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A49956	This most deplorable case of an antient citizen who hath been an old, honest, and faithful servant of, and very great sufferer for the interest of the city of London, is most humbly desired to be read over by all good citizens with great care, seriousness, and due consideration.	Lee, Richard, fl. 1639-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing L889A; ESTC R43367	15,284	20

the Bridge-house London about nine years where as is well known to many he did faithfully and industriously serve the City and meerly for his good services done there and for his great fidelity in acting for the just Interest of the City as by Orders of Court he was Ordered to do and as by his said Place and his Oath he was bound to do against the wills and mislead apprehensions of some persons he became a very great sufferer to the spoyl and ruine thereby of him his wife and many children being now destitute of imployment for his and their maintenance is forced to become a Suitor to your Honour and Worships That in consideration of his said faithful services and great sufferings you would favourably choose and admit him a Bridgemaster of London Bridge into one of the places now void whose fidelity and ability in serving as Clerk-Comptroler there nine years as aforesaid hath been largely manifested which renders him fit able and capable for the Execution thereof wherefore I being infirm in body unable to waite on you myself to move your favours on hi● behalf am bold hereby to recommend him unto your Choice as aforesaid being well assured of his care fidelity and good ability in all respects to serv● you therein humbly praying your Lordship and Worships and all m● good freinds in and about London Westminster and Southwark who hav● Right in the said choice favourably and freely to choose and admit hi● thereunto who hath so faithfully carefully and industriously served we deserved from and greatly suffered for the Cities interest without a●● Reward and with very hard usages as are largely set forth in other wr●tings he will present unto you Thus begging your Pardon for this my pr●sumption in all Humility I subscribe my self Your most devoted Friend and Servant Tho. Lee. Justice of the Peace at Newington-Butts in Surrey 〈…〉 Names are subscribed Justices of the Peace for the County of Surrey and Burrough of Southwark do hereby also recommend unto your Choice and pray your Favours on the behalf of the said Mr. Rich. Lee as aforesaid most humbly also subscribing our selves Your most faithful friends and Servants Hunsdon the Earl of Dover's Son Edmund Bowyer Knight and Barronet William Haward Knights Tho. Foster Knights George Chute T. Barker James Reading Peter Rich Justices Rich. How Justices Jos Coling Justices Jo. Freeman Will. Castle We whose Names are Subscribed Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City of Westminster do also recommend unto your Choice and pray your favour on the behalf of the said Mr. Richard Lee as aforesaid most humbly also subcribing our selves Your faithful friends and servants Tho. Gery Knights Will. Bowle Knights Edm. B. Godfrey Knights Charles Pitfield Justices James Deuy Justices Ellis Lloyd Justices Edw. Parry Justices Hum. Weld Justices Peter Sabbs Justices The said Rich. Lee having too late Knowledge of the vacancy of the said Places to make his personal Applications to the Commoners of London therefore is forced at great charges to Print and Publish abroad among all good Citizens these his Requests A true Copy of his Reversion before mentioned To all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come or that the same shall hear sée o● Read Henry Garway Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Aldermen of the same send Greeting Know ye That at a Court holden in the Chamber of the Guild Hall of the said City upon Tuesday the Eight day of October last past before day of the Date hereof before Sir Morris Abbot Knight then Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Aldermen of the same City then present amongst other things is Entred and Recorded as followeth Viz. This day at the Request of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor this Court doth freely and lovingly Give and Grant unto Richard Lee Son of Lancelor Lee of Alveley in the County of Sallop Esq the Reversion and next Avoidance of the Clerkship of the Bridge-house at what time soever the same shall first and next happen to fall or become void To have hold Exercise and Enjoy the same Place with all Fees Profits and Commodities thereunto due and of Right belonging so long as he shall well and honestly use and behave himself therein saving to all and every other person and persons his and their Right and Interest in and to the same by force and vertue of any former Grant made thereof by this Court and so alwayes and upon condition That he the said Richard Lee at such time as he shall come to claim and Enjoy the benefit of this his Grant be thought and adjudged by this Court fit apt and able for the due Execution thereof and not otherwise In faith and testimony whereof We the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen have caused the Seal of the Office of Mayoralty of the said City to be put to these Presents Dated at London the tenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1639. And in the 15th year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Michel A true Copy of the Auditors and Committees Certificate before mentioned To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common Councel Assembled We the Auditors of the Bridge-house Accompts and Committees for Leasing of the Lands and Tenements belonging to the Bridge house London whose Names are subscribed do certify that we have