The case of Richard Fielder, in relation to the petition of the waggoners. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B22947 of text R224750 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB 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 B22947 Wing F872 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.14[27] ESTC R224750 ocm99885635

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 eng Fielder, Richard -- Early works to 1800. Roads -- England -- Early works to 1800. Political corruption -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800. eebo The case of Richard Fielder, in relation to the petition of the waggoners. . n/a 1696 2 731 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-09 Sampled and proofread 2014-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The CASE of Richard Fielder , in Relation to the Petition of the Waggoners .

THE said Fielder is Deputy Surveyor of the King's Highways , and by Virtue thereof , constantly attends His Majesty whenever he goes above Ten Miles out of Town .

That it is his Business to give Notice to all Persons to Repair the High-ways ; by reason whereof , several Waggoners on the Roads , finding a Benefit to themselves thereby in their more easy Draughts , have now and then , for the said Fielder's Incouragement , given him Ten Shillings ; which they do now pretend , was given by way of Composition , that they might drive with more Horses than the Law allows .

That since His Majesty's coming to the Throne ( which is all the time the said Fielder hath been concerned in this Business ) he hath been One Year in Ireland , and a Year and half imployed in making New Roads in Hide-Park and St. James's-Park , so that he could not possibly be so much upon the Roads as the said Waggoners pretend ( had he no private Concerns of his own which are very great , he being a Corn-Chandler , and imployed in buying Horses for the Army . ) And moreover , he hath for Five Years last past , been a Warrant-Servant to His Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark ; and always in constant waiting whenever the Prince removed his Court , which is well known hath been very often .

Note , That some of the said Waggoners pretend they have paid the said Fielder Five or Ten Shillings per Quarter , which is the most : Yet some of them say , That for their own part , they have paid him more than Twenty Pounds , at several times ; which is contradictory in it self , for admitting ( though by no means granting ) that Ten Shillings per Quarter were paid , yet in Four Years time according to their own Limitation , the said Summ must fall much short of such their Pretentions .

That in Case this Honourable House should be of Opinion , That the said Fielder's receiving any Money of the said Waggoners , was for Composition , to let them drive with more Horses than the Law allows ( which he does utterly deny , was for any other Reason than what is herein before mentioned ) yet he hopes the same is pardoned by the late Act of Grace : For , that it was not , neither could it be proved before the Honourable Committee , That he has taken One Penny from any of the said Waggoners , within this Year and an half , upon any such Account ; and for the Truth thereof , referrs himself to the Waggoners Evidence , given in before the said Committee , where there is nothing alledged by the Petitioners , of any Quarterly Summ paid him within this Year and an half .

Lastly , 't is greatly to be feared , how Insolent the said Waggoners will be for the future , if they shall receive Incouragement herein : For since their Petitions have been depending in this Honourable House , they have presumed daily to drive contrary to Law ; and particularly one John Pierce , drew his Waggon out of the Swan-Inn at Holbourn-Bridge , on Saturday the 29th . of February last , with Nine Horses ; and being admonish'd not to do it , he replied , He would do it and see who durst meddle with him . It can be proved , how several of them do now daily drive contrary to , and in Defiance of the Law ; and in particular Thomas Child , Thomas Barns , and William Whitaker , who all drove their several and Respective Waggons with Six Horses , at length , to each Waggon , on the Second Instant , in the Parishes of Bradford , Tilehurst , and Reading , in the County of Barks , making their Boasts , That none durst oppose them ; besides several others , too long to be mentioned in this Paper . All which is humbly offer'd to your Honours Consideration , by the said Fielder .