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The case of the orphans and creditors of the city of London
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Reading, Nathaniel, d. ca. 1712.
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1688
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Wing C1120; ESTC R231175
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Lordship confirmed it and ordered a Lease to be made thereof to Mr. Thomas Puckle for 21 years paying into the Chamber one Third part of the clear Profits thereof for the first seven years a Moiety for the second seven years and two Third parts for the last seven years of the said Term whereby they already brag of getting above 40000 l. and no manner of care is taken that the Poor Orphans shall receive one Penny by it Nor is this all the Order of the 1st Instant which your Lordship published in â—he Gazette being as followeth This Court out of their deep sence of the deploraâ—le Condition of the State of the Chamber of London and the great Debt from hence due to Orphans and others having formerly appointed a Committee to inspect the same and consider by what means any Branch of its Revenues may be improved and then to make Report thereof unto this Court The said Committee was now by this Court earnestly desired to proceed thereupon with the utmost Diligence and Dispatch And whereas there have been several Insinuations made That the Estate and Revenue belonging to this City is sufficient both to pay the said Orphans and also defray the necessary Charge of the Cities Government This Court did now firmly resolve and declare That all Improvements that can be made over and above the Charge of the Government shall be duly applied towards Payment and Relief of the said Orphans and others And that if any of the said Orphans or others can make any discovery unto the said Committee how any part of the said Revenues may improved they shall be recompenced for the same propotionable to such Discovery Is not only in contradiction to that of the 17th of January but is in no sort an Answer to the said Third Proposal or your Lordships Promise The Orphans expected that upon the sense and Condition and Debt and Consideration and Inspecting in your Printed Order mentioned your Lordship would peremptorily have ordered the Inspection so long laboured for That the Quantum of the necessary Charge of the Government should have been therein inserted That you would firmly have resolved and declared that you would for the Honour of your Court and the satisfaction of the World have at least experimented the offer which though your Lordship terms but an Insinuation you well know 't is proposed to be made good by Security above all exception They expected you should have said that 9000 l. per An' had been exceedingly too much for the Orphans to allow to the Charge of that Government by the Male-Administration whereof so many Hundreds of them have been Ruin'd and at present want Bread. But they expected not that by the recompence you promise you would give a half part to a Discoverer when but a Third is asked you Nor that you designed the Second part of the Cole-Duty-Concealment and give a prodigious Reward for Defrauding the Orphans The Orphans however are not singly disappointed Mr. Reading expected that after his having laboured day and night in this admirable Undertaking and been at great Charge and suffered great Damage thereby and never received more than a 40 s. Fee your Lordship and all about you would at least have recompenced him with Thanks and that the lean Encouragement which your first Order gave him would not have been omitted in that of the Gazette Yet instead thereof and in Ill performance of the kind professions your Lordship made him some about the Chair to gratifie your transport against him because he Friendly advised your Lordship to give the Moneys for the late Vacancies among the perishing Orphans by way of Expiation have publickly told the Orphans that Mr. Reading had deluded and inveigled them that your Lordship had discarded him and threatnened in case they Subscribed to his Proposals they should never receive 6 d. And reproached for his Sufferings in the late days of Perjury and Persecution and for his being unrewarded since Would your Lordship and they have been so just as to have declared at the same time that Mr. Reading was offered great Sums and Preferments to have shed Royal and Innocent Blood by Swearing falsely and that he rather chose to be Ruin'd here than to wrong his Conscience and had your Lordship Published the following Address of the House of Commons in the same Gazette Mr. Reading who is a very ill Advocate for himself would have silently submitted to his being disregarded for his Indefatigableness in the Service of the Crown he valuing himself upon having done his Duty and the Feast of a good Conscience while others drink Muscadine and Orphans and daily devour Widows and Houses at their second Courses The Address was thus 8 April 1679. May it please Your MAJESTY WE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons in Parliament Assembled having according to our Duty made enquiry into the Damnable and Hellish Plot against Your Majesty's Sacred Person and Government and for the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion