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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	heir_n	sir_n	20,471	5	6.4175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77384	A Brief abstract and narrative of the several spoils, depredations, losses and damages, suffered by Sir William Courten, Sir Paul Pyndar, and William Courten Esq.; deceased, annexed to a petition of the proprietors and creditors, depending in Parliament.	Courten, William, Sir, 1572-1636.; Pindar, Paul, Sir, 1565 or 6-1650.; Courten, William, d. 1655.	1680 (1680)	Wing B4496A; ESTC R173266	5,909	5

A Brief Abstract and Narrative of the several Spoils Depredations Losses and Damages suffered by Sir William Courten Sir Paul Pyndar and William Courten Esq deceased annexed to a Petition of the Proprietors and Creditors depending in PARLIAMENT SIR William Courten in the year 1626. being informed by several Masters of Ships imployed in his Service that there was an Island near the Caribbees not Inhabited by any People or Nation whatsoever and that the Soyl was good and well Scituated for Plantation and Defence whereupon Sir William Courten at his proper Costs and Charges Equipped and Furnished several Ships with Men Women and all kind of Materials and Provisions necessary both for Planting and to defend themselves In the year 1627. the Factors and Servants of Sir William Courten having made several Plantations procured divers Indians from the Main-Land with all sorts of Seeds and Roots to instruct the English in Planting Tobacco Indigo Cotton Sugar-Canes c. and named the Island Barbadoes Sir William Courten then procured Letters Patents dated 27th of February 1627. for the Government of the said Island in the name of the Earl of Pembroke who gave a Deputation by Sir William Courten's appointment to Captain John Powell with Instructions for the Government thereof conformable to the Laws of England Sir William Courten being so legally possessed of the said Island as the first Occupant and in the quiet possession thereof for the space of two years and upwards having expended thirty thousand Pounds Sterling in Materials Provisions Fortifications Plantations and Buildings James late Earl of Carlisle in the year 1629. under a pretence of being Lord Proprietor by Patent of all the Caribbee Islands did by Force of Arms and other indirect Practices of several Persons under his pretended Grant forceably enter into the said Island and disposessed Sir William Courten of his Forts Houses and Plantations to the inestimable Damage of Sir William Courten his Heirs and Creditors against the Laws and Originals of all Right and Property The said Earl of Carslile in those days being more powerful at Court than the Earl of Pembroke Sir William Courten by all his Addresses to the King and Council could not find any Relief And there being no Parliament from the time of that violent Entry and Intrusion for the space of 12 Years together during Sir William Courten's Life and his Sons Prosperity the said Earl of Carlisle and his Complices took advantage therof to continue the Possession and granted a long Lease of the said Island to the Lord Willoughby which expired in the year 1669. who granted several parcels of the said Island to several Planters and others at yearly Rents In the year 1646. Several debates arising between the Lord Willoughby and the old Planters concerning the original Right of the Island and Plantations Complaint was made thereof to the Long Parliament Whereupon the Merchants of London claiming several Plantations by Purchase trumpt up Sir William Courten's Title to shelter themselves against the Earl of Carlisle's Patent which was declared null and void And William Courten Esq Son and Heir of Sir William Courten having absented himself for his own and his Fathers vast Debts occasioned by the said Spoi●s and other Losses hereafter mentioned the Lady Katherine his Wife appear'd in defence of his Right Then Endeavours were used by the Creditors for annexing the said Island to the Crown of England by Act of Parliament as a County Palatine with a Proviso contained therein That an exact Survey should be made and the Original Costs and Damages of Sir William Courten Levied upon an Equitable Tax for the Benefit of the Heir and Creditors but the several Revolutions in the Government obstructed the same yet continually Claimed ever since Sir VVilliam Courten Endimion Porter Esq Thomas Kynaston Merchant and others in Company with them in the year 1635. The late King being informed that the East-India Company of England had wasted several great Joynt-Stocks by their ill Conduct and Management of that Trade were perswaded by the King to undertake Trading-voyages to the East-India's China and Japan and gave Sir William and his Partners a Patent accordingly who made Contracts with several Vice-Roys and settled several Factories at Maccoa Carwar and other parts near the Sea-Coast Sir Paul Pyndar having advanced the Sum of 36000 l. in that first Expedition under Captain John Weddall Captain Nath. Mountnay and others the Ships named the Dragon and Katherine Richly Laden homeward bound were lost both Ships Goods and Men not without great suspition of being Sunk or Burnt by the Dutch In the year 1641. William Courten Esq Son and Heir and sole Executor of Sir Wil. Courten and his Partners set forth the Ships named the Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura inter alia upon the said Trading-voyages for supply of their Factories and in the year 1643. the Ship Bona Esperanza was most injuriously seized by two Men of War belonging to the East-India Company of the Netherlands in the streights of Malacca from whence both Ship and Goods Were carried to Batavia and there de facto confiscated without any due Process at Law and converted to the said East-India Companies use under pretence that Courten traded with the Portugals their Enemies In the same year the Ship called the Henry Bona Adventura with her Lading was taken into the possession of the said Company by other of their Officers and men of War near the Island of Mauritius and also converted to their own use in all to the Damage of Mr. Courten and the rest of the Proprietors 85000 l. Sterling as by evident proofs taken in the High-Court of Admiralty appears Sir Paul Pyndar having an assignment of 5500 l. out of the said two Ships imployed Jonas Abeeles at Amsterdam in the year 1648. by procuration to implead the said East-India Company for the said Money with Interest who intimated Sir Paul Pyndar's right but could not obtain the said 5500 l. The Company alledging that Jacob Pergens had notwithstanding Jonas Abeeles protest and interdiction given security by Peter Boudaen of Middleburgh to save the Company harmless and indempnified from Sir Paul Pyndar whereupon the Directors at the Chamber in Middleburgh payed Pergens accordingly without any right thereunto Mr. Courten having assigned his Share and Interest to Sir Edward Littleton and Sir Paul Pyndar in the year 1642. towards payment of his Debts In the year 1654. upon a Treaty of Peace and common Alliance between Oliver Cromwel and the States General when the East-India Company of the Netherlands payed the English old Company 84000 l. Sterling towards the Spoyls and Depredations at Amboyna It was agreed that the Spoyls and Depredations upon the two Ships Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura should be referred to the Protestant Cantons of Switzerland to determine what Reparations should be made for the same But they could not be perswaded to meet upon that Affair or to intermeddle therein So the matter rested in