To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty the humble peticion of William Courten, esquire, grandchild and heyre of Sr. William Courten, deceased and George Carew, esquire, administrator of the goods and chattells of Sr. William Courten on the behalf of themselves and several others, your Majesties good subjects of England. Courten, William, 1642-1702. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A34767 of text R34841 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C6592). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 2 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A34767 Wing C6592 ESTC R34841 14871812 ocm 14871812 102773 2240892264

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A34767) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 102773) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1567:17) To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty the humble peticion of William Courten, esquire, grandchild and heyre of Sr. William Courten, deceased and George Carew, esquire, administrator of the goods and chattells of Sr. William Courten on the behalf of themselves and several others, your Majesties good subjects of England. Courten, William, 1642-1702. 3 p. s.n., [London : 1674?] Caption title. Imprint suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Courten, William, -- Sir, 1572-1636. Courten, William, d. 1655. East India Company. Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685. eebo To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie, the humble peticion of William Courten Esquire, grandchild and heyre of Sr. William Courten deceased, and George Courten, William, 1674 2 368 0 0 0 0 0 2 16304.35 F The rate of 16304.35 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion

That in prosecution of Justice and reparation , your Majestie was gratiously pleased particularly to owne the said cause , in a more especiall manner in the Treaty Anno 1662. then all other damages of that nature , to your subjects , in regard of the many services and sufferings , of Sr. William Courten , and others Intrested , that had lent one Hundred and Twenty five Thousand Ponnd Sterling to his late Majestie , at usuall Interest , towards the ordinary charge of the Crowne before the yeare 1640 , which remains yet unsatisfied , as by the Tallies and Assignements in the Exchequer appeares .

That during the late Warr Anno 1672. your Majestie most graciously appeared againe , concerning the damages of the said Ships , holding your self obliged , in Justice , and honour , to get satisfaction , from the principall Offenders for the same . As by the orders of the Councell Table , and reports , of the Committe of Lords , intimating the merrits of the said cause to your Majestie accordingly .

That notwithstanding all the orders , procedings , and speciall grants , under the great Seale of England , concerning the said Shipps , Goods , and Fraights , the Hollanders doe still pretend , they are not obliged to give any satisfaction for the same , being made a debt incumbant upon the Crowne , by the last Treaty at London , whereby eight Hundred Thousand Pattacones are to be paid unto your Majestie by the States Generall , at foure equall payments , for which the Crowne of Spaine stands obliged , that they shall be paid accordingly .

Your Peticioners doe therefore most humbly pray , that your Majestie would be most graciously pleased , to assigne some part , and proportion of the said Money payable to your Majestie by the States , unto your Peticioners in Satisfaction of the said damages , and losses , concerning the said Shipps as aforesaid , or to grant them , some assignment , upon any branch of your Majesties revenue in liew thereof ,

And your Peticioners , shall ever pray , &c.