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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49956	This most deplorable case of an antient citizen who hath been an old, honest, and faithful servant of, and very great sufferer for the interest of the city of London, is most humbly desired to be read over by all good citizens with great care, seriousness, and due consideration.	Lee, Richard, fl. 1639-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing L889A; ESTC R43367	15,284	20

the Bridge-house London about nine years where as is well known to many he did faithfully and industriously serve the City and meerly for his good services done there and for his great fidelity in acting for the just Interest of the City as by Orders of Court he was Ordered to do and as by his said Place and his Oath he was bound to do against the wills and mislead apprehensions of some persons he became a very great sufferer to the spoyl and ruine thereby of him his wife and many children being now destitute of imployment for his and their maintenance is forced to become a Suitor to your Honour and Worships That in consideration of his said faithful services and great sufferings you would favourably choose and admit him a Bridgemaster of London Bridge into one of the places now void whose fidelity and ability in serving as Clerk-Comptroler there nine years as aforesaid hath been largely manifested which renders him fit able and capable for the Execution thereof wherefore I being infirm in body unable to waite on you myself to move your favours on hi● behalf am bold hereby to recommend him unto your Choice as aforesaid being well assured of his care fidelity and good ability in all respects to serv● you therein humbly praying your Lordship and Worships and all m● good freinds in and about London Westminster and Southwark who hav● Right in the said choice favourably and freely to choose and admit hi● thereunto who hath so faithfully carefully and industriously served we deserved from and greatly suffered for the Cities interest without a●● Reward and with very hard usages as are largely set forth in other wr●tings he will present unto you Thus begging your Pardon for this my pr●sumption in all Humility I subscribe my self Your most devoted Friend and Servant Tho. Lee. Justice of the Peace at Newington-Butts in Surrey 〈…〉 Names are subscribed Justices of the Peace for the County of Surrey and Burrough of Southwark do hereby also recommend unto your Choice and pray your Favours on the behalf of the said Mr. Rich. Lee as aforesaid most humbly also subscribing our selves Your most faithful friends and Servants Hunsdon the Earl of Dover's Son Edmund Bowyer Knight and Barronet William Haward Knights Tho. Foster Knights George Chute T. Barker James Reading Peter Rich Justices Rich. How Justices Jos Coling Justices Jo. Freeman Will. Castle We whose Names are Subscribed Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex and City of Westminster do also recommend unto your Choice and pray your favour on the behalf of the said Mr. Richard Lee as aforesaid most humbly also subcribing our selves Your faithful friends and servants Tho. Gery Knights Will. Bowle Knights Edm. B. Godfrey Knights Charles Pitfield Justices James Deuy Justices Ellis Lloyd Justices Edw. Parry Justices Hum. Weld Justices Peter Sabbs Justices The said Rich. Lee having too late Knowledge of the vacancy of the said Places to make his personal Applications to the Commoners of London therefore is forced at great charges to Print and Publish abroad among all good Citizens these his Requests A true Copy of his Reversion before mentioned To all Christian People to whom these Presents shall come or that the same shall hear sée o● Read Henry Garway Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Aldermen of the same send Greeting Know ye That at a Court holden in the Chamber of the Guild Hall of the said City upon Tuesday the Eight day of October last past before day of the Date hereof before Sir Morris Abbot Knight then Lord Mayor of the City of London and the Aldermen of the same City then present amongst other things is Entred and Recorded as followeth Viz. This day at the Request of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor this Court doth freely and lovingly Give and Grant unto Richard Lee Son of Lancelor Lee of Alveley in the County of Sallop Esq the Reversion and next Avoidance of the Clerkship of the Bridge-house at what time soever the same shall first and next happen to fall or become void To have hold Exercise and Enjoy the same Place with all Fees Profits and Commodities thereunto due and of Right belonging so long as he shall well and honestly use and behave himself therein saving to all and every other