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A96760	The petition, and narrative of Geo. Wither Esq; concerning his many grievances and long sufferings; with a preceding addresse made to the Honourable Members of Parliament in their single capacities, to incline them to a speedy consideration of his case in Parliament. Hodie nobis, cras vobis.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing W3178; Thomason E761_12; ESTC R207082	10,273	7

The Petition and Narrative of Geo. Wither Esq concerning his many grievances and long sufferings with a Preceding Addresse made to the Honourable Members of Parliament in their single Capacities to incline them to a speedy consideration of his Case in Parliament Hodie Nobis Cras Vobis WE are not few that suffer and that may To morrow be your Case that 's our to day As now the Cards are shuffl'd Cut and lay'd And as the Game shall well or ill be plaid Give Loosers leave to speak and me for one Who make at this time my Addresse alone Without your doors within which I as yet Can for my Prayers no admittance get Of seven times ten to spend years ten and seven In asking for mine own I have been driven And no result obtained but instead Of Fish a Scorpion and hard Stones for Bread Which fill'd me full of thoughts that getting vent Orecharge the Papers which I would present Yet muse not if my Narrative it strain To an unusual length and shall speak plain Wide wounds must have large Plasters When a wrong Lasts many years Bills of Complaint are long And sharp words may from him be born withall Whose Drink and Food are Vineger and Gall. I have but one Life and that 's almost spent Let me not wait a time equivalent To three mens lives or till the Cure I crave Comes Physick-like to him that 's in his grave Nor let by you my Reason at this time Despised be although you sleight my Rime For who ere sleights a suffrer in his sorrow Mine or a worse may be his Case to morrow Or ere the storms now threatn'd are past thorow I use not to make friends for I suppose In Parliament men have nor friends nor foes But as the Case deserves at least I know That if it be not thus it should be so And wish he may with shame requited be Who wilfully wrongs others though for me All which within your doors I le ask of you Is no more then I freely would allow Ev'n to my greatest foe and be afraid Of what might follow if it were delaid All my Requests without your doors have been But that some one of you would carry in My sad Petitions which I did in vain Intreat for whilest four Parliaments did raign For evermore the Commonwealths Affairs Or private mens more acceptable pray'rs Kept my Petitions out though I attended From their first sittings till five Sessions ended Though many seem'd me and my Cause to own With good respect and few men are more known Some still pretended to be pre-ingag'd To others some against me were inrag'd For personal respects some did professe They fear'd their own Inacceptablenesse Might wrong my Cause some never were at leasure To do for any honest man a pleasure Some very often promis'd fair and much But their or my ill hap was ever such That some crosse intervening accident My hopes and their performance did prevent And one as if I had been of a Nation Without your Pale said he knew no Relation 'Twixt him and me obliging him unto That favour I requested him to do Which answer I the lesse was pleas'd withal Because he is a Major General And one of those who being raised by Pretending to the Common-liberty Seem'd bound to have performed what I sought In Courtesie or Conscience as I thought But I such sleightings very often smother And make good use of them one time or other This favour I yet want This to obtain By an Expedient once tride not in vain I once more now assay For though I hear My Foes do both my Rimes and Reasons jeer And that they are but laugh'd at make their boast They have not gain'd their ends nor are mine lost By these Outbreathings I refresh my heart They please my friends sad musings they divert They will commemorate my honest Cause When all their grinning teeth rot from their jaws And I at them who my deriders be Laugh with as much scorn as they laugh at me Because I know their hearts in secret fear Th' Events of that whereat their Tongues do jeer And that at length Time will a means provide Both to befool their wits and shame their pride By things which they contemn I 'll therefore try How Charmes of my despised Poetry Will work on you with hope that they shall finde Such acceptation in the generous minde Of some Heroick persons that I may Acquire what I have fail'd of to this day By having my Oppressions and Afflictions Which are without Hyperbolies or Fictions To you declar'd there speedily now read Where they shall justly be determined For now the time is come in which I either Must be repair'd or ruin'd altogether If he from whom Repairs I oft have got When I was nigh destroy'd repaire me not Grant me but that which you would ask to have Were my Case your And I no more will crave Your servant Geo. Wither To the Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled The humble Petition of George Wither Esq THe said Petitioner hath suffered so much and so long by