IN the yeare 1567. Phillip the Second, King of Spaine, having sent Olivaris Duke of Alva, to be Governour of the Seventeene Provinces, the Spanish Inquisition, was then put in execution. Where amongst others, William Courten a Tay­lors Son at Menen in Flanders, was imprisoned, from whence he made his escape, and remained sometime privately about Courtrick, having maried Margriet Casier from thence a Linnen-weavers daughter, by whom he had one daugh­ter named Margiret, that maried with Matthias Boudaen, a Macklaers Son of Antwerpe: These People having very tender consciences, they trans­ported themselves, some for Holland, and others for England, with all the monies and credit they could make.

William Courten and Margeret his wife being arived at London, in the yeare 1568. they toke a small house in Abchurch-laine, where both of them followed the trade of making French Hoods, that were much used in those days, and sold their worke to the shops, that retayled the same out againe. After some time expired, they toke a house in Pudding-laine, in the Parish of St. Mary Hill, where they had two Sons, the eldest named William, who was borne in the yeare 1572. (yet within the memory of the living) and the other named Peter, that was born in the yeare 1581. who were both brought up to Schoole, to lea [...]ne to read, write, and cast Accounts.

William Courtens the Sonne after his Fathers death, was sent unto Mr. Peter Cromelincx, a Linnen Merchant at Harlem, (that had also fled out of Court­rick for Religion) to be instructed in Trafficque and Linnen Manifactures, where the said William Courten became intimate with one of the deafe and dumbe Daughters of Mr. Cromelincx, and afterwards maried her (with the consent of her Father) by whom he had a good fortune, and one Son named Peter, that died without Issue. And after the death of Mr. Peter [Page 2] Cromelin [...]x Daughter, William Courten being setled at London, he maried the Daughter of one Mr. Moses Tryan, by whom he had severall children.

Peter Courten the second brother was sent to Cologne in Germany, to be a Correspondent there for his brother William and other friends, where he became familiar with the Widdow of Mr. Fromenois, who was the Daugh­ter of Monsieur Del Prato, and maried her, that had a Son and Daughter by her former Husband, but died without Issue by Peter Courten, leaving her two children named Walter and Katharine Fromenois, to his care and education.

Matthias Boudaen had planted himself and his family at Rotterdam, where he became insolvent, but was set up againe, by the assistance of his friends, and not long after died, leaving his Widdow Margret Courten with two children a Son and a Daughter, named Peter and Anna Boudaen. The wid­dow then transported her selfe and her children for England, to seek better preferment.

Iacob Pergens a Cologner borne, that was made a Free Denizon of England, at the instance of William Courten, he maried the said Anna Bou­daen, who died without Issue.

Peter Boudaen the onely Son of Matthias was bred in England, and made also a Free Denizon, and afterwards maried Katharine Fromenois, the Daughter in Law of Peter Courten, that was setled in Middelburgh in Zeeland; but Walter Fromenois the Son maried a Sempstris, and died without Issue, leaving a great part of his Estate to his Widdow.

On the 24. of April 1606. Iohn Moncy of London Merchant, a Brabander borne, and a Schoole-masters Son, being made likewise a Free Denizon of England, he contracted a mariage with the said Margret Boudaen, the Widdow of Matthias, whereupon William Courten, Peter Courten, and Iohn Moncy entred into a Trade of Partnership with a joynt Stock, whereof the half-part belonged to William Courten, and a quarter-part to each of the other two, which Trade continued for 15. yeares together very profitable to all the Partners: then the Accounts thereof were liquidated, and all things set even and right.

Now William Courten, and Peter Courten, being made Knights, they raised their credit and esteem in the World, and also continued their Trade in Partnership during their lives; but that Stock was chiefly managed by Sr. Peter Courten and Iohn Moncy, Sr. William Courten dealing as a Bankere in London, besides upon his own particular account, where he toke up what Monies he pleased; purchased severall Lordships, and Tenements. And transported vast Sums of Money, in Gold, out of England to Middelburgh, [Page 3] and other places to negotiate Bills of Exchange, whereupon he was que­stioned in the Star-Chamber, committed to the Prison of the Fleet, and fined for the said offence of exporting the Treasure of England into for­raigne parts, against the Law of the Land, as by the Records in the Crowne-Office appeares.

Sr. Peter Courten having maried a second wife named Elizabeth Hennich, he died without Issue in the yeare 1630. at Middelburgh, where he had built a great House in the North-street, but left the Accounts of the Trade in Partnership open, which had not been liquidated within the space of nine yeares before his death, and made Peter Boudaen his Heire and sole Exe­cutor, giving only 100 Pound sterling to Sr. William Courten his Brother, and other small Legacies to his children, (that were his Heires at Law,) to exclude them from the Estate, which raised the first dissentions in those Families.

Iohn Moncy died without Issue in the yeare 1631. when he was at Peter Boudaens House in Middelburgh, upon the view of all the Accounts, in the generall Books of Trade, that were kept by Sr. Peter Courten; and by his pretended Will, gave a great part of his Estate away in Legacies to the children of Sr. William Courten and Peter Boudaen, from his owne and only Sisters children, Hester and Su [...]nna de Wyer, that he brought up as his owne, and made Margret his wife, his Heire, by whome he had noe child.

Sr. Willim Courten died in the yeare 1636, in the 64. yeare of his age, leaving one Son, and three Daughters, named William, Hester, Mary, and Anna, being all very much troubled concerning the Accounts lying open between Sr. William Courten, Sr. Peter Courten, and Iohn Moncy, Wherein they esteemed the greatest part of their Fathers Estate to be in that Stock: Which raised many jealousies in the Family of Sr. William Courten, and more amongst the Creditors, who had lent their own mo­nies, and the Portions of many Orphants, and Widdows, upon the credit of Sr. William Courten, and his Son and Heire, who Sr. William appointed the sole Executor of his last Will and Testament.

It is to be remarqued, that Sr. William Courten died indebted 146300 Pound principall Sterling Money, borrowed at intrest, upon the Obli­gations of himself and his Son, as by a Schedule of the debts appeares. And that for 112500. Pound thereof, there remaines no Effects in England, or visibly in any parts of the World, but what rests either in the hands of the Sons and Daughters of the said Peter Baudaen, viz. of Iohn Boudaen, Peter Boudaen, Walter Boudaen, Henry Boudaen, Constance and Katharine [Page 4] Boudaen, that call themselves the Heires of Sr. Pieter Courten and Iohn Moncy, or in the hands of Sr. Iacob Cats, Iacob Pergens, or the East-India Companie of the Netherlands, as by the 36. Articles annexed to a Peti­tion in the Parliament of England, hereafter mencioned more plainely appeares.

It is now necessarie to give some account of the Administration of Sr. William Courtens Estate by his Son and Heire and Sole Executor, that administred upon his Fathers Lands and goods, from the yeare 1636, unto the yeare 1643, when he be­came insolvent and absented himself from his Creditors, and also left his dwelling house in London, and frequented the Exchange no more, which was most notoriously known to all the World.

Sr. William Courten in the yeare before his death, borrowed the Summe of 36000. Pound Sterling of Sr. Paul Pyndar upon his own and his Sons Obligations, and set out severall Ships (in Companie with other men) to the East-Indies, China, and Japan; And Sr. Paul Pyndar being the greatst Creditor, he earnestly called for his money, in the yeare after Sr. William Cour [...]en died, but was perswaded to waite in expectation of Returnes from the East-Indies, to get his satisfaction from thence (if possible) where his money was imployed.

Divers other Creditors for severall great Sums of Money, daily Solici­ted William Courten, the Son and Heire for payment of their debts, or to have other security for their Moneys, which forced Mr. Courten to sell the Lordships of Laxton and Kneesall in the County of Nottingham unto Mr. P [...]r­point, to satisfie some persons that were very importunate for their Monies. Soone after the said William Courten was necessitated to morgage all his other Lands and Lordships unto Mr. Daniell Harvy, Mr. Iohn Rushout, and Mr. Thomas Coppin, which went but a litle way towards satisfaction of the great debts and Interest Money growne due thereupon, the rents and profits of the Lands being consumed by the Armies of the King and Parliament. After all this was done, the said William Courten, further to preserve his Fathers reputation, prevailed with Sr. Edward Littleton, his Brother in Law, and the Earle of Bridgwater with David Goubard to become bound unto divers Creditors, that renewed their Bonds, and also unto several other persons, that lent Monies, towards payment of old debts.

Thus William Courten the Son and Heire of Sr. William Courten continued in paying some Creditors with borrowing of others, untill the yeare 1642. then he granted and assigned all his Ships, and Stock in the East-Indies, and the reversions of his Morgaged Lands in England, by severall Deeds and Conveyances unto Sr. Edward Littleton, dated the 26. of April 1642, to [Page 5] save him harmless and indempnified from the said debts, wherein he stood obliged.

William Courten and Sr. Edward Littleton then for further security unto Sr. Paul Pyndar, for the remainder of his debt, which was at that time the Summe of 24800. Pound Sterling, did by their Deed and Assignment bearing date the 19. of September 1642. grant and assigne severall Sums of Money upon the said Ships and their Fraights, in the East-Indies, for satisfaction of the said debt and damages, to Sr. Paul Pyndar, his Execu­tors or Administrators, as by the said severall Deeds inrolled in Chancery, and the Admiralty of England appeares.

In the yeare 1646. the Lady Katharine Courten the Sons Wife, by whom she had two children, a Son and a Daughter, named William and Kathartne, both yet living, having conveyed away the Books of Accounts of the Trade in Partnership, that were kept in England, she caused Authentick Coppies to be made thereof, and sent the Originall Books unto Peter Bou­daen of Middelburgh, to the end and purpose, that the Accounts might be stated and setled, that some portion of Monies might be preserved if pos­sible for her Children (after the Companies debts were paid) out of the reach of the Commissioners, that executed the Statutes made against Banck­rupts, as by the Attestations of Iohn Moone, Iames Boevé, and severall others appeares.

