To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, the second humble petition of Abel Carew, an excluded door-keeper from this Honourable House with a true account of the cause of the present serjeants acting against your petitioner : also a description of the serjeant's power in reference to any place belonging to this House. Carew, Abel, 17th cent. 1695 Approx. 10 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A34028 Wing C541 ESTC R20416 12259149 ocm 12259149 57756 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 . 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The Second Humble Petition of Abel Carew an Excluded Door-keeper from this Honourable House , with a True Account of the Cause of the present Serjeants Acting against your Petitioner . Also a Description of the Serjeant's Power in reference to any Place belonging to this House : Humbly Sheweth , THAT whereas your Petitioner lately Petitioned your Honours , setting forth the Cause of his being Secluded the last Parliament by Serjeant Shoreditch of his wearing the Ribbon at Oxford with this Motto , No Slavery , No Popery . Your said Petitioner further sets forth , That as he was the last Parliament taken into Custody for speaking some Words of an Alteration against Popery in Seven Years time , he has sufficient cause to believe , that the whole House was at that time acquainted of him ; for it happened within a day or two after he was discharged : When the House was up , he went in to see what it was of the Clock by the Dial ; there remained some of the Members behind , who took notice of him ; and one of them asked your Petitioner , What he did there ? and bid him be gone , Saying , That he was one that wish'd for the time to wear the Ribbon again . Thus your Petitioner , through much difficulty , by the Intercession of a Friend , obtained his Liberty from a Prison , with paying of Fees. And Serjeant Topham being now restored to his Place , your said Petitioner agreeing to the Authority of this House against Popery , and expecting for the said Serjeant to do likewise , he was willing to humble himself to the said Serjeant in any manner that your Honours should require of him : But the said Serjeant having thwarted the Authority of the Members , in not admitting your Petitioner to his said Place ; therefore your said Petitioner further sets forth , That the Cause of the said Serjeants acting against your Petitioner , and of his being offended at him , in keeping him out of his said Door-keepers Place , doth arise upon some old Grudge : Ever since he did belong to this House , he has endeavoured to undermine , and to sell your Petitioner out of his said Door-keepers Place for 20 or 30 l. And accordingly in the late King Charles's time , he was pleased to tell your Petitioner , he was offered so much for it ; and within a a short time after he turn'd your Petitioner out , and was then Restor'd by some of the worthy Members of the House ; but was first told by one of the Worthy Members , that the Serjeant said , That he should ask pardon ; whereas your Petitioner is Conscious of no Crime that he had committed against him ; and the said Serjeant having no objections against him , he was then restored without asking Pardon , and without paying any Mony for it . But it may be objected , That the Serjeant is a Patent Officer , and so he has a Power to Depute Servants under him . For Answer , He has no Patent to act unjustly , and to twhart the Authority of any of the Members of this House against Popery ; and your Petitioner being thankful to those Worthy Members , who have spoken to the Serjeant in his behalf ; and the said Serjeant pretends to some of them , that he shall have share of the Profits , which is nothing at all ; and that he pretends that he offered your Petitioner a Messengers Place , which your Petitioner is not capable of ; and this is only with a design to exclude your Petitioner for ever from his said Door-keepers Place ; and so to make him his Bondslave , and to turn your Petitioner out at his pleasure : And he makes an Objection concerning Letters , which was occasioned about Six or Seven years ago , upon the said Serjeants receiving some Money out of the Exchequer for the Under-Servants belonging to this House , which was never paid to any other Serjeant before this ; for the Under-Servants did formerly use to receive it themselves , ( as the Door-keepers to the House of Lords , the Usher of the Black Rod did never concern himself with their Mony that they received out of the Exchequer ) but this Serjeant has endeavour'd to engross that Mony to himself ; and accordingly he kept back part of your Petitioners Mony , and threatned to turn him out of his Place ; thereupon he sent a Letter to the said Serjeant at Windsor for his Mony , who sent him an answer by his Son , wherein he doth seem to question your Petitioners due , and yet acknowledges the Debt : But your Petitioner having confuted him in that Letter , and so fully convinc'd him of his due , that he sent another Letter by his Son of what time he would be at London , within some time after he paid him half a Guinea in part , though it was in a great rage and storm : But