person and persons his and their Right and Interest in and to the same by force and vertue of any former Grant made thereof by this Court and so alwayes and upon condition That he the said Richard Lee at such time as he shall come to claim and Enjoy the benefit of this his Grant be thought and adjudged by this Court fit apt and able for the due Execution thereof and not otherwise In faith and testimony whereof We the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen have caused the Seal of the Office of Mayoralty of the said City to be put to these Presents Dated at London the tenth day of January in the year of our Lord 1639. And in the 15th year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. Michel A true Copy of the Auditors and Committees Certificate before mentioned To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common Councel Assembled We the Auditors of the Bridge-house Accompts and Committees for Leasing of the Lands and Tenements belonging to the Bridge house London whose Names are subscribed do certify that we have perused the several Books and Writings belonging to the said Bridge house written and made up by Rich. Lee Clerke there and do find that there hath been and is a great deal of Labour Pains and Attendants required continually to be by him performed in the Execution of his said Place and that all the Fees and Profits now allowed unto him the Sallery of fifty pounds per Annum which was formerly allowed to his Predecessors being lately Ordered to be ●ith-held are very small and do not amount unto a competent maintenance for his subsistance any wayes equivolent to his Labours Endeavours and Attendance therein And do therefore think it Requesite Just and Reasonable that he be confidered for the time past and that the said Fee of Fifty pound Pounds a year may be restored unto him for the future All which nevertheless we humbly recommend and leave to your Honours and Worships Wisdomes and further Order Dated the 25th day of May Anno 1652. John Wollaston John Stone Fr. Pecke Henry Brandreth A true Copy of the Bridgemasters Certificate before mentioned We whose Names are Subscribed Wardens of London Bridge do humbly certify on the beha●● of Rich. Lee Clerk Comptroler of the Bridge-house that he together with a Clerk which he keeps and imploy for his assistance have taken a great deal of Pains Labour and Industry in performance of his said Place since his admission thereunto and we do humbly conceive that the Profits he hath received therein have been very small much beneath his Pains Endeavours and attendance therein and that all the just Fees and Profits payd and allow'd to him cannot nor do amount unto above forty pounds a year one year with another besides his dwelling house witness our Hands May 25. 1652. Bridgemasters Fra. Kirby Nich. Clagett And although he had two such Certificates under the hands of the hands of the Bridgehouse Auditors Committees and Bridgemasters twice almost every year for about 9 years together and did present his Petition with his Certificates annexed to the Court of Aldermen and Common-councel very often every year for the restoration of the antient Sallery of 50 ll a year and did by great means and endeavours prosecute the same yet could never get the same restored by reason of the Opposers and Obstructors mentioned To the Right Honourable Sir Fran. Chaplin Kt. Lord Mayor and to the Right worshipful the Aldermen Masters Wardens Assistants and Liveries of the several Companies of the Honourable City of London Whereas Rich. Lee late Clerk Comptroler of the Bridgehouse London and many years associate to the Clerk of Assizes of the home Circuite being now destitute of Imployment for the maintenance of him his wife and many small Children is humbly bold to become a suitor unto you to choose and admit him a Bridgemaster of London Bridge We whose Names are subscribed upon good grounds and large testimonials of his good deserts of his care fidelity and good ability to do and perform business do therefore hereby recommend him unto your choice praying your Favours freely to choose and admit him thereunto accordingly whereof having good hopes we subscribe our selves May 30. 1678. Your most faithful Friends and Servants Fr. North Will. Mountague Tho. Twisden Will. Wilde Hugh Windham Tim. Littleton Tho. Jones Fd. Thurland The said Rich. Lee most humbly also prayes That no matter in his said Case mentioned may be understood as by him intended to Reflect on any worthy Aldermen or Citizens of London or in a general ●anner nay he professeth he intends them not to reflect on all who were seduced in those cases but on those who were Seducers and acted more from a Revengeful than a just and right spirit strangely byassed and self-ended FINIS