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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29745	A brief remonstrance of the grand grievances and oppressions suffered by Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar, knts., deceased as also by their heirs, executors, administrators, and creditors : humbly represented to both Houses of Parliament, prorogued to 21 October 1680 : faithfully collected out of several courts of record, orders of counsel, and treaties of peace and common alliance : with several remarks thereupon for the improvement of naviagation, trade, and commerce / by John Brown.	Brown, John, of London.	1680 (1680)	Wing B5025; ESTC R27230	34,787	30

of the Company where he died in the year 1631 at the House of the said Peter Boudaen before the Accompts were finish'd and left Sir William Courten and Peter Bondaen his Excecutors liable to pay the Debts of the Company due upon Bonds to divers persons in England Flanders and Brabant which were many and great Sir William Courten by his second Wife the Daughter of Mr. Moses Tryan had one Son and three Daughters named William Hester Mary and Ann who were married into several Noble and Worthy Families viz. Hester intermarried with Sir Edward Littleton of Pilleton-Hall in the County of Stafford Barronet Ann intermarried with Essex Deverux of Leigh-Court in the County of Worcester Esq after his decease with Sir Richard Knightly of Fausely in the County of Northampton Mary intermarried with Anthony Earl of Kent and William the Son and Heir intermarried with the Lady Catherine Daughter of Iohn late Earl of Bridgewater After the decease of the two Partners aforesaid both free Denizons of England Sir William Courten endeavoured to settle the said Accompts and to call home the effects of his Estate out of the hands of Peter Boudaen Merchant at Middleburgh which could not be done by any means during the Life of Sir William Courten the Magistrates of Middleburgh having protected him from the ordinary course of Justice as they have done his Sons and Heirs ever since in several Suits depending to the Damage of Courten and his Creditors the Sum of 123460 l. Sterling and upwards as by the Ballance of the Books kept by Mr. Iohn Moncy in England appears Sir Peter Courten and the said Peter Boudaen having qualified themselves to be Directors of the East and West-India Companies by purchasing many great original Actions in the Chambers at Middleburgh in Zealand with the very individual Monies gotten into their hands out of the proper Estates of Sir William Courten and his Creditors The Magistrates of Holland and Zealand holding it for a Maxim that it would be of bad consequence to their State if they did not protect Strangers and their Goods against all other Forreign Invasions whatsoever The like Protection the States of Holland have given to Iacob Pergens of Amsterdam by express Orders to the Courts of Iudicature at Amsterdam and the Hague that they should refuse English-men all the ways of Justice upon several Actions depending against the said Pergens for Monies gotten into his Possession upon several Trusts Letters of Attorney and private Contracts with William Courten Esq amounting to 15000 l. Sterling and upwards Even for which the said Pergens by his own Covenant had contracted to be accountable to the said Courten or his Assigns This Iacob Pergens was born at Cologne in Germany bred up in London and made a free Denizon of England then upon his marriage with the Sister of Peter Boudaen became a Burgher of Middleburgh afterwards an Inhabitant at Amsterdam and one of the Directors of the West-India Company there who claims sometimes the priviledge of an English-man at other times of a German and as occasion offers he claims the priviledge of a Zealander and often times of a Citizen and Free-Burger of Amsterdam and when he is impleaded at any other place his Exceptions are That he ought not to be sued in any place but only before his Competent Judges of Amsterdam where the Courts of Justice are closed up against all English-men that prosecute their rights against him Sir William Courten in his particular Trade distinct from the Company having received several wrongs and injuries by the Spaniards procured Letters of Mart or Reprizals in the second year of the late King Charles to do himself Right and Justic and sent forth Captain Iohn Powel and Henry Powel his Brother with two Frigats well fitted aud equipped into the West-Indies who having discovered the Island of Barbadoes not inhabited by any people whatsoever landed there and made a survey of the Soil and Scituation and at their return perswaded Sir William Courten to fortifie and settle Plantations upon the said Island who did at his own proper Costs and Charges expend the Sum of 28000 l. Sterling in Building Plantations and