have upon Examination discovered that Nat. Reading Esq hath Industriously and against the Duty of a Loyal Subject held frequent Correspondences with several Lords and other Persons that stand Committed for High Treason And also used his utmost Endeavours to prevent and suppress Your Majesty's Evidence And as much as in him lay to stifle the Discovery of the said Plot and thereby to render the same fictitious and of no reallity And by such undue means to prevent the Malefactors from coming to Justice Therefore We Your said Commons do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that You will be graciously pleased to Command that a Commission of Oyer and Terminer do imediately issue forth for the Tryal of the said Nathaniel Reading that so he may be brought to publick Justice Mr. Reading Humbly Proposeth on the Behalf of the Orphans 1st That the Lease which you have ordered to be made for the Office of Out-Roper may not be Executed the Orphans being ready to allow three full fourth parts during the whole Term for the same which is muh more than Mr. Murry offers you 2dly That no new Lease be granted but to the Orphans they allowing the value for the same And that all Vacancies of Places which you pretend to be in your Gift may for the future be offer'd to the Orphans they being duly qualified and allowing valuably for the same 3dly That the many Thousands of Pounds which you are laying out about Dowgate Leystall and other matters equally inconsiderable while your Chamberlain declares to the Orphans he hath not 500 l. in Cash may be apply'd to their Relief That your Lordship would afcertain the necessary Charges of the City Government and that you would joyn in Petitioning His Majesty that He would Graciously please to Grant His Commission to the Persons undernamed or such others as He shall approve of for the due managing of all Profits any ways arising by His Letters Patents to your Tustees and out of the same to pay such yearly Sum into your Chamber as His Royal Wisdom shall direct And that the remainder may be applied for the Payment of the said Orphans and Creditors On the Behalf of His MAJETY The Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor The Earl of Sunderland The Earl of Castlemain Sir Nicholas Butler Collonel James Porter The King 's Vice-Chamberl and Robert Brent Esq On the Behalf of the CITY Sir John Shorter Sir Bartholomew Shore Sir Humphry Edwin Mr. Alderman Mawson Mr. Alderm St. Aumand Sir John Parsons On the Behalf of the ORPHANS Sir William Turner Sir William Pritchard Sir Peter Rich. Alderman Hern. Sir Thomas Vernon Sir Henry Tulse Sir William Russel Alderman Duncombe Mr. George Finch Mr. Percival Gilborn Mr. Thomas Farmyn Mr. Francis Chamberlain Mr. Peter Pickering Mr. Ralph Box. Mr. Joseph Bowles Mr. Robert Midgly Mr. Deputy Carpenter Mr. Joseph Smart Mr. John Short. Mr. Thomas Langhorn Mr. Michael Warring Lastly If your Lordship will well consider the Judgment against your Charter And be content with the Governing part under His Majesty And take from the Orphans that large Allowance fer it and repay them what hath been pocketed contrary to Trust Mr. Reading doubts not but so to improve His Majesty's Charity to the Orphans that the greatest number of them may be pay'd within a very short time Should not your Lordship oppose this Innocent Experiment you would make this 88 happily remarkable and avert that Desolation which otherwise must overwhealm this Flourishing City and which will not be in the power of the Ligislature to Repair For the Crys of the Oppressed increase daily they are gone up and their Avenger is Mighty Bene facere Et male Audire Regium est NATHANIEL READING
THE CASE OF THE Orphans and Creditors OF THE CITY of LONDON MR. John Dowse and the rest of the Orphans who by the Favour of the Right Honourable the Lord Chancellor presented their Humble Address to His Majesty at Windsor and were most Graciously Received Attended at Guild-Hall the 29th of October last to present the Petition following but through the Favour of His Majesties Vice-Chamberlain it was that Evening presented to His Majesty at Whitehall And He Graciously Accepted it and directed the said Mr. Dowse to read It. To the KINGS most Excellent Majesty The Humble Petition of about 1400. Poor Orphans within Your City of London SHEWETH THat Your Petitioners withall Humility of Gratitude acknowledge the great Obligations they are under to Your Sacred Majesty for the Royal Expressions You have Graciously and so often been pleas'd to make of Your Compassionate Resentments of their Deplorable Condition and for the Renowned Charity you have already begun to extend towards some of them That Your Petitioners have treated with Nathaniel Reading Esq concerning several Proposals which he had humbly to make to Your Majesty for payment of the Respective Summes due to us And Your Petitioners humbly hope that the same will meet with your Royal Approbation and Establishment For as much that nothing can contribute more to the Immenseness of that Glory which Your Majesty hath acquired since the Blessing we have had of Your being our Soveraign Than Your being the Father of the Fatherless in Your continued Imitation of our Heavenly Father Your Petitioners in all Submissive and Avow'd Obedience prostrate and beseech Your Benigne Consideration