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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

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

great expence pains and faithfulness shall have its due and promised Reward considering that in these humble Proposals which I have propounded to your Honours for my satisfaction I take no money from the publick but humbly offer to pay in monethly a great Revenue to the maimed Souldiers to regulate the abuses of the Manufacture of Gold and Silver Thread and Lace to give a stop to the Transportation of Gold and Silver to keep your Mint constantly at work to coyn money great quantities yearly all which services are of very great consequence to the Common-wealth the consideration of the premisses I humbly leave to your Honours and remain Your Honours dutifull and humble Servant TH. VIOLET THE TABLE THO. Violets Petition to the late Protector Oliver for getting the Common-wealth two hundred seventy eight thousand pounds and to be paid his reward according to Promise p. 51. The Lord Protectors Reference 61 The Officers of the Mint their Certificate concerning this businesse 61 Several persons Affidavits of Tho. Violets Services 63 A Copy of Tho Violets Letter sent to the Lord Bradshaw 67 Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hills Letter to Mr. Thurloe 68 Doctor Walkers Warrants to the Examiners Mr. How Mr. Arnold Mr. Dorislaws Mr. Bud concerning Tho. Violet 69 Sir Tho. Viner Sir Iohn Barkstead Iohn Limbery Maurice Thomson Esq their desires to the Lord Bradshaw touching Tho. Violet 74 Doctor Walkers Certificate 90 Lord Com. Bradshaws Certificate concerning Tho. Violets service in staying this Silver 80 Alderman Francis Allen Esq his Certificate 83 Sir George Fleetwoods Certificate concerning this service and the Councel of States Promise and engagement to Tho. Violet for his reward 84 Sir Iames Harringtons Certificate of many services done in staying this Silver and in other Particulars 92 Sir Tho. Viner Sir Iohn Barkstead Gabriel Beck Capt. Iohn Limbery Edward Dendy Henry Middleton Maurice Thomson Isaac Dorislaws Esq Certificate touching Th. Violets great service in the Silver-business 99 The Late Lord Protector Richards Order to Gabriel Beck and Francis Bacon Esquires touching Tho. Violet 112 Francis Bacon and Gabriel Becks Certificate to the late Lord Protector Richard 113. Tho. Violets Petition to the late Lord Protector in the name of Edward Iohnson Esq for the making of a publick farthing 118 The late Protectors Warrant to Master Solicitor General Ellis to prepare a Grant for these Farthings 120 An Account given to Sir Thomas Viner Mr. Alexander Holt c. of this business of the Silver Ships 122 The several abuses and obstructions of the Mint with ways propounded by Tho. Violet to set the Mint on work 11 The late King Charles's Letter to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London 33 An Account of what hath been taken from me by the Parliament 38 An Order of the Councel of State requiring Th. Violet to pay fourty pounds to the Committee of Salop for certain Bonds with power to take the benefit of them and sue them as he might have done before any Sequestration 47 Iohn Corbet Esq his Receipt for the aforesaid fourty pounds 48 To the High Court of PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of England c. AND TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE COUNCEL OF STATE I. THomas Violet of London Goldsmith humbly presents this Narrative concerning his staying in the Court of Admiralty the Silver in the Ships Sampson Salvador and George together with the Certificates and Reports of many Honourable Persons attesting your Petitioners great service done this Nation in his seasonable Applications to the Councel of State 1652. and his protesting in the Admiralty against the discharge of this silver and discovering the frauds of the Spanish and Flemish Claimers and in many other particulars II. Further sheweth that there was unloaded out of the aforesaid ships 1653. upon your Petitioners discovery the summe of two hundred seventy eight thousand pounds which your Petitioners stayed by his Protest in the Admiralty the same houre the Judges would have discharged it And this silver was all coyned in the Tower And Colonel Barkstead Lieutenant of the Tower paid all this treasure to the Army and Navie for the defence and service of this Common wealth in 1653. and 1654. as will appear to your Honours upon the sight of his Accounts concerning this businesse III. These Particulars with many others are certified to his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector under the hands of Col. Barkstead Lieutenant of the Tower Alderman Viner Capt. John Limbery Doctor Walker Serjeant Dendy Maurice Thomson Treasurer of the East-India Company Serjeant Middleton Isaack Dorislawes Gabriel Beck Esquires By vertue of his late Highnesse reference directed to them 13. July 1657. IV. The true Copies of these original Petitions and Certificates and several other Transactions touching this silver are here presented to your Honours view to the end your Petitioner may after so long a delay of Justice have his dearly earned reward Your Honours upon perusal of all the Premisses will see it clearly proved your Petitioners great expence eminent zeal faithfulnesse and integritie with the hazard of his life in this service of the Common-wealth Your Honours Humble Servant THO. VIOLET May 25. 1659. