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A65085	To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and to the Lords spiritual and temporal, with the Commons assembled in Parliament : a true discovery of the great damage His Late Majesty, King Charles the First, received by Sir Paul Pindar and the rest of the comminssioners in their managing His Late Majesties impost and custom, from the year 1626 to 1639 ... : here is likewise humbly offered to Your Majesty and the Parliament a modell for collecting Your Majesties customes for the future / by Thomas Violet.	Violet, Thomas, fl. 1634-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing V586; ESTC R28373	11,595	17

TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Majesty And to the LORDS Spiritual and Temporal with the COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT A true Discovery of the great Damage His late Majesty King Charles the First received by Sir Paul Pindar and the rest of the Commissioners in their managing His late Majesties Impost and Custom from the year 1626. to 1639. humbly presented to your Majesty by especial Command of your Royal Father of Blessed Memory Here is likewise humbly offered to your MAJESTY and the Parliament a Modell for Collecting Your MAJESTIES Customes for the Future for the preventing former abuses which will advance Your MAJESTIES Customes above One hundred thousand pounds a Year more then was made 1660. if it be duly put in execution By Thomas Violet of London Goldsmith TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY The Humble Petition of Thomas Violet of London Goldsmith Humbly Sheweth THAT Your Petitioner Anno. 1647. Your Majesties Royal Father writ His Royal Letter from Hampt Court to Sir Lewis Dives to require him to acquaint your Majesty that your Royall Father desired your Majesty to keep a careful watch on His Customes and Farmers of His Customes that so You might prevent the former abuses put on Your Royall Father in the managing of His Customes apprehending and finding he had bin wronged many hundred thousand pounds in His Customs from 1626. to 1939. and was one principal cause of the mi●chiefs that befell Him when hee was a Prisoner in the Tower with Sir Lewis Dives Knight did make him acquainted That Your Royal Father of Blessed Memory did send for Your Petitioner to Hampton Court some few daies before He was removed to the Isle of Wight and it was to give Him an accompt of the management of His Customes from 1626. to 1639. which business Your Petitioner delivered in writing to His said MAJESTY And upon Your MAJESTIES happy Arrival as soon as Sir Lewis Dives came over into England Your Petitioner revived the said business to Sir Lewis and desired him to acquaint Your MAJESTY therewith that so Your Petitioner might know Your Royal Pleasure Sir Lewis Dives having imparted the same to Your MAJESTY You commanded the Form or Modell which Your Petitioner delivered to Your Royall Father to be brought in to Your MAJESTY which accordingly is herewith humbly Presented Your Petitioners humble prayer is That in regard of the great and weighty affairs that now lye before Your MAJESTY the Approaching Parliament c. Your MAJESTY will vouchsafe to refer the Examination of the said Modell unto the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England and the Lord Roberts of Truro or any two of them and they to certifie Your MAJESTY their Opinion concerning the said Modell with what expedition they can And in the mean time that present Order be taken That no Person or Persons Farm the said Customes And that Sir Lewis Dives and the Petitioner do attend their Lordships with any other Additions thereunto for Your MAJESTIES service And your Petitioner shall pray c. At the Court at Whitehall the 14th of May. 1661. HIS MAIESTY is pleased to refer this Petition to the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellour of England the Lord High Treasurer of England and the Lord Roberts or any two of them who are to take the same together with the said Model for regulateing the Customes into consideration and thereupon certifie His MAIESTIE their Lordships Opinion thereof and what is fit to be done therein for the good of His MAIESTIES Service Edward Nicholas AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF YOUR Majesties Customes BY COMMISSIONERS FOR THE Future preventing those intollerable abuses and unnecessary Expences now put upon your Majesty in the Custom Houses to your Majesties Damage above one hundred thousand pounds a year since your Majesties happy Arrival 1660. Humbly Sheweth THat if Your Majesty please to settle the Customs for the Kingdome of England by Commissioners those more or lesse at your Majesties pleasure and at the Sallary of 1000 l. per an each Commissioner that then these Commissioners be upon Oath to do your Majesty