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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54608	A brief of proceedings between Sr. Hierom Sankey and Dr. VVilliam Petty with the state of the controversy between them tendered to all indifferent persons.	Petty, William, Sir, 1623-1687.; Sankey, Hierome, Sir.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1915A; ESTC R21000	6,501	14

A BRIEF OF PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN Sr. HIEROM SANKEY AND Dr. VVILLIAM PETTY WITH The State of the Controversie BETWEEN THEM Tendered to all Indifferent Persons LONDON Printed in the Year M. DC L. IX TO THE READER THE Imployments wherein Doctor Petty hath s●rved in Ireland have been Many and Intricate The Persons concerned in his well or evil Administrations numerous The occasions of jealousie concerning Him almost infinite and consequently the various Articles Exhibited against Him with his Answers and other Proceedings thereupon must needs be tedious You have therefore what is most material and pertinent of every thing relating to Sir Hierom Sankey's and the said Doctors Proceedings faithfully reduced into the narrowest compass consistent with perspicuity to the end that all lovers of Truth and Iustice may be encouraged to unravel the perplexed Knots of this Business and learn by this Example to understand the Weight and Reasons of other Popular jealousies and discontents hereafter and withal the Error and Vanity of them who hope to please Multitudes by their most cautious and upright Endeavours A BRIEF of PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN SIR HIEROM SANKEY AND DOCTOR VVILLIAM PETTY On the 24th of March 1658 9. Sir HIEROM SANKEY after an affrighting aggravating Preface exhibits the following Articles against Doctor WILLIAM PETTY in a Parliamentary Assembly of above Four hundred Honourable Persons Viz. 1. That he the said Doctor had received Great Bribes 2. That he had made a Trade of buying Debenters in vast numbers against the Statute 3. That he had gotten vast summes of Money and Scopes of Land by Fraud 4. That he had used many foul Practises as Surveyour and Commissioner for Setting out Lands 5. That he and his fellow Commissioners had placed some Debenters in better places than they could claime denying Right to others 6. That he and his fellow Commissioners had totally disposed of the Armies Security the Debt still remaining chargable on the State On the 21. of April The said Doctor being come upon Summons out of Ireland Answers the said Articles in the said Assembly to the following Effect Viz. To the First THat he had acted as Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant and as Clerk of the Counicll of Ireland in both which capacities he had faire opportunities of taking Bribes but was never taxed therewith That as Commissioner for distributing Lands he shunned the receiving of any Obligation avoided all Bargaines but by leave c. to the end he might avoid the very appearance of this evil To the Second That he never bought Debenter without leave those at dearest rates and of Brokers and not till the Body of the Army was satisfied That none who ever sold him any did ever complain of the least hardship put upon them and that it was not possible for him so to do To the Third That he never received Penny from the State but according to Contract and not till he had past all kind of Examinations That the Work he hath done is even now worth more then the State hath paid for it c. That he had no Land by his own assumption but all by Orders from o●her Commissioners and the Council in a way not repugnant to Law and not at lesse Rates or Considerations then others and if there was any singularity in the manner 't was to his one damage onely To the Fourth That for the generallity of the Actions he had done as Commissioner and Surveyour he hoped he might without much vanity glory in them Instancing his Measuring twenty two Counties in thirteen Moneths Satisfiying twenty thousand Debenters without alteration using strictnesse towards the greatest Persons c. To the Fifith That his fellow Commissioners were Persons of Integrity and Ability and that he would not prevent them of the Honour to clear themselves To the Sixth That above three hundred thousand Acres of Land were yet undisposed and that what was already set out had satisfied more Debt then needed to have been charged upon it After the abovesaid Defence of the said Doctor and when the said Sir Hierom being newly come from seeking Proofes out of Ireland was urged in the Parliament to instance particulars with reference to the above Charge He alledged as followeth 1. That Lieutenant Colonell Flower bringing an Order for Land The said Doctor asked what he would give him to set it out to him Flower answers 100. l. The Doctor replied 't was an inconsiderable Reward demanding half the Rents at length they conclude for 100. l. per annum as a Rent Charge The said Sir Hierom calling the same an Horrible bribe 2. That Captaine Sands producing the like Order could not have his Lands untill he had given the Doctor a faire house in Dublin calling the same an Inducement to a Bribe 3. That Lieutenant Colonell Brayfeild demanding Land was told his Lands were beyond the Moon 4. That Captain Winckworth doing the like was told that the Lands he desired were kept for my Lord Deputy 5. That the Debenters of the Souldiers commonly amounting to five shillings two pence the said Doctor would pay the five shillings but keep the two pence for himself 6. That the said Doctor had seven thousand Acres in the Barrony of Ballebuoy more then he had either Order for or Right unto 7. That the said Doctor received 1100. l. for a Duplicate of Straffords Survey which never cost him 20. l. the transcribing To which Instances the said Doctor intended to have said Viz. To the First That Flower was a vicious wretch and notoriously guilty of Covetousnesse That he by tricks and abusing the Lord Lieutenants kindness had trappanned him the said Doctor out of an Estate worth 500. l. per annum for a rent charge of 100. l. per annum only which he never yet paid and has been the Author of all the said Doctors troubles meerly to work him out of the said 100. l. per annum That he had been damnified by that transaction with Flower above one thousand pounds and that without hopes or design from first to last of ever gaining any thing by him and much lesse of being bribed To the Second That he had done great Acts of Kindnesse and Charity for the said Captain Sands That he was to give the said Sands eight hundred acres of Land for a House and some imaginary benefit of an Order of his which he needed not the said house not being worth 300. l. That the rea●on of Sands his complaint was his own great guilt in seeking to abuse the State and the said Doctor in a most unchristian manner To the Third That he doth not remember any such expression as Land beyond the Moon but that if it were used 't was in kindness towards the said Liuetenant Colonel Brayfield That if he had not his Order served so soon as he desired 't was because the said Doctor could find nothing good enough for him For the said Doctor ever affected the person of the said Brayfield was commanded by the Lord Lieutenant