OP huyden den 16. Iuly 1675. compareerde voor my Abraham Huyssens, openbaer Notaris by den Hove van Hollandt geadmitteert, binnen Vlissinge resi­derende, ende den Getuygen naergenoemt, Sr. Jaques Boevé, Koopman van Engelandt in Londen, gewoont hebbende binnen Middelburgh, my Notaris seer wel bekent, de welcke op sijn Manne waerheyt, in plaets van Eede, ten versoecke van d' Heer George Carew Schilt-knaep, by den Prerogativen Hove van Engelandt gestelt tot Administrateur van alle de ongeadmini­streer de Goederen ende Effecten van wijlen Willem Courten Rid­der, in sijn leven woonachtigh tot Londen, ende verklaer de waerachtigh te zijn dat hy Deponent in den Iare 1628. is komen woonen als Comptoirknecht by Jan de Moncy Koopman tot Londen voorsz. in Huywelijck hebbende Iuffrouw Margrieta Courten, de welcke in Compagnie handelde met de voornoemde Heer Willem Courten, ende Pieter Courten Ridder, woonende tot Middel­burgh, ende dat hy in dien dienst is gebleven tot den Iare 1638. in welcke tijdt hy ettelijcke Iaren de Boecken wegens de Negotie van de gemelde Compagnie binnen Engelandt heeft gehouden, ende voor sijn afscheyt (naer dat de selve volkomentlijck waren over­gedragen door last van Iuffrouw Margrieta Courten, Weduwe van den voornoemden Jan de Moncy, gelevert in handen van [Page 8] Willem Courten, Sone van den voornoemden Willem Courten Ridder, welcke Boecken sedert door last ende ordre van Willem Courten ende sijn Huysvrouwe, in ofte ontrent den Iare 1646. gesonden zijn geweest aen Pieter Boudaen Courten, als Erfge­naem van Pieter Courten, door John Moone, gelijck hem De­ponent gebleken is uyt een be-eedighde verklaringe door gemelte Moone gedaen in handen van Commissarisen van desolate Boedels binnen Londen, op den 25. February 1656. item dat David Goubard gewesen Boeck-houder eerst van Pieter Courten, ende nader [...]andt van Willem Courten, aen hem Deponent verklaert heeft in den Hage dat de selve Compagnie Boecken die tot Londen waren gehouden, gekomen waren in handen van Pieter Boudaen Courten, ende die aldaer gesien te hebben: voorts dat de gene­rale Boecken, nopende de Negotie op alle gewesten buyten Enge­landt, gehouden wierden door Pieter Courten tot Middelburgh, ende desselfs Erfgenaem Pieter Boudaen Courten, ende dat de Rekeningen van gemelte Compagnie by sijnen tijdt noyt en zijn vereffent, ende noch openstaen voor soo veel hem bekent is, 't selve gevende voor redenen van wetenschappe, presenterende alle 't selve des noodt ende daer toe versocht zijnde met solemnelen Eede te be­vestigen. Aldus gedaen ende gepasseert binnen Vlissingen voorn̄. present Joannis ende Engel Huyssens, als Getuygen hier toe versocht.

[Page 9] After the Creditors had prosecuted the said Commission for severall moneths together, they procured the Commissioners to make an Assign­ment, and repartition of William Courtens Estate, that was discovered, and to divide the same amongst the Creditors, conformable to the Statutes made against Banckrupts. And notwithstanding all possible inquiries, and examinations were made at the great costs, and charges of the Creditors; yet there could not be found, any more Estare, in England, then 13. [...] in the Pound, which was divided towards the principall debt of 112300 £ that still remained due, unto the Creditors of Sr. William Courten and his Sonne, (besides the debt of Sr. Paul Pyndar) although Sr. Edward Littleton, the Earle of Bridgwater, and David Goubard became bound, as aforesaid. Who also absented themselves, and died without giving satisfaction, as hereafter is mencioned.

These transactions made all men stand amazed, in regard they could not discover any losses, that Sr. William Courten had sustained in his life time; and they were the more astonished, in respect that those very individuall summes of Money, for which they sought relief upon the Obligations of Sr. William Courten and his Son, were contracted by Sr. William Courten, 14▪ or 15. yeares before his death, and continued at Intrest, which was con­stantly payd out of designe to get what other Monies he could into his hands, as by the sadd consequences thereof appeares.

Upon severall other meetings, and examinations, the Commissioners were informed, that David Goubard, who was Book-keeper unto Sr. Peter Courten, and Sr. William Courten, and had made his Escape into Holland, (where the States Generall gave him a Protection) could discover much of Sr. William Courtens Estate, and that also Iacob Pergens of Amsterdam and Peter Boudaen of Middelburgh, could likewise contribute very much there­unto. The said Commissioners sent severall Letters subscribed by them­selves and many of the Principall Creditors, unto Pergens, Boudaen, and Goubard respectively, earnestly intreating them to give their best assistance therein towards the reliefe of many Orphants and Widdows; but neither of them would send any answers to the purpose, only Pergens writ unto Mr. Richard Norton one of the Commissioners, that as for the Monies which they had desired him to pay, which the East-India Company had paid concerning the Ships Bona Esperanza and Henry Bona Adventura, Ionas Abels of Amsterdam by Procuration from Sr. Paul Pyndar had claymed and arrested the same in the yeare 1648, therefore he could not doe them any service therein.

The Controversie concerning those Ships is formerly set forth at large, called a Conti­nuation [Page 10] of the Ca [...]e between the Heires and assignes of Sr. William Courten and the East India Company of the Netherlands, unto wich I refer you; Yet for a further aggrevation of that Cause, I shall make these following remarkes thereupon.

That it was a most abominable practise, and Combination, betweene Iacob Pergens, Peter Boudaen, David Goubard, and severall Directors of the East-India Company, who had speciall notice, of the severall grants, and Bills of Sale unto Sr. Edward Littleton, and Sr. Paul Pyndar, which were also insinuated unto them by Ionas Abeels, on the 25. of May 1648. who likewise arrested the Money in their hands, which the Scheepens of Amster­dam had declared valid, on the first of October 1648. yet after all insi­nuations, prohibitions, protests, and arrests, this pretended Agreement following was made.

[Page 12] It was a double iniquity and robbery in Pergens, Boudaen, and Goubard, that knew William Courten became insolvent in the yeare 1643. and that he had no property left in him after the grants and Bills of Sale to Sr. Edward Littleton and Sr. Paul Pyndar.

Such Fraudes in France, are punished with death, and the persons ab­sent are hanged in Effigies.

The very fraight, that the Portugals, by contract were to give for the Passengers, and goods taken aboard the Ship Bona Esperanza for Maccao, and for 90. Lasts, of the Ships Lading, back againe for Goa, amounted unto much more Money, then what Pergens, and Goubard, had by their pretended agreement, gotten of the Company upon Caution.

SOLOMON says, that opression makes the wise man mad, Sr. Paul Pyndar, that had served King Iames, and the Turkey Company in the quallity of an Embassador, for the space of Eleaven yeares, and had ad­vanced the greatst part of his Estate unto Sr. William Courten, as aforesaid, and the rest of all his Meanes unto the late King Charles, towards the ordi­nary charge of the Crowne. This Sr. Paul Pyndar, upon the news that the East-India Company of the Netherlands had dealt so unkindly by him, he retired himself to his Chamber, and died of grief in the yeare 1650.

Then William Toomes his Executor, made some further inspection into the said Cause, and found upon Examinations, that the Officers of the East-India Company had not only surprised the Bona Esperanza, and spoy­led the Voyage in her passage by Malacca, but had also taken away the Charterparties, Bills of Lading, Books of Account, Journals and all other writings whatsoeve [...], in the Ship, and sent them to Batavia, with the Ships and goods, which were there kept without any proceedings at Law, or colour of right. At the very apprehension of this spoyle and loss sustained by William Toomes, in such an age, that he could not expect any Justice, where frauds and oppression, were added unto force and vio­lence; he therefore laid violent hands upon himself and died.

It is very remarkable, that Sr. William Courtens Son and Heire died a fuge­tive in Italy, and insolvent, his Lady the Earle of Bridgwaters Daughter died miserable, his Daughter Katharine Courten maried a Millers Son that was her owne Foot-boy, and William Courten the Grand-child lives in Exile, while a Comis­sion [Page 13] upon the Statutes concerning Banckrupts remaines in force against his Fathers Estate. Yet the Sons and Heires of Peter Boudaen and their Advocates say, that William Courten, the Grand-child ought to administer the Estate as Heire at Law, additione Hereditatis, both of the Father and Grand-father, after he hath re­nounced the same, and cannot appropriate any thing unto himself, the Father and Grandfather being indebted more then ten times the value of their goods.

Although Dionisius Rextoot, is a School-masters Son, he hath as little manners as wit, and less Law then both; otherwise such rude Expressions, had not come out of his black mouth, in pleadings, when he wanted mat­ter of defence, in his Cases, to fall upon the persons of his Adversaries, with railing, and base language, as hereafter is mencioned; but it is con­venient first to shew his ignorance, in the Laws of England, and Secondly, that the force and strength of reason and argument is against him here, if the cause were to be judged by the Laws of this Country.

By the Statutes made concerning Banckrupts in the 13. yeare of Queene Elizabeth, and the 19. of King James, the Commissioners or the major part of them, have power to grant, bargaine and sell the goods, debts, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of Banck­rupts, and to bar the issue in taile, of all such Estates, in rever­sion or remainder, that the said Banckrupts were any wayes pos­sessed of, or seized at the time, when they become Banckrupts. Whereupon a question did arise betweene the Commissiners, and William Courten, the Grandchild, concerning Lands, that was set­led upon his Mother, at her mariage, as a Ioynture, and after her death, upon the Heirs male of William Courten, by her for ever, in consideration of the Mariage portion, that shee brought, being a Person of Honor, and the Daughter of an Earle.

The Case was in short thus.

WIlliam Courten, Tenant in Taile, bargaines and sells his Mannors and Lands of Pirton Annton, and Evesham, in the County of Worcester, Anno 1642. unto Sr. Edward Littleton, and his Heires, for payment of debts, and in the yeare 1643. becomes Banckrupt, the Question was, whether the Estate Taile, which passed not by the bargaine and sale, should not be preserved by the Law, for the Heires of William Courten, the Banckrupt, or not.

