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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84911	Every mans right: or, Englands perspective-glasse. Wherein may be seen, every mans case, face, birthright, and just liberty. Whereunto is added; the copie of a letter written by a prisoner in the Fleet, unto a worthy member of the House of Commons; expressing the necessitie of justice, and the illegality of imprisonment of men for debt. Composed (primarily) for the meridian of London and VVestminster, and may prove very profitable, to inlighten the eyes of all the commons of England, in this year of our long-expected reformation, and suppressions of injustice, tyranny, and oppression, anno 1646.	Freize, James.	1646 (1646)	Wing F2197A; Thomason E340_2; ESTC R200865	10,378	18

evell with both hands For they lye in wayte for blood they haunt their Brethren with the net of cruelty and oppression The best of them is as a Briar or as a Thorny hedge unto his poore afflicted Brother And if it be not so now who will make me a lyer and make this my speech nothing worth J●be 24 25. For thus saith the Lord who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of men that shall die and the Sons of men which shall be made as Grasse and forgettest the Lord thy maker because of the fury of the oppressour as if he were ready to destroy Feare not the reproach of men be not dismaid at their lookes neither be afraid of their revilings for the Moth and the Worm shall eat them horrer coufusion and eternall destruction shall take hold of them And where then is the fury of the oppressour I am he that comfort thee for I am a just and a righteous God who bring Princes to nothing and make all the Judges of the Earth as vanity Therefore fear not man whose breath is in his Nosthrils for wherein is he to be accompted of Behold I the Lord execute Righteousnesse and Judgement for all that be oppressed Therefore be not afraid of their faces nor of their haughty and proud looks for I am with thee Imprisonment may be compared to Hell Where punishment among them shall excell And Hels musick is to curse and swear And ban their wicked friends so do they there As they in Hell shall daily howl and cry For to obtain some ease or liberty So men in prison daily make complaint How they with grief and hunger pine and faint And are tormented by the Jaylors still With iron fetters abused at their will Yet these unto Delinquents Traytors Papists Knaves Yeild liberty give moneys onely make us slaves That loyall are no Enemies to th' state This is our lot this is our cruell fate And fruits we reap for our fidelity From these vile imphs of all disloyalty Who most of them being none other then Fiends of hell walking in shapes of men Acting Belzebubs pleasure on us all That are their captives lying in Bonds and thrall Yet we these five years past no right can have Though we the same full oft with tears did crave Of King and Parliament to grant but that Which they themselves full oft have sworn flat For to maintain the liberties and right Of free-born Subjects and thereto have plight Their faith their covenant and their Protestation Yet for all this we still reap molestation Anguish and sorrow afflicts our hearts and will Cruelty of Jaylors doth torment us still If Lawes if oathes if vowes if Protestation If covenant with God produce such reformation Then Judges Lawyers Atturneys Jaylors all This Kingdomes glory unto your lot must fall Then Bribes and Fees all Hellish gain Shall flourish to the peoples pain And sorrow grief and misery Shall still possesse the Commonalty For justice judgement and mercy Are grounded on true piety But want of justice in this land Hath brought on all Gods heavie hand Be carefull then suppresse the Imphes make sure Your Rights and Liberties may still endure To future ages posterity then may Have cause to blesse your memories for aye For God is God of Unity of Love and Peace alone But these men for deceit and strife the like of them there 's none Probatum est For whatsoever is not of God is from the Divell But injustice contention and the instruments of the same Oppression Bribery imprisonment of men unjustly starving and murthering of men in Goal are not from God Therefore from the Divell And whosoever doth them doth the will of his father the Divell for he is a murtherer from the beginning and the grand Enemy to Justice Love Mercy and Peace Therefore if we be of God we must then do the works of God and manifest the fruits of the same And these are the works of God To execute justice and judgement to shew mercy to relieve the Widdow the fatherlesse and the stranger and to let the oppressed go free Let us therefore now at the last by suppressing of Contention Injustice Tyranny