Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	court_n	king_n	plea_n	3,508	5	9.7258	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30641	The humble petitions of Mr. Burton and Dr. Bastwicke presented to the honovrable the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.; Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6164; ESTC R29166	4,240	14

THE HVMBLE PETITIONS OF Mr. Burton Dr. Bastwicke PRESENTED TO THE HONOVRABLE The KNIGHTS CITIZENS and Burgesses of the Commons house of PARLIAMENT Printed in the yeare 1641. TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament The humble Petition of Henry Burton late exile and close Prisoner in Castle Cornet in the I le of Garnesey In all humblenesse sheweth THat whereas your Petitioner on the 5 of Novemb. 1636 did preach two Sermons in his own Parish Church in St. Matthew Friday-street London for the which hee was in December then next following summoned to appeare before D. Ducke one of the Commissioners for causes Ecclesiasticall at Cheswicke in the County of Middlesex where with the Register of the High Commission Court the said D. Ducke tendred to the Petitioner the Oath Ex Officio to answer to certaine Articles there presented which Oath the Petitioner refusing to take did then and there appeale from the said Court unto the Kings Majesty which appeale the said D. Ducke did admit and the said Register by D. Ducks direction did then and there enter in writing Notwithstanding which said appeale a speciall High Commission Court was shortly after called at London consisting of foure or five Doctors where the said Commissioners proceeded illegally to suspend the Petitioner in his absence by meanes whereof as of the threatnings of the said Commissioners hee was enforced to keepe his house untill a Sergeant at Armes with divers Pursevants and other armed Officers assiisted by Alderman Abel then Sheriffe of London beset the Petitioners House at 11 of the Clock at night and violently broke open his dores with Iron crowes and the like and surprised him in his house he making no resistance at all where having first searched his study and taking away such Bookes as they pleased they carried your Petitioner to prison whence the next day being the second of Feb. by a pretended Order from the Lords of the Counsell he was conveyed to the Fleet and there kept close prisoner During which imprisonment an information was exhibited against the Petitioner and others in his Majesties Court of Star-Chamber whereby he was charged inter alia with publishing of a certaine Booke containing an Apology for an Appeale with his said two Sermons Intituled For God and the King wherein hee taught Subjects to yeeld all manner of due obedience to their lawfull King and reproved all lawlesse Innovations in Religion c. Which Information the Petitioner upon his Oath under the hand of M. Holt being then of his counsell assigned by speciall order from the said Court did put in his answer wherein hee alledged such things onely as his said Counsell conceived to be materiall and pertinent for his just defence in publishing the said booke but denyed all other matters in the said Information conteined which said Answer being admitted and received in Court the petitioner being then a close prisoner not onely attended the exhibiting of Interrogatories according to the custome of that Court but withall after some universall delay did write unto the Kings Attourney to hasten them but before the examiner came the petitioner heard that his said Answer was referred to S. Ioh Bramston Knight Lord chiefe Justice of the Kings Bench Sir Iohn Finch then chiefe Justice of the common-Common-pleas and was by them wholy expunged as impertinent and Scandalous save onely the not-guilty And the petitioner understanding the answer he was to make to the Interrogatories was to be reckned as a part of his answer admitted in court but afterward expunged as impertinent scandalous as aforesaid so as if he should then have answer'd the Interogatories he shold thereby have assented to the said act of the said Iudges and so to the condemnation of his cause before the hearing wherby he should have contracted his former Oath that his said Answer was a true Answer and so should justly have brought himselfe under the guilt of wilful perjury and his cause under just censure For that very reason he held himselfe not bound as hee conceived to answer the Interrogatories for that his said answere was so expunged and the Not-Guilty as the foot so tied to the head without the maine body and that in the Judges owne words as the Petitioner could not in any sort take or acknowledge it now for other then the Judges owne answere as may appeare upon Record in the same Court Neverthelesse the Court taking the same information Pro-confesso and refusing to admit a copie of the Petitioners own true answer as also of his reasons of not answering the Interrogatories both which at his Censure he tendred to the Court desiring they might bee then and there publikely read the 14. of June 13. Caroli Regis proceeded to censure wherby your Petitioner was censured in a Fine of 5000. li. to his Majesty To be deprived of his ecclesiastical benefice degraded from his Ministeriall function and degrees in the Vniversity and ordered to be set on the Pillory where both his ears were to be cut off confined to perpetual close imprisonment in Lancaster Castle debarred the accesse of his wife or any other to come to him but onely his Keeper and denied the use of penne inke and paper All which except the Fine was executed accordingly And after his close imprisonment for twelve weekes in the common Gaole in the said Castle hee was by what extrajudicial order he knows not transported by the conduct of one Brian Burton appointed by the High Sheriffe of Lancaster who used your Petitioner very basely and deceitfully in that his transportation which was in the Winter season through dangerous seas to the apparant hazzard both of his health and life to the said Castle of Garnsey where hee hath remained a close prisoner and exile almost three whole yeares his wife utterly prohibited upon paine of imprisonement to set her foote upon any part of the Iland where shee might but enquire how her husband did contrary to the Lawes of God and the liberties of this Kingdome May it therefore please this Honourable House to take the Petitioners sad cause into consideration and for the better manifestation of his grievance in this cause to assign him for Counsel Master Serjeant Atkins Master Tomlins and Master Gurdon to assist him in his cause and to command that hee may take out such copies Gratis out of the said severall Courts as doe or may concerne his said cause And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall daily pray for your prosperities HENRY BURTON TO THE HONOVRABLE The Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of Parliament The humble Petition of John Bastwicke Doctor in Physicke lately retained close Prisoner and Exile in the Island of SYLLY Most humbly sheweth THat your Petitioner having about sixe yeares since set out a Booke in Latine called Elenchus Religionis Papisticae with an Addition thereunto called Flagellum Pontificis Episcoporum Latialium being thereunto provoked by one Richard