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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91227	A new discovery of free-state tyranny: containing, four letters, together with a subsequent remonstrance of several grievances and demand of common right, by William Prynne Esquire; written and sent by him to Mr. John Bradshaw and his associates at White-Hall (stiling themselves, the Councel of State) after their two years and three months close imprisonment of him, under soldiers, in the remote castles of Dunster and Taunton (in Somersetshire) and Pendennis in Cornwall; before, yea without any legal accusation, examination, inditement, triall, conviction, or objection of any particular crime against him; or since declared to him; notwithstanding his many former and late demands made to them, to know his offence and accusers. Published by the author, for his own vindication; the peoples common liberty and information; and his imprisoners just conviction of their tyranny, cruelty, iniquity, towards him, under their misnamed free-state.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4016; Thomason E488_2; ESTC R203337	111,299	152

that had then a being neither he nor his Whitehal associates could thus imprison and secure me by any generall instructions without a special order of Parliament without th● highest breach of Parliamentary Priviledges and if there were no reall Parliament in being which gave them their usurped authority as in truth there was not they were then but a company of private men destitute of all legall authority and had no more lawfull authority to restrain or imprison me upon any pretext then I had to imprison him or them since Par in parem non habet imperium as he well knew without some speciall law authorizing him To the fourth I related that if he knew not the particular grounds of my Imprisonment then he could not positively resolve that it was in order to the publick safety That to injure and oppresse me who had written acted and suffered so much for the publick safety heretofore was the high way to occasion hasten not prevent their publick damages and must certainly favour of much private causelesse malice of some men towards me rather then of publick safety or their private respects towards me That I was so conscious of my own innocency that I neither feared nor declined but oft desired a publick legall Tryall for any thing he or his associates could object against me which I could not attain and to say now at last that all they did was only out of tender respects and favour-towards me was a very absurd and pitifull excuse especially seeing he professed he knew no ground nor reason for it That Canterbury and the Prelates might have made the same absurd allegation for my former close restraints as well as he and that if himself should be so long close imprisoned in three remote Castles under such armed guards and unchristian restraints as I sustained under him by me or any other his pretended friends without any legall cause hearing tryall I doubted not but he would interpret it as an act of highest malice Tyranny and injustice not as a speciall favour and tender respect towards him That himself well knew in the cases of many late Delinquents illegall commands and commissions too from the King Councell or any others had been frequently resolved in Parliament and elsewhere to be no excuse nor justification at all for those who obeyed or executed them and therefore his pretended counsels illegall commands to him in relation to me could neither extenuate nor justifie his illegall warrants and restraints in the least degree That he was sorry to hear such poor excuses from a Lawyer and that he should be so far overseen as to expose himself alone to answer and satisfie all the illegall actions and exorbitant Warrants he issued by their unjus● commands b●th against me and others which they now totally disclaimed and so lest him in the lurch to bear both the odium and dammage of them In brief after near two hours discourse being unable to reply to my premised answers he promised to make a dil●gent speedy search after the particulars that were suggested against me and to give me an undelayed account thereof if there were any at all extant as I presumed there were none Whereupon we departing and I hearing not from him in five weeks space I thereupon sent this ensuing Letter to him SIR I Presume by this time according to your former promise you have made an exact search and discovery both of the Informers name and particular Informators upon which you committed me close pri●oner near three years space to three remote Castles without any hearing or tryall against all rules of Law or Justice of which I desire to be presently informed that so I may know how to steer my course in righting my self against this publick injury lest it prove presidentiall to prejudice posterity in such sort as may most redound to my own vindication and the common good of all English Freemen which shall be the endevour of Your Quondam close Prisoner William Prynne Since which I never receiving the least account or answer from him I take this long silence for a satisfactory evidence of my innocence and his injustice in committing and injuring me as aforesaid without any particular cause at all yet discovered or declared after so long a respite whereupon to right my self the best I may at present in point of reputation till a time of future reparation in some other kind shal offer it self I thought it both just and necessary for me to publish all the premises to the world supporting and solacing my self in the mean time with these old Christian Cordials of which I have had frequent experience Psal 37. 5 6 37 38 39 40. Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe And he shall bring forth thy righteousnesse as the light and thy judgment as the noonday Marke the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace But the transgressours shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their streng●h in the time of trouble And the Lord shall help them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him Mich. 7. 8 9 10. Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darknesse the Lord shall be a light unto me He will plead my cause and execute judgment for me he will bring me forth to the light I shall behold his Righteousnesse Then he that is mine enemy shall see it and shame shall cover him which said unto me Where is the Lord thy God mine eyes shall behold him and now shall he be troden down as the mire of the streets FINIS A Usefull Seasonable Corollary to and from the Premises WHen I seriously contemplate with deepost greife of Heart and confusion of Spirit how my late Imprisoners with other of their Confederates who made the greatest Profession of transcendent Piety Justice Uprightnes Clemency Humility Selfe-deniall cordiall affection transcendent Zeal to the Fundamentall Lawes Liberties Franchises Priviledges Ease Weal Establishment of their Native Country published so many large Declarations Remonstrances to the world in print asserting the same and declaring their utter detestation and totall extirpation of all arbitrary Government Tyrany Injustice Oppression Violence illegall Proceedings Imprisonments Restraints Seisures of Papers ransacking of Houses Executions Taxes Excises Imposts Arrayes exercised by the late King Strafford Canterbury whom they impeached condemned beheaded as the Greatest Tyrants and by the old Councell Table Star-chamber High Commission and House of Lord● which they totally suppressed as intollerable Greivances to the people No sooner ingrossed into their owne hands by force and fraud the Supream Power over their fellow-brethren and our Realmes but they presently degenerated by degrees in to more absolute Tyrants greater Oppressors Self-seekers Invaders underminers