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A78011	An appeal from Chancery, to the Lord General and his Councel of Officers, as also to the Councel of State, and to all free-born English men of honest hearts, who have not forfeited their liberty, or captivated their reason, but fear and love the name of God, and the interest of all honest men, ... that Christs kingdom may be advanced, and the kingdom of Satan, with Antichrist, and that of the beast, may be thrown down, with all their covetous, persecuting, ... perjured officers, ..., either that have been corrupt Parliament-men, ... such who are in places of judicature, ... with every corrupt member thereof, ...in England, or in places called Innes of Court, or the devil's school of sophisticating and lying, frauds and hypocrisies, which bring forth a generation of vipers, ... wolves in sheeps clothing, ... or those in places of government in cities, ... who usurp authority over English-men, and that because they are in place or places over them, they combine also with this serpentine brood, and tyrannize over their brethren which never yet brake their trust, as the most of these have done, and that because they will not sacrifice to this devil of unrighteousness, ... to do unrighteously, and to deceive, and defraud, and oppress their brethren, and to undo them, as these experimentally many of them are found and known to do, for filthy lucre sake.	Burt, Nathaniel, fl. 1644-1655.	1653 (1653)	Wing B6141; Thomason E697_21; ESTC R207111	20,805	28

dissolved Parliament to examine the frauds and oppressions of Corporations which was grown up therein and to renew them they being upon the old Patents Grants and Charters of Monarchy and their Successors and so fallen with them that your Petitioner procured from the said Committee three several Orders against these combinators Sadlers for their oppression and wrongs done to the whole commonalty or brotherhood of Sadlers against them and their now pretended charter wherein the Fraternity of working Sadlers are particularly interested and are proper heirs thereunto of right if ever it be settled and the means left by our ancestors deceased to releive such as should be in distress though by these usurpers abused oppressed wronged and injured aswell as your Petitioner Which by a messenger to them belonging was served upon them in all their height of jollity to cause them to answer to the said complaint and to bring the forfeited dead Charters by which they did oppress and wrong their fellow members of the said Society up to be examined and renewed and also that they should bring away to the then honorable Committee their Books of accompts and Book of Orders that so the oppressions and abuses might be understood and the people eased and the corruptions reformed and they settled as might best consuit then with that present Government but these corrupt Assistants of Sadlers fearing the trial or examination herein corrupted some thereunto belonging and never left with them or their Councel appointed therein the grand Charter but a latine Coppy or the Books of accompts at all and to coole your Petitioner a while in the prosecution thereof sent to your Petitioner and gave him two of his fathers detained Leases which in Chancery he complained to be fraudulently detained and concealed from your Petitioner and took a new fine of your Petitioner so that his Father had lost both his leases and also his Fine which if the book of accompts had been examined would plainly have made it appear as they well knew yet unjustly and unrighteously they will not answer in the Chancery but sordidly still conceal the Collateral part of the BiH though these leases was part thereof and by combination of Lawyers demur to him therein which is but a denial on purpose to delay and vex your Petitioner yea to destroy him whereupon your Petitioner by order from the Master of the Rolls procured a dismission of his owne Bill and paid Thomas Web 20 s. costs in the behalf of himself and of the rest therein concerned May 2. 1653. yet would these combinators and Lawyers still detain the said Bill in Court the better to have their ravenous wills satisfied to destroy your Petitioner by charge or imprisonment even out-daring Justice Law or Equity Your distressed Petitioner laying claim to the promises made by your Excellency in both your Declarations 22 and 30 of April 1653 that such endeavours should be used that no opposition or wrong should be done to the people by any that exercise Administration of Justice by the Laws of the Nation humbly imploreth your Honours to be rescued out of the mouths of the roaring Lyons and Bears who else would break the bones of your Petitioner who being Administrator did but sue for the discovery of a concealed estate and in conscience equity ought rather to be cherished by them then destroyed yea eaten up which they some of them have threatned and their practises do make good the same which promises declared if performed will set you as mount Sion for establishment and work the hearts of the people to praise God for you and your perishing Petitioner if herein relieved these acting against Justice and equity yea the Law of the Nation shall for you be inlarged towards God And he and his shall ever pray c. May the 16. 1653. Nathanael Burt. The Lord Generals Order to me when he came out of the Councel was that I should attend the Councel for Order of this Petition Being as in the Petition is declared encouraged by the promises of the Souldiery in their Declarations mentioned so also calling to minde the Letter from the General meeting of the Officers of the Army Jan. 18. 1652. to stir up all their fellow-souldiers to assist them to help the people of this Nation who through corruption are subject to grievous oppressions through the obstruction of Justice of which they were generally and strongly convinced it was their duty to awaken themselves for the procuring and preventing many apparent inconveniences as first faithful men fearing God hating covetousness may be chosen into the interest of the Common-wealth Secondly that the Laws may be regulated in such sort that what is good in them may be maintained and the corruptions abuses delays vexations unnecessary travels and expences and whatsoever shall be found really burdensome and grievous to the people may be taken away Then behold as you have dissolved the corrupt Parliament who voted unvoted and abused vexed and delayed the people of England and hardned others by these practisings to do the like as Ecclus faith Chap. 10. 2. As the Judge of the people is himself so are his Officers and what manner of man the Ruler of the city is such are they that dwell therein And as the Master of the Rolls and Lords Commissioners do and the Chancery hath been known to do for the memory of man most abusively as well as other Courts sometimes but not so frequently as the Chancery or Rolls Lend us also your assistances and all faithful Englishmen stand by them and one another to open these Cages of birds who are become ravenous and their houses full of deceit therefore they are become great and waxen rich they shine and are waxen fat yea they surpass the deeds of the wicked Jer. 5. 26 27 28. Thus as there were wicked men found in Israel who did set inares and traps to catch men is it not so now in England and as they judged not the cause of the fatherless or the right of the needy is not the same cry amongst us at this day which the Officers of the Army be convinced of that those in the Army and elsewhere have not so improved their interest one to another as they ought the Lord having done great things for us of England as their Letter of Jan. 28. 1652. sets forth might say to us Isai. as he did to his Vineyard And he looked for judgement but behold oppression for righteousness but behold a cry and this you see is not long since the Officers of the Army printed it and that they have made some progress against Oppressors and unrighteous men since Assist them therefore dear Country-men English-men and let us not by jealousies grieve the hearts and weaken the hands one of another to the destruction of our Liberty Freedom and Peace as by the said Letter they observe But let us keep our selves close to God and let us implore him so to act in them