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A95165	A true relation of all the remarkable passages, and illegall proceedings of some sathanicall or Doeg-like accusers of their brethren, against William Larner, a free-man of England, and one of the merchant-tailers company of London, for selling eight printed sheets of paper (all of one matter,) intituled, Londons last warning; as also against John Larner, and Jane Hales his servants. ...		1646 (1646)	Wing T2899; Thomason E335_7; ESTC R200778	10,857	17

of your own Priviledges so give us leave to stand for our Liberties and let it be your care to see the same preserved I have been in the space of 12 dayes committed to two severall Prisons kept Close Prisoner and for certaine dayes none permitted to spake to me or come at me and worser used then they doe Thieves Murderers or Traytors and yet my charge no other then for felling Eight Printed sheets of Paper Intituled The last Warning to London which I bought in my shop as the manner of our trade is to buy Books of all sorts This bearer can informe you of the truth of my bad usage how my wife hath all this while been sick in pangs like a travailing woman being frighted with Hunscott and those that have seven severall times searched my House who took away from me much of my goods Sir I have heard a good report of you and of your readinesse in furthering honest mens causes I desire nothing from you but the benefit of the good Lawes made against Oppression Oppressours that you will not suffer me to be ruined by these Old Informers and Quandam servants to the late Bishop of Canterbury and if by your mediation to the House of Commons I may obtaine so much favour as to have Common Justice which is every Free mans Birth-right to make my legall Defence and liberty given I doubt not but to cleer my self and prove that some of those my Accusers not onely to be Thieves and Robbers of other men but such as are and have been unworthy Promoters and Informers under the Bishops by which trade they live and subsist and if by legall conviction I be found guilty I shall not refuse to submit unto such exemplary punishment as by the law may be inflicted upon me but in case I suffer unjustly through your neglect and you shall refuse to give me your Assistance for the freeing me from the malice of these base Informers If I cannot yet some of my friends will make it knowne to the World where the fault is how Justice is denyed us besides how I was actually a long time in the Parliaments Service adventuring my self for them in this Warre and how 461. 6s 6d is due to me as the Right Honourable the Lord Roberts and many of his Officers of his Regiment can informe you and till you pay the Principall whether these cruell doings and Imprisonment must serve for Interrest I referre it to your own self to consoder of and how much if you suffer these things it will dishonour you besides alienate the affections of the People from you which that it may not be is the desire of him who is From the Goal of New-prison in Mayden-lane London the 3. of Aprill 1646. Yours to doe you any service as a Free Man WILLIAM LARNER This Letter was also delivered but no Answer returned Now to proceed to the businesse before the Lords The 8. Time of his being hurried to Westminster which was the second day of his going to the house of Lords Ap. 3. 1646. he being brought thither with two others to wit Mr. Giles Calvert and Mr. Overtons man Henry Crispe and standing at the Barre the Earle of Manchester saith Manchest Which is Larner Larner I am the man Manchester taking up the book in his hand said Manch Mr. Larner here is a Book intituled Londons last Warning which you are look'd upon to he both Author Printer and Publisher Laying that downe he took up a Paper in writing saying You are to answer to whatsoever this Court shall demand of you Lar. I desire this Honourable House to admit of one word that is Whether I be brought hither to be tryed by Rule of law or not Manchest Wee are not to Answer to your requests but you are to answer to all this House shall demand of you looking in the paper in his hand said Will you answer or not Lar. I humbly conceive it is provided in the Law that no Answer is to be made otherwise but by way of Bill or Answer in writing And I humbly conceive further that every Commoner in England in criminall Cases is to be tryed by the House of Commons as Magna Charta saith and therefore I shall humbly beseech this Honourable Court wholy to leave this Case unto them they having begun the tryall thereof already Whereat they were caused to withdraw but presently after both the Accusers and accused were all called in face to face Miller one of his Accusers thus delared against him Miller I went by the Lord Majors command to see if I could find out the Authour Printer or Publisher and comming to Cornhill at a shop found 8. or 10. sheets thereof where he was informed that Larner was the seller of them so hee and his fellowes naming Hunscott going thither found them lying in Larners Window before him as he stood at worke to which Hunscott agreed and added that it was proved at the Committee for Examinations by the Letter-founder that Larner was hee that bought the Letter which printed the Book How true this is all honest people may judge from the Founders owne words given in upon Oath which shall be inserted in their proper place But the Founder and the other Bookseller in Cornhill being not there they proceeded no further that day He being commanded the second time before the Lords his Accusers with