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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27405	The cry of the oppressed from under their oppressions, ascending up to Him, who will rebuke the oppressor and devourer, and deliver the innocent some of the sufferings of the people of God, called Quakers, concerning tythes and oaths, &c. : by the branches which are a new springing forth of the remainder of the bitter root of Episcopacy, which yet remaineth unplucked up in the rigid presbytery ...	Benson, Gervase, d. 1679.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1900; ESTC R18287	26,890	50

Alexander Hebblethwait Iames Corney Because they could not for conscience sake swear and give in their answers to the Bill of Complaint of Richard Atkinson of Garsdale Iames Burton of Dent and Iames Tompson being for tythes were committed prisoners to the Fleet by Robert Nicholas and others the called Barons of the Exchequer where they yet remain in prison Nottinghamshire William Cleater is now prisoner in the Fleet upon the same account at the suit of one Dove Williamson a called Minister which said Williamson had one of his leggs shot with a Canon bullet he being in one of the late Kings Garrisons G. B. his Queries concerning Tythes c. 1. When there was no King in Israel every one did that which was right in his own eyes Iudg. 17 6. Was it so yea or nay 2. When there was a King in England did he well in suffering divers of his subjects to be imprisoned without any cause shewed And when for their deliverance they were brought before his Justices there to undergoe and receive according to the Laws of the Land no breach of any Law being proved against them and yet they returned back to severall prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law And were they the Kings friends that advised so to doe yea or nay 3. Whether did the Parliament well to lay before him in the third year of his reign in the Petition of Right that and other things imposed upon his subjects contrary to the lawes and their just liberties as a grievance and to desire from him That all his Officers and Ministers should serve him according to his laws statutes of his Realm as they tendered his honour and the prosperity of his Kingdome And did the King well when he said Let right be done as is desired yea or nay 4. Whether the Statutes of England be a part of the Law of England And whether is the Law of England a Rule in it self both for Magistrates and people to walke by yea or nay 5. Whether the Law of England be the higher Power or the Judges and Lawyers opinions which may be gained for money And whether are the Justices the Masters of the law or the Ministers of the law 6. Whether he is subject to the higher power who lives and walks according to what the Law requires or he that follows the opinions and inventions of men when in plainnesse the law requireth one thing and their opinions and inventions are another thing 7. Whether is he a faithfull Minister of the Law and fit to judge of mens lives libertie and estates who writes one thing and mean and does another who takes an oath to judge according to the law and yet quite contrary to the law commands mens persons to be imprisoned and their goods to be taken from them 8. Whether do the Justices act according to the●r Commissions or Patents who passe judgement against the peoples liberties and estates where there is no law of the Nation to warrant such their judgments but on the contrary the law of the Nation saith in express words it shal not be lawful for any so to do 9. Whether is he the Minister of God yea or nay that feigneth or suggesteth a lie or owneth or joyneth with such as he knoweth doth feign suggest lies to the end they may have a pretence or colour to draw people before their judgment seats which they call Courts of Equity which if the lies which is the foundation of many Bills of Complaint were taken away they then had no colour of action in such Courts neither is there any law of this Nation to warrant such actions as is confessed in severall of their Bills of Complaints 10. From whence is that Law and for what end was it given that is not equall And is that equal which is not iusts ors equitys which is not lawfull 11. Whether is the Proviso in a statute a part of the statute yea or nay If nay why was it inserted If yea then they that act contrary to it are convinced of it as transgressors 12. Whether were not the Courts Temporall and the Courts Spirituall two severall Jurisdictions and so accounted and adjudged by the late Kings and Parliaments of England And whether had not the late Kings and Parliaments power to make lawes and to declare what was law yea or nay And was it not declared in expresse words by the King and Parliament in the 24 Hen. 8. Chap 12. That rights of Tythes Oblations and Obventions the knowledge whereof by the goodnesse of Princes of this Realm and by the Lawes and Customes of the same appertaineth to the Spirituall Jurisdiction of the Realm 13. Whether is the Statute of the 2 3 Edw. 6. Chap. 13. of force yea or nay If yea is it not therein provided and inacted That if any person do substract or withdraw any manner of Tythes Obventions Profits Commodities or other duties or any part of them contrary to the true meaning of the said Act or of any other Act heretofore made that then the party so substracting or withdrawing the same may or sha●l de convented sued in the Kings Ecclesiasticall Court by the party from whom the same shal be substracted or withdrawn to the intent the Kings Judge Ecclesiasticall shall and may then and there to hear and determine the same according to the Kings Ecclesiastical lawes and that it shall not be lawful unto the Parson Vicar Proprietory Owner or other their Farmers or Deputie cōtrary to this act to convent or sue such with-holder of Tythes Obventions or other duties aforesaid before any other Judge than Ecclesi●sticall yea or nay If nay then why are the people punished as transgressors of that law which is repealed And if yea then why are the People convented and sued for with holding their Tythes c before the temporall Judges and in the temporall Courts contrary to the said Act 14. Whether doth not he or they who give their opinions and make it their practice to convent and sue men in the temporall Courts of this Nation the people thereof for substracting and with-drawing their Tythes Oblations and Obventions c. And say it is lawfull for them so to do give the law the lye And are these Ministers of the law who gives the law the ly who say it shall be lawful when the law saith it shal not be lawful Are not such unreasonable men do not such go about to make the law of none effect through their Traditions and set up for self-ends their own opinions and inventions in stead of the lay yea or nay 15. Whether is it not provided in the statute of 32 Hen. 8●cap 7. in these words viz. Provided alwayes that the last Act shall not extend nor be expounded to give any remedy cause of action or suit in the Courts temporall against any person or persons which shall refuse or deny to set out his