[Page 14] It was resolved, by all the Iudges, that during the life of William Courten the father, Sr. Edward Littleton had a good Estate in the Lands, but was determinable upon the death of Courten, And that after his death, the Commissioners grant, would opperate up­on the Lands, for the benefit of the Creditors, and bar the Heires in taile; but the Wife should have had, and injoyed the Lands, only during her life (if she had survived her Husband) in recompence of her Dower.

If there were any separation of goods, admitted in England, as there is in these Netherlands, between man and wife, frauds would abound there, as they doe in Holland and Zeeland, where, upon Con­tracts of Mariages, men that are indebted, and have gotten other mens Estates into their hands▪ they doe usually secure their goods, and monies, to their Wives and Children, to the prejudice of other men, which is a most ungodly practise, and distructive to credit and Commerce.

The Statutes are very severe in England, to prevent all such kind of fraudulent practices. And I doe presume Banckrupts in the United Netherlands, that have forfited their Estates to Creditors, can have no Heires at Law, to enjoy their goods. And that the Courts of Iudicature in the Netherlands, cannot set up an Heire of William Courten, as they did an Executor of John Moncy.

It is a most horrid abuse, for Advocates here, to controvert the Laws of England, and to make their owne constructions of such things, that they doe not understand. Contracts in England, by Subjects of the Crowne of England, touching their owne Interest▪ are not to be interpreted by the people of another Nation. Although Pergens and Boudaen, with their Confederates, have indeavoured to defraud the Kings Subjects, of their goods, yet they cannot defend themselves from the reach of the Kings Laws and Statutes of his Kingdoms. It is not very materiall whether the Sons and Heires of Peter Boudten, doe account with George Carew, as Administrator, appointed by the Prerogative Court of England, or as he is im­powred by the Commissioners upon the Statutes aforesaid. They must make a discovery by one meanes or another what is become of [Page 15] the 122139 £ sterling, that Sr. Peter Courten is charged with by the Bookes of Sr. William Courten, and the account thereof taken out of the Books that were kept by Mr. John Moncy, wherein it is most evident, that Sr. Peter Courten died much indebted to the Stock in Partnership, which came into the hands of Peter Boudaen de­ceased.

Now follows the Vindication of George Carew, in his Quality, and Caracter, and the severall proceedings, upon his Administratons and Assignments on the Estates of Sr. Edward Littleton, Sr. William Courten, and Sr. Paul Pyndar.

Altho [...]gh it be not very materiall to the Cause, to say any thing in the vindication of my self and Family, or to answer those false allegations that Rextoot and Schotte used in their pleadings, by in­structions of the Boudaens, viz.

That my Obligations were false, and informations upon them.

That I had no just pretence against Sr. William Courten or Company.

That all the Actions brought against the Boudaens were vexa­tions.

That I had no quallity as Administrator of Sr. Will. Courten.

That I was an Enemy to the States Generall, and particularly to Zeeland.

That I was a Person of noe consideration or Family of worth.

And finally that the Oaths of English Men, and Scotch Men could be gotten for four stivers a peice.

All which being more of malice then matter, nevertheless, I shall truly demonstrate my condition and quallity as follow, viz.

THat I am lineally de [...]ended from the Carews of Anthony, a Family from whence severall branches have continued Knights in Devonshire and Corn­wal ever since the Conquest.

That my great Grandfather setled himself at Wickham Brooke, in the County of Suffolke, at the desire of his Wife, where he purchased 800. pound per annum to be neare her Relations.

That my Father was educated at Oxford, and had his own Election after he [Page 16] was Master of Art, to follow what study he pleased, who chose Divinity, and then maried with Mrs. Frances Gosnold my Mother, who was the Daughter of Robert Gosnold of Otley Hall, in the County of Suffolke Esqr. that maried with the Daughter of Robert Forth, of Butley Abby, in the same County Esqr. where those two Families had continued in honor and reputation in the Service of their King and Country 500. yeares and upward.

That at the earnest request of the Aldermen and Common Councel of London, (who were upon the view and sale of severall Lands in Suffolke, which King James had granted for satisfaction of Money, lent by the City) my Father was invited to accept the Benefice of St. Michaell in Cornhill, over against the Royall Ex­change, where he died, whose memory is very much esteemed throughout the City of London.

That I was the second Son of my Father, after whose death my Mother left me to my owne choyce, either to go to the University, or to follow any other im­ployment: Whereupon I made severall Essays in the City of London, and spent divers Sums of Money to noe purpose, being averse to Trade. Then I admitted my self a studient of Graeys Inn, where I spent my time during the space of nine yeares in the exercise of the Common Law.

That my first Wife was the only Daughter of William Walton, a Turkey-Merchant, who had lent at severall times to Sr. William Courten and Sr. Paul Pyndar, the Sum of 7000. pound Sterling. And she was (Bona fide) worth 5000. Pound, besides all the Obligations due unto her Father, which were assigned to me by William Walton Esqr. her only Brother, in satisfaction of her right.

That my second Wife was the Daughter of John Cole of Whichampton, Esqr. Principall Register unto Sr. Julius Caesar, that was Master of the Rolls. Her Portion was 900. Pound Sterling, and 80. Pound per Annum in Lands, and Tenements for ever.

That upon the Kings Restauration Anno 1660. I was admitted and sworn one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Chamber, being ac­tually seized and possessed of an Estate of Inheritance to the valve of 500. pound per Annum, as by the Certificates following all these particulars more plainly appeares.

That all the Obligations under which I claime, and all the prosecutions there­upon, are matters of Record, and such Iudiciall [...]cts, that vindicates my Person and Quality to all the World, as hereafter is also further declared by the very Records extant.

Wherefore the said Advocates, and their Clyants, ought to be condemned in good Dammages, for those Nationall affronts, and personall Injuries, that in other Countries, are not committed without most severe Chastisements.

VErtoont met alle behoorlijck respect ende eerbiedigheyt George Carew Schilt­knaep van Richmond in het Graafschap van Surrey, in het Koninckrijck van Engeland, Administrateur van alle de Goederen, Effecten, Haven, Vee, Rechten, Schulden, ende Crediten, van Sir William Courten Zaliger Ridder, (gelijck by sijne uytterste Wille hier annex blijckt.)

Hoe dat hy Suppliant in sijne voorsz. qualiteyt als Ad­ministrateur, (tot sijn groote schade ende verlies) vele Jaren achter den anderen Proces heeft gevoert voor de ordinare Vierschare voor B B, en S S. der Stadt Middel­burgh, (in der tijdt zijnde) op ende jegens de Heer Pieter Boudaen zaliger, gewesen Koopman ende Bewint­hebber van de Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compa­gnie tot Middelburgh, en des selfs Erfgenamen, omme sekere Rekeningen gestatueert ende geliquideert te hebben, die als noch zijn openstaende ende ongesloten tusschen den Suppliant ende de Erfgenamen van den voorsz. Pieter Boudaen, wegens de Societeyt in den Handel ende Com­mercie die geweest is tusschen Sir William Courten, Sir Pieter Courten, ende Iohn Moncy, alle Koopluyden, gelijck by het vertoogh hier annex op den 8. February 1675. aen Burge­meesters ende Schepenen der selver Stadt Middelburgh ge­presenteert, naerder te sien is. Wijders, dat niet jegen­staende den Suppliant hadde geexhibeert sijne Brieven van [Page 21] administratie onder 't Zegel van den Prerogativen Hove van Engeland (zijnde een soo wettigen Acte ende bewijs de welcke by alle andere Recht-bancken van de gansche wee­reld wert geapprobeert) soo hebben de gemelte Heeren Burgemeesters ende Schepenen op den 20. February laest­leden, geordonneert dat den Suppliant moeste verzorgen andere Acten authentijcke uyt het Register van den Prero­gativen Hove van Engeland voornoemt, behelsende dat William Courten Soons-soon van Sir William Courten hadde geconsenteert in de gemelte Brieven van administratie, ende die in Rechte van waerden verklaert, als mede dat de Rechters van de Prerogativen Hove de selve hadden ge­ratificeert, en insgelijks, dat den Suppliant daer by was ge­machtight ende geauthoriseert omme de goederen ende effecten van Sir William Courten op te lichten ende te ont­fangen, welcke Acten den Suppliant met de explicatie daer over van den Prerogativen Hove vervolgens heeft geprocu­reert ende versorght, ende op den 19. Juny daer aen vol­gende versocht dat Sententie daer op soude werden gede­cerneert, waer op Abraham Smith Procureur van de Ver­weerders heeft versocht prolongatie voor den tijt van veer­thien dagen, dat by de Heeren Commissarisen is gegeven, op dat als dan sonder eenigh verder dilay by de Heeren van Wette mochte werden Recht gedaen ende Sententie gevelt.

Niet jegenstaende alle 't selve ende naer expiratie vanden gelimiteerden tijt, soo ist, dat ( Ian van Rijmsdijck des Sup­pliants Procureur versoeckende Recht) den meergemelten Abraham Smith op den vijfden laestleden, een andere fri­voleuse [Page 22] ende impertinente exceptie heeft geproponeert, seggende, dat alhoewel het by de selve Acten van den Pre­rogativen Hove van Engeland konde blijcken dat des Ey­genaers qualiteyt suffisant was, niet te min soo en konde hy egeene Actie instituëren omme de goederen van den voornoemden Sir William Courten d'oude te recouvreren, vermits des selfs Soon, die in sijn leven vele Jaren achter den anderen als Executeur had geadministreert, mitsga­ders dat den selven Sir William Courtens Staat is gedescen­deert op sijn Soons-soon William Courten, den welcken daer over sijn Recht behoorde te vervolgen, willende alsoo de Wetten ende Rechten van Engeland dooden ende te niete doen, ende de Administrateuren benemen het Recht tot het recouvreren van de goederen ende middelen uyt de handen van hunne Debiteuren, strijdigh jegens de eygen­schappen van de Wetten ende gemeene Recht, en dienende tot verdervinge van alle onderlinge gemeynschap, ende in't particulier tot ruïne van vele Engelsche, die diversche groo­te sommen van Penningen hebben geleent aen meergemel­ten Sir William Courten, die in het Capitael van den handel in societeyt ofte vermintschap generalijck zijn geemploy­eert, waer vooren oock de Boedels van Sir VVilliam Courten, Sir Pieter Courten, en Iohn Moncy (berustende in de handen van de Erfgenamen van opgemelte Pieter Boudaen) aenspre­kelijck zijn, met welcke ende diergelijcke andere imperti­nente voorgevingen den Suppliant van tijt tot tijt is afge­stelt, sonder Sententie te konnen bekomen, die wel hadde behoort over vele Jaren by den voornoemden Gerechte [Page 23] uytgesproken te zijn geweest, echter blijven sy van sulcx te doen in gebreke, niet jegenstaende alle des Suppliants solli­citatien en vruntlijke aenmaningen ten dien eynde gedaen.