all saithful service and for better dispatch to sit twice dayly except in case of Sickness Festivals and the Sabbath and to the utmost of their skill to discover the best improvement can be made of your Majesties Customs Amongst whom most especial care must be had for the placing some of most approved integrity and diligence by which means much of the dudue practises past may be unfolded the most unnecessary number of your Officers which now not only uselesly take wages but also many of them defraud by themselvs and by their consents your Majesty twenty times as much as their sees that these weeds be plucked up and a certain way for the future so plainly directed as that monthly your Majesty may plainly see the constant Incom of your Customs and so ordered that your Majesty shall yearly see the ballance of Trade whether you import more forein goods then you export English and how the stock of the Kingdom in money decreaseth 2. In order to this Regulation it is absolutely necessary that no person be admitted into your Majesties service in any employment in the Custom house but such as have estates and also do give good security by sufficient bond-men to make good any error or fraud in accounts or whatever other deceipt or damage in Customs they shall knowingly suffer to be committed 3. That no man be admitted to compound for forfeited goods or have any writ of delivery out of the Exchequer under any pretext whatever but that such fines and further punishments be inflicted as shall be necessary to deter them stealing or for the future owning what shall be discovered to have been stoln 't is so at Venice in Spain and elswhere and the sharper the law is it is the better for honest Merchants that make a conscience to steal Custom there are many Merchants that never stole Custom in their lives 4. That the Receivers Treasurers Controlers and their Clarks even their accounts twice a week at least and that the Commissioners of the Customs do ballance their accompts with the Lord Treasurer every month the first day of every month to give up a new accompt the ballance of the accompt to be delivered to his Majesty signed by all the Commissioners by which means your Majesty will see every day and month in the year your Revenue and also the great mischief in not keeping the ballance of Trade will be as easily remedyed in having distinct books and accompts unmingled severally kept of exportation by themselvs and importation by themselvs when all Custom accompts be kept after the Italian way every charge given to have his counter discharge declaring the grounds and reasons of either This may be throughly examined to all particulars and that future order be taken that the Customs and moneys

16. Also appointing a Seal such as my Lord Treasurer shall think fit for such fine Commodities as will bear either Lead or Wax Or else a Certificate to be given to the parties claiming the goods of the quantities of which the Customes are satisfied 17. That a Proclamation pass That these fine merchandizes and all others that shall upon the view of the Book of Rates by the Lord Treasurer be appointed after such a day shall not be exposed to sale till they be sealed as aforesaid Or that they see a Certificate of the Commissioners of the Custom-house of the Customs of such goods as are duly satis●ied at the Custom-house under the penalty of three months imprisonment of the Person so buying any of the Commodities as aforesaid together with the forfeiture of the equal valew of such wares so bought as aforesaid and that all Shop keepers and others buying any such fine goods as aforesaid shall endorse on the Certificate of the Commissioners of the Custom-house his name shop and place of abode and the quantity and time when such goods were bought as aforesaid 18. And that it may be lawful for any person neither finding the Seal or good Certificate of the Merchant from whom he bought such Commodities that they were such parcels of such fine goods brought in such a Ship the Customs whereof were duly satisfied by himself inserting his name and place of abode at such a time as by his Certificate from the Commissioners of the Custom-house may appear I say it may be lawful for any person not finding Seal or Certificate as aforesaid to seize all such fine goods or wares the one half to his Majesties use the other to the Persons use that can discover such uncustomed goods as aforesaid and to deposit them in the publick Ware-house in the Custom-house till due proofs are made touching all the Premises 19. That all Ships Pinks and other Vessels when first they come into the Port of London bringing fine goods be appointed a certain place to ride at in the Thames where some Posts or Chains may be sixt for that purpose distant from the shore and a Boat or more and guard if occasion need may watch and swim round to search