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A78509 The most humble remonstrances presented to the Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons, in Parliament assembled Chabbert, John. 1696 (1696) Wing C1784A; ESTC R205737 17,863 32

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THE Most Humble Remonstrances PRESENTED To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the HOUSE of COMMONS in Parliament Assembled 1. COncerning the Proofs whereby the French Gentlemen Commissioners appointed for the Distribution of the Charity bestowed upon the Poor French Protestants that are come for Refuge into England may be convinced that in their Hands there are still remaining great Summs of Money arising from the said Charity and a Revenue more than sufficient for all the Poor Refuges Maintenance 2. Concerning the Means whereby all the aforesaid great Summs of Money may be discovered and the aforesaid French Gentlemen Commissioners compelled to give an exact account of them which compelling if it please God shall be as a triumphing Sword Cutting with one Blow the Gordian Knot of the said French Commissioners 3. Concerning the Motives that may induce the aforesaid Honourable House of Commons to use the aforesaid means which Motives are the Concerns of the King and State in general and in particular of all the Poor amongst the said Refuges By John Chabbert Minister and Refuge You the Honourable House of Commons are intreated by the aforesaid John Chabbert to approve that he may now declare to your Honours the love he hath and ever had for Justice and Truth and on the contrary how he abhorreth Injustice Cheating Tricks and Lies But in a particular manner how much he longs for the advantage and prosperity of the King State and Church of England not only for the Publick's but also for the Private's sake as he longs also for the satisfaction of the English Poor as well as of them which are amongst the Refuges and that in making bold humbly to shew by particulars all the Contents of the three Heads contained in the Title of his Undertaking To keep the order set in the said Title the aforesaid John Chabbert beginning with the aforesaid Proofs humbly sheweth 1. That the aforesaid French Commissioners have received great Summs of Money upon three several Letters Patrents heretofore granted by Royal Authority for the aforesaid Poor Refuges sake especially upon the first and second Letters Pattents the first granted in the Year 1686. and the second granted in the Year 1688. That after that the said two Letters Pattents were effectually published and the Tenor of the same declared unto the Nation in all and every Church and Chappel in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales c. The whole Nation was touched with so deep a sense and tender Commiseration of the Calamities and woful Sufferings of the said Poor Refuges in the cause of their Religion and of the urgent necessity which so many of them were lying under that not only all the Nobility Gentry and every Rich Man of whatever Degree and Character soever he was But even the greatest part of all the Tradesmen and Servants as every body knows did so generously and chearfully contribute by their extraordinary and large Charities to the subsistance of the said 〈◊〉 amongst the Refuges and that from those generous free and large Charitable Contributions which have been made for the relief of the said poor Refuges it must needs be inferred that great Sums of Money were then Collected 2. That the aforesaid French Commissioners and the Ministers and Church-wardens or Elders as they call them of the French Church in the Savoy or of the Waloon Church in the City of London have received great Summs of Money from the large Charities of particular Collections often bestowed by a great many Charitable Persons upon the aforesaid Poor Refuges behalf from the beginning of the Year 1685. to this very day of the Year 1696. Since that time a great number of Poor Refuges have been seen in England 3. That the aforesaid French Commissioners Ministers and Church-wardens of the aforesaid two Churches very often and at least during the space of Ten Years have received great Summs of Money arising from a great many Legacies the most part of them made by some English pious Persons and some of them by some French to be distributed in a very short time after their Decease to the said Poor Refuges But that it is to be feared the said French Commissioners have distributed nothing of the most part of the said Legacies or at least but the use or interest of some of them to the said Poor Refuges so that when this third Proof as well as the second before is duly reflected upon it plainly appears by the said two Proofs that they must needs have in their own or others Hands a great Fund of Money for the 〈◊〉 support of the poor Refuges 4. That the aforesaid French Commissioners by their own Confession and as every body knows have received during the space of many Years 〈◊〉 Twelve Thousand Pounds per annum bestowed liberally chearfully and charitably by His excellent Majesty our gracious King William upon the said Poor Refuges to relieve them in their urgent necessities and comfort them in their troubles That it is most certain that upon the said Royal Bounty the said French Commissioners during the space of the many Years aforesaid were able to supply all the wants of the said Poor Refuges if they had very well managed the said Twelve Thousand Pounds per Annum or if they had not kept back some of them or put them into Bankers Hands or imployed some of them in Trading and Traffick 5. That the aforesaid French Commissioners were publickly Accused by some of the said French Refuges Poor Gentlemen Ministers and others for having embezzelled or mis-imployed a considerable Summ of the aforesaid Twelve Thousand Pounds Per Annum And that the said French Commissioners have done their utmost endeavours to secure themselves from the said Accusation or rather that their Accusers should be silent and desist from their Accusation And for all that the said French Commissioners have let neither the Publick nor their Accusers know their Innocence in all its Circumstances and in keeping the Formalities of Justice although they were bound so to do for the securing of their own Reputation 6. That the aforesaid French Commissioners have received some considerable Summs of Money by the way of many Subscriptions and private Collections made in the City of London and its Suburbs for the aforesaid French Refuges Poor yet for all that it doth not appear that at least the greatest part of the aforesaid French Refuges Poor was the more relieved by the said French Commissioners than they were before the said Subscriptions and private Collections 7. That the aforesaid French Commissioners doubtless have received and do still receive a great many private Charities of particular Persons for the maintenance of many Charity-houses which Charity-houses imperceptibly and cunningly have been set up by the same Commissioners in the Suburbs of the aforesaid City of London many Years ago upon four accounts 1. To procure as many Charities as could be possible and to move all the charitable Persons who live in