trusting to the Publick faith of this Nation and their Securities given by Act of Parliament that it hath much impaired his Estate and Credit and so multiplied his troubles and grievances pertinent to your Cognizance in order to his Relief that he dares not offer them in this Petition lest it prove so large that at first view it may infringe your patience Therefore he is constrained to make way by this Previous Address adjoyning thereto an humble Narrative of some part of his sad sufferings with a Series of his Cause as briefly Epitomized as above 16 years Oppressions would permit which Narrative he prays your Honours as you desire GOD should be propitious to you and those whom you represent to take into speedy consideration lest Redress either come too late or may cost twice so much as will relieve him at this present For it will be no Injustice to take Cognizance of those Causes out of Course that will else become remedilesse or so hazardous by delay as this Petitioners will be if deferred whom perhaps GOD hath permitted to be so incumbred and insnared as well for some ends relating to the Publick or to his own Glory as for the said Petitioners correction Justice and Mercy are the chief supports and Ornaments of Kingdoms and Republicks and the great Body which your Honours represent consists of Individuals whose preservation being neglected One by One the Whole will be at last consumed Otherwhiles also Justice neglected or Injustice done to private men occasions Plagues to be inflicted on States and Publick persons and it may be it hath so succeeded within our knowledge For the five last Parliaments did shut private Complaints so long out of this House to the remedilesse destruction of many that those Parliaments were at last shut out of it and destroyed Peradventure likewise that GOD who alone

to the clear value of a penny and hath been now about five years ejected both out of that which was allowed for his said debt and out of that remainder also which he bought without any recompence for the one or the other to the indangering of ruining his Family in regard he hath spent by inavoydable suits and molestations 500. l. more then he made of the said purchase whilest he was in possession and cannot yet be freed from further suites expences and troubles thereby occasioned though he be outed of all and instead of restitution is jecred even by some of those who have put upon him that hard bargain with Caveat Emptor and such like scoffing Cautions which lessons he should not have needed if satisfaction might have been at the Petitioners own Election or if he had thought them in whom he consided to have been either Beggers or Cheaters who care not what become of other men when they have served their own ends upon them But it was not in the Petitioners power to prevent this defect nor is it now in the power of any under Heaven to relieve him but a Parliament For an Act of Parliament whereof the Petitioner could not presage was made long since the said purchase to allow of Claims formerly entred without providing any saving of their Estates who had purchased according to a former Act and there being a Dormant Claim entred for a Lease of the premises pretended to be made by the said Mr. Denham to one Thomas Offly Esq which Lease is probably forged to the defrauding of the Commonwealth of between three and 4000. l. the Commissioners for allowing of Claims having no Cognizance of the said probable fraud did allow satisfaction to be made to the said Offly out of the said Mr. Denhams Estate and thereupon the same Trustees who had formerly sold the premisses to the Petitioner for so over-valuable a consideration as aforesaid though there was no negative or affirmative Clause in either of the said Acts to vacate their first sale or re-invest them with the premisses did neverthelesse sell them again to John Feilder Esq then and now a Member of Parliament who had compounded for the said Offlies pretended Interest at a great under-value if it be real They likewise conveyed it unto him in Fee and continued therewith unto him or to his Assignes the said Lease to be kept on foot whereby the said Mr. Feilder doth knowingly defraud the State both of the Tythes payable by the Freeholders and Customary Tenants of the said Mannour and also of a Reversional Estate in the said Mannour though the said Lease be not fraudulent For the premisses were intayl'd which disabled him to demise the premisses for longer time then during his life That tail is docked by Act of Parliament for the benefit of the Commonwealth and the Evidence which proves the said Interest of the Commonwealth is a Counterpart of the said deed of Intail which the said Mr. Feilder having gotten into his hands to make the easier composition with the said Offly once produced it to justifie a Claim against the Commonwealth and now concealeth it to deprive the Commonwealth of the said Reversion By these and the like proceedings this Petitioner hath not onely been wholly dispossessed of the premisses as aforesaid and ever since disquieted with vexatious suites by the said Mr. Feilder and his Agents but the said Mr. Feilder threatens him with other Actions and still continues one in the name of