A TRUE DECLARATION OF THE Intollerable wrongs done to RICHARD BOOTHBY Merchant of India by two lewd servants to the honorable East India Company Richard Wylde and George Page As also a Remonstrance of the partiall ingratefull and unjust proceeds of the India Court at home against the said RICHARD BOOTHBY In vindication of his good name never yet justly stained yet now of late for certain years had in unjust scandall and defamation by malignant adversaries who are and will be ashamed to verifie their malice and wicked censure against him in any judicious Court of Equity With Petition to his most gracious Majesty King Charles and the most right Honorable high Court of Parliament for justice and reliefe to him and his thereby utterly ruined in worldly estate by such unsupportable wrongs and cruell oppressions He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just even they both are abomination unto the Lord Prov. 17. 15. Dr Baily in his Practise of Piety In all causes judge aright for thou shalt be sure to find a righteous Judge before whom thou shalt shortly appear to be judged thy self at which time thou mayst leave to thy friends this for thine Epitaph Nuper eram Iudex nunc judicis ante Tribunal Subsistens paveo judicor ipse modo June 10. 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONOrable the Lords and Commons assembled in the most Right Honorable high Court of Parliament The humble Petition of Richard Boothby Merchant Most humbly sheweth HIs insupportable wrongs sustained as in this present declaration in print exhibited to every particular Member of both Houses of Parliament and most submissively beggeth your Hon favours even for the tender mercies of God in Christ Jesus to pity compassionate the miserable and distressed estate of your poor impotent Petitioner and all his a wife and five children by affording him justice in the causes mentioned in this present narration and such justice and no other he beggeth for as may stand with the glory of God the good construction of the wholsome laws of this Kingdom and the honour of his Majesty King Charles and the right honorable high Court of Parliament which though he be daunted with exceeding great fears as Hester to present his Petition in that most right honorable Court not having your honors golden Scepter of grace held out unto him yet his cause being in great measure like hers necessitated to the preservation of her selfe and nation as his for himself and family he is forced to put on her resolution If I perish I perish Fiat voluntas Dei Iune 10. 1644. To the right Honorable the Honorable the right Worshipfull the Worshipfull c. the Generality of the honorable East India Corporation RIght Honorable c. Two things have coacted and impulsed me to trouble your Honours c. with this rude Epistle The one is an ardent desire I have not only to expresse my endeered affection to the honourable Society but also my willingnesse though uninvited in coming to counsell before I am called presuming of your gracious pardon if not good acceptance to manifest or make known unto you what my weak capacity conceiveth behoovefull for the welfare and indemnity of the honourable Company of India Merchants in their right worthy famous action of Commerce The other is for vindication of my good name never yet justly tainted by declaration of the intollerable wrongs which I Richard Boothby an honest poor member of the India Company and your trusty servant hath undergone both in India by lewd malicious tyrannicall fraudulent jugling fellow-servants and also at home by partiall injust ingratefull unconscionable corrupt Governours and timeserving Committees in the India Courts For your incouragements in that worthy action of Commerce be pleased to conceive charitably and friendly of the opinion or rather assured knowledge of a weak unintelligent Merchant that the trade to and from India from port to port in the severall places of India and other Kingdoms neer adjacent is the most hopefull beneficiall of any part of the world wherein by Gods blessing a competency if not a superfluity in estate is to be attained unto with small stock in 4 5 6 or 7 yeares time which 3 or 4 times so many yeares spent in other Countries will not so suddenly supply with far greater stock The danger of the trade by sea especially in those oriental parts is small taking the opportunity and season of the yeare in the time of the favourable monsons or trading winds the seas so calm and pleasant that from India to Persia Bantum Mocco Madagascar Mauritius and other parts the ships commonly tow their long Boats Skiffes and Barges at their Stern to and again and by a voyage in three foure or five moneths time too and again there may be gained 30 40 50 60 80. and 100. per cent profit and more in severall sorts of commodities according to the judgement and discretion of the intelligent Merchant in making choyce of his commodity and attaining it at the best hand Hereof I will not much insist having more at large discoursed thereof in a rude pamphlet tending to incouragements to plant in Madagascar which perhaps may hereafter come out in print where I could wish my selfe and family securely with others my Countreymen seated in that most famous pleasant wholsome fruitfull Island as I suppose transcending all others in the world if my weak purse and decrepit unable body for travell would permit The other cause moving me to this occasion for vindication of my good name in manifestation of my wrongs will be superfluous to insist upon in this Epistle for that the present declaration thereof hereunto annexed will more at large demonstrate