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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89479	A notable plot discovered in a letter sent by an agent here in London, to the Earl of Cleveland at the Hague: shewing, how the said agent set the Committee of Mincing-lane on worke, to procure an Act to put out all the old officers of the Custom-house, by which means the Customes will be destroyed. Printed (together with a list of the names of the said committee, and of the officers cashiered, and to be cashiered) for the information of the Commons of England; especially such as hold any offices in the kingdome.	J. M.; Cleveland, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1591-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing M43; Thomason E555_30; ESTC R11029	3,885	7

A NOTABLE PLOT DISCOVERED IN A LETTER SENT By an AGENT here in LONDON TO The Earl of CLEVELAND at the HAGUE SHEWING How the said AGENT set the Committee of Mincing-lane on worke to procure an Act to put out all the old Officers of the Custom-house by which means the Customes will be destroyed Printed together with a List of the Names of the said Committee and of the Officers Cashiered and to be Cashiered for the Information of the Commons of England Especially such as hold any Offices in the Kingdome To the Right Honourable The Earle of CLEVELAND at the Hague these present My Lord IN my last of the 15 of April I gave your Lordship an Accompt how Affaires then stood in the Custome-house at London and what I conceived would be the Issue in relation to those many Particulars then signified unto your Lordship since which time things have fallen according to our owne hearts desire the Gentlemen at Westminster having turn'd out all the cunning Knaves or old Officers at the Custome-house for the Port of London without so much as giving them any Charge of their Delinquency Their Names are Sir John Jacobs Sir Thomas Dawes Mr. Jo Holloway Mr. William Tonces Richard Chambers Alderman Mr. Edgar Mr. Henry Kersley Mr. Edward Brewer Mr. William Thornbury Mr. Ratcliff Mr. Richard Lane Mr. Wilmor Mr. Edward Watkins Robert Wakeman Mr. Leaver Jo Norwood Jeford Baily Mr. Euer Mr. Edw Pelling Mr. Christopher Rotheram Mr. Cheatwood Mr. Broden Mr. John Blunke Master John Davis and Mr. Adam Edwards these are the chiefe men-chashired in the Port of the City of London besides many score more whose Names at this present I cannot send unto your Lordship in regard I have not yet had time and opporuunity to procure them from my Friends the Committee in Mincing-lane with whom I have the felicity to hold a strict Correspondence especially with Mr. Moyer Mr. Shute and Mr. Penoyer three prime Saints into whose Acquaintance I have so scrued my self that at any time they will unbosome themselves and entertaine me with as much confidence as if I were a reall Member of the godly Fraternity But we must use all Arts to bring things about underhand by sleight since we are not yet in a condition to act openly and so I can effect the businesse wherein I have the honour to be ingaged I shall make no scruple as the Proverb saies to light a Candle to the Devill and Court his Creatures For I have so cajoled these three Wittals in the Courses they have taken that I dare say they have though much against their wills God wot done more for 102. than all the Carpet-Knights of our Cavalry ever did with their Drinking of Healths But here my Lord before I proceed be your Lordship pleased with me to admire the wonderfull Justice of God in the sweet Justice done by the Gentlemen of Westminster toward these old Officers of the Custome-house before-named who having for their owne private respects made shipwrack of their Loyalty and imbarqued Themselves their Lives and Estates in the Service of their good Masters at Westminster to the destruction of the King Nobility and Gentry receive no other reward but to be turn'd off without any Cause shewne like prophane Delinquents with their Wives and Children to share in the common Calamity So that the good men at Westminster have dealt I may say with these their good Servants as the mercifull Turke did with an Italian whom he had in his power promising him Life if he would renounce Christianity and turn Mahometan which the Italian had no sooner done but the Turke immediatly cut his Throat reckoning it too small a Revenge to destroy the Body except he damned his Soule too In like manner the old Officers of the Custome-house having been drawne by the Suggestions of the two Houses from that Allegiance they owed unto His Majesty meerly to preserve Themselves of Office have now lived to see themselves turn'd out of all and so They may even go to the Devill for a Reward since They are like to fare no better from those their mercifull Masters Now my Lord that which tickles me most is to see how finely I have managed the Interest I had with the Committee of Mincing-lane in making Them the Instruments to destroy the Customs of the City of London and let many Advantages slip by private Conveyances beyond-sea to His Majesty For wel-knowing that little could passe a Discovery as long as the old Foxes were in office therefore the principall worke was so to order the matter that they might be turn'd out to make roome for new ones which falling out as ones heart would have wish'd the Men of Westminster have put in a Company of their owne Creatures a sort of crack'd Citizens and ignorant Rascals Fellowes that have been frighted out of halfe a dozen Religions and Factions that what with the sharking of some and the ignorance of others the Customs will not amount to halfe so much as they did formerly And this I humbly intreat your Lordship to assure 102. of with my humblest Service to him upon all Occasions One thing my Lord I had almost forgot which Moyer himself told me how that now he had cried quittance with Watkins the Head-Searcher for seizing on his Lead at Graves end by causing M. Walton of the House of Commons and the Committee of Mincing-lane to report his Place to be unnecessary Po● take them that they did not make this Report a yeare agoe For then J. P. had received the two hundred pounds which that Fox Watkins seized on But he being taken out of the way we shall deale well enough with the new Novices and send over G. freely to supply our Friends For no man but Watkins with his Birds-eyes can prie so narrowly or know how to make a stop of transporting Money Sometimes I have crack'd a Cup with him to sooth him in his way and when he is once in he sayes he finds Gold in Moore-Fields and Silver at the Custome house And though then the Fatling looks like the God of good Company as if he minded little else yet sure I am he is a subtile Youth and hath notable intelligence as if like our new Saints he drove a Trade in Vision and Revelation and tumbles like a Firkin in every corner In earnest I know him to be a very crafty Fellow in his Place and I thinke it none of my least Services to 102. in breaking the neck of his Imployment which I effected by the meanes of Master Walton Master Moyer and the Committee of Mincing-lane I have likewise by setting Friends of mine upon Master Wilson of the Councell of State made him very active against Watkins that he may never come to play againe And this Master Wilson may be the rather induced to in regard himselfe and the Guinny Company are resolved to transport all their Gold which lately came home from Holland and it amounts to about 30000