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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

arising thereby may be justly and truly answered into the exchequer once monthly and accompted for 5. The great mischief and abuses amongst your Majesties Servants is not committed by Commissioners above stairs they cannot so easily cosen in false entryes the wrong is done by confederation 'twixt waiters Searchees Tides-men Porters Wharfingers and the Merchants below stairs these can suffer the Merchants to steal Custom by grosse Any Water Porter Pa●… Wharfinger Carman ●…smith or Persons shall be pri●… the transpor●… Gold or Sil●… or packing the same sha●… pardoned so much as ●… confess prov●… they be the ●… discoverers ●…fore six ho●… seizure or in ●…mation by ●… other perso●… they shall h●… one full moy●… of all such G●… and Silver Merchandiz●… they shall se●… on and brin●… into the Ki●… Warehouse a●… foresaid ●… have their p●…dons for a●m●… as they discov●… or retail either all or in part or by entering their goods false one Merchandise for another to avoid this there must be severe punishments for the offendors and as ample reward for discoverers and these setled by Act of Parliament and Tables hung up with Rules for every man 6. I humbly propose that there be two Balletine Boxes as there is at Venice this day made to rest the one in the Custom-house the other near the Exchange that they be under foure Keyes of men of best approved integrity and that publick notice be given to all people for the making of discoveries that whosoever shall prove by good testimony your Majesty to be cheated by Merchants servants and Officers in the Custom-house or others shall have one moietie of all such goods so forfeited for their pains and also such further emploiment as they shall be found capable of that it be also ordered every man to deliver in his information sealed and subscribed with his name the place of his abode the fact when how and where committed That a Commission be delivered to the Lord Treasurer Lord Chancellor of the Exchequor and the Lords chief Baron and the rest of the Barons of the Exchequer to impanel a Jury of thirty six Gentlemen of quality not Tradesmen or Merchants to avoid partiality the first day of every Terme to be returned by the Sheriffs of London Middlesex Kent Essex and Surrey all-dwelling distant not above five miles from London out of which to have twelve stand by lot the twelve to choose their Foreman and that the said Jury be sworn to represent all such matter and only such as shall be found serious and for His Majesties service and on good information and full evidence given to deliver up their true verdict to the Lord Treasurer and the Barrons of the Exchequer signed with their respective hands in a fair Parchment Roll upon Oath that each respective Jury-man so serving have ten shillings a day out of forfeitures arising by discoveries due unto Your Majesty so made as aforesaid 7. And that every respective Officer hereafter relating to any service in the Custom-house of the Ports of London or else where shall swear before two of the Commissioners appointed for that service That for the time to come they shall not see or suffer any manner of goods coming from parts beyond Seas to be layed on Land without Bill or Warrant of the accustom'd Officers of the Custom-house without seizing the same goods so landed according to the Statute The same Oath to be given for preventing the shipping of uncustomed Commodities without lawful Cocket 8. And for the better breaking away all confederacy as aforesaid it is expedient that it should be at the Commissioners pleasure to make the under Officers twice or thrice a year as occasion of distrust is given to cast lots for the removing of their Stations as chance shall guide them 9. That care be had for putting in execution the Statute of Queen Elizabeth in which the Company of Wherry-men took order that the Masters and Wardens of the said Company were bound in the Exchequer that neither they nor any of the Company of Watermen their servants Boats or Wherreys should carry in or fetch from any Ship coming in or going out of the Kingdom any goods or merchandise except such as were forfeit which should be brought to Land by the Officer pertaining to the Port of London which Wares should be registred in the Ware-house in the Custom-house of the Port of London 10. And that all Liter-men Carmen Crane-Keepers Brewers and Wharfingers within four miles of London be bound in the Exchequer never to lade or unlade on land or on shipboard any Wares or Beer in the night nor in the day time into any Ship or Vessel but in the presence of the Searcher or Officer there present with the Cocket thereof 11. That an exact Register Book of all Bonds taken to Your Majesty be kept and all Bonds to remain in the Custody of the Commissioners for the time being that no bond be delivered but by the consent of three of the Commissioners and the reasons recorded for which the bond was cancel'd and that Book be yearly delivered into the Exchequor 12. That all Bonds after they are duly proved forfeited the next Tearm be delivered into the Barrons of the Exchequer and a particular List of the Names and valew of them to my Lord Treasurer and the Attorney General that so the penalties may be duly levyed 13. That the Statute be put in Execution forbidding all Masters of any Ship or Vessel to break Bulke or put ashore out of his Ship or Vessel any goods or merchandize in any Creek or by-place Fisher-Boat or other Vessel Waggon Cart or Coach before hee have made his entry of his said Ship and goods the said Master shall not onely lose the goods so seized but shall also forfeit his Ship with fine and imprisonment of him that hath consented thereto 14. That it be hereafter declared what places in London are or shall be permitted lawful Keys and Wharfs to lade and unlade goods and merchandize and all other places prohibited about Graves-End Barking Greenhive Wolledge Blackwall Dedford Limehouse Wapping St. Katherines Southwark London-Bridge Lambeth Bankside c. And also to appoint what Commodities shall be lawful to lade or unlade at each Wharfe or landing place always ordering that those goods of greatest bulk and least valew be taken up or put on shipboard at Wharfes furthest distant from the Custom-house of London 15. Ever having especial care for the future that all Silks Satins Cambricks Launs and all forreign Laces Thred or Silk rich drugs Pearls Ambergreese Bezar-stones Sivet Musk Diamonds and all sorts of precious Stones and Jewels together with all sorts of rich Commodities of small bulk be for ever hereafter unladen in the Ware-house of the Custom-house of London and no where else there to be kept till sworn Prizers that shall be expresly appointed for that purpose and sworn impartially to valew all such goods and merchandize as aforesaid do prize the same