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A65091	A true narrative of the proceedings in the Court of Admiraltie against the ships Sampson, Salvador, and George, their silver and lading and an accompt presented what silver was taken out of the said ships, and coined in the tower (being above two hundred seventy eight thousand pounds), all which silver the common-wealth got by the chargeable prosecution and discovery of Tho. Violet, who saved the common-wealth this silver, Dec. 16, 1652 ... : together with several humble proposals, for the profit and honour of this common-wealth, in saving them many score of thousand pounds ... / by Tho. Violet ...	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing V594; ESTC R18686	84,216	166

your Petitioner his freedom your Petitioner presentlie to shew that he was oppressed and the Parliament misinformed and his estate unduly taken away given and disposed of upon false and untrue pretences for particular mens profit to several Committees and others the Petitioner did humblie addresse himself for relief to many honourable Members of Parliament and Councel of State and presented them with the true estate of his sufferings in Print The Cause of your Petitioners sufferings was for bringing up a Letter from Oxford 1643. from the late King who had then a desire to emploie and make your Petitioner Master-worker of his Mint at Oxford which place the King did give me there and the Petitioner had an Order from the House of Parliament and a Passe from the Lord General Essex about the 28. of Decemb. 1643. to go to Oxford to the King upon condition to put in security in a thousand pounds which security I did accordingly give to make good my Exchange for one Mr. Hesilrigge and did accordingly bring up my Exchange to London and left it with Sir Arthur Hesilrigge about the 3. of Jan. 1643. And the late King Charles upon my Exchange as aforesaid commanded me to bring up a Letter from him to the Lord Mayor Court of Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London I do confesse I honoured and loved the late King for many benefits received from him and it was my dutie to obey him as my King though I had never received benefits from him but had I known there had been any Act or Order of Parliament to prohibite me or any other to bring up the said Letter at that time or that the Parliament would have taken any offence against me for doing thereof my principles at that time and the whole course of my Actions since hath clearlie demonstrated to your Honours and the World that I would have humblie declined that emploiment for I have ever been an Honourer of the Parliament and my Countrie as this Narrative will demonstrate to posteritie The Tree is known by its fruit and no man I humblie conceive in the Nation of my condition hath yielded better fruit or ever got the Common wealth two hundred seventie eight thousand pounds in silver but your Petitioner At the same instant of time Van Trump was in the Downes with the Dutch Fleet upon the clearing of these ships out of the Admiraltie to have conveyed them to Holland This was a real Plot not a feined one as appears by the Commissions this day in the Court of Admiraltie under the Great Seal of Holland to De Weet and De Ruyter their Vice-Admirals to guard these ships from the English upon the Petitions of the Merchants of Amsterdam I pray God England never forgets this deliverance nor the Councel of State the Performance of their Promise to your Petitioner for this discovery your Petitioner going in danger of his life by the Claimers for several yeares for doing of this service Here followeth the Copie of the late King Charles's Letter to the City of London To Our Trusty and Wel-beloved Our Lord Mayor and Aldermen of Our City of London and all other Our well-effected Subjects of that City Charles Rex TRustie amd Well beloved wee greet you well When wee remember the many Acts of Grace and Favour Wee and Our Royal Predecessors have conferred upon that our Citie of London and the many examples of eminent Duty and Loyaltie for which that City hath been likwise famous Wee are willing to believe notwithstanding the great defection wee have found in that place That all men are not so farr degenerate from their affection to Vs and to the peace of the Kingdom as to desire a continuance of the miseries they now feel And therefore beeing informed That there is a desire in some principal persons of that City to present a Petition to Vs which may tend to the procuring a good understanding between Vs and that Our City whereby the peace of the whole Kingdom may bee procured Wee have thought fit to let you know That wee are ready to receive any such Petition and the Persons who shall bee appointed to present the same to Vs