%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> City Justice,/ OR,/ True Equity Expos'd./ Being an Humble Petition to the King, of Eight Grandees of one Party, against/ Four of another. Faithfully turn'd into Verie dogril, by as real/ a Well-wisher to them, as they are to Monarchy. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1690 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/23/2007 22399

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5.133r R176373 1 Packingtons Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound YE Sages of London, of states high and low, / I sing an Exploit late contriv'd in the City, date from content; imprint cropped?; hinged broadsheet with verso: 'Mr. Cressey's/ JUSTIFICATION/ OF/ Mr. Samuel Starkey.' [see 5.App.ii:65]; Riot in Guildhall (1682); Petition on behalf of Guildhall Rioters (1690). Pepys 5.133 Rollins (1) V:96-101; Wing C4352[B] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 133 City Justice,/ OR,/ True Equity Expos'd./ Being an Humble Petition to the King, of Eight Grandees of one Party, against/ Four of another. Faithfully turn'd into Verie dogril, by as real/ a Well-wisher to them, as they are to Monarchy. City Justice, OR, True Equity Expos'd. Being an Humble Petition to the King, of Eight Grandees of one Party, against Four of another. Faithfully turn'd into Verse dogril, by as real a Well-wisher to them, as they are to Monarchy. City Justice, or, True Equity Exposed. Being a Humble Petition to the King, of Eight Grandees of One Party, Against Four of Another. Faithfully Turned into Very Good Doggerel, by as Real a Well-Wisher to Them, as They are to Monarchy. 1/2 sheet folio, hinged, 270 x 175 cropped top and bottom edges, uneven inking, verso shows through cast fleurons, vertical rules 1690 [imprint cropped] Weinstein

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I. YE Sages of London, of states high and low, I sing an Exploit late contriv'd in the City, And that you its Wit, and its Justice may know, I now have dispers'd it, compos'd in a Ditty; Eight Grandees of Power Against three, and one Moore, Complain'd to the King of some Fines that lay sore; And fram'd a Petition, to heighten the Crime, Which wanting good Reason, I've put into Rhime. II. The stile began thus, Mighty Sir, you must know, In the year eighty three, we all guilty were found Of a damnable Riot, and no one knows how, Were sawcily Fin'd above four thousand Pound: That by the vile power Of those three, and one Moore, We were all forc'd to pay the said Fine, or to scowr, And only for Acting like true English-men, Our Zeal for the Monarchy being most plain. III. But now since our happy and strange Revolution Those errors by Parliament all were dispers'd, And at your Petitioners wise prosecution, That Judgment illegally giv'n, was revers'd; That the Fine rais'd before, By those three, and one Moore, Your Majesty's liable now to restore; But that all such Crimes you may rightly condemn, We hope Sir, to pay us, you'll take it from them.
IV. For since that our Rights, and our Nations defending From Tyranny, was of your coming the cause, No other design of Subversion intending. But Relief of the Church, and establishing Laws, Which altho have no power On these three, and one Moore, To make 'em refund, on a true Legal score; Yet if you'll be pleas'd Sir to break one for us, We shan't, and we hope none will say 'tis unjust. V. We think 'tis unfit, you that came to protect it, Should your self in the least lye under the Law, But rather those Criminals should be rejected, That such bloody Fines from our Purses could draw, That the sum nam'd before, Rais'd by three, and one Moore, Their substantial Estates should be pawn'd to res[tore,] That so into Parliament once it may come, Then your Majesty may be excused the Sum. VI. The PRAYER. We therefore most humbly beseech you Great Sir To except the said four in the next Act of Grace, The only chief reason who we ask it for. Is through a deep sentiment of our own Case, For the three, and one Moore, As I told you before, Won't refund it but by a Parliamentary power, Which if you'll be pleas'd to effest, in our way, As always we us'd, we will zealously Pray.
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