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B02567 The case of Andrew and Jeronimy Clifford 1699 (1699) Wing C878B; ESTC R173435 3,696 4

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Guilders 5 Stivers They had seen and examined all the respective Orders Sentences and other Papers of Proof belonging to each Article of the said Account And that they are of Opinion That the said Clifford hath been highly injur'd and wrong'd by the respective Lords Governors and Council of Surinam by their Orders and Sentences tending to ruin him and make themselves Masters of his Estate and to hinder his transporting himself and his Goods as he was permitted by the Articles of Capitulation at Surinam and that by the Twelfth Article of the Treaty of Commerce between England and Holland the States ought to redress the same in Three Month's time Dated at the Hague the 30th of September 1697. By all which it appearing to this Committee that the Petitioners have been greatly Injured at Surinam by the Governor and Council there by detaining their Estate contrary to the Articles of Capitulation upon the Surrender of the said Colony of Surinam and by several unjust Sentences and particularly that of Seven Years Imprisonment together with a very great Fine Imposed upon the said Jeronimy for only representing his Grievances by Petition Resolved That it is the Oppinion of this Committee that the House be moved that an humble Address be presented to his Majesty that he would be graciously pleased so to Recommend the Petitioners That Justice may be done them for the Damages they have Sustained at Surinam A true Copy of the Memorial deliver'd in to the States-General by the Extraordinary Ambassador his Excellency Sir Joseph Williamson mention'd in the Petition WHereas Andrew and Jeronimy Clifford Merchants late Inhabitants of Surinam having brought their Complaint before His Majesty in Council of the great Injustice which have been done them by the Governors and Dutch Council there the under-written Ambassador Extraordinary of England has received Express Orders from the King his Master to use the best Office with the States-General that speedy Justice may be done them as well in regard of Transporting their Estate out of the Colony of Surinam according to what has been stipulated by the Articles of Peace in the Year 1667 as also to the great Losses and Damages which they alledge they have since suffer'd by a long Imprisonment and by the immense Sums which they have executed from them under pretence of Fines and Pecuniary Mulcts This is what the said Ambassador would willingly promise himself from the wonted Justice of the States-General especially since there is nothing that more imports the Conservation of that Alliance and Friendship which the two Nations by the good Providence of GOD find themselves so happily joined in them to take care on both sides to have speedy and full Justice administred on all Occasions where their Subjects may pretend Matters of Complaint one against another In the Hague the Second of September 1698. Williamson Extract out of the States-Generals Octroys or Charters granted to the African Company of Holland Anno 1674. and to the Inhabitants of the Colony of Surinam Anno 1682 as follows THAT the Sentences pronounced within the Limits of these Octroys under which Surinam is Included as well betwixt the Inhabitants against each other and also between the Inhabitants and Strangers and likewise concerning all Controversies within the Limits of these Octroys shall be counted as Sentences pronounced in Holland by Judge of the Highest Courts of Justice in which Cases only Revisie or Revierie may be desired of the States General or their Deputies and that no Judge or Court of Judicature in Holland shall have any thing to say in such Cases except the States-General or their Deputies Hereby it appears That the Ordinary Courts of Justice in Holland are not permitted to intermeddle in Judgments given at Surinam so that the States-General's referring the Petitioners to Demand Restitution by the Ordinary Courts of Justice is a plain Denial of any Reparation to them The CASE of ANDREW AND JERONIMY CLIFFORD