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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49956	This most deplorable case of an antient citizen who hath been an old, honest, and faithful servant of, and very great sufferer for the interest of the city of London, is most humbly desired to be read over by all good citizens with great care, seriousness, and due consideration.	Lee, Richard, fl. 1639-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing L889A; ESTC R43367	15,284	20

clear loss and dammage of the said Richard Lee above 60 lib. out of his own purse besides his loss of time above three years and half together his Labour Attendances and doing all Writings concerning the said long Prosecution better worth then 50 lib which good Works were greatly applauded and commended by many good Citizens though they prov'd undeservedly to the dammage and ruine of him the said Richard Lee his Wife and many small Children by his intermedling therewith because though often every year during his continuance at the Bridge-house he Petitioned the Court of Aldermen and Common Council to restore to him the said antient Sallary of 50 lib. a year justly due to him and to reward his extraordinary Labours as aforesaid with Certsficates to his Petitions annex'd under the Auditors and Bridge-Masters hands certifying his great Labours care and fidelity in the execution of his Duty in his said place and of the smallness of his profits he received far short of his Deserts not amounting to a competent Maintenance for him Therefore they thought fit and reasonable the said 50 lib. a year should be paid to him from his Admittance and fully restor'd for the future And the several Lord Mayors Aldermen Auditors Committees and many of the Common Council continually every year promised it should be paid to him accordingly and that he should be gratified for his extraordinary Labours yet they were still delay'd and never performed to him during his stay there though he well deserv'd the same as aforesaid and the Reason why they were not perform'd to him was because the said Mr. Whites Friends the said Alderman Fowke and the Aldermen and Committee-men of the said Advers Party always bore a grudge against him only for his fidelity in speaking and acting on the Cities behalf as by his Oath he was bound to do in the management of the said Cases gasnst their wills and misled Apprehensions Therefore they did oppose and obstruct the Grant of all Petitions he ever could present for the same Whereupon the said Richard Lee having served the City as Clerk of the Bridge-house about Nine years and upon so long tryal finding his profits so small that he could not subsist thereby but for the necessary supply of him and his Family was forc'd every year to waste of his own Stock and grew every year worse worse in his Estate not in the least by improvident living and also finding that by no means possible he could hope for the restoration of the said Sallery of 50 lib. a year nor gratification for his said extraordinary Labours by reason of the said Parties continual opposing and obstructing for no other causes but for his fidelity to the City in the Cases mentioned and that by reason of their undeserved disfavour he could not continue in his Place with any peace comfort or contentment whose implacable Spirits and unjust dealings with him upon all opportunities were unsufferable did more grieve and trouble him he never in the least deserving them than the want of the said 50 lib. a year and gratifications so justly due to him and by their means so long and so unjustly kept from him as hereby evidently appears which were the true sole and only causes of his being forc'd voluntarily to leave and surrender his said Place and consequently of all his said sore losses crosses and sufferings he unhappily underwent since by the Brewing Trade to his dammage above 5000 lib. as aforesaid to the great spoyl and ruine of him his Wife and many Children All which might have been well sav'd and preserv'd to the unspeakable comfort and happiness of him and his if those irreconcilable Gentlemen whose favour he sought by all endeavors had but been courteous and not extremely severe to him as they were beyond measure without any just or rational cause otherwise he had in all probability continu'd still at the Bridge-house and ended his days there and prevented all his said harms which thereafter happen'd to him and his as aforesaid for whose honesty and fidelity to the City in doing his Duty as bound by his Oath in the two last mentioned cases concerning which Cases forty times-more may be said than herein is but hinted to shew the unsavory actings and how greatly the said Richard Lee suffer'd by both the said Parties cruelty for about Nine years together during his whole time of his being at the Bridge-house too tedious to be born or here inserted such a life as they led him so many years together for no other causes but for doing his Du●y in those two Cases as mentioned he hereby professeth he would not be hir'd to undergo so many years for 500 lib. a year Sterling in whose Coat they could never pick a hole nor find a blot in his Scutcheon for which they watched and sought for as hid Treasure