Derhalven keert hy Suppliant sich tot U Ed: Mog: ver­soeckende U Ed: Mog: mandament van evocatie in communi Forma, ende Burgemeesters ende Schepenen der Stadt Middelburgh, om de saack sonder uytstel ten eynde te bren­gen, ofte in cas van geen terminatie van de voorsz. saack van gemelte Gerechte sekere dagh binnen een korten ge­limenteerde tijt te prefigeren, dat dage gedaen zijnde Par­thyen mogen werden gehoort voor U Ed: Mog:, en alsoo by U Ed: Mog: mach werde Recht gedaen, naer bewint van saaken.

Den 2 September 1675. 't Welck doende, &c.

1 DAt Willem Courten, ende Pieter Courten Ridder / in sijn leven gewoont hebbende binnen deser Stadt Middelburgh, mitsgaders Jan de Moncy in sijn leven Koop­man tot Londen voorsz / over de dartigh Iaren t'samen genegotieert hebben in Compagnie / op verscheyde gewesten des Weerelts

2. Dat de Reeckeningen van de voorsz. Negotie / in geen veerthien Iaren voor het overlijden van de geseyde Compagnons en zijn geliquideert / noch eenigh sloth daer van gemaeckt t'sedert het overlijden van gemelte Willem Courten, die daer inne de helft was heriderende / ende op sijn uytterste verklaerde / dat een groot gedeelte van sijn Mid­delen wa [...]en berustende onder Pieter Boudaen Koopman als Erfgenaem van Pieter Courten, die de generale Boecken van de selve Negotie heeft gehouden / ende waer van den voornoemden Pieter Boudaen hem heeft gepossedeert / mitsgaders van alle de Middelen.

3. Dat den Suppliant George Carew in sijn voorsz. qualiteyt in den Iare 1662. by procuratie machtigh gemaeckt heeft Jaques Boevé Koopman als doen woonachtigh hier ter Stede / omme de geseyde Yekeningen te liquideren / ende te ontfangen soodanige somme van Penningen als bevonden mochten werden aen de voornoemde Willem Courten toebehoorende / tot wel [...]ken ey [...]de hem geaddresseert hebbende aen de voornoemde Pietet Boudaen, met versoeck van sulcks te willen laten doen tot gemeyne Kosten / maer 't selve weygerende / soo was hy genootdruckt op den 6. September 1662. hem voor desen Achtb. Gerechte als doen te betrecken / ende te concluderen / dat den voornoemden Pieter Boudaen soude werden gecondemneert alle de Boecken / Reeckenin­gen [Page 24] ende andere Bescheyden rakende de voorsz. Compagnie / te consigneren ter Secretarie / ofte andere neutrale plaetse / omme inspectie daer van genomen / ende Reeckeninge te formeren tot gemeene Kosten / waer op alvooren t'Antwoorden / Cautie ge-eyscht zijnde / soo hadde ge­melte Boevé Notariale Acte daer van gemaeckt / ende niet jegenstaende hy als doen Burger ende [...]nwoonder tot Middelburgh was / soo hebben Burgemeesters ende Schepenen gelieven te ordouneren dat naerder Cautie soude werden gestelt / 't welck niet gedaen zijnde / ende den [...]or [...]logh nagevolght / is d'Heer Boudaen korts daer aen komen t'overlijden.

4. Dat naer 't overlijden vanden voornoemden Pieter Boudaen, de [...] Suppliant verscheydema­len metter minne hem geaddresseert heeft / aen Johan ende Pieter Boudaen, Sonen / ende Erfgena­men / van den voor [...]s. Pieter Boudaen haren Vader / ten eynde de voorsz. Rekeningen gestateert en geliquideert mochten worden tot gemeene Kosten / die 't selve mede geweygert hebben te doen / waer door den Suppliant genootdruckt is geworden in de maent van Mey laestleden sich er­presselijck te transsporteren alhier binnen Middelburgh, omme de voorsz. saecke voor V E. Acht­baerheden hangende te vervolgen / ende dien volgende / op den 18 Iuny 1674. hun (te weten / de Kinderen ende Erfgenamen van Pieter Boudaen voornoemt) 't gunt voorsz. doen insinueren door den Notaris Johan Duyvelaer, nochmaels versoeckende dat de geseyde Reeckeningen moch­ten werden vereffent / 't zy metter minne / ofte gerechtelijck / dewijle hy Suppliant expresselijck daerom alhier was gekomen / protesterende (in cas van obstinaetheyt) van alle Kosten / Scha­den / ende Interessen alreede geleden / noch te hebben / ende te lijden / op alle de welcke den voornoemden Johan ende Pieter Boudaen alleen voor antwoort gaven dat zy hoorden eude sagen.

5. Dat den Suppliant als doen de voorsz saecke door sij [...] Procureur Jan van Rijmsdi [...]ck wet­tel [...]ck heeft doen vervolgen / tegens Johan ende Pieter Boudaen, mitsgaders de vordere Erfge­namen / ende voorts Cautie gestelt / ende by V E. Achtbaerheden aengenomen / voor de [...]osten.

6. Dat den voornoemden Johan ende Pieter Boudaen, cum suis naer Citatie ge [...]ompareert he [...] ­bende / soo heeft den Suppliant (naer exhibtie van Brieven van Administratie onder 't [...]egel van den Prerogative Hove van Engelandt / met het Testament van Willen Courten, Ridder / daer annex / omme te doen blijcken van sijn Qualiteyt) dagelijcx gesolisiteert dat Sy-luyhen so [...] ­den Antwoorden ten principalen.

7 Dat naer veel aenhouden den voornoemdedn Johan ende Pieter Boudaen, cum suis, door haer Procureur Abraham de Smit op den 16 September 1674. omme de saecke slepende te houden / seer inpertinent in scriptis ontkent hebben dat den Suppliant als Eysscher is hebbende de Qualiteyt soo hy [...]ch ten Processe adscribeert / ende mit [...]dien geproponeert exceptie van non Qualiteyt / strij­dende [...]egens d'Ordonnantie op het procederen voor de Weth dseer Stadt Middelburgh Art. 47.

8. Dat den Suppliant daer op een expres naer Engelant heeft gesonden / ende aen den Rech­ter van den Prerogative Hove verthoont Copye van de voorsz Exceptie / die gehouden wiert [...]seer irregulier te zijn / ende omme V E. Achtbaerheden buyten twij [...]el te stellen van de Wettige Qua­liteyt van den Suppliant / omme te administreren alle de Effecten van den Boedel van den voor­noemden Willen Courten, Ridder / soo is dien aengaende superabundanti geproduceert een Certi­ficatie geteyckent door verscheyde Practiznus ende Notarisen vanden voorsz. Hove in date den 9. O [...]ober 1674.

9 Dat in gevolge den Suppliant dagelijex gesoli [...]iteert heeft ten eynde V E Achtbaerheden gelieve de geproponeerde Exceptie als frivool te reje [...]teren ende de Gedaeghdens te condem [...]eren omme alle de voorsz. Boecken / Reeckeningen ende andere Bescheyden rakende de voorsz. Com­pagnie wae [...]inne hy soo merekelijck in sijn Qualiteyt is ge [...]n [...]ereffeert / alhier ter Greffie ofte op een neutrale plaets te consigneren / ende des te meer / nademael den Supplant twee ervaren Boeck-houders expresselijck alhier heeft doen komen / omme de selve te inspecteren ende een Reeckeninge daer uyt te formeren

Ende alsoo verscheyde onderdanen van Sijne Majesteyt van Groot Brittannien, merckelijck hier in Ge-intresseert zijn, ende particulierlijck de Crediteuren van Sr Paul Pindar, die aen Sr. Willem Courten Ridder, korts voor sijn overlijden verstreckt hadde dartigh duysent Ponden Sterlinx Capitael omme sijn Equipagie op Oost-Indien voort te setten, doch dese dillayen beswaert, met noch andere onwaerdigheden de Judicature van Engelandt aengedaen (gelijck sy berecht zijn door Rechts-geleerden) in de saecke van Hester White, die Wettelijck gestelt is tot Adminstratice over den Boedel by Jan Moncy naergelaten.

Dieshalven versoockt den Suppliant seer ootmoedelijck dat U E. Achtbaerheden gelieve op 't gunt voorsz. Expiditie ende Recht te willen administreren, naer merite van de Saecke, tot satisfactie van alle ge-interesseerde Persoonen, 't welck doende, &c.

THese are to certifie, that George Carew Esqr. is sworne and admitted His Majesties Servant, in the Place and Qualitie of one of the Gentlemen of His Ma­jesties most honourable Privy Chamber, to enjoy all Rights, Priviledges, advantages, and Preheminences thereunto belonging:

THese are to testifie unto all People, unto whom this writing shall come, that George Carew, of Richmond in the County of Surry, in the Kingdome of England, Esqr. at pre­sent residing in Middelburgh in Zeeland, upon severall Suits and Process at Law there depending, hath severall Lands, Hou­ses, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the County of Suffolke, Essex, London, Dorsetshire, and Surry, whereof he is seized, and possessed to the value of 530. pound per Annum, be­sides the improvments, that may be made thereuppon.

THese are to certifie unto all Persons whom it may any ways concerne, that George Carew of Richmond in the County of Surry, Esquire, oue of the Gentlemen of his Maje­sties most Honourable Privy Chamber; was admitted into this Society of Grayes Inn, on the 23. of June 1653.

[Page 27] IT is expedient, to give a more particular Narrative of my Proceedings, with Sr. Edwad Littleton, and the Commissioners upon the Statutes against Mr. Courten, from the yeare 1650. unto the yeare 1660. And after the Kings Restauraton, to give an account of my Administration to this day, since Mr. Rextoot (as he says) was instructed to declare, that I had noe pretence against the Estate of Courten, or the Executors of Peter Boudaen, but upon false actions.

