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“ABREPIAT for the Defendants, Upun aScire Facias, tp Repeal or moke oud the Letters Patents, avr the Great Sealof Fngland (herexsto Annexe) for Reprifals, azeinf the States General, ind these Subyets, for 1516821. with Colts and Damages, at rected i te Scice Facias 5 uma phach the Defendants have Pleaded and joyned in Demurrér, thy Eafter-Term. 34, Carol. fecund, pro une. i Charles she Second, é. not doubting but chat Sir Aeert Sawyer, the Kings Attorny Gencral, hat tuba faeisfed therewith, and that the etrers Patents ought not to be Repealed or made vord , upd EhacWeit of Scire Fact, without fatisfaétion made to the Grantees. ‘Bur the Aevomy General having facly put ina Demurrerto the faid Plea,unto which the Defendants rejoyned fo dete Record being made up and read in Court, on Satarday laf, che 2oth, of this Inftane tay, 1682, (confi Rg large Skins of Parchments ; The Lord Chancellor was peafed ro appoint Ten, following o argue ae ee ee aring, ‘That he would give Judgment thereupon on Saturday nest, although Mr. Welep and Me. Wiitlod, the Defendants Council, prayed longer time 9 confultthereon, for that Copy of the Record could not ¢ made in that time. be a i aa cis this Afacpaffed the High Court of Admiralty, the Covnil Table, the Commons of Exelon in Payee peea the Deputies ofthe States General feveral year rogether, before was brought into this Solemn pai judicial Grane of Letters Patents, and therefore worthy of that confideration, to be Argued folemnly before She Lord Chanchellorof England, for his Jadgmenttherepon and the rather becaufe the RING intel ays, in Tee BOR of che Patent, [but eis bound in Faflice and Hanoar to ec the Det and Damages Satisfied and Repaired y which {s not done in che leaf meafure to this day. Jemay be confidently affirmed (all circumstances confidered) ‘That there was never two fich Families 2s Sic witian Lawton and Sit Pasl Pinders, chat mertited fo much from the Crown of England, foBarboroufly ufed abroad, and fomuch negleéted at home. +h The Attorny General, by his Demerrer, admitsall to be true in the Defendants PLEA, That nothing was paid © ro the Defendants, or recoverd of the faid Debt and Damages, out of the Prizes, taken by the Kings Ships, or our of the Sooeos Patacoones, mencioned inthe PLEA, (and ingroffed bythe Prize of rate ‘and oshers Jor by any other money from the States of Holand, orthe af-India Company of the Netberlends. "The Defendants cannot admit any thing inthe Scire Facies, tobe effeétual in the Law, again the force of the Grant in the Letters Patents (quo a/que) until the Debt and Damages withCofis be recovered and fatisfed ; al- hough a Treaty at sreds is urged inBar againt the Defendants ; Dated arth. of Fly 1667. asrecited in che si- Fe pci, but no nrolment thereof, that the SubjeGts might reort thereunto according to Law, and it ought to be Trade aRecord (otherwife it eannot any ways invalide this Grant ; However, {uch a particular Right cannot Law be taken away, by any Publick Treaty: ‘Then Mr. Attorny General farther fays, That the Treaty at Breds vas Renewed, Ratified and Confirmed, by a fecond Treaty, Proclamed and Publifhed,-and alfo mentions a pretens ed superfedeas, Dated Seste die Juni in the 32 year of the King bu recites no Records or Inrolments thereof, in “regard they erroncoutly recite the names of fome perfons for others. T HIE Defendancs Pleaded to che Scire Faciar in Eaftr-Term,168r. Reciting the Letters Patents is ec o¢¢-

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