which if they could they would soon have hit it for brevities sake he 'll add no more here being enough set down to declare how the City hath been greatly wronged by bad Servants and how hardly such brought to punishment not by the Justice of their own appointed Judges who rather indulg'd them and discountenanced their honest Intelligencers their Servants also and suffer'd them to be in danger of ruine for their honesty and fidelity to their Masters giving the Offendors such indulgencie through bewitched incredulity and the contrary to the poor Complainants who being poor and disown'd by their Masters in their just complaint the offenders though guilty being rich and buoyed up grew bold and impudat eresoved to play Counter-scuffle to cudgel or Arest the poor men for Defamation as they did thereby thinking to affright them from further prosecu●ion standing upon their Guard of Justification pleading Innocency therefore defam'd by which Indulgency they took Rope long enough to hang or bring themselves to just punishment and whipt themselves with their own Rod the poor Arrested Complainants would not be daunted though poor made Defendants forc'd to Trial and unkindly disown'd and deserted by their Masters but rather than to bend basely under the Offenders feet though through poverty want of great Friends and with all disadvantages trusting to the Justice of the Cause go on courageously to Tryal not before known Friends or Citizens in the City but before strangers in the Country where they obtain'd a just Verdict with Victory and Triumph in three or four days time which they could not do by their greatest endeavors among their Masters in the City in above three years and a half prosecution though for their own Interest and almost to the utter ruine of the poor deserted men and this is a true Parallel of one of the said Cases And if the poor mens Cause had not been honest just and good it was a Miracle they should prevail at the Assizes in the Country among strangers with such disadvantages as they did to the shame of all the Opposers Retarders and Obstructors And that after that Tryal

as herein are mentioned voluntarily to leave the said Place after he had serv'd the City therein carefully faithfully diligently and industriously about Nine Years without any Sallary or Reward for his extraordinary Labors which all Clerks there before and since him ever had but were ever unjustly and undeservedly kept from him only for the causes herein mentioned Reason 2. Because at his first Admittance to the Place he found many Accompts Bills Orders and Writings thereof long standing not made up or Entred as they ought to have been by his Predecessors there and all Business very imperfect and greatly out of order so that he was necessitated at his own charges to hire a Clerk at dear Rates to sit constantly with him above eight Months together to make up Enter perfect and put all things in good order and also he and his said Clerk took great pains above six Months together after perusing all the Leases and Writings there and taking out Breviates of them and making two great Books of all the Tenants Names Date Rent and term to come of every Lease whereby upon Demand he could readily give Accompt of every Lease Tenant and House Also he and his Clerk took a great deal of pains a long time together in perusing many long and great Writings in much writing and often carrying them and attending with them upon Serjeant Maynard Serjeant Conyers Mr. Philips and other Council for their advice thereon concerning Sir George Monax his Lands all which were extraordinary Labours for which he ought to have been paid and the several Lord Mayors Aldermen and Committees and many of the Common Council often promised every year that he should be well paid though always delay'd and he never received one penny for the same Also Gratuities of 10 lib. and 5 lib. at a time were usually given to his Predecessors Servants for their Labours but never a Penny to any of his by reason of Persons ever obstructing as herein is mentioned Reason 3. Because some time before his admittance to the said place a Lease wa● granted to Alderman Fowke and another to Gilbert Keate Esq of Hou●es Ware houses and Ground in Water-lane Tower-street which did lie intricately intermixed with and between Ground and other great Buildings of their own so that for long tim● there had been great jars contests and continual complaints betwixt them and many Views by the City Committees for settlemet thereof to assertain both theirs and th● Cities Rights by strickt Admeasurement of the Dimensions who did fairly and justly set down in writing each Parties right exactly strictly ordering the Clerk of the Bridg● house so directly to express the same in their several Leases not otherwise as the● were so done yet notwithstanding such cares and endeavors and Orders of the Committees upon many Views though Alderman Fowk was present at the Views and dissented not yet four or five years after his Lease was made did twice or thrice almo●● every week send for the said Richard Lee to his House keeping him often there pr●vately till past one of the Clock in the night by all Arguments labouring with him ●●race several whole Lines out of