their Witnesses were called also in the Witnesses which they presented were 3. Viz. Mr. Nicholls a Letter Fownder Woodnet a Book-seller and Conly a Pursevant These three were all sworn to speak the truth and nothing but the truth what they knew in this businesse concerning Mr. Larner Then VVoodnett was first asked about the Bookes how many he bought Who answered shall it please you my Lords I bought of Mr. Larner 8. or 10. Sheets I know not whether he is here that sould them and they that took them who can tell as well as I. Then Mr. Nicholl's was asked Whether Larner had any hand in buying the Letter of him or who did buy it he Answered Mr. Nicholls No hee never bought nor fetch'd any Letter from mee indeed Larner was proffered for Surety but I returned him because of his Poverty Lords Who then was bound Nicholls One Smith Lords From whom did you receive the money Nichol. Of the said Smith Then Smith was called in and sworn which done it was demanded of him Of whom he received the money Who answered Of Mr. Larner Then was demanded of Conly what he could say to the businesse Conly Shall it please you my Lords I am a Messenger to the Committee of of Examinations who sent me with Mr. Hunscott to search Smiths house and when we brought him along wee asked him of whom he received the money and he said of Larner and Mr. Hunscott bade me bear witnesse Lords And is this all you can say Conly Yes so they were all commanded to withdraw and after a little space Mr. Larner was called in alone Manchest Mr. Larner you see what course we have taken and you heare what is laid to your charge and proved by Witnesses under Oath Now it remaines that you should speak to cleer your self Larner My Lords shall it please your Honours as I humbly conceive if it be a Transgression of a law for being bound and for paying money for a Commodity then he that sold the Commodity hath also transgressed a Law Manchest Have you any thing else to say Lar. My Lords as for the Bookes I have done nothing but what is the manner and custome of all our Trade to buy all manner of Bookes being carried about to be sold at shops by Men Women Children and those being brought to my house I did not much minde them being busy about my other employment to wit binding of Bookes and to this day and houre I doe seriously declare to you I doe not know any one sentence in it except the Title for I never read six lines of it Manchest Of whom did you buy them Lar. May it please your Lordships as I said before so I desire againe that you may spare me in that thing for under favour I conceive that a man is not bound by any law or Reason To accuse himself or others and this was put to him 3. times but their Lordships must rest satisfyed for the man is more faithfully resolved and disposed for the preservation and vindication of the just lawes and liberties of this Nation then any wise to destory or annull them Lords What servants have you Lar. I have a Brother liveth with me which hath been 3. yeers in the Service by the same token he hath 16 or 17 l. due for the said Service and besides him I have an antient Maide neer 60. yeers of age Then he was committed to his Keeper and going away he was called back to know his servants names at which Passage hee was somewhat troubled and said 10 the two Clarks What is it not sufficient to keep me 18. or 20. dayes in Prison and make me waite 10. or 11. times but you must molest my family also To which one of them made this answer Wee have not used you so bad yet but Wee will use you worse before we have done with you Then upon Thursday Aprill 17. he with his 2. Servants was brought to the Lords Barre but his servants being commanded to be sworne they plead ignorance in an Oath Then the E. of Manchester told them They must swear to answer to such Questions as that Court should demand the which they refusing were both committed to the common Goal of the Fleet where they remain still in durance And upon the last of Aprill 1646. Hunscot and 4. of his Partners came in the night-time and searched Mr. Larners chamber and Pocketts in the Prison as other birds of their feather did that other worthy Prisoner Mr. Musgrave two moneths agoe in the Fleet who also suffereth for the Freedom of the Nation There is a little book called Every Mans Case newly divulged in the behalf of Mr. Larner and is printed with another Letter thereunto annexed FINIS

A true Relation of all the remarkable Passages and Illegall Proceedings of some Sathannicall or Doeg like Accusers of their Brethren AGAINT WILLIAM LARNER A Free-Man of England AND ONE OF THE MERCHANT-TAILERS COMpany of London for selling Eight Printed Sheets of Paper all of one matter Intituled LONDONS last WARNING as also against John Larner and Jane Hales his Servants Hee first acording to his Liberty refusing to be Examined upon Interrogatories whereby to accuse himself or others And then they according to their refusing to take an Oath whereby to entrap themselves or betray their Master Hee being carried first before the Lord Major of London who committed him is the Counter Prison Next before the Committee of Examinations who Committed him Close-Prisoner to Maiden-Lane where now he hath the liberty of the Prison and at last Turned over to the House of Lords From whom he appealed to the House of Commons to be tryed by his Equalls or Fellow-Commoners according to Law and Justice who turned him backe againe to the Lords and by them were his servants committed to the Common Jayle of the Fleet where they yet lie being denyed of the Prison Liberty which