many Years forc'd to defend my self and after I had bin in some measure Righted by a Decree in that Court Three of his Counsel being afterwards made Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal Reversed my Decree that had bin Signed and Enrolled without any manner of Reason only for to please their Client of whom for many Years together they had all received extravagant great Fees and then the most Reverend and Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal by Reversing their Decree of Reversal confirmed again unto me my Right upon full Hearing of the Cause brought before them upon mine Appeal for which I pray God to reward them But leaving me to the Law for my Damages sustained by the said Statute of Bankrupt I have there had a Tryal with the said Moyer who being quitted by the ingenuity of a favourite Counsel and the inclinations of the Judge I was forced to pay him Costs and the Court being told by the Judge that my Remedy at Common-Law did lie only against the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal by bringing mine Action against them which the Judge knowing very well is an unpracticable Thing unless I had a Million of Money to spend hath left me without Remedy for 't is Money and not Law that now doth the Justice in many if not most Causes and if a Man have enough of That he is sure of his Cause in any Case But as such Practices are unknown to Your MAJESTY that abominates all Injustice and such Ways of Unrighteousness so doubtless Your most Excellent MAJESTY will not allow Money to stand in Competition with and jostle Justice out of its place in Your MAJESTY's Government which doubtless Your MAJESTY desires may be a Righteous Government I doe therefore humbly make this my most humble Petition of Appeal to Your most Gracious and Sacred MAJESTY to be relieved against the manifold Oppressions I lie under by mine Unparallell'd Grievances now shewed to Your MAJESTY For having paid to the full all manner of Taxes due to Your MAJESTY which have bin required of me to pay every Penny whereof being so much more than I have gained since the Year 1690 when the said Moyer most wrongfully and causelesly took out the said Statute of Bankrupt against me I will hope for as much Clemency from Your MAJESTY being the Great Christian Soveraign and Father of this Nation as the Grand Signior shews to any manner of person Native or Foreigner that by the Turkish Laws hath bin aggrieved in his Dominions It being the Manner and Custom there in Turky for any person whatsoever that at the Turkish Law hath bin aggrieved by the partiality and injustice of an Unjust Caddee or Judge to put Fire upon his Head with which he standing in the way or but in sight as the Sultan or Grand Signior is passing along when he rides abroad As soon as ever the Grand Signior or Sultan espies the Fire he certainly and immediately commands the Man to be brought unto him and then hearing his Complaint redresses him without any delay and many times the unjust Judge is put to Death by being pounded all to Mash and squobb'd all of a Lump in a Mortar Now though such Ceremonies are not used here yet I doe most humbly hope this my most humble Petition of Appeal to Your MAJESTY may doe as well And as I am desirous to approve my self Your MAJESTY's most Loyal and Obedient Subject so Dread Soveraign I doe most humbly prostrate My self my Life and mine All at Your MAJESTY's Feet begging Pardon for this Liberty that it may be without any Offence And as in Duty bound I shall whiles I breathe pray for Your Happiness to continue and if it may be possible to be augmented in this World and in the World to come Life everlasting Amen April 12. 1697. Benjamin Albyn To the High and most Honourable THE KING's Lords Justices May it please Your Excellencies THis mine humble Appeal to God and the King being designed to be presented to His MAJESTY before the Rising of the Parliament but the Printer not being able to get it ready in time and His MAJESTY being gone out of the Land I therefore thought I must had stayed for His Return but the Outragiousness of one Sir Richard Blackam admits no delay being such as by force to seize and take away my Goods in the stead of paying me Money and restoring unto me sundry Notes for sundry Thousand Pounds which in Kindness only I had accommodated him withall For Sir Richard having contrary to all Agreement with me by sundry Arrests forc'd me to a Refferrence unavoidably and I having accordingly made choice of one Mr. John Freeman to be a Refferree for me against one Sir Alexander Rigbey a Refferree Sir Richard had chosen for himself who thinking fit to go off without effecting any thing in the matter Mr. Freeman became sole Refferree and Sir Richard having smiled upon and insinuated himself into him he did not at all consider me or my Case notwithstanding I gave him caution and told him how that Sir Richard would Wheedle a Thousand of him and me neither would Mr. Freeman regard any thing I could say for my self but plainly told me when I spake