the Lease and to write in the room thereof what he ha● prepar'd in writing which was greatly differing from the said Orders of Court greatly to the indangering of the Cities Right and promoting of continual Jars and Vexations betwixt him and Mr. Keate and for the first two years ●ogether did only use fair perswasions to prevail to get it done to his wi●l whereby not prevailing he did for about three years more together after use very harsh and severe words and threats in a tyrannical manner to force him to do it saying often to him Mr. Lee Do you not know that I was an Instrument to turn Mr. Mongre your Predecessor out of his place whereby you got into his place by which words implying that if he would not do it he would also work him out of his place whereto he modestly Replyed Sir I hope that you nor any else shall find any such causes to turn me out of my place as by Relation were against Mr. Mongre Alderman Fowke added further and often used to hint the same words Mr. Lee You have a long time and often Petitioned the court of Aldermen and Common-council to restore you to the antient Salary of 50 lib. a year and to gratifie Your extraordinary Labour which I think you deserve and its just and fit should be done for you Therefore consider Mr. Lee be not averse in what I require of you who can soon help you in what you Petition for Therefore Mr. Lee be not perverse to me for what I desire shall not be to the prejudice of the City Whereto Richard Lee again replied Sir I hope you will not impute me averse or perverse to you or that I would in the least offend you or deny to serve you in any thing I justly may Therefore I hope you will be so favourable and just as to be friend me in my just Petition which you have been pleas'd very often to say it was just and fit to be granted to me yet nevertheless I hope that no self-ends shall ever tempt me to act unfaithfully and as for what you require me to do It hath upon many Views and Orders of Court been specially Ordered to be done word for word as it is done and not otherwise so that if I should privately alter it but a tittle and seal the Lease I should be concluded very unfaithful and justly turn'd out of my Place for a Knave And when Alderman Fowke found after about five years tryal by sore tormenting and wearying of me by all fair and foul means and could not force me to do it he having his Lease in his own hands got it alter'd to his mind and signed by two of the Committee who were ignorant of the Alteration then sent for me gave me his Lease and order'd me the next day after he being then Lord Mayor to attend the Court of Aldermen with his and all other Leases ready for sealing to be sealed I humbly p●ay'd his Lordships excuse saying I ought not I durst not offer 〈◊〉 to be seal'd without first acquainting the Court with the said alteration as I did openly and fully which greatly inrag●d his Lordship bu● though he was then Lord Mayor yet could not get it seal'd Reason 4th Because about the year 1651 several Jo●rneymen Carpenters Ma●ons Labourers and other Wo●kmen then Servan●s belonging to the Bridge-house 〈◊〉 out of just honest and good Principles did exhibite about 40 Articles against the Pur●eyor of the Bridge-house for purloyning and carrying away by Water and Land from the Bridge-house and the buildings thereto belonging at several times and concerting to his own use at his own Buildings then at Deptford and other places great quantities of Timber Planks Deal Boards ready plain'd shot and fitted for use Stones Lead Iron Spikes Nayls and

the Citizens also upon further Applications made to them praying further Justice had Re-examinations and Rehearings and gave their Judgments thereupon and that then they also found the Offendor guilty and turn'd him out of his Place And though they did not pay the poor men their full Expences and Charges they were at nor reward their Labours loss of Time and Attendances nor pay for the many Writings in and about the long retarded Prosecution as they ought liberally to have done considering their great fidelity and their great Abuses there being among them a spice of the said Advers Party who still hindred all they could yet in as much they gave them 30 lib towards the same as aforesaid they thereby own'd their service done and their fidelity to the City and it was no less strange that the Citizens who were first made Judges in the Case in the Cities behalf having the same Testimony and much better Advantage to search out the Truth yet in above three years and an halls time they could not find the Offendor guilty which the poor Country Jury upon their Oaths did in six or seven hours time and then soon after the Aldermen and Committee could also find him Guilty and turn him out of his place as aforesaid notwithstanding the great opposition of the Advers Party who certainly were strongly byassed and strangely perswaded to act so strongly and strangely so many years as they did against the great Interest of the City and with such violent and implacable wrath against the poor honest Prosecutors for the City even to their spoyl and ruine it may be truly said they were very hardly used and sorrily rewarded from first to last for their so long faithful and chargeable