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An appeal to God and the King together with a true narrative of unparallell'd grievances &c. wherein may be seen as a mirrour ... the surpassing miseries of the English nation above other nations for having the best and most wholesome laws in the whole world, yet being so excessively corrupted by covetousness of money in the law-practicers as now they are ... and unless some expedient be found out for a just and due administration of justice without fee or bride, 'tis impossible for this nation to be happy, but must remain the most miserable nation in the whole world / most humbly presented by Benjamin Albyn.
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Albyn, Benjamin.
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AN APPEAL TO GOD and the KING Together with A True NARRATIVE OF Unparallell'd Grievances c. Wherein may be seen as in a Mirrour or Looking-Glass the surpassing Miseries of the English Nation above other Nations for having the best and most wholsome Laws in the whole World yet being so excessively corrupted by Covetousness of Money in the Law-Practicers as now they are In the stead of being an Help and Safeguard are now become a meer Nusance and Oppression to the People and unless some Expedient be found out for a just and due Administration of Justice without Fee or Bribe 't is impossible for This Nation to be Happy but must remain the most Miserable Nation in the whole World Most humbly Presented by BENJAMIN ALBYN of London Merchant Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum LONDON Printed for the Author 1697. JEHOUAH O Lord God of my Father most Blessed and Glorious Trinity FATHER SON and HOLY GHOST Three Persons and One Almighty God in Unity whose Unity is in Trinity and whose Trinity is in Unity incomprehensible whose Essence is a Substance without Composition Immaterial and Spiritual whose Life is altogether entire perfect all at once One infinite Moment without Beginning or End Eternal Who is Reason and a perfect Understanding perfectly knowing and understanding Himself is immutable and necessarily in Himself whose Infiniteness makes all Wonderfull His Mercy Love Goodness and all his Excellencies infinite Whence ariseth his All-sufficiency that possesseth all Goodness desirable or possible Who is before all Time and above all Circumscription of Time from Everlasting to Everlasting who made Time and will dissolve it again He is called the Rock of Ages the Ancient of Days and Eternity itself Alpha and Omega the first and the last hath called Himself I AM Whose infinite Essence gives Being to the whole Creation and is All in All whose Attributes are more Excellent than to be discerned by so mean a thing as Sense His Wisdom Power Mercy and Justice Goodness and Truth also his Immensity Purity and Holiness is Incomprehensible and Eternal And having created the Heavens and the Earth and all that in them is within Six days and rested on the Seventh is therefore called the God of Sabbaths which we are commanded to keep Holy according to his own Example and Reason for Blessing and Hallowing that Day His Name is a strong Tower and being the Father of Lights King of Kings his Dominion is Supreme and being King of Righteousness from whom nothing is hid delighting in his Mercy and Justice beholdeth all the Dwellers upon Earth whose Vision is in his Attributes Providence and in the Face of Christ his Eternal Son who for us Men and our Salvation came down from Heaven and took upon Him the Nature of Man without Sin to suffer for the Sins of them that believe and to fulfill the Law became a Mediator betwixt God and Man in whose Name and Merits alone it is that I who am but a poor worthless Worm sinfull Dust and Ashes doe now most humbly present and prostrate my self before the Throne of his Majesty begging Mercy and Pardon for all my Sins and Iniquities and to blot out all my Transgressions O Lord God look down and have Mercy upon me lay no more upon me than thou wilt enable me to bear Counsel me in all my Difficulties sanctifie mine Affections create in me a clean Heart and renew a right Spirit within me Let not the World the Flesh or the Devil have any dominion over me Teach me how to fear Thee and Thee only and enable me to put mine whole Trust and Confidence in Thee and in Thee only and to hope in thy Mercy alone Sanctifie unto me all thy Dispensations towards me and in thine own good time send me Deliverance out of all my Troubles and Afflictions thou hast visited me with and in the mean time give me Patience to bear them Behold the Rage of mine Enemies abate their Pride asswage their Malice turn their Hearts and confound their Devices and plead my