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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04656	The objections of the Levant Company answered	Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant.	1650 (1650)	Wing O87; ESTC R181155	4,577	18

c. which hereafter will come to be related he offers readily and without regret to withdraw his sute at the Law where his action for the present is for their false Imprisonment there and by the way only and his Damages Object 4. That under the Notion of the Act of Oblivion he pretends Indempnity for all his offences Criminal and under that protection granted him by the Committee he shrowds himself from their particular Actions whilst he sues them at the Law for those things whereof he pretends indemnification Answ 4. Though he hath not hitherto pleaded that Act nor in this Cause conceives he shall have any occasion yet he hath no reason to lay by any part of his Armour against so implacable and powerful an Enemy knows not why his pleading that Act should barr him from prosecuting any of his particular Debts Nor in the mean time can his assuming of that privilege from the Committee be any barr to any of them or any of their private Actions against him Neither doth he nor shall he ever make any other use of that protection from the Committee than intended by it for his security in order to his defence during the dependence of the cause before them And when ever the Company shall desist there or withdraw their Complaint in Parliament he shall not refuse to appear to any Action of theirs at law And till then holds it not reasonable to be lyable to answer the same things in two Courts of Justice at once Object 5. That he was an Enemy to the Parliament and divers of their Welwishers particularly marked out by him for ruine Answ 5. Though Companies Especially this are confident enough and because they cannot blush may say what they please yet these have not hitherto taken the liberty to assert any such thing against Sir Sa. in any of their publike Complaints or Petitions to the Parliament but by private whispers and insinuations Nor have they otherwise proved any thing tending to that end but by surmise and without knowing hitherto what he is able to answer for himself And in the mean time upon hearsay or Suspition for any to condemn another were a great Injustice though perhaps merely for his Relations and obligations to the former Court there may be some grounds for this Suspition which also in the Issue will prove rather an injurious Malice and Imagination than any thing of Reality and Truth Object 6. That he resisted the Authority of Parliament in opposing Sir Thomas Bendish sent Ambassador by them Answ 6. Sir Sa. denies he ever opposed Sir Thomas Bendish though he confesses he did not help him nor had reason except better warranted than he ever could discover to himself to be to this day he conceiving the Company not able to prove that Sir Thomas had any full Orders or effectual Commission from the Parliament to be either the Ambassador extraordinary or Ordinary for this Nation with the Grand Seignor the Ordinance of Parliament produced by them directs his going Ambassador or Agent or Consull for the Merchants Affairs not for the States and this without any Supersedeas to Sir Sa. his Commission or mention of this Revocation in it or in any other Order by the Parliament that he ever saw or heard of And Sir Tho. his Commission if he had any at all any legal one ought to have been agreeable to that warrant whereon it was grounded which Sir Tho. his was not 2. But if Sir Thomas had any such Commission yet if he never shewed it how could Sir Sa. be said to disobey it the truth is he never shewed it nor pretended to any but the late Kings Commission which he refused also to shew or any other warrant for his Mission when needfull and required by Sir Sa. 3. Besides those Credentials delivered to the Vizier brought with him for his Introduction were under the High Commission Seal and Queen Elizabeths Arms when that Office had been cast down by Parliament two years before And those Seals never before that time seen beyond the Seas 4. And that Letter which he brought for Sir Sa. his Revocation was under a doubtfull and no more authentique a Seal than the other defaced at least and so the Signature also if not counterfeit 5. So that the whole frame of his pretended Embassie and every step of his toward it being justly to be suspected Sir Thomas not being able to prove so much as his Mission and refusing to shew his Commission with the expence of 35000 l. levied on the Trade and Nation allowed if not warranted by the Company purchased his Introduction and into the Bargain the person of Sir Sackvile to be rendred into his and the Companies power and thereon instantly and without Warrant or Authority from the late King the then Parliament or this State sent him Prisoner for England plundred his House seised his Cancellaria possest the Papers of his Embassie Evidences of his Estate turned his Wife Children and Family out of their Mansion House and in a barbarous manner sent them after However upon these and other like false suggestions by the Company to prolong their Sute and after a ten years Imprisonment hitherto without proof through their Publique Clamours and the Parliaments mis-information and their Incognisance hitherto of the Truth by Order of the first of May last his Tryal at the Law after Licence from the Protector and Parliaments permission was stopped Just when all his Witnesses were brought up to Town some of them one hundred and others two hundred miles off the Jury summoned his Council feed and all things ready for a Hearing Which being contrary to all Presidents constant Rules and Declarations of all former Parliaments he humbly yet hopes upon their better Information may be redressed And notwithstanding his being under Reference upon any Subjects pretence against him whatever that he may yet enjoy the Privilege of a Free-man till condemned and by their favour be left at liberty to sue his particular Right at the Common law The benefit whereof was never yet denied to any that had not Iudicially forfeited it which he is confident to affirm hath not hitherto been made good nor by the assistance of and Iustice of the Committee will ever be proved against him FINIS