the same Be pleased right honourable c. courteously to accept the admonishments advertisements of an unintelligent Merchant especially in matters that are not within his line or beyond the reach of his apprehension yet in some things I may peradventure say more by industrious observation and affectionate duty to your Honours Corporation its welfare and indemnity then others it may be either can or will In the first plaâ—e it were good at your generall Courts especially at the election of your Governour Deputy Committees and Officers not to be absent to lend your votes in â—busing fitting persons thereunto men fearing God and hating covetousnesse for by your absence and small appearance of late at such times the time-serving Governour and Committees are better fitted to band together to continue in their places or to elect new such men as they either know or presume will be for their accommodation the one to the other in their own privat ends And if at such election some pious Divine spend an hour or lesse in godly exhortations in a Sermon to perswade to upright dealing between all parties as well in the differences between the Court and their servants or their servants one against another as for their fidelity and industry in managing the main
under Captain Weddall advised the Captain to take the opportunity of the Boats rising with the water to leap into the Boat But the Captain held that way dangerous for fear lest the Boat should hit against the rock and so split and so cast away all the men in her also and therefore he stripping himselfe into his linnen breeches and getting hold of the end of a long line from the Boat made it fast under his armes the men in the Boat holding one end of the line and we upon the rocks the other end and â—o leaping into the Sea got safely into the Boat whom the Master wisely advised to be carried off into another Boat out from the raging of the waves neer shore whilst he endeavoured to fetch off the rest Which done Captain Swanly approved of the Masters way and so at the rising of the Boat with the wave to the top of the rock leapt into the Boat prudently kept off from striking against the rock and so escaped into the other Boat And Mr. Clement took the next turn and likewise got well off my turn coming the Master and Sailers encouraged me to the same way promising to stand ready to catch me with all the help so also I adventured by their great assistance to whom I acknowledge much thankfulnesse not forgetting Gods great mercy I also got safe into the other Boat and at last into the ship Ionah But I was no sooner off but Mr. Clements Blackamore of India having gotten upon the rock was by the violence of a great wave over-topping the rock washed into the Sea but he skilfull in swimming was also by the industry of the Mariners saved And thus God be praised we and many others got safe aboord again but the next day or one or two dayes after the raging of the waves occasioned either by wind or tide or both we had good passage to and again from ships to shore for a moneths time refreshing our selves in the uninhabited Island with Hogges Goats and Fish The relation whereof I have been the more prolix willing to give admonition to others that shall come after to be cautious if they find their landing dangerous in which Island I wish my Countrey-men had a plantation and my selfe among them in so pleasant healthfull fruitfull and commodious a place for trading with all Nations at their return out of India and so invincible and impregnable being once though but easily fortified that one hundred men may easily oppose and defend themselves against one hundred thousand and a matter of no great charge that I am perswaded some one mans estate in England is able to perfect that businesse to whose endeavours if at any time attempted I wish all prosperous and happy successe So here after a merry Christmas kept with such homely fare as the place would afford it being our last place of Rendevous in this long voyage we took our leave one of another in both ships untill it should please God to send us safe arrivall at our desired port our own happy native Countrey of England Thus it pleased God to send us all safe arrivall together in one Fleet into England where finding my chiefe adversary Richard Wylde the usurped President had potent friends in Court the unjust Governour Sir Morris Abbot Sir Henry Garraway as Mr. Rastell before had given me notice of I yet presented my selfe to the present Governour Sir Morris Abbot in privat before I tendred my presence in Court submitting the redresse of my wrongs in any reasonable manner at the feet of his pious devotion But the best respects I could get from him was sharp checks before my cause was made known with an admonition to be cautious what accusations I laid against Richard Wylde for that as he told me he was and would be his friend Yet hoping of better welcome from the Court-Committees and tendering unto them a declaration of my wrongs the Court courteously condoled my sufferings promised that reall restitution should be made by my adversaries and that they would think upon it to give me a large gratification for my good services with tender of second imployment into India upon better termes then before if I would accept of it desiring me therewith to rest satisfied untill time would better permit them to give me due right for my injurious sufferings Time spun out three moneths before this businesse came to be decided At which time my cause was turned topsie-turvy and that by report which untill a yeare after I understood not that Sir Morris Abbot had received a