In the yeare 1651. Sr. Edward Littleton being retired, and resolved to end his days, silently amongst the Mountaines in Wales, I found him out at Phinant in Montgomeryshire, by the directions of Dr. Littleton his Brother. And after some time spent with him, where he was lamenting his Misfor­tune, how he became ingaged with his Brother in Law, William Courten, for 60000 Pound Sterling and upwards, Principall Debts. And that he was sequestred by the Parliament, for serving the King. That his owne un­setled Estate, was ordained to be sold, by a Committee at Worcester House, for want of Friends, to Compound, or to redeeme it.

Sr. Edward Littleton then offered to assigne over unto me all his right and intrest in the Lands, Ships, and Stock in India, that William Courten had granted him for his indempnity; provided I would covenant to pay pro­portionably, with my owne debt, such other particular Friends of his, that had continued their Monies at Intrest, in the Family of Courten, or lent other Monies upon Sr. Edward Littletons Credit, and Obligations, which amounted unto 30000. Pound or thereabouts, which I promised to doe, after I should be well informed of the value of the Ships, and Lands; and the incumbrances thereupon.

In the yeare 1652. I spent three moneths time amongst the Tenants and others, in the Counties of Worcester, and Gloucester, where the Lands and Tenements were situate, and found upon inquiry, that every Acre was pre­ingaged and mortgaged, before that Mr. Courten, had granted them unto Sr. Edward Littleton, and by computation, also found, that most of the Per­sons, unto whom the Lands were mortgaged (exceping the Joynture-Land) demanded more Principall Money, Interest, and Damages, than the Lands were really worth. And that the Ships and Stock in India, was in­gaged to Sr. Paul Pyndar, as a further security for payment of 24800. £. part of the Money lent unto Sr. William Courten, in the yeare 1635. when he first entred upon the East-India Trade.

[Page 28] In the yeare 1653. at the request of Sr. Edward Littleton, I made another Journey into Wales, where I made a Contract, and Agreement with Sr. Ed­ward Littleton, concerning the said Lands, Ships, and Stock, that they should be granted unto me, or such Persons as I should appoynt, towards satisfaction of the debts, unto my self and the Persons following, provisionally, that such grants, should not prejudice me, nor the other Creditors in our further right, against any other Person, or Persons whatsoever, that were any wayes obliged, or lyable to satisfie the said Debts, or any part thereof: (excepting only the Heyres of Sr. Edward Littleton) Whereupon severall grants and coveyances of Sr. Edward Littletons Right, and Equity of Redemption, were made, on the 23. of April 1653. unto me the said Goerge Carew, and my Trustees, of and in the Manors, Lands, and Te­nements of Severne Stoke, Pyrton, Annton, Eversham, Upper Swell and Lower Swell, and all other Lands, in the Counties of Worcester, and Gloucester, to them belonging, that were granted to Sr. Edward Littleton, by William Courten, as aforesaid, and severall other Deeds declaring the Trust, Co­venants, and Agreements, were also then Executed accordingly, with a Schedule of the principall Debts annexed the [...]eunto, as follows,

Memorandum, that severall of these Summes of Money were the proper Debts of the Company, for which the Stock is lyable, that rests in the hands, of the Heiret of Peter Boudaen deceased.

Then Mr. Carew entred his Claime before the Commitee at Worcester House, on the behalfe, of himself and the Creditors, to have an allowance thereof, for that it was not an Estate subject to any forfeiture, for any de­linquency of Sr. Edward Littleton, which, with much difficulty, and expen­ces, was exempted by speciall order of the said Committee.

Then Iames Winstanley, George Cotton, Richard Norton, and the rest of the Commissioners, appoynted to execute the Commission against William Courten, entred upon the Lands, and brought their Writts of Ejectment, on the behalfe of the Generall Creditors; pretending that William Courten was within the compass, true meaning, or intent of the Statutes against Banckrupts, before he had granted the said Lands, or any right or interest therein, unto Sr. Edward Littleton, and therefore, that the right and equity of Redemption belonged to them.

In the yeare 1654. George Carew, to avoyde all disputes and controver­sies, contracted with the said Commissioners, to give them 2000. Pound Serling, for their pretended Title and Interest, which they claimed, on the bebalfe of the Generall Creditors, that sought relief by the said Com­mission, whose debts amounted unto 128000. pound Sterling, which was granted and conveyed by the consent of the major part of them, unto the said George Carew accordingly, but withall they ingaged the said George Carew, in Articles and Covenants, that he should at his owne proper costs and charges, bring the Heires, and Executors of Sr. Peter Courten, and Iohn Moncy, (Partners with Sr. William Courten,) to account for the Stock that was in the Trade of Partnership, that belonged to Sr. William Courten, and to recover the same, which should be divided, in equall shares and propor­tions, between the Generall Creditors, and those particular Creditors [Page 30] that Mr. Carew was intrusted for, by Sr. Edward Littleton as aforesaid.

In the same yeare 1654. Mr. Carew contracted with the Lord Coventry, and others for the Purchase of the said Lands, and to procure, a Fine from William Courten, the Son and Heyre that was in Italy, for which 4000. £ was to be given out of the Purchase Money; but before the Commission was re­ [...]urned out of Italy, and the Fine executed, William Courten died in Florence, in the yeare 1655. Then all things by agreement rested in Statu quo, untill William Courten, the Grand-child came to age, who afterwards, joyned in Fines to the Lord Coventry, to Mr. Carew, and others, which payd Courten considerable Summes of Money, to end all debates, although he had no right thereunto.

Soone after, severall of his Fathers, and Grandfathers Creditors (come­ing to the knowledge thereof) brought Actions against him, as Heire at Law, and arrested him; others exhibited Bills in Chancery against him, unto all which he pleaded, that he was neither Heire, Executor, or Ad­ministrator, or claimed any thing from their Estates; What was paid to him, was ex dono & g [...]atia, and not ex Iure. Yet to avoyd all further Cavills, he absented himself, out of England, and is resolved to live upon that mo­ney, in a strange Land, and not to demand any thing, Additione Haereditatis, as Heire to his Father, or Grandfather.

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Mr. Carew, addressed himselfe againe in the yeare 1656. unto Sr. Edward Littleton, with a report of all his Proceedings, who then delivered Mr. Carew, the Originall Bill of Sale (dated 26 ^th. of Aprill 1642.) of the Ships, Goods, and Fraights, transferred unto him by Mr. Courten, as aforesaid. And assigned, all his Right, and Equity, therein unto the said George Carew, for further satisfaction of the Persons aforesaid, after the severall Assignations, should be discharged unto Sr. Paul Pyndar, according to the Deed, dated the 19. of December 1642. before mencioned.

After these Transactions, all things continnued without further prose­cution, in regard of the severall Changes of Government, untill the Kings most happy Restauration. Then the Creditors renewed the Com­mission (against the Estate of William Courten) under the great Seale of England; Whereupon Mr. Carew, and the Commissioners had several meet­ings, and Consultations together, who tooke new measures from all the former inquiries, and examinations, made after the Estate of Mr. Courten.

Then divers debates did arise concerning such a vast Corporation of Credi [...]ors, who valued their De [...]ts. Interests, and Damages (of sevrrall natures) to amount unto 400000. Pound, and upwards, many of them being Executors, that could not abate any thing of their Principall and Interest.

And some Persons having lent their Monies upon the Credit of Sr. Will. Courten, and Company (long before the death of Sr. Peter Courten, and John Moncy) insisted to have satisfaction out of the Estates of the Company. Others that had the Colaterall security of the Earle of Bridgwater, and David Goubard, would not contribute to the Commission against Courten, but expected satisfaction, from the Earle of Bridg­water, which proved otherwise: for that upon their addresses unto him, for their Mo­ney, he excused himselfe, that it was none of his Debt. That he was deceived in the Estate of Mr. Courten, and expressed himselfe in these very words, at his house in Barbican. That he would not fry in Hell for his owne Debts, wherefore he had taken care, and setled some Lands for the payment of them; but as for Mr. Courtens debts, [Page 32] he would not concerne himselfe therewith: Yet his Son, the Earle of Bridgwater, that now is, hath had much trouble, concerning the same.

Now the King of Great Brittaigne being Crowned at Westminster, all his Subjects made no doubt of procuring satisfaction for civil Actions at Law, against the Inhabitants of Holland and Zeeland, upon private differences; as also for Damages, that they had suffered by Spoyles and Depredations. Whereupon they made their applications, expecting respective Protec­tions, and reliefe, from his Majesty accordingly.

Briefe Relations whereof are mencioned / in the Continuation of the Case betweene Sr. W. Courten, his Heires and Assignes, and the East-India Company of the Netherlands. And the Peticion of George Carew, James Boeve, and John White, to the Commons in Parliament, with the 36. Articles annexed. Which are placed in order at the latter end of this Booke, unto which I refer you.

In the meane time I will give you some positions of Law, with the particular proceedings, in the Case depend­ing upon the Accounts, and also severall Copies of Let­ters, and Answers relating thereunto: And likewise some speciall Remarkes, of fraud and malice, in the practises of Boudaens, and Pergens, and then conclude.

Many Debates still arising between the Creditors, concerning the dif­ferent natures of their Debts. It was agreed, that Administration, of Sr. William Courtens Estate not Administred, should bee taken out by Mr. Carew, to prosecute those Persons that injoyed the Effects thereof, be­yond the Seas: Whereupon William Courten the Grandchild was cited to appeare, who refused. So Administration was granted, on the fourth of July 1660. to the said George Carew, with the Will annexed.

