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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90224	To the Right Honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, the Parliament of England, assembled at Westminster, the humble appeale and petition of Mary Overton, prisoner in Bridewell:.	Overton, Mary.	1647 (1647)	Wing O617; Thomason E381_10; ESTC R201411	9,107	15

in their Petition of Grievances exhibited to King Iames and by sundry Parliaments since and by this present Parliament in their Remonstrance of the 15. of December 1642. is complained against as an insufferable Outrage Burglarie and oppression desiring a speedy reformation upon which they and you received royal promises that those exorbitances should be redressed yet notwithstanding this kind of insufferable tyrannie injustice violence inforced slaverie and oppression of the Lords through your neglect of restraint and moderation is now become more frequent and common then in any former ages subjecting us under worse slaverie and greater and more exorbitant unlimited arbitrary power and usurpation then formerly we were by the Prerogative Star-Chamber and High-Commission yet when we have appealed to this House both for judgement and redresse all approaches to justice have beene interrupted and hitherto delayed our Petitions and Complaints sleightly rejected or disregarded our friends wearied vexed and molested with long fruitles attendance while we our husbands brethren friends and servants contrary to all Law severally and in a forced and unjust separation from our husbands are kept and mewed up in your severall starving stinking murthering prison-houses and if at any time we get accesse or a Petition read which is seldome obtained we are referred over to one Committee or other who never will bring their reports unto the House to the obstructing and perverting the whole course of justice Whereas the grand Traitors the rebellious Lords who have been in armes against you and other the professed and known enemies of the Kingdome yea some of the Rebells exempted from pardon in the Propositions sent to the King can have liberty upon their paroll enjoy their estates obtaine favour and free accesse unto you ready acceptance and hearing of their Petitions quick dispatches of their businesse And notwithstanding the great and urgent Affaires of the Kingdome that common pretence for the obstruction and suspense of the just and necessary redresse of your best friends and faithfull lovers of their countrey you can finde leisure and take time weekly and daily to passe Ordinances for compositions and pardons for Delinquents declared Traitors somtimes twenty somtimes more upon one day to heare the Petitions of such as are malevolently affected not onely against your best most faithfull untainted friends assistants and adherents but even against the sinewes of yours and the Kingdomes defensive might the Army endeavouring and supplicating their speedy dissolution and the removall of all the best affected even while there was a threatning puissant Army of another Nation within the bowells of the Land to passe Votes Ordinances Declarations c. against preaching of the Gospell just as if you were running a tilt against Christ to destroy root out and confound all such as are religiously affected and have been under God the very props and pillars of your house the subduers and conquerers of yours and the Kingdomes enemies and all under the sacred pretence of suppression of Heretickes Schismaticks c. prevention of Heresies Schismes Blasphemies c. and under that religious guise stab your friends to the heart and when such your faithfull oppressed Assistants come with their Petitions for redresse and case of their grievances they are ordinarily sleighted scoffed and derided even by the Members of your House a most abhorred impiety most barbarous ingratitude for these and such like enormities and abuses of the people you can finde leisure and opportunity enough but you are so busied with the great affaires of the Kingdome as you call it that you can find no time these sixe years to proclaime liberty to the captive freedome to the oppressed to right the cause of the poore to heare the cry of the fatherlesse and widdow to reforme the cruelties and extortions of Goalers which like so many vulters upon a dead karkase eat the flesh and pick the bones of those poor miserable soules that are cast into their custody to protect or countenance the Commoners against the Prerogative usurpers and invaders of the great Charter of their Liberties or to restraine or curb their insolent aspiring dominations to restore the Citie of London and other Cities Towers and Burroughs to their antient Liberties and Franchises to disrobe the London Gown-men of their Prerogative usurpation of the freemens Property in the election of their publike Officers to bring Delinquents amongst you to triall to give encouragement to the people to bring in their just charge against any amongst you which shall betray their trust or deale treacherously with the people Lawes Free-Customes or Liberties to reforme the abuses of the Law through all the Courts in the Kingdome to cause the Lawes of the Land to be translated out of Pedlars French and Latine into the English Tongue c. So that many begin to feare by these your delayes of justice by your connivance at the Lords encreasing usurpations and attonement with and pardons of the Kingdomes Enemies by your discouragements and sleightings of your friends you give way to the Lords to carrie on a designe to alter the whole frame of the Legall Government of the Land and of subjection of us to a tyrannous lawlesse orbitrary Power and vassilage to the totall overthrow and irrecoverable losse and ruine of all our just Rights and native Liberties for what is tyranny but to admit no Rule of Government but their wills as with them by your permission is familiar and frequent and we know as sometimes the King hath told you the misery of Athens was at the highest when it suffered under thirty Tyrants and if instead of one Tyrant we have got three or foure hundred we cannot be far from the height of ours Now for as much as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome no Justices or other Judges of the Realme can make a Warrant upon bare surmise to breake any mans house for a fellon or for stollen goods much lesse for a free-mans owne the same being against Mag. Charta cap. 29. and contrary to the Statute of 42. Ed. 3. c. 3. c. and in this case before Indictment neither the Constable nor any other man can breake open any mans house for the apprehension of the partie suspected or charged with Fellony for it is in Law the arrest of the partie that hath the knowledge or suspition who cannot breake any house 2. H. 7. 3. and 15. 4. H. 7 2 3. 5. H. 7. 4. 10. H. 7. 17. 20. H. 7. 12. 7. Ed. 4 20. 8. E. 4 3. 10. E. 4. 17. 9. E. 4 26. 11. E. 4. 4. 13. E. 4. 9. 7. H. 4. 35. 17. E. 4. 5. 27. H. 8. 23. Dier 7. Eliz. 23. 6. Cooks Reports 1. 5. Fol. 9. 92. Semanies case And forasmuch as imprisonment by the Lords is inflicted by their censures as a punishment and so their first imprisoning before other Summons being no other then to begin execution before hearing which is contrary to all Law and Reason And forasmuch as justice