gratification from my adversaries of a Porters burthen of silver plate as two witnesses yet living offered me to verefie which is very probable yet I had at that time a better opinion of Sir Morris Abbot then to be bribed though I knew my adversary was a right Matchivil in such designes having by report flung away at his departure out of India 1500. l. in that kind to get a good report of all of severall conditions as English Dutch Moores and Banjans c. the meanest of the Companies Scrivans receiving bribing gratification of ten pound and no small bribery given to Sea Commanders and Officers both to cloak his privat trade and extoll his vertue and magnificency in all which notwithstanding he failed At which time Sir Morris Abbot past his vote that it was not for the accommodation of the honorable companies action of commerce to wave or question the Presidents power authority but rather to support maintain it which they would do Also Sir Henry Garraway voted that it was not for the honour of the East India Court to be curious inquisitors into their Presidents actions The votes of these potent persons in Court stonied the indifferent and uncharitable part of time-serving Committees who were loath to crosse them as some of Court in privat confessed unto me lest they should crosse them again in other matters aimed at for their own ends and for that my adversaries had accrewed great estates of ill gotten goods amounting to twenty or thirty thousand pounds a man in five years out of nothing of which the King was defrauded of his due customes which he ought not lose though I out of desire and hope of friendly reconcilement and to avoid the opprobrious imputation of a malicious Revenger purposely omitted timely information to possesse my self of halfe their estates forfeited by the defraudments Many Committees gaped after them to match them being Batchelors though of foule infected bodies or of one at least with their daughters in marriage The Courts censure and decree though I petitioned to haue it in writing I was denied for seven moneths time untill I had made them ashamed of so unjust an action At which time it was penned with all the Matchivill wit that such ingratefull and unjust malevolent persons could devise because I would not applaud their former open censures in my audience and therein not onely deprived me of
satisfaction for my wrongs of no small import but also robbed me of great part of my covenanted sallery and other just debts due unto me to the value of one thousand pounds besides the losse of ten twenty or thirty thousand pounds or more unvaluable by unjust dismisment from my beneficiall imployment because their wicked President a servant in no higher eminence then my self except in a double voyce had maliciously suspended it which for masters to rectifie servants abuses though they could alledge no cause to confirm the suspension was to contradict the lawes of the Medes and Persians never to be revoked And for the same cause because I taxed their injurious censure they again took from me two hundred pound confirmed before upon me by full decree of Court in recompence of good service done them Thus being much perplexed in minde and having some estate in their servants hands in India which I had given order to be paid into the Presidents hands to cleare accounts which my revengefull adversary had unjustly ingaged me thereinto which accounts were not cleared untill four or five yeares after in regard those their servants my factors finding me in disfavour with the Court at home made use of my means and at length died before the accounts were cleared to my great wrong and detriment I complied yet fairly with them in the mean time petitioning them stil for want of means to wage law with such potent adversaries who boasted that they would be too mighty for me one two or three times a yeare to reverse their uncharitable censure , and to pay me my due from themselves and to cause restitution from my adversaries as they had formerly promised to me and done to a farre inferiour man then my selfe wronged by a Sea Captain as mighty in Commission as their President whom they forced to pay the Merchant a Runnegado Jesuit fled out of Spain crept into the India ships made a Cockswain a Polipragmon and busie fellow by which meanes he attained to that preferment 200. l. for smaller wrongs done unto him which they excused they had now no means of my adversaries in their possession to force him thereunto though formerly they were possessed with great part of their estate and having fined Richard Wylde at 2500 l. for misdemeanors too little by 20000. l. yet by the Governour and Sir Henry Garrawayes meanes got it all remitted So the wicked were justified and the innocent condemned both which are an abomination to the Lord And in this interim being drawn or perswaded by divers in Committee and some of their chiefe Officers that if I would tender my service again to the Court it would be well accepted and I recompenced to my content in another kind But having before made a privat Protest against Sir Morris Abbot for his unjust proceeds I much doubted to obtain my suit yet importuned thereunto I did at length tender my service by humble petition not usuall for men of my quality and thereupon as a Committee himself told me the whole Court stood for me applauding my honesty and ability to doe them service But they all or most part having passed their votes for me except the Governour Sir Morris Abbot who by his inveterate malice overturned all among time-serving Committees First confessing with them that in his conscience he took me to be an