To the supream authority of this nation, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. The humble petition and appeal of Josiah Prymat of London, leatherseller. Primatt, Josiah. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91009 of text R211418 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.16[36]). 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. 4 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 A91009 Wing P3457 Thomason 669.f.16[36] ESTC R211418 99870145 99870145 163192 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A91009) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163192) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f16[36]) To the supream authority of this nation, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. The humble petition and appeal of Josiah Prymat of London, leatherseller. Primatt, Josiah. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1651] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "December ye 24th 1651". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Primatt, Josiah -- Early works to 1800. Coal trade -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. A91009 R211418 (Thomason 669.f.16[36]). civilwar no To the supream authority of this nation, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. The humble petition and appeal of Josiah Prymat of L Primatt, Josiah 1651 644 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. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To the Supream Authority of this Nation , the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND . The humble Petition and Appeal of Josiah Prymat of London , Leatherseller Sheweth , THat your Petitioner by his under Tenants , George Lilburn , Esq and George Gray the younger Gentleman both of the County of Durham , being in the years 1647 , 1648. and 1649. in a just and quiet possession of the Collieries , or Seams of Cole in Harraton in the County aforesaid , called the 5 quarter and 9 quarter Cole , ( & having spent near 2000l . to win the same , ) which lay drowned & lost from 1642. to 1647. Sir Arthur Haslerig in September 1649. procuring Col. Francis Wren , one of the Committee of that County , and Col. George Fenwick to joyn with him , made an Order ( against which the rest of the said Committee present protested ) to Sequester the said Collieries , under colour of an untrue suggestion that Sr William Armyn had Sequestred the same in 1644. as belonging to one Thomas Wray , a Papist Delinquent , and thereupon the said Sir Arthur violently dispossessed your Petitioners Tenants , and seised their goods , and Let the said Collieries to Col. Francis Hacker , and several of the Officers of his own Regiment . That your Petitioner hath Petitioned to the Commissioners for Compounding , for relief ; but by the power and influence of the said Sir Arthur , upon most of the said Commissioners , your Petitioner hath been delayed and denied the ordinary course of proceedings in all Courts of Justice ; and at last coming to hearing , the said Sir Arthur appeared every day of the hearing , and took upon him , not only to plead against your Petitioner ( which is humbly conceived to be contrary to Law , he being a Member of the Supream Authority ) but also Authoritatively to prejudge your Petitioners Case , and to direct the said Commissioners what to judge therein , and by his power and influence upon the said Commissioners , he overawed most of them , and after full hearing , judgement being respited from day to day , the said Sir Arthur kept privat correspondence with some of the said Commissioners , about finding some new colour or pretences to detain your Petitioners Possession from him , whereupon he produced new pretended Evidence after full hearing ; and thereupon the major part of the said Commissioners , not daring ( as is humbly conceived ) to oppose the will and pleasure of the said Sir Arthur , have contrary to clear Evidence before them for your Petitioner , refused to relieve him , and have punctually pursued in their Judgement , the directions publickly given by the said Sir Arthur . That the said Commissioners being the onely persons Authorized by the Parliament to hear and determin all Cases about Sequestred Estates ; your Petitioner cannot be relieved from the oppression and Tyranny of the said Sir Arthur , save by the Parliament or their special Order and Directions , and your Petitioner hath been kept from his Possession above two years , and the said Sir Arthur hath declared the said Collieries to be worth at least 5000l . per annum . May it therefore please the Parliament , in respect to the Publick Justice of the Commonwealth , to cause the truth of the Premises to be speedily examined , and to provide for your Petitioners relief from the oppression and tyranny of the said Sir Arthur Haslerig , and for the dispensation of Justice without fear or favour , as to your Wisdoms shall seem most just . And your Petitioner shall pray , &c. Josiah Primatt .