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An appeal to God and the King together with a true narrative of unparallell'd grievances &c. wherein may be seen as a mirrour ... the surpassing miseries of the English nation above other nations for having the best and most wholesome laws in the whole world, yet being so excessively corrupted by covetousness of money in the law-practicers as now they are ... and unless some expedient be found out for a just and due administration of justice without fee or bride, 'tis impossible for this nation to be happy, but must remain the most miserable nation in the whole world / most humbly presented by Benjamin Albyn.
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Albyn, Benjamin.
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AN APPEAL TO GOD and the KING Together with A True NARRATIVE OF Unparallell'd Grievances c. Wherein may be seen as in a Mirrour or Looking-Glass the surpassing Miseries of the English Nation above other Nations for having the best and most wholsome Laws in the whole World yet being so excessively corrupted by Covetousness of Money in the Law-Practicers as now they are In the stead of being an Help and Safeguard are now become a meer Nusance and Oppression to the People and unless some Expedient be found out for a just and due Administration of Justice without Fee or Bribe 't is impossible for This Nation to be Happy but must remain the most Miserable Nation in the whole World Most humbly Presented by BENJAMIN ALBYN of London Merchant Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum LONDON Printed for the Author 1697. JEHOUAH O Lord God of my Father most Blessed and Glorious Trinity FATHER SON and HOLY GHOST Three Persons and One Almighty God in Unity whose Unity is in Trinity and whose Trinity is in Unity incomprehensible whose Essence is a Substance without Composition Immaterial and Spiritual whose Life is altogether entire perfect all at once One infinite Moment without Beginning or End Eternal Who is Reason and a perfect Understanding perfectly knowing and understanding Himself is immutable and necessarily in Himself whose Infiniteness makes all Wonderfull His Mercy Love Goodness and all his Excellencies infinite Whence ariseth his All-sufficiency that possesseth all Goodness desirable or possible Who is before all Time and above all Circumscription of Time from Everlasting to Everlasting who made Time and will dissolve it again He is called the Rock of Ages the Ancient of Days and Eternity itself Alpha and Omega the first and the last hath called Himself I AM Whose infinite Essence gives Being to the whole Creation and is All in All whose Attributes are more Excellent than to be discerned by so mean a thing as Sense His Wisdom Power Mercy and Justice Goodness and Truth also his Immensity Purity and Holiness is Incomprehensible and Eternal And having created the Heavens and the Earth and all that in them is within Six days and rested on the Seventh is therefore called the God of Sabbaths which we are commanded to keep Holy according to his own Example and Reason for Blessing and Hallowing that Day His Name is a strong Tower and being the Father of Lights King of Kings his Dominion is Supreme and being King of Righteousness from whom nothing is hid delighting in his Mercy and Justice beholdeth all the Dwellers upon Earth whose Vision is in his Attributes Providence and in the Face of Christ his Eternal Son who for us Men and our Salvation came down from Heaven and took upon Him the Nature of Man without Sin to suffer for the Sins of them that believe and to fulfill the Law became a Mediator betwixt God and Man in whose Name and Merits alone it is that I who am but a poor worthless Worm sinfull Dust and Ashes doe now most humbly present and prostrate my self before the Throne of his Majesty begging Mercy and Pardon for all my Sins and Iniquities and to blot out all my Transgressions O Lord God look down and have Mercy upon me lay no more upon me than thou wilt enable me to bear Counsel me in all my Difficulties sanctifie mine Affections create in me a clean Heart and renew a right Spirit within me Let not the World the Flesh or the Devil have any dominion over me Teach me how to fear Thee and Thee only and enable me to put mine whole Trust and Confidence in Thee and in Thee only and to hope in thy Mercy alone Sanctifie unto me all thy Dispensations towards me and in thine own good time send me Deliverance out of all my Troubles and Afflictions thou hast visited me with and in the mean time give me Patience to bear them Behold the Rage of mine Enemies abate their Pride asswage their Malice turn