To the High Court of Parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Richard Ford, Nathaniel Manton, and Thomas Papillon, of London, merchants. Ford, Richard, Sir, d. 1678. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A84682 of text R212165 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[54]). 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. 3 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 2017 A84682 Wing F1473 Thomason 669.f.19[54] ESTC R212165 99870811 99870811 163391 2240927046

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A84682) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163391) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[54]) To the High Court of Parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland the humble petition of Richard Ford, Nathaniel Manton, and Thomas Papillon, of London, merchants. Ford, Richard, Sir, d. 1678. Manton, Nathaniel. Papillon, Thomas, 1623-1702. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Whaling -- Early works to 1800. Fisheries -- England -- Early works to 1800. A84682 R212165 (Thomason 669.f.19[54]). civilwar no To the High Court of Parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland: the humble petition of Richard Ford, Nathaniel Manton, and Thomas Papill Ford, Richard, Sir 1654 1 504 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the High Court of Parliament of England , Scotland , and Ireland : The humble Petition of Richard Ford , Nathaniel Manton , and Thomas Papillon , of London , Merchants . SHEWETH ,

THat your Petitioners taking notice that the fishing Ships lately returned from Greenland , had taken onely two Whales , whose Oyle and Finnes are but a drop to that Ocean which the necessary occasions of this Common-wealth require : Your Petioners presumed that this Honourable House , would for this season suspend that Law which prohibites the Importation of those Commodities from Forraign parts ; and in confidence thereof did presently cause to be bought in Holland , a very large quantitie of Oyle and Finnes , earnestly awaiting the Resolution of this Honourable House thereupon : And in the mean time having an offer made them by one Thomas May , Agent for Major John Harris , of a certain Licence , which they both pretended the said Harris had obtained from his Highness , the Lord Protectour and his Honourable Councell , for the free Importing of 1500 Tunns of Whale Oyle and Whale Finnes by him or his Assignes , they did pay unto the said Harris 900l . upon the exhibiting and assignment of the said Licence before the Commissioners of the Customes : And did thereupon give order to their Factors in Holland ; presently to lade for this Port of London 200 Tunns of Oyle , and 100 Tunns of Whale Finnes , and for the Port of Hull one other hundred Tunns of Whale Oyle , in confidence that they should enjoy the benefit of the said Licence .

But your Petitioners have since understood and are satisfied , that the said pretended Licence was never signed by his Highness , but forged by the said Harris and his complices ; and the said Harris notwithstanding his Highness order to apprehend him , being fled and escaped with the said money , your Petitioners are in apparent danger , not onely to lose the said 900l . which they have paid , but also to their utter ruine to incurre the penaltie of the Law upon all that very considerable quantitie of Oyle , and Whale Finnes aforesaid , when they shall arrive , of which they are in dayly , expectation , and therefore do humbly pray , in regard that they cannot seasonably countermand their orders ,

That it may please this Honourable House , to take their sad condition so farre into your gracious consideration , as to afford them such relief and protection for their said goods against the rigor of the Law , as to your wisedomes shall be found most agreeable to equitie , and the pressing exigencie of their case , that they and theirs may not at once be ruined in their innocencie , by the wretched circumvention of so notorious an Impostor .

And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c.