of the said Proposals And if Your Majesty approve of them that they may be Establish'd and pursu'd accordingly And your Petitioners c. HIS Majesty Graciously refer'd the Consideration of the Proposals to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sunderland the Earl of Castlemain Mr. Vice-Chamberlain and Mr. Brent who in regard that His Majesty had by His Letters Patents granted to the Trustees of the City what ever they formerly enjoy'd before the Judgment against their Charter conceiv'd it proper to present them to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Pursuant thereunto upon the 19th of December last the Orphans shew'd their Petition following to Sir Basil Firebrass and pray'd his procuring the same to be Read by the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen He inform'd them that he had communicated the same but that his Lordship thought not fit that the same should be Offer'd till after the Holy-days that Court being particularly appointed for the Business of the Stewardship of Southwark And that several Widows and Orphans appearâ—d the Court before and were very Clamorous and his Lordship apprehended that they were set on by the Promoters of that Petition Mr. Finch Mr. Herne and others who then appear'd assur'd him that they resolv'd against Appearing with the said Widows fearing their Importunities might give Offence And that they came withall Duty and Respect to the Court and humbly hoped the Court would not refuse Reading their Petition especially when it contain'd Proposals of as great Advantage to the City as to themselves Sir Basil having acquainted his Lordship therewith told the Petitioners it should be Read. And they being call'd in Mr. Recorder told them The Petition had been Read and that after the Holy-Days the Court would consider of it and desir'd Mr. Reading to put his Proposal in Writting The Lord Mayor said That they needed not be Petition'd to pay the Orphans they had already Order'd the taking them into their Protection and as soon as any Moneys came into the Chamber they should have notice of it Mr. Reading thereupon said That the Petition of the Orphans he easily believ'd was no less Surprizing to his Lordship and every Member of that Honourable Court than the hearing That it was in their Power to pay the Petitioners was to them especially since their desire to pay what they so justly Owed was equal to the Petitioners desire of receiving what they so severely wanted That the Honour he had for their Renowned City had put him upon great Pains for preparing the Proposals in the Petition and that he allow'd himself to believe they would have been very Acceptable That the Methods he had taken and the Measures which were to be taken for the effecting this Miracle he would make out with Demonstrations And where the Blame would lye if the Honour of the City and Credit of the Chamber was not by the due prosecuting of the said Proposals Improv'd to a far greater height than ever yet they reach'd to As to the putting off the Considering of the said Proposals till after the Adjournment he said The Season indeed commanded Adjournment and very Happily Because the time of Adjournment was fittest for proceeding on the Proposals For to do Acts of Piety and Justice was the Specifick Work of a Holy-Day and then to do them was to do Opus diei in die suo And if to Relieve the poor of your own Bread was a Duty requir'd to be done at all Times certainly to help the Starving Fatherless and the Perishing Widows to their own Bread which had been so long with held and lately was so Importunely prayed for ought to be reckon'd among the Chiefest Businesses of a Christmass He concluded That if his Lordship would then appoint Referrees and they would please to give but a little of their Leisure to hear him in that Affair according to the Petition he doubted not but within a very few days to make out what he undertook that so a Report may be fit for the Court against their next Meeting and a happy Entrance would thereby be made to the approaching New-year which would exceedingly tend to the Honour of the City and the Petitioners Relief To the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen of London The Humble Petition of about 1400 Orphans SHEWETH THat in Obedience to the Commands of your Honourable Court the Portions of your Petitioners were pay'd into your Chamber for Securing them against their coming out of their respective Minorities and there remains above 500000 l. due thereupon That the Methods formerly taken for paying the said Debt having been much Obstructed by the Judgment lately obtain'd against your Charter Application was made to the late Parliament for their Relief and Nathaniel Reading Esq was of Councel with your Petitioners therein but it not taking Effect And the said Mr. Reading being duly inform'd on the Behalf of the said Orphans that great Numbers of them were in a most deplorable and perishing Condition and his further Assistance being earnestly besought he acquainted your Petitioners that he had taken very great pains therein and had Proposals humbly to make to His Majesty for paying their respective Portions That His Majesty was thereupon Petition'd to refer the Examination thereof who gave a Gracious Answer thereunto And the said Mr. Reading informs us That great