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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90723	A pitiful remonstrance; or just complaint made to all free-born true-hearted Englishmen, sensible of the kingdoms miserable slavery. From all the poor afflicted and miserable, inslaved and immured prisoners for debt, contempts, and other trivial matters; ...		1648 (1648)	Wing P2296; Thomason 669.f.12[68]; ESTC R210934	3,480	1

A pittifull Remonstrance or just Complaint MADE To all free-born true-hearted Englishmen sensible of the Kingdoms miserable slavery From all the poor afflicted and miserable inslaved and immured Prisoners for Debt Contempts and other trivial matters Mr. John Rayment a man of known fidelity being 500. l. out for the State yet having been most unjustly held in suit these 12 years in the Court of Request and Chancery for pretended Debt of 537 l. 19 s. 6 d by one John Johns although neuer a pen y proued against him but hath been cleared by Mr. Leigh and Mr Northy Merchants of known ability to whom it was referred who brought upon acocmpt 54. l. due to the said Rayment yet did that corrupt Judg Manchester after he had pronounced him clear in the open Court yet in private suffered it to go on in sute and being here twelve years Mr. Speaker ordered the 537. l. 19. s. 6. d. to be brought into the Court and then they should have a trial though never a penny proved to be due upon the not doing of which he is committed to the Fleet in his old days there to end his days without some course of Iustice be taken which he always desired The said Johns having neither Bill Bond Hand or any Witness against him to prove penny or pennyworth due In all the several murdering slaughter-houses and dens of cruelty called Gaols Prisons and Comptors within the Kingdom of England and principality of Wales about 20000 in number SHEWETH THat we the oppressed prisoners have though fruitless for these seven years by our humble Petitions addressed our selves to the high Court of Parliament craving deliverance from this unjust inhumane slavery of imprisonment for debt illegally fastned as on us so on this whole Nation and their posterity contrary to the Law of God and the fundamental great Charter of Englands Liberty and the Parliaments several Declarations Manifestations Protestations and Imprecations and to the trust reposed in them at their Election as the Kingdoms Stewards to see Injustice and Oppression banished the Land and Justice and Mercy recalled and established where the inslaved prisoners are buried alive and robbed of their Estates Callings and precious Liberties contrary to the true Liberty of the Commons of England as appeareth plainly by Register folio 77. Dehomino Replegiando folio 66. the 3 of Edward the 1. chap. 15. the 25. of Edward 3 chap. 4. where it appeareth That the body of no Commoner of England is to be imprisoned for Debt but only for Murther Fellony and Treason Nisi per legem terrae the 9. of Henry the 3. chap. 29. the 52. of Henry the 3. chap. 5. and the 14. of Edward the 3. chap. 1. and Abridgment of Statutes folio 65. 6. as also by the Petition of Right in the 3. of King Charles confirmed this Session of Parliament and it appeareth by the Statute of the 42. of Edward the 3. chap. 1. That all Statutes which have bin since made to the insringement of the Subjects Liberty contrary to Magna Charta are absolutely voyd and of none effect as if they had never been made and reason good for the lesser and latter must needs give place to the greater and Mother Law of this Kingdom Thus you see dear Countrymen and fellow Commoners it appeareth clearly that imprisonment of the persons of the free Commons of England for debt which had its rise and original but from the time of Henry the 8. at his dissolution of Abbies Frieries and Nunneries is only an unjust illegal slavish Innovation fastned upon us the free Commons of England within these hundred years by the subtile diabolical practise of ambitious unjust Judges and by evil minded covetous exacting Lawyers whose beginning and rise also was with Ignatius Loyola the Infernal Father and Founder of the order of Jesuites about an hundred years since under whose heavy slavish yokes of Injustice Tyranny and Oppression this Common-wealth hath long groaned and doth still groan Witness the many thousands of stained houses and ancient families in this Kingdom Nor can this great oppressing evil be ever redressed unless these wicked Mercenary Contentious Instruments of Injustice and oppression the Lawyers No Lawyers suffered to fit in Parliament or in any great Councel in Scotland nor in any other Kingdom but only in England Many hundred of poor Christians have been murdered starved destroyed in the Gaols of Kings Bench the Fleet Newgate and in divers other Prisons by the Gaolers their Clarks and Servants as will be proved when ever by Iustice required be quite expelled the House of Commons as the proud Lordly Bishops were out of the