perused the several Books and Writings belonging to the said Bridge house written and made up by Rich. Lee Clerke there and do find that there hath been and is a great deal of Labour Pains and Attendants required continually to be by him performed in the Execution of his said Place and that all the Fees and Profits now allowed unto him the Sallery of fifty pounds per Annum which was formerly allowed to his Predecessors being lately Ordered to be ●ith-held are very small and do not amount unto a competent maintenance for his subsistance any wayes equivolent to his Labours Endeavours and Attendance therein And do therefore think it Requesite Just and Reasonable that he be confidered for the time past and that the said Fee of Fifty pound Pounds a year may be restored unto him for the future All which nevertheless we humbly recommend and leave to your Honours and Worships Wisdomes and further Order Dated the 25th day of May Anno 1652. John Wollaston John Stone Fr. Pecke Henry Brandreth A true Copy of the Bridgemasters Certificate before mentioned We whose Names are Subscribed Wardens of London Bridge do humbly certify on the beha●● of Rich. Lee Clerk Comptroler of the Bridge-house that he together with a Clerk which he keeps and imploy for his assistance have taken a great deal of Pains Labour and Industry in performance of his said Place since his admission thereunto and we do humbly conceive that the Profits he hath received therein have been very small much beneath his Pains Endeavours and attendance therein and that all the just Fees and Profits payd and allow'd to him cannot nor do amount unto above forty pounds a year one year with another besides his dwelling house witness our Hands May 25. 1652. Bridgemasters Fra. Kirby Nich. Clagett And although he had two such Certificates under the hands of the hands of the Bridgehouse Auditors Committees and Bridgemasters twice almost every year for about 9 years together and did present his Petition with his Certificates annexed to the Court of Aldermen and Common-councel very often every year for the restoration of the antient Sallery of 50 ll a year and did by great means and endeavours prosecute the same yet could never get the same restored by reason of the Opposers and Obstructors mentioned To the Right Honourable Sir Fran. Chaplin Kt. Lord Mayor and to the Right worshipful the Aldermen Masters Wardens Assistants and Liveries of the several Companies of the Honourable City of London Whereas Rich. Lee late Clerk Comptroler of the Bridgehouse London and many years associate to the Clerk of Assizes of the home Circuite being now destitute of Imployment for the maintenance of him his wife and many small Children is humbly bold to become a suitor unto you to choose and admit him a Bridgemaster of London Bridge We whose Names are subscribed upon good grounds and large testimonials of his good deserts of his care fidelity and good ability to do and perform business do therefore hereby recommend him unto your choice praying your Favours freely to choose and admit him thereunto accordingly whereof having good hopes we subscribe our selves May 30. 1678. Your most faithful Friends and Servants Fr. North Will. Mountague Tho. Twisden Will. Wilde Hugh Windham Tim. Littleton Tho. Jones Fd. Thurland The said Rich. Lee most humbly also prayes That no matter in his said Case mentioned may be understood as by him intended to Reflect on any worthy Aldermen or Citizens of London or in a general ●anner nay he professeth he intends them not to reflect on all who were seduced in those cases but on those who were Seducers and acted more from a Revengeful than a just and right spirit strangely byassed and self-ended FINIS

all manner of Materials which should have been used at the Bridge-house Buildings which were then credibly valued to be worth above 600 lib. Sterling to the great dammage of the City whereby he who few years before come to the Bridge-house very poor was then by such Practices become very rich When the said Articles were first exhibited the poor Exhibitors thereof were greatly thanked commended and charged to go on to prosecute effectually by the Aldermen and Committee appointed to examine and hear the same and it did go on prosperously with great applause and incouragement to the Prosecutors at several of their first meetings But after the said Purloyner whose place there was to overlook the Workmen and Labourers the Goods Materials and the Utensils of the House and to warn all Courts and Committees and to atiend and keep their Doors whereby he had great opportunities to be well known to them who knew well how to tell his own Tale and by his subtle insinuations to get credit and favour with them and having got time did so prevail with several of the Aldermen and Committee to be strongly on his side being ignorant of his Devices and evil Practices who did pervert most of the Committee so that at many Meetings of the Committee after the Tyde was so turn'd that the poor Prosecutors instead of being incouraged as before were altogether curb'd checkt and discourag●d only supported by some few the poor men being so overaw'd the work of Justice was at a stand without hopes of future good which made the Purloyner impudent and insolent greatly to vapour insult and in his pufft-up pride and confidence to arrest some of the poor Prosecutors for defaming him and being so befriended he was Cock-sure thereby to have affrighted and stopt further proceedings And indeed they being poor and so much discouraged by their Masters not only so deserting them and their Cities just cause but by their so highly owning the Purloyner they had reason to have declin'd and had done had they not been honest and courageous resolving not to be conquered by his so impudent actings