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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84177	Every mans case, or A brotherly support to Mr. VVill. Larner, prisoner in the New-Prison in Mayden-Lane, London. Also, another letter from a prisoner, to Mr. Larner.	J. M.	1646 (1646)	Wing E3551; Thomason E337_5; ESTC R200820	5,733	9

encroached upon the Liberties of the English as will appeare by Proceedings of fourty or threescore yeeres last past in Court City and all Countries every trifle hath been sufficient to procure an Imprisonment and the Land groaneth under this intollerable burden still But of all other Testimonies of our Bondage Close Imprisonment is the most manifest where a man shall be kept from the sight of his Friends and Comforters in his bonds and in a gastly apprehension of he knows not what mischief may befall him as hath formerly happened to divers great men that might be instanced in by meanes of the advantage wicked men have taken from the opportunity of safely doeing mischief to a Close-Prisoner Next to the Rack and Torture certainly this is the most unchristian unmanly and irrationall usage of Free-men and will we hope in this time of Reformation be utterly banished out of this Land Never had Parliament such an opportunity as this hath Nor are we to doubt but they will performe the same and I should be glad to see some fruit thereof in their bearing towards you And that they would look back upon the Stationers and all other Monopolizers and remember them when they shall make suit to have the Printing of the Bible or for other favors that they have dealt treacherously with the Parliament and have ministred occasion of much trouble and vexation to them and many of their most faithfull Friends being as the Amalekites were to the Israelites in their Passage from Aegyptian-Bondage to the Freedom of Canaan God I trust will at length remember them and will also I trust deliver you out of the power of their malice and recompence you a hundred fold for these your Sufferings The Commons in Parliament have a right in you which they cannot disclaime other Judges you have not it is most unequall you should have other as I could in few lines demonstrate past all deniall but I will not doe it now and I hope I shall not have further occasion to visite you in this kind I doe not desire it I heartily wish you at home with your Family as knowing a little longer imprisonment may prove your utter overthrow which would very much afflict the Spirits of your faithfull Freinds and would not be for the honour or profit of any However comfort your self in GOD and be well assured hee will never leave you nor forsake you And when the memories of those Officious men that sollicite against you shall be odious to all good men you will be remembred as one that knew and maintained the just Liberties of England and shrunke not in time of Tryall Another LETTER from a Prisoner to Mr. LARNER Prisoner in Mayden-Lane ALthough this Kingdome hath been long vassallaged and kept under an Arbitrary and inslaved Power of evill Governours and corrupt Judges and so farre have the Counsells of some prevailed that for the freeing and recovery of our just LIBERTIES wee have been necessitated to engage our selves in this costly and uncertaine warre against the common enemies of our Lawes wherein the Free-People have not spared to approve themselves in powring out their blood and spending their estates neither have fainted in the worst of extremityes but with all cheerfulnesse have undergone all hazards difficulties proposing to themselves no other end nor expecting any other reward then to restore our Lawes to their former vigour and strength to recover and leave the same to their Posterity and Children as a Portion and Inheritance in pursuance whereof our endeavours have had such good successe that when wee seemed to be cast downe and given for lost and irrecoverable of a sudden even to admiration we were unexpectedly raised againe and as it were restored to new life and victorious Trophyes gained over our Enemies of late have been so many and great that few Ages or Histories can paralell the same so as we conceived all lets and hinderances were taken out of the way which might any wayes prevent us from injoying the benefit and comfort of these our good Lawes and just Liberties formerly trampled under-foot yet so it is that of Late by mis-information and cunning under-hand dealing some under faire and colourable pretences have attempted to bring us under a servitude more dangerous and destructive to our Lawes and Liberties then the former whereby the Spirits of the People begin to be much dejected their affections changed and many brought into a dislike of the present Government under the Parliament For daily by abused Authority one or other of late have been cast into Prison for no other thing then their clayming