A brief of the Lady Dales petition to the Parliament.  
Showing, 
 THat Sir Thomas Dale her husband being employed (in the year 1617.) by the East India Company as chief Commander of their Fleet into the East Indies, 
Sir Tho. Dale employed to the East-Indies by the Company, dyeth, leaving a great estate there in his ship belonging to the petitioner as his Executrix.  and there dying (in the year 1619) leaving a great estate there in money and other things (in his Ship called the Moon, then floating at Sea) to the value of 20000 pounds, all which after his death belonged to the Petitioner as sole Executrix of his last Will made before his going in that Voyage.  
Shortly after his death, one Thomas jones a Factor for the Company there, and Robert Owen a servant of the said Sir Thomas, 
His estate there after his death spoiled by the Companies factors and his own servant, and shared between them & the Governors, Treasurers and Committees of the Company, & his state-bookes taken and suppressed by them.  by confederacy with George Ball, William Methald and Augustine Spaulding Factors likewise for the said Company (according to the usual customs of those Factors in case of any man's death there, by a forehand private direction from the Governors, Treasurers and Committees of that Company, to seize upon all his goods for the use of the Company, and so to swallow up all his estate) got aboard the said Ship in the absence both of the Master and Purser of the same, and there unlawfully broke into Sir Thomas his cabin and store-roome, and took and carried from thence all his money, goods and estate there whatsoever, together with diverse written books and memorial of the particulars of his estate there, which books and memorial they have suppressed and concealed, and have shared all the said estate between themselves; and the said Governors, Treasurers and Committees of the said Company giving no part thereof, nor the sight of the said books and memorial to the Petitioner ever sithence.  
The said Governors, 
The Governors, Treasurers and Committees practise further to defeat her of all her estate at home, lying in their hands.  Treasurers and Commits not herewith content, have since practised to defeat the Petitioner of all her estate at home (lying all in their hands) being a matter of 2000 pounds or near thereabouts, adventured by her said husband in both the joint stocks of that Company, besides the profits thereof and some other moneys owing by the Company to her husband, causing an officer of theirs to charge her for that purpose with supposed debts of her husbands to the Company, to the value of 2600 pounds, which upon examination of another of their officers in her cause, hath been since confessed by him upon oath to be an unjust charge, and excused as a mistaken by the Company.  
That the Petitioner hath sought remedy for the former of these wrongs (done in the Indies) by a suit in the Admiralty Court against the said jones and Owen, 
She seeks remedy in the Court of Admiralty for her wrongs beyond seas, but obtains not justice there according to her proofs.  being the principal actors of the said wrongs and spoil there, where notwithstanding that good proof was made, as well of their said unlawful fact, as of diverse particulars of the said estate (to a great value) so unlawfully taken away by them, besides a much greater estate concealed by their taking and suppressing of the said books and memorial, yet through the greatness and potency of the said Governors, Treasurers and Commits bearing those fellows out in that suit against the Petitioner, she could not there obtain recompense of the said wrongs, 
All she hath, thus detained from her, not able to maintain suit, her witnesses not to be had at all times, their depositions already taken, not serving in any other Court.  according to her proof made thereof.  
So the said Governors, Treasurers and Committees, and those others before mentioned, detaining from the Petitioner all she hath; and the said Governors, Treasurers and Committees not only denying to yield her any part of her means in their hands, either for the righting of herself by suit, or for her necessary maintenance, but refusing also very scornfully as much as to treat with her (or her friends for her) of justice and equity, especially because the depositions already taken in her cause, will not avail her in any other ordinary Court; and her witnesses (of the wrongs done her beyond Seas) being seafaring men, are not to be produced at all times to serve her turn, some of them (who have been examined already in her cause) being since gone again to Sea. 
Praying this high Court to consider of her cause, to call the parties, to view the state-books and the proofs already made, and thereupon to take order for her relief.   
Humbly therefore prayeth this honourable Court to take her cause into their considerations, to call the parties above mentioned (or such of them as are near at hand) to appear forthwith before them, commanding them to bring the said books and memorial into the Court, and upon view thereof, together with such proofs as are already made in the cause, without further trouble or other examinations, to take such order for her relief and satisfaction for the said several wrongs, as their wisdoms shall find agreeable to justice and equity.