honest man and for my ability he could not except aginst it yet if the Court would be advised by him his opinion was I was not a fit man to serve them expressing his reason that I was a distracted man Indeed Solomon sayes that oppression will make a wise man mad but God be praised for his abundant mercie that hath preserved me in my right senses notwithstanding the wicked endeavours of a bribed oppressing malicious Governour Behold the wisdome of the worldly wise in this matter and in the former for my sallary and gratification if I were a bad servant how could I deserve a large gratification for good service And if I were a good servant why should I lose my covenanted sallary But being a good servant as approved and a gratification 200. l. given me therefore by full vote of Court as also expressed in a Copie of Decree of the said Court given me seven moneths after why was I then surreptuously robbed and dispoyled thereof So also if I were an honest and able man to undergoe the Companies imployment how was I distracted And if I were distracted where was my honesty and ability Thus wisdome at such wisdome doth but scoff When men do ill that good may come thereof Thus it is apparent the slanders of a malicious corrupt insolvent Governour hatefull at present to be acknowledged for good who made no conscience of his actions even to defraud and cheat Widdowes and Orphans of their estates as some of my own neere kindred have felt in great measure to their grief and hinderance in preferment The accounts at last to my great losse were cleared at India though not at home and I again for quietnesse and necessities sake petitioned the Court for their favours to grant me convenient passage in the Companies ships to seek my fortune again in another world and in an old age for valuable consideration with promise to do the Company what accommodable service lay in my power though I did not eat their bread nor drink their water but that also was denied me for feare belike that I should descry some of their juglings in privat trade with servants or should shame them in their injudicious managing that famous action of commerce by my privat poor stock in a despicable way that they looked not after nor regarded And yet they granted the same freely and gratis to aliens and stranges of other nations Popish in religion and enemies to the honourable action of Commerce And what was this then but to take the childrens bread and to cast it to Dogs and to deny the poore decrepit Lazarus the crums that fell from their superfluous Tables or with the envious Dog in the manger neither to eat hay himself nor suffer the hungry Ox to eat it And if this be justice charity and gratitude of the India Court Committees which they boast of and would have all the world to beleeve their abundant indulgence to deserving servants let wise men judge for I am at a non-plus and must needs conclude with the sentence of Scripture The mercies of the wicked are cruell Thus seeing my selfe so unconscionably handled and disfranchised of all freedom or comfort in that Company of whom I had well deserved even by their own approbation denying me also though dis-franchised to repay me 50. pound paid almost thirty yeares before for that freedom I was advised by my own thoughts and friends counsell to petition to his Majesty for a reference of my cause to indifferent men which by his Majesty was most graciously granted me referring it to 3. good men on my side and to as
many on the Courts side to make conscionable end to my content or to make report unto his Majesty The three good men for me were the right worshipful Sir Henry Row Knight and the worshipfull George Clark now Knight and Rob. Grimes Esquire And the Court with much ado elected in the end the right worshipfull Sir Iob Harvy Knight and the worshipfull Thomas Keightly and Daniel Harpey Esquires all bred Merchants on both sides The affronts and contempts to his Majesties command and to all the Referrees were to large to recite who having spent a whole yeare and more upon many summons never met a full Committee of their side above three times and at those times nothing done but wrangling made by three Committees out of Court and three or four officers to oppose me alone before the Referrees and that because the Referrees would not account their orders of Court penned in large volumes to be as authentick Records or as Acts of Parliament And so nothing at all being done I intreated all the Referrees to make report to his Majesty which they all seemed willing to perform but condoling my infortunate and hard measure lent me their good counsell alledging it would not onely be a chargeable and irksome busines to me to goe in winter time to the King as farre as Scotland but also perhaps distastive to his Majesty to be troubled in midst of his important affairs with his Army in or neer the borders of Scotland to commence suit in Law were to fling away more money For the Court being of more credit either at the Councell Table or in any judicious Court in England would be more potent against me and that out of a generall stock or purse then I should be though I had the best of their estates And withall told me that the Court had made an offer to them to give me two hundred marks a poore summe in regard of my due debts and wrongs So that I would give the whole Court and every particular man a generall release yet leaving me to take my course in law against my revengefull India adversaries provided that all the Referres should set to their hands as witnesses to the release To the which in the end by their perswasions and my own extream necessitated