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A91784	The great and grievous oppression of the subject; exhibited in a remonstrance to the Parliament: wherein-is more particularly set forth, the unjust dealings of the two corporations of Hull and Headon in the county of York. By Robert Raikes Gent.	Raikes, Robert, of Headon.	1659 (1659)	Wing R138; Thomason E989_14; ESTC R208201	9,571	11

takes so well known to the Country none will so much as expect any justice from such vile persons The said Newton and Robinson being also Night-walkers and putting their own and the drunken Aldermens horses the greatest oppression that can be and indeed intolerable and insufferable that so many base idle drunken fellows so idly and basely given should be suffered to oppress the Inhabitants by eating up their grounds every year as they do they putting forty or fifty horses on their lanes they call banks which are insufficient for ten horse and when the banks are bare nay even at every Fare they being so accustomed have every year and do this year also enter the neighboring grounds to the said banks all their Township consisting but of ninescore acres and half of them being and belonging to Foreiners for so they call all them not within their base jurisdiction and that will not allow of their base dealings as above-written they continually eat and oppress the strangers grounds and no remedy therefore being a general practice and done in the night by base beggerly Night-walkers set on by the persons above who never yet gave any remedy for so general and great a grievance the Justices in the Country having no power to right such Grievances in their Corporation Item their other Officers two Constables chosen for their knavery well versed and if not must learn all the vilany aforesaid if they mean to be Churchwardens and so Bailiffs and at last drunken Aldermen c. Item The Pinder one Foster a notorious Pilferer Nightwalker and one reported to be a notorious Thief and insufferable Vilain keeps both Horse and Cow buyes little or no Hay and if any at years end sells more then he buyes and steals other mens Hay in the night All the other Officers being but slaves and bloodhounds to serve the base lust and commands of their Major and drunken Aldermen nay it is reported all the Burgesses do swear at their making free to do whatsoever the Major shall command them by which much vilany is executed as above and more which I leave to your Honors to see remedied The several Misdemeanors which the Drunken Aldermen practise in the Corporation of Headon both by Commission and toleration and connivence IMprimis They tolerate the Town clerk who is a wicked lewd fellow in all his wickedness being a man formerly tried for murder at Oxford A common drunkard and common quarreller and a raiser of seditions and fomenter of quarrels and suits a lier in wait for blood a felonious stealer of mens goods off their ground and a receiver counseller and abetter of those that so steal mens goods off their grounds a Night-walker and perverter of justice and borne out in all these by the lewdnesses of the drunken Aldermen aforesaid to the great disturbance of the publike peace Item A keeper of unlicensed Tipling-houses selling Ale contrary to the Statute and a common Cheater In all which he is upholden by the drunken Aldermen aforesaid Item That after he had come from his Trial at Oxford and from practising his bloody tricks as a cut-throat Cavalier keeping at Headon a common Tipling-house unlicensed and as a Cheater had compounded twice to cozen men and make them take less then their due for their own yet could not he forbear but must needs continue his cozening and quarrelling cheating and seditious practises in his lewd Tipling-house cozening Robert Swack and others by raising and stirring up Suits when by him inticed to drink raising divers quarrels and among the rest among the Tinkers of the Country he set together by the ears and made parties among them being drinking with him and so ordered their quarrels that those of the Cavalier-party should get the better and escape and those of the Parliaments party that had been their Soldiers being lamed and beaten by his wicked contriving to be falsly imprisoned and after long Imprisonment to be let go without any charge against them besides many other quarrels he hath raised and much bloodshed caused by lying in wait for the life of Mr. George Etherington by breaking his stable-door and seising his horse prosecuting the said Mr. Ethrington even to death when his goods were gone And as greatly suspected to have occasioned the death of the said Mr. Etherington by laying violent hands on him at Paul Newton's garth and Headon whose death and murder would be inquired into Nor did his murderous intentions rest there but at the same time he also laid wait for the life of Mr. Robert Raikes and for many days together on purpose to take the life of the said Robert Raikes encouraged his Cut-throats he had hired and that by the drunken Aldermens aid advice and connivence by whose wicked practices after much lying in wait the said Cut-throats assaulted the said Robert Raikes in his own house knockt him down with Black bills and other unlawful weapons beat and wounded him and having so beat and wounded him in his own house dragged him therefrom by the heels all along the streets to prison the same day Mr. Etherington was buried the neighbors crying out of their murder and vilanous cruelty bidding them take heed of committing one murder after another and bade them first clear themselves of one murder before they committed another upon the body of the said Robert Raikes the death of Mr. Etherington being fresh in every ones memory and supposed by their cruelty to be made away which caused suits and many troubles Yet did not their cruelty so rest but the drunken Aldermen being all combined to countenance such vilany after long and false imprisonment when they could prove nothing just and legal against the said Robert Raikes at the Sessions yet out of meer malice they tyed him to his good abearing without shewing any cause why and yet would not suffer him to live in quiet but hired lewd and vitious persons to intercept him and without cause carried him to prison and scandalizing him with lyes and untruths but never proved any thing against him to this day but on purpose to lame beat and take the life away of the said Robert Raikes and to pervert the course of Law and Justice and that by the whole Court of Aldermen in their drunken Sessions Nor did their malice so cease but the drunken Aldermen and Towns-Clerk caused the Fences of the said Robert Raikes to be broken down and their lewd Underlings whom they keep to swear for them in all their vilany eat up the ground of the said Robert Raikes to his great damage and the Fences which the Town and their Tenants being Town-Officers should make up and repair neither the drunken Aldermen nor their lewd Officers would or could be perswaded to repair but on the contrary made a great deep ditch or pit just at the lane where he should have carried his goods out and in on purpose to destroy and lame and kill those beasts of Mr. Raikes which they had

