Selected quad for the lemma: daughter_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
daughter_n die_v james_n marry_v 11,494 5 9.5256 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A34117 To the honnorable the knights, cittizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled the humble petition of George Carew, Esquire administrator of the goods and chattles of Sr. William Courten, Knight, deceased (with his will annexed), John White, and James Boeve, of London, marchants, on the behalfe of themselves and diverse others, His Majesties good subjects of England. Carew, George, Esq. 1675 (1675) Wing C554; ESTC R35851 7,780 13

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

To the Honnorable The Knights Cittizens and Burgesses in Parliament assembled The humble Petition of George Carew esquire Administrator of the goods and Chattles of Sr. William Courten Knight deteased with his will annexed John White and James Boeve of London Marchants on the behalfe of themselves and diverse others his Majesties good subjects of England Sheweth THat the due Administrations of Justice and Equity have been delayed and denied in the ordinary Courts of Judicature in Holland and Zeland upon civill actions at Law for these twenty six years last past to the great Damages and oppression of your Petitioners and many Orphans and Widdows clayming under them As by the severall cases in the 36. Articles hereunto annexed appears That the Lives Liberties and Estates of other English-men abroad are lyable to the like Prejudice and Dangers if it be not made a nationall concerne to protect the subjects of England in forraigne parts and particularly to require Satisfaction and reparations in the respective cases of your Petitioners according to the Circumstances of their Greviances mentioned in the sayd Articles following And forasmuch as there is noe other remedy left for your Petitioners releife but by complaynt in Parliament after soe many Intercessions of his Majesty and his Ministers at the Hague to the States Generall in vaine The People of Holland and Zeland taking advantage of their popular Interest in England to expose the Honour and Reputation of the King and Kingdome to scorne and contempt by their open and manifest denialls of Common Iustice to English-men YOur Petitioners doe therefore most humbly pray that your Honours would take their Complaints into your most serious considerations to the end that some effectuall means may be used upon your Recommendation to his Majestie that right may be done according to the merrits of their respective causes And that hereafter a summary way may be had in the unied Netherlands for Iustice as is used to strangers in England by neutrall and unconcerned Persons And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. Aprill 15 ' th 1675. VVhereas the preservation of all mens rights and property consists in the Execution of Law and Due administration of Iustice which on the contrary being obstructed or denied All civell Society and Commerce must necessarily determine and be distroyed And least any thing in theise 5. cases might be drawne into consequence or made Presidents to the disadvantage of others for want of appealing to the Parliament for redress The matters of fact are briefly and faithfully recollected out of the originall writings papers and records for publique View 1. THat Sr. VVilliam Courten of London Sr. Peter Courten of Midleburgh in Zeland his Brother and Iohn Moncy of London Marchant their Brother in Law traded together with a joynt stock of fifty thousand pounds sterling to severall parts of the World for the space of 25. years 2. That a moyety or halfe parte of the Stock belonged to Sr. William Courten and to Each of the other a fourth part The generall Books of Trade being kept by Sr. Peter Courten who died at Midleburgh in the yeare 1630. before the accounts of the Company were setled and left Peter Boudaen of Midleburgh Marchant his Nephew his sole Executor 3. That Iohn Moncy at the Request of Sr. William Courten in the yeare 1631. went from London to Midleburgh to setle the accounts of Trade which had not been Liquidated in 14. yeares before wherin rested a very considerable part of Sr. William Courtens Estate both in money and goods 4. That before the accounts were perfectly finshed Iohn Moncy fell sick of a Lethergie wherof he died on the 17 th of October 1631 at the House of Peter Boudaen who framed Mr. Moncys will when he was not Compos Mentis wherin the sayd Peter Boudaen nomminated himselfe Executor and incerted a provisoe in the will not to be lyable to discouer Mr. Moncys Estate to any Person in the World 5. That afterwards Sr. William Courten entred upon an other Commerce for trading Voyages to the East-Indies but could not during his life obtaine any ballance of the accounts of his former Trade from Peter Boudaen or any moneys out of his hands and left William Courten his sonn and heyre his sole executor and died in the yeare 1636. 6. That William Courten the Executor having sustained severall Losses by the Hollanders and others in Asia and America contracted many great debts and assigned his Shipps and Stock in the Indies to Sr. Edward Littleton and Sr. Paul Pyndar Towards payment of his debts then absented himselfe upon news that the East-India Company of the Netherlands had violently seized and taken into their possession his two Shipps Bona Esperanza and Henery Bona Adventura of London with their fraights and lading for trading with the Portugalls that were then in Comon Ammity both with England and Holland 7. That the sayd William Courten transported himselfe for Itally in the yeare 1648. where he died intestate leaving his Fathers Estate unadministred and the sayd accounts unsetled through the iniquity of the times whereof Mr. Boudaen tooke advantage 8. That Iohn VVhite and Iames Boeve haveing married Susanna and Hester de VVyer the daughters of the only sister of Iohn Moncy who had promised to make them his heires having noe children of his owne caused the sayd Peter Boudaen to be cited into the Prerogative Court of England in the yeare 1651. to prove Mr. Moncys will by wittnesses which he had sent to be exhibited there in Common forme and consequently drawne 30000 p. sterling of Mr. Moncys Estate out of London 9. That Peter Boudaen refused to be conformable to the sayd citation pretending he was not subject to any forraigne Iudicature although the proper Court to take Cognizance of the will where it was exhibited Then after severall other Admonitions and Letters Requisitory from the judge Letters of Administration of the goods and chattelles of Iohn Moncy was granted to Hester White the surviving Neice of Iohn Moncy 10. That Hester White in the yeare 1652. summoned the sayd Peter Boudaen before the Magistrates of Midleburgh to have an account of Iohn Moncys Estate as dyeing intestate who excepted against her quality as Administratrix pretending that there was a will although the probate was denied Nevertheless the sayd Magistrates in regard Mr. Boudaen was an Elder of the English Congregation in Midleburgh they declared that Mrs. White was not receiuable in her quallity as yet Which was a manifest deniall of Justice in Zeland and a wronge to the Judicature of England 11. That Mrs. White appealed from the Sentence of Midleburgh to the supreame Court of Iudicature at the Hague where after 4. years attendance and great expence a Sentence was there pronounced on the 19 of May. 1657. That Provided Peter Boudaen obliged himselfe to satisfie all Pretenders Creditors and others that might pretend to the Estate of Iohn Moncy that then the Administratrix was not greived by the Sentence