and Oppression and the wicked instruments of the same And by a speedy administration of justice judgement and mercy try the Lord our God and see if the Lord will not forthwith powr down his mercies on us withdraw his present judgements of Devision Sword and Plague from us and heal the Land and so become a father of mercies a God of comfort and consolation unto us and our posterity after us It is to be wished that the Lawes of England favoured of as much justice and mercy and were but as truly executed without respect of persons as the Lawes of some Forraign Nations are that there were some honest men appointed for the Visitation of Prisons every first Munday in the Month for to restrain the cruelty of Jaylours and to know the causes of mens Imprisonment To whom the prisoner declaring himself by Petition declares the reall value of his estate and as in the presence of God affirms the contents of his Petition to be the whole truth unto which the Commissioners then subscribe Let the Creditors see this Petition and by the next Visitation day either disprove the contents thereof or else the Petitioner to be set free upon the assignement of the two third parts of the said declared Estate unto them In the mean time the Creditors or party imprisoning the Debtor are to take care for his subsistence in Goal and to discharge all just Prison fees And if the Creditor happen to disprove the said Debtors Petition before the said Commissioners and prove that he hath concealed some part of his estate then for a punishment to such a deceiver his whole estate is by the said Commissioners assigned to the Creditors and both he his wife and children deprived of their third part of the same and the said fraudulent Debtor is then also adjudged to stand in the Pillory and a hole punched or bored through his ear But upon the Debtors discovery of his whole estate be it more or lesse really and truly then the Commissioners do forthwith assigne two third parts of the said estate to the Creditors and the other part thereof unto the said Debtor for and towards the future subsistence of himself and his wife and education of his children And further that if any Debtor do of purpose take up goods monies with an intent to defraud and take a prisoner as his surety by assigning over in trust the said estate to some of his friends this being proved then the said Commissioners have power to assigne all the said estate unto the Creditors prohibiting by proclamation all persons from paying or delivering unto the said cheating Debtor any monies goods or Lands or to any other persons for his use but only unto the Creditors And the said Cheator or fraudulent Debtor is then also adjudged to stand three hours in the Pillory and to have then both his Nosthrils slit up by the common Hangman or some base Hounds-Cut Such a course as this truly and justly put in execution here in England would soon increase the number of honest men and produce if not inforce honest and plainer dealing from and amongst all men and it would also destroy the great number of Deceivers Oppressors Extortioners and Gentlemen-cheaters as well as common-Cheaters and all Knights of the Post common Bail-men and all such cunny-catching deceitfull companions The opening of this gap I doubt not will draw upon me the rage and malice if not the curse of all Knights and Gentlemen Jaylours and their Substitutes as also the revengefull fury of some evill-minded Lawyers Atturneys Clarkes Soliciters Sergeants and Bumbayliffes From whose Milles by this meanes the great gainfull waters of contention fraud injustice and oppression will be dreyned dry theit deceitfull craft fall to the ground and their Goddesse Diana quite drowned in the Sea of Englands Peace and Tranquility Truth from Injustice may hap to reap some Blame Yet truth shall stand Injustice shall reap the shame FINIS Gentle Reader I Pray thee to accept of this small Treatise for the present and if this unjust bondage of Imprisonment be any longer continued upon the Commonalty of this Land then expect a more larger Relation and Declaration of the many severall oppressions indirect practises and abuses of the severall Courts and Committees as also of the severall murthers and cruelties by Jaylors committed on prisoners when where on whom and by whom so farre forth as God shall enable me and give me life and health In the mean time I remain thine and the Kingdomes friend and well-wisher and a professed Enemy to all instruments of Injustice Tyranny and Oppression For the Lord upholdeth my soul he even the God of Justice Judgement and Mercy is on my side and taketh my part against all those that seek to destroy my soul Therefore will I not fear what man can do unto me FAREWELL This year of Hope 1646.