's almost impossible to mention all his absurdities and vilanies 5. Item Robert Ambler another of the drunken sort of Aldermen first a Spademan but after the death of his Uncle an Alderman and Tanner worth 14 l. per ann or thereabouts but by his evil and injust dealing in his Majoralties weakned his estate sold some land ran into debt by his evil husbandry in drinking and other vicious courses In his first Majoralty committed many vilanies had like to have murdered one Thomas Smeadley in his bed and had made an end of him had not the Troopers rescued him from death In his second Majoralty committed many absurdities by false imprisonment and raising of taxes and mispending of them with much lewdness A common drunkard and one that is viciously given had a contest with a Dutch D●ctor about the curing the heat of his codpiece to the great scandal of Religion and the Corporations discredit 6. Item one Robert Blansherd another of the drunken Aldermen a Joiner a common drunkard and an illiterate fellow and a Cavalier against Hull made though unskilfully those wooden Fire-works did occasion so much death at Cortingham when Hull was besieged both of Kings party and other good people One who had drunk himself deep in debt but by begging for the fire hath gotten into some stock and is 100 l. better then he was which in regard of his lewd and vicious living will not last long One that had a hand in the death of Mr Ethrington and many other cheats and false dealing being not able to satisfie for the wrongs by him done His estate worth 12 s. per ann besides his house 7. Item Richard Barns once a Blacksmith but by getting two widows turn'd a Baker the richest man among them but simple and illiterate as all the rest are and led by those of the drunken sort by reason of his simplicity in the time of his Majoralty into much lewdness oppression and vilany about the driving of cattel false imprisonment of men and receiving of a stollen Mare stollen by Thomas Newson and some others by the counsel of Samuel Bains the Town-Clerk and the said Barns with the advice of the drunken Aldermen with many other absurdities too long to recite 8. Item Nathaniel Norris now Major a great Prosessor but very Hypocrite for he joineth with all the rest in their vilanies and drunken courses and caused a false action to be laid on a stollen Mare and falsly imprisoned and caused to be apprehdended a servant for meating her masters cattel which he had caused unjustly to be driven and impounded and after laid false actions of the said cattel on purpose to get extrajudicial extraordinary compositions for fees for the Town-clerk and to spend among the drunken Aldermen refusing Bail for the goods impounded One that hath not a foot of land in all the town and did give up shop at Hull sold his corn and stock off the ground to make himself Major of Headon A drunken consort as can be proved is much in debt and but little to pay with of his own goods 9. Item Henry Stringer another of the Aldermen a Shoomaker a very pitiful simple fellow and illiterate and very poor and led altogether by the drunken sort to all mischief and vilany worth 40 s per ann and his house Item Samuel Bayns Town-Clerk a lewd and vitious person formerly tryed for his life at Oxford for murder as is reported a common quarreller and common drunkard a keeper of an unlawful Tipling-house unlicensed and irregular and therein many quarrels bloodshed and suits are raised by him to the great disturbance of Town and Country for he holdeth there the meeting of Cavaliers and Papists to hatch their continual plots against the Commonwealth and the good people thereof as also there in his Tipling-house aforesaid is hatched and contrived all the vilany of the drunken malignant Aldermen his confederates and associates in mischief there also he contriveth all his false practises to pervert the Law and lying in wait for blood and murder falsifying and forging of Records to the great vexation of Town and Country being also a common cheater and a cozener and a great defrauder of mens estates that have to deal with him having broken and compounded twice Item Thomas Robinson Butcher for his knavery made Sergeant at Mace and one of the Attornies of the Court a common drunkard one that keeps a common and unlicensed Tipling house where much vilany is hatched and contrived a common Barrettor and betrayer of mens causes taking upon him as an Attorney being but an illiterate fellow A common cheater and one that often hath laid wait for blood both against Mr. George Etherington and Mr. Raikes and one that hath his Agents abroad to steal mens goods off their grounds and drive their cattel and then with the advice of the drunken Aldermen and the lewd Town-Clerk extort great compositions and will suffer none of the relations of those that come to meat and relieve the cattel so to do but viol ntly assaulteth and beateth them and carrieth them prisoners to the Major who alloweth all their evil dealing and countenanceth them therein to the great spoil of mens goods and cattel so that no man can say his goods are his own if they may so be suffered to take them And in that Town and Country there is no remedy for the Country-Justices do not meddle therewith or are suffered so to do by reason of the Charter the said Town doth plead and thereby thinketh they may pervert justice as they themselves list Item Richard Newton another of the Serjeants at Mace a Tanner and an illiterate fellow a Dingthrist and a common drunkard a cheater and cozener at his Alehouse-bargains and gaming at cards made only an Officer for his knavery false-swearing and perverting of justice being an Attorney also of the Court but so illiterate both he and the other Robinson that neither of them can write their own name at leastwise neither of the said Attornies Robinson and Newton can write a Declaration or indite any Plea of themselves being more versed in knavish dealing and pilfering and driving mens goods off their grounds and receiving such goods so pilfered off other mens grounds Fence-breakers and Night-walkers to prey and feed their horses of other mens grounds then in any honest wi●e to discharge the place and office of Attorney as they ought to do by reason whereof all Suits in that Court depending are carried as the knavish Town-Clerk will and he will accept of no Declarations or Pleas but what he makes nor will make none according to the Instructions given though never so legal but on purpose to pervert justice and overthrow the right of those he hates or help those that will give him most for hire taketh double or treble fees a Suit formerly being tried for six or seven shillings he hath now brought up to twenty four shillings besides bribes or gratuities he