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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	lord_n	privy_a	seal_n	1,129	5	9.0650	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03643	Mr. Hewer's reply to the petition of the Tanger-inhabitants	Hewer, William.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1629A; ESTC R177966	3,701	5

as this is the first time of my ever meeting with it so is it not be it true to be charg'd upon the want of any thing within my Cognizance due to them from the King or within my own power to have been otherwise helpful to them in Witness the Many of them whom I have succour'd both by my private Charity and other good Offices And Some who at this very day owe their Freedom to my only Forbearance of them for Monies due and unsatisfied which in their Distresses I have supply'd them with upon None or at most upon Common Interest PROOF Their own Memories or that failing other Evidences ready to be shewn them under their Hands Art VI. That I have 20000 l. upon these Privy Seals at this Day Resting in my Hands Answ So far is it from my being Debtor either in this or any other Sum upon these Seals that every Penny of Money I have pay'd to the People of this Place since Midsummer 1688. which is now little short of 7 Years has been out of my own Purse to near 3000 l. more than ever I received thereon And this without a Farthing of it Reimbursed or any Fond yet supply'd me for securing its Reimbursement to this Day PROOF My several Reports of the State of my Receipts and Payments to the Lords of the Treasury with the general and particular State thereof accompanying this Art VII They therefore Pray That I may be obliged to Account for the said Monies Answ An Account goes herewith of every Sum great and small by me Receiv'd and Pay'd upon each of these Privy Seals shewing the Value of each Sum the distinct Day of each Receipt and Payment the particular Hand from or to which the same has been so Received or Pay'd and on what Account PROOF The Exchequer Constat for my Receipts and Original Acquitances for my Payments Art VIII And that I may Pay them their just Due Answ The Gross of their Debt from his Majesty payable by Me was cleared within the Year 1687 and the small Remainders thereof since So as to have left no one Penny of this their Tanger-Debt to which alone his Majesty stood Intitled by any Promise of the Lord Dartmouth's unsatisfied to any one Inhabitant of them within my Notice for full 6 Years past PROOF The foremention'd Accounts and Reports with their own Original Acquitances Which having said and therein valued my self upon no Private Assertions of my own or even my Oath which yet if required I am ready to give for the Truth of any Particular but upon Evidences either wholly incontestable or such as the Petitioners themselves are most concern'd to support the Credit of I take Liberty only of subjoyning this one Appeal for the Whole to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Treasury before whom this Matter has wholly lain Whether within the Ten entire Years of its Negotiation any one Word of Complaint or Exception thereto has ever come before their Lordships from whose Hands and under the Protection of the Noble Lord before Named then Living they could not have wanted a quick Relief without needing to have Exposed either Themselves to the Consequences of so many Years Want of it if Due Or Me if otherwise to the Disappointments which such an Interval might have brought upon any Accomptant less Fortunate in the Order and Preservation of his Papers than on this Occasion it has been my good Hap to be And from whence it comes at this Distance to be now first raised by them will receive a satisfactory Opening so soon as by this my Answer and its Proofs I shall have acquitted my Self as I ought to the Contents of their Petition