adversaries and the severall mercies cruelties of Jaylors and their cruell substitutes for many yeers or whether the inrichment of a few Lawyers Atturneys Solicitors Clarkes and Jaylors be to be preferred before the flourishing Peace and tranquility of this whole Nation and also whether it be according to Gods Law whose people we professe our selves to be that justice should not be executed nor administred unto the poore of the Land in particular nor to all in generall without the price and reward of iniquity I meane without paying to Judges Lawyers Atturneys Clarkes Jaylours their deputies and servants their severall great unjust exacting Fees Fees I say and Newyeers gifts besides Bribes for expedition and setting downe of a sause for hearing or else it may be staved off by many jugling tricks and devices of our Lawyers from being heard since the 44th yeer of Queene Elizabeths Rayne untill this present especially in the Court of Chancery where the succeeding Orders like so many vipers still eat up and devour all the preceeding Orders or that Court and one cause of 40. l. value produceth at the least 700. severall orders before it be determined and the expence of that Suite on the Plaintifs part only amount unto 2500. l. at the least these and such like causes and the severall commitments upon the same makes Lawyers and Jaylours laugh and both plaintiff and defendant to come heavily home by weeping crosse to the utter ruin of them and their posterity and at the last inforces them to sell their Lands to their Lawyers and Atturneys We reade that Samuel judged Jsrael many yeeres yet we reade not that he nor any of his Servants and subordinate Officers exacted or rceived any fees and rewards of the people for the administration of Justice or that the people were barred from pleading their causes but only by Lawyers Advocates and Atturneys or that ever there were such a generation of men or Instruments of contention knowne or appointed by Gods Law to the overthrowing of many a poore and righteous mans cause by their severall tricks and unjust devices tending meerly for their owne ends and self-advantage of private gayne although to the apparent inslaving of the Nation and ruine of the People Who but some Lawyers are for these 5. yeeres past conceived to be the only obstructors of Magna Charta in poynt of the Subjects Liberty and inslaving their persons in their severall prison-houses notwithstanding the peoples severall Remonstrances Petitions Declarations and appeales unto the honourable houses of Parliament and Commonalty of the Land and instead of reliefe their miseries have been augmented to them by the crueltie of Jaylors who are countenanced and the poore Prisoners complaints rejected and themselves discouraged from exhibiting any further complaints against them for Justice and Reliefe who but Lawyers make merchandise of Justice and confine the practise of the same unto the Latine Tongue and Pedlars French like unto the Masse Priests who in like manner confine the Service of God to the Latine Tongue that they may make merchandise of the word of God and by keeping the people in Ignorance inforce them like slaves to walke by their light as the Lawyers and Atturneys do by this Nation For their Tongues devise mischief working deceitfully because they love evill more then good contention more then Peace and lying and swearing more then to speak the truth because contention strife and debate is the only thing that brings the price of gayne Riches Honour and Preferment unto their Mill of contention and profession The Lord in mercy looke upon the deplorable afflicted oppressed and distressed Estate of this distracted Kingdome and now at the last after five yeeres expectation be pleased to open the eyes and incline the hearts of the honourable Assembly in Parliament unto the speedy and free execution and administration of Justice Judgment and Mercy in a cleere current without respect of persons or the wages of Balam that so the wrath of God may be appeased his present Judgements diverted and the poore affllicted oppressed and long imprisoned relieved and released and also inabled to reape the fruits of justice against their oppressours Psal 123.4 Psal 140.3 Psal 142.6 And the high and honourable Court of Parliament also thereby cleerly acquitted of and from the severall blemishes fastned on them not only in this Kingdome but also in other Countries for the neglect of the due administration of Justice according to expectation upon their first Summons and convening and the restoration of the Commonalty unto their just and ancient Birth-right of Liberty according to Magna Charta and the late Petition of Right ratified and confirmed by his now Majesty more then 4. yeers since I do also therefore in all humility most humbly and earnestly implore the high and Honourable Assembly Piously to consider That the miseries happening to one man at one time may redound to another man the next and that the same divine hand of power which at the first did cast us downe into the dust of reproach misery and oppression is also able at his pleasure to bring the mightiest the richest yea the proudest downe to the like dust of misery and bands of oppression Beseeching them also to consider that if any their carses were the same with us whether they then would be willing contented thus to suffer to be oppressed by the indirect practise of the Law and Tyrannie of Jaylors and their hellish Instruments To be by them close imprisoned put in Irons starved yea murthered in Goale I trowe not yea I am confident that they woud account it a great measure of cruelty inflicted on them or their posterity and have not many thousands of ancient families in this Kingdome by imprisonment been brought to utter ruine and destruction and have not I knowne divers personages nobly desended of very ancient Families in this Kingdome that have perished miserably in Goal and their misery not pittied by any nor their death no more regarded by the Jaylour nor any his Substitutes then the barking of a Dogg These things piously considered according to the Rule of Christian Charity it is then to be wished that the facred Rule of our Saviour Christ might speedily be put in practice amongst the Inhabitants of this Land from the highest to the lowest of them To do as we desire others should do to us and not like Caniballs out of meere malice and revenge and the great gayne by contention to devoure one another in prison houses that so the God of Justice Love Mercy and Peace may receive us againe to mercy and returne unto us with healing in his wings Note this vvell For behold wickednesse and oppression shall not deliver those that are given to it And there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt And because sentence against evill doers is not speedily executed therefore the hearts of the Sons of Belial is fully set in them to do