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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

can make men to be of One minde in a House will not repair our breaches untill failings be expiated by more acceptable oblations then such cheap and easie Sacrifices as formal fastings Even by some signal Acts of Justice and Mercy seasonably and impartially performed for relief of persons extreamly and notoriously oppressed among whom if there be any whose present condition deserves more compassion then this Petitioners he is contented they should be first relieved Your Honours will not wholly loose your time or labour in hearing the annexed Narrative or the proofs of the Petitioners Allegations which he shall produce For his sufferings being well weighed with the advantages which he hath had in several respects more then many other oppressed men to vindicate his Cause and that he hath notwithstanding been hitherto without relief your Wisdoms may thereby observe the sad constitution of these times and conjecture the miserable condition whereto many thousands of the faithfull servants of this Commonwealth have been exposed who had lesse means to make known their Oppressions and thence also may collect what is likely to be the sequel Therefore he again beseecheth your Honours notwithstanding the length thereof to take the said Narrative into speedy consideration and to grant the several Requests thereto subjoyned as in Justice Equity or Compassion you shall finde cause that GOD who sheweth Mercie to the Mercifull may free you from your Incumbrances and so prosper your consultations that all future Generations may call you BLESSED to which end this Petitioner will continue his prayers Geo. Wither The Narrative and Series of the Grievances offered by the forenamed Petitioner in relation to the preceding Petition with his humble Requests thereunto subjoyned THe said Petitioner who hath in his place according to his Talent been faithfull to the Supream power in all changes in order to an advance of the publick Interest peace and safety ever since the beginning of the late Wars was the first being thereto called that in those parts where he then lived freely contributed to that Cause which seemed prosecuted both for the King and Parliament the first who there adventured his life as a Commander the first who was there plundered of so considerable an estate and one of the first to whom the said Parliament had made so fair a shew of performing their promises and Engagements to those who should suffer in their service yet he is likely if ever to be one of the last who shall be repaired For all their blossoms have not onely been hitherto unfruitfull but three times more vexatious and destructive also then the plunderings and malice of the common Enemy as will appear by what follows It being proved to the Parliament by an Inventory of the Petitioners losses attested by many witnesses that he was plundered in their service to his dammage in above 2000. l. it was in Parliament ordered Febr. 9. 1642. above 16. years now past that he should have 2000. l. toward his repair out of the Estates of John Denham Esq and other Delinquents which Order this Petitioner not being in a capacity to prosecute effectually without neglect of his duty he being then in actual service no more was by vertue thereof by him received then 204. l. 17. s. 4 d. or thereabout above the charges in prosecution as appeared by a Report made to the Parliament Feb 18. 1646. by the Committee of Accounts for the Kingdom before which time there was due to the Petitioner in principal money besides what was formerly received and respited upon account and beside 1795. l. 2. s. 8. d. the remainder of the said 2000. l. the summe of 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. by Accompt fully stated and that summe was made forthwith payable to the Petitioner by several Warrants of the Lord Gen. Essex and the Committee of Safety about fifteen years now past a great part whereof the Petitioner had borrowed to pay his Troup and hath payed Interest for it to this day After many years consumed in tedious and chargeable solicitations concerning the premisses the said Petitioners demands were by Order of Parliament referred to the Committee of the Navy October 20. 1647. who examining them in every particular found 3438. l. 18 s. 4. d. to be then due to this Petitioner beside some demands respited and ordered it should be so reported to the Parliament by Col. Thompson and that they thought fit it should be paid out of the Excise That Report to this Petitioners great dammage was not made untill about six moneths after by which delay about half a Million as the Petitioner is informed was charged upon the said Excise in Course before any part of the Petitioners debt The 22 of March 1647. the summe of 1681 1. l. 15. s. 8. d. part of the foresaid 3438. l. 18 s. 4. d. was by Ordinance of Parl. charged upon 〈…〉 Course without mentioning Interest for any portion thereof though all of it had been made immediately payable by warrants many years before Though likewise they who had served with the Petitioner at the same times in the same places under the same Commanders had either payment in ready money or Interest allowed untill they were paid Yea which was a greater partiality though 700. l. of that debt was ingaged for and lent by the Petitioner as aforesaid But this being signified to the Parliament it was afterward ordered December 25. 1648. that 300. l. more then was formerly granted should be paid to the Petitioner out of the Excise with Interest of 8. l. per Cent. every six moneths both for the said 300. l. and for the said 700. l. part of the said 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. untill the said 300. l. and 700. l. were paid The residue of the said 3438. l. 18. s. 4. d. was made payable out of Discoveries at Haberdashers Hall by an Order of the 15. of March 1647. but without effect because the Petitioner could finde no discovery without putting himself to more cost and trouble then it would be worth The Security likewise which was given to the Petitioner for the said 300. l. and for the Interest thereof together with Interest for the said 700. l. out of the Excise proved of no force because the Commons who granted an Order as aforesaid for payment thereof having added thereto a desire of the Lords concurrence therein took away the House of Lords within so few dayes after that their concurrence could not be gotten And the Petitioner being then put into some hope that payment might have been in some part had out of Compositions made under value the said Commons ordered again the 26 of April 1649. that the said 300. l. and Interest for the said 700. l. should be paid unto this Petitioner out of Discoveries at Haberdashers Hall and out of Compositions as aforesaid made under value at Goldsmiths Hall by which Order this Petitioner caused 430. l. to be brought into that Treasury and about seven years after when