all persons going in and coming forth with fine goods uncustom'd out of the said Vessels 20. That for the future to have all the Cocquets printed and fill'd up would ease much trouble both to the Cleark and Merchants and be altogether as safe It is so at several forreign Ports 21. It must be perpetual imprisonment forfeiture of Estate and corporal punishment besides to counterfeit the King's Seal for fine goods or Commissioners Certificates for customed goods 22. Every Merchant stranger that would enter any goods inward being no Denison shall be bound to employ the return of his Commodities according to the Statue by Bonds taken c. The Frame of the Modell corrected by such alterations and aditions as the High Court of Parliament shall think fit will save your Majesty a hundred thousand pounds yearly of which your Majesty hath been defrauded by several indirect practises of the Officers of the Customs and Merchants of London their Servants and their Adherents 1660. All which I humbly submit to your Majesty and the Parliament to do therein as you shall think fit Thomas Violet I did about August last 1661. humbly present to the Right Honorable the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Ashley several other Papers for the Regulating of Your Majesties Customs and concerning a debt demanded of Your Majesty by some of the Commissioners of the Customs being two hundred and fifty thousand pounds to advance one hundred and fifty thousand pounds and so make the debt four hundred thousand pound● and have Your Majesties Customs tyed for the same as will appear by the Commissioners printed Paper to which I humbly refer I humbly desired my Lord Treasurer that the Farmers Accompts which were brought into the Parliament 1642. may be stated and setled from 1626. to 1639. the Committees Reports viewed and examined concerning Your Majesties Customs before so great a debt was allowed I humbly presented the great damage to Your Majesty by ingaging and incumbering Your Customs in so great a debt to which Vaper I humbly refer I pray God that may be done herein which is best for Your Majesties service and the Good of the Kingdome in general without by respects to particular Persons In the moneth of May 1661. I humbly petitioned your Majestie by your Royal Fathers Command and Order to me at Hampton-Court to be pleased to take notice how his Customes had bin managed from 1626. to 1639. which businesse your Petitioner delivered in writing and also that your Majesties Customes in that present Year 1660. was unduly managed by the indirect practices of some persons to your Majesties damage one hundred thousand pounds a year for want of good Order and Rule in the carriage of that great business of your Customs Your Majestie was graciously pleased to refer your Petitioner to the Right Honourable the Earle of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England the Earle of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England and the Lord Privy Seal who are to take the same into consideration and thereupon to certifie your Majestie their opinions thereof and what is fit to be done therein for the good of his Majesties service Since which time their Lordships have met and appointed me to abb●eviate the same which I have done and gave them every one a Breviate of what I humbly desire for the regulating of your Majesties Customes for the future since which time the Parliament have setled the Customes on your Majestie and I humbly hope and pray for such an Act of Parliament as shall redresse all former miscarriages whereby your Majestie hath been defrauded of your Customes Now this being well managed is the chief Branch of your Maiesties Revenew and the Support of Trade and Navigation My Humble Request is that the Officers and Commissioners for the future may be confined to a moderate sallery and all frauds and tricks of under-officers may for the future be prevented if the Customes be not narrowlier watched and the Moneys all converted to your Maiesties use which formerly to the value of near one million of money was from 1626. to 1639. converted into private and particular mens hands to the ruine of his late Majesty in his great affairs as I can particularly prove yearly if it be required above fourscore thousand pounds a year converted into private purses this destroyed the King your Royal Fathers Exchequer and hindred all his Maiesties business yearly These very mischiefs if they be not timely prevented by Your Maiesty and the Parliament may work the same dangerous effects again as they did formerly and may be repented when it is too late I have in this and many other particulars studied the publike-Interest at my vast expence and have had daily promises and references for my satisfaction but