shall have a safe conduct And you shall assure all our good Subjects of that Our City whose hearts are touched with any sense of Duty to Vs or of Love to the Religion and Laws established in the quiet and peaceable fruition whereof They and their Ancestors have enjoyed so great Happiness That wee have neither passed any Act nor made any Profession or Protestation for the maintenance and defence of the true Protestant Religion and the Liberties of the Subject which wee will not most strictly and religiously observe And for the which wee will not bee alwaies ready to give them any security that can bee desired And of those Our gracious Letters Wee expect a speedy Answer from you And so Wee bid you farewell Given at our Court at Oxford in the nineteenth year of our Reign December 26. 1643. By his Majesties Command GEORGE DIGBY I do most humbly desire the Common Council of the Citie of London to certifie your Honours if ever amongst all their Records ever since the foundation of their City they find such a sad President as mine is And whether that any Messenger from any former King of England suffered the loss of his Estate to his damage at this day above twenty thousand pound for bringing them or any their Ancestors the like Letter for peace as I did from the late KING And at that time viz. in December 30. 1643. there was sent and came from Oxford the Writs weekly under the Great Seal of England without any Countermand My hard usage After-ages will hardly believe had I not Printed it to Posterity that it may serve as a warning to prevent other Persons from beeing got in the like Snares for the future For this cause I Suffered Imprisonment in the Tower almost four years for bringing up the aforesaid Letter from Oxford to the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the City of London in December 1643. although I had an Order from the Hous of Commons as appears by their Journal Book and a Pass from the Lord General Essex to go to Oxford for an exchange for Mr. Hesilrigge Sir Arthur Hesilrige his Brother and I left my Exchange with Sir Arthur Hesilrigge about the 2. of January 1643. which were both procured for mee by Mr. Theophilus Ryley Scout-master General of the City of London who was authorized to execute that place by the Common Council of London and I was authorized by the said Mr. Ryley to do the same Mr. Ryley being impowered by the Parliament and Common Council of London to hold Intelligence in any the Kings Quarters as by his Orders hee shewed me Mr. Ryley was a man of a known approved Integritie and in great esteem with the then Parliament and Citie of London at that time and would not have acted

squandred away was pleased to tell your Petitioner he could do him a courtesie in procuring to your Petitioner three Bonds taken from your Petitioner in two thousand pounds for the payment of your Petitioner one thousand pounds 1644 which Bonds Mr. Corbet told me were at Shrewsbury in Shropshire morgaged by that Committee for fourty pounds which the Committee had laid out for publick use Your Petitioner was glad to hear where these Bonds were and to know who had them though they day in Lavender for fourty pounds your Petitioner for many yeares making diligent enquiry after them and had never got true information where they were had not Mr. John Corbet told him and it was a thousand to one that these Bonds being eleven yeares out of your Petitioners Custodie that your Petitioner ever heard of them or got them again into his hands This Worthy Gentleman Mr. John Corbet advised me to make my Application by Petition to his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector and to his Councel for to have these Bonds restored and that if his late Highnesse and his Councel would give him order to do it he wished me so well be would procure your Petitioner these three Bonds safe and uncancelled Provided your Petitioner would pay the Committee of Shropshire for them the summe of fourty pounds which your Petitioner willingly offered to do whereupon your Petitioner petitioned the late Lord Protector Oliver and his Councel for the aforesaid three Bonds And the Councel of State ordered John Corbet Esquire should attend them to give them true information of this businesse which accordingly he did and thereupon this Order following of the Councel of State was made and your Petitioner paid his money to Mr. Corbet accordingly Friday March 21. 