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A89423	Another word to the wise, shewing that the delay of justice, is great injustice. By displaying heavier grievances in petitions from severall counties to the House of Commons and letters to Parlament men, from Mr. John Musgrave Gentleman, one of the commissioners from Cumberland and Westmerland, for presenting their grievances to the Parliament. Who instead either of redressing those two counties grievances, or prosecuting the charge given in by him against Mr. Richard Barwis, a Parliament man, ... did illegally commit the said Mr John Musgrave to the Fleet, where he hath lain these 4. moneths, without any justice, on tryall of his businesse. ...	Musgrave, John, fl. 1654.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1646 (1646)	Wing M3144; Thomason E323_6; ESTC R17785	19,091	16

Parliament but by constraint have by subtle speeches and clandestine wayes gradually wound themselves in to be Committees for the Parliament and some to be Commanders Who so palliate and vail their actions with pretences of State that the well-affected and friends of the Parliament cannot have justice or are so delayed in their just suits that they are quite wearied out and discouraged The Petitioners therfore humbly pray this honourable House to take the premises into serious and due consideration and for prevention of the great mischiefe that may happen if not prevented by disheartning the good and animating the ill affected To order that all such persons as have been in Armes against the Parliament Malignants and Neuters may be removed from being Committees or Commanders and that their place may be supplyed with honest men who have ventured their Lives spent their Estates in and for the Parliaments service And they shall ever pray c. The Coppy of a letter sent by Mr. John Musgrave Gent. to Alexander Rigby Esquire a member of the House of Commons Worthy Sir LIttle did I expect to have beene so troublesome to my friends upon such an occasion as this sitting a free Parliament we were in hope when the High Commission Councell Board and Starre-chamber were taken away according to the Law that we had been free men and no more subject to any Arbitrary Power But according to the Law we should have beene protected in our just Liberties and have had justice done us without begging or intreaties I have beene kept Prisoner here some 13. weekes yet neither by solicitation of friends or petitions can I get audience I desire but the benefit of the Law which I claim as my Right either to bee justified or condemned by the same favour I desire not no other then the innocency of my cause deserveth Justice only I expect as you have ever professed your selfe to be the Common wealths servant so I desire you in the behalfe of my Country to move the House that I may have my Liberty being their Agent and their Cause put in a way of Tryall This is all I desire from you which I hope you will not deny me and I shall bee From the Fleet Prison 29th of the first moneth 1646. Yours to do you service John Musgrave The coppie of a letter sent by Mr. John Musgrave to Sir Arthur Hasilrigge Knight a Member of the House of Commons Sir I Am given to understand that my petitions and letters of late published by some of my wel-wishers under the title of A word to the Wise were delivered unto you by Mr. Peters there is nothing in any of these petitions and letters which are mine but I am ready to owne and avow and if I may have but common justice and an equall hearing I doubt not but to make good the same to be agreeable to law and truth I am informed that you alone have taken upon you to be my judge and have already condemned me and cast many vile aspersions upon me giving forth how I comply with the Scotts to drive on some wicked designe of theirs tending to the prejudice of the State and undoing of my Countrey which if it were true then are you blame-worthy to passe by the same and not to bring me forth to condigne punishment for already you have given out sentence and adjudged me guilty though younever heard me speak and I suppose never knew me by face but howsoever though I were guilty of that wherein you condemneme yet it doth not beseeme you nor any in the place of iudicature as you are to condemne any man unheard and who is absent nor to have respect of persons in iudgement And none but unrighteous iudges will doe so for it is good and agreeable to law what Seneca saith Qui ●●●…d statuerit altera parte inauditu aequ●m licet statuerit hand aequus est He that determineth and ordereth any thing the one partie being unheard although he determine and order that which is right yet is he uniust And this your doing is the more grievous in that you insult over a poore prisoner whom you now have in bonds and so not in place to answer for himselfe I complaine of Traytors whom you suffer to walke at libertie I have given in charges against them unto you yet cannot get them brought to answer whiles I am cast into prison before any charge be brought against me put to answer interrogatories and no accusers comming against me Traitors whom I accuse are continued in their authorities yet almost foure months have I laine in prison and know not for what but hetherto neither by friends nor petitions could I ever obtaine that favour and right which of dutie you owe me and all the free borne of this Kingdome to have audience and libertie as a free man to answer for my selfe for as you can exact no obedience of us further then by the law so may we boldly claime iustice according to the law which to deny us is iniustice in you by the law I am blamed because I decline the Committee how should I expect any good from them when they dare not or will not suffer our cause to be publiquely heard and debated but doe shut their doores against both our friends and also against strangers contrary to law yet suffer they our adversaries whom we accuse to sit with their hats on as iudges in the cause both permitting them and they taking upon them to examine us O England saith one well in the like case what 's become of thy liberties For if Sir Edward Cooke spake truth or knew the law that iudge who ordereth and ruleth a cause in his chamber though his order or rule be iust yet offendeth he the law and the reason he rendereth is for that all causes ought to be heard ordered and determined openly in the Kings Courts whether all persons may resort and not in chambers or other private places See Cooke 2. part instit fol. 103. And how can I assent unto the Committ●es demands to bring witnesses to be examined before such a Committee as cannot or is not authorized to administer an oath and so consequently cannot determine or give any iudgement for or against the partie accused for that all matters of fact and causes criminall are to be tryed and determined by the verdict of 12. men upon the solemne oaths and depositions of witnesses See Cook 3. part instit fol. 163. And how can I without incurring the haynous sin of periury submit unto the arbitrary proceedings and determinations of any Committee being bound by solemne oath and protestation to maintaine the lawes and iust liberties of the people and that the proceedings orders and results of the Committees be arbitrary and not regulated by the law I need no further proofe then that exorbitant and unlimitted power they take upon them and daily exercise in seizing on free mens goods and imprisoning their bodies contrary to law For

