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A44990 An Hvmble petition and remonstrance presented unto both the High and Honourable Houses of Parliament concerning the insupportable grievance of the farthing tokens. 1642 (1642) Wing H3439A; ESTC R26811 4,491 14

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AN HVMBLE PETITION AND REMONSTRANCE PRESENTED Unto both the High and Honourable Houses OF PARLIAMENT CONCERNING The insupportable grievance of the Farthing Tokens Printed in the yeare 1642. TO The Right Honourable the Lords now assembled in the High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Petition and Remonstrance of us whose names are here subscribed of London Westminster Middlesex Southwark and other places of the Kingdome in behalfe of themselves and others Humbly sheweth 1 THat about 26. yeares since King Iames of blessed memory conceiving that Farthing Tokens would bee usefull to the Subjects and helpfull to the poore caused some quantities thereof to be made and committed the care and trust both for the issuing forth and rechanging of them againe to Iohn Lord Harrington and afterwards to the Lady Anne his wife 2. That 1. Caroli the King by his Letters Patents grants unto the Dutchesse of Lenox and Sir Francis Crane the office of making Tokens for the terme of 17. yeares at the rent of one hundred Markes per annum 3. That 11. Caroli the King grants the office of making the said Farthings to the Lord Matravers and Sir Francis Crane their executors administrators and assignes 4. That 15. Caroli the King by his Letters Patents grants the office of making the Farthing Tokens to the Lord Matravers alone at the rent of fourescore pounds per annum 5. That in all the severall Patents their Majesties have declared their gracious intents and pleasures was that the said Farthing Tokens should bee issued forth for the good and ease of the Subject and that without any losse or hindrance at all or any other inconveniency and therefore appointed the rechange as well as the exchange thereof 6. That many of your petitioners have still remaining in their hands great quantities of Farthings unrechanged which were made and issued forth by the authority of the said Dutches of Lenox and Sir Francis Crane and since by the authority of the L. Matravers and Sir Francis Crane which your petitioners cannot get to be rechanged although they have often desired and endeavoured the same and although all the said Patentees have undertaken and covenanted with his Majesty to rechange them That the allowance of one and twenty shillings in Farthing Tokens for twenty shillings in money hath beene the chiefest cause of your petitioners great burden for many covetous persons have usually fetched out great quantities of Farthings some five pounds at a time some ten pounds some more and forced them in payments upon poore labouring people That your petitioners have lost by the rechange of Tokens into the Office some of them fifty pounds some an hundred pounds some two hundred pounds and much more do still daily lose so that your petitioners are greatly oppressed and damnified in their trading That your petitioners have heretofore petitioned to his Majesty for releefe who was graciously inclined to releeve them and referred the consideration of their grievances to the Lords of his most Honourable Privie Councell and their Lordships commiserated your petitioners sufferings neverthelesse they have been no way releeved whereby they are much impoverished not able to subsist without redresse all which in their humble Remonstrance may fully appeare Wherefore the petitioners most humbly pray that they may have all their said tokens rechanged and for ever hereafter freed from this great oppression and trouble and in the meane time the Office prohibited from issuing forth any Tokens with such other reparations and releefe for their insupportable losses as to the great judgement of this Honourable Assembly shall be requisite And they shall pray c. About five hundred hands subscribed to this Petition An humble Remonstrance concerning the grievance of Farthing tokens BLessed King JAMES tendring the good of his Subjects knowing that the richer they grow the better able they would bee to serve him wisely considered that small monyes would be exceeding helpfull to the poore and for retailing trades about the eleventh yeare of his Reigne caused a copper coine to be made and to passe under the denomination of a Farthing for the ease and benefit of the Subject And the Kings Majesty that now is hath ever since the death of his Royall Father continued the same and to the same end as by their severall Patents and Proclamations may appeare Neverthelesse it hath beene for a long time and still is the greatest oppression that ever was upon the Subject for put all those insupportable projects or monopolies that of late yeares hath beene set on foote into one end of the ballance and this grievance of Farthing tokens into the other end and it will out weigh them all unto the Petitioners and to many thousands more which for manifestation they doe here humbly present to the great Judgement of this honourable Assembly these considerable things 1. The Petitioners inconceivable losse 2. How the same is occasioned 3. The great benefit the Office makes thereby 4. The remedie or prevention of this evill for future times For the greatnesse of the losse that it is heavier then all the projects or monopolies appeares whether considered in the Petitioners yearly losse or totall summe The projects for Salt Sope Starch Tobacco Cards Pins Butter caskes transporting of Leather Ship-mony c. all which most of the Petitioners were losers by yet the losse of all these put together is not comparable to the Farthings For in all these to lose forty shillings a yeare or twenty shillings a yeare for each man was much but this oppression of Farthings is to some five pound per annum to some eight pound tenne pound to some twelve pound fifteen pound per annum and more enough to bring many thousands of families to breaking and beggery And many of these great losers are poore men which never was able to be brought within the list of Subsidie or Ship-mony And for the totall of the Petitioners losses it is to some twenty pound to some forty pound fifty to some a hundred pound a hundred and fifty to some two hundred pound and more so that many of the Petitioners have lost more by tokens then their whole estate amounts unto Besides these monopolizing oppressions of Sope Ship-money c. have beene imposed of late yeares but this of Farthing tokens hath continued for this twenty seven yeares and more and many poore retailing trades men doe lose as much by them in one year as they are worth The second thing to remonstrate is how this great oppression is occasioned The first occasion is in issuing forth from the Office one and twenty shillings in tokens for twenty shillings in money which profit intices rich men to fetch them out some forty shillings five pound some ten pound a weeke constantly and in greater summes and forces them in payments upon poore worke men as if they were hirelings to the Office to ruine the Kingdome And with these tokens poore people come to buy bread butter cheese coales and other necessaries and