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A34160	Hinc illæ lacrymæ, or, An epitome of the life and death of Sir Wlliam Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar ... with their great services and sufferings under the crown of England : together with a brief narrative of the case and tryal of certain persons for pyracy and felony on the 10th of February 1680 : upon a special commission of Oyer and Terminer, grounded upon the statute of the 28 of Henry the 8 / faithfully and modestly collected by Thomas Carew ... ; with some remarques thereupon.	Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?	1681 (1681)	Wing C563; ESTC R12035	39,994	28

HINC ILLAE LACRYMAE OR AN EPITOME OF THE LIFE and DEATH OF Sir William Courten AND Sir Paul Pyndar Late of London K nts Deceased With their great Services and Sufferings under the Crown of ENGLAND Together with a Brief NARRATIVE of the Case and Tryal of certain Persons for Pyracy and Felony on the 10th of February 1680. Upon a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer grounded upon the Statute of the 28 of Henry the 8. Faithfully and Modestly Collected by Thomas Carew Gent. with some Remarques thereupon LONDON Printed for the Persons Interessed Anno Dom. MDCLXXXI To the Honourable Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath One of the Clerks of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel SIR AT the Instance and Importunity of the Heirs Executors and Administrators of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar and several of their most considerable Creditors for whom I have been an Agent almost these forty years last past am now constrained to write this brief Narrative of their Services and Sufferings for the Crown and Kingdom of England Wherein so many Orphans and Widows have long Groaned under the misfortune of those two most Eminent Merchants in the World of their time whose Tears are not yet wiped away It s held for an Opinion amongst the Casuists that although a Trespassor should be Iudicially acquitted and discharged of a particular Injury done unto his Neighbour without giving him satisfaction Yet he stands obliged in Equity and good Conscience to make him Restitution and Reparation for the Wrong and Damages sustained The Arguments are far stronger against those that have Spoiled Courten and Pyndar in the East and West-Indies with a Continuando Although their Rights and Properties were Invaded at Home and Abroad no Power could divest the Proprietors and Interessed in this Case of their Senses and Reason In all Revolutions of Government nothing could make them Disloyal to their Prince nor Unfaithful to their Country they never appeared otherwise then with their Humble Addresses for some Seasonable Satisfaction to their Iust Demands The Substance of the whole matters contained in this History with the Prosecution thereupon are reduced into the following Abstracts only the Scire Facias brought by His Majesty and the Plea thereupon recited at large as they remain upon Record and Humbly represented Methodically to the Right Honourable Viscount Hyde which will naturally fall under the Consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury being all contracted at last into three several Petitions the one relating to the Barbados and the Products thereof the second to the Disbursements for the Crown before the year 1641. the third to the Debts and Damages due from the East-India Company of the Netherlands and some particular Inhabitants in Amsterdam and Middleburgh to the Estates of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar wherein the Honour and Interest of the King and Kingdom are concerned to see Right done to the Petitioners respectively who had many kind Offices done for them in the Premisses by your Father and have all of them a great Confidence in your Zeal to Iustice and your readiness to do them all Lawful Favours in the duty of your Office and with that assurance I remain SIR Your most Obliged Friend and Servant THOMAS CAREW July 12th 1681. To the Right Honourable Lawrence Lord Hyde Viscount Killingworth Baron of Wooten Basset Primier Commissioner of the Treasury and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel Right Honourable IT was thought necessary and expedient by the late King Charles and the Lords and others of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel in the year 1635. upon the decay of the East-India Trade and His Majesties Customs in the Port of London The Merchants Trading to the East-Indies having wasted several great Ioynt Stocks being undermined and beaten out of Commerce by the Dutch to give Command and encouragement to Sir William Courten and his Partners by a new Charter