Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A36125
|
A Discovery of one sham more design'd against three of His Majesties justices of the peace for the county of Surrey.
|
|
1681
(1681)
|
Wing D1644; ESTC R944
|
14,376
|
18
|
Mr. Serjeant and Mr. Evans at the Bridg-foot in Southwark on the 13th of October went to him in the Marshalsea to know if he would abide by that Letter and satisfie them who the Justices were which he accused therein and upon Fitz-gerrald's owning all the Contents of it and naming the Justices he meant in it 't is more than probable he received from them Promises of Enlargement as appears by the following Letters written to Mr. Parkhurst and Madam Jordan In the Marshalseas of Southwark October the 17th 1681. Mr. Parkurst SIR I humbly desire you would be pleasd to lett me heare from you the Accompts of your proceedings in my Affairs as to the getting my Libertie for me Sir if I speake either Impertinent or Impurtunat be pleasd to impute it to my Tedious and distressed Imprisonment And Madam Jordan And you are all the friends or dependencie I have And being very destitude of any releefe for so long a time As that I am very Cold by reason that I am very Bare Clad dear Sir Therefore I pray Commiserat me if you have got any thing for my present releefe I beseech you send it to me and I desire you would write to me by the bearer which is all att present with my best wishes to your sweete selfe And Madam Jordane I remaine Sir Your very humble Servant John Fitz Gerrald In the Marshalseas of Southwark October the 19th 1681. Madam Jordane AND dear friend I am every Minute longing to heare the evint of your proceedings with Mr. Parcurt and the rest of your friends In your efficatious prevaileings for takeing me out of this miserable place As I may In severall respects call it whereof the first And Cheifest respect is that I am every day troubled with the enemies of the Protestant Cause tempting me to disowne what I have Affirmed before the King Councill And Parliament And not onely tempting me but also Treatening if I doe not disowne it It shall be worse for me For they Tell me they will Compell me to doe it therefore I say it would proue prudence And Charitie In these friends that were with you when here last to procure me my Liberty prudence for the forgoeing reason and Charitie for the premises Considered I Am All most starved for both Cold And distresses And allsoe much reflected upon by reason of those evill sperits that haunts me here as I gave you an Account of Mr. Lowman told me noe Longer agoe then this Morning that if I doe not take a speedy Course to get my Libertee And pay him what I owe him he would turn me to the Common side where if I goe I shall Certainely Perish to prevent which And other Inconveniencies I haue no other hopes but your sweet selfe And your friends Therefore I beseeche you lett me hear from you and them speedily for feare of being surprised unawarse And as I have prouen hitherto Stable And stedfast to my Testimonie and profession without relapsing or reflenging upon the Account of it I humbly desire And request you and all that are professors and reall Lovers of true Christianitie And Charitie not to suffer me to ley under this grievous burthen noe Longer for I am not able to beare it any more therefore lett religion be made manifest by faith And faith by works In such a measure As that I may haue noe reason to stumble but stick Close to my Toke as euer I have done since I came to England which is all from your loueing friend and humble seruant as I may John Fitz Gerrald I pray Madam be pleasd to Answer me speedily for Godsake Consider my Condition And my heavie grieuances that I ly under for the protestant Cause which otherwise I need not I earnestly desire to be remembered to Mr. Jordane And Mr. Reeues And to the Laydys both that were with you here Mr. Reeues was here on Sunday night And left me a Note of Directions where I might Correspond with him but very unhapily I lost the Not And I request you to send me an other but Dear Madam I pray faile not In Answering this or I know not what mischeefe may In sue if you 〈◊〉 not In the Marshalseas of Southwark October the 21st 1681. Mr. Parcurst SIR I was In great hopes of my Libertie when I seen you had A hand in It But I begin to despaire of it by reason of your delays And I am Certaine if you had stured In it It had been done since you were heare last but hapily you will say you durst not meddle In it But Alas Notwithstanding the great profession of Religion that severall persons makes yet I Could not meete with such another sufferer Amongst you all as my selfe for I haue Left a Certaine Maintenance And being I have Incurred the displeasure of my relations and Parent I haue Exposed my life to A dangerous Circumstances att sundry times And occations for the Protestant Cause And now I suffer a Tedious Imprisonment and severall heavie distresses which I can Lawfully say I had noe neede to suffer as I doe had it not beene for the Cause Above mentioned and I am not Certaine that many Persons who professeth great matters would suffer the tenth part of what I have done so that I see Cleerly that they doe not meane as they doe professe these Complaints Cannot well be taken amiss of me Considering the reason I have to speake them Alias what danger Cann there Insue In Conferring with other well affected persons About my businesse Therefore lett me not be blinded with such excuses for it is Impossible to make them pass Currant with me Sir I am hartily Sorrie that I mett with such occations as to prouoke me to these expressions but if you thorowly consider all you Cannot blame me for God sake take Notice of these few lines and allsoe of my distresse And Lett me know if you be Inclined to doe me a kindnesse And let me hear your Answer to a prisoner And Sir your very humble Servant John Fitz-Gerrald Mr. Parcust SIR I writt to you the Last weeke and would not now trouble you but that I am very unwell And have noe more hopes of Releefe And with much 〈…〉 prevailed with the Bearer who is Steward of this Marshalseas to Cary this Note to you I promised him you would pay him which I humbly request you to doe Sir I beseech you pittie my sickly And distressed Conclusion And allsoe lett me know if there was any thing done as to my releesement which is all at present from your very humble Servant John Fitz-Gerrald In the Marshalseas of Southwark 8 ber the 24th 1681. Will not any man who reads these Letters conclude that he apprehended himself to have got a Hank upon them as having receiv'd great assurances of his liberty from them upon conditions which he thought they would be unwilling to have divulg'd For he seems now not so much to crave as to demand their Charity and his