To the Right Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Sir Nicholas Crisp Knight. Crisp, Nicholas. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80810 of text R210871 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.26[40]). 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. 6 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 A80810 Wing C6915 Thomason 669.f.26[40] ESTC R210871 99869625 99869625 163922 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. A80810) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163922) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f26[40]) To the Right Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Sir Nicholas Crisp Knight. Crisp, Nicholas. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1660] Imprint from Wing. A petition requesting the funds necessary to release the petitioner, Nicholas Crisp. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Debt, Imprisonment for -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Claims -- Early works to 1800. A80810 R210871 (Thomason 669.f.26[40]). civilwar no To the Right Honourable the Commons of England assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Sir Nicholas Crisp Knight. Crisp, Nicholas. 1660 1019 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. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Emma (Leeson) Huber Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To the Right Honourable The COMMONS of ENGLAND Assembled in PARLIAMENT . The Humble Petition of Sir NICHOLAS CRISP Knight . SHEWING , AS God hath made You Instruments of Glorious things , in being the Restorers of many Distressed , and the Repairers of the great Breaches of this Nation ; So it is hoped and prayed by Your Petitioner , that yet before You rise , You will give Relief to Your Petitioner , whose hard and most deplorable Case , is scarce to be parrall'd in this Nation ; Who before the late Long Parliament was Owner of a great Fortune , and in a thriving Condition , as any man in that time of his Quality : Who only for being a Farmer of the Customes , but for Two Years , and for his Loyalty in adhering to His late Majesty , of ever blessed Memory , as he was bound by Law , and his Oath of Allegiance , was not only spoyled and plundered of all he had , even the very Bed his Wife lay on : But which is the highest of Afflictions , He is now a Prisoner for above 200000. l. of the Late KINGS Debts , for mony lent and advanced for the furnishing of his Navy , and Bread for his Houshold at Whitehall ; which Debt stands reported before you , to be 253200 l. paid in mony to the Exchequer : For the discharging whereof , and freeing the Farmers , the Long Parliament took of them 165000. l. ( which discharged their Two Armies , assuring them to free them of the Debt of 253200 l. Both which Sums amount to 418200. l. which with the Interest , swelleth the Sum to about a Milleon , the Farmers Petition only being to this Honourable House ) to state the Payment of the 253200 l. upon the remaining forraign Excise , Taxe , or any other way , that they may be delivered out of prison , and be just to their Creditors ; which though lengthned in the time for payment , will be very comfortable to those that have lain languishing , now , neer Twenty years prisoners : Which if it prevaileth not with this Honourable House , for the Farmers in general , He humbly hopeth and prayeth , in that his Case differeth from all the rest of his Partners the Farmers , who besides this being involved with them in that great Debt , was deprived by a Seizure of his Stock , Trade , and Castle of Guinny , which cost him in the Discovering and Setling of it , above 50000 l. clear out of purse , which he may plead as a merit from his Nation , being the first Discover and Setler of that Trade ; from whence he imported half a Milleon of Gold , before it was taken from him , by the late Parliament , which Castle is now possessed by the East India Company , who from thence yearly have the Gold they mannage the East India Trade with , and will yearly yeild to the Nation for ever 50 or 60 Thousand pound a year : To which his merit , your Petitioner may add ( by his industry ) the erecting of Allome-works , Copperise-works , bringing the Invention of Pan-tyles , Growing and Making Madther in England , in which above a thousand persons are every day imployed and fed ; Your petitioner and his Wife having sold their Land and Houses , by which they have freed and discharged themselves of above 100000 l. of those Farm Debts , ( more then his Partners ) that he might quit himself from being a prisoner , to pursue those things which may provide for his numerous Family ( now in great distresse ) and employ his remaining time in his Service of his Countrey , and not dye in prison . His Humble Prayer to this Honourable House is , ( the Premisses being considered ) there being due to Your Petitioner for what he hath payed out of his own estate , toward this great Debt , about 30000 l. That , you will be pleased out of somewhat , to order the Payment of 20000. to Your Petitioner , with which he shall be able to discharge himself from the Remain of these great Debts , and free himself out of Prison , which will render him not only , after the long misery of his Family , to be a comfort to them , but give him a capacity to serve his Country , in his great undertakings , and will be a Badge upon him of this Honourable Houses good affection towards him , for his Signal Loyalty , Doings and Sufferings , and in not letting him to suffer for it , under the marks of greatest dishonour , as to dye a Prisoner , and not pay his Engagements ; which will be a greater affliction unto him , then the highest torture of the eminentest Rebells , Dishonour being the greatest wound that a man can suffer in this World ; which falleth upon him only for his Loyalty : All which he hopeth will prevail with this Honourable House , that before Your Rising , some or all of you , to whom this Petition cometh , shall obtain it to be read , and doe something for the releiving of the Farmers in general , or Your Petitioner in particular ; That he may rejoyce , and not break his Heart , which certainly will be his portion , if you do nothing for him , for then his Creditors , being hopelesse , will be more violent then ever . Your Petitioner being yet confident that he shall be in the number of those who shall ever commemorate the great Deliverance received from Your Hands , Shall ever pray for Your Prosperity , &c.