to him any of the Things material for me sometimes I doe not mind That and at other times I doe not regard That and became so wholly enclined to his Interest as to Award me to pay him 380 Pounds in the stead of making him to pay me 1018 Pounds without giving any manner of Reason for it but only said when I asked him the Reason I doe not know so it is and I can doe no otherwise and if you were in Blackam's Clothes you would doe the same Things that he doth And afterward became so very hard upon me as to make me give him Security for my complyance with his Award by causing me to order my Correspondent at Alleppo to consign unto him some Goods of mine of greater Value and afterwards Sir Richard Blackam refusing to doe his part which was easie being only to deliver up my Notes upon Oath because lent him in kindness only and I did not nor doe know how many they were or for what Summs the Award became void Yet afterwards to please the said Sir Richard as I believe because Mr Freeman told me himself Sir Richard had sold him my Goods for 50 l. less than he was to allow me for them which was scarce half their Value as then worth for he would needs perswade me to sell them at very low Rates to Sir Richard and make him a Bill of Sale of them and in the stead of my Notes laboured vehemently with me to take Sir Richard's Bond And because I refused so to doe he did in his Rage tear the Bill of Sale he had appointed and swore in those very Words BY GOD I WILL NOT CONCERN MY SELF OR MEDDLE ANY MORE WITH THE MATTER Whereupon as I thought it
pleased to say That here are two to be cheated and he had rather Albyn should be cheated than Fowles and another Baron that perus'd corrected and sign'd my Bill against them both in the Exchequer whereby to be relieved against the Fraud then said at the Hearing I had no Equity though when I gave him his Counsel-Fee at signing being above the rate the Law allows I had a great deal of Equity Now by no means can I obtain an Hearing of the Cause against Haddersich who did fraudulently get and still keeps my Right to the said 250 l. from me so it seems a Counsel whiles a Counsel to get a Fee will tell his Client he hath Equity in his Cause but when made a Baron the Equity ceaseth though his Client be injured never so apparently by a most notorious Cheat who confesseth to have the Money and yet goes free without being called to Judgment and though my Bill be still depending he is protected and I can by no means obtain Justice in so plain a case which is stupendious to think how in England a Court of Equity should protect such a notorious Cheat I do believe the like is not in any other part of the World which doubtless must be a great encouragement to Cheats and looks as if the Laws were made only for the Practisers therein to enrich and raise themselves in the World and not for Righting the People and that such Cheats were to be encouraged as persons that brought Grist to the Lawyer 's Mill. Now in Turky where any Difference doth happen betwixt Man and Man the Man aggrieved may immediately call and have him that offends before the Caddee or Judge and without any delay both Plaintiff and Defendant plead their Cause themselves and according to their Laws the Caddee passeth Sentence which is immediately executed and the Matter ended both parties become friends and no provocations make the Turks live in Malice as generally people do here in England who I do believe use it more than all the World besides partly because here are so many whose business is to set people at variance by telling them what advantage one may have of the other by the force of Law partly because generally the people do highly commend the envious and malicious Spirit and call it a great Spirit though if duely considered I think nothing is more base and less worthy of respect and is indeed the effect of Purse pride For what is more common than for people that have more Money than their Advesary to say as Mr. Moyer's Brother-in-Law did say after we had spent some years and much Moneys in his Suit against me in Chancery he being to receive his share of what they hoped to get from me said thus finding it a very chargeable Court If One thousand pounds would not do another thousand should and if that did not do another should and so on to I know not how many thousand pounds and he was resolved his Brother Moyer should carry the Cause whatsoever it cost so it seems he did not pretend to any Right there was in the Cause on their side but only to ruine me by the force of Money as I was told Mr. Moyer did threaten to do when I was in Turky if ever I should come into England which to effect I do think he hath omitted no means or endeavours but what reason he had for it I could never learn or find out for I never had to do with or did ever see the Man in mine whole life that I know of untill I did arrive from Turky back to England Sometimes I have thought that because my Father sometimes would laugh and jest with his Father and salute him by the Title of Mr. Chairman because