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE The LORDS and others of the COUNCEL OF STATE VIZ. Thomas Lord Fairfax Major Gen. Lambert Col. John Desborough Col. James Bury John Bradshaw Serjeant at Law Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper Sir Horatio Townsend Sir Arthur Hesilrigge Sir Henry Vane Lieut Gen. Ludlow Lieut. Gen. Fleetwood Major Saloway Col. Dixwell Mr. Reynolds Mr. Josiah Barners Col. Morley Mr. Thomas Scot Mr. Robert Wallop Sir James Harrington Col. Walton Col. John Jones Col. Sydney Col. Sydenham Mr. Hen. Nevill Mr. Thomas Chaloner Col. Downs Lord Chief Justice St. John Col. Thompson Lord Whitlock Sir Robert Honywood Sir Archibald Johnson May is please your Honours YOur Petitioner did about the eighth of Decemb. 1652. deliver into the Councel of State a Written Paper wherein was discovered that at that present time a Practice and Combination was set on foot by several Merchants and others to deceive the Common-wealth of a great quantity of silver above three hundred thousand pounds which was then aboard the Ships Sampson Salvador and St. George then riding about Black-wall Upon Examination of this Businesse at the Councel of State the Councel within few dayes after commanded and engaged your Petitioner in this service and your Petitioner did faithfully promise the Councel his uttermost endeavours to discover this fraud and at his own charge to prosecute this Businesse in the Court of Admsraltie The Judges of the Court of Admiraltie did appoint the 16. day of Decemb. 1652. to give sentence for clearing these ships and silver being to the value of about three hundred thousand pounds in silver as appears by the Certificate of the Officers of the Mint Whereupon your Petitioner came into the Court of Admiralty the very day and houre the Judges were clearing the said silver and at his own peril made his Protest in the Admiraltie

Dorislaws as appears by the original Certificate Your Petitioner petitioned the late Lord Protector Oliver 29. July 1658. and annexed the aforenamed Report of the Referrees and petitioned to be paid the sum of eleven thousand pound The Lord Protector Oliver upon reading the aforesaid Petition and the Report annexed refers your Petitioner for satisfaction together with the Report of Col. Barkstead Sir Tho Vyner and others for your Petitioners satisfaction unto his privy Councel that they take consideration of all the maters therein contained so that the Petitioner may have and receive satisfaction according to Justice and Equity for this service 29. July 1658. but his death shortly following nothing as yet hath been done for your Petitioners satisfaction Your Petitioner thereupon in Octob. 1658. petitioned the late Lord Protector Richard for his satisfaction and annexed the aforesaid Reports and Petitions upon his Highnesse perusal of the same he was pleased to referre the same unto the consideration of Francis Bacon late Master of his Requests and Gabriel Beck Esquires Solicitor to the late Councel of State They after many dayes meeting concerning this businesse have certified accordingly as Col. Barkstead and the former Referrees have done viz. for the due paying your Petitioner the summe of eleven thousand pounds and that they hold the Petitioner to be a person very fit and useful to be employed in removing the obstructions of the Mint and that the Petitioner be employed for regulating the Manufacture of gold and silver Wyre and Lace which Certificates are here to be produced to your Honours signed by Francis Bacon and Gabriel Beck Esquires 18 Jan. 1658. Your Petitioner humbly prayes your Honours to take into consideration the great and eminent advantages your Petitioner did this Common wealth in staying this silver at that juncture of time in Decemb. 1652. for had that silver come into the hands of the Dutch they would have laid it all out in powder and shot agaiust this Common-wealth as we employed it against them as will appear by Col. Barksteads Accompts which moneys under God was a principal mean to reduce the Dutch what service this treasure did the Nation in that juncture of time Christendome knowes the Dutch then our enemies felt and this Common wealth at this day enjoys the happy fruit of it But had all advantages been home followed against the Dutch in the last War we had grubbed up their greatnesse by the roots and flayed his Zealand Lions skin and broken their sheaf of Arrows to shivers making them unable for ever to trouble us but we only pared their nailes and parted with them upon too gentle conditions and made such a peace with them that at this time they carry all our Trade from our Merchants in a manner and do us more damage by being our feined friends then they could do being our open enemies the due consideration thereof is humbly hinted here to your Honours And if your Honours require a more particular Accompt I can demonstrate it to you in many particulars May it please your Honours These Certificats though they doe declare the truth of your Petitioners service really performed by a great number of Witnesses yet without further consideration they pay not your Petitioners engagements which were disbursed by him for the accomplishment of this service and those Gentlemen that have lent their moneys reallie to your Petitioner to enable him to do this service look for real payment in moneys and not in words your Petitioners engagement at this daie for this businesse of staying of the silver being above fifteen hundred pounds St. James saith what profit is it if a Brother be naked or destitute of daily food for one to say to him be thou warmed and bee thou filled if he supply him not with food and raiment so likewise a bare Certificate without further supply