good Services done for the City their Masters as aforesaid the good Scripture Caution may conveniently be here added Let not these things be told in Gath nor published in Askelon and for the said Richard Lee his just modest and moderate managing and defending the said just and honest Cause on the Cities behalf as he was by the Aldermen and Committee Order'd to do and as by his Place and Oath he ought to do he did do and perform the same honestly and faithfully not as being forward or putting himself on therein but as being order'd as aforesaid yet for those his faithful actings by reason of the disfavour of the said Advers Party of the said Alderman Fonke and of the said Aldermen the said Mr. Whites Friends only for the causes mentioned the said Richard Lee doth here affirm that in the very time of his Nine years continuing Clerk of the Bridge-house he clearly lost and suffer'd out of his Purse thereby above 1500 lib. Sterling and of the truth hereof and how he doubts not but to give fair and full satisfaction to any good Citizens besides the into Herable Abuses and Injuries he undeservedly yet patiently suffer'd the Nine years of his continuance at the Bridge-house from those said Parties which he would not have indured for 500 lib. a year as aforesaid besides the loss of his said Bridge-house Place where he hoped to have ended his days only occasioned by their undeserved unkindnesses and hard usages and by their unjust obstructing his Rights and just and reasonable Maintenance from him as aforesaid and besides his misfortunate and most unhappy sore Sufferings afterwards by his Brewing Trade consequently also occasioned only by their gross abuses to his dammage above 5000 lib. as aforesaid to the great spoyl and ruine of him his Wife and many Children all which otherwise might have been well saved and preserved to them to their great comfort and happiness All which matters with the matters in his several Certificates asserting truth upon just serious and judicious considerations he humbly hopes will be adjudged good grounds and inducements to prevail with all Right Honourable Honourable Right Worshipful and Worshipful Citizens and with all good Citizens good men and good Christians in tender consideration of the Premisses to have respect to him who hath undergone such long tryals so many hard usages so many great Losses crosses and sufferings unjustly and undeservedly for his honest faithful and unrewarded services for the Cities interest even to the sacrifising himself and all his and is now destitute of imployment and that you would favourably think fit by your free Election to admit him into one of the said Bridgemasters places rather to gratify and raise from death to life him who hath so justly faithfully and industriously served so greatly suffered for and so well deserved from the City than on any others who have not such causes such necessities or such deserts to merit the same from the City as he hath as is here amply demonstrated hardly to be paralleld who by his many years Experience by his service as Clerke there better knows and understands the Books Writings Records Orders Business and concerns of the Bridgehouse than any man living doth and consequently how to do and act in all things there for the best benefit of the City and as for his care diligence honesty and fidelity to do and perform his duty in the management thereof his former good and faithful services there well known and remembred by many yet living will sufficiently evidence Upon all which moving causes and considerations he humbly hopes that the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor the Right Worshipful the Aldermen Common-councel and Liveries of this Honourable City of London of your accustomed goodness will favourably think him fit and capable and by your free Election of him to admit him into one of the said Bridgemasters places who by God's gracious assistance will ever be most grateful careful diligent and faithful in the due Execution thereof to the utmost of his ability for the Cities best benefit or otherwise he humbly hopes that the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor the Right Worshipful the Aldermen and Common-Councel will be pleased to think fit to Order the said ancient Sallery of 50 l. a year for about nine years service never paid unto him as to all other Clerks there before and since him so justly due to him and so hardly and unjustly kept from him as aforesaid to be paid unto him and reasonable satisfaction for his said extraordinary Labours for moneys he disbursed out of his Purse and for all his Writings Labours and attendances for above three years and a half together in and about the said long Prosecution as aforesaid and some favourable recompence for his hard usages and great sufferings for h●s good and faithful services done for the City as aforesaid which he humbly hopes will be adjudged just and reasonable to be granted to him To the Right honble Sir Francis Chaplin Knight Lord Mayor and to the Right VVorshipful the Aldermen Masters VVardens Assistants and Liveries of the several Companies of the Honorable City of London WHereas my Brother Mr. Richard Lee who lately serv'd the City as Clerk Comp●roler of