1655 At the Counsel at White-Hall UPon reading a Report from the Committee to whom the Petition of Thomas Violet was referred praying that certain Bonds seized upon by the Committee of Salop may be delivered unto him Upon consideration of the said Report and for that the said Bonds are ingaged for forty pounds which the said Committee imploied for publique use Ordered by his Highnesse the Lord Protector and his Counsel That upon the said Thomas Violets paying unto the said Committee the said summe of forty pounds for which the said Bonds are ingaged That the said Committee bee required to deliver up the said Bonds unto the said Thomas Violet and that hee bee at liberty to sue the same and to take the benefit thereof as formerly hee might have done and that it bee referred to John Corbet Esq to see the said Bonds delivered up accordingly upon payment of the said forty pounds Henry Scobell Clerk of the Counsell Mr. John Corbet I attended with this order March 28. 1655. Hee was pleased to tell mee hee was to go down into Shropshire and would speak with the Committee who were to receive the forty pounds and then I should know where to pay my money for hee told mee hee had never received Publique monies and hee was verie unwilling to receive any now But upon his return upon my earnest intreaty and to save mee from further trouble hee told mee hee would receive and keep this forty pounds in deposito for the use of the Committee till he had order from them for the disposing of it That transaction follows viz. MEmorandum That the 24th of May 1656. In obedience to the Order of his Highness the Lord Protector and his Counsel of the 21. of March 1655. I John Corbet Esq have delivered unto Thomas Violet of London God-Smith three Bonds the first bearing date the 6th of June 1638. of eight hundred pounds for the payment of four hundred pounds within one year after the death of the Lady Anne Waad in which Bond the said Lady Anne Waad Charles Mordent Philip Cage and Edmund Lenthal Esquires stand bound to the said Thomas Violet and one other Bond of the 6th of June 1638. in six hundred pounds for the payment of three hundred pounds within two years after the death of the said Lady Anne Waad in which the Persons aforesaid stand bound to the said Thomas Violet and one other Bond of the same date of six hundred pounds for the payment of three hundred pounds within three years after the death of the said Lady Anne Waad in which Bond the Persons aforesaid stand bound to the said Thomas Violet The summe of forty pounds being paid by the said Thomas Violet according to the said Order JOHN CORBET Witnesses then present Edward VVatkins VVilliam Davis Edmund Cogan John English Scr. The Lady Anne Waad of Battels Hall in Essex died about May 1643. And the Bonds are due to mee Thomas Violet at this day as abovesaid Your Petitioner may justly say his Estate was squandred away when a thousand pound of good Bonds of your Petitioners lay in lavender for eleven years for forty pounds and your Petitioner had never known where they had bin had not Mr. Corbet tould him your Petitioners humble Prayer to your Honours is that seeing your Petitioner hath paid Mr. Corbet the forty pounds according to the aforesaid Order and hath these Bonds safe and uncancelled now in his Custody and in consideration of your Petitioner services in staying this Silver That your Honours would be pleased in part of your Petitioners satisfaction of eleven thousand pounds by your Honours Order to Impower your Petitioner by Authority of Parliament to shew and Implead these Bonds notwithstanding any Order of Parliament to sequester the said Bonds and to Impower your Petitioner to take out Judgement and Execution thereupon notwithstanding any Order or Ordinance to the Committee of Shropshire or any other Committee Touching or Concerning these Bonds And my most humble Petition is to John Corbet Esquire one of the Honourable members of this Parliament that as hee received my money for the use of the Committee of Shropshire and gave mee the first notice and discovery in whose Custody these Bonds were so hee would now bee pleased out of his love to Justice to certifie his knowledge of the truth of this Business that so I may have Releif in this business according to Justice and equity Hereafter followeth your Petitioners Petition to Oliver Lord Protector and his Reference thereupon to Col. Barkstead Alderman Viner Capt. Iohn Limbery Doctor VValker c. TO HIS HIGHNESSE OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of the COMMON-WEALTH of England Scotland and Ireland And the Dominions thereunto belonging The Humble Petition of Thomas Violet SHEWETH THat your Petitioner did about the 8th of Decemb. 1652. deliver unto the Council of State a written Paper wherein was discovered that at that present time a practice and Combination was set on foot by the then Spanish Ambassador Don Allonso de Cardenas with several other Merchants both Strangers and Natives to deceive the State of a great quantity of Silver near fower hundred thousand pounds which was aboard the Ships Sampson Salvador and George then riding at Eriffe