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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

all manner of Materials which should have been used at the Bridge-house Buildings which were then credibly valued to be worth above 600 lib. Sterling to the great dammage of the City whereby he who few years before come to the Bridge-house very poor was then by such Practices become very rich When the said Articles were first exhibited the poor Exhibitors thereof were greatly thanked commended and charged to go on to prosecute effectually by the Aldermen and Committee appointed to examine and hear the same and it did go on prosperously with great applause and incouragement to the Prosecutors at several of their first meetings But after the said Purloyner whose place there was to overlook the Workmen and Labourers the Goods Materials and the Utensils of the House and to warn all Courts and Committees and to atiend and keep their Doors whereby he had great opportunities to be well known to them who knew well how to tell his own Tale and by his subtle insinuations to get credit and favour with them and having got time did so prevail with several of the Aldermen and Committee to be strongly on his side being ignorant of his Devices and evil Practices who did pervert most of the Committee so that at many Meetings of the Committee after the Tyde was so turn'd that the poor Prosecutors instead of being incouraged as before were altogether curb'd checkt and discourag●d only supported by some few the poor men being so overaw'd the work of Justice was at a stand without hopes of future good which made the Purloyner impudent and insolent greatly to vapour insult and in his pufft-up pride and confidence to arrest some of the poor Prosecutors for defaming him and being so befriended he was Cock-sure thereby to have affrighted and stopt further proceedings And indeed they being poor and so much discouraged by their Masters not only so deserting them and their Cities just cause but by their so highly owning the Purloyner they had reason to have declin'd and had done had they not been honest and courageous resolving not to be conquered by his so impudent actings nor by the checks of the Aldermen Committe Bridge-masters or any o●hers discouraging them well knowing their cause to be so just and good And they did come and advise with and earnestly intreat the said Richard Lee to give them help in their just prosecution else they said by their want of skill and knowledge the Advers Party by their over-potency would overpower them who by his Oath being bound to be faithful in his place in all things for the good of the City Thereupon though he well knew the potency of the Adverse party and the meanness and unlikeliness of the poor Men so mightily oppos'd to prevail let their cause be ever so just yet the said Richard Lee thinking it his Duty what justly he could do he ought to do therein and did undertake with his might the management thereof it being for the Cities Right and to preserve the poor men in their just cause though so much oppos'd by those who ought not to have done it from being run down and ruin'd by them for their honesty and faithfulness to the City their Masters And the said Richard Lee though greatly against his own interest to act against the Purloyner being so strongly own'd by many of the Aldermen and Committee and both the B●●ge-Masters who were made Judge in the case he the said Richard Lee then having his Petition and Certificates annexed lying before the Court of Aldermen and Common Council for restoring to him his said antient Salary of 50 lib. a year and for gratifying his extraordinary Labours as aforesaid yet the said Richard Lee for the Cities good waved his own Interest and did resolvedly go on therewith and drew up their Articles in a right form and put all their Charge and what every witness could say in good order and then procur'd the Committees to meet again several times and to examine and hear the matter in difference in order to do Right and Justice and give Judgment and did what possibly he could therein yet all would amount to nothing the Purloyner being still so own'd and the poor men so curb'd that the Purloyner grew so hardy that shortly after he also arrested the said Richard Lee for defaming him no other ways but in doing his Duty in the said prosecution as a sworn Servant to the City and did stoutly prosecute them all at the Assizes in Surry and though ●e thought assuredly to have eaten up the poor men alive he being rich and having many great persons siding with him and did use as great means as possibly he could by appearance of Aldermen Committee men both the Bridge-Masters divers of the Bridge-house chief Work-masters and Servants and the chiefest of the Learned Counsel in the Law on his side far beyond what the poor men were able to procure yet the poor Defendants at the Tryal at the Assizes notwithstanding all disadvantages did obtain a Verdict against the Plaintiffs And indeed it was a very long and tedious Tryal heard with great patience and great respects to the many Great and Grave Men who were on the Plaintiffs or Purloyners side yet the honest Jury being upon their sacred Oaths better observ'd the good Scripture-Rules had more respect to the truth of the Evidence and justness of the Cause than to the persons of grave men therefore justly and honestly found for the poor honest Defendants against the rich and highly mannag'd Plaintiffs thirty or forty Witnesses upon their Oaths on each side being fairly examined and heard which Verdict given did greatly put to shame all the Great and Grave pe●sons and all others who so unjustly sided with the Purloyner and had so many years retarded Justice who were in a shameful manner hissed out of the Court. And after obtaining of the said Verdict the poor abused Defendants most justly applied again to the Court of Aldermen and Committee humbly certifying their said Verdict appealing for further Justice against the Purloyner and upon very hard and close pursuit thereof for about half a year together after prevail'd to have several re-examinations and Rehearings and Judgment upon the whole matter whereupon they also being soundly rous'd up for shame found him Guil●y and justly turn'd him out of his place to the great shame there also of all who had so long retarded and would have perverted Justice which great contest hung in great pain and Travel for want of good Midwivery above three years and a half almost to the utter ruine of the poor prosecutors the long forced prosecution whereof cost them out of their own purses above 100 lib. yet upon their humble and importunate petititoning the Court of Aldermen to allow them their Expences and consideration for their loss of ●ine by their Attendances and good Services done to the City they had but 30 lib. upon all these considerations given them in full for all to the