case to preserve my credit yet never justly stained and to relieve my ruined family consisting of my selfe wife and five children all young and unprovided for I enforced as upon oath I am ready to averre yeelded unto which done the Court yet again considered with themselves that all things was not agreeable to their second thoughts and therefore contrary to their propopositions to the Referrees would have releases granted to my India adversaries also or else would pay me no money which though I was resolutely bent not to doe yet necessity having no law I was in the end compelled to perform being somewhat more perswaded by the friendly information of Sir Henry Garraway who though he confessed himselfe to have opposed me formerly in Court yet now he was my best friend there promising to do me any future courtesies that lay in his power and withall freely imparting unto me the Courts ace using consciences that if I did proceed in law against my India adversaries that all the aspersion of those foule proceeds would reflect upon the Court and therefore they would make all sure The Courts Atturney then framed a large authentick release and withall put in a Clause that at the instance and request of the Referrees the Court had yeelded to give me two hundred marks Which release being brought to Sir Henry Roue in his presence for me to set my hand and seale to be a witnesse he right nobly as became his vertue and goodnesse subscribed thus or to this sence I do testifie as a witnesse to this release the sealing and delivery thereof But that I had any hand to solicite the India Court in Boothbyes behalfe I utterly deny This done the other Referrees denied to subscribe in any other sense which did so blurre the Governour and Court with shame that they caused their Atturney to draw a new release leaving out forenamed clause and taking such other hands as he could get besides his own for witnesse All things now effected to their bad desires I thought all malice and revenge had been clean wiped out and therefore renewed a former petition for readmittance into the Companies service or for passage in their ships into India upon my own adventure but could prevaile nothing to the charitable relief of me and mine And not long after that corrupt insolvent Governour Sir Morris Abbot died for whose soul were it lawfull and effectuall to pray I would yet lend my earnest devotions to God for mercy in his behalfe And a little before his death it pleased God to grant a Parliament in England and then it grieved me to heart to have given so effectual a release yet perswaded by learned counsel that the Parliament in a just cause would wave an inforced release I framed a petition by advice of the said learned counsell to the Parliament which was preferred by a friend to Mr. Brown Clerk to the House of Peeres in whose hands if not cast aside it yet lies in regard of an Ordinance of Parliament to deferre private mens petitions for a while to give way to important affaires of State as reason required And And so all hope of release that way were all at a stand I resolved to go to Roterdum in Holland to endeavour to get a passage in their Dutch ships into India And to that purpose about Michaelmas 1640. I wrot to two of my ancient loving friends the Worshipfull William Cranmer Deputy Governour to the Merchant Adventurers of England and to Mr. Iohn Strange a worthy Citizen of London both resident at Roterdam to intreat their furtherance to assist me in that voyage for convenient passage and from both received right courteous reply for their good assistance and convenient entertainment during mine abode there But presently after it pleased God to hinder that intent by imposing upon me a long and tedious disease a Flux for three full yeares compleat And during that time though I were not able to stirre much abroad yet I bethought my selfe how to provoke the India Court to commence suit in Law against me hoping by that course to obtain fauour to defend my cause in Forma Pauperis which I might rightly claim and that was by publishing a Protest against the Governour and whole Court which having formerly acted in private to themselves for which they threatned me with severe punishment in the Court of Honour but recanted I deemed that making it publick it would certainly stir them up to that suit So though unacquainted with the manner of such proceeds I rudely and ignorantly penned such a Protest as my weak judgement did apprehend which I caused to be fixed upon the gate of the East India House and upon Sir
Morris Abbots gate and upon four chiefe Pillars on the Exchange But they had not hung long but were presently snatcht off and from that day to this I never felt the smart of their second more cruell oppressing threats so that no act that I could do would provoke them to lay open their own shamefull proceeds and my weak purse living upon a small rackt Countrey Farme chiefly supported by indulgent friends would not afford means to right my selfe My sicknesse thus continuing three years it pleased God contrary to all rules of Physick and multitudes of medicines following my own appetite and fancy to stop my Flux though it had brought me low and weak in body yet finding my selfe able to creep a little abroad though with much pain with two short staves to lean upon I took a Chamber in London for the Winter time for sundry reasons and occasions And one day making shift with many restings to creep to the Exchange I met there with my ancient acquaintance and friend Mr. William Methold lately returned from being President in India a place assigned for me if malice had not