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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34083	Lex talionis, or, The Law of marque or reprizals fully represented in the case of spoyls and depredations upon the ships, goods and factories of Sir William Courten and his partners in the East-Indies, China and Japan : whereupon letters patents for reprizals were granted under the great seal of England to continue effectual in the law against the States General of the United Provinces and their subjects ... : together with three several proposals of the creditors, to the King, and their answer (in a postscript) to the Lord Chancellour's arguments upon the scire facias brought by Sir Robert Sawyer ... concerning the letters patents aforesaid.	Carew, George, Esq.	1682 (1682)	Wing C549; ESTC R33340	30,399	34

for the time being to be Aiding and Assisting to Turnor and Carew their Executors Administrators and Assigns and to take care that all things shall be favourably interpreted and construed in all respects to the benefit and best Advantage of the said Turnor and Carew their Executors Administrators and Assigns Witness himself at Westminster the Letters were made Patents the 19th day of May in the 17th year of his Reign Now how the Actions and Proceedings of several Ministers and Officers of the Admiralty and other Mercenary Mortals do quadrare with the Kings Honour and Iustice that have Issued out Warrants in the Kings name to apprehend and seize the Persons and Goods of his Majesties Subjects detain them in Prison and Irons until they were Tryed as Fellons and Pyrats for duly acting under his Majesties Royal Commission and Charter grounded upon the Laws and Statutes of England Whereby they were found innocent and accquitted Yet afterwars detained for Exhorbitant and Extrajudicial Fees of Registers and Marshalls of the Admiralty is left to any Mankind to Iudge Conclusion THe Commons of England in Parliament in the Preamble of their Acts acknowledging their thankefullness to His Majesty for His aboundant care in their preservation at Sea and the great charge necessary for the defence thereof granted to the King at several times during the two last short Wars between England and Holland the Sum of Five Millions Four Hundred and Forty Thousand Seven hundred and Fifty Pounds Eleven Shillings and Eight Pence Sterling Money For extraordinary supplies toward the said Wars whereof His Royall Highness the Duke of York received 120902 l. 15 s. 8 d. being one Months Tax as a present for his Heroick Courage at Sea This vast Expence of Treasure occasiond by the Hollanders gave hopes to the Kingdom for greater returnes than that only Debt of 151612 l. Liquidated and assertained for satisfaction That reason of State was depraved in the Lord Treasurer Danby who parted with 600000 Pattacons the price of so much English Bloud and Treasure out of England to the Prince of Orange that reaped the benefit of his Ancesters Offices and Honours by the last War besides his tributes as Lord High Admiral of the seven Provinces out of 1500 Ships and their Ladings taken from the English by the Dutch Capers having his general Letters of Marque during that War There was no necessity therefore for those great Ministers H. Finch C. S. Latimer Ormond Arlington H. Coventry and Marquess del Fresno to suffer the Debt of 151612. and Damages to remain incumbent upon the King or the States when treble the value of that Debt was offered to the English Ambassadors in the year 1673. at Cologne besides another Sum of Money in gross for the Fishries upon the English Coasts to purchase a seperate peace with England Divers Polliticians remarking the English Administrations of State and Justice Blushed for several miscariages in our later days Wherein the due course of Law hath been Obstructed Strangers and others suffered to eat our Bread and have disgested the very Bloud of many hundred Orphants and Widows Some by Imbeaziling the spoyls of Wars others in detaining our Monies and Goods All men in Office turning deaf Ears to our Complaints forgeting the Kings Honour and that Justice which Establisheth the Thorne and Exalts the Nation being unmindful of those very periods in his Majesties Speech to both Houses of Parliament on the 24th of Novemb. 1664. as follows Mr. SPEAKER ANd you Gentlemen of the House of Commons I know not whether it be worth My pains to endeavour to remove a vile Iealousie which some ill Men scatter abroad and which I am sure will never sinck into the breast of any Man who is worthy to sit upon your Benches That when you have given me a Noble and proportionable Supply for the Support of a War I may be induced by some evil Councelors for they will be thought to think very respectively of my own Person to make a suddain Peace and get all that Money for my own private occasion But let me tell you and you may be most confident of it that when I am compelled to enter into a War for the Protection Honour and Benefit of my Subjects I will God Willing not make a Peace but upon the obtaining and securing those ends for which the War is entred into and when that can be done no good Man will be sorry for the determination of it How far the Plea and the Judgement given upon the Demurrer concerning the 151612 l. will be reconciled to the Kings Speech or the Law of the Land is left to those Members of both Houses that heard it to resolve if any man can be safe in his Rights and Properties under such presidents as these which calls to my mind the Old Addage of Sir Fulke Grevil Lord Brook in his time Mankind is both the Form And matter wherewith all Tyranies transform For Kings can neither see act nor devise Without the Peoples Hands Hearts and Eyes And were not man by himself opprest Kings would not Tyrants could not make him Beast FINIS

