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lord_n	beseech_v	good_a	please_v	23,628	5	8.8360	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41380	Servants on horse-back, or, A free-people bestrided in their persons and liberties, by worthlesse men being a representation of the dejected state of the inhabitants of Summer Islands : containing short illustrations upon a petition presented to the High Court of Parliament for redresse / published by Will. Golding ...	Golding, William, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1020; ESTC R7910	31,111	29

Servants on HORSE-BACK OR A Free-People bestrided in their persons and Liberties by worthlesse men BEING A Representation of the dejected state of the Inhabitants of Summer Islands CONTAINING Short Illustrations upon a Petition presented to the High Court of Parliament for REDRESSE Published by Will Golding Master of Arts and Teacher to the Congregation in that Island 2 Chron. 16. 10. Then Asa was wroth with the Seer and put him in a prison-house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing and Asa oppressed some of the people the same time Quam quisque pessimè fecit tam maximè tutus est Salust Printed in the Yeare 1648. THE EPISTLE To the Honourable Committee of Lords and Commons Intrusted to examine the Petition presented unto the Parliament in the behalfe of the Inhabitants of the Summer Islands by Captaine Sayle and William Golding June Anno 1646. Honourable Sirs IT pleased the high Court of Parliament to accept a Petition in behalfe of the Summer Islands and to recommit it unto your selves for examination your care and readinesse in attending that trust was very eminent onely you met with obstructions partly from the Company who are concerned in the Petition partly from the sad breach between City and Armies emergent in that nick of time and since by the necessitated absence of Captaine Sayle and my selfe whose attendance was requisite In pursuance thereof Honourable Sirs I beseech you resume the Complaints which are before you That your Petitioners may not languish under an usurped power nor the power and honour of Parliament be trampled on by the vilest of our English Nation Sirs to set this wheele on motion I have presumed to publish the copy of the Petition and papers affixed as presented unto the High Court of Parliament As also some few Acts and Lawes made by governours Councell and Assembly with us with some Animadversions upon them for your better information leaving it to the wisdome and justice of Parliament to judge thereof Sirs I have taken this course not with desire to asperse the Honourable Company the Nobility and Gentry of that Court from whom we have alwayes found helpe when their leasure would permit their presence at the Court but to discover the practice of the trading-party who hold the people in bondage and study to vex those who plead for liberty Besides Sirs Those of the Company concerned in the Petition will be ready to give out that your Petitioners durst not owne their act and therefore withdrew and declined the prosecution thereof whereas the world shall know that was not the reason But the attendance upon places care of our families a good providence opening a way for our returne with our great expence under long delayes were the true causes of it Sirs Mr. Steele who is of Councell hath the copy of papers at large if you desire further satisfaction then what is Printed The wise God make you as Angels to judge righteously and as Gods to relieve the oppressed Sirs I am you humble Servant William Golding ΠΡΟΛΕΓΟΜΕΝΑ OR The Preface to the READER MY purpose is not to compile a History nor to enter upon a distinct Narration of all trans-actions with us I suppose that will be performed by a better hand but onely to give a briefe assay of things that the Honourable Court of Parliament with others may clearly perceive wee have not complained without a cause I shall briefly premise a few things to cleare a way to the ensuing Treatise viz. The Reader is desired to take notice 1. That the Island called Summer Islands alias Bermuda is governed by a Company of Merchant Adventurers of London who hold their power by Patent from King James who keep Courts make Lawes and reverse them at pleasure chose Deputy governours Magistrates and Commanders over the Inhabitants there all which depend for direction in their respective places upon the Company of London 2. That though there be many noble Lords and worthy Gentlemen of that Company yet are they strangers for the most part how things are carried in the Bermuda Court for their more weighty imployments take them off from so low and inconsiderable affaires The Court is upheld by a Deputy and a few assistants many of whom being of the trading party wait upon the quarterly Courts to consult what may tend to their advantage and the government of the Island in subordination to that end 3. That the pretence of the present difference in the Islands is about a congregation gathered there into Gospel-fellowship the beginning whereof and by what authority gathered the manner of its proceeding with the oppositions it met with in its infancy is faithfully reported by Mr. White Pastor of that Congregation in his answer to a scandalous paper sent from the Island and Printed under the Patronage of Mr. Prynn all which I shall passe over to prevent tediousnesse 4. That through the indulgence of the High Court of Parliament and Honourable Committee for the American plantations the Congregation in Summer Islands is indempnified in matters of Gods worship by their orders These things premised I shall give a briefe account of the proceed of things occasioned since the Company of London chose Captaine Turner to be Governour of these Islands Servants on Horse-back IT pleased the Company or part of them Anno 1645. to change their Governour in Summer Islands how regularly they proceeded I say not and chose Captaine Thomas Turner pretending that he being an honest and dis-ingaged person and now cloathed with authority might the better heale the distempers of the Island who arriving at the Island soon discovered his purpose and designe and within six or seven months acted so excentrically that many of the Inhabitants finding themselves agrieved did earnestly intreat Cap. Sayle and William Golding to addresse themselves for England to seek shelter for themselves and others against the blacke storme which was fallen upon them who casting themselves and families upon the Lord undertooke that * Province and by the good hand of God upon them comming to London they besought the Company to heare their complaints and put them into a way of security and peace The complaints were read and committed to examination but no report made after five months attendance At length it pleased the Lords and many Gentry to be present at Court resolving to heare and issue matters But the trading assistants with their friends perceiving this businesse would be now called upon left the Court in whose absence though thirty or forty still remained yet according to their orders requiring seven Assistants at least with the Governour or his Deputy there was not that number to make a Court which lost us that opportunity and clearly taught us what to trust too upon which Captaine Sayle and William Golding besought the Parliament The Copy of whose Petition was as followeth To the Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in Parliament The Petition of Wil. Sayle and Wil.