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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94690	To the supreme authority, the Commons of England assembled in Parliament The humble petition of divers well-affected women of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, hamblets, and parts adjacent. Affecters and approvers of the petition of Sept. 11. 1648.		1649 (1649)	Wing T1724; Thomason 669.f.14[27]; ESTC R211117	2,287	1

TO THE SVPREME AVTHORITY OF ENGLAND The COMMONS Assembled in Parliament The Humble Petition of divers well-affected WOMEN of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of Southwark Hamblets and Parts Adjacent Affecters and Approvers of the Petition of Sept. 11. 1648. Sheweth THat since we are assured of our Creation in the image of God and of an interest in Christ equal unto men as also of a proportionable share in the Freedoms of this Common wealth we cannot but wonder and grieve that we should appear so despicable in your eyes as to be thought unworthy to Petition or represent our Grievances to this Honourable House Have we not an equal interest with the men of this Nation in those liberties and securities contained in the Petition of Right and other the good Laws of the Land are any of our lives limbs liberties or goods to be taken from us more then from Men but by due processe of Law and conviction of twelve sworn men of the Neighbourhood And can you imagine us to be so sottish or stupid as not to perceive or not to be sencible when dayly those strong defences of our Peace and wellfare are broken down and trod under-foot by force and arbitrary power Would you have us keep at home in our houses when men of such faithfullnesse and integrity as the FOVR PRISONERS our friends in the Tower are fetcht out of their beds and forced from their Houses by Souldiers to the affrighting and undoing of themselves their wives children and families Are not our husbands or selves our children and families by the same rule as lyable to the like unjust cruelties as they Shall such men as Capt. Bray be made close Prisoners and such as Mr Sawyer snatcht up and carryed away beaten and buffetted at the pleasure of some Officers of the Army and such as Mr Blanck kept close Prisoner and after most barbarous usage be forced to run the Gantlop and be most slave-like and cruelly whipt and must we keep at home in our houses as if we our lives and liberties and all were not concerned Nay shall such valiant religious men as Mr Robert Lockyer be lya-ble to Law Martial and be judged by his Adversaries and most unhumanly shot to death Shall the blood of War be shed in time of Peace doth not the word of God expresly condemne it doth not the Petition of Right declare that no person ought to be judged by Law Martial except in time of Warre and that all Commissions given to execute Martial Law in time of Peace are contrary to the Lawes and Statutes of the Land Doth not Sir Ed. Cook in his chapter of Murder in the third part of his Institutes hold it for good Law and since owned and published by this Parliament that for a General or other Officers of an Army in time of Peace to put any man although a Souldier to death by colour of Marshal Law it is absolute murther in that General And hath it not by this House in the case of the late Earl of Strafford been adjudged high Treason And are we Christians and shall we sit still and keep at home while such men as have born continual testimony against the unjustice of all times and unrighteousnesse of men be pickt out and be delivered up to the slaughter and yet must we shew no sence of their sufferings no tendernesse of affections no bowels of compassion nor bear any testimony against so abominable cruelty and injustice Have such men as these continually hazarded their lives spent their estates and time lost their liberties and thought nothing too precious for defence of us our lives and liberties bin as a Guard by day and as a Watch by night and when for this they are in trouble and greatest danger persecuted and hated even to the death and should we be so basely ungrateful as to neglect them in the day of their affliction No far be it from us Let it be accounted folly presumption madness or whatsoever in us whilst we have life and breath we will never leave them nor forsake them nor ever cease to importune you having yet so much hopes of you as of the unjust Judge mentioned Luke 18. to obtain Justice if not for Justice sake yet for Importunity or to use any other means for the enlargement and reparation of those of them that live and for Justice against such as have bin the cause of M. Lockiers death Nor will we ever rest until we have prevailed that We our Husbands Children Friends and Servants may not be liable to be thus abused violated and butchered at mens Wills and Pleasures But if nothing will satisfie but the bloud of those just men those constant undaunted Asserters of the Peoples Freedoms will satisfie your thirst drink also and be glutted with our bloud and let us all fall together Take the bloud of one more and take all Slay one slay all And therefore again we entreat you to review our last petition in behalf of our Friends above mentioned and not to slight the things therein contained because they are presented unto you by the weak hand of VVomen it being an usual thing with God by weak means to work mighty effects For we are no whit satisfied with the answer you gave unto our Husbands and Friends but do equally with them remain lyable to those snares laid in your Declaration which maketh the Abetters of the Book laid to our Friends charge no less then Traytors when as hardly any discourse can be touching the affairs of the present times but falls within the compass of that Book So that all liberty of Discourse is thereby utterly taken away then which there can be no greater slavery Nor shall we be satisfied however you deal with our Friends except you free them from under their present extrajudicial imprisonment and force upon them and give them full Reparations for their forceable Attachment c. And leave them from first to last to be proceeded against by due Process of Law and give them respect from you answerable to their good and faithful Service to the Common-wealth Our houses being worse then Prisons to us and our Lives worse then death the sight of our Husbands and Children matter of grief sorrow and affliction to us until you grant our desires and therefore if ever you intend any good to this miserable Nation harden not your hearts against Petitioners nor deny us in things so evidently just and reasonable as you would not be dishonourable to all Posterity