faithfully stated for satisfaction of all persons concerned GEorge Carew of Richmond in the County of Surrey Esq Administrator of the Goods and Chattels of Sir William Courten Knight deceased with his Will annexed having contested at the Hague and Amsterdam after the Kings Restoration for the space of fifteen Months concerning the Spoils and Depredations upon Sir William Courten's Ships and Factories A Provisoe was made in the fifteenth Article of the Treaty concluded at LONDON between the King and the States General the 4th of September 1662. that satisfaction and reparation should be made by the East-India Company of the Netherlands for the two Ships named the Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura with their Freights and Lading In pursuance of the said Treaty Carew having Expended and Disbursed divers great Sums of Money both in Holland and England without effect he was prompted by several Ministers of State at Whitehall to Address himself by Petition to the Commons in Parliament in the year 1664. for Relief who referred the same to the Committee of Grievances accordingly Sir Tho. Clifford then Chairman of the said Committee after Examination of all the Papers and Depositions concerning this Case brought in by Sir Thomas Littleton Reported that the Loss and Damages amounted to the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand pounds Sterling and upwards hinting at the evil consequences thereof to the Honour and Interest of the Nation if those Damages were not satisfied and repaired unto the Families of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pindar who had merited so much from the Crown and Kingdom Soon after a War insued whereupon the Commons Voted to assist the King with their Lives and Fortunes unto whom they granted several Millions of Money for the Prosecution thereof In the Month of May 1665. the Cause concerning the said Spoils and Depredations which had been debated in the Admiralty in Council and in Parliament was reduced to a certainty for satisfaction by Letters Patents for Reprisals under the Great Seal of England wherein Sir Edmund Turnors Name is used in Trust Carew having the Interest in Law on the behalf of himself and others the Dutch Ambassador then Resident in England had notice of all the proceedings as it is recited in the body of the said Patent which passed through the greatest Offices of Trust in the Kingdom upon mature Consideration The Warrant for passing the said Patent issued out of the Lord Arlingtons Office then Principal Secretary of State containing two clauses for continuance of the Grant until the Debt of 151612l with Damages should be recovered which was debated three Months by the Lord Chancellor Hyde before it passed the Great Seal Sir William Turnor and Sir Robert Wiseman the Kings and Dukes Advocates general being often consulted therein affirmed That it was consonant to the Laws of Nature and Nations that the said Debt and Damages should be satisfied and repaired A President thereof being shewn under the Great Seal in the late Kings time in the Case of Paulet a Merchant who had the like Letters of Reprisals against the Spaniards to continue effectual in the Law until the Debt and Damages should be Reprised who upon a Peace made with Spain had the remainder of his Debt unsatisfied In the year 1666. Carew and the Creditors claiming under him procured several Duplicates and Exemplifications of the said Letters Patents and put the same in execution by deputations against the Hollanders who Trading in divers Bottoms under the colours of Sweeds Hamburgers and other Neighboring Princes and States in Amity with England the very charges of equipping out private men of War could not be gotten the Ships brought in for Prizes being reclaimed and restored as by the Rigister of the Admiralty Court appears However Sir William Coventry then Secretary to his Royal Highness complaining That those special Letters of Reprisal obstructed the Lord High-Admirals profits of Tenths by Letters of Marque in time of War that the Kings Ships were deprived of Seamen A Proclamation issued out the 10th of August 1666. to suspend the Execution of the said Letters Patents protempore Notwithstanding his Royal Highness was gratified with a Months Tax for his Heroick Courage at Sea In the year 1667. a Peace was concluded at Breda whereby all Letters of Reprisals were mentioned to be revoked whereupon the said Carew and the Creditors remained passive until the year 1671. when another War was proclaimed the King having particularly owned this Cause declaring That he was obliged in Iustice and Honour to see that Debt and Damages mentioned in the Letters Patents aforesaid to be satisfied and repaired the Lords of the Privy Council having also affirmed That all past Treaties were absolutely cancelled as if no such Treaties ever had been made Then the said Carew was dispatcht away with Orders of the Councel Table Referrences and Instructions with the Kings Letters to his Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries to insist upon plenary satisfaction and Reparation in any Treaty to be made with the States The King expressing in his Leters under his Sign manuall his care to protect his Subjects in their just Rights as well as to assist them in the recovery thereof In the Month of August 1672. It so hapned that Carew and his Servants were Imprisoned by the States of Holland as Spies for seeking after Justice and detained close Prisoners without access and threatned with Death during the War which ended in a common Alliance in the year 1674. upon the consideration of Eight hundred Thousand Patacoons inter alia to be paid to the King in four years for Damages yet three parts thereof were assigned to the Prince of Orange and the fourth part received for other services by Alderman Backwel upon his Majesties account but the Debt and Damages ascertained for the Spoils and Depredations aforesaid was left in statu quo to the remedy at Law prescribed In the year 1680. divers of the Creditors of Sir William Courten Sir Paul Pindar and Sir Edward Littleton having importuned the said Carew to put in execution the said Letters of Reprisals since they had no satisfaction either out of the Prizes taken by the Kings Ships during the War nor out of the said Patacoons or any other waies or means whatsoever notwithstanding their several Addresses to the King the States and the Prince of Orange for that purpose Then Carew being advised that several Writs at Common Law in case of a Spoil at Sea lay against the Subjects of Forraign Princes and their Goods found in England until the Statute of Edw. the third provided that the only Remedy should be by the Law of Marque or Reprisals without Fraud or Deceit for all Damages upon Spoils which being ascertained and reduced into a Grant under the Great Seal of England became such an Interest vested in the Grantees coupled with an Authority that could not be taken away without satisfaction made to the Parties interessed and injured And further advised That Soveraign