Then Mr. Iohn Madden of Westminster, addressed himselfe, to Mr. Carew, to be satisfied a Debt of 1000. Pound, due from Sr. William Courten, upon a Judgment obtained in the Kings Bench Court, in the name of Henery Bringhurst, (Mr. Maddens Father in Law) in the yeare 1625. which very much surprised Mr. Carew, in regard he had some Land lyable thereunto: Wherefore he agreed with the said Madden, to have the Debt assigned unto him, that others might pay their proportions, who had any of Courtens Lands. Whereupon Richard Dowdeswell an Atturny, and Steward to the [Page 33] Lord Coventry, maliciously combined with some other Persons to que­stion Mr. Carew, concerning the said Judgment, and also to joyne with William Courten the Grandchild, to question Mr. Carews administration of Sr. William Courtens Estate. And in order thereunto brought an Informa­tion against Mr. Carew, in the Crown Office, pretending that he fyled the Declaration, and Bayle Irregularly, that was to warrant the said Judg­ment: which upon a full hearing, in Court, and the verdict of twelve able sufficient men, Mr. Carew was acquitted, and found not guilty.

Soone after Mr. Carew brought his Actions against the said Dowdeswell, for Conspiracy and Slander, who insisted upon his Priviledge, as a Member in Parliament, to avoyde any appearance; whereupon Mr. Carew posted him (upon the Pillory, in Worcester, and severall other market-towns, in the said County, where he lived) for a false Accuser, a Lyer, and a most malicious person, that durst not appeare, to justifie himselfe, or his Actions. And William Courten the Grandchild, upon Mr. Carews Ap­peale to the King, in the Case of his Administration, (whereupon a Com­mission under the Great Seale of England was awarded, to Deligates) The said Courten personally appeared, before the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and there openly agreed, and consented unto Mr. Carews Admi­nistration, and was also present in Court, to see the same ratified, and Ju­dicially confirmed accordingly: All which proceedings, remaines upon Record. and were very well known, both to the Boudaens, and Rextoot, who notwithstanding were so audacious, most falsely, maliciously, and impertinently, to alledge the contrary, in open Court, before the Magi­strates of Middelburgh, on the 20 ^th of February 1675. where exemplifi­cations of the said Records, were extant, to manifest the same.

Sr. William Powell Baronet, having administration of Sr. Paul Pyndars Estate, as a Principall Creditor, he applyed himself to Mr. Carew, in the yeare 1662. for satisfaction, of the Money, that Sr. William Courten was indebted to Pyndar, but he refused to prosecute joyntly with Mr. Carew, against Pergens, or the East-India Company of the Netherlands, for the Damages concerning the Ships, Bona Esperanza, and Henry Bona Adventura, although Mr. Carew was a Creditor to the Estate of Sr. Paul Pyndar, and also had Sr. Edward Littletons Equitable Interest in the said Ships. Where­fore Mr. Carew was necessitated to comply with Sr. William Powell, and Mr. Iohn Whitfield, either to pay them, 2500. pound Sterling, in ready Money, to assigne the Administration, or to acquit his Prosecution, that he had begun at the Hague, for those Ships, upon the Kings recommen­dation. [Page 34] Then upon Sr. William Powells resignation, Letters of Admini­stration, were de novo, granted on the 21 ^th of March 1661/3. to Mr. Carew, and afterwasds confirmed by decree in Chancery. Whereby Mr. Carew became Legally intituled in right of himself and other Creditors, unto all the Goods, and Chattells, Debts, and Credits of Sr. Paul Pyndar, un­to whom Sr. William Courten died indebted Thirty thousand Pound Sterling, and upwards: Yet the Sons of Peter Boudaen, and Rextoot, had the impu­dence to pleade, and publish in Print, that Mr. Carew hath no just pretence to any part of S. William Conrtens Estate, or any quality to administer the Effects thereof, and also, that all his Estate was gotten by false Actions.

1.

WIlliam Courten de Jonge, en kan niet / noch en magh sigh niet be­moeyen / met de Middelen van zijne Groot-Vader de Ridder Willem Courten, Additione Haereditatis, om redenen / dat hy Ridder / is ge­storven veel meer schuldigh aen diversche Persoonen dan al zijne Middelen impor­teerden; en schoon den Prerogativen Hove van Engelant, hem Courten de jonge / als Ad­ministrateur hadde geadmitteert gehadt; soo most het nootsaeckelijck wesen in Autre Droit, ten behoeve vande Ridder Paul Pynder, en an­dere Crediteuren / aen wien het ongeadministreerde deel vande Mid­delen vande Ridder Courten, eygentlijck zijn toebehoorende.

2.

Noch en mach Willem Courten de Ionge / zigh bemoeyen met de Middelen van sijn Vader van dien naem die insolvent gestorven is / naelatende hondert en acht-en- [...]wintigh duysent Pondt Starlinx Schult: vermidts een Resolutie of Commissie volgens de Wetten of Statuten / jegens Banckroeten (even eens gelijck de Kamer der Desolate Boedels hier to Lande) in volle kracht en vigeur is blij­vende / tegens alle de Middelen van zijn Vader Zal ^r. in conformi­reyt vande Wetten van Engelant, derhalven en kan Willem Courten de Ionge / sigh selfs niet intituleren Additione Haereditatis, daer waerlijck in Rerum Natura, geen erfelijcke overblij [...]els en zijn.

3.

d'Achtbare Magistraet der Stadt Middelburgh, konnen onder correctie haer selven niet aensien of stellen / als competente Rechters [Page 34] van de Wetten en Decreten van den Prerogativen Hove van Enge­lant; Sy en konnen oock (behoudens respect) g [...]en andere Construc­tien maken van de Ordonnantien en Costuymen van een Souverayn [...] Prins / anders / dan bekent zijn / en aldaer onder zijn [...] [...]ygen Onder­danen gepractiseert werden: en alsoo daer thien Duysent Exempelen zijn / van Brieven van Administratte die in diergelijcke voorvallen / zijn gegunt en geprefereert: soo behoorden de Verweerders Erfge­namen drymaels over te be [...]alen de Costen van 't Proces / en dat voor de taedieuse ende niet min moeyelijicke delayen / wegens de flechte en frivole exceptien door hun ingebracht.

Salmen hun niet culperen, die sinisterlijck aen het goet van een ander soeckt te komen? Jae salmen hun voor onreedelijcke en oneerlijcke niet achten, die andere luyden hare goederen zijn houdende en gebruyckende, sonder d'Eygenaers van de profijten te geven, of ten minsten Rekeninge daer van gedaen te hebben? En salmen met infamie niet teeckenen en brandmerken, al sulcke persoonen, die naer datse de Middelen van andere onrechtveer­digh hebben gepossedeert, en tegen wil en danck Dertigh Jae­ren langh gebruyckt gehadt, hebben noch al d'impudentie om niet alleenlijck sulx te loochenen en t'ontkennen, maer dat meer is, durven de Justitie met getaende troonien in 't aengesicht kijc­ken, ende by haer boose Resolutien persisteren, tegens positive bewijsen, en ware getuygenissen: soeckende met frivoole ex­ceptien en gecontinueerde delaeyen tijt te winnen, daer 't noch­tans onmogelijck is, de waerheyt, het Recht en Justitie te kon­nen overtuygen en wederstaen.

De Ridder Willem Courten, de Ridder Pieter Courten, Iohn Moncy, en Pieter Boudan Saliger, waeren allegaer Ingesetenen en vrye Denizons van Engelant: ende gelijck bewesen kan wer­den, soo hebbenze uyt Engelant getrocken en geremitteert £ 125000. Starlincx, het welcke noch aen de Onderdanen van Engelant schuldigh is blijvende; welcke Crediteuren sonder hulp en remedie zijn, in the ordinary way of Iustice, soo by aldien de Wetten van Engelant alhier tot Middelburgh niet en sullen erkent en toegestaen werden.

[Page 35] Sr. William Courten, Sr. Peter Courten and John Moncy, raised their Credit by trading in Company, and what moneys were lent to the Company, the whole Stock in Trade is liable to discharge the debts, before any repartition can be made of the Stock; and Sr. Peter Courten dying indebted £ 122139-10-6. Sterling to the Account, it must be found and made good by those that are Heires to his Estate.

If C. a Stranger institutes his Action at Law against B. in Amsterdam, before the Magistrates in the ordinary Court of Iustice, and requires by his Process, to have an account of £ 100000. that rests in the hands of B. a Burger in Amsterdam, where Iustice was denied, or delayed, so long that B. and his Heires became insolvent.

Quaere, Whether the Magistrates of Amsterdam, are not lyable by the Law of Nations, to make restitution to C. for the said £ 100000. deb [...]and dam­mages or not?

If Advocates or Procureurs in England or France, should pleade any thing maliciously or impertinently (in a Process) reflecting upon the persons of their Parties or their Nations, which did not concerne the matter in Issue; They would have their Ears cutt of their Empty heads, or their Tongues cutt out of their black mouths, when they come forth of the Court.