no performances of which I am not a little sensible And I humbly hope whilst I make it my studie to promote your Majesties service and the good of the Kingdom my long Imprisonment and losses for Your Maiesties Father ●…ur Majesty ●…s now all ●…mage of the ●…ny that was ●…●…de by the ●…mp Parlia●…nt which ●…l be near ●…000 pound I had had ●… Commissi●…passed to be ●…gister I ●…uld have all ●… several per●…s buying ●…t silver to ●…e converted into coyn ●… they to ●…ve pay'd the ●…nage and ●…ed your Ma●…y this mo●… it is an un●…ferable ●…arge for ●…ur Majesty ●… pay the ●…nage there many score ●…usand ●…unds a year ●…ported into ●…gland of ●…d and silver ●…ich I would ●…ce to be ●…ined had I ●… Commissi●…all but what ●…ur Majestie ●…ences Also ●…re will be ●…ny hundred ●…uses acted in ●… Custome ●…siness which ●…ll never be ●…scovered ●…thout your ●…titioner be ●…ployed I ●…mbly rely on your Majest'es promise it being for Your profit to imploy me in the Mint and ●…stom business during your Majesties pleasure and charges for attendance to procure my often promised satisfaction there may that just and merciful care be taken of me and my suffering that I may not conclude with the ruine of my own personal Estate and Interest I have suffered eight years Imprisonment and lost to the value of twentie thousand pounds for your Maiesties Royal Father and I have been promised from time to time since your Maiesties happy arrival into England imployments in the Mint and Customes for my satisfaction I humbly rely on your Maiestie and some of your Honourable Councellors promises to me for my imployment in your Maiesties Mint and Customes your Petitioner hath the Certificate of all your Maiesties Officers of the Mint for my imployment as Register if it were passed your Maiesties Seal Upon my life I will make your Maiesties mint to work again and prevent the transporting many score thousand pounds a year of Gold and Silver that is daily transported without your Maiesties Licence which I have not now power to do because I am not imployed by your Maiesties Commission if I do not do it I will lose my imployment I humbly desire my Commission but during your Maiesties pleasure If your Maiestie imploy me in your Custome business if I save not your Maiestie one hundred thousand pounds a year more then you made last year 1660. I will serve your Maiestie in your Customes and ask never a penny salary Provided I may have my Lord Treasurers Warrant to seize all Gold and Silver exported without your Maiesties licence and to seize all Goods and Merchandise exported and Imported before the Customes be paid and that strict Rules and Orders be observed for the future preventing of frauds by Order of Parliament to force all I will put in good Securitie to account iustly to your Maiestie for one half of the seisures which I and my Deputies shall seize Your Maiestie is at fiftie thousand pounds a Year salarie for Officers to see the Custome paid and yet your Maiestie is daily by their ignorance or breach of Trust deceived above one hundred thousand pounds a year And thus I have humbly undertaken to the Right Honourable the Lord Treasurer to serve Your Maiestie without a Fee and prevent in great part these abuses and make the Merchants weary of the trade of stealing Custome And yet my Warrant hangs in suspence being referred and referred again In the mean time I am deferred and your Maiestie daily cozened in your Customs one hundred thousand pounds a year and above If I get one pennie Fee from your Maiestie your Maiestie shall save it upon the peril of my life a hundred fold as much I can prove your Royal Fathers commands to me at Hampton Court to make your Majesty truly acquainted how his Majesty was cosened in his Customs from 1626. to 1639. many hundred thousand pound which his Royal Maiesty found to be too true when it was too late and commanded me upon my allegiance I should acquaint your Maiesty with the particular wayes how and by whom he was deceived in the Customs and that upon the penalty of my allegiance and life as I would answer to God and your Maiesty I should truly present these abuses to your Maiesty this was two dayes before your Royall Father went to the Islo of Wight in the presence of Mr. Hugh Hen and Mr. Brogden Mr. Brogden is living and brought up to Sir Lewis Dives your Fathers Royal Letter to command Sir Lewis Dives to signifie to your Maiesty how highly your Royal Father did apprehend he had been deceived in his Customs from 1626. to 1639. and your Maiesties Royal Father desired your Maiesty to look carefully after your Customs I humbly refer my self to the Honorable Gentleman Sir Lewis Dives report to your Maiesty touching this business May it please your Majestie I ventured my life to bring up your Majesties Royal Fathers Letter to the Citie of London from Oxford 1643. to the Lord Major and Common Councel of London there being the same moneth one of your Majesties Fathers