To the Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Henry Harbotle, on the behalf of himself and above 100 of the poor tenants within the Barony of Langley in the county of Northumberland. Harbotle, Henry. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A87078 of text R212242 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[65]). 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. 5 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 A87078 Wing H679 Thomason 669.f.19[65] ESTC R212242 99870884 99870884 163401 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. A87078) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163401) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[65]) To the Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Henry Harbotle, on the behalf of himself and above 100 of the poor tenants within the Barony of Langley in the county of Northumberland. Harbotle, Henry. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1655] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Land tenure -- England -- Northumberland -- Early works to 1800. Northumberland (England) -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800. A87078 R212242 (Thomason 669.f.19[65]). civilwar no To the Parliament of England Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Henry Harbotle, on the behalf of himself and above 100 of the poor Harbotle, Henry. 1655 904 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. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-09 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-10 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-10 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND . The humble Petition of Henry Harbotle , on the behalf of himself and above 100 of the poor Tenants within the Barony of Langley in the County of Northumberland . Sheweth , THat your Petitioners being Tenants of , and within the said Barony , of right ought to hold , and their Ancestors time out of mind have held their respective Tenements in fee by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Barony , as may appear , not onely by Records and their Copies in the time of Henry the eight ( ready to be produced ) but also by Survey taken 12. Eliz. upon the attainder of Thomas Earl of Northumberland , Lord of the said Barony ; upon whose attainder the said Barony came to the Crown ; under whom your Pettioners said Ancestors , quietly held and enjoyed their said Estates , paying onely the rents reserved upon their said Copies . And were upon every Discent or Alienation by the Stewards of the said Barony ( who held by Patent from the Crown ) admitted Tenants according to the Custome of the said Barony , until the 16 Iac. In which year one Iohn Murray Esquire , one of the Bed-Chamber to King Iames ( having before gotten the said Barony setled upon Feoffees for his use , and knowing that by the Title of the Crown he could not destroy the Petitioners custome of Copy-hold ) exhibited his Bill of complaint before the Lord Verulam in Chancery against your Petitioners said Ancestors , and therein most falsly declared , that he was at the time of the exhibiting his said Bill , by vertue of a conveyance from the co-heirs of the said Earl , seized of the said Barony in his demeasne as of Fee ; and that the Tenants thereof were only Tenants at the Wills of the Lords of the said Barony , and not by Copy of inheritance ; upon which suggestions , and others as false ( too long to be here inserted ) obtained a most unjust Decree against some of your Petitioners yet alive ; and the Ancestors of the rest , for destroying their said Copyhold of inheritance : And thereupon most barbarously and cruelly persecuted your said Petitioners and Ancestors ( by tying some of them neck and heels together , and throwing them naked into the snow , and imprisoning a great many in the Fleet here at London , and others in several prisons far remote from their friends or habitation , where they suffered most inhumane cruelties ) untill some of them had submitted to the loss of their Customes , by accepting of Leases from him ; which was no sooner done , but he then waved the title of the coheirs ; and desires his Feoffees to surrender their right back to the Crown , which they did ; and then within two months after their surrender he takes from King Iames an Estate in Feesimple in his own name to him and his heirs for ever , making no further use of the former pretended titles of the Coheirs ; and afterwards disposes of his title to Sir Edward Ratcliff Baronet ( a man of the like cruelty ; and whose Religion is such , that he openly professeth it is as lawfull to kill a Protestant as a Veal-Calf , or a Dog . ) For whose Recusancie and Delinquencie , his Estate was by Act of Parliament appointed to be sold , and the said Barony , being parcel of his Estate , was by the Trustees in that behalf accordingly sold to one George Hurd , a person intrusted by and for Sir Edward Ratcliff . Others there are of your Petitioners , who never submitted to the said Decree ; yet have enjoyed their Lands according to their said ancient custome paying onely their old Rents . Your Petitioners for recovery of their just and ancient right made their claim within the time limited by the Act for sale of the said Lands , before the Committee for removing obstructions ; but in regard it did not appear unto them that the aforesaid Decree was reversed ; they did conceave themselves bound up thereby , and no way capable to allow of your Petitioners said claim , and there upon dismissed it . That your Petitioners are so impoverished by the late war , frequent plundring of the Moss-troopers , and cruel exactions of their Lords ; that they are no way able to wage Law , or prosecute a Bill of review of the said Decree , although admitted in forma pauperis : fourty of your Petitioners at least , being not able to make up 5 shillings in ready mony . And therefore your Petitioners most humbly beseech your Honours , to take their sad condition into your pious consideration , and in regard of their aforesaid poverty , that they may receive from your Honors , who are the fountain of Iustice in this Commonwealth ; such Iustice as shall upon the examination of their case , appear to be agreeable with the ancient Laws of this Nation , and the equity of their cause . Jan : 1654 And they shall pray , &c.