will neither pay debts nor cloath nor feed a man many words will not fill a bagg it is Justice that establisheth a Nation and payment of money quits debts and not words What a shame would it bee to those that professe so much Justice and reformation as this age doth to have it left to posterity and record That your Petitioner that hath done this Common-wealth such an eminent service in getting them more money then any man in this Nation ever did before should not be justly rewarded according to the promise and ingagements of the Council of State which made your Petitioner undertake this chargable difficult and dangerous service your Petitioner might have had tenn thousand pounds from the Claimers to have held his peace and bin quiet and to suffer the Judges of the Admiraltie to let this Silver passe the truth of this is certified under the hands of many persons of quality had your Petitioner taken this course to have bin bribed off it had bin most for his ease but lesse for his honesty The Common-wealths interest and his own reputation in making good his promise and ingagement to the Lord Bradshaw and Council of State he valued more then his life your Petitioner hath done his duty and will leave the issue to God 't is Solomon that saith a poor man delivered the City yet no man remembred the poor man when he had done his work I humbly hope that your Honours Justice will prevent mee that I may not have occasion to say the same that is true of this Age or leave so sad a memorandum of the ingratitude of these times If the Rules of our Saviour were observed by men of power in this Nation at this day to do to all People as they would be done unto your Petitioner should not have bin so long from time to time delayed with references in so Just and equitable Petition If your Petitioner hath not this his dearly earned reward it will remain to posterity in print to fright and terrifie all persons and make them wary how they ingage for the future upon English States-mens promises when they shall see and read these Transactions and Certificates If your Petitioner hath not satisfaction according to Justice it would be a means to make other men to take money when it is offered and not to trust to English States mens promises About the 20. of April 1659. your Petitioner did ingage an Honourable person to present to the Lord Richard Cromwell the late Protector these very Petitions and Certificates which I now present unto your Honours in print I am credibly informed upon his perusal of them hee was most honourably pleased to be verie sensible of your Petitioners sad sufferings great expence paines and fidelitie for the Common-wealth in this service And that seeing all this Treasure which your Petitioner stopt in the Ships Sampson Salvador and George was imploied and spent in the defence of the Common-wealth his late Highnesse was pleased to declare to an Honourable person that informed mee your Petitioner his late Highnesse did think my promised reward to be a just debt and

never been coined in the Tower being two hundred seventie eight thousand pounds but by the treachery of some Merchants and others in the Admiraltie had been cleared out of the Nation and sent to the Dutch Had your Petitioner December 16. 1652. at nine of the clock in the morning in the Court of Admiraltie been possessed with the dumb spirit of malignancie your Judges of the Admiraltie that verie daie and hour had cleared the aforesaid silver the Admiral Van-Trump then lying on the Downes to have wasted the silver to Holland which had not your Petitioner prevented by seasonable applications to the Councel of State might have prov'd of sad consequence and have cost many thousand English mens lives and God knowes what other dammages to this Nation such an over-sight in the Court of Admiraltie might have brought upon this Nation Here followeth the Lord Bradshawes CERTIFICATE upon the Desire and Request to him of Sir Thomas Viner Sir Iohn Barkestead Iohn Limbery Maurice Thompson Esquires Authorised by his late Highness Oliver to be Commissioners to Examine this Business The Lord Bradshawes CERTIFICATE I Have perused the Petition and considered of the desires mentioned in the annexed Paper and in compliance therewith so farr as my memory serves mee which hath bin assisted by the view of several Orders Certificates Depositions and memorialls formerly made in the Petitioners Case and now shewed unto mee I signifie and declare as followeth That although I may not take mee to make a narrative of Mr. Violets Case much lesse to give a punctuall accompte after so many years of what passed at the Council relating to that engagement of theirs asserted in the Petition which to be in the manner therein set down I can neither knowingly affirme nor deny yet the Petitioners addresses in the time of the Warr with the Dutche concerning the stay of the Ships which had the Silver in them being very remarkable I can for the substance testifie and do well call to minde the Petitioners tenders and intimations to the Council and undertaking the service touching the Silver specified in his Petition and that upon good deliberation taken of the matter the probability of his allegations being also much strengthened by the concurrant circumstances of some Letters about that time intercepted he had thereupon very good encouragement given him by the Council that performing h●s discovery his paines cost and care should bee throughly considered and he honourably rewarded or was told or promised to that effect Whereupon hee was Authorised and appointed by the Council to sollivite and assist