Cause with mine Adversaries and clear up mine Innocency from all their Aspersions and give them true Repentance for all their Sins and let them amend and reform their Misdoings Encline the King's Heart couragiously and continually to execute Judgment and Justice that so by Righteousness His Throne may be Established to Him and His Posterity throughout all Generations Enable Him to correct and purge out all the corrupt Practices now used in the Laws of this Land and grant that by the good Advice of His Parliament by Thee the only Wise God directed He may in His days live to see Judgment and Justice run down like a mighty Stream and Righteousness flow like a broad River that so He may be found worthy that at the last when His Life shall end here He may Reign with Christ to all Eternity in Life everlasting O Lord send a good Issue out of all mine Afflictions endue me with true Wisdom Knowledge and Understanding give me Sincerity and Integrity and shew me the Way wherein I should walk and grant in whatsoever I doe I may seek thine Honour and thy Glory Give me neither Poverty nor Riches but feed me with Food convenient for me and make me joyfully and truely thankfull unto Thee with mine whole Heart for all thy Providences towards me for the many Mercies and Necessaries of this life and of the life to come particularly for my Creation and Preservation but especially and above all for my Redemption in the Lord Jesus Christ for the means of Grace and the hope of Glory To whom with Thee and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Glory and possible Praise Might Majesty Thanks and Dominion henceforth and for ever-more Amen O Lord in Thee have I trusted let me never be confounded Benjamin Albyn To the August Imperial and most Excellent MAJESTY of WILLIAM the Third by the most Wonderfull Providence of the Almighty God made King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the True Christian Faith and in His Dominions over all Persons and in all Causes next under God Supreme Moderator and Governor The most humble Petition of Appeal together with a True Narrative of his Vnparallell'd Grievances c. is most humbly Offered and Presented by his most humble Petitioner BENJAMIN ALBIN of London Merchant GREAT SIR AS You are God's Vicegerent here upon Earth so You are most justly and duely to be accounted my Dread Soveraign and without just Cause I should not presume thus to make mine Approach to Your most Sacred MAJESTY Now as Life and an honest Reputation are to me of an equal Value and one Sir Richard Blackam hath blackened and whispered away my Reputation on the Grounds of a Causeless Statute of Bankrupt maliciously taken out against me by one Samuel Moyer after a long and wrongfull Prosecution of me in Your MAJESTY's High Court of Chancery where with most excessive Charge and Trouble I was for
means of the Villainy of the Law-practicers that have done me so much wrong And now W. D. one of the said Law-practicers hath on the 30th of June last caused an Execution to be served upon my Goods breaking open my Counting-house Dore Trunk and Cabinet-Locks whiles I was Citing him before the Judge to shew Cause for said Execution he having received of me an Assignment of sundry Bonds above a Year since as a satisfaction to prevent the Charge of Execution as I told him and though he hath evaded going before the Judge and his Client be paid all Dues yet he keeps mine Assigned Bonds and lets not his Client acknowledge satisfaction upon Record at Westminster and hath taken out the said Execution without a Scire facias and told the Party that served him with the Summons to appear before the Judge he would soon blow off the Matter of fact with an Affidavit Also sundry other Abuses I have met with both from him and others the Lawyers and Attorneys I have truely set forth that so if a due consideration thereof be taken 't will be found that as mine Unparallell'd Grievances are unpresidented so if they shall be made Presidents for People so aggrieved as I am to be without Remedy at Law and by the corrupt Practices used therein the Peoples substance must be eaten up What must the Consequence be For when People are made desperate what is it that they will not adventure to doe and Patience provoked is not quickly retrieved or easily reconciled and when their Passion and Rage is up they 'l regard a Man worth a Million no more than a Man that hath but a Mite And therefore I doe think with humble submission to the candid Government 't will be no Imprudence to prevent Mischief by a timely Reformation of the manifold intollerable vile Practices now used by the Law-practicers which doe cause so many and great Ruins and Oppressions upon the People that they