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A41836	A brief narrative and deduction of the several remarkable cases of Sir William Courten, and Sir Paul Pyndar, Knights, and William Courten late of London Esquire, deceased their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, together with their surviving partners and adventurers with them to the East-Indies, China and Japan, and divers other parts of Asia, Europe, Africa and America : faithfully represented to both houses of Parliament.	Graves, Edward.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1605; ESTC R39444	18,876	18

A Brief NARRATIVE And Deduction of the several Remarkable Cases of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar Knights and William Courten late of London Esquire Deceased Their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns together with their Surviving Partners and Adventurers with them to the East-Indies China and Iapan and divers other parts of Asia Europe Africa and America Faithfully represented to both Houses of Parliament Reduced under four Principal Heads viz. I. The Discovery and Plantation of Barbadoes II. Their Vndertakings and Expeditions to the East-India China and Japan III. The Denyal of Iustice upon their civil Actions depending in Holland and Zealand IV. Their Loanes and Supplyes for the Service of the Crown upon the Collection of Fines and Compositions out of the Popish Recusants Estates c. Recollected out of the Original Writings and Records for publick Satisfaction London Printed in the Year 1679. To the Right Honorable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal And to the Honorable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled Right Honorable and most Worthy Patriots THE following Narrative and Deduction of the several Cases gives a brief Account of the vast Improvement and Riches of England by Trade and Enterprises of those two famous Merchants Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar Knights Deceased who for their Publick Spirits and Loyalty had not their Equals in the Age they lived Their Names being as well known as their Memorable Actions throughout the World Their great disbursements upon several emergent Occasions and their Greater Losses occasioned by the unhappiness of the late troublesom Times when Iustice was not only Obstructed but perverted to their great prejudice and oppression Wherefore the Complaynants thought it most seasonable and convenient to give this following Relation of their Services and Sufferings and consequently of the Losses and Damages sustained by their Heirs Executors Administrators and Creditors which include many Hundred Families within the City of London and this Kingdom The causes of Complaint continuing so long are the more grievous under a Government so renowned for the Laws Liberties and Properties of the Subjects Yet since it is the Priviledg of English men to represent their Grievances in Parliament the Complaynants have modestly done it being ready with their Vouchers upon Record to justify every particular of their Charge promising to themselves in this Iuncture that the Cause of the Widdows and Fatherless may be heard and relieved It is very remarkable That the Ancestors of Sir William Courten fled out of Flanders into England for Protection of their Lives Liberties and Estates in the time of Queen Elizabeth from the Spanish Inquisition under Duke de Alva And that William Courten Esq was forced out of England to preserve himself from Want and Imprisonment And even his Son William Courten the Grand Child of Sir William constrained to live in Exile to escape the Prosecutions of his Fathers and Grandfathers Creditors inter alia for those very Moneys lent to supply King James and King Charles the First towards the Support of the King of Bohemia and Relief of Rochel and the Isle of Ree The several Abstracts of these following Cases being of very high import to the Honour and Interest of the King and Kingdom may easily invite every person that is a Lover of his Country to a through perusal and even to gratify himself with some remarques not vulgarly known Obliging thereby Among all the rest of the persons interessed and concern'd Your most Obedient and Devoted Servants Edward Graves Thomas Townesend Elizabeth Whitaker Iames Boeve Gilbert Crouch Thomas Norton Richard Powell Nath. Hill George Carew Thomas Coppin William Hinton Volentina Lloyd A Brief Narrative and deduction of the several remarkable Cases of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar Knights and William Courten late of London Esquire Deceased Their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns together with their Surviving Partners and Adventurers with them to the East-Indies China and Iapan and divers other parts of Asia Europe Africa and America Faithfully represented to both Houses of Parliament Reduced under four Principal Heads viz. I. The