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A95587	To the Right Honorable assembly, the Lords, Knights, Esquires, and Burgesses of the Honorable House of Commons in Parliament: the humble petition of the antient overseers, rulers and assistants of the Company of Watermen. VVherein is showed, how intollerably they have been abused and slandered, with false accusations, by divers refractory and abusive watermen, who have mislead many others to their faction. Their odious slanders being heere truly confuted, and the innocencie of the rulers declared. By Iohn Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1642 (1642)	Wing T518; Thomason E144_25; ESTC R212728	6,940	11

TO The Right Honorable ASSEMBLY The Lords Knights Esquires AND Burgesses of the Honorable House of Commons in Parliament THE Humble Petition of the Antient Overseers Rulers and Assistants of the Company of Watermen VVherein is shewed How intollerably they have been abused and slandered with false accusations by divers Refractory and abusive Water-men who have mislead many others to their faction Their odious slanders being heere truly confuted and the Innocencie of the Rulers declared By Iohn Taylor LONDON Printed by John Hammond 1642. TO The Right Honourable the Assembly of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The humble Petition of the Overseers Rulers and Assistants of the Water-men Most humbly Sheweth THat whereas divers moneths past the petitioners presented to this Honorable Assembly a Bill to be passed as an Act of Parliament for the better Government of the generallity of Water-men which bill being twice read was committeed And whereas the said Watermen exhibited a scandalous Petition against your petitioners thereby most unjustly charging them with diver grievances which petition was likewise committeed to the same Committee May it please this Honorable Assembly to be informed that some of the Water-men though the Bill was preferred by the consent of such who are trusted by the generallity and containeth nothing but that which tendeth to the good of the Company were so farre enraged and incensed against your petitioners that they threatned to raise many thousand watermen to be present at the Committee to oppose your petitioners proceedings And that they would cut some of your petitioners in pieces and destroy some of them as Doctor Lambe was murdered and they so affronted and threatned your petitioners counsell that at one time they durst nor appeare for your petitioners at the Committee And some of them namely Joshuah Church boasted that now during this parliament-time they were free from all Government And needed not in any thing to obey your petitioners their Rulers Insomuch as by meanes thereof divers great disorders and outrages have been lately committed by some of them even in the view of some of your petitioners who for feare of being murdered by them did not dare to enterpose their authoritie Now for as much as by reason of your farre more weighty and important Affaires you have been pleased for a time to surcease any farther proceedings in this our cause and for that wee have Just cause to feare touching which some of us have taken our oathes before Justices of the peace that except some provident course be speedily taken to prevent the same there will be violences offered to our persons to the hazzard of our lives and many other outrages committed by the rude multitude who in all their courses are much guided and perswaded by the said Joshuah Church May it therefore please this Honorable Assembly that it shall so seem good unto you in your grave wisdoms to convent before you the said Joshuah Church and the rest above named and strictly to enjoyne them not onely to forbeare to animate and encourage the generality in their disobed once but what shall in them lie to perswade them to be conformable to the Orders or Rules of Government 80 yeeres past established by the Lords of his Majesties privie Counsell the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and Judge of the Admiralty which your petitions are by their Oathes bound to bee carefull to see to be performed And as touching the redresse of their pretended grievances there is a course prescribed unto them by the Stature of the second and third of Philip and Mary to appeale to the Court of the L. Major and Aldermen of London neverthelesse your petitioners shall in all humblenesse submit themselves to any other course to be taken therein by this Honorable Assembly for the more speedy preventing of such mischieses as otherwise are like to ensue And your Petitioners as otherwise bound shall humbly pray for the blessing of God on all your Councells and resolutions The Overseers have alwayes since the Stat. 2 3. Phil. Mary concerning water-men yeerly made choice of the disscreetest and best sort of VVatermen And now to the ●ntent that all t●● world 〈◊〉 take 〈◊〉 know 〈◊〉 many watermen ha●● 〈◊〉 mislead and perswaded out of their moneys and from all obedience Rule and Order also what Grievous slanders have been laid upon the overseers Ruler on purpose to bring all government into contempt confusion I will relate some parts of the A●ticles wherewith they charge the Rulers withall in Parliament with a true confutation of them and disproofe of all their most Jnjurious scandalts Most humbly beseeching that if the Objections be proved true Layd against the Rulers they may receive such deserved punishment as their demerits otherwise that it may be inflicted upon their unjust accusers All which we most humbly leave to c. for election of Overs●ers and Rulers without consent of the generality And have yeerly presented the same to the L. Maior and Court of Aldermen who have these 86. yeers elected and sworn them And for any of the Overseers or Assistants receiving bribes as they are charged withall It is humbly desired that the delinquents be punished if any such proofes appear whether Accusors or Accused VVhereas they alledge that Overseers at first admittance doe take an oath of secrecy not to reveale the Bribes taken or how disposed of it is humbly desired that Rob. Gibbs VVil. Smith Thomas Blackman who have been Overseers and are our opposites be examined who administred any such oath unto them VVhereas they