Thomas Tedeway commenced against this Petitioner and for his further vexation against this Petitioners son also who hath no Interest in the premisses but being under age was onely in the Petitioners then dwelling house upon the premisses when a Lease of Ejectment was there sealed and was upon that occasion imprisoned in the Upper Bench Prison to the Petitioners his sons great cost and trouble Upon the same Action the said Mr. Feilder or his Leasee by help of an Ignorant Jury if not worse hath lately procured a Verdict for about 300. l. against the Petitioner and his said son for the mean profits of the premisses for three quarters of a year whereas the whole Mannour is worth no more by the year and was never worth any thing to the Petitioner or his son That summe or thereabout this Petitioner is in danger to have added to his former dammages though proofs were offered to the said Jury that what the said Mr. Feilder or some for him hath received of that years profits for which he commenceth his suit in money and in what ought to be abated for Taxes and an Annuity paid out of it to an Hospital by the Petitioner amounts to almost as much as is given by the said Verdict and about as much more for the preceding year the profits whereof were payable to the Petitioner These things added together and considered with what may probably follow before he shall have relief do evidence that this Petitioner is damnified and indangered at least twice so much as in likelyhood he should have been as aforesaid if he had wholly remitted the said debts at the first For it hath bona fide indangered the ruine of his Estate and Family exposed him to extream wants and scorns rendred his life wearisome made his honesty questionable by disabling him to perform his Ingagements and nigh destroyed his Credit which is more dear to him then life Other Grievances very considerable he might justly complain of but they who were heretofore most obliged and most able to relieve him have been so deaf or dead rather to his greatest sufferings when he exhibited his complaints that he is weary of complaining and will not mention smaller oppressions moreover he observeth publick wants and other private mens necessities to be so much that he cannot in conscience expect a total redresse and he shall acknowledge it to the honour of your Justice Clemency if at this time he may have but that competent Redresse of his Grievances which may discharge his ingagements to others for prevention of their wrong without selling away from his Wife and Children that Estate which is yet left and that he may not have cause to repent his confiding in a Parliaments concessions and securities which have hitherto onely increased his dammages and troubles with disgace to his most sincere endeavours by making him seem richer then he was and thereby causing many to think him the lesse honest because they saw he discharged not those Ingagements which his trusting to this Commonwealths securities have incumbred him withall to the dammage as well of other men and of his dearest relations as of himself To which end if this prevails not he intends in this cause never from henceforth to Petition any but God onely whatsoever he suffers for he is confident it will be in vain because he shall then perceive that what he thinks to be right or wrong is nor so nor so in the judgement of other men In consideration of the premisses whose reality will appear in the main by the Copies of such Warrants Orders and other authentick proofs and Parliamentary concessions and securities as this Petitioner will produce if need be the said Petitioner humbly prays your Honours that the said 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. whereof about 300. l. is due to some of his Officers and Troupers and to others of the Towns of Guildford and Farnham in Surrey for their quarters may be forthwith paid unto him or at least the said 300. l and 700. l. with Interest for the same and the residue hereafter Or that some other provision may be made to relieve his present wants and preserve his credit That also he may be restored to his said purchase with reasonable repair of his damages unjustly sustained That the badges of the fraudulency of the said Mr. Denhams pretended Lease of the premisses afore mentioned to Mr. Offly which this Petitioner is ready to offer may be taken into consideration in regard it may possibly recover between three or 4000. l. to the Commonwealth or a considerable part of those summes That the said Mr. Feilder may be ordered to produce the foresaid Counterpart of a Deed of Intaile made of the Mannour of Little Horsly aforesaid and other Lands by concealment whereof this Commonwealth is defrauded of that right which it hath to a Reversion of the said Manour and other Lands And lastly it is prayed that all Actions and proceedings at Law against the Petitioner his son concerning the said Mannor may be stayed as also all other Actions whereby the Petitioners prosecution of this Cause may be obstructed untill it shall be heard and determined in Parliament with whose final Sentence as touching any part of the premisses this Petitioner will rest satisfied and continue his prayers for your Honours G. W.