that in the time of Sequestring as I suppose the Estates of the Nobility and Gentry of England much about King Charles the First 's time he was Chairman of that Committee as I have heard and have bin told but I do remember the Old Man did not much like it for he would look very grum and sowre upon it Now though such jesting might pass betwixt them what was that to me could I help it Now Mr. Moyer having as it may be supposed this innate principle of encroaching upon and taking away the Rights and Estates of other Men obtained an Order out of Chancery to have my Books laid open unto him and having before a Master perused and examined my Books in all things he could desire and not being able to find out any thing therein for his purpose or find any fault became so enraged at me that he said Mr. Albyn you are a cheating Knave and I le prove it Then said I Bear witness Gentlemen So the next day he came to me upon the Exchange and told me he was in a Passion and began to beg my Pardon but all that I said unto him was Pray do not let you and I talk for I indeed did then intend to bring mine Action against him for so notorious an Abuse But the Lawyers that were the Only Men then present being unwilling to bear Testimony made me to forbear so was forced to swallow that Injury likewise One instance more of Moneys being the Rich man's Justice and Confidence in his Cause be it never so bad black and foul is what Mr. now Sir Richard Blackam said to me in Serjeants-Inn after we came out of Judge Dolbin's Chamber when we had bin both before him upon his Summons to shew Cause of Action wherefore he had Arrested me and upon hearing the whole Matter the Judge had told him there was no Cause of Action and if he went on he would be Non-suited Sir Richard Blackam did then laugh at me and told me that he had yet Five hundred pounds to spend for all that for so much or near that Summ he would needs pretend to recover of me for I believe he knows pretty well that whatever a Man recovers at Law it must cost him as much at least Now whereas by the ingenuity of the Lawyers Sir Richard Blackam is hindred from confessing and plainly setting forth the truth and matter of fact set forth in my Bill if he were of himself only to make a full and true Answer the Truth would soon appear and Justice would take its due place without any delay trouble or expence But now there is no Remedy because by the force of Money he sets the Lawyers Wits on work to make it an endless Suit by evading some part and not in any measure answering the other near 19 20th parts only in general terms saith My Bill is full of falsities Which I do deny and he knows that if he should be put to answer particular by particular he must confess and not deny the particulars and by such means the truth being concealed I have no more remedy than as if I should knock mine head against the Wall Now though these and the like and many more instances
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Â 18 Â Mar. 12. 134 5 7 Â 854 04 03 Brought hith 502 05 04 Â 1356 09 07 Allowed and paid for Interest 111 16 09 Make in all 1468 06 04 But having brought him acquainted with Mr. since Sir Richard Blackam who hath it seems both diligently and secretly spread and whispered about amongst People as bad an Opinion of me as 't is possible for one Man to have of another as I have been told but what 't is I cannot be informed This my Friend became mine utter Enemy insomuch that when I went to him for a Receipt and Discharge for Barton's Debt which he had received as I was going out of his House he laid his Hand on my Shoulder and push'd me out claping the Door of his House very hard upon me having but just before in his House told me That if he had known so much of me before as he had since been informed he would never have had to do with me Also when he came to give his Evidence upon Oath he declared That I came voluntarily to him with Bills of Lading as aforesaid because I intended to go beyond Sea whereupon I went to him in the Court and whispering in his Ear I said I do not remember that ever I snake such a word to you Then said he did you not tell me that you intended to go to Dublin in Ireland Then said I you should inform the Court so but he would not though I never pronounced the words beyond Sea unto him and for me to speak my self was to ruine my Cause as I had been formerly told by the Lawyers in another Case when I spake to the Judge the Judge bid me speak to my Counsel for the Lawyers Maxim is by no means to suffer a Clyent to speak in his own Cause for that they 'll tell him will ruine his Cause So the Judge and Jury finding by his Evidence that I intended to go away beyond Sea so as that no body should know whither or where to find me or hear of me they without stirring from their place gave their Verdict against me as it is supposed and though I would not yet one of my Counsel that knew how to favour Mr. Moyer would and did appear to the Verdict whether I would or not though I would gladly have had a Tryal