malefactors doe enjoy All which Passages comming to the hands of some of his and the Common-wealths friends are Published by them to the view of the World chiefly for the serious Observation of all the Free-man of England who cannot long enjoy their Fredoms Lives nor Estates if the Rule of law be not truly followed nor Justice duly Administred Eccles 5.6 and 16.7 If in a Country thou seest the oppression of the poore and the defrauding of judgement Justice be not astonied at the matter for hee that is higher then the highest will regard it and there be higher then they And moreover I have seen the place of Judgement where was wickednesse and the place of Justice where was iniquity I thought in mine heart God will judge the Just and the unjust for time is for every purpose and for every worke A True Relation of the Remarkable Passages and illegall Proceedings against VVILL LARNER and his Servants THere being a Book Intituled The last worning to London sold in many places and shops in the said City some of them being brought to the shop of one William Larner in Bishops-gate-street who after the manner of the Trade of Book-sellers which is to buy Books of all sorts brought to their shops not examining the Persons that bring them either names or Places of abode bought 25. of the said books not knowing what they were for matter or examining the Person what he was that brought them or where was his aboad not suspecting any danger in them either to himself or others nor knowing any thing of them before they were brought to his shop But this being done presently after 22. March 1645. there came two Stationers Miller and Hunscott into his House not sbewing any Warrant yet notwithstanding searched and found 14. sheets thereof lying openly amongst the rest of his Bookes there being no Prohibition against them for sale and Eight sheets more which they had taken from another one Woodnet a Stationer who declared that he bought them of the said William Larner Whereupon the said Hunscott and Miller presently commanded a Constable to assist them as though they had taken a Thiefe or a Murderer So the said William Larner being carryed before Thomas Adams Lord Major of London in Guild-Hall many other Aldermen being present the Lord Major spake unto Hunscott saying L. Major Did you Mr. Hunscott take these Bookes in this mans house Hunscott Yes laying severall other things to his charge which hee was not able to prove after his old accustomed manner in the dayes of Will of Canterbury L. Major How many of these Books did you buy Larner Five and Twenty L. Major Of whom did you buy them Larner Of one that brought them to my shop L. Major Doe you know the Party or where he dwells Larner I desire the Liberty of a Free-man of England not to Answer to any Interrogatories whereby to accuse myself or others L. Major Sir I charge you as I am a Christian Magistrate Answer me to what I shall aske you Did you bye no more then 25. of these papers Larner I say againe I desire the Liberty of a Free-man which is Not to Answer to Interrogatories And if my Accusers can prove any more I am here ready to answer Then Mr. Larner was caused to withdraw and being called againe was committed to the Poultry Counter by command of the Lord Major and after the space of Three houres there came this following warrant from the Committee of Examinations to shut him up close Prisoner and to suffer none to speak with him but in presence of a Keeper viz. 21. Martii 1645. AT the Committee of the House of Commons for Examinations It is this day Ordered that William Larner Prisoner in the Counter in the Poultry be kept a Close Prisonor and none to be permitted to speak with him but in the presence of his Keeper till Munday next and then to be first brought to this Committee Laurence Whitaker Then upon Munday the 24. of March the Under Marshall of London and other Officers came to fetch the Prisoner to the Committee but the Prison-keeper demanded two Shillings for two nights Lodging which being refused to be paid he was commanded to be locked up againe by the said Marshall so he went away and awhile after sent two of his men to fetch the Prisoner but first he must pay a shilling though it was all he had about him which so prolonged the time that the Committee was risen before the Prisoner could be brought thither So he being brought back by the Marshall he committed him to his own Prison in Maiden-lane where he was kept four dayes without warrant where of two of them to wit the 26. and 27. of March he was kept Close Prisoner that none might speake with him at the command only of Hunscott and one Whitaker a Stationer which command was given in his owne hearing to Mr. Hodgkins under Keeper of Maiden-lane Prison Whereas the Committee had given no such Order but only commanded the Marshall to take care of him which was on Tuesday March 25. when he was examined the particular Passages whereof were as followeth The Committee having much businesse it was divided into two parts the one purposely to try the said William Larners Case So the Stationers and he being called in he was commanded out againe for the space of an houre but being called in againe hee thus addressed himself unto the Committee Lar. May it please this Honorable Committee I conceive it but equity seeing I was caused to withdraw whilst I was accused that my Accusers withdraw now also whilst I have liberty to speake which being done he desired these three things I. That the Committee would deal favourably with him in regard of his unacqaintednesse with the manner of their