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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85118	To the Right Honorable (his Excellency) Oliver Cromwell, Lord Generall of all the forces raised in England, Ireland, and Scotland, for the regainment of Englands long lost liberties, and to the Honorable Tho. Harrison, Major Generall, and to the whole councell of state sitting at White-Hall, J. F. wisheth health, and increase of true honor in the Lord Jesus here, and eternall glory in the glorious world to come.	J. F.	1653 (1653)	Wing F44; Thomason E216_4; ESTC R18957	9,457	10

of Injustice tyranny and oppression and of the quarterly faires kept at Westminster by the illegall ingrocers of pretended Justice where men are daily bought and sold in their estates rights and liberties and where a bit of parchment and wax but of the reall value of one farthing is by them sold to the people at severall rates Iudge Perine was hanged for suffering a man to die in prison whom he had imprisoned for an offence not mortal viz. from 2 s 9.d 4 s 1.d to 2.l 3.l 4.l 5.l yea 10.l hath been given in a long vacation for one Habias Corpus by many people Behold therefore and see are not such men workers of iniquity doing wickedly by pleading falsly in the presence of the Lord against the poor and the oppressed making thereby empty the souls of the hungry and causing the drink of the thirsty to faile Iudge Athulfe was hanged for causing Coppine to be hanged before he was 21. years of age fo 240. their weapons whereby they murther the innocent are Pens Ink Paper Wax and Parchment yea they undo the poor with lying words overthrowing the cause of the righteous in judgement and spinning out the thred of one suit in Law to twenty thirty yea forty yeares continuance thus making the remedy worse then the disease of oppression and when the pulses of one of their Clients beats slow and the other Client is quite spent so as he can neither kick nor winch as some of themselves have said then they consult to tye these two together by a Commission Iudge Marks was hanged for judging During to death by 12. men who were not sworn fo 240. into the Country there amongst their friends to provide more money against the next Term and yet these persons in the presence of their Clients seem to be as Adversaries one to the other and at the Bar plead and maintain that for truth which their own conscience tells them Tongue thou lyest Break their present power He hanged Iudge Wulster because he judged Haubert to death though it was at the suit of the King O God cast them down to the dust as the Prelates were and let their houses of wickednesse called Inns of Court become habitations for the poor that so Judgment may dwell in our Cities and Justice in the fruitfull field He cut off the band of Iudge Hulfe because be did not cause the hand of Armock to be cut off who had feloniously wounded one Ricbald fo 245. causing the poore to rejoyce and the oppressed to sing for joy of heart then the work of Justice shall be peace to all and assurance of quietnesse yea deliverance from their great Oppressors Lawyers Impropriators Lords of Mannors cruell revengefull persons churlish Naballs and all other sons of Beliall So shall God be glorified He caused Judge Edulfe to be wounded because he judged not Arnold to be wounded who had feloniously wounded one Aldens fo 245. your honourable Name and names as Israels Deliverers recorded and this whole Nation comforted and ever ingaged to blesse God for you their great deliverers stick fast therefore unto the Lord your God in this work as you have done unto this day for behold the Lord hath cast out before you the great and mighty He hanged all the Judges in every County who had falsly saved a man guilty of death or falsly hanged any man against Law or reasonable exceptions fo 243. and none of them have hitherto been able to stand before your face Take good heed therefore and love the Lord your God and cleave not unto the Generation of cruell men Joshua 23.8 9. 10. 11. Then shall ye be my people and I will be your God saith the Lord God Jer. 30.22 These particulars aforesaid most noble and victorious Sir together with my more then ten yeares cruell sufferings undergone The Lord God of Iudgment Iustice and Mercy grant that such Justice may take place again in this Land to the terror of all cruell oppressors and to the reliefe of the poore oppressed that so these great and powerfull ravenous Wolfes may not devoure the poore and innocent Lambs any more by making their persons and estates a prey unto their teeths as bitherto they have done and wherein they glory for the truth hereof I do appeal to all the people of England who have for these many years longed for deliverance from these their bitter pangs and throws and for the enjoyment of their freedom peace and happinesse witnesse the many hundreds of Petitions presented from severall Connties and also from sundry persons to the late Parliament from time to time these 12. or 13. years space to the same effect who were not so wise as to consider that the poore laborious feet support and carry the head and not the head the feet and therefore in the first place the poore feet of the body and head are to be cherished and strengthened for the better support of them both in their Walkings and National progress For if the Lord had not been on my side and stirred up your Noble spirits for my deliverance from thraldom mine enemies had swallowed me up quick for they were too mighty for me and kept me locked up in one chamber above five years viz. from February 1645. until April 1650. in the Fleet Prison London without any just cause by them shewed to this day for so doing from the hands of cruelties powerfull instruments for my severall services most faithfully performed for the State yea sundry times to the hazzard of life I do without any desire of revenge on my cruell Adversaries most humbly refer to your grave wisdome and pious consideration beseeching the Lord to be still the protector of you by whom he hath done wonderfull things for this Nation under his sacred wing of safety and your sole Director in all your undertakings to the comfort of all those that wish well unto Sion and to the amazement and confusion of his and your enemies This is and hath been the constant desires of him who in all faithfulnesse subscribes himself Right Honorable Your Excellencies and his Countryes servant in all readinesse during this short time of his fraile being in this world of misery to serve you in the Lord Jesus J. F. This 25. of the 4. moneth 1653.