and Grant under the Great Seal of England to undertake Trading Uoyages to Goa the parts of Mallabar Chyna Japan c. Upon whose Foundations and Discoveries the present East-India Company have taken such Methods and Measures whereby they have Trebled their Principal Actions Increased Navigation and brought Honour and Wealth to this Kingdom But Sir William Courten and his Part●ers as i● most enterprises for the publick good 〈…〉 great Difficulties Losses and Damages after they had settled several Fact 〈◊〉 in places of Strength and Se●urity at their vast Expence and Charges upon hopes of Protection from the Crown of England which pr●●ed otherwise pro tempore by reason of the late Intestine Troubles in England Scotland and Ireland that gave opportunity to the Hollanders to spoil those Noble undertakings of Sir William Courten and his Associates The King of Great Britain having granted the Priviledge and Favour to Sir William Courten and his Partners in the said Charter as an Ensigne that they were imployed by His Maiesty to carry i● all their Ships the same Colours commonly called the Iack o● English Fl●gg Whereby Captain Proud and other Old Officers yet Living of the East-India Companies Ships upon the Command of a great Gun Struck their Flaggs and Lowered their Lop-Sails at Goa iii view of thē Portugals and Dutch such a respect was paid to the Kings Colours when he was in Prosperity that soon afterwards in the year 1643. were taken down from the Bona Esperanza and dragged a●out the Streets by the Hollanders in Battavia when they had spoiled Courten of his Ships and Goods My Lord It would seem a great piece of Folly to make any impertinent Repetitions in a Case so well known to the World wherein every Paragraph is an Abstract out of Matters of Record Only I am bound to acquaint Your Honour that the late Lord High Chancellor of England Your Father was much concerned in several Transactions thereof who I presume if he were now Living would Study all ways and means possible to compose the Differences and Controversies in this Case rather then suffer those things to be Argued publickly in the Highest Court of Iudicature and there to remain unto Posterity wherein the Kings Honour and Iustice would be exposed by recriminating divers persons that lie under such Circumstances of Grand Mistakes and Oppression The Memory of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar who had so déeply suffered in the East and West Indies and of their great Services otherwise for the Crown of England readily Inclined His now Majesty and the Ministers of State in the year 1660. to recommend their Cases more especially for Satisfaction and Reparation which were Solicited several years together with great Industry and Expence both at Home and Abroad without any effect otherwise then some preparatory means towards relief in two of their Demands as follows that is to say First Concerning Sir William Courten's Title to the Barbadoes wherein he was Absolute Proprietor by Original Right of Discovery and

the West-Indies wherein he had raised a vast Estate His Lands in the year 1633. being of the value of 6500 l. per annum besides a Personal of 128000 l. Sterling at which time he had a vast Credit which afterward he Ingaged in the East-India Expeditions as aforesaid and Died infinitely in Debt upon that account It would swell a Volume to a vast Magnitude to write all the Passages and Transactions of the Lives and Deaths of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar Wherefore I give you here Abstracts of their Last Wills and Testaments Registred in the Prerogative Court whereby you may make a conjectu●e of what Misfortunes their Estates fell under after their Lives there being not a Foot of Land left in England nor any considerable Personal Estate to their Heirs Executors and Administrators out of those two large Inheritances and Possessions which they were once Masters of in the Kingdom of England An Abstract of Sir William Courtens's Last Will and Testament Dated 22. Maii 1636. who died in June following Imprimis I Will that 64 Gowns being the number of the Years of my Age may be bestowed upon so many poor men As to my worldly Estate viz. all my Manors Lands c I leave them wholly to descend to my Son William Courten and his Heirs except the Manor of Wingham Barton aliàs Barton Wingham in Com Kent and all other M●ssuages c. and other things granted by King Iames to Sir Tho. Harfleet Sir Edward Boyes the Elder Knt. Edward Hadds Chr. Mann William Alcock Esq and Walter Drury Gent. and their Heirs by Letters Patents under the great Seal of England dated at Westminster the 3 of Ianuary in the 11 th year of his Reign and except such part thereof as the said Patentees