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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41089	To the right honorable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of Edmond Felton, Gent.	Felton, Edmond.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing F662; ESTC R29425	4,001	12

TO The Right Honorable THE Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons Assembled In PARLIAMENT THE Humble Petition of Edmond Felton Gent. LONDON Printed in the yeere 1642. TO The Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons now Assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of Edmond Felton Gent. Most humbly Sheweth THat your Petitioners late Father Thomas Felton Esquire was authorized under the great Seale of England and thereby imployed by and for her late Maiestie Queen Elizabeth of famous memory and his late Maiestie King Iames of blessed memory in following the discovery and convicting of Recusants and for Seizure of their Lands and goods and estates to their Maiesties use by which he caused great summes of money to be brought into their Maiesties Coffers to the value of 88400l or more in the execution whereof he spent a great Estate of lands of inheritance of his own then in Suffolke and thereby growne in debt through want of his owne recompence was enforced to leave Wife and Children in great necessitie as by the 〈◊〉 Letters of the late Lord Brooke will appeare That your Petitioner since his Fathers decease hath suffered the oppression in the following Articles for discovering Sir Henry Spillers deceipts to the Crown to the value of about one hundred Thousand pounds That in the Ninrh yeere of King Iames or thereabouts Mr. Henry Spiller then a Clarke in the Exchequer Office since a Knight falsly suggested a debt of 5671. to be due from your Petitioners said Father to the Crowne upon which suggestion the said Sir Henry procured the Petitioners said Father to be imprisoned till hee died not withought iust cause of a strong presumption of an untimely death wherein your petitioner and his Mother in her life-time and her children have sithence received more then two thousand pounds part of the Arrers proved to be due from your Petitioners said Father for the foresaid service And upon view of sundry Records since found upon search there is Ten thousand pounds or thereabouts still likewise due and unpaid to your petitioners said Father for the service That shortly after this being made known to some of the late Lords of the Privie Councell Sir Henry Spiller sought to take away the life of one of your petitioners Witnesses for a Rape supposed to be committed on one of his mens Children of which hee was cleered in the open Court at the Session Shortly after the said partie was thus uniustly and falsely accused and charged with the said capitall crime there were other most shamefull and unchristian-like plots used to take away his testimony by which doings the said partie hath continued neere thirty yeers prisoner and so remaines still That the said Sir Henry caused the Brother of the said Witnesse to be arrested and imprisoned for that hee relieved his Brother in prison and thereby was undone he being a Tradesman That Sir Henry Spiller to prevent your petitioners questioning of him for his fraudes to his late Maiestie knowne to be discovered to the value of about one Hundred thousand pound presently after the discease of your Petitioners Father got all his Writings and Evidences whatsoever concerning his Fathers proper estate mortgaged in that service so that your petitioner his wife Children have hitherto lost their livelyhood and constrained therby to grow much in debt upon hard tearmes and great losse And this kind of doings hath been Sir Henries usuall practise to many as appeareth by severall complaints against him this Parliament That three letttrs are now remaining amongst the Records writ by some of the Late Lords of the Privie Counsell that do testifie your Petitioners late Father did great good service to his Prince and Country and that his service was both dangerous painfull and chargable and by him most carefully and effectually followed and without him hardly to be accomplished neither would any undertake so dangerous a service should he have given it over That your petitioner obtained severall Referrences from the late King and his now Maiestie but could not obtaine a hearing of him and his witnesses And at those times your petitioner was imprisoned by Sir Henry and the said Sir Henry Spiller caused your petitioner to be arrested in his Maiesties Court in White-hall the same day he and his witnesses were to be examined in his Maiesties right as will appear by a speciall warrant from some of the late Lords of the Privy Counsel from thence carried to the Marshalseys and constrained to put in bayle for Fifteene thousand pound or had perished by that imprisonment That your Petitioner hath sixe times been arrested and imprisoned at Sir H. Spillers suit procurement and this done at such times as your Petitioner sued or complained in the right of his Maiestie and of the oppressions of his Father and for no other cause Sir Henry hoping by those imprisonments to perish your Petitioner in prison as he had done his late Father and your petitioner hath by this means suffered neere sixe yeeres imprisonment Candlemas terme in the 14. Caro Sir Henry Spiller obtained of the Lord Chiefe Iustice to send his servant to require your petitioners attendance on him at an houre your Petitioner attended and at his Lordships Chamber encountered with Sir Wil. Iones since deceased and Sir Henry Spiller and the said Sir Iohn Bramston charged your Petitioner to have scandalled Sir Henry by scattered papers your petitioner iustified his papers to be true containing the aforesaid fraud and by him subscribed and thereupon Sir William Iones proposed for the said Sir Henry Spiller that hee might have the good behaviour against your Petitioner and Sir Iohn Bramston asked Sir Henry what hee said to it who answered I and so the Petitioner left to the Tipstaves hand That your petitioner desired the Tip-stave to give him leave to send for sureties but he refused and without other warrant carried him to the Kings Bench prison That not long after your petitioner tendered suerties to the said Iudges But in the meane time Sir Iohn Lenthall had contrary to Law admitted of an Action to be charged upon your petitioner in 2000. pound at the said Sir Henry Spillers suite upon the case for taxing him with the said fraud whereas your petitioner was not prisoned in law by any Warrant from the said Iudge visiable or if he had been yet it is contrary to law that a prisoner by command should be charged with Actions and the action being for words bayle was not requirable by law neverthelesse bayle was tendered and refused and shortly after the Clerke of the papers of the Kings Bench gave your Petitioner notice by writing that at the next sitting of the Lord Chiefe Iustice Bramston at Guild-hall the said Sir Henry would goe to a triall with your petitioner and in the meane time Sir Henry Spiller got a verdict of 1000l against your petitioner at Westminster for which hee is yet prisoner to the Fleet