Discovery and Plantation of Barbadoes II. Their Vndertakings and Expeditions to the East-India China and Japan III. The Denyal of Iustice upon their civil Actions depending in Holland and Zealand IV. Their Loanes and Supplyes for the Service of the Crown upon the Collection of Fines and Compositions out of the Popish Recusants Estates c. As followeth viz. I. Barbadoes THAT Sir William Courten at his own proper Costs and Charges first Discovered Planted and Possessed the Island of Barbadoes before any Subject or Inhabitant belonging to any Nation or Kingdom whatsoever That he Fortified the said Island and expended 28600 l. sterling in Fortifications Buildings and settling Plantations before he had a Patent under the Great Seal of England for the Government thereof in the third year of King Charles the First which subjected the same to the Dominion of the King And being in the quiet Possession of the said Island for the space of two years and upwards had allotted out several Plantations to others under acknowledgments of Quit-Rents so that he could not be disseised thereof without manifest Injustice That by the Law of England The Heirs and Assigns of Sir William Courten retain a Freehold in the said Island according to the Original of all Propriety Notwithstanding Iames late Earl of Carlisle by an Arbitrary and pretended Power and Authority as Lord Proprietor of all the Carribee Islands in the year 1628. with his Complices Subjects of England entred the said Island of Barbados by force of Arms and spoiled Sir William Courten his Servants and Planters of their Lands Houses Fortifications and Possessions which Intrusion doth not create a Right to any that claim under the said Earl or others that got into Possession afterwards by Colour of his pretended Title The Honour of the King being to be preferred before the Profit of the King Bracton lib. 2. Cap. 2. de acquirendo rerum dominio si insula in Mari nata sit occupantis sic occupanti conceditur and the Book saith It is tantum divina natura aperante That these wrongs and oppressions have been divers times made appear both in matters of Fact and Law But in regard there was no Parliament held in England for the space of 13 years after the said Force and Injury committed Sir William Courten and his Son could not find any relief against the said Earl of Carlisle or his Agents and Complices the said Earl being so powerful with the chief Ministers of State at that time And by reason of other Spoils and Depredations committed upon Sir William Courten and his Son by the East India Company of the Netherlands hereafter particularly mentioned all further prosecution for satisfaction and reparation of Damages was suspended pro tempore That William Courten Son and Heir of the said Sir William fled into Italy where he died indebted to his own Creditors 64000

in Holland and Zealand by a Publick Notary who delivered Copies thereof to the chief persons concerned reciting the Substance of all the proceedings with a praecaution to the Directors of the East-India Company concerning the Patacoones and to the States of Holland concerning their Letters to the Ordinary Courts of Judicature prohibiting any Justice to be done upon the Actions depending upon Obligations Covenants and matters of account in Trade protesting for all Damages aleady sustained or that should be sustained by reason thereof Afterwards the Complaynants Addressed themselves by their Humble Petitions to his Majesty and the Lords of his most Honourable Privy Council praying that the 151612 l. so ascertained under the Great Seal of England might either be payed out of the said Pattacones Or otherwise that the Complaynants might be at liberty to reprize the said Debt and Damages by force of their Grant remaining upon Record and as to the Civil Actions depending in Holland and Zealand upon Obligations Covenants and Merchants Accompts whereupon Justice was positively denied that satisfaction and reparation might be requir'd of Monsieur Van Beuninghen then Ambassador Extraordinary from the States General or that Commissioners might be appointed to determine the same Whereupon two several Orders were made on the 23. of July 1677. that all parties concerned should be heard at the Council Table on the 10th of October following to which purpose the Complaynants attended with their Council and Advocates from time to time but could not obtain any hearing thereof or receive any satisfaction or reparation to this day in the Premises either at home or abroad Loanes and Supplies for the Service of the Crown IN the fourth and last place your Complaynants do Humbly take leave to represent and offer to your Consideration That Sir Paul Pindar most faithfully served King Iames and the Honorable Turky Company for the space of Eleven Years together at Constantinople in the quality of an Embassador where he much improved the English Woollen Manufactures and the Levant