OP de differenten geresen voor den Hoogen Rade in Hol­lant, tusschen Hester Wythe alias de Weyer, als by de Bewaerders vande Vryheyt van Engelant, by authori­teyt van 't Parliament aldaer / als Administratrice ge­stelt zijnde / over den Boedel ende naergelaten Goederen / Actien / ende Crediten / van wijlen Jan de Moncy, in sijn leven Koop­man inde Parochie van Maria Hil tot Londen, inde selve qualiteyt / ende voor soo veel des noots / Gemaghtichde van Johan Wythe, im­petrante van mandament in cas van reformatie / ende Verweer­deresse ter eenre / Ende Pieter Boudaen Courten woonende tot Middel­burgh in Zeelant, Gederghde in 't voorsz. cas / ende Requirant van twee Requesten Civile / beyde by voorgaende appointementen van desen Rade geinterineert ter andere zijden. 't Hof gehoort 't Raport van Commissarisen / daer vooren Parthyen gecompareet zijn ge­weest / gesien Proces verbael / Stucken ende Munimenten onder hen geexhibeert / ende op alles rijpclijck geleth / doende recht uyt den naem / ende van wegen de Hooge Overigheyt ende Graeffelijck­heyt / van Hollant, Zeelant, ende Vrieslant, mits by den Gedaeghde binnen den tijt van ses Weecken / voor een Commissaris van desen Rade catagorice verklaert werdende / dat hy bereyts is in qualiteyt als uytten Hoofde van sijne Moeder Erfgenamen van wijlen Jan de Moncy sijnen S [...]ief-vader te rechte te staen / aen allen den genen die tot laste vanden S [...]erf-huyse ofte Boedel vanden selven Jan de Moncy, als Crediteuren / Legatarisen / ofte anders yets soude mogen heb­ben t'eysschen ofte te pretenderen / behoudens hem Gedaeghde sooda­nige exceptien / ende befensien / als hem daer jegens soude mogen competeren; welverstaende hy den selven Eysscher ofte pretendenten niet en sal vermogen af te wijsen / onder pretext van de Wetten ende [Page 42] Coustuymen van Engelant, ofte anders op eenige Executeurs ofte Administrateurs / die over de naergelaten Boedel vande voornoemde Jan de Moncy soude moghen zijn gestelt / ofte op der selver Erfgena­men / ende dat hy oock bereyt is aende voorschreven Pretendenten ende Eyschers te voldoen 't gene henlieden ter saecke voorschreven soude mogen werden geadjudiceert / Verklaert in sulcken gevalle d'Im­petrante by 't Vonnisse in questie te wesen niet bezwaert / ende in cas van weygeringhe ofte gebreecke vanden Gedaeghde de voorschreve verklaringe in voeghen als-boven te doen ende te presteren / doet te niete het Vonnisse in questie / ende doende in dien gevalle wijders Recht / Condemneert den Gedaeghde ter Griffie der Stadt Middel­burgh te consigneren de Boecken / Reeckeningen ende Bescheyden / onder hem Gedaeghde berustende / aengaende de Compagnie die geweest is tusschen de voornoemde Jan de Moncy ende Pieter Courten mitsgaders Willem Courten, omme daer van by de Impetranten ende die van haren Rade inspectie genomen / ende cen R [...]ecke gefor­meert te werden / in sulcken gevalle onvermindert ende ongepreju­dicieert blijvende soodanigh Recht als de Gedaghde ofte yemant a [...] ­ders soude moghen hebben uyt krachte van alsulcke Testamentaire dispositie als by de voorsz Jan de Moncy We [...]eliijck souden moghn wesen gemaeckt / alsmede het Recht vanden genen dewelcke ter con­trarie soude willen sustineren den selven Jan de Moncy ab intestato ende sonder We [...]ige Testamentaire dispositie Ovrrleden te zijn / Ende compenseert de kosten vanden Processe om redenen.

DEn President ende Rade, vanden Hoogen-Rade, over Hollandt, Zeelandt, ende West-Vrieslandt, Allen den genen die desen sullen sien, ofte hooren lesen Saluyt, Doen te weten, dat de voorenstaende Sen­tentie by den voorschreven Hoogen-Rade, tusschen de Parthyen inde selve genomineert, op den xix. Mey 1657. is gewesen. Des ten oir­conde hebben Wy desen mettet Cachet vanden Op-gemelten Hoogen-Rade bekrachtight, ende onsen voorsz Griffier geodonneert desen te Onderteyckenen op den xxvj. Augustij in 't Jaer ons Heeren duysent ses-hondert tseventigh.

VErtoont reverentelijck George Carew Schilt-Knaep, Administrateur van alle de Goederen en nalatenschappen, soo roerende als onroerende, Actien, Schulden en Crediten, van wijlen Sir William Courten, en Sir Paul Pyndar, in hun leven Ridders, ongead­ministreert gelaten by William Courten, en William Tomes.

1. Hoe dat hy Suppliant in den Iare 1662. voor V Ed. Achtb. Proces heeft gemoveert op ende jegens Pieter Boudaen Zaliger gewesen Koopman, ende na sijn overlijden, 't selve weder­om op nieuws geinstitueert jegens sijne Kinderen en Erfgenamen; omme te hebben reke­ninge ende bewijs van diversche notable sommen van Penningen (berustende in hun handen) aenkomende den Boedel van Sir William Courten, en vervolgens oock aen Sir Paul Pyndar, en den Suppliant die geduerigh is opgehouden, met vele frivo­leuse en inpertinente exceptien, ende andere dilayerende practijcquen tot sijn Suppliants groote schade en vexatie, strijdigh jegens de regulen van Iustitie, ende rechtma­tigheydt.

2. Dat alhoewel het seer wel kennelijk is, dat den Suppliant was geadmitteert in de Eerweerde Societeyt van Grays Inn, alwaer hy vele Iaren achter den anderen in [Page 60] de Rechten van Engelant heeft gestudeert, en in den Iare 1660. was beëdight en ge­sworen tot een van de Edelluyden van Sijn Majesteyts Eerwaerdighste Secreet-kamer, tot welcke Digniteyt niemandt wert geadmitteert, als die gene, die af-komstigh zijn van honorable Familien, levende in seer goede reputatie; effectivelijck besittende ende possiderende een Staat ofte inkomen waerdigh £ 500 Sterling per annum, gelijck blijckt by de Attestatien daer van zijnde, hier geannexeert.

3. Evenwel soo hebben de Heeren Johan en Pieter Boudaen me [...] hare consoorten, niet alleen de vrymoedigheyt en onbeschaemtheyt gehadt, h [...]ne Advocaten seer lee­lijck, nijdelijck, valschelijck, en onbehoorlijck te institueren, omme in hare Pley­doyen voor V Ed. Achtb. Vyerschare voor te brengen, sulcke infameuse en snoode dingen (geensints ter materie dienende) waer door de Omstanders schaemroot wierden, om sijnent wil, die sich niet en schaemde sulcke reflectien op den Koninck van Groot Brittannien Sijn E. Onderdanen, ende particulierlijck op den Suppliant te leggen: Nemaer hebben oock de selve doen drucken, en heymelijck uytgegeven aen diversche Persoonen, met intentie omme door soodanige Libellen en valsche Pampheletten (die behoorde door den Beul ofte Scherp-Rechter verbrandt te werden, ter oorsa [...]ck van het Affront die Natie aengedaen, in tijde van Vrede, en goede correspondentie [...]usschen den Koninck van Groot Brittannien ende de Heeren Staten Generael) hare gruwsam [...] Actien te wreken in 't stellen van hem Suppliant odieus voor Ed. Achtbare en misda­digh voor het Volck.

4. Oversulcx kan den Suppliant hem selfs niet langer loochenen, ofte sijn recht­ma [...]igh gevoelen verswijgen, wegens de ongeschickte en onbeleefde practijcquen van de voorsz. Boudaens ende hare Advocaten; nochte oock vergeten V Ed. Achtbare bekent te maken, dat de fraudeleuse handelingen van den ouden Pieter Boudaen ende Jacob Pergens, wegens Sir Edward Littletons Intrest in de twee Schepen de Bona Esperanza ende Henry Bona Adventura, en Sir Paul Pyndars Assigna­tien, by andere Volckeren soude hebben gestraft geworden, als Criminele misdaden.

5. Dat alhoewel de Boudaens geen meerder kennisse, nochte bel [...]eftheyt hadden, soo hadden nochtans hun Advocaten, meer wetenschap ende geleertheyt behooren te hebben, die by manequement van andere saaken, V Ed. Achtbaerheden, en andere hebben moeyelijck gevallen met dese ongerijmtheden, welcke, by aldien 't selve in Engelandt hadde geschiet by eenigen Advocaet aldaer jegens een Vremdelinck, (gelijck als Mr. Dionisius Rexstoot hier heeft gedaen) soo soude die schandeleuse ende onbehoorlijcke daedt, hem ontrent sijn hersenloos Hooft gespelt geworden hebben, en gesententieert daer mede ontrent de Zael van West-munster te wandelen, mitsga­ders gesuspendeert van meerder voor eenige Vyerscharen te Pleyten: alwaer oock [Page 61] Parthyen niet is geadmitteert soo vermetigh te zijn om te blijven sitten in de Rechtbanck (gelijsk Johan Boudaen op den 7. October deses Iaers heeft gedaen,) als de saeck jegens hem bepleyt wiert.

Om alle welcke redenen den Suppliant seer ootmoedelijck versoeckt, dat U Ed. Achtb. hem gelieven te admitte­ren, om voor U Ed. Achtb. Vyerschare Proces te mogen instituëren op ende jegens Iohan Bo [...]daen. Pieter Boudaen, ende Abraham Biscop, ten eynde dat hy Suppliant repa­ratie mach verkrijgen van de schandale ende injurie hem aengedaen: mitsgaders dat U Ed. Achtb. de sake wegens de Rekeninge (dienende op d'ordinaire Roll voor U Ed. Achtb.) geliefden te expediëren, achtervolgens den Brief van recommandatie door den Heer Major ende Alder-Mannen der Stadt Londen, aen U Ed. Achtb. onlangs gepresenteert; te meer alsoo binnen Londen de Vremde­lingen in sulcken cas voor de Borgers ende Ingesetenen werden geprefereert, 't welck oock selfs binnen Constan­tinopolen en al andere Gewesten in Turckyen wert ge­practiseert, alwaer geen Proces daer Vremdelingen in zijn geintresseert langer is hangende, als den tijdt van achtien weecken.

DEsen dient om te certificeren, dat George Carew Schilt knaep, is be­edight, ende geadmitteert tot Sijn Majesteyts Dienaer, in de plaets en in de qualiteyt van een van de Edelluyden van Sijn Majesteyts alder­eerweerdighste Secreete Kamer, omme te genieten alle Rechten, Privile­gien, Voordeelen en Uytnementheden daer toe dienende en behoorende.

Gegeven onder mijn Handt en Zegel desen 25. dagh van February 1674/5. in het 27 ^ste Jaer van Sijn Majesteyts Regeringe.

Was geteyckent Arlington. In Margine stont een Signet gedruckt in [...]ooden Lack.

KEnnelijck zy een yeder by desen, dat George Carew van Richmond, in het Grafschap van Surrey, in het Koninckrijck van Engeland, Schilt-Knaep, jegenwoordigh residerende binnen de Stadt Middelburgh in Zee­landt, (ter oirsake van diversche Processen ende Rechten aldaer hangende) heeft verscheyden Landen, Huysen, Hof-Steden, en Erf-goederen gele­gen in het Graefschap van Suffolke, Essex, Londen, Dorsetshiere, ende Surrey, waer van hy als wettige Possesseur Jaerlijcks treckt de Somme £ 530. over ende boven de opgelden, die daer op mogen verkregen werden.

DEsen dient omme een yegelijck te certificeren dien 't aengaen mach, dat George Carew van Richmond in het Graefschap van Surrey, Schilt­knaep, een van de Edelluyden van Sijn Majesteyts Eerweerdighste Secreet-Kamer; was geadmitteert in dese Societeyt van Grayes Inn op den 23 Juny 1653.