nor by the checks of the Aldermen Committe Bridge-masters or any o●hers discouraging them well knowing their cause to be so just and good And they did come and advise with and earnestly intreat the said Richard Lee to give them help in their just prosecution else they said by their want of skill and knowledge the Advers Party by their over-potency would overpower them who by his Oath being bound to be faithful in his place in all things for the good of the City Thereupon though he well knew the potency of the Adverse party and the meanness and unlikeliness of the poor Men so mightily oppos'd to prevail let their cause be ever so just yet the said Richard Lee thinking it his Duty what justly he could do he ought to do therein and did undertake with his might the management thereof it being for the Cities Right and to preserve the poor men in their just cause though so much oppos'd by those who ought not to have done it from being run down and ruin'd by them for their honesty and faithfulness to the City their Masters And the said Richard Lee though greatly against his own interest to act against the Purloyner being so strongly own'd by many of the Aldermen and Committee and both the B●●ge-Masters who were made Judge in the case he the said Richard Lee then having his Petition and Certificates annexed lying before the Court of Aldermen and Common Council for restoring to him his said antient Salary of 50 lib. a year and for gratifying his extraordinary Labours as aforesaid yet the said Richard Lee for the Cities good waved his own Interest and did resolvedly go on therewith and drew up their Articles in a right form and put all their Charge and what every witness could say in good order and then procur'd the Committees to meet again several times and to examine and hear the matter in difference in order to do Right and Justice and give Judgment and did what possibly he could therein yet all would amount to nothing the Purloyner being still so own'd and the poor men so curb'd that the Purloyner grew so hardy that shortly after he also arrested the said Richard Lee for defaming him no other ways but in doing his Duty in the said prosecution as a sworn Servant to the City and did stoutly prosecute them all at the Assizes in Surry and though ●e thought assuredly to have eaten up the poor men alive he being rich and having many great persons siding with him and did use as great means as possibly he could by appearance of Aldermen Committee men both the Bridge-Masters divers of the Bridge-house chief Work-masters and Servants and the chiefest of the Learned Counsel in the Law on his side far beyond what the poor men were able to procure yet the poor Defendants at the Tryal at the Assizes notwithstanding all disadvantages did obtain a Verdict against the Plaintiffs And indeed it was a very long and tedious Tryal heard with great patience and great respects to the many Great and Grave Men who were on the Plaintiffs or Purloyners side yet the honest Jury being upon their sacred Oaths better observ'd the good Scripture-Rules had more respect to the truth of the Evidence and justness of the Cause than to the persons of grave men therefore justly and honestly found for the poor honest Defendants against the rich and highly mannag'd Plaintiffs thirty or forty Witnesses upon their Oaths on each side being fairly examined and heard which Verdict given did greatly put to shame all the Great and Grave pe●sons and all others who so unjustly sided with the Purloyner and had so many years retarded Justice who were in a shameful manner hissed out of the Court. And after obtaining of the said Verdict the poor abused Defendants most justly applied again to the Court of Aldermen and Committee humbly certifying their said Verdict appealing for further Justice against the Purloyner and upon very hard and close pursuit thereof for about half a year together after prevail'd to have several re-examinations and Rehearings and Judgment upon the whole matter whereupon they also being soundly rous'd up for shame found him Guil●y and justly turn'd him out of his place to the great shame there also of all who had so long retarded and would have perverted Justice which great contest hung in great pain and Travel for want of good Midwivery above three years and a half almost to the utter ruine of the poor prosecutors the long forced prosecution whereof cost them out of their own purses above 100 lib. yet upon their humble and importunate petititoning the Court of Aldermen to allow them their Expences and consideration for their loss of ●ine by their Attendances and good Services done to the City they had but 30 lib. upon all these considerations given them in full for all to the

clear loss and dammage of the said Richard Lee above 60 lib. out of his own purse besides his loss of time above three years and half together his Labour Attendances and doing all Writings concerning the said long Prosecution better worth then 50 lib which good Works were greatly applauded and commended by many good Citizens though they prov'd undeservedly to the dammage and ruine of him the said Richard Lee his Wife and many small Children by his intermedling therewith because though often every year during his continuance at the Bridge-house he Petitioned the Court of Aldermen and Common Council to restore to him the said antient Sallary of 50 lib. a year justly due to him and to reward his extraordinary Labours as aforesaid with Certsficates to his Petitions annex'd under the Auditors and Bridge-Masters hands certifying his great Labours care and fidelity in the execution of his Duty in his said place and of the smallness of his profits he received far short of his Deserts not amounting to a competent Maintenance for him Therefore they thought