To the right honourable the High Court of Parliament. The humble petition of Edward Hanchett, usher of the late Court of Wards and Liveries. Hanchett, Edward. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87062 of text R212126 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[47]). 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 A87062 Wing H639 Thomason 669.f.19[47] ESTC R212126 99870774 99870774 163384 2240949004

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A87062) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163384) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[47]) To the right honourable the High Court of Parliament. The humble petition of Edward Hanchett, usher of the late Court of Wards and Liveries. Hanchett, Edward. 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 England and Wales. -- Court of Wards and Liveries -- Early works to 1800. Debt, Imprisonment for -- England -- Early works to 1800. A87062 R212126 (Thomason 669.f.19[47]). civilwar no To the right honourable the High Court of Parliament. The humble petition of Edward Hanchett, usher of the late Court of Wards and Liveries. Hanchett, Edward. 1654 1 457 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 Right Honourable the High Court of PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of Edward Hanchett , Vsher of the late Court of Wards and Liveries .

HUmbly sheweth unto your Honours , That your Petitioner did purchase the Office of Usher to the Court , to him and his Heirs for ever , at the rate of 4000 l. it being an Office of inheritance granted by Letters Patents under the great Seale of England .

About 4. yeares after that your Petitioner was possessed of the said Office , the High Court of Parliament were pleased to take away the said Court , but in their justice thought fit , that the Officers of the Court which had their places by Letters Patents under the great Seale of England , should have a competent satisfaction for the losse of their Offices , and in order thereunto , referred it to a Committee of their own Members to consider and make allowances to the severall Officers , who did upon serious consideration allow to your Petitioner the sum of 3500 l. for the losse of his said Office .

The great Officers of the said Court were Members of Parliament , and did procure the satisfaction allotted to them ; your Petitioner had the same Justice for him , but not the same Friends .

Notwithstanding the said Order and Vote of the House , and your Petitioners constant , and faithfull adhering to the Cause and Interest of the Parliament , even in their greatest extremities , your Petitioner being sent for by the late King to execute his Office at Oxford , upon paine of losing it , and refused to go , to the hazard of his utter undoing , if the King had prevailed , and your Petitioner as yet hath had no recompence .

Your Petitioner borrowed a great part of the money that purchased the said Office ; upon the dissolution of the Court your Petitioner was disabled to pay his Debts , and was soon after clapped up Prisoner in the Upper Bench , and there hath remained ever since , to his utter ruine and destruction , having sold all his goods and personall Estate to maintain himselfe and his Wife , and satisfie his Creditors what he could , that now your Petitioner is in a very said condition , not able to subsist , his friends having been wearied with so long supplying his great wants and necessities , unlesse this honourable Parliament be pleased to consider his Cause that crieth for their Justice , and afford him such reliefe as their Wisdomes shall think convenient .

And your Petitioner shall ever pray , &c.