the case of r. gee, esq; humbly recommended to the commons of england, assembled in parliament. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). b wing c estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. b ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the case of r. gee, esq; humbly recommended to the commons of england, assembled in parliament. gee, richard. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : ] caption title. publication data suggested by wing. reproduction of the original in the lincoln's inn library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng gee, richard -- trials, litigation, etc. coach drivers -- england -- licenses -- early works to . coaching (transportation) -- law and legislation -- england -- early works to . broadsides -- england -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - emma (leeson) huber text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the case of r. gee , esq humbly recommended to the commons of england , assembled in parliament . in the last session of parliament , there was exhibited a petition to the house of commons , by the hackney coachmen against r. gee , and other commissioners for the regulating of coaches , complaining against the said r. gee for several misdeameanors by him committed , contrary to the directions of a late act of parliament , entitled , an act for licencing and regulating hackney coaches and stage coaches , &c. charging the said r. gee , one of the commissioners , as follows . . for refusing licences to persons qualified by the act. . for granting licences to persons not qualified by the act. . for licensing above . . for exacting more money than the law allows . the matter was taken into consideration , but so intricated , with a confusion and contradiction of witnesses , false suggestions in the evidence , and other irregularities in the manner and order of the proceeding , that r. gee addrest himself , by petition , to the honourable house of commons for redress , complaining of hard measure ( to fall under a sentence that looks like a conviction of perjury , without so much as one witness upon oath ) and only desiring to be heard upon the matter in question , the said petition was tender'd to the house , but other business intervening , it fell to the ground . by this disappointment the petitioner finds himself , now in a manner forced upon a second application to the same authority , and upon the same account , not doubting of such encouragement from the wisdom and equity of the house , as shall be found agreeable to honor and justice at least if these following articles , which the said r gee takes upon himself to make good , may be admitted in proof of his inocency . as under favour for instance . . there is a dead man produced for a witness . . a witness said to be summoned and appear , that was neither summoned , nor did appear . . a charge exhibited impossible to be true . . witnesses heard ex parte . . a copy of the defendants charge promised them , and then forced to an answer without it . these are some few exceptions , of many , to save time and trouble ; and r. gee humbly submits himself upon the whole to this impartial equity , either to be repair'd in his reputation , if he make good his charge , or to suffer if he does not . the case of several hackney-coachmen in and about the cities of london and westminster and the suburbs, occasioned by one robert murrey and his adherents, to the utter ruin of many families, for his and his accomplices private interest cadman, thomas. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the case of several hackney-coachmen in and about the cities of london and westminster and the suburbs, occasioned by one robert murrey and his adherents, to the utter ruin of many families, for his and his accomplices private interest cadman, thomas. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : -?] signed: thomas cadman [and others]. place and date of publication from wing. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng murrey, robert. cadman, thomas. coach drivers -- england -- law and legislation. london (england) broadsides -- england -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the case of several hackney-coachmen in and about the cities of london and westminster and the suburbs , occasioned by one robert murrey , and his adherents , to the utter ruin of many families , for his and his accomplices private interest . . the said robert murrey , a common projector , in the year obtained an act of common council in london , to restrain all but hackney coachmen to ply in and about the city of london and suburbs thereof , under the penalty of forty shillings each coach for every offence : by which project the said murry did get clear to himself four hundred and fifty pounds , besides all bribes and other incomes ; but the coachmen that were oppress'd by the said murrey's project , having obtained the then attorny general 's opinion , that the said act was against law , staid several suits , and cast the said murrey , or those imployed to put the said act in execution . . that then the said murrey and his accomplices did obtain an order from sir edmand villers , then knight-marshal for the liberty of the verge ( viz. westminster , whitehall , and st. james's ) to suppress the hundred hackney coachmen from plying with their coaches within the liberties aforesaid , and did with money hire men and keep them from their said imployment , until one thomas cadman did send his servant with his hackney-coach to ply within the said verge , after having suffered nine weeks restraint , by means of the aforesaid order , resolving to see by what right they held their power ; whereupon the knight-marshals men immediately seized upon the said cadman's servant , and kept him prisoner at white-hall for above six houres , until he gave a note under his hand of forty pounds penalty to appear before the said sir edward villers the next day by nine of the clock : and the said thomas cadman appeared accordingly on his said servants behalf before his honour , and made him sensible of the oppression , who was thereupon pleased to take it off , and never put it upon the said coachmen after . . that the said murrey and his accomplices afterwards sollicited his honour capt. cheek , then governour of the tower of london , to keep the said one hundred hackney coachmen from taking up any fare upon the bulwark wharfe before the tower gate , under the penalty