at Bar for they went not out of the Court So in the stead of recovering Damages I was forc'd to pay Mr. Moyer's Attorney thirteen Pounds and thirteen Shillings Costs although the Lord Chief Justice had declared That all my Declaration was proved except the Malice and that the taking out the Statute was an undue way of proceeding and 't was the Act of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal and not Mr. Moyer 's for or because said he what he did was by the Advice of his Counsel yet my remedy at Law did lie against the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal and them only or to such like Purposes but would not the World think and say I were Mad if I should go to law with the Judges and though I have received such a Direction from a Judge may or ought not I without offence to consider the Improbability of Success and the excessive Charge in the Attempt or perhaps the Judge knowing the unpracticableness thereof spake it on purpose to take me off from all manner of thoughts for seeking any manner of Remedy for I do understand 't is a most hainous Crime to make any Discovery or Complaint of any of the undue Practices in the Law if it be true as Mr. P. Brunskell hath often told me That in King Charles the Second's time all the twelve Judges sat together three times to consult how by Law they might take away his Life only for endeavouring to discover and get the Irregular Practices Abuses and Oppressions in the Practicers of the Law rectify'd and redress'd but he being a Lawyer was so wise as not to be taken by any stratagem in Law So afterwards it seems one was imployed to assassinate him who shooting at him miss'd him but cut the Hair of his Perriwig with the Shot Now though I am no Lawyer or do dare to take any of their Counsel in this matter yet I hope I may without offence make my Complaint out of the Grave Sir R. B. hath cast me into and make manifest mine own sad Experience and therefore cannot hope for any success in suing Judges For as far as I can perceive a Man once in Law can never get out though he be never so innocent for his Innocency is commonly the cause of his Intanglement and whiles he is worth a Groat the Practicers in the Law will very hardly part with him and then the worst of Characters shall not be wanting to be put upon him by even those that had bin his Counsel and helped to undo
her and acquainted her with what had pass'd and gave her the necessary and best Advice I could find But she not sending a Letter of Attorney did only write a Letter to her Brother to supply me with whatsoever Moneys her Occasions should require which coming in her Pacquet to me sealed up I delay'd not to deliver it to him as soon as I could find him which I do believe was within less than two hours after I received it As soon as I had given it into his hand he opened and read it and then I showed him my Letter she had wrote me though he did not think fit to shew me hers wrote to him then I asked him for Moneys and urged what he had plainly seen she had wrote to me but he answered me That he was just going into the Country as I believe he was because his Chariot was waiting at his door for him and he would be in Town again within a fortnight and if I would please to lay out a Guiney or two he would repay me At which I was so netled that I could not but tell him what he said was all stuff for there were then some Ships that were just upon departure and in few days would be gone for New-York and the loss of a day was more than a month at another time and desired him to make the Case his own and 't would be well if 100 Guineys would doe But however if he would pay me but 100 Pounds I would doe the best I could for her and in case 50 would doe the business I would invest or lay out the other 50 so as to put 100 l. into her Pocket there but all signified nothing for he immediately went his way into the Country and came no more to Town till January following the August he went away into the Country with her Letter I then deliver'd to him So hearing nothing of him I did write him sundry Letters but had not one word of Answer from him so at Christmas I went down and stayed at his House about fifteen days hoping he would consider and doe something for Shame if not for Justice or Good-nature So when ten of the fifteen days were past I gave him a Memorial desiring him to consider of it finding him altogether unwilling to talk in any measure about her and though I thought 't would had forc'd him to speak or doe something yet could not have so much as one word from him in the other five days though in that time I did offer many occasions untill I was in his Coach coming for London and putting the matter home unto him he did then tell me that the Letter was neither with her Name nor her own Hand-writing So asking him why he did not shew it me or say so sooner I went my way and since that being very angry with me hath reported very false things of me but however the Searcher of hearts knows all things And I do believe his Hope is That