acquittalls and if the Felon die in Goal being acquitted then the Goaler is to be hang'd and is to lose his place for exacting maimes from the prisoners or for putting any of them in irons fo 231. that any free man of England should suffer imprisonment upon a Capias which is the utmost punishment the Law can inflict upon any Malefactor before he be condemned by the Law It is therefore most clear A Pleader or Lawyer once attainted of false pleading or maintaining any unjust Action or Cause is to suffer bodily punishment fol. 230. that all the Statutes and Judgements which have subjected the bodies of men and women to arrests and imprisonment are diametrically opposite to the Law of God to reason to charity and to the Great Charter being the Fountain of all the Fundamentall Lawes of England therefore void and null for that the body kept in an iron Cage as a bird cannot yeeld satisfaction for any debt any other ways nor by any other means then by liberty and industry in some calling For that Charter is to be interpreted by it selfe Judges to suffer death for pronouncing false Judgement fo 239. and not to be infringed by the innovating Lawes and opinions of Judges that lived in the cruell tyrannicall inslaving times If Iustice thus take place again wo then to all our Goalers Prisons and Counter-keepers of this age by whom thousands have been thus destroyed whose wrested constructions of this very point in question hath ever tended more to the filling of their own purses No Goalers to keep a prison to the dishonor of the State fo 214. and the purses of their adherents with the unjust gaine of destructive contention and by tossing and tumbling of men and women from one prison to another and upon Habias Corpus and Commitments then to the due administration of Justice according to the just rules of the Common Law of England Wherefore upon very just reasons founded on the birth-right of this Nation A Iudge that shall delay to relieve a prisoner and he that imprisoneth any man till he die and doth not relieve him are both man-slayers fo 30. He hang'd Iudge Hall because he saved Trustrom the Sheriff from death who bad taken to the Kings use from some men their goods against their wills for that such taking and robbery hath no difference fo 241. judgments passed by any against any one point of the Great Charter in point of this Nations Liberty ought to stand and become as Null and all the offenders are punishable in their estates and lives for murthering of so many thousands and robbing this whole Nation of their just Liberties for if any one absurd errour be admitted against our liberty a thousand will follow as at this day wofull experience sheweth and the perishing lives of thousands of families can testifie I do therefore in the behalfe of this still inslaved Nation Alfred King of England hang'd 44. Iudges in one year for oppressing the people by false Iudgement fo 240. become a most humble and earnest Suitor unto your Excellency and to this great Councell He hang'd Judge Athelstone because the judged Herbert to death for an offence not mortal fo 240. by whom the Lord hath done very great things for this Nation to the admiration yea to the astonishment of all Europe and by his powerfull actings in and by you he hath made you to become Englands glory and Europes wonder by putting down the high and mighty and exalting the humble and meek Behold this is the Lords doing He hang'd Iudge Rolfe for hanging a Felon for escaping out of prison before conviction fo 240. and it is marvellous in our eyes and in the eyes of all Nations That by some speedy course all the poor oppressed in the Land may be relieved and righted He hang'd Iudge Diling because he caused Eldon to be hang'd who killed a man by chance fo 242. the inslaved out of all prisons forth with set free from the iron bands of their illegall and most cruell captivity under which they are still oppressed yea pressed to death That the abhominable tyrannicall Writ Capias may be forthwith abolished Iudge Th●lwell was imprisoned for imprisoning a man for an offence not mortall and the most antient justifiable common course for levying of debts on mens estates may be restored it being indifferent to all that live under one common Government to take such apt remedies one against the other for all just debts as the wisdome of our Ancestors thought fit and used Iudge Belling was hanged for judging Leston to death by fraud that so Foxes Wolves Bears and Tygers Iudge Oswine was hang'd for judging Fulk to death out of Court fo 242. I mean wicked Lawyers Bayliffs Serjeants and Goalers may thereby be prevented from ravening any longer on the bodies of men and women whereby their estates for many yeares past have been and still are a prey unto such insatiable Monsters of Cruelty and the oppressed their wives and children are thereby exposed to famine and misery The faithfull and speedy accomplishment of this will inable many thousands yea all by their liberty Iudge Seafold was banged for judging Ordine to death for not answering Iudge Muckline was hang'd because he hang'd Hellgrave by a Warrant of Indictment not speciall fo 242. to use wayes and meanes of industry to serve their country labour in their severall callings make provisions for payment of all just debts and live peaceably and charitably one with another in this Commonwealth Iudge Arnold was hanged for saving a Bayliff from death who had robbed the people by distresses and for selling distresses and for extorting fines fo 241. to the glory of God and to the honor of the English Nation which hitherto for these her cruell practises bears the burden of a great reproach and is therein condemned by all other Nations both Christian and Pagan let the cause be therefore taken away and then the effects will cease The accomplishment of these particulars in the speedy dissolution of all prisons for debt in the Land and the due administration of Justice to the people in every County Hundred and Town Corporate by the Neighbourhood so as no man may travell from his habitation above four or five miles for Justice and not a hundred or two hundred miles Iudge Therborne was hanged because he had judged one Osgat to death for a fact whereof be had been acquitted before against the same Plaintiff which acquittance Osgat tendered to approve by oath but because be did not aver it by Record Iudge Therborn would not allow of the Acquittall which was tendered to him fol. 242. as now will advance the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Iudge R●…wood was imprisoned for imprisoning a man for a debt due to the said King Alfred himself fo 244. peace and happinesse to this Nation and work the totall downfall of Satans Thrones