presented to the House which not many daies after hee did accordingly And thus as my ends and intentions herein were reall and honest so I hope the means which I used to attaine thereunto were no wise unlawfull nor indirect But as I cannot flatter neither give vaine titles to any so I hold it ignoble and base to bee ingratefull either by neglecting such persons or not acknowledging such favours and the rather that they proceeded from strangers when as my owne Country men who both of duty and by oath were bound unto us so unworthily so long delayed and at last refused so that they both neglected us and sleighted our cause and Country Let others say and do what they please as I am not ashamed to owne and acknowledge favours received from my noble friends so for my part as Lieut. Col. Lilburne speaking of the justice done to him by the House of Peers saith in his book intituled Innocency and truth justified Pag. 75. I am resolved to speake well of those that have done mee justice and not to doubt they will deny it me till such time as by experience I find they doe it Sir if I had found the like timely justice from you I would neither have had so much cause thus to complain nor to have been so much beholden to strangers whom the Parliament have still accounted friends And if you for your own part had beene as tender of your friends to whom you professe kindnesse and to your Country to whom you owe duty as I have alwaies been and still am ready to approve my selfe at all times in all faithfullnesse to my Country and forwardnesse to promote their just cause wherewith I am intrusted and which hath purchast no small envy of the great enemies of our Countrey I do verily beleeve that some of your suffering friends in the like condition with me who have relyed so much upon you had not been so frustrated in their expectation and driven to so great straites as to seek that comfort which you professed and might with ease have afforded And you would have been more ready to have vouchsafed your assistance to have brought Traytors and enemies to the common wealth to condigne punishment according to your severall oaths protestations and subscriptions and would have beene ashamed that traitors should have walked at large in London streets whilst your cordiall friends their prosecutors are cast and kept by you in prison for no other cause wherewith they can be iustly charged but for that they stand for the lawes and iust liberties of this kingdome neither would you have been so censorious to condemne that man whom the wel-affected of his countrey have thus intrusted and on whom they doe still relye and against whom you know nothing but bare and groundlesse reports and under hand calumniations which no iudicious generous nor truly honest man will beleive yet if you be not resolved against knowledge to act or if there be any hope to recover and bring you to a right understanding of our countreys cause my earnest desire is to undeceive you if possioly I can and have the more inlarged my selfe the better to informe you of the true state thereof And I doe assure you if I may have iustice done me by mine owne countrey men I will never seeke unto strangers for it was no small griefe unto me that from none of mine owne nation I could obtain so much favour neither by intreaties nor recommendations as to present the iust complaints of two counties which so much concerned the weal and safety of two kingdomes but was driven to that extremitie even to have returned home to our owne Countrey which is nigh 300. miles distant without any hope of so much as getting a petition presented to the House of Commons if by meanes under God of the Lord of Warriston to whom before I was never known by face those our grievances by petition and articles had not been put up to the House By all which passages you may perceive how wickedly I am dealt with and traduced by the friends and favorites of our and our Countries enemies so that I may truly say that the slanders of my adversaries is more quicke then any martiall law for by them I have been arraigned condemned and executed all in one instant if in a mans good name doth consist his life and honour your selfe being iudge However give me leave to tell you if I may obtaine that favour from you as to mediate for me into the house of Commons and in my behalfe to present unto them this petition here inclosed to the intent my countries iust cause may be put into a way of tryall And whatsoever my adversaries say I will engage my selfe in the behalfe of my countrey to prosecute the same to a full period and make good our charge against them or otherwise as I have formerly offered by my letter to Mr Speaker to undergoe such penaltie and punishment as by the rigour of the law may be inflicted upon me And in the meane time J would have my adversaries to understand that I am nothing east downe though layed and kept by their meanes in prison but still relying upon God and the strength and truth of my cause and the iustice of the Parliament and resolved though freedom were made capitall and truth accompted never so offensive not to relinquish nor desert the iust cause of my countrey but in all loyall obedience to authority my endeavours shall be to persorme that duty which I owe to my countrey and discharge that trust they have committed unto me Yea and to my utmost power by all lawfull wayes and meanes according to my oath and protestation to set my selfe against the sactions and attemps of the adversarie in the defence of the lawes and our iust liberties wherein I shall not spare to spend my selfe and put to hazard whatsoever is nearest and dearest unto me and so I wish you may account it to be your honour whom we have honoured to chuse as our trusties to sit at the helme of this our tossed ship in such an ocean of tempestuous waves even to execute righteous iudgement as yee wish to come to a fa●re haven and as ye labour to destroy your cruell enemies so to protect your trustie friends who have in all assaults and extremiteis never relinquished you nor the common cause of this distressed kingdome thus hoping yee will all unanimously use your best endeavours to deliver us your selves and the posteritie from all the bondage and oppression which is now exercised over this bleeding nation and restore us to our ancient liberties at least which our ancestors by their blood so dearly purchast that henceforth we may injoy peace and truth with the administration of iustice which is the earnest sute and servent desire of Your faithfull friend in all due respects John M●●●●… Farewell John Musgrave Sir I forgot one thing which I desire to be cleared which is the