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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78012	For every individuall member of the honourable House of Commons. Concerning the major, magstracy, and officers of Dover.	Burt, Nathaniel, fl. 1644-1655.	1649 (1649)	Wing B6142; Thomason E568_19; ESTC R206270	12,509	8

me Justice which is truth after these my losses and imprisonments and trialls by two severall Councells of Warre and severall suits by this caused and by combination of some was cosened of my lease of the Hermit of Wapping in my low estate being beaten out of trading which cost me about 230 l. besides other houshold goods And I went L. to sea with one Cap. Hodges in the Lorne Frigot no purchase no pay and after 5. moneths service being possessed with purchase yet never had any shares though they did amount to neere 150. l. upon this I set up to work at Dover and you that read this my Epistle It was not for riches and honour or favour of men onely that I engaged in this cause but for the honour and favour of God in ●hrist which saith 8. Mark 35.36 But whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospell he shall find it For what shall it profit a man though he should win the whole world if he lose his soule Thus I have truly related some part of my services and sufferings yet never received any advance money place profit assistance in trouble justice upon complaining or reward when others have been provided for by place or rewarded that have not done or suffered 100. fold what I have done but my reward is with Jehovah BEing incouraged by former presidents to you severally presented and by your favourable receiving thereof and prosecution therein for divers of my Brethren fellow-souldiers and Citizens It hath likewise imboldened me who am a free-borne English-man and free Denizon who am thereby intituled unto equall priviledge with any of my rank or discent by which the Freedome and Liberties of the Lawes of England are intailed to me and mine borne in England or to be hereafter borne besides the right that I have by right of Conquest and as 23. October 1642. 1 part of your Book of Declar. pag. 660. and our Trustees in Parliament then declared they were ready to lay downe their lives to preserve affirming our Laws and Liberties the greatest earthly treasure we could or can here possesse and likewise adjudged those who would not help in the day of their straights prophane Esaus who would sell their birth-rights and vassallage ●heir posterity Now before this time God stirred me ●p to stand and act for Englands freedome and Parliaments Priviledge who had inabled me to withstand the ●llegality of Ship-money and other abuses offered my ●eare Countrey-men and fellow-Citizens as also in the ●ower of London to withstand hainous things of a de●tructive nature to the Subjects Priviledge where I lived Anno 1638. and were by some there practised and be●ause I would not consent thereunto I lost my Tower-place and profits as I have in other places done seve●all times since and am like now to lose my Lease of ●7 years to come and benefit of my Trade by those mens oppression and violence in Dover also God made me ●ctive and couragious both at home and abroad in those Martiall abilities I was blest withall of or from him as Mr. Corbet and many others may yet please to remember I am confident some hundreds yet can testifie what time the House removed to Grocers-hall in which services for my native Countreyes Liberty and Countrey-mens safety and Priviledges of Parliament I have spent and lost a faire estate which London the place of my birth and kindred is sensible of yet God hath been pleased to keep me faithfull and to uphold my spirit through all tyrannicall defrauding oppressions and illegall imprisonments I have seen felt and been under both in London and many other places indeed rather the subject of a book then a letter and I never was rewarded or gratified with any place to restore my losses neither have I pursued the same but have laboured honestly for bread for my wife and daughter whom in the worlds eyes are undone by my zeale for my Countreyes good rather then to live on the Nations losse which good I have alwaies promoted before my owne interest or earthly profits as Jehovah knoweth and having read your Declaration also Die Sabbati 17. Martii 1648. wherein you expresse the grounds of your late proceedings and setling the present Government in the way of a free State wherein you declare pag. 5. you are authorized for the common good having contended against Tyranny and to procure the well-being of those people for whom you serve to remove oppression arbitrary power and all opposition to the peace and freedome of the Nation and to prevent their power to revive Tyrany Injustice War and all our former evills this hath very much incouraged me to protest against Mr. Day as Mayor and other Justices and Common-Councell-men of Dover and others Constables and grand Jury-men thereof about 24 in number who yet continue in places unsequestred though they have been as active as any of those which have been sequestred for those open rebellions and Insurrections in Wales Surrey and Kent as is set forth in your Act for Thanksgiving with the reason and grounds thereof die Veneris 1 Junii 1649. that you and the Army had not been thereby destroyed by the revolt of divers Castles at once and the defection of a great part of the Navy these men many of them continue at this time in place who are mentioned before and protested against by me for their hypocrisie and injustice these are termes in the said Act by you expressed pag. 275. 276. these promoted that perfidious Ingagement by such an Authority which might denominate the breach Nationall who yet corruptly side and combine together ruling according to their wills and not Law they upholding a Monopoly in Dover called the Leather-Corporation which was never granted by Parliament for which they in my sight at one time received six pound of money in Dover-Court taking their goods away by force or otherwayes which will not obey thereunto and imprisoning and prosecuting all those to destroy them by illegall and delaying Suits in Law who oppose their arbitrary wills yet they exact it expressely against Law which things you declare to be against that excellent Law of the Petition of Right done in the Person of the late King who was tried for the same and why should not these also be tried as Declar. 17. Martii pag. 7. 14. and these Anti-Magistraticall Anti-Justiciaries hold only the place ruling by power and policy not by reason and honesty they being tyrannicall creatures though to the world pretend otherwise according as their linsey-woolsey Priest John Dix hath in his Negative Oath plainly discovered to all judicious and impartiall judgements yet these Ordinances of Parliament are against their choice or sitting if chosen or their Voice to chuse they being uncapable by some of these Ordinances of Parliament die Junii 9. Septemb. 1647. 4 Octobris 1647. by which these men outed their neighbours of Dover both from Voice and Choice as they outed Edward Ranger June the 8.