The Committee of Parliament for the Lord
Cravens Petition did meet again, and heard Mr.
Latch (of Councel for the Purchasers of my L.
Cravens Estate) conclude his Argument, which
in brief was to this purpose. That he was of
Councel with six Purchasers, of whom the Parliament
had care to preserve that Interest which
themselves and five hundred more had in the
Lord Cravens Estate, by their respective Purchases
made thereof, and who are now inhabiting
in the Lord Cravens houses, not imagining
they shall be supplanted.
Then he proceeded briefly to repeat those
reasons he had given at his last daies Argument,
why the Purchasers of the Lord Cravens Estate
(though there should be motives and causes for
the Parliament, in grace and favour to the Lord
Craven, to repeal the sentence against him)
should not be disturbed in their poss[unr]stions, nor
the Lord Craven have restitution of his Estate
in specie, which was sold, paid for, conveyed,
and inhabited, and bought upon the faith of a
Parliament, and at such a time when they were
in great streights for monies.
I. His first reason was in respect of the absent
condition of the Petitioner, which, he said, rendred
him incapable of restitution.
2. From the nature of the petition, which ought
to be a petition of grace, and not of right.
3. From the weakness of the grounds of the
Petition.
4. From the Principles of Law and Nature,
when the property of the Estate was changed.