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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02574	The case of Edmond Boulter, Esq; in answer to the petition of the Earl of Radnor.		1700 (1700)	Wing C905CA; ESTC R173442	3,159	4

THE CASE OF Edmond Boulter Esq In ANSWER to The Petition of the Earl of Radnor THE Substance of the Earl of Radnor's Petition is That the Earl in Right of his Countess Daughter of Sir John Cutler having great Demands on Mr. Boulter in relation to the Personal and Real Estate of Sir John Cutler exhibited a Bill in Chancery above a Year since which Mr. Boulter should have Answered before Hilary-Term then next following and That on Mr. Boulter promising to comply with the Earl's Demands the Earl was prevail'd with to stop his Suit That Mr. Boulter being since a Member of Parliament refuseth to satisfie the Earl and to put in his Answer to the Earl's Bill although he declared to the Earl that he did not insist on but wave his Priviledge but refuseth to give it under his Hand The Earl therefore prayeth the House to Approve of and Confirm Mr. Boulter's waving of his Privilege Upon which Petition it is observed That it doth not appear by this Petition what the Earl's pretended Demands were nor how they are Demandable of Mr. Boulter whether against him in his own Right or as he is Executor of Sir John Cutler or Trustee But Mr. Boulter's Case is thus viz. Sir John Cutler made Mr. Boulter his Executor and died the 15th of April 1693 and by his Will after his Debts and Legacies paid gave Mr. Boulter his Kinsman all the rest of his Personal Estate which by the Custom of London he could give one half of which Personal Estate devolved on the Countess the only Daughter of Sir John Cutler a Freeman of London as her Customary Part. Of which Mr. Boulter hath paid the Earl 39000 l. and upwards And Mr. Boulter hath also in Funeral Expences by the Earl's Consent and Approbation under his Hand and by Payment of Debts and Law-Charges laid out above 7660 l. Which Payments do consist of very many Item's or Particulars a Moiety of which belongs to the Earl to allow out of his Moiety and so is in consequence a Payment to him of so much Besides which the Earl has enjoyed the Profits of Lands with his Countess since her Father's Death amounting to about 14000 l. And as to the Lands Sir John Cutler by Deed of Settlement setled all of it upon Mr. Boulter and his other Relations in failure of Issue by his Daughter the Countess After Sir John Cutler's Death there being great Arrears of Rents from Tenants Mr. Boulter being entitled to Half thereof and many Rents being desperate and Tenants poor the Earl under Hand and Seal impowered Mr. Boulter to make Abatements and Discharges as he did see cause Which he did pursuant to the Power given him In relation to the Accounts of which Estate after Mr. Boulter had paid the Earl such great Summs of Money the Earl raising many causeless Scruples in many Particulars Mr. Boulter though it high time to get an Adjustment and Allowance of his Accompts which were very large and therefore desired the Earl to adjust the Accompts between them Which the Earl such great Summs of Money the Earl raising many causeless Scruples in many Particulars Mr. Boulter thought it high time to get an Adjustment and Allowance of his Accompts which were very large and therefore desired the Earl to adjust the Accompts between them Which the Earl delayed but still pressed Mr. Boulter for more Money and gave out to his Creditors That Mr. Boulter ow'd him a great Summ of Money This as Mr. Boulter who had paid him near the full Moiety of the Receipts conceived reflected very much upon him and made him persist to have his Accompts adjusted Whereupon when the Earl could draw no more Money from Mr. Boulter he brought the Bill in Chancery in his Petition mentioned which is near Two Hundred and Fifty Sheets of Paper complaining that Mr. Boulter would not come to Accompt and charging therein many things of great Reflection upon Mr. Boulter Upon which Mr. Boulter attended the Earl concerning them who told Mr. Boulter That most of the Charges in that Bill was his Councel's Invention and against his Knowledge or Intent And Mr. Boulter still pressed to have the Accompts setled and allowed speedily Mr. Boulter being unwilling to leave them unsetled in case of his Death And the Earl promised fair but Mr. Boulter could get nothing finished although the Earl made some proceedings which were only done as Mr. Boulter conceived to encline Mr. Boulter