their Hearts and confound their Devices and plead my Cause with mine Adversaries and clear up mine Innocency from all their Aspersions and give them true Repentance for all their Sins and let them amend and reform their Misdoings Encline the King's Heart couragiously and continually to execute Judgment and Justice that so by Righteousness His Throne may be Established to Him and His Posterity throughout all Generations Enable Him to correct and purge out all the corrupt Practices now used in the Laws of this Land and grant that by the good Advice of His Parliament by Thee the only Wise God directed He may in His days live to see Judgment and Justice run down like a mighty Stream and Righteousness flow like a broad River that so He may be found worthy that at the last when His Life shall end here He may Reign with Christ to all Eternity in Life everlasting O Lord send a good Issue out of all mine Afflictions endue me with true Wisdom Knowledge and Understanding give me Sincerity and Integrity and shew me the Way wherein I should walk and grant in whatsoever I doe I may seek thine Honour and thy Glory Give me neither Poverty nor Riches but feed me with Food convenient for me and make me joyfully and truely thankfull unto Thee with mine whole Heart for all thy Providences towards me for the many Mercies and Necessaries of this life and of the life to come particularly for my Creation and Preservation but especially and above all for my Redemption in the Lord Jesus Christ for the means of Grace and the hope of Glory To whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Glory and possible Praise Might Majesty Thanks and Dominion henceforth and for ever-more Amen O Lord in Thee have I trusted let me never be confounded Benjamin Albyn To the August Imperial and most Excellent MAJESTY of WILLIAM the Third by the most Wonderfull Providence of the Almighty God made King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the True Christian Faith and in His Dominions over all Persons and in all Causes next under God Supreme Moderator and Governor The most humble Petition of Appeal together with a True Narrative of his Vnparallell'd Grievances c. is most humbly Offered and Presented by his most humble Petitioner BENJAMIN ALBIN of London Merchant GREAT SIR AS You are God's Vicegerent here upon Earth so You are most justly and duely to be accounted my Dread Soveraign and without just Cause I should not presume thus to make mine Approach to Your most Sacred MAJESTY Now as Life and an honest Reputation are to me of an equal Value and one Sir Richard Blackam hath blackened and whispered away my Reputation on the Grounds of a Causeless Statute of Bankrupt maliciously taken out against me by one Samuel Moyer after a long and wrongfull Prosecution of me in Your MAJESTY's High Court of Chancery where with most excessive Charge and Trouble I was for
intollerableness thereof and accordingly we wrote joynt Letters to separate us from him which succeeded and accordingly having received his Procures upon him we did with great difficulty adjust Accounts before the Consul and then I found he had received and concealed from me above Twenty thousand Dollars which probably I must have lost in case I had not all along kept mine Accounts exactly with the Debitors Yet 't was not possible for me to know of all the Moneys he did receive for Goods he sold unknown to me for Ready-moneys and gave me no account of as I have bin informed he did many times and how much I am damnified I know not for if at any time I spake to him of any Matters he did not like should be taken notice of 't was as much as my Peace was worth and was exceeding desirous to be accounted what he was not neither did he ever discover to me any Summ of Moneys I did not charge him with and I think I have very good reason to believe that without all doubt I lost much by him in his seven years unfair and vexatious dealings by me and scandalizing of me Now to make manifest his Inclinations of concealing Moneys from me I do here shew a true Copy of Cary's Note given to save me harmless from joyning with him in discharging Mr. Foxley of the Ballance of Mr. Jollife and my Father 's joynt Account and also a Copy of so much of their joynt Letter to Mr. Cary and me as relates thereunto A Copy of Mr. Cary's Note is as follows Smyrna 8th of April 1669. WHereas the Worshipfull John Jollife and Benjamin Albyn have Ordered the Assigning over all the Debts Moneys and Goods formerly consigned to the Hands of Thomas Foxley and John Cary upon the said Foxley's Return for England to be delivered to the said John Cary and Benjamin Albyn of which time at present not admitting