of five shillings for each coach so offending , so that many poor men suffered thereby , until the said thomas cadman petitioned his honour , and made him sensible of the abuse put upon them by the aforesaid murrey and his accomplices , so that now the said robert murrey , having made what mony he could of the said hackney coachmen , came to those he had formerly ruined , and by his deluding speeches prevailed upon some poor hackney-coachmen and others not qualified for that imploy , to assist him with money to sollicit the then popish commissioners to licence hackney-coachmen , and to pay more money in one year for working their coaches in the streets , to the commissioners and the said murray and his accomplices than all the said hackney-coachmen were worth , and if the rich men should pay the poor mens debts ; the commission was sealed and security given in to the lords of the treasury in november , . ( as the said coachmen are credably inform'd , ) and if it had not pleased almighty god to send his highness , the then prince of orange , to their relief at that very time , the said hackney-coachmen had been all ruined and undone by the unjust and wicked contrivance aforesaid . . that when the said murrey saw the late king james was gone out of this kingdom , and his popish commission of no effect , did with the assistance of a friend or two in london , for his own by-ends since christmas last , get the act of common-councel revived . and the said coachmen being informed , that the said murrey , and several others , are endeavouring , for their own private interest , and to the prejudice of your petitioners , to procure one or more bills , of their own framing , to be brought into this honourable house , for the regulating of hackney-coaches . the said coachmen therefore humbly desire that the act made for regulating of hackney-coaches in the th and th years of king charles ii. may be vived , with the addition only of one hundred coaches . and that they may be settled at the same yearly rent that was limitted by the said act. wherefore we most humbly beseech your honours to take the premises into your serious consideration ; and we and all the rest , as in duty bound , shall ever pray , &c. thomas cadman , thomas whittle , peter welch , john hurt , john sheldarick , george loverick , john beaver , john hugins . the case of several of his majesties loyal subjects, very much oppressed, contrary to the laws of this land as they are advised, humbly represented to the consideration of the right honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in parliament assembled. cadman, thomas. - approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c d estc r ocm 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the case of several of his majesties loyal subjects, very much oppressed, contrary to the laws of this land as they are advised, humbly represented to the consideration of the right honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in parliament assembled. cadman, thomas. england and wales. parliament. house of commons. england and wales. act for licensing and regulating hackney coachmen. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : -] signed: tho. cadman ... [and four others]. date and place of publication suggested by wing. complaint to parliament that the commissioners that were established under an act for licensing and regulating coachmen have refused to grant licenses to some of the hackney coachmen. reproduction of original in: christ church (university of oxford). library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng coach drivers -- licenses -- england -- early works to . coach drivers -- legal status, laws, etc. -- england -- early works to . broadsides -- england -- th century. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the case of several of his majesties loyal subjects , very much oppressed , contrary to the laws of this land as they are advised , humbly represented to the honourable the knights , citizens , and burgesses , in parliament assembled . . by act of parliament , in the year . hackney coachmen were licensed to ply in and about the cities of london and westminster during that parliament , and untill the first sessions of the next parliament and no longer except continued . . the said parliament being dissolved , and another called and also dissolved , and nothing done in that affair , the act expired . . we , the number of ancient coachmen , who have served persons of honour , and gentlemen of quality , all of us loyal subjects , and many of us sufferers for our loyalty and affections to king charles the first of ever blessed memory , presented our petition to the then next parliament , praying for the reasons following to be added to the formerly lycenced . reasons . . that the buildings and the inhabitants were so much increased that there was more occasion for then for when the act was made . . that we being ancient coachmen bred up only to that imploy , and had no other way to get bread for our selves and poor families . . that we supposing that after the expiration of the aforesaid act of parliament the same liberty might extend to us that all other coachmen had , did lay out all our little substance in buying coach , horses , and other conveniencies for our calling , and accordingly followed our calling , untill about may , we were by an act of common-council prohibited from letting our coaches to hire in the city and liberties of london , and had several of our coaches seized and carried to the green-yard , and forced to redeem them with fines , sometimes s others s and some s and some have paid l. in ten days time : others have been sold by them both coach and horses , according to the will and pleasure of those arbitrary law-makers : some of our persons imprisoned , and there kept for the space of three months ; others till they could get bail , and then put fines upon them as they please . . and by the exercise of this cruelty upon us , the coachmen pretended to be licensed by the common-councel , did joyn together , and appoint of their number to meet , and hold consults for raising of money amongst themselves , to suppress and ruine us in our calling in the city , and liberty of westminster also , and did with money hire men , and keep us from our imploy , until we did make our agrievance known by our humble petition to his most gracious majesty king charles ii. of ever-blessed memory ; and the better to effect their design