falfly charge the Overseers for extorting 5 l. from Lau. VVatson before he could be made free who having served his Mr. about 6. yeeres and a half he then being in the Kings service his Mr. and Dame dying hee fell by Order to the disposing of the Overseers whose time expited and comeing to be made free the Company demanded 6 Moneths wages of him for the use of their poore which was 4 l. 4 s. of which summe he paid the Company 30 s. the rest they gave him back to buy cloathes which was 54 s. which is upon the Companies account in the yeer 1629 under the Auditors hands Next they accuse the overseers for receiving 10 l. of T. Gyllet who as they say served but 2. yeers of his time and that the said 10 l. should privately be given as a bribe to Andr. Bartlet to make Gyllet free which is a slander for Gyllet was in the yeer 1604. hired by one Rob. VVashfield whom he served above 3. yeer and served the remainder of his time with Rich. Oxford for the 10 l. It was at his making free 1631. given to the poore of the company in open Court the said Gyllet standing 28 yeers upon our Register before his making free And after in the yeer 1632. John Heather one of the Overseers now opposite charged J. Taylor one of the Assistants for receiving the

Confession and submission under his owne hand and his sines to the full were more then 8 l. And for the extorting 5 s. from James Webb it is untrue nor did any Ruler ever shew so little discretion as to be so familiar to drinke with an Apprentice and to set him at libertie for a pint of Wine Robert Browne for being behind-hand 4. yeeres and three quarters and not paying his quarteridge according to order which is but 2 d. a quarter which hee should pay once a yeer it being 3 s. 6 d. was the 15 day of January 1639. committed to the Counter and then hee caused the Company to be by Warrant brought before Master Recorder who upon reading the Order for the same enjoyned Browne to submit himselfe unto it which hee did the fifth of February 1639. and paid 5 s. for his time which is past upon the Account 1639. And for the second complaint concerning James Weeb and his wife and his servant it is altogether most untrue and mallicious William Early paid his Master 5. of 20 s. for seeling his mans time or Apprentiship to himself and be as a free-man which is past upon the Account 1639. And for his Master William Teero who should likewise have paid hee paid no fine at all John Middleton was committed to the Counter for abusing the Overseers in their Hall and saying Who had to doe with his mans playing at Dice which is contrary to Apprentices Indentures and never was any summe of xls. demanded of him Thus is truely declared Part of the fowle standers which they have not onely been so Jmpudent as to prefer them in a Bill to the Homorable House of Commons in Parliament they have also reported the said lies to many worthy Gentlemen and others whom they have carried by water by which meanes they caused many men of quallity to beleeve them to the great disgrace of 40 antient men 14. of them being his Majesties servants 2. of them being Esquiers and the most of them subsidy-men And on the 3. of March last 1641. they most falsly and maliciously affirmed before the Right Honorable the L. Maior and Court of Aldermen that the Rulers were twice Voted against in Parliament which is so far from truth that it is certaine the cause was yet never heard in Parliament and that Honourable Court will never Vote against men before a hearing Thus by slanders clamours threatnings multitudes noyses voices most odious and shamelesse lies carried it against us some of them have not been sparing to abuse his Majesty to wrong the High Court of Parliament to vilifie the Lord Maior and Court of Aldermen using all bad means to the furthering of their Projects against us so that if wee should write one quarter of the wrongs we have suffered by them the Book would out-swell the patience of the Reader but by this that hath been said the rest may be conjectured There are no Governors of any Company that are in such servile command to make account to every Idle fellow of their proceedings in their Halls or places of meeting nor can any Rules be so perfit but some errors will happen as long as men are men But for us to be thus odiously traduced and slandered we thought it best to declare it to the world least by concealing of it we should be accounted Insensibly stupid or extreamely Guilty They have formerly slandered the Rulers with counterfeiting his Majesties hand and pressing men into Germany eleven yeers agoe and that the Kings Subjects were bought and sold for money all which was 10 yeers past proved false for the King did affirme the warrants to be signed with his owne hand and the service to be his Majesties therefore it is reason the men that served should be paid But for the Rulers buying or selling of any men they were long since cleered upon examination before the Officers of his Majesties Navie who signified the same under their hands to the Lords of the Privie Counsell which Certificate and warrant the Rulers have to shew Yet these uncivill men are not ashamed to tax them now againe with the same In 1634. they requested John Taylor to take some paines to move his Majestie and the Lords for the suppressing of Hackney Coaches they made a collection of 6 d. or 12 d. apiece from many of them to beare the Suit so that Taylor Received xixl 4 s. of them he was 16. Moneths about it and what with passing by water and expen●es and fees to Masters of Requests Clerks of the Counsell the Signet and other Officers and passing of seales it cost Taylor 34 l. besides losse of time but the Nineteenth of Jan. 1635. There was a strict Proclamation for the totall suppressing of all Hackney Coaches out of London and VVestminster which Proclamation is yet to be seene and fit to be observed but for all the paines charge and losse of time some shamelesse fellowes doe tax Taylor with couzning them of their money But to conclude the Rulers do dare their oposers to make what proofes they can against them of any crimes they are so unjustly charged withall which the Rulers are as innocent as confident that never any thing shall be proved nor will any of their adversaries ever dare to goe about it FINIS