doe most lamentably complain of and groan under them in all Parts of England and by that means there may be a due and an impartial Administration of Justice in all Parts of the Land 'T is true I am but one Man but yet as a Man of honest Parentage and an honest English-man free-born that hath always lived in all Obedience quietly abroad under many Governments and paid all Dues to the King and his Government here at home And therefore as I need not fear so I doe without fear of any Man living upon Earth in the Name of God and the King demand my rightfull Due and just Protection and wherein I am wronged I may be righted according to the Laws of the Land and not be any longer banter'd out of my Right by the Impudence Treachery and Insolence of the insatiable Lawyers and Attorneys who are ashamed of nothing and when a Man is wronged care not but will laugh at him and tell him 't is the Practice of the Court I am the more bold thus to demand because Mr. Moyer's causeless Statute of Bankrupt hath bereft me of all my friends that otherwise would or should appear for me who am a hearty Well wisher to all Mankind but most heartily and especially to those of mine own Country the English Nation that it may be delivered from the Tyranny of Injustice and that the Law-practicers may reform and become just and good Men honestly to deal by their Clients without Covetousness From Mark-Lane in London 12th of April 1697. Kept to the 12th of July 1697. Benjamin Albyn A True NARRATIVE of the Unparallell'd Grievances c. HAving lived to near the top of the Mount of Man's Age in great trouble and sorrow I will now hope for a Year of Jubilee before I begin to step down on the other side of the Mount And therefore having brought mine Appeal to His most Gracious Majesty I do now set forth my Grievances in the Narrative following that so it being duly considered how much Evil Mr. Moyer's Malice hath brought upon me some Recompence may be made and I Relieved and Justice being done I may most heartily pray God to forgive him and all my Enemies and the King's Throne may be established to him and his Posterity throughout all Generations The Worshipfull John Jollife deceased having bin Partner in Trade and Merchandizing with my Father many years before I was born and so continued many years after I was sent by them abroad into Turky which was in the Year of Our Lord 1668 when my Father being much troubled with the Stone and Gravel in his Kidneys did very much desire to part their Stocks To which proposition although for a long time the said Mr. Jollife was very much averse yet my Father alledging that his Body was infirm and not likely to continue long and that I being grown up and gone abroad in the World 't would save much trouble and imbroil with Executors He was at last prevailed with to part and in April 1676 which was but the Month before he died my Father did write to me that he had then just finished and ballanced their Books and appropriated each Man's Right to his proper Accompt But all the while which was some-time near seven years in doing Mr. Jollife having married his eldest Daughter to Mr. Samuel Moyer was very peevish and contentious in his Correspondency with me insomuch that I often desired him to imploy and send his Business to some body else but could not prevail with him untill my Mother did importune him and then he did it with as much unkindness as possibly he could being after my Father's death most industriously incensed against me by the said Mr. Samuel Moyer who was very jealous and fearfull of his Father-in-Law's having too good an opinion of me and this I have the more reason to believe because before that his Marriage I am very confident I never had so much as one syllable of an unkind word from him or an unkind look in Twenty years that I was in a manner almost daily with him unless in the time of my Nurture and School-education before I went abroad but always very kind in his Expressions towards me But after my Father's decease Mr. Jollife being grown old and feeble and decrepid as I have been told Mr. Moyer made use of the opportunity to make him believe any thing and did accordingly perswade him that I had sent him home Grogoram-Yarn at four Dollars per Oke not so good as what himself had received from others at 2¾ Dollars per Oke although by my Letter of Advice and the Invoice thereof 't was charged at no more than two Dollars per Oke so that he protested against me for so doing in Publick Notary and would have charged it upon me at four Dollars per Oke as Mr. Jollife himself wrote me Also he perswaded Mr. Jollife that I had kept 13272 Dollars in mine hands from him which being the Ballance of an Accompt of the Nett proceed of all