Transporting Men Women and Servants And being in quiet possession for the space of two years he procured a Grant under the Great Seal of England Tertio Caroli primi to the Earl of Pembroke and his certain Deputies for the Government thereof according to the Laws of England which subjected the same to the Dominion of the King but the Freehold and Soil by the Law and Original of all Propriety was rested in Sir William Courten and his Heirs for ever Nevertheless Iames late Earl of Carlisle by colour of a pretended Grant as Lord Proprietor of the Caribee Islands in the year 1628 with his Complices Subjects of England enters the said Island by force of Arms and dispossessed the said Sir William Courten his Servants and Planters of their Fortifications Houses and Plantations and do still continue the possession thereof against all Justice and common Right many Families having raised themselves by the Fruits and profits of the said Island out of the ruins of Sir William Courten and his Creditors In the year 1632 Sir William Courten having procured several Fishermen and their Families out of Holland and Zealand as also Net-makers and Ship-Carpenters for building Herring-Busses and Dogger-Boats They were made free Denizens of England and dwelt in divers Towns adjacent to the Sea Then several joynt Stocks were raised for incouraging the Herring-Fishing and Cod-Fishing upon the English Coasts Whereupon the Hollanders and Zealanders under hand got Letters of Mart from the Spaniards and took the said English Busses and Doggers and procur'd them to be confiscated at Oast-End and Dunkirk under pretence they were Dutch Effects And oftentimes fishing in company with the English would in the Night time cast great Stones into their Nets and spoil their whole Voyages for that season by which indirect practices the English were so discouraged that after the loss of above 50000 l. Sterling and upwards in the Enterprize as appears by the Accompts of Sir William Courten and the other Treasurers the whole undertaking was laid aside in Companies to the great Damage and Dishonour of the King and Kingdom That the late King Charles in the 11th year of his Reign together with several Lords of the Council perswaded the said Sir William Courten to undertake Trading Voyages to China and Iapan and for that purpose granted him and others in Company with him a new Charter for an East-India Trade in the year 1635. Then Sir Paul Pyndar being a man of a publick Spirit was moved by the King to furnish and advance the Sum of 36000 l. to Sir William Courten in the first Expedition for which he had assignments upon several Ships The Hollanders then finding that it might hinder their Commerce obstructed them in the said Voyages under pretence that they traded with the Portugals their

to call Copies of Orders of Council Citations who should have understood better being bred an Advocate that the Council Board was no Court of Iudicature and that Citations could not Issue from that Board Yet without the least Summons Sir Ioseph Williamson one of the Principal Secretaries of State for the time being gave a warrant to a Messenger who with a Constable and a Smith on the 4th of October 1677. Broke open Mr. Carew's Chamber and Study doors in his absence and took away what Papers and Writings they pleased and afterwards Seized upon Mr. Carew himself who was Committed to the Gate House by another Warrant Signed by the Earl of Danby Sir Ioseph Williamson and others on the 24th of October 1677. and there detained from all his own private Affairs all the whole Michaelmas-Term The Judges of the Kings-Bench Bar refusing to take Bail which was ready in Court upon the return of several Writs of Habeas Corpus but still the said Carew was Re-manded back into Custody at the instance of the Kings Attorney General and Sollicitor General until he should comply with the said Ambassador's desires who by his Secretary demanded that the said Carew should acquit all his pretences whatsoever in a most Solemn manner as appeared by the Affidavit of Mr. Robert Ayleway the Copy whereof hereafter follows A perfect Copy of Mr. Ayleway's Affidavit RObert Ayleway of London Gentleman maketh Oath that he this Deponent Adressed himself with two several Petitions from George Carew Esq the Copies whereof are hereunto annexed and are true Copies as he this Deponent believed the one to the King and Councel on the 9th Instant November and the other to the Dutch Ambassador on the 10th Instant both Importing the said Carew's Liberty out of his Restraint in the Gate-House And this Deponent as to the first he delivered it into the Kings own hand at the Council Board Whereupon it was Ordered the same Evening that Mr. Carew should be discharged upon the Ambassadors Certificate that he is satisfied or to that effect then this Deponent delivered the