Dese dry voorsz. Certificatien zijn Getranslateert door den Notaris Marinus Smallegangh.

1. ALle Erfgenamen / Executeuren en Administrateuren zijn verplicht en gehouden / soo welte betalen als t'ontfangen; gelijck ymant / die kennisse van zaecken heeft / [...]oet bekennen den Advocaet Rextoot in sijn Ple [...]doyen / socckt dese saecke confuselijck te verwerren / en wilde gaern de selve faeck anders uytleggen / sustinerende / dat de Zoons Zoon vande Ridder Willem Courten, in soodanigen Casu blijft verobligeert / daer nochtans hy niet alleenelijck heeft gerefuseert gehad / om Brieven van Administratie van's Broot-vaders zijde te lichten / neen maer het Recht van Engelant soude niet geleden hebben gehadt / dat hy de selve op hem soude genomenhebben vande Vaderlijcke zijde / schoon hy sulex hadde soccken te doen.

2. Willem Courten de Soon / die Erfgenaem en Executeur was van de Ridder Willem Courten sijn Vader / en konde geen van sijn eygen schulden betalen / met de middelen van dito sijn Vader Zaliger terwijl sijn Vaders Crediteuren niet waren voldaen / de [...]amer van de disolate Boedels en kon op haer niet nemen om cenigh gedeelte van de Soons schulden te betalen u [...]t de middelen van de Vader de [...]idder Willem Courten, hy Soon hebbende de selve schulden gemaeckt / en insolvent [...] zijnde.

3. Will [...]m Courten de Soon (die Erfgenaem en Executeur was van sijn Vader) en kan niet gheseght worden te hebben geadministreert de Middelen van dito sijn Vader / voor en aleer hy geliquideert hadde gehadt de Rekeningen / die de Com­pagnie aengmgen / en de schulden van dien betaelt / maer dat noch meer is / daer zijn diversche particuliere schulden van de [...]idder Willem Courten uptstaende / die hy selfs moe [...] hebben / soo wel als betalen / die noyt door sijn Soon zijn geadmi­nistreert geweest / en konnen die schulden / die hy hebben most / niet wettelijck in­gemaent of gevordert werden / als door kracht van de Brieven van Administratie aen Carew gegunt / sonder wiens eygentlijck niet betaelt of ontfangen kan worden.

4. Willem Courten de Soon na de doot van de Ridder Willem Courten de Va­der / heeft verscheyde schulden van sijn eygen Rekeninge gemaeckt / door een par­ticuliere handel op Oost-Indien / (en daerom als een Koopman aengesien) is hy de [...]amer van de disolate Boedels onderworpen geweest / dat anders niet konde we­sen / ten zy een Negotiant waer geweest / en moet verstaen werden / soo wanneer [Page 64] hy selfs absenteerde sonder te blijven in de administratie van sijn Vaders Middelen / dat de selve als dan waren blijvende in Averance de la Loy, dat is [...]nder protextie van de Wet / tot hoedanigen tijdt dat de Brieven van Administratie waren ver­leent aen Carew, om volgens de Wetten en Usantien van Engelant te ageren.

5. Moet oock genotificeert werden / dat die gene die Executeur is van cen ander Executeur / niet en kan betalen de schulden van de leste Testateur met de Midde­len van den eersten Testateur / maer moeten alle schulden betaelt werden de bonis propriis Testatoris.

6. Indien 't gebeurt dat een Executeur of Administrateur Pleyt tegens eenige van de Crediteuren / als dat hy ten vollen heeft geadministreert de Goederen / roerende ende onroerende van den Intestaet / en soo 't daer na gevonden werdt / dat hy een gedeelte daer van qualijck heeft gebruyckt / of ten ourechte betaelt / maeckt hy als dan sich selfs schuldigh om alle die schulden uyt sijn eygen Goederen te betalen▪ de reden daer van is / vermits het in sijn eygen keur was / of hy wilde administreren of niet / en die na dat hy hadde geaccepteert gehadt voor soodanigen Administratie behoorde onder Eedt een ware en perfecte Inventaris ge-exhibeert te hebben en niet te persisteren op valsche en impertinente Pleydoyen.

7. Vorders is 't sulex / dat soo by aldien een Erfgenaem Plept / dat hy geen Landeryen heeft van sijn Voorsaet de [...]cendente / die voor sijne schulden aenspreke­lijck zijn / ende dat de Crediteuren daer na vinden eenige Middelen En fief, de Er [...]genamen aensprekelijck zijn / ende die schulden nyt sijn Middelen betaelt wer­den / om redenen / dat hy een valsche Pleydoy heeft gemaeckt.

8. Yemandt / die sich bemoeyt met de Goederen van overleden Vrient of Bloet-Verwant sonder Brieven van Administratie te hebben / sal aengesien wesen als cen Executeur in sijn eygen prejuditie / en is aensprekelijck om alle de schuldeu van den Intestaet te betalen / want het is een presumptie in Rechten / dat niemandt so [...] willen aenvaerden de Middelen van een ander in soodanigen cas / ten zy hy verse­kert was / dat'er genoegh en over soude wesen / om alle de schulden te betalen.

9. Voor en aleer de Statuten van West-munster de Tweede (soo ghenaemt) zijn gemaeckt geweest / alle Landerpen / van wat Nature de selve mochten wesen / waren aensprekelijck voor de schulden / en konde geen Entaillementen selfs ghe­schieden van de Middelen toebehoorende Heeren die van haer Landt-goederen / te beleteen om van haer Crediteuren niet aengesproken en gemaent te werden / maer naderhandt zijnde [...]eer schadelijck gevonden voor de Negotie / waren nieuwe Sta­tuten in Koninck Jacobus tijdt gemaeckt / waer door de Landeryen van [...]oop-Luyden waren aensprekelijck voor hare schulden / niet jegenstaende dat er Entail­lementen waren gepasseert op hare Kinderen / daer ter contrarie / die op haer In­komsten leven / en geen Negotie en doen / Entaillementen konnen maken.

10. De Wetten van Engelandt, ja de Wetten van Natien / zijn seer teer in saken rakende de [...]ekeningen en Persoonen van Koopluyden / doende in Compagnie / [Page 65] die gewoonelijck haer Credijt extenderen en verbreeden in alle gedeelten des Wee­relts / tot voortsettinge van de Negotie. Het ware dan een van de groote mal­heuren / die men konde bedencken / indie [...] dry Persoonen in Compagnie hande­lende / datse dan allegaer [...] en [...]ouden verobligeert wesen / en haer Middelen verplicht om de schulden van de Compagnie te betalen. 't Is tot dien eynde dat [...]e Statuyten van Engelandt hebben specialijck gedecriteert en geprovideert / om alle Exceptien in de Rekeniugen van Kooplu [...]den te voorkomen / dat geen limitatie van th [...]t altoos kan vermind [...]en of echaperen Actien in de Rechten in saken van Koopluyden haer [...]ekeningen / of Luyden uytlandigh gestorven.

11. Een Koopman in Engelant, die £ 500 Sterlinex 's Iaers inkomste heest van sijn Landeryen / en daer-en-boven noch £ 5000 Sterlincx in Contanten / die verobligeert alles / soo wanneer hy een Negotie aengaet met [...]mant in Compagnie / en wat den eenen Compagnion komt te doen / in wat sake het soude mogen wesen / de Compagnie aengaende / sulcx verbint d'andere Compagnions mede. Pieter Boudaen Zaliger heeft het mede ge-experimenteert gegad in de sake met Iuffrouw Josina Hobell, ende Mr▪ Johan East, die twee Crediteuren waren van de Com­pagnie / en met wien hy een Accoort maeckte / wegens de schulden van de Com­pagnie / wanneer dan Pieter Boudaen Zaliger sich embarqueerde in 't Schip of Bodem van de Ridder Pieter Courten, soo begaf hy hem op een Voyagie niet min desperaet / gelijck h [...] en Jacob Pergens deden met de Schepen de Bon Esperance en Henry Bon Adventura, die Executeuren waren in de sake tot haer eygen nadeel / en sullen bevinden hier namaels / datse het dier moeten kosten / mits datse haer sel­ven bemoeyt hebben met Nolime tangere, 't welck haer / en hare Familien sal Schip-breuck doen lijden / ten zy het Schip na een ander streeck van 't Compas gestiert werdt.

12. De schulden der Koopluyden sont plus Sacré, als zijn de schulden van an­dere Persoonen in de Weerelt / de reden is / om datse gefondeert zijn op Gods voor­sienighept / en een Koopmans personeel Credijt en weer digheyt. Particuliere Hee­ren in Engelant, die van haer eygen Landen en Inkomsten leven / en konnen geen considerabile sommen Gelts leenen / sonder een visibel Pant of Cautie van Huysen of Landen te stellen / zijnde niet onderworpen de Commissien van die Statuyten en Ordonnantien / gelijck Koopluyden zijn / en konnen d'Erfgenamen van Pieter Boudaen Zaliger / en de Ridder Pieter Courten niet seggen dat dit Huys of dat Landt haer eygen is / voor en al eer de schulden van de Compagnie betaelt zijn / en dat de ongeadministreerde Effecten van de Ridder Willem Courtens Middelen on­der haer berustende / zijn gerestaureert aen de Administrateur / die wettelijck de selve komt eyschen / met [...]osten / Schaden / Intresten / geleden in dit Proces soo veel Iaren na malkander.

It would be an Example, without any president in Christendome, if Mr. George Carew should be rejected in his quality, to Administer the Effects of Sir William Courtens Estate, or that any Iudicature in the World, should give Laws unto England, in such Cases, to render the Pre­rogative Court insufficient, or defective towards obtaining the Debts and Credits belonging to the Subjects of the Crowne of England, who would be left without remedy, if the Goods of Sir William Courten should be given Additione Haereditatis to William Courten the Grandchild, that hath abandonned the same, and lives in obscurity, having sequestred himselfe out of England, to end his dayes in France, out of the reach of his Fathers, and Grandfathers Creditors, that have questioned him, for in­termedling with the Ioynture Lands of his Mother, before the Debts are paid.