Trade And at his return into England set up the Allome Works in York-shire and other Counties wherein he employed many Hundreds of poor People out of which improvement a certain Revenue of Ten Thousand pounds per Annum did accrew to the Crown and as much more to the Stock of the Kingdom by importation of ready Money and Staple Goods for Allome exported which Allome Works are now of little or no Advantage to the Crown or Kingdom That Sir Paul Pindar in the years 1638 and 1639 having lent and advanced of his own Estate and of Moneys taken up upon his Credit Eighty five Thousand pounds to Furnish the Crown with Jewels and to supply the Queen of Bohemia and her Children in their Wants and Necessities as also for Supplies of Foreign Embassadors and other Services in his Majesties Domestick affairs The late King Charles was Gratiously pleased to Assign for the Security and Repayment of the said Moneys with usual Interest part of the Revenue arising by Fines and Compositions upon Recusants Estates in the Northern Counties under the Collection of Thomas Viscount Wentworth And also other Moneys payable out of divers branches of the Revenue as by Tallies struck upon the same and the several Assignments under the Great Seal of England appears which Payments were diverted in the late Troubles before any considerable part of the said Debt was paid that still remains a Charge upon the Crown to the value of Fifty Thousand pounds and upwards That the said several Assignments under the Great Seal of England and all Writings concerning the same and all Summs of Money whatsoever payable from the Crown upon the said Assignments being Granted Transferred and Assigned to Richard Powel of the Inner Temple Esq and Nathaniel Hill of London Gent. their Executors Administrators and Assigns in Trust for the Use and Benefit of themselves and all the rest of the Persons interessed according to their several and respective Debts and Demands They lately exhibited their Humble Petition to his Majesty setting forth the State of their Debt and for other reasons contained in their Petition more especially for that Sir Paul Pindar for the Preservation of the Royal Family and transportation of his now Majesty when he was Prince of Wales in the time of the late Troubles had Voluntarily supplyed the late King with Moneys to a considerable value in Gold which Loyalty and Care his Majesty hath lately owned for a most acceptable Service Humbly prayed That his Majesty would be gratiously pleased to grant them Satisfaction for their said Debt out of the Fines and Compositions payable by Recusants vested in the Crown by several Acts of Parliament Whereupon His Majesty was Graciously pleased to refer the Consideration of the said Petition to the Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to Report their Opinions upon the same what was fit for his Majesty to do therein for the Petioners relief and then His Majesty would declare His further Pleasure Whereupon the Petitioners attended several days at the Treasury Chamber to be Heard and being once called in their Lordships informed the Petitioners that the then Parliament intended to appropriate the said Revenue and that it was proper for the Petitioners to apply themselves to the Parliament and that the Petitioners might have a Report from their Lordships at any time when they thou ght it Convenient The Complaynants therefore Humbly hope That if this Parliament enter upon the Consideration of appropriating that Revenue they may be secured their Just Debt by a Proviso in any Bill that shall Pass to that effect They having already made a great Retrospect into that Revenue and are willing at their own Charge and Expences to make a perfect return into the Exchequer of all the Papists in every County throughout England and Wales with the true value of their Estates which will bring in a considerable yearly Revenue to the Crown and be a great Satisfaction and Safety both to the Parliament and the whole Kingdom A Brief State of the Allome-Works BEfore Allome was made in England the Kingdom was served with Romish Allom being the Popes Commodity whereof he made a large Revenue it being sold here for 50 and 60 l. per Tun and sometimes more To gain this Manufacture King Iames undertook the management and perfected the said Work at a vast Charge whereupon Sir Paul Pyndar and William Turnor took a Lease of the said Allome-Works for 12 years paying the yearly Rent of 11000 l. to the King for the sole making and vending of Allome it being the Kings Manufacture by Purchase whereby many hundreds of poor Families were maintained to the great increase of Shipping and Marriners the saving of much Treasure within the Realm and his Majesties Kingdoms served with their own Native Commodity This great Work was so acceptable to the Kingdom that in the Statute against Monopolies 22 Iacobi The Parliament amongst other Grants made this Provisoe following