fit and reasonable the said 50 lib. a year should be paid to him from his Admittance and fully restor'd for the future And the several Lord Mayors Aldermen Auditors Committees and many of the Common Council continually every year promised it should be paid to him accordingly and that he should be gratified for his extraordinary Labours yet they were still delay'd and never performed to him during his stay there though he well deserv'd the same as aforesaid and the Reason why they were not perform'd to him was because the said Mr. Whites Friends the said Alderman Fowke and the Aldermen and Committee-men of the said Advers Party always bore a grudge against him only for his fidelity in speaking and acting on the Cities behalf as by his Oath he was bound to do in the management of the said Cases gasnst their wills and misled Apprehensions Therefore they did oppose and obstruct the Grant of all Petitions he ever could present for the same Whereupon the said Richard Lee having served the City as Clerk of the Bridge-house about Nine years and upon so long tryal finding his profits so small that he could not subsist thereby but for the necessary supply of him and his Family was forc'd every year to waste of his own Stock and grew every year worse worse in his Estate not in the least by improvident living and also finding that by no means possible he could hope for the restoration of the said Sallery of 50 lib. a year nor gratification for his said extraordinary Labours by reason of the said Parties continual opposing and obstructing for no other causes but for his fidelity to the City in the Cases mentioned and that by reason of their undeserved disfavour he could not continue in his Place with any peace comfort or contentment whose implacable Spirits and unjust dealings with him upon all opportunities were unsufferable did more grieve and trouble him he never in the least deserving them than the want of the said 50 lib. a year and gratifications so justly due to him and by their means so long and so unjustly kept from him as hereby evidently appears which were the true sole and only causes of his being forc'd voluntarily to leave and surrender his said Place and consequently of all his said sore losses crosses and sufferings he unhappily underwent since by the Brewing Trade to his dammage above 5000 lib. as aforesaid to the great spoyl and ruine of him his Wife and many Children All which might have been well sav'd and preserv'd to the unspeakable comfort and happiness of him and his if those irreconcilable Gentlemen whose favour he sought by all endeavors had but been courteous and not extremely severe to him as they were beyond measure without any just or rational cause otherwise he had in all probability continu'd still at the Bridge-house and ended his days there and prevented all his said harms which thereafter happen'd to him and his as aforesaid for whose honesty and fidelity to the City in doing his Duty as bound by his Oath in the two last mentioned cases concerning which Cases forty times-more may be said than herein is but hinted to shew the unsavory actings and how greatly the said Richard Lee suffer'd by both the said Parties cruelty for about Nine years together during his whole time of his being at the Bridge-house too tedious to be born or here inserted such a life as they led him so many years together for no other causes but for doing his Du●y in those two Cases as mentioned he hereby professeth he would not be hir'd to undergo so many years for 500 lib. a year Sterling in whose Coat they could never pick a hole nor find a blot in his Scutcheon for which they watched and sought for as hid Treasure which if they could they would soon have hit it for brevities sake he 'll add no more here being enough set down to declare how the City hath been greatly wronged by bad Servants and how hardly such brought to punishment not by the Justice of their own appointed Judges who rather indulg'd them and discountenanced their honest Intelligencers their Servants also and suffer'd them to be in danger of ruine for their honesty and fidelity to their Masters giving the Offendors such indulgencie through bewitched incredulity and the contrary to the poor Complainants who being poor and disown'd by their Masters in their just complaint the offenders though guilty being rich and buoyed up grew bold and impudat eresoved to play Counter-scuffle to cudgel or Arest the poor men for Defamation as they did thereby thinking to affright them from further prosecu●ion standing upon their Guard of Justification pleading Innocency therefore defam'd by which Indulgency they took Rope long enough to hang or bring themselves to just punishment and whipt themselves with their own Rod the poor Arrested Complainants would not be daunted though poor made Defendants forc'd to Trial and unkindly disown'd and deserted by their Masters but rather than to bend basely under the Offenders feet though through poverty want of great Friends and with all disadvantages trusting to the Justice of the Cause go on courageously to Tryal not before known Friends or Citizens in the City but before strangers in the Country where they obtain'd a just Verdict with Victory and Triumph in three or four days time which they could not do by their greatest endeavors among their Masters in the City in above three years and a half prosecution though for their own Interest and almost to the utter ruine of the poor deserted men and this is a true Parallel of one of the said Cases And if the poor mens Cause had not been honest just and good it was a Miracle they should prevail at the Assizes in the Country among strangers with such disadvantages as they did to the shame of all the Opposers Retarders and Obstructors And that after that Tryal