to pay him more Money but in a short time desisted therein When the Earl found that he could not prevail with Mr. Boulter to pay him more Money until the Accompts were actually setled and allowed and there being considerable of the Personal Estate still standing out particularly near 20000 l. from William Lenthall upon a Mortgage of Land in Oxfordshire and upon the Profits of the Office of Marshal of the King's-Bench the Earl desired to compass that Debt or Estates to himself and to have an Assignment of that Security in further part of his Customary Part of Sir John Cutler's Personal Estate And Mr. Boulter was willing to comply with the Earl's Request provided he might have his Accompts setled and adjusted and offered the Earl to abate him 1000 l. of his share of that Debt Whereupon the Earl April 30. 1698. after the Bill Exhibited Entred into an Agreement under Hand and Seal with Mr. Boulter that all Accompts between him and Mr. Boulter relating to the Executorship and otherwise should be forthwith Adjusted and to perform other Matters in that Agreement But the Accompts are not yet settled by the Earl nor the other Matters as Covenanted by the Earl to be done although Mr. Boulter hath consented to a Marshal at the Earl's Request and by that Agreement hath let the Earl into Possession of the Profits of the Office of Marshal on which the Earl hath reserved 1000 l. per Annum as Mr. Boulter is informed and though the Earl doth not perform that Agreement yet the Earl presseth Mr. Boulter to make him an Assignment of Lenthall's Land-Security immediately but procures not Mr. Lenthall to settled his Accompts with Mr. Boulter nor doth the Earl perform the Agreement that relates to his Covenant for other Matters for Lenthall to do And Mr. Boulter doth apprehend that if the should Assign to the Earl the Land-Security without Settlement of Lenthall's Accompt it would after Involve Mr. Boulter in Trouble with Lenthall on those unsettled Accompts with Lenthall Note That since the said Agreement the Earl and Mr. Boulter's Accomptants have been Adjusting the Accompts in an amicable Way and have gone a great way in it But the Earl will not settle the Accompts upon pretence Mr. Boulter keeps some Writings touching the Estate in Cambridgeshire which as is alledged the Earl Claims the Inheritance of by a Gift from Mr. Boulter to the Earl and Countess which if it be true the Earl has the less reason to Complain of Mr. Boulter being 2500 l. per Annum Inheritance and being settled on the Countess for her Life and on her Issue only And she is Dead without Issue But the Matter of that Matter touching the Cambridgeshire Estate is also Controverted Wherefore and in respect of the said Agreement made long since the Earl's Bill Filed Mr. Boulter hopeth that this Honourable House will not Interpose until the Earl hath performed his Agreement made since the Bill Exhibited relating to the Setling and Adjusting all Accompts of the Executorship and otherwise as Agreed to be amicably done and which are so far forwarded by Mr. Boulter that Mr. Boulter hath permitted the Earl's own Agent to take a full Accompt thereof and of the Inventory of the whole Personal Estate and of all Receipts and Disbursements and they are all before the Earl to Allow or make his particular Objections thereunto which as yet the Earl hath not done but contrary to his Agreement would without any Just Cause engage Mr. Boulter in a Troublesom and Chargeable Suit in Chancery As to Mr. Boulter's waving his Priviledge he hath done no Act since he was a Member for any such Purpose But he believes he might being asked whether he would insist on his Privilege say he believed he should not But surely every slight word will not make a Waver of Privilege of a Member As to the Matter of the Lord De la Ware and Sir John Cutler it was thus Sir John Cutler had put in an Answer in Chancery and submitted to many Orders to be made in time of Priviledge without Complaint of any Breach and afterwards would have resumed his Priviledge Which the House would not permit him to do In this Case there are only such Words pretended as before Mr. Boulter 's Intent is only to avoid a tedious Suit in Chancery upon Accompt and have all his Accompts adjusted by a Reference to Indifferent Persons which if the Earl refuses Mr. Boutler being accomptable in his own Person and Estate for what he has done touching Sir John Cutler 's Estate He hopes this Honourable House will not Interpose in this Matter THE CASE OF Edmond Boulter Esq