to ruine us , they have raised at several times l. and upwards . . and lastly , we the oppressed have to our ruins stood several suits with the said , and in all the said suits cast them : but now our small substance being spent , and they having a great stock of money , we must suffer under their prosecution , unless prevented by the goodness of this parliament . wherefore we most humbly beseech your honours to take the premisses into your serious consideration , that when our petition shall be presented unto your consideration , to vouchsafe us relief according as to your wisdoms shall seem meet ; and we and all the rest , as in duty bound , shall ever pray . tho. cadman , tho. whittle , peter welch , lewis morris . tho. genings . the case of several hackney-coachmen in and about the cities of london and westminster and the suburbs, occasioned by one robert murrey, and his adherents, to the utter ruin of many families, for his and his accomplices private interest. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing c a estc r 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 . 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 , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) the case of several hackney-coachmen in and about the cities of london and westminster and the suburbs, occasioned by one robert murrey, and his adherents, to the utter ruin of many families, for his and his accomplices private interest. cadman, thomas. sheet ([ ] p.) s.n., [london : -?] signed: thomas cadman [and others]. imprint from wing. reproduction of original in the henry e. huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng murrey, robert -- early works to . coach drivers -- england -- early works to . urban transportation -- england -- london -- early works to . broadsides -- england - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion the case of several hackney-coachmen in and about the cities of london and westminster and the suburbs , occasioned by one robert murrey , and his adherents , to the utter ruin of many families , for his and his accomplices private interest . i. the said robert murrey , a common projector , in the year obtained an act of common council in london , to restrain all but hackney coachmen to ply in and about the city of london and suburbs thereof , under the penalty of forty shillings each coach for every offence : by which project the said murry did get clear to himself four hundred and fifty pounds , besides all bribes and other incomes ; but the coachmen that were oppress'd by the said murrey's project , having obtained the then attorny general 's opinion , that the said act was against law , staid several suits , and cast the said murrey , or those imployed to put the said act in execution . . that then the said murrey and his accomplices did obtain an order from sir edward villers , then knight-marshal for the liberty of the verge ( viz. westminster , whitehall , and st. james's ) to suppress the hundred hackney coachmen from plying with their coaches within the liberties aforesaid , and did with money hire men and keep them from their said imployment , until one thomas cadman did send his servant with his hackney-coach to ply within the said verge , after having suffered nine weeks restraint , by means of the aforesaid order , resolving to see by what right they held their power ; whereupon the knight-marshals men immediately seized upon the said cadman's servant , and kept him prisoner at white-hall for above six houres , until he gave a note under his hand of forty pounds penalty to appear before the said sir edward villers the next day by nine of the clock : and the said thomas cadman appeared accordingly on his said servants behalf before his honour , and made him sensible of the oppression , who was thereupon pleased to take it off , and never put it upon the said coachmen after . . that the said murrey and his accomplices afterwards sollicited his honour capt. cheek , then governour of the tower of london , to keep the said one hundred hackney coachmen from taking up any fare upon the bulwark wharfe before the tower gate , under the penalty of five shillings for each coach so offending , so that many poor men suffered thereby , until the said thomas cadman petitioned his honour , and made him sensible of the abuse put upon them by the aforesaid murrey and his accomplices , so that now the said robert murrey , having made what mony he could of the said hackney coachmen , came to those he had formerly ruined , and by his deluding speeches prevailed upon some poor hackney-coachmen and others not qualified for that imploy , to assist him with money to sollicit the then popish commissioners to licence hackney-coachmen , and to pay more money in one year for working their coaches in the streets , to the commissioners and the said murray and his accomplices than all the said hackney-coachmen were worth , and if the rich men should pay the poor mens debts ; the commission was sealed and security given in to the lords of the treasury in november , . ( as the said coachmen are credably inform'd , ) and if it had not pleased almighty god to send his highness , the then prince of orange , to their relief at that very time , the said hackney-coachmen had been all ruined and undone by the unjust and wicked contrivance aforesaid . . that when the said murrey saw the late king james was gone out of this kingdom , and his popish commission of no effect , did with the assistance of a friend or two in london , for his own by-ends since christmas last , get the act of common-councel revived . and the said coachmen being informed , that the said murrey , and several others , are endeavouring , for their own private interest , and to the prejudice of your petitioners , to procure one or more bills , of their own framing , to be brought into this honourable house , for the regulating of hackney-coaches . the said coachmen therefore humbly desire that the act made for regulating of hackney-coaches in the th and th years of king charles ii. may be vived , with the addition only of one hundred coaches . and that they may be settled at the same yearly rent that was limitted by the said act. wherefore we most humbly beseech your honours to take the premises into your serious consideration ; and we and all the rest , as in duty bound , shall ever pray , &c. thomas cadman , thomas whittle , peter welch , john hurt , john sheldarick , george loverick , john beaver , john hugins .