the Government of New York will break her heart and then she being his Sister and Childless he knows he is her Heir at Law So it seems not only natural Affection but all honour and honesty is gone and banish'd from among some sorts of people that forget to be either charitable or just but indulge themselves in Covetousness because they know that all Complaints at Law and their Issues are not only doubtfull but also chargeable and troublesome above measure For according to mine own little experience and observation among the Lawyers I find that now the Attorneys are grown so very exceeding expert in turning twisting and managing the Law that 't is an approved Opinion among the Lawyers that the best way to make a good and able Lawyer is to breed a young Man by binding him Apprentice to an Attorney first for 't is not studying the Law and the Statutes so much as the Tricks and Practice of Courts according to the Rules of the Courts of Justice that makes a good Lawyer Now what those Rules and Practices of Courts are is the great Mystery and would be worth the while for a Parliament to consider For if they doe any thing and you ask by what Law 't is done they 'l tell you they know not by what Law 't is done but 't is the Practice of the Court. So I perceive 't is no matter for Law because Book-Cases and Reports are among them much more studied than the Statutes Now why should not a Judge declare in all Cases upon what Statute he delivers his Opinion and passes his Judgment as well as a Divine must prove by a Text in the Holy Scripture the Ground of his Doctrine when he Preaches But what I chiefly observe is First In their Pleadings they 'l not be wanting not only to ridicule and banter but also to assert falsities calumnies and reproaches which doubtless ought not to be allowed before a Judge where the Truth only ought to appear 2 dly When they have a design to favour a Cause on the one side and to baffle it on the other they 'l tell you This is not to the point nor That is not to the point although the Case in all its circumstances cannot be rightly understood without and the omission of those Points which they 'l call needless quite alters the Cause and Truth being hid Justice cannot be done 3 dly I find that matters of Accounts are meer Paradoxes to them yet they 'l pretend to understand them beyond any body and perswade a Man he is mistaken and if he doth not come over to what by their mistaken apprehension they doe think they 'l tell him he 'l lose his Cause and by that means confound his Cause As for example If you talk with a Lawyer of so much per Cent. be it 2 10 20 or 50 per Cent. which are but certain Quantities upon an Hundred of Goods or Moneys of a Forreign Coin as Dollars c. yet if you doe not allow him to put the word Pounds to the 2 10 20 or 50 per Cent. he can by no means understand what you mean though at the same time he puts the word Pounds 't is meer nonsence and abominably impertinent But however you must let him alone And with this sort of Understanding he takes upon him to Plead a Cause betwixt Merchant and Merchant whereas if Merchants were left to themselves and had a Power to be Judges in their own Matters among themselves there would be more Justice and less Wrong done by the impertinency of the devouring insatiable Lawyers 4 thly Let a man's Cause be right or wrong they 'l not be wanting for the benefit of a Fee to tell him he is in the right and he must carry it without all doubt and the Cause cannot go against him And if a cunning Knave in private Contract by fair Promises have over-reach'd and by his non-performance cheats you and there being no Witness you preferr a Bill in
Equity against him to discover and make him confess the Truth Why then you shall have no Remedy For his Counsel shall direct him to Plead and Demurr to what he cannot answer without Confession And I have heard a Lord-Keeper on the Bench in a Cause I had before him in K. Charles the Second's time declare Mine Adversary that cheated me ought not to be compell'd to answer my Bill because 't was customary for Shop-keepers in Cheapside to tell Lyes and if you go from one End to the other to buy a pair of Stockins they would tell you they lost though they got never so much by them So it seems Wickedness is defended by Wickedness and there is no Remedy 5 thly Their great Master piece and what the most ingenious as they account themselves doe profess is to cut a man's Throat with a Feather 6 thly The great care of a Counsel and an Attorney is to manage a Cause with that method as may draw the most Money from their Client and that they call doing for the good of the Law 7 thly They are very forward to multiply Motions and for every Motion the Attorney or Sollicitor must be paid for new Briefs though the old ones doe serve and every Counsel you have had to doe with must be Fee'd for the Motion and must have his Brief of the whole Cause though perhaps two or three Lines for one Counsel be enough and there is no occasion for the rest to speak one word 8 