THIS MOST Deplorable CASE Of an Antient CITIZEN VVHO 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 LONDON Printed in the Year 1678. To the Right Honorable Sir Francis Chaplin Knight Lord Mayor and to the Right Worshipful the Aldermen Common Council Masters Wardens Assistants and Liveries of all the several Companies of the City of London The Case and Humble Remonstrances of Richard Lee Citizen and Fishmonger of London who hath been of the Livery of that Company near 30 years Aged 56 years having had 17 Children Humbly shewing THat 40 years agoe he came to London and serv'd his Unkle Mr. John Lee Deputy to the Town-Clerk of London and Clerk of Fishmongers-Hall Bridewel and Bethlem 8 years and about 1648. he was admitted Clerk Comptroller of the Bridge-house London wherein he serv'd about Nine years till for the Causes hereafter mentioned in the year 1657 he left and surrendred the same Place Also he served as Clerk and Associate to the Clerk of Assizes of the home Circuit many years till for hopes of better Preferment he also left that Place whereof being disappointed having no Imployment a great charge of Children to maintain being willing to be improving what he had and to be doing what he could for the maintenance of him his wife and many small children he took a Brew-house and followed the Brewing Trade from 1657 till 1667 with very unhappy success Malt Coles and Hops being all generally in those years very dear and the dreadful and contagious Sickness and Fire also fa●l●ng very heavy upon him whereby and by very many great Losses and crosses he susteined by bad Customers and desperate Debts and other ways by the succession and concurrency of all which several cross Providences he suffered so greatly that he was disabled longer to carry on his said Trade but in 1667 was forced to leave off and sell his Brew-house and all Appurtenances for 530 l. which cost him 1600 lib. in Purchasing Building and Planting his real Losses by his said several sore Sufferings amounting to above 5000 lib. And after he had left off his said Trade with so great loss he used all means he could to get into some certain and setled Imployment for their Maintenance but could meet with none so that ever since 1667 he hath acted only as a Sollicitor whereby having been other ways imploy'd many years as aforesaid he hath found but little benefit for their Maintenance wherefore he is still necessitated to seek for a certain and setled imployment and hearing that both the Bridge-Masters of London Bridge are lately dead and their Places void whereby he hopes that a good Door of hope by Providence is opened for his comfort after all his sore disconsolations he having many great Reasons and good ground of hopes for the most considerable weighty causes herein mentioned and made known not doubting but they will take deep impressions in the hearts of all good Citizens and move them to take special cognizance consideration and commiseration thereof in favor to him and his Therefore he is imbolden'd to become an humble Suitor that he may be freely chosen and admitted a Bridge-Master into one of their Places Reason 1st Because when he was admitted into the Clerkship of the Bridge-house one Mr. White who had for several years been Clerk to the Committees of the City whereby he had great Acquaintance and favour with many of the then Aldermen he being a Suitor also and Competitor with the said Richard Lee for the Place was malitiously invective against him because he had carried the Place from him which malice he did bear and pursue against him nine years together irreconcileably and did closely work with several of the Aldermen his Friends and tried all Projects they could to get the said Richard Lee out and put the said Mr. White in which to effect they informed the Court of Aldermen that the said Clerkship was much more profitable than indeed it was whereby as they designed they prevailed with the Court to order the antient Sallery of 50 lib. a year always paid to former Clerks there to be with-held from the said Richard Lee hoping thereby to discourage him so that without doubt he would have declin'd and have accepted that barren Place without the said antient Sallery as he would not had he not been confident it should soon in Right and Reason have been restored again then they might have usher'd in their good friend Mr. White to whom they could soon have restor'd the said Sallery though the same nor any part thereof for the causes herein mentioned was ever paid to the said Richard Lee during his stay there to his great grief dammage and wrong Notwithstanding in 1639 the Reversion of the said Place with all Fees Profits Commodities and Appurtenances c. was Purchased and Granted to him by the Court of Lord May or and Aldermen in the Mayoralty of Sir Morris Abbot under the City Seal and therefore by the Custome and Usage of this City it was his just and undoubted Right and ought not to be detein'd from him and his Father did purposely at great Charges breed him up a Clerk to enable and make him fit for the execution of the said Place after the best manner for Learning and Clerkship yet though often every year he continued there he Petitioned the Court of Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council for Restoration thereof with Certificates annexed under the hands of the Auditors of the Bridge-house Accompts and of the Bridge-Masters who had the Proposal and Inspection of all Accompts Books Writings and concerns there and therefore were best able to Judge and Report of his care labours and fidelity in the Execution of his Duty therein and of the smallness of his Profits far short of his Deserts not amounting to a competent Maintenance for him Therefore certifying that they thought fit and reasonable the said Sallery should be paid to him from his Admittance and fully restored to him for the future And the several Lord Mayors Aldermen Auditors Committees and many of the Common Council often every year promised him that it should be restor'd and payd to him accordingly though delayed and never perform'd to him during his stay there who as is well known and was often acknowledged by many did in his time there as well perform his Duty in the Execution of his said Place and as good service for the City as any Clerk there ever did and therefore deserv'd the said antient Sallary as any Clerk there ever did and more especially it being his right by Purchase and Grant under the City Seal as aforesaid And it hath been restored and constantly paid to all Clerks there almost ever since he was fore'd for want of a competent Maintenance and continual Abuses and unkindnesses

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