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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95165	A true relation of all the remarkable passages, and illegall proceedings of some sathanicall or Doeg-like accusers of their brethren, against William Larner, a free-man of England, and one of the merchant-tailers company of London, for selling eight printed sheets of paper (all of one matter,) intituled, Londons last warning; as also against John Larner, and Jane Hales his servants. ...		1646 (1646)	Wing T2899; Thomason E335_7; ESTC R200778	10,857	17

Proceedings And in case any thing through ignorance might escape tending to the Infringing of his own or the Subjects Liberty be might have leave to recall it II. That as he was a Commoner or Free-man of England bee desired the Liberty of a Free-man not to answer to Interrogatories whereby to insuare himself or others III. That if it might please the Honourable Parliament to grant him the Liberty of the Common-Law hee would not doubt in a short time to prove some of his Accusers Thieves and Robbers not onely in the time of the Bishops but in time of this present Parliament Commit Whereat one of the Committee said Have you any thing more to say Larner Not till I heare of what I am accused Then the Accusers were called in and one of the Committee taking up the Book entitled Londons last warning said Commit Doe you know this Book Lar. I have seen it Commit How many did you sell of them Lar. Eight sheets and 14. they took in my House Commit How many did you buy Lar. Twenty five Commit What became of the other three Lar. I know not Commit Of whom did you buy them Lar. I desire the Liberty of a Free-man not to incrap my self or others Then they writ Hee denies to Answer to Interrogatories So they began againe and went over all as before and when it come to the Question Who did you buy them of One of the Committee standing up said Mr. Larner take heed and speak truth and spake as if you had taken an Oath though we tender none to you if you look at us as Magistrates And now Mr. Larner speak as if you were a Preaching Another upon hearing of his Name said Larner I promise you hee hath learned his Lesson very well Then Hunscott charged severall things upon him but being put to prove them he could not nor any thing else which was a transgression of any Law This being the second time of his being at Westminster but the first and last of his being heard though he was commanded and waited six severall times at that High-Committee Doore Thus Courteous Reader this our Worthy Friend and Fellow-Commoner of England being turned over to the House of Peers I shall first present thee with the Copy of Three Petitions one from his Wife to the House of Commons and two from himself to the house of Lords with two Letters from him to Parliament-men before I present thee with the particular Passages concerning this businesse in the House of Peeres but first I shall insert the Copy of the Two Warrants for his and his two servants Commitments his Commitment being foure dayes after hee was Prisoner in Maiden-lane two dayes whereof hee was kept Close-Prisoner by the Stationers sole command as appeares by the date of this following Warrant 28. Martij 1646. At the Committee of the House of Commons for Examinations IT is this day Ordered that William Larner be continued in the Custody of the Marshall of London in the New-Prison in Mayden-land as he was before till further Order from the House of Commons or this Committee To the Marshall of the City of London Keeper of the New-Prison Die Jovis 16. Aprill 1646. IT is this Day Ordered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament that John Larner and Jane Hale shall stand committed to the Prison of the Fleet for refusing to take Oath to testify their Knowledge as witnesses in a cause depending in this House untill the pleasure of this House be further signified and this to be a sufficient warrant in that behalf Jo. Brown Cler. Parliament To the Gentle-man Usher attending this House to be delivered to the Warden of the Fleet or his deputy To the Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Purgesses in PARLIAMENT Assembled The humble Petition of Ellen Larner wife of William Larner Sheweth THat Your Petititioners Husband to the ulmost of his Power hath endeavoured to advance the service of the Parliament having therein lost two Servants and been himself Sutler to the Regiment of the Right Honourable the Lord Roberts in which Regiment is due to your Petitioner the Sum of 46. Pounds 6. Shillings 6. Pence as by evident proof bee is able to make appear And during his absence since his returne home the Wardens and Beadle of the Company of Stationers did sundry times search ransack and break open your Petitioners Trunks and injuriously carry away her goods contrary to Law and any Warrant which they could produce And since his return home hee hath been by the malice and instigation of the said Wardens and Beadle committed to close Prison and is yet in custody and your Petitioner being with childe seeing the violent apprehension of her husband fell into a dangerous sinknesse to her great charge and dammage by all which agreevances Your Petitioners estate is totally consumed and her Husband greatly indebted and is utterly unable to defray the charge of imprisonment supply the extream wants of his Family which is 6. Persons or relieve his aged Father and Mother who are past labour and were lately Plundered in Gloster-shire or satisfie his Creditors Wherefore Your Petitioner most humbly prayeth this Honourable Assembly to be pleased to Order that her Husband may be suffered under sufficient Bayle to follow his Calling thereby to prevent the apparent ruine of himself and his whole Family And he will be ready to Answer to any thing wherewith hee shall be justly charged when hee shall be commanded before this Honorable Assembly And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. Which Petition the Petitioner humbly offered first to Sir Isaac Pennington a Commissioner for the City of London to the Parliament and next to Sir Matthew Baynton to be presented to the House of Commons but they absolutely refused to meddle with it at all To the Right honourable the House of PEERES The humble Petition of VVilliam Larner Sheweth THAT Your Petitioner hath been in Actuall Service for the Parliament and shall be ever ready to approve himself in all his Actions to be such as he doubts not but to cleere himself of the Accusations laid to his Charge if he may have the benefit of the Law which is his Birth-right That your Petitioner is not bound by Law to Answer Interrogatories against himself nor others till he hath the same to consider of and then your Petitioner is at liberty to put in his Answer in writing neither can Your Petitioner by law be proceeded against being a Free Commoner but by the Try all of his fellow Commons in Actions criminall according to Magna Charta Therefore Your Petitioner humbly prayeth that he may have the benfit of the law and that he may not be compelled to answer to Interrogatories till a legall Charge be given against him at law and then according to law he may be permitted to make a legall Defence And Your Petitioner shall ever Paray c. WILLIAM LARNER But the Petitioner not hearing of any Issue concerning his enlargement