other Petition to the said Ambassadors Secretary the next day following who Read the said Petition and said it was well and told the Deponent that he would shew his Excellency the said Petition and speak to him about it and this Deponent should receive his Answer thereupon the next day at White-Hall if this Deponent would meet him there which he this Deponent accordingly did and after some Conference and Debate of the matter the said Secretary told him this Deponent in the presence of Mr. Robert Coke and other Gentlemen that his Excellency was not satisfied And now the said Carew must lye in Prison untill he hath satisfied the World that he hath abused the States and that he hath no Title to any such Pretentions and that his Excellency expected that Mr. Carew should quit his Pretentions in such an Extraordinary and Solemn manner that there should never be the least mention made of them again and repeated the same several times over or words to that effect And at last said I might be assured that it was Expected and would be insisted upon so that it was in vain to make any further application unless he would meaning Mr. Carew quit his Pretentions Robert Ayleway Jurat 13 Die Novembris 1677. Coram me William Wilde SO the said Carew was continued in Prison until he was forced to Subscribe a Paper drawn by Mr. Secretary Williamson worded to this Effect that the said Carew had caused the said Ambassador to be cited by two Orders of the Councel-Board and also caused the said Orders to be Printed without Licence for which he asks his Excellency Pardon upon which he was Discharged paying Serjeant Dike his Fees Afterwards the said Paper was caused to be Printed and most Scandalously fixed upon the Exchange and White-Hall-Gate pretending to vindicate the Dutch Ambassador who got neither Credit nor Honour by this Transaction from any Intelligible Persons either upon the Exchange or even amongst the Dutch Congregations in London and elsewhere in England In this Juncture of time the Creditors and Petitioners could not be heard at Councel-Board upon the said two Orders A new Alliance by a Marriage being in agitation between the Prince of Orange and the Lady Mary the Duke of Yorks Daughter which was promoted and effected by the Earl of Danby's procurement as the Author of the Impartial State of the Earl of Danby's Case Affirms for Rooting out the French Interest at Court and securing the Protestant Religion Then a small Memorial in writing of the Services of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar for the Crown of England was delivered into His Majesties own Hand and several Lords of the Council-Table but not to lay any stress upon that as to the Merrits of the Forraign Causes in the two Orders of Council being Honorary Ingagements upon the Crown and Incumbant upon the King his Heirs and Successors for Debts contracted for Diamonds and other Jewels of the Crown as also for vast Sums of Money after the return of Sir Paul Pyndar from Constantinople where he had served King Iames and the Turky Company Eleven Years as Ambassador to the Grand Seigneur and much improved the Levant Trade which Debts are still owing yet nothing would procure so much as a Conference or the least Overture of any satisfaction or reparation for the Bona Esperanza c. The States General having made Peace with France and in a Common Alliance with their Confederats at Algiers The Creditors and Proprietors concerned in the Letters Patents for Reprizals aforesaid in the Month of April 1680. Looking upon it then a very seasonable opportunity to repair themselves the Dutch being at Peace with all the World a season that no Common Claymours could appear Whereupon they resolved to Equipp and set forth three several Ships and Pynaces in pursuance of the Authority granted as aforesaid and to that end and purpose concluded upon the Ships Names the Commanders viz. Captain Compton Gwyther Captain Reger Hawkshead and Captain Thomas Wood with their number of Men Guns and Victualling and entered the same in the Admiralty accordingly Captain Tyrence Byrne being appointed for one Ship while he was fitting himself with Men and Ammunition the Sails were taken away by an Officer pretending he had a lawful Warrant for the same from the Lords of the Admiralty as also to Arrest Richard Chappel Master of the Ship who was forced to give Bayl to answer a Charge as a Criminal And the said George Carew having a Summons from Sir Lyonel Ienkins to appear at the Councel-Board on the 11th of May 1680. He appeared and delivered this Petition following into the hands of the Right Honourable Iohn Earl of Radnor Lord President of the Councel To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the Lords of His most Honourable Privy Council The Humble Petition of George Carew Esq Administrator of the Goods and Chattels of