to assist him and was desired the same by his then Partner and Friend Sir Thomas Herbert To the Fourth That Winkworth is a very weak mistaking Person who had no more wit then to think by this device to withhold the Doctor from Questioning him for the razure of an Order made in his own case The others he needed onely to have denyed with some explication Sir Hierom having upon more mature thoughts declined them himself Sir Hierom after many threatnings of the said Doctor to question him again sometimes in one place and sometimes in another did at length upon the twelfth of Iuly 1659. procure the following Articles to be put into this present Parliament without reading them as he himself boasted beyond the first Article the which Article cunningly suggesting a fraud of about 7000. l. got acceptance to the wh●le and a reference into Ireland although the chief Witnesses for trying all the pretended frauds of the State and Army amounting to about twenty thousand pounds as also authentique Copies of Records be here in England sufficient for that purpose The First of which Articles is That he the said Doctor had as much Land for 3480. l. as comes to 10188. l. To which the said Doctor Answers generally and briefly That it will rather appear that he had paid 20000. l. for 8000. Acres 2. Article Whereas the said Doctor had Licence to purchase Lands charged with more Incumbrance than they amounted unto at the Act Rates He hath taken some incumbred for lesse some he hath gotten by collusion and paid nothing and hath wrested others out of an Officers hand of the Army Answer The Doctor hath paid above 1300. l. for what many have had for four hundred pounds and hath proceeded according to Orders throughout the whole businesse 3. Article Whereas Rates higher and lower then the Act Rates were put on Lands by consent of the Persons concerned the said Doctor hath taken to himself the benefit of the Enhancements Answer That the Doctor hath no benefit by the said Enhancements nor desires to have any The scope of this Article being to wind out of the States hands about 12000. l. which belongs to them 4. Article That he left out of the Souldiers Lot the chiefest seates 〈◊〉 incumbred putting in others incumbred as clear and afterwards takes those choice seats to himself Answer That the Design of leaving out certain Lands here mentioned was good and orderly the Doctor believes that the practice of it was so to though he never medled with it That 't was not his Interest to abuse the said Design neither hath he gotten any thing in consequence of the Errours complained of if any such be 5. Article That many of the Conditions for which he had received above 8000. l. were never performed but that he got up his Bond and Contract concerning the same surreptitiously Answer This whole Article is a grosse mistake of the Fact For there were two Contracts by one whereof 17000. l. was due whereof the Doctor never received but 10600. By the other Contract about 8000. l. was due whereof he never received 5500. l. Moreover the defects here mentioned were neither the Doctors faults nor profit And the useful Overwork he hath done deserves several thousand pounds in recompence Lastly his Bonds and Contract were kept from him above nine moneths longer then they ought to have been out of abundant caution onely and at length were delivered by the consent and knowledge of the Councel the Army the Atturney General Surveyor General after many debate concerning the same 6. Article That the Doctor hath received 2665. l. three times over and 516. l. more by a falsification as also 421. l. and 440. l. more then in strictnesse he could demand to the couzenage of the State of 5846. l. Answer What is said to have been paid thrice was never paid once and if he hath received any thing which in strictnesse of Law he might not in Equity and Conscience he ought to have received twice as much for those very things As for the 516. l. said to be forged 't is a rash mistake proceeding from too much desire to find faults 7. Article That after all these Frauds both as to Money and Land he so amused a certain Committee as they allowed him 3796. l. more for nothing Answer Upon a full reveiw of all matters relating both to the Land and Money between the State Army and the said Doctor himself a Committee of most judicious and honest persons allowed him 3790. l. over and above all he then had or now hath received and even when the cry of the abovementioned frauds and many others was highest Neither is any reason to the contrary yet detected 8. Article That by delayes feigned scruples and derisions he wrought men to sell him their Debenters at under Rates and to give him part of whatsoever he assigned them Answer The delayes here mentioned were inevitable the derisions a frivolous complaint That of working men to a Composition a very slander The contrary of all these Allegations being true 9. Article Whereas he had greater Rates for surveying then over were given he gave lesse to his under Surveyours then was ever taken and yet retrenched much of that too Answer The said Under-Surveyours were not duly punished for their treacheries against the said Doctor They were payd more than they deserved more than they durst claim by Law more than Arbitrators allowed them and twice more than they will have againe for the like work they were used better than they used others besides the Doctor gave them more then the State it self hath since given them nor did they ever complain till now they were Instigated for a supply instead of other declined Articles 10. Article That he hath not walked by the Rules and Instructions given him but slighted them all Answer A General Slander to which there needs only to be said that dolosus ve●●atur in generalibus 11. Article That he with-holds his original Books and Plots as also the Duplicates of his ●air Books contrary to an Act of Parliament Answer This is a demand never till now thought fit to be made an absurd and uselesse desire a meer device to enable some hereafter to abuse the State and subject at their pleasure and a pretended crime that the Doctor can make no benefit by Observations upon the whole Matter Viz. 1. That since it appeared to the World and never before that he the said Doctor was like to gain by his hazardous undertaking he never wanted some great Crime or other As for example one while the returning unprofitable Land for profitable Another while keeping all men in the dark Another while taking great Bribes of 500. l. at a time Another while satisfying of the same Debenters twice over Another while suppressing Petitions at the Council c. None of all which are now mentioned 2. It is a wonder that no Magistrate Law Judge nor Jury nor no injured