prevented and at present Deputy Governour of the India Corporation who by being in India was better acquainted with my wrongs as his letters out of India and his speeches since at home condoling my wrongs suffered under the tyranny of a President a man of matchlesse malice do import whose advice and counsell I intreated seeing the old Governor Sir Morris Abbot was dead and Sir Henry Garraway turned out of that place and a new Governour Mr. William Cockhaine and many new Committees chosen whether he did suppose that if I renewed my former petitions for passage into India I should obtain my desire His answer was he deemed my Petition would be granted and that the voyage into those hot Countries would in great probability speedily recover my limbs again yet willed me to forbeare untill he had felt and dived into the affection of the Governour And whilst we were thus in discourse Mr. Governour came to him and called him away from me upon some occasion of businesse So that conference breaking off I repaired within few dayes after to his house to know the issue where he told me he had conference with the Governour concerning my purpose and found him an indifferent man and so willed me to proceed promising his faithfull assistance Accordingly I framed a Petition and in regard of my weaknesse feed a Solicitor to exhibite the same and to attend the Courts response which finding dilatory I seconded the same with a submissive Epistle intreating reply to both but though he attended about five moneths every Court day other dayes in the interims yet could never get answer to either What to think of the Governour Cockhaine I know not in regard of his former voting in Court before he was Governour in my cause that I had undergone both in India and at home summum jus which is a riddle to me though at first I conceived it to be spoken in my favour because though urged both in privat and publick he never pleased to interpret his meaning and I should be glad for the good opinion that I ever had of him that his good interpretation would cleare him from reproofe of which I much doubt for being taken in my favour or disfavour spoken the sequell as I conceive and think I shall be able to manifest that his sentence was neer a kin to Pilats or Balaams yet I will use Balaams prayer for him That he may die the death of the righteous and his end be like his And because there hath been foure Governours of the India Courts since these my troubles whereof two Sir Morris Abbot and Sir Henry Gaâ—raway I have manifested in this fore-mentioned Treaty their partiality injustice and corruption and at present Mr. William Cockhaines deep Machivill equivocation to shift or wind himselfe Serpent-like to either side which way soever for his advantage I conceive it requisite to say somewhat touching Sir Christopher Cletherow almost forgotten who though both in the judgement of the world and in my own charitable opinion of him esteemed honest and vertuous And never that I could learn by the best inquiry that I could make that he ever opened his mouth in Court against me during the time of his Governours or Deputy Governours place for many yeares yet tacitous in defence of the cause of innocency is not to be excused For he knew that I was privie to the passages between him and his sonne in India whose sonne at his departure from India left Commission with me to take up open his fathers letters whereby I could justly have charged him with such crime as the other corrupt Governours unjustly charged upon me which peradventure was the cause he never opposed me yet to doe me justice that pleased him not both because he would not crosse the former Governors actions nor lose by their means the Courts favours so commodious unto him both by allowance of two hundred pounds per annum rent for part of his house to keep Courts in and also five hundred pounds per annum sallary for his pains in place of Governour to attend foure five or six houres in a week upon those affairs a faire and large recompence for a triviall pains or service So that in this case I may well compare him to Faelix the Governour of Iudea who being to leave his government to Portius Festus and having Paul a prisoner committed by the Iewes and knowing in his conscience no cause in Paul worthy of death or of bonds yet to curry favour and to please the Iewes left Paul bound a prisoner and whether for this sin or others it pleased God to cast judgements upon him by the dismall untimely deaths of his two eldest sons I leave it to the opinion of others lesse partiall desiring not to be accounted uncharitably censorious Thus with more perplexity then I conceived or intended I have according to my weak capacity set down truly and as briefe as I could the summe of those passages which I intended to have inlarged into every particular to which end I began the same the last Spring as my weak body would permit me ability but finding the same intermixed with severall accidents in my voyage to and from India with desription of many Countries wherein we had aboad I found it would arise to too great a volume for my weak purse to publish in print and perhaps not acceptable though bestowed gratis especially if thereto added the particular Articles against me and my Response thereunto the sundry Protests made in India at St. Helena and in England for the unjust proceeds against me with Mr. Rastels Warrant for my release of imprisonment c. And the India Courts malignant censure seven moneths in composing to fit the same to daub over their seared accusing consciences The defence for privat trade for all the Companies servants with the Courts