A true Relation of all the remarkable Passages and Illegall Proceedings of some Sathannicall or Doeg like Accusers of their Brethren AGAINT WILLIAM LARNER A Free-Man of England AND ONE OF THE MERCHANT-TAILERS COMpany of London for selling Eight Printed Sheets of Paper all of one matter Intituled LONDONS last WARNING as also against John Larner and Jane Hales his Servants Hee first acording to his Liberty refusing to be Examined upon Interrogatories whereby to accuse himself or others And then they according to their refusing to take an Oath whereby to entrap themselves or betray their Master Hee being carried first before the Lord Major of London who committed him is the Counter Prison Next before the Committee of Examinations who Committed him Close-Prisoner to Maiden-Lane where now he hath the liberty of the Prison and at last Turned over to the House of Lords From whom he appealed to the House of Commons to be tryed by his Equalls or Fellow-Commoners according to Law and Justice who turned him backe againe to the Lords and by them were his servants committed to the Common Jayle of the Fleet where they yet lie being denyed of the Prison Liberty which malefactors doe enjoy All which Passages comming to the hands of some of his and the Common-wealths friends are Published by them to the view of the World chiefly for the serious Observation of all the Free-man of England who cannot long enjoy their Fredoms Lives nor Estates if the Rule of law be not truly followed nor Justice duly Administred Eccles 5.6 and 16.7 If in a Country thou seest the oppression of the poore and the defrauding of judgement Justice be not astonied at the matter for hee that is higher then the highest will regard it and there be higher then they And moreover I have seen the place of Judgement where was wickednesse and the place of Justice where was iniquity I thought in mine heart God will judge the Just and the unjust for time is for every purpose and for every worke A True Relation of the Remarkable Passages and illegall Proceedings against VVILL LARNER and his Servants THere being a Book Intituled The last worning to London sold in many places and shops in the said City some of them being brought to the shop of one William Larner in Bishops-gate-street who after the manner of the Trade of Book-sellers which is to buy Books of all sorts brought to their shops not examining the Persons that bring them either names or Places of abode bought 25. of the said books not knowing what they were for matter or examining the Person what he was that brought them or where was his aboad not suspecting any danger in them either to himself or others nor knowing any thing of them before they were brought to his shop But this being done presently after 22. March 1645. there came two Stationers Miller and Hunscott into his House not sbewing any Warrant yet notwithstanding searched and found 14. sheets thereof lying openly amongst the rest of his Bookes there being no Prohibition against them for sale and Eight sheets more which they had taken from another one Woodnet a Stationer who declared that he bought them of the said William Larner Whereupon the said Hunscott and Miller presently commanded a Constable to assist them as though they had taken a Thiefe or a Murderer So the said William Larner being carryed before Thomas Adams Lord Major of London in Guild-Hall many other Aldermen being present the Lord Major spake unto Hunscott saying L. Major Did you Mr. Hunscott take these Bookes in this mans house Hunscott Yes laying severall other things to his charge which hee was not able to prove after his old accustomed manner in the dayes of Will of Canterbury L. Major How many of these Books did you buy Larner Five and Twenty L. Major Of whom did you buy them Larner Of one that brought them to my shop L. Major Doe you know the Party or where he dwells Larner I desire the Liberty of a Free-man of England not to Answer to any Interrogatories whereby to accuse myself or others L. Major Sir I charge you as I am a Christian Magistrate Answer me to what I shall aske you Did you bye no more then 25. of these papers Larner I say againe I desire the Liberty of a Free-man which is Not to Answer to Interrogatories And if my Accusers can prove any more I am here ready to answer Then Mr. Larner was caused to withdraw and being called againe was committed to the Poultry Counter by command of the Lord Major and after the space of Three houres there came this following warrant from the Committee of Examinations to shut him up close Prisoner and to suffer none to speak with him but in presence of a Keeper viz. 21. Martii 1645. AT the Committee of the House of Commons for Examinations It is this day Ordered that William Larner Prisoner in the Counter in the Poultry be kept a Close Prisonor and none to be permitted to speak with him but in the presence of his Keeper till Munday next and then to be first brought to this Committee Laurence Whitaker Then upon Munday the 24. of March the Under Marshall of London and other Officers came to fetch the Prisoner to the Committee but the Prison-keeper demanded two Shillings for two nights Lodging which being refused to be paid he was commanded to be locked up againe by the said Marshall so he went away and awhile after sent two of his men to fetch the Prisoner but first he must pay a shilling though it was all he had about him which so prolonged the time that the Committee was risen before the Prisoner could be brought thither So he being brought back by the Marshall he committed him to his own Prison in Maiden-lane where he was kept four dayes without warrant where of two of them to wit the 26. and 27. of March he was kept Close Prisoner that none might speake with him at the command only of Hunscott and one Whitaker a Stationer which command was given in his owne hearing to Mr. Hodgkins under Keeper of Maiden-lane Prison Whereas the Committee had given no such Order but only commanded the Marshall to take care of him which was on Tuesday March 25. when he was examined the particular Passages whereof were as followeth The Committee having much businesse it was divided into two parts the one purposely to try the said William Larners Case So the Stationers and he being called in he was commanded out againe for the space of an houre but being called in againe hee thus addressed himself unto the Committee Lar. May it please this Honorable Committee I conceive it but equity seeing I was caused to withdraw whilst I was accused that my Accusers withdraw now also whilst I have liberty to speake which being done he desired these three things I. That the Committee would deal favourably with him in regard of his unacqaintednesse with the manner of their