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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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