in that whole business as by their Orders appeareth and whilest that Council satt was taken notice of as the maine Agent in the whole conduct thereof as the proceedings of those times will shewe what the beneficiall consequence of that imployment and what fruite thereof hath been to the State may bee better manifested by others who have been at the Heline of Affaires since the 20th of Aprill 1653. the day of the dismission of the Parliament and old Council But if I may offer my sence of the man and his actings which I apprehend to be in part expected my opinion was and is that his seasonable interposition and protest in the Admiralty applications to the Council and discovery of the Dutch and Spanish frauds touching the Silver Contested for these actions accompanied also with great Charge hazzard and trouble on his part as hee offers to Demonstrate and affirmes to bee well knowne adjoyning thereto for the legall part the constant assistance of the learned Advocate for the Common wealth were the maine occasion if not the causa sine qua non of the after benefit received by the State upon conversion of that Silver the Petitioner being looked upon as the great Wheele that sett all on work as I believe it would bee testified for him by others who had the honour to serve the Common-wealth in Council when this businesse was first began and afterwards untill the close of the same if they were consulted herein His losses Anno 1643. and his disburstments aboute the Silver for which hee prayes satisfaction and indemnity I must leave to his own Evidencinge and it seemes hee is ready for it The Councils Ingagements and Intentions to him-wards at his first assuming the employment were not without good reason uncommitted to writing for avoiding of all misconstruction they proposing on the one hand a faire and just proceeding and on the other all due encouragement to that person whose disquisition and effectual prosecution for making good the claime they knew must needs be very expensive and liable to many difficulties and hazards from the multitude of the contrary interessed parties and their many and powerful abettors So as any one in reason may conclude that without such assurance of the part of the Councel and relying upon it on the Petitioners part the whole business had miscarried as left un-undertaken and undone The Petitioners sore task and merit of the State in this particular I shall not further meddle with or take upon me to divine or determine what the issue will or should be as to his just recompence and compensation His zeale resolution activity and ability to promote the publick interest in divers respects being known to me heretofore in good measure as I formerly held my self obliged to cherish and so much as in me was to improve for the States advantage So upon the occasion now offered wherein the honour and justice of the State and their profit also as I conceive is mainly involved I am very free to render him according to my best observation of him and his actings this due and deserved Testimony Septemb. 5. 1657. John Bradshaw This is a true Copy of the Lord Bradshaws Certificate on the behalf of Mr. Thomas Violet examined by me Thomas Hewet Iohn Rimmer Francis Allen Esq Report and certificate upon the desire and request to him of Sir Tho. Viner Sir Iohn Barkstead Iohn Limbrey and Maurice Thomson Esquires Gentlemen I Have received an intimation from you as referrees by vertue of an order from his Highness the Lord Protector referring to a Petition of Mr. Thomas Violet concerning his staying the Ships Samson Salvador and George And the silver therein contained That I would testifie my knowledge in writing concerning the same or what else is contained in the aforesaid Petition in a ready compliance with what is so intimated I do in the first place say That I had not the particular knowledge of those affairs as they respect Master Violets actings in them which other Honourable Persons had and therefore cannot testifie so particularly concerning those transactions as others may see just cause to do on Mr. Violets behalf only Thus much in general I can and do freely testifie from my own observation and knowledge that Mr. Violet did engage in that concernment of the staying the ships Samson Salvador and George and in discovering the fraudes endeavoured to be put

offer the Petitioner ten thousand pounds to have deserted this businesse of prosecuting against the Spanish Ambassador and Claimers concerning this Silver And this was confessed by the Merchants Solicitor to be true as appeareth by two several persons Affidavits viz. Mr. Thomas Hewet and Mr. William Savill taken before William Glascock Esq one of the Masters in Chancery And whereas the Petitioner alledgeth That in the prosecution of this great businesse for the space of about two years he was at the sole charge himself thereof and paid ten several persons whom at that time he employed in this service as he hath proved by Affidavit of foure Witnesses viz John Glover and Symon Baldwin Merchants Thomas Ley and John Gerrell Citizens of London Sworn before John Page and Robert Kelloway Esquires Masters in Chancery in 1654. That the Petitioner to their knowledge expended above five hundred pounds in this service in 1652. and 1653. We finde the Petitioners debts and engagements contracted in the prosecution of this businesse of the Silver Ships to be very great amounting unto the summe of seven hundred sixty five pounds and upwards which the Petitioner oweth at interest at this day And he hath presented us a particular List of the several mens names of whom