House of Lords a Lawyer being no more fit to be chosen for a Parliament man then a Butcher or a Gaoler for a Jury man much less for a Justice of Peace For we the Commons of England must not expect that these Mercenary Lawyers will ever suffer the Conduite of Justice to be opened or the free and clear currant thereof to overflow and drown their Infernal Impious gainful filthy raging waters of contention so long as they can keep the staff of honor credit respect and power in their hands and by their wicked gainful Instruments the bloody Gaolers Bayliffs Sergeants Atturnies and Solicitors bring all the Wealth or Grayn of the Kingdom to their impious abhominable Mills of contention corruptly called Courts of Justice or rather of Fees and Bribes where they grind the faces of the poor the widdow the fatherless and the stranger even to dust and devour their estates liberties and lives The abovesaid particulars being by you dear Countrymen and fellow feeling Commoners truly and seriously considered Our humble and earnest request unto you is That you would be pleased by some speedy just and pious course in your addresses to the high Court of Parliament to acquit your selves and us and the posterity of this whole Nation from this inhumane cruel bondage and starving condition of Being that so our lives and the lives of our wives and children may be preserved from perishing and we by our liberties thus regained may be inabled in and by our several Callings to provide for our and their future subsistance And Courteous Readers We beseech you in the bowels of compassion to suffer this our pittiful complaint to stand that so all may see and read it and by it may become sensible of this our inhumane cruel slavish starving condition of Being not to be paraleld by any other Country or in any other Kingdom Christian or Pagan within the confines of Europe Asia Africa nor America being a cruelty repugnant to the Law of God of all other Nations and of this Kingdom In the Fleet Prisoners upon contempt 1 Mr. Robert Ramsey hath 700. l. per annum unjustly kept from him by Sir Tho. Walsingham and yet kept in prison by him upon a pretended contempt these 12. or 13. years 2. Henry Adis whose cruel Adversary Keyzar by Mr. Lenthal the Speakers unjust practises illegally turns Adis out of his house seases upon all his goods and upon a pretended contempt keeps Adis close prisoner in the Fleet. 3. Robert Cole now more then two years illegally detained prisoner by the Warden of the Fleet upon a pretended contempt obtained against him by his Adversary Bayber who is 2000. l. indebted to Cole and Cole oweth him nothing 4. James Frese Marchant upon a private verbal command from the Speaker Mr. Lenthal and his brother Sir John Lenthal hath been these two years and four moneths and is still kept close prisoner in the Tower Chamber by the Warden of the Fleet. 5. Captain Sanford who in the service of the Kingdom hath adventured both estate and life to whom are great sums due from the State was taken and imprisoned upon a pretended contempt out of the Chancery although he hath proved that he was not served with any Subpaena in the cause and also that he was then in actual service for the Parliament far remote from his house These and many other such like cruel illegal practises in the Law exposes and inslaves all the Commons of England in their Lives Estates and Liberties to the imperious will of greatness and to the rage and cruelty of their Adversaries Lawyers and Gaolers Although they know that only the poor prisoners future endeavours by liberty enjoyed must give some hope to the Creditor of satisfaction for his debt although not in whole yet in part which is better then the loss of all their debt Besides the guilt of the poor prisoners blood and the perishing condition of his poor wife and children to lie upon him Under the impious heavy burden of which several great cruelties this whole Land groaneth And thus it plainly doth appear That Lawyers do rule all things there Where we expected Justice that the Speaker Rules Lawyers the Gaoler rules the Speaker But himself in every thing Is ruled by that wicked sting Of Death and Hell named Thomas Dudson Who is none other then the Devils godson Directed always by that fiend of Hell For all his actions in cruelties excel Thus Englands Steed is carryed still By Lenthals Dudsons and the Devils will Rub'd and furbisht by the Lawyers Fees The Priestly tythes have brought him on his knees And Gaoler cruelties have made him lame Are not these imps of Hell for this to blame Yea worthy to be whipt their proper fee Being just sentence and the triple tree Justice and Mercy preserves the Land and all Her Sons and Daughters from ruins final fall But they that Justice Truth and Mercy slight Are foes to Christ despised in his sight O then let Justice Truth and Mercy sway That so from England wrath may flie away And Mercy Truth and Justice then may dwell Within our Land till then 't will ne're be well