were intrusted with for Sir Dudley Diggs Knt. which Mannor of Barton Wingham aliàs Wingham Barton and other the premisses are settled upon my daughter M●ry Courten and her Heirs Item I give and bequeath to my loving Daughter Dame Hester Littleton Wife of Sir Edward Littleton Baronet 4000 l. and to each of her children living at my decease 100 l. a piece To my daughter Anne Devereux Wife of Essex Devereux Esq 1000 l. Also to my said Daughter Mary for her better preferment 2000 l. To my Sons in Law Sir Edward Littleton Baronet and Essex Devereux Esq each of them a Diamond Ring seal'd up in a Box and their Names on the Boxes To my Daughter in Law the Lady Catharine Courten my said Sons Wife A Jewel of Diamonds sealed up in a Box with my Seal at Armes and her name written thereon To my Sister Margaret Mon●y one Diamond Ring seal'd up in a Box with my Seal at Arms and directed to her To Mr. Peter Boudaen my Nephew and to his Wife a Ring and a Jewel To Mr. Iames Pergens Merchant a Ring To Mr. Iames Casere Merchant and to his Sister Mrs. Andrews to each of them 50 l. To Mr. Iooes and Iohn de Batts Merchants 50 l. Flemish to each of them To Mr. Iohn Casteele Merchant 50 l. Sterling To Fisher Littleton Esq I acquit him of the Debts he owes me To his Brother William Littleton 25 l. To Mr. Iames Tryon 100 Marks To Mary Casere daughter to Mr. Iohn Casere aforesaid 20 l. To my Book-keeper or Accomptant David Goubard 100. l. and 50 l. per Annum so long as he continues with my son William Courten To my servant Samuel Bonnei 50 l. per Annum so long as he continues with my son William Courten To Mr. Iohn Moone 10 l. To my servant Allen Edmondson 10 l. To my servant Iohn White 25 l. To my servants Geo. Iackson and Will. Gorley 15 l. a piece To my servants Sampson Iackson and Iohn Standford Toby Bonnet Abraham Gorley Moses Gorley and Peter Vandam to each of them 10 l. To my servant Thomas Gent 20 l. and for term of his life certain Acres of Land lying in the Manor of Totnam High Cross in Com. Middlesex To my servant Michael Hunt 15 l. and for term of his life 20 l. yearly to be settled upon some Lands which should be charged therewith To my servant Andrew Symonds and William Curtis to each 3 l. To Iohn Prince 40 s. and to Thomas Davies the boy 20 Nobles To Mrs. Iudith Folliot a Ring To Tabitha Wingfield 20 l. To Susan Pear 40 l. To Margaret Moore 20 l. To Elizabeth Kendall 5 l. To my said Sons servants viz to Edward Roberts 5 l. To Elizabeth Fowler 5 l. To William Oswel 10 l. To Humphry Baker 20 Nobles And to the rest of his servants in and about the House to each of them 40 s. Towards the reparation of St. Pauls Church in London over and above what I have given and delivered to that use 500 Marks To Christs-Church-Hospital and St. Thomas Hospital 100 l. a piece To the Ministers of St. Gabriel Fauchur●h by name Mr. Palmer and Mr Saxby to each of them 20 l. and to the poor of the said Parish 30 l. To the Minister of St. Andrew Hubbard where I desire to be buried 5 l. And to the poor of the same Parish 10 l. To the poor of the Dutch Congregations in London 50 l. And to and amongst the younger Students maintained abroad at Universities by the said Congregation 20 l. To the Poor of St. Mary-hill in London 15 l. To Monsieur Marmott Preacher of the French Congregation in London 20 l. And to the Poor of that Congregation 20 l. To the Poor of the Dutch and French Congregation in Norwich Colchester Sandwich Canterbury Maidstone and Yarmouth to each of them 10 l. To the Poor of the several Parishes of Laxston and Kneesall in the County of Nottingham St. Nicholas Atwade in the Isle of Thaunet and County of Kent and to the Poor of the Parish of Westham in the County of Essex to each Parish 10 l. To the Right Honourable Iohn Earl of Bridgewater a Ring To my respected Friends Mr. Endymion Porter Mr. Iames Maxwell and Mr. Henry Murray of His Majesties Bed-chamber to each a Ring and to Mrs. Iane Murray a Ring To Edward Nicholas Esq one of the Clerks of His Majesties most honourable privy Councell a Ring To Nicholas Pay Esq one of the Kings Majesties Clerks of His Kitchen a Ring To Mr. Daniel and Mr. Eliab Harvey Merchants to each a Ring To Mr. William Curtins a Ring To Mr. Anthony Low Councellor at Law a Ring And to Mr. Iohn Rushont and to Mr. Tho. Kynaston Merchants each a Ring To Mr. Garret Collent Mr. Nathaniel Andrews Mr. Leonard Houtman Mr. William Bo●t Mr. Nathaniel Mountney Merchants to each of them a Ring of the Value of 5 Marks a plece To Capt. Iohn Weddell Capt. Robert Moulton and to every Capt. and Master of all and every my Ships and Pynaces or of any Ships whereof I have any part a Gold Ring of the value of 3 l. To each and every the children of William Darkin or