the Petitioner borrowed the said money to do this service the truth of which appears unto us by the Affidavit of the said Mr. Violet sworn before Doctor Harrington one of the Masters of your Highnesse Court of Chancery besides several other great summes of money which the Petitioner affirmes to us to have taken up at interest for his necessary support and maintenanee ever since the Sequestration of his estate in 1643. May it please your Highnesse upon this businesse of the Petitioner we have had many meetings And being by your Highnesse Reference required not only to slate the Petitioners Case but to certifie our opinions upon the whole matter We do accordingly in all faithfulnesse and humility certifie to your Highnesse That upon due consideration had of the great travel charge and hazard which the Petitioner hath undergone in the prosecuting of this businesse as hath been proved unto us as aforesaid As also upon the Attestation of Sir George Fleetwood and Sir James Harrington concerning the Promise of the Councel of State to Mr. Violet for the restoration of his estate or eleven thousand pounds Upon the whole matter we do in all humble manner certifie your Highnesse that we finde the Petitioner is a person who not only deserves the making good the Councel of States Promise to him as abovesaid But also by your Highnesse goodness bounty and favour that there be some signal Reward conferr'd upon him for this his eminent service according to the Promise of the said Councel as by the Certificates of Sir George Fleetwood and Sir James Harrington hath been attested unto us That so all others for the future may be encouraged to serve the interest of your Highness and the Common-wealth with all faithfulness as it appeareth to us the Petitioner hath done We have also considered of the Petitioners debts and expences contracted in this service and for his support since 1643. and beleeve the Petitioners engagements at this present are very great and pressing upon him Wherefore being ordered by your Highness to certifie our opinions upon the whole matter We humbly offer unto your Highness That for the present left the Petitioner should be thrown into prison and thereby utterly ruined for the very moneys he hath expended in this service That some considerable summ of money in part may speedily by your Highness be assign'd unto him for the paying of his debts contracted in this great service for the publick And also that care be taken for his subsistence according to his quality And that the remainder of the money promised him by the late Councel of State as aforesaid may be paid unto him assoon as your Highness and the great affaires of the Common-wealth can permit he having eminently and signally shewed his zeal resolution and forwardness with the hazard of his life in this service for his Countrey All which we Humbly submit to your Highnesse Wisdome and Justice 1. May 1658. John Barkstead Tho. Viner Gabriel Beck John Limbery Edward Dendy Henry Middleton Maurice Thomson Isaac Dorislaus Examined by us Jo. Symes Jo. Rimmer WHen your Petitioner after much paines patience and attendance had gotten all these aforesaid honourable Gentlemens Certificates and Testimonialls aforesaid in May 1658. I cast about how I should bring my businesse to have it come to a good issue that after so much delay I might have Justice Thereupon your Petitioner Petitioned Oliver Lord Protector setting forth my former services and backing the same with so many bulwarks and Certificates that in justice nor honour I thought he could not delay me longer of my dearly earned reward for I knew he could not deny a tittle in my Petition but what I alledged I had fully proved and that your Petitioner might be dealing with him for something to get some imployment till he paid me the summe of eleven thousand pounds I did offer in part of my satisfaction of eleven thousand pounds to except of the imployment of Regulating the manufacture of gold and silver thread with the fees I formerly had received and I humbly offered to accept of this office at the value of two thousand pounds this office being a part of my own Estate for which I paid formerly 1500l And had I not bin disturbed in the due execution by some damorous cheating Silkmen and Wyer drawers and Refiners who make it their common trade to cozen the wearers of gold and silver lace and have melted down within this twenty yeares of the Plate and heavy silver Coynes of the Nation to the value of a million of money to the wispeakable losse of the Common-wealth by wasting of the blood and sinews of this Nations money which ought to bee kept in peoples purses to maintaine Trade and Commerce and not to be put upon Womens Petticoats to be burst and wasted away For to induce his Highnesse Oliver to grant me the said imployment I annexed to my Petition and Papers a Report of the Committee of Parliament for Trade Dated June 16. 1657. the original Report I have readie to produce to your Honours which Report certifies that they have had it fully proved before them upon many dayes Examination the great abuses daily practised in the culling and melting down the currant silver coines of this Nation for the expensive making Gold and Silver Lace Wyre and Thread They certifie under their hands the dailie abuses and cheats is put on the Wearers by the deceitful making Gold and Silver Thread and Lace and also by several fraudulent practices in the making Gold and Silver Thread that there is w●sted of the stock of Silver in this Nation about thirty thousand pounds a year And that at this day there is no Rule nor Order for