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A59371 Several advertisements concerning the services and sufferings of Sir William Courten, and Sir Paul Pyndar, for the Crown of England 1680 (1680) Wing S2748; ESTC R37377 5,874 4

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Several Advertisements concerning the Services and Sufferings of Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar for the Crown of England SIr William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar having furnished the late King CHARLES of ever Blessed Memory with divers great sums of Money towards the ordinary charge of the Crown and other Supplies upon emergent occasions incumbent upon His said Majesty more particularly for the Funeral of King James Relief of the Protestants in France at Rochel and the Isle of Ree Exhibitions to the Queen of Bohemia and her Children Expeditions into Ireland and several Disbursements for Diamonds and other Iewels of the Crown c. All lent and advanced before the year 1640. upon several Assignments under the Great Seal of England on the four intire Subsidies granted in Parliament The Lord Wentworth's Collections of the Fines and Compositions out of Recusants Estates in the Northern Counties the Allom-Farm and Sugar-Farm c. Whereupon there remained 148216 l. sterl unsatisfyed to the Estates of Courten and Pyndar at the Kings most Happy Restauration as by the Records in the Exchequer appears Although the greatest part of the said Moneys belonged to Orphans and Widows lent at Interest to the said Sir William Courten and Sir Paul Pyndar Several Addresses were made to His Majesty in the year 1661. by the principal Creditors Humbly Praying that the said Debt might be satisfyed either out of the Arrears and Supers in the Receivers and Collectors hands together with the small Rents under xx s. per annum within the Survey of the Exchequer Or out of the growing Fines and Compositions of Papists Convict Or otherwise out of the Improved Values of the First Fruits and Tenths of the Dignitaries of the Church and other Spiritual Promotions excéeding 100 l. per annum upon moderate Surveys as the Law directs These Proposals were thought by the Secretarys of State to be very Iust and Easie for his Majesty to pay such a Debt of the Crown which in Honour and Conscience He was oblig'd to do Wherefore References were made thereupon to the Lord High Treasurer and from him to the Barons of the Exchequer And from them to the Auditors of the Imprest Receivers and Clerks of the Pipe to certify the State of the Accompts to the said Barons who made several Reports to the Lord Treasurer with their Opinions concerning the Iustice of the said Debt but nothing was effectually done for Relief of the said Creditors who had spent much Time and Moneys in solliciting after their Satisfaction Nevertheless the small Chauntrey Rents and others were Sold to avoid the charge of the Crown in collections and the Papists indulged by Friends at Court from Paying any Fines or Compositions And the Dignitaries of the Church with the rest of the Clergy excused from any new Surveys upon the improved values of their Estates upon a pretence of their sufferings and that the Bishops had been very instrumental in the Kings Restoration so the Debt still rests in Statu quo only there is a Reference from His Majestie dated the 8th of May 1679. Depending before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury upon the Petition of Richard Powel Esq and Nathaniel Hill Gent. concerning a Grant for some satisfaction out of the Fines Forfeitures or Compositions of Papists convict on the behalf of themselves and the rest of the Creditors THat in contemplation of the particular Service of Sir Paul Pyndar who had out of his great zeal and Loyalty towards the preservation of the Royal Family sent several Sums of Money in Gold to Oxford by the Hands of Madam Iean Whorewood yet Living in the year 1644. For Transporting of His Majesty when he was Prince of Wales and the late Queen His Mother with their Servants and Goods to Brest in France His now Majesty was graciously pleased in the year 1664. to grant an Allowance of Sir Paul Pyndars proportion of Money advanced with his Partners upon a contract for the Customs in the year 1640. that was not in●oyed which said allowance by the said Grant was to be paid upon an Assignment and Tally struck upon the Farm held by Sir John Wolstenholme Sir John ●haw Sir Nicholas Crisp and others Anno 1667. but was post-poned and not payed 〈◊〉 this day of advertisment although it doth not extend to half the value of the ●old sent to Oxford as aforesaid his now Majesty and others then present ●…ving lately owned the same THat Sir William Courten at his own proper Costs and Charges Discovered Planted and settled the Island of Barbadoes in the beginning of the late Kings Reign without any Aid or A●●istance from the Crown and being in the quiet possession thereof for the space of two years and upwards having Peopled the said Island with great numbers of English Men Women and Children besides Indians there in several Plantations as by the Cashiers and Accomptants of Sir William Courten yet living appears James late Earl of Carlisle under the pretence of a Patent creating him Lord Proprietor of the Caribbee Islands entred upon the said Island of Barbadoes by force of Arms and dispossessed the said Sir William Courten and his Heirs of their legal Right and Propriety in an Arbitrary and Tyrannical way causing Sir William Tufton and the Principal Agents and Factors of Sir William Courten some to be Shot to Death and others Banished contrary to the Laws of God and Nations That in all revolutions of time and Government the Heirs Executors Administors and Creditors of Sir William Courten and his Son continually Claymed and appealed for Iustice and restitution in this Grand Case of Violence and Oppression some Persons indeavouring for quieting the possessions to annex the said Island to the Crown of England by Act of Parliament and others to transfer the Legal Intrest of Sir William Courten to some Forreign Prince or State in the time of the late Rebellion That upon the Kings Restauration to his Crown and Kingdoms several Debates arising between the Lord Willoughby of Parham clayming a Lease under Carlisle the pretended Lord Proprietor and the Planters that by intrusion had settled themselves upon the said Island William Courten Esq the Grandchild and Heir of Sir William Courten together with Divers of the Principal Creditors of his Father and Grand-Father Humbly addressed themselves to the King by Petition Praying that His Majesty would be graciously pleased to interpose by his Prerogative Royal for their Protection and Relief Soon after His Majesty declared in Council that he would not assume any benefit to himself out of the Profits of the said Island until such satisfaction should be made to the Persons Legally Interessed as shall consist with Equity and good Conscience Notwithstanding the Four and half per Cent granted by the general Assembly of Intrudors out of all Merchandizes exported to the Lord Proprietor aforesaid in lieu of the old Servile Rents upon every head was offered to be resigned to the King which afterwards was done to His