint at your Honours Feet, humbly &s;ubmitting Him|&s;elf and It, to your Prudent Cen&s;ure. And does be&s;eech your Lor&s;hip to Examine, or Order to be Examined the High Mi&s;demeanours of the &s;aid <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 span"></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To the WORSHIPFUL HIS MAJESTIES JUSTICES, For the County of <HI>Oxon.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentlemen!</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe Petitioner has not appealed in di&s;honour of the Ju&s;tice of the Bench; (there is not a Gentleman on it, that is a really Gentleman, whom he does not worthily e&s;teem and &s;ubmit to) but thinks it duty to him&s;elf to fly the Attaques of an Enemy, who&s;e <HI>Will</HI> had &s;o great an Influence as Arbitrarily to procure the re&s;cinding a po&s;itive Order granted but the Se&s;&s;ion before; and who&s;e Prejudices again&s;t the Petitioner have gradually encrea&s;ed from the&s;e remarkable Cau&s;es:</P>
<P N="1">1. The Petitioner's di&s;mi&s;&s;ing <HI>Richard</HI> his Elder Brother (an hone&s;t plain Man,) from being his Tenant, for Rea&s;ons accountable to any that demand them 1669.</P>
<P N="2">2. An (yet unrooted) Jealou&s;ie that the Petitioner impeached him to the Council at the breaking out of the Plot; when (in a better than Je|&s;uitical &s;ence) he was as Innocent as the New Born Child.</P>
<P N="3">3. The Petitioners &s;awcy equalizing him&s;elf with him; when in heat and altercation of words before Forty or Fifty Gentlemen at Dinner, he drop'd this Truth, <HI>That he was as good a Gentleman, as he;</HI> (and cannot as yet re|cant it.) Be&s;ides, his charging him with indi&s;cretion in the manage of an In|tere&s;t, the mi&s;carrying of which he would (very invidiou&s;ly) have foy&s;ted on the Petitioner, 1679.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Petitioner's Neighbours their Voting for tho&s;e <HI>he</HI> disfavours occa&s;ion'd (as he fancies) by him; when of a Truth they were voluntarily led by their own Di&s;cretion and Will. And who are wi&s;e enough without him to be faithful to their Native Intere&s;ts and Rights, 1680.</P>
<P><HI>Gentlemen; Duty will Oblige you to keep the Peace; and Gallantry will prompt you to be generous and ju&s;t to a Stranger, who&s;e near </HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Sir <HI>Jo. Ernle.</HI> Sir <HI>Edw. Hun|gerford.</HI> Sir <HI>Walter Ernle.</HI> Sir <HI>Giles Hun|gerford.</HI> Sir <HI>Walter St. Johns.</HI> Mr. <HI>Daniel.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Re|lations fill the Neighbouring Bench; who will not take it &s;o kindly to have the <HI>Pate cut</HI> of</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Their poor Kin&s;man, and your Servant <HI>S. J.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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