messengers murthered at London for bringing from Oxford your Majesties Royal Fathers Preclamations I ventured my life when I was a Prisoner in the Tower to make my escape to your Majesties Royal Father and to return back a Prisoner to the Tower upon his especial command to bring his Majesty these Papers concerning the Custome business as Sir Lewis Dives can witness And now may it please your Majestie for obeying your Royal Fathers command to me upon my Allegiance and Life that without favour mincing or flatterie I should tell your Majestie the truth how your Royal Father was abused in his Customes as Sir Lewis Dives and Mr Brogden knows the blessed Kings command to me that I should do it it being his Majesties last words he spake to me I have in this also humbly obeyed and put my self in great jeopardie that so I might discharge my faithful promise and perform your Royal Fathers commands I know what a many powerful enemies I have raised by speaking and printing this truth concerning the Customs if I have not your Majesties protection I humblie hope the profit and safetie coming to your Majestie by this Information together with Your Royall Fathers desire to you in this business shall protect me whose great and bitter afflictions had made him as wise as King Solomon When he told me before Mr. Brogden and at the same time he wrote up to Sir Lewis Dives to tell him he was afraid this information of the ill managing of his Majesties Customes did come too late for him but it would be most seasonable to Your Majesty charging Sir Lewis Dives to present me to Your Majestie to make this out to be a certain truth and withall his Majestie telling me I will write to Sir Lewis Dives to present your faithful services and sufferings to the Prince and serve him faithfully as you have done me and do not doubt but God will put it into his heart to remember and reward you for my sake to do that for you I would and should have done but alas I cannot help my self in this condition as I am Sir Lew is Dives will be beleeved in what he shall testifie for you to the Prince this testimony from Sir Lewis Dives to Your Majestie I humbly hope will make Your Majestie to protectime from the malice and envie of some men When Sir Lewis Dives made Your Majesty acquainted in May last 1660 with this business Your Majestie was graciously pleased to declare your Royal pleasure and to promise that if I did prove what I said That Your Majesties Royal Father was deceived in his Customes from 1626 to 1639 as I set forth in my Writing And that Your Majestie was defrauded by several undue practises this last Year 1660 in Your Customes above two thousand pounds a week or an hundred thousand pounds a year and if I did shew ways to prevent the same and could advance your Custom one hundred thousand pounds more then the Custome made 1660. Upon Your Majesties Royal Word Your Majestie would see me paid to the value of twentie thousand pounds or imploy me a Commissioner in the Customes and Mint with a Fee to that value and charged Sir Lewis Dives I should do it as soon as I could and Your Majestie upon your Kingly Word would keep your promise This Narrative will clearly prove to Your Majestie I have in every thing performed my undertaking First I have proved Your Royal Father defrauded for thirteen Years about eightie thousand pounds a year and which way the Monie was spent Secondly I have proved your Majestie defrauded Anno 1660. in the Customes one hundred thousand pounds a year and set down the ways to prevent it And if your Majestie make me a Commissioner and give me Power upon my Life I will make your Custome sixscore thousand pounds a year more then they made 1660. My Trust is next to God wholly in your Majestie That you will consider my fidelitie losses suffering● imprisonments and to reward me according to your Royal Fathers request to your Majestie touching me And if I be required by your Maiestie the Parliament or your Maiesties Privie Councel I shall print the substance of the particular Narrative which I delivered to his Maiestie 1647. at Hampton Court concerning the managing the Customs from 1626. to 1639. and his Maiesties charge to me and Sir Lewis Dives fully to acquaint you with the same the mischeifs that befel your Majesties Royal Father in his affairs by those miscarriages or deliver it to your Maiesties Privie Councel in Writing if I be required to do it For your Maiesties service I shall wait on Mr. Secretary Nicholas to receive your Maiesties commands whether I shall print the aforesaid Narrative or deliver it to your Maiesties Privy Council in Writing to the end these abuses in the Custome-House may be prevented for the future as your Maiestie please to command me that I will perform and ever rest Your Maiesties most dutiful and obedient Subiect as long as I live Jan. 25. 1661 2 THO. VIOLET FINIS