thly They must all be Fee'd also and have new Briefs for the Defence against every Motion made by the Adversary upon due notice given to the Client 9 thly The Attorney commonly directs the Client what he must give to Counsel and commonly once in three Months he gives his Client a Bill amounting to as much Money as has bin given in that time to Counsel and if the Client offer to abate him Three-half-pence of his Bill he 'l take it amiss and in great dudgen although the Client perhaps hath spent upon him and the Counsel many a Pound at the Tavern 10 thly If your Counsel have undertaken by the force of Money from your Adversary to betray you and favour his Cause he shall under pretence of zeal for your Cause bawl most filthily and calling your own Witnesses to give their Testimony he 'l either bawl and make such a noise as to affright them or else confound them with cramp Questions And when all is done you must believe he hath laboured most vehemently and taken an abundance of pains for you 11 thly The Sollicitor or Counsel can neither of them tell you how long 't will be before the Cause be ended or how many Years 't is like to continue especially in Chancery for I did never yet hear of a Cause begun and ended there in so little as one Year's time and most Causes are held out according to the length of the Clients Purses 12 thly For the benefit of a Fee there is hardly any Case but they 'l pretend if you desire to be secured legally by a Writing under a Counsel's hand as Law they 'l not disappoint or displease you by telling you according to Law it cannot be though to be safe according to Law only it is you do come to desire Advice and a legal Instrument to be drawn whether it be a Defeazance or Conveyance c. yet right or wrong he 'l pretend to draw it out legal and firm and safe and afterwards if it prove insignificant or scandalous in the Law he to excuse himself shall call the Client Rogue and Knave c. for asking of him his said Advice and taking the Writing of him which he parted not with unless he had received the Payment of perhaps more than his full Fees twice told at least Suppose a Man be wronged and cheated of ever so much as suppose it be to the value of a Million which to me seems a very considerable Summ and he himself could make it appear undeniably by good and sufficient proof if had the liberty to speak himself for 't is impossible any Man can know the truth of his Case better than himself yet if he have not Ten shillings to give a Lawyer to speak for him he must lose all and be without remedy and if he cannot borrow beg or steal so much he must go to Prison and there rot and be quite undone for the Lawyers never trust a Client So 't is plain that without Money no Justice must be had and whether it be according to the Law of the Land I know not but I dare be so confident as to say 't is not according to the Law of God who hath given every Man a Tongue to speak for himself Also I have found a sort of a Lawyer of 20 or 30 Years study and reading the Law that is neither Counsel nor Attorney but pretending to great Knowledge in the Law and great Commiseration and Pitty towards me to see me so much harrassed and abused would also pretend friendly and faithfully to advise and help me and accordingly did advise me by no means to be served with a Decretal Order and meeting with one of mine Adversary's Counsel threatning to take out a Statute of Bankrupt against me if I would not be served with the Decretal Order he bids him kiss at which he pretending to be enraged effectually does the thing And afterwards finding that by Law I was Heir to what Brother Mann hath and doth keep from me bids me not trouble my self he would undertake to get for me my Right without my disbursing one penny of Money till 't was fully recover'd For which kind proffer as I did accept of so I gave him my many and most hearty Thanks and accordingly he undertakes it and in the stead of taking the right and short way by serving the Tenants with Ejectments as I desired and he promised me to doe he it seems thought fit to imploy the great Mr. E. of Bristow as he called him who being the richest Attorney in Bristow must needs be both the most extreamly honest and able so upon his discoursing with him they did resolve and contrive betwixt them how to make a beneficial Suit of it So concluding together to File a Bill in Chancery to get the Writings they accordingly preferr a Bill and after a few days were past my learned Lawyer comes and tells me what was done and how that without the Writings 't was impossible to serve Ejectments so I acquiesc'd with whatsoever his great Friendship and Learning did suggest and about three Months after tells me that the great Mr. E. had done the business and I need not trouble my self he would take care though they had neither gotten an Answer to the Bill nor the Writings for the Estate So waiting some months longer and no Answer appearing I went to the Clerk in Chancery that they had imployed to know the reason of the delay and told him