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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	great_a	king_n	6,708	5	3.5390	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78557	To the right honourable the lords; knights, citizens, and burgesses assembled in both Houses of Parliament. The humble petition of Richard Chambers merchant and alderman of the City of London.	Chambers, Richard, 1588?-1658.	1646 (1646)	Wing C1920; Thomason 669.f.10[65]; ESTC R210497	5,249	2

To the Right Honourable the Lords Knights Citizens and Burgesses Assembled in both Houses of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of Richard Chambers Merchant and Alderman of the City of London Sheweth THat your Petitioner out of a deep sense of your great and weighty affaires in these distracted times hath with patience waited upon God and your favours for a seasonable opportunity to revive his sormer Petition exhibited to this Honourable House the 22 day of November 1641. in which were expressed at large your Petitioners sufferings and imprisonments so generally known to all and fearing to be tedious the brief Heads whereof are as followeth I. That your Petitioner for refusing to pay Tonnage and Poundage as of due right to the King without authority of Parliament according to Law and for defending the Parliaments Rights and Liberties therein and the Petition of Right suffered as followed II. Your Petitioner thereupon had all his goods from time to time Imported seized and detained for pretended duties in the Custome-house London although your Petitioner willed the then Farmers and Officers to pay themselves what was due and give your Petitioner the remainder which they denying your Petitioner supplicated the Lords of the Councell for his Goods and upon speeches between them your Petitioner said he had been in Turkie and in other parts of the world but in no parts were Merchants so wronge and scrued as in England at which words the Lords tooke offence and would not suffer explanation as was then humbly desired but committed your Petitioner Prisoner to the Marshalseys in 1628. III. After which your Petitioner not getting liberty upon three Petitions exhibited he brought his Habeas Corpus and with much strugling and importunity had his liberty upon speciall Baile in the Kings Bench. IV After which your Petitioner exhibited his Bill in the Exchequer Chamber and demanded Writs for delivery of his Goods but could not obtaine any but some Orders that the Farmers should keep double their demands and deliver the rest to your Petitioner which Orders were not obeyed and the next day made void contrary to Law and Justice onely through the feares and injustice of the then Barons altering publike Orders of Court upon private Motions c. V. Which your Petitioner perceiving he brought two Replevins according to Law and executed the same and tooke his Goods ashoare our of Lighters and put them into Carts to carry home but was stopped and hindered by the said Farmers and Officers whereupon your Petitioner went to the Sheriffes of London for ayde and delivery of his Goods upon which they came down and Sheriffe Acton with faire promises of Justice deluded your Petitioner untill night in which time he combined with some of the Farmers and for his owne private gaine being an under Farmer sent Notes to the King and Lords by which practices and falshood contrary to Justice and the duty of his place and oath he treacherously betrayed your Petitioner and his Goods into the hands of Messengers who seized his Goods to the Kings possession for which Act upon your Petitioners complaint to the Parliament he was committed to the Tower and after the Parliament broke up he gained his liberty and for his good service to the King William Acton Esquite was made Knight and Baronet VI By which practices your Petitioners Goods were forcibly held from him and he arrested by a Sergeant at Armes and presently after two Bils were filed against him in the S ar-chamber and upon one of which he was for two words sentenced to pay 2000 l. fine to the King Imp●sonment at the Kings pleasure and to acknowledge his offence at the Councel board Star-chamber and the Exchange London anno 1629. VII That your Petitioner presently after the sentence and before the Fine was estreted into the Exchequer did according to Law put in his plea into that Court in bar of the said sentence as unjust and contrary to Law and refused to conform thereunto or to any submissions then sent him VIII Neverthelesse contrary to Law and Justice Extents were taken out against your Petitioner for the said Fine your Petitioner having then of his estate detained in the Custome-house as by Records in Exchequer appeareth 7060 l. estate out of which were taken for the King at one time 2500 l. at another time 1130 l. and at another time in Currans 700 l. which together is 4330 l. for which to this day he never received satisfaction IX That seven yeares after upon many Petitions exhibited the King gave your Petitioner liberty redeeming his perishable Goods but the remainder lay in the Custome-house London fourteen years untill they were delivered him by Order of this blessed Parliament X. By which fourteen years sufferings your Petitioner is damnified in his Estate Trade Credit and by losse of his Factory and Markets by fall of price and long detaining his goods and with what was taken for the King with Suits in Law in the Star-chamber and Exchequer and seven years Imprisonments with Fees and other Charges above sixteen thousand Pounds E●●ate The Premisses considered and for that your Petitioner was the first Merchant which denyed undue pretended Customes aforesaid as also Ship-money and all other illegall Exactions contrary to Law to his great losse and hazard and his sufferings thereby the more extremely multiplyed and pressed upon him being a single man for his constancy and resolution in defending the Rights of the Parliament and the Petition of Right and the Subjects priviledges and no ways yeelding to Preferment Offices and Honours then offered to take him off and for that the King having a great part of your Petitioners Estate so illegally and your Petitioner not getting Justice against the King or any other that defended the Kings pretended demands having in those days to do with Will and not Law although your Petitioner then indeavoured which since by death of some and time spent to others is cut off by the Statute of limitation of Actions except by the Justice and favour of this most Honorable House he may find remedy against Sir Thomas Trevor Baron of the Exchequer Sir William Acton Baronet the Sheriffe aforesaid and Sir John Jacob a then Farmer all yet living besides all which your Petitioner hath in these distracted times spent and laid out himself by Loans Gifts and Taxes for the publike Service of God and the Common Cause and Parliament against the known Enemy above himself or his Estate Your Petitioners cause so appearing beyond Precedent he most humbly beseecheth this most Honourable House to consider and to be Honourably pleased that whereas your Petitioners first wounds and sufferings were at the Custome-house as a Merchants so hee may there now after so many hazards and yeares past receive cure and recompence from that fountaine and place of Customes of Tunnage and Poundage where your Petitioner by Trade for forty yeares supplyed and paid much Money and yet doth or otherwise as in your grave Wisdomes you