it had cost him near as much he procured payment of 361. l. 6. s. 8. d. thereof by a Privy Seal out of the Exchequer The said Securities being so ineffectual This Petitioner renewed his suite to the Parliament which by means of some not then his friends referred the whole Cause once again as if no former references had been made to a Select Committee of Parliament authorized to report how this Petitioner should be paid what they found to be due unto him And that Committee reviewing all Demands and Receipts from the beginning found 3958. l. 15. s. 8. d. to be then due to the Petitioner with the Interest which would be due in March then next following over and above what he had received which they thought fit should be thus paid viz that the said 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. should stand charged upon the Excise with an allowance of Interest of 8. l. per Cent. to be paid every six moneths from the 22. of September then last past untill the said 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. should be fully paid For the reminder of the said 3958. l. 15. s. 8. d. as also in recompence of the Petitioner's long forbearance and great expence in about seven years attendance they thought fit that the Mannour of Little-Hocksly alias Horsly Hall in Essex Wiston Mills in Suffolk with the Appurtenances part of the estate of the foresaid John Denham should be setled upon this Petitioner and his Heirs the said estate being valued in the Sequestrators books at 240. l. per annum This Report Mr. Dove was desired to make to the Parliament and this Petitioner is perswaded that if after so many References and strict examinations in the like or a lesse considerable Cause such a Report had been brought in behalf of any Member of that Parliament or of any one of his Relations a settlement would forthwith have been made accordingly But so ill was this Petitioner at that time befriended for what cause he knows not except for declaring those truths which some were not pleased to hear of nothing was done upon that Report untill the second of January 1650. and then it was Ordered that the said 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. should stand charged upon the Excise as before but without mentioning my Interest for the same though probably intended by the Parliament for the just reasons afore expressed and in regard it was not for the honour thereof to recede from what they had formerly granted without cause Neither was more then 150. l. per ann ordered to be setled upon the Petitioner and his Heirs out of Mr. Denhams estate to satisfie the rest of the said debt which allowance all things considered was after the rate of making him pay above twenty years purchase in ready money for such Land as he might have bought for much sesse then half that value To make good in shew this allowance a Proviso was added to the first Act for sale of Delinquents Estates And though neither of the foresaid payments were according to equity as this Petitioner many other conceived nor amounted to half that which their own Committee had judged reasonable and was granted by former Order of Parliament This Petitioner thankfully accepted thereof considering the great debts and necessities of the Commonwealth and how difficultly Justice was obtained in those times hoping the like strictnesse would have been practised toward themselves and their Relations it being about the time of passing their self-denying Vote which Course would have saved the Commonwealth many Millions as he believeth But the Petitioner was deceived in that hope And the security which they then gave him for the said 3958. l. 15. s. 8. d. at so low a rate did not onely prove no security at all but became an occasion also of damnifying him in more then twice that summe Insomuch that if he had remitted all his debts fifteen years ago he had been probably at more quiet and at least 4000. l. better in his Estate at this day and out of those hazzards which he is in of utterly consuming the remainder of his Estate and loosing his credit by depending upon Parliamentary securities as will appear by what follows For the said 1681. l. 15. s. 8. d. part of the said 3958. l. 15. s. 8. d. hath been due as aforesaid above fifteen years which considered with the dammages by expences in so long time soliciting for it The Interests forborn during that time with the hinderances which he hath had and the advantages thereby lost beside so much precious time at the later end of his life the Petitioner shall loose more then twice that debt though he might receive the principal summe to morrow and it being payable without Interest but in Course which Course hath been stopped five years already and may so continue ad Graecas Calendas or till the 30th of February no man knows to what dammage it will amount As for the residue of the said 3958 l. 15. s. 8. d. being 2278. l. the Petitioner is likely to have worse payment For no more is given to satisfie for it but 150. l. per annum out of a Delinquents Estate which is a Title so slighted that few or none will lend a years value upon a mortgage of the whole yet the said 2278. l. which the Petitioner acquitted for it considered with about sixteen years forbearance heretofore and other expences and dammages occasioned since the Petitioner bought it will amount to above fourty years purchase in ready money nay his bargain is far worse then so bad and instead of Land or Rent for his money the Petitioner hath nothing but troubles and suites to the consuming of that Land and money which he had before and hath been damnified no lesse then as much more in his Credit and in hindring the preferment of his Children when they should and might have been bestowed in marriage For in pursuance of an Act of Parliament whose Securities and Consessions he thought to be the best tenure in the world the Petitioner took a Conveyance of the 150. l. per annum out of the Mannour of Little Horksly aforesaid part of the said Mr. Denhams Estate above seven years now past he therewith bought by the same Deed Inrolled the remainder of the said Mannour for 1645. l. which he paid according to his Contract his said purchase was compleated according to every Rule in the Act for sale of such Estates The premisses were warranted unto him by a Particular to be in the present possession of the Commonwealth There was no Claim then allowed thereupon the time limited for allowing of Claims was elapsed above two moneths before he contracted and his Purchase was compleated above four moneths before any Claim upon the premisses was allowed he was put into peaceable possession then setled his Family upon part thereof and demised the rest yet after all this was so interrupted whilest he held the same that he never made profit thereof