and holding to their peculiar Interests in the Lawes and for not consenting to betray their own Liberties But now Deare Friend and Fellow-sufferer in bonds for the Common-Liberties we shall not I hope any longer be deceived in our expectation for the fruition of our long desired liberty for the presentative body of this Kingdom in whom the high Powers of this Kingdom reside have declared Wee shall no longer be denyed Justice neither otherwise proceeded against but according to law for this is agreeable to their own words laid down in their Declaration of the 4. of Aprill 1646. which saith Wee declare our true and reall intention and endeavours to be to maintaine the Antient and fundamentall government of this Kingdom and to preserve the Rights and liberties of the Subject what more full then this for the vindication of our Liberties what can we desire or expect from them further then for manifestation of their true intention but this That their Actions and proceedings for and against us to be suitable correspondent to their Expressions Declarations which untill we finde the contrary let us not doubt of but with boldnesse put our selves forth and require of them the benefit of the good lawes they have made and confirmed and I doubt nothing but these Noble Lords will in this concurre with the house of Commons and no longer be carried away through the subtill insinuation and sinister Practises of your Adversaries and cease to prosecute or proceed to further Tryall against you before them but will allow you that liberty which in Justice they cannot denie you to make your legall defence and if you have offended as in all criminal causes it ought to be they will not hinder nor prevent the Law but give way and consent that your Tryall be by your Equalls and fellow Commoners according to the Fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome and will cause you to have full and ample reparations for the great losses sufferings sustained by this their hard in just Imprisonment of your self and Servants which being duly examined by the Letter of the Law and Magna Charta will plainly appeare to be so For by Magn. 9. H. 3. cap. 29. it is Inacted and Declared That no Free-man shall be taken or Imprisoned or otherwise destroyed nor will the King passe upon him nor condemne him but by the lawfull judgement of his Peeres or by the Law of the Land Justice and Right shall not be denyed or deferred to any Man As you are a Free-man so the law is your Inheritance which you have stood suffered for and now I hope both you and I shall receive the benefit thereof according to their owne Declaration and be no longer Restrained of our Liberties which is desired of him who is your Friend and Partner in the same afflictions with you for the Common Liberty J. M. POSTSCRIPT Courteous Reader CErtaine Passages in the late Relation of the Illegall Proceedings against Mr. Larner were through some casuall mistake omitted which for the further satisfaction of those who are desirous to be acquainted therewith are hereunder annexed Viz. That the uprightnesse and fidelity of the said Mr. Larner to this present Parliament the ancient Immunities Birthrights and Freedoms of the People ever hath been such as envy it self is not able to prove any thing against him to render him guilty and though in his debursements for the common good he may not in the predicament of quantity be numbred with the mighty and wealthy yet in quallity he may challenge precedence from many such even so much as the poor mans Mite sometimes exceeds the rich mans Treasure for from his owne voluntary Freedome he hath abstracted from his Necessities to make an Offering for the Redemption of our Native Freedoms which in Equity is more estimable then ten times more spared from redundant superfluity yet notwithstanding his continued fidelity to the State it is his unhappinesse from the hands of such who should rather cherish honour and countenance him and all such who are so faithfull to the Common-weal of this Kingdome then to suffer him or them to be still subjected to the malice of such fraudulent Varlets and but lately Episcopall Arbitrary Catch-poles as Hunscott and his Confederates who thirst after his blood for it is Hunscots desires if his tongue may give evidence to his thoughts that Mr. Larner might be whipt once a day for six weeks together and then to beat Hempe other six Weekes and then to be hanged Hunscott by this dear Friends tells his own fate Who well deserves a As well as a Thief may c. Halter from the State Such measure as hee metrs another ought in equity to be mett to him againe Such as are desirous to be further informed concerning the Native Freedoms of this Nation let them peruse the litte Treatise Intituled Englands Birth-right and the Book called Another word to the wise Where they may find much worthy Information and great satisfaction FINIS