when the said Serjeant came to Town again , your Petitioner went to demand the rest of his Mony ; thereupon he storm'd at your Petitioner , and said , that it was not his due , and that he would not pay it him ; and after the said Serjeant received many Letters from your Petitioner , and would shew him no Reason and Justice ; so that at the last , as he was in Town , he storm'd at your Petitioner and threatned to serve a Warrant upon him : Thereupon your said Petitioner reply'd , That he would save him that trouble , and go with him before any Magistrate without a Warrant ; and if it was not his due , he would not have a Farthing of him ; and so your said Petitioner went voluntarily with him without a Warrant , before Justice Dewcy , who forthwith ordered the said Serjeant to pay him the rest of his Mony. And thus your Petitioner recovered his due : And by the payment thereof , ( as your Petitioner is able to make manifest by Letters ) the said Serjeant doth acknowledge the said Inward Door-keepers Place to be your Petitioners Right , and his due , by the Authority and Command of any Member of this House , who is pleased to give it him , as being above the power of the Serjeant ; though the said Serjeant , by his Arbitrary Power , has denied divers of the Members , and doth still keep your Petitioner out of his said Place ; and though the Serjeant is trusted with a Power to depute in case of a Vacancy , yet as he is a Servant himself , it is all in reference to the Service of this House ; and so they are all Servants under the command of all your Honours , according to the Example of other old Servants , and of Mr. Cooper , who was Outward Door-keeper to this House about 40 years , till he died ; and so was continued in by the Authority of the Members against any Serjeant at Arms that opposed him ; and according to the Example of a Serjeant at Arms , ( within the memory of your Petitioner ) who disobeyed the Order of the House ; thereupon the House turn'd him out , and sent for another Serjeant ; yet notwithstanding the Door-keepers continued in their Places ; and if they were his Servants , then they were dismiss'd too ; but they were Servants to the House ; and so they were mentioned in the Resolves of the House for Collections to pay the Under-Servants attending the Service of this House ; and by a former Resolve of the House , as in the year 1671. for them to be recommended to his Majesty to give order for a Recompence and Satisfaction of the said Servants attending the Service of this House . And your Petitioner doth remember , that in the late King Charles's time , when the said Serjeant threatned to turn him out ; your said Petitioner told the said Serjeant , That he was a ā—¸ervant to the House of Commons ; thereupon the said Serjeant threatned to break your Petitioners Head , if he told him so again , saying , That he was the Kings Serjeant at Arms ; but , by the Serjeants Favor , as he is the Kings Serjeant at Arms , so he is the Kings Servant ; and as he is the Kings Servant , so he is constituted by the King to attend the Service of this House . But your Petitioner has sufficient cause to believe , that the said Serjeant at Arms would Assume a Regal Power to himself . And now your Petitioner may say , that it is an undeniable Argument by the Serjeants denying divers of the Worthy Members for your Petitioner to be admitted to his said Place , who has been a Sufferer for speaking against Popery , that the said Serjeant doth look upon his Old Grudge ; that it ought to take place before Loyalty , or it ought to extirpate Loyalty , or any part of Loyalty to his Present Majesty ; yea , if it was in his power for lucre of gain , he would take any man into custody , that acts against Popery ; for he has commanded your Petitioner to depart the Lobby , and laid hold on him to turn him out by Violence , when he has given him no provocation ; and has told him that the Door-keepers Place is no Place for him , who doth agree to the Authority of all your Honours against Popery . And thus the said Serjeant stands brazening and confronting the Authority of your Honours in your Loyalty to the Kings most excellent Majesty , who is Defender of the Faith against Popery and Arbitrary Government . And the said Serjeant may consider , that though he frowns upon your Petitioner , yet the Times do smile upon him : But the said Door being still kept by the same Man that was put in the last Parliament by Serjeant Shoreditch , who turn'd your Petitioner out for being against Popery . And thus all the Places belonging to this House being under the Authority and Jurisdiction of all your Honours ; Therefore your Petitioner doth further humbly pray for the Consideration of this Honourable House , That as it was his Fathers Place before him , so he hopes that as consistent to the Benevolence of this House in point of Charity , and his suffering upon the account of Popery , as concurrent to the Authority of this House against Popery or Arbitrary Government , will be Arguments to prevail with all your Honours to reconcile the said Serjeant to him , so that he may be restored to his said Door-keepers Place . And your Petitioner shall Pray , &c.