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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85118	To the Right Honorable (his Excellency) Oliver Cromwell, Lord Generall of all the forces raised in England, Ireland, and Scotland, for the regainment of Englands long lost liberties, and to the Honorable Tho. Harrison, Major Generall, and to the whole councell of state sitting at White-Hall, J. F. wisheth health, and increase of true honor in the Lord Jesus here, and eternall glory in the glorious world to come.	J. F.	1653 (1653)	Wing F44; Thomason E216_4; ESTC R18957	9,457	10

acquittalls and if the Felon die in Goal being acquitted then the Goaler is to be hang'd and is to lose his place for exacting maimes from the prisoners or for putting any of them in irons fo 231. that any free man of England should suffer imprisonment upon a Capias which is the utmost punishment the Law can inflict upon any Malefactor before he be condemned by the Law It is therefore most clear A Pleader or Lawyer once attainted of false pleading or maintaining any unjust Action or Cause is to suffer bodily punishment fol. 230. that all the Statutes and Judgements which have subjected the bodies of men and women to arrests and imprisonment are diametrically opposite to the Law of God to reason to charity and to the Great Charter being the Fountain of all the Fundamentall Lawes of England therefore void and null for that the body kept in an iron Cage as a bird cannot yeeld satisfaction for any debt any other ways nor by any other means then by liberty and industry in some calling For that Charter is to be interpreted by it selfe Judges to suffer death for pronouncing false Judgement fo 239. and not to be infringed by the innovating Lawes and opinions of Judges that lived in the cruell tyrannicall inslaving times If Iustice thus take place again wo then to all our Goalers Prisons and Counter-keepers of this age by whom thousands have been thus destroyed whose wrested constructions of this very point in question hath ever tended more to the filling of their own purses No Goalers to keep a prison to the dishonor of the State fo 214. and the purses of their adherents with the unjust gaine of destructive contention and by tossing and tumbling of men and women from one prison to another and upon Habias Corpus and Commitments then to the due administration of Justice according to the just rules of the Common Law of England Wherefore upon very just reasons founded on the birth-right of this Nation A Iudge that shall delay to relieve a prisoner and he that imprisoneth any man till he die and doth not relieve him are both man-slayers fo 30. He hang'd Iudge Hall because he saved Trustrom the Sheriff from death who bad taken to the Kings use from some men their goods against their wills for that such taking and robbery hath no difference fo 241. judgments passed by any against any one point of the Great Charter in point of this Nations Liberty ought to stand and become as Null and all the offenders are punishable in their estates and lives for murthering of so many thousands and robbing this whole Nation of their just Liberties for if any one absurd errour be admitted against our liberty a thousand will follow as at this day wofull experience sheweth and the perishing lives of thousands of families can testifie I do therefore in the behalfe of this still inslaved Nation Alfred King of England hang'd 44. Iudges in one year for oppressing the people by false Iudgement fo 240. become a most humble and earnest Suitor unto your Excellency and to this great Councell He hang'd Judge Athelstone because the judged Herbert to death for an offence not mortal fo 240. by whom the Lord hath done very great things for this Nation to the admiration yea to the astonishment of all Europe and by his powerfull actings in and by you he hath made you to become Englands glory and Europes wonder by putting down the high and mighty and exalting the humble and meek Behold this is the Lords doing He hang'd Iudge Rolfe for hanging a Felon for escaping out of prison before conviction fo 240. and it is marvellous in our eyes and in the eyes of all Nations That by some speedy course all the poor oppressed in the Land may be relieved and righted He hang'd Iudge Diling because he caused Eldon to be hang'd who killed a man by chance fo 242. the inslaved out of all prisons forth with set free from the iron bands of their illegall and most cruell captivity under which they are still oppressed yea pressed to death That the abhominable tyrannicall Writ Capias may be forthwith abolished Iudge Th●lwell was imprisoned for imprisoning a man for an offence not mortall and the most antient justifiable common course for levying of debts on mens estates may be restored it being indifferent to all that live under one common Government to take such apt remedies one against the other for all just debts as the wisdome of our Ancestors thought fit and used Iudge Belling was hanged for judging Leston to death by fraud that so Foxes Wolves Bears and Tygers Iudge Oswine was hang'd for judging Fulk to death out of Court fo 242. I mean wicked Lawyers Bayliffs Serjeants and Goalers may thereby be prevented from ravening any longer on the bodies of men and women whereby their estates for many yeares past have been and still are a prey unto such insatiable Monsters of Cruelty and the oppressed their wives and children are thereby exposed to famine and misery The faithfull and speedy accomplishment of this will inable many thousands yea all by their liberty Iudge Seafold was banged for judging Ordine to death for not answering Iudge Muckline was hang'd because he hang'd Hellgrave by a Warrant of Indictment not speciall fo 242. to use wayes and meanes of industry to serve their country labour in their severall callings make provisions for payment of all just debts and live peaceably and charitably one with another in this Commonwealth Iudge Arnold was hanged for saving a Bayliff from death who had robbed the people by distresses and for selling distresses and for extorting fines fo 241. to the glory of God and to the honor of the English Nation which hitherto for these her cruell practises bears the burden of a great reproach and is therein condemned by all other Nations both Christian and Pagan let the cause be therefore taken away and then the effects will cease The accomplishment of these particulars in the speedy dissolution of all prisons for debt in the Land and the due administration of Justice to the people in every County Hundred and Town Corporate by the Neighbourhood so as no man may travell from his habitation above four or five miles for Justice and not a hundred or two hundred miles Iudge Therborne was hanged because he had judged one Osgat to death for a fact whereof be had been acquitted before against the same Plaintiff which acquittance Osgat tendered to approve by oath but because be did not aver it by Record Iudge Therborn would not allow of the Acquittall which was tendered to him fol. 242. as now will advance the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Iudge R●…wood was imprisoned for imprisoning a man for a debt due to the said King Alfred himself fo 244. peace and happinesse to this Nation and work the totall downfall of Satans Thrones