to take a particular Account I the said John Cary do hereby oblige my self to save harmless the said Benjamin Albyn from any damage whatsoever that may happen from his giving a Discharge in joynt with my self to the said Thomas Foxley for the remaining Effects of the aforesaid Worshipfull John Jollife and Benjamin Albyn till such time as all Accounts shall be adjusted John Cary. A Copy of a few Lines of Mr. Jollife and my Fathers joynt Letter follows Viz. Mr. John Cary and Mr. Benjamin Albyn London 9th of Aug. 1669. SIRS THE afore-written of the 11th of June is Copy of our last since which We have received yours of the 8th of April by the General Ships and one of the 29th of May also yours Mr. Cary and Mr. Foxley's of the 8th of April with Account of Sale of 50 Sacks of Pepper and 40 Barrels of Tin with our Account Currant the Ballance whereof being L. Dollars 8917 14. We shall expect to be brought to our Credit by your selves in our next Account we rest Your Assured loving Friends John Jollife Benjamin Albyn By which Letter I came to know the Ballance of their Account left by Mr. Foxley else I believe 't would have bin concealed from me to this day though I think 't is plain that he well knew the Ballance at the time he gave me the Note above written and and did utterly deny that he knew when I joyn'd with him in the Discharge given to Mr. Foxley for before I did it I was not a little importunate with them both to know what 't was but Cary cowed Foxley so that he did not dare to displease him by telling me what ' t was And though I did faithfully so far as I knew help him to adjust his Accounts for he kept no Books only some Memorandum's in small bits of loose Papers yet he concealed from me the said 1864½ Dollars and after we had signed and sealed Releases to each other before the Consul he did confess to some of his Friends and Confidents that he did owe me Dollars 1200 or a larger Summ of Money in Dollars which I had forgotten to charge him with which doubtless must be another Summ I could not find besides the 1864½ Dollars but he obliging them to Secrecy I knew nothing of it till some time after his death and then with much ado the Honourable Mr. Dudley North did lay a Sequestration upon his Estate then lying in Constantinople for the recovery thereof which continued untill such time as his Father here in England did by his Letter enorder his Correspondent to pay the 1864½ Dollars For indeed 't was no body but the Honourable Mr. since Sir D. North that discovered to me where that mistake did lie So when I came home Mr. Cary pretending great Damages sustained by the Sequestration laid on his Son's Estate did by his Son dwelling in London propose to me a Reference rather than a Law suit So he proposing and nominating Mr. William Jollife who I thought had been my very good Friend I did also referr it to him without chusing or nominating any other to stand against him I being but a Stranger newly come home and knew not whom to chuse But it seems I was mistaken for in the stead of ordering him to pay me the 1200 Dollars that his Son John Cary had confessed was due from him to me he awarded me to pay him One hundred pounds though he did not think fit to make known to me any manner of reason for his Award more than that he did it to avoid a Law-suit So having promised to stand to his Award I paid the hundred pounds without any manner of a delay immediately though I thought it was so very hard and unjust I could not but advise his Son that took it of me not to let it go amongst his Father's Estate least it should prove a Moth in it for I did well know I was much wronged to pay One hundred pounds to him of whom I ought to have received many hundred pounds at least After this I happened to deal with Mr. Moyer's Cousin Henry Farmer a Packer for some hundreds of Cloths which I bought of him and stamped with mine own Stamp or Mark amongst them were some very fine Whites or undyed Cloths made of the best Spanish Wooll and were reckoned to be of the finest sort of Cloth made in England so that they were reckoned really worth Twenty-three pounds per Cloth as they were White which being measured and stamped with mine own Stamp I ordered them to be sent away to the Dyers to be dyed into the proper Colours for Turky such as I had appointed so went my way and as soon as I was gone he ordered his Men to carry them up into an upper Room and there took off my Seals and putting other Cloths of about 15 pounds per Cloth in the room thereof stamped them with a counterfeit Seal or Stamp made in imitation of mine For which Fact though he was convicted both at Common Law and Equity yet I had no manner