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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84911	Every mans right: or, Englands perspective-glasse. Wherein may be seen, every mans case, face, birthright, and just liberty. Whereunto is added; the copie of a letter written by a prisoner in the Fleet, unto a worthy member of the House of Commons; expressing the necessitie of justice, and the illegality of imprisonment of men for debt. Composed (primarily) for the meridian of London and VVestminster, and may prove very profitable, to inlighten the eyes of all the commons of England, in this year of our long-expected reformation, and suppressions of injustice, tyranny, and oppression, anno 1646.	Freize, James.	1646 (1646)	Wing F2197A; Thomason E340_2; ESTC R200865	10,378	18

Every mans Right or ENGLANDS PERSPECTIVE-GLASSE Wherein may be seen every mans Case Face Birth-right and just Liberty Whereunto is added The Copie of a Letter written by a Prisoner in the Fleet unto a worthy Member of the House of Commons Expressing the necessitie of Justice and the illegality of Imprisonment of men for Debt Composed primarily for the Meridian of London and VVestminster and may prove very profitable to inlighten the eyes of all the Commons of England in this year of our long-expected Reformation and Suppressions of Injustice Tyranny and Oppression Anno 1646. Prov. 21.3.7.10.15 The soul of the wicked desireth evill his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes It is joy to the just to do judgement But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity To do justice and judgement is more acceptable then sacrifice Prov. 24.23 24. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgement for he that sayeth to the wicked thou art righteous him shall the people curse and Nations shall abhorr●him Prov. 31.8 9. Therefore open thy mouth wide in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction Open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy Eccles 4.1 So I considered all the oppressions that are done and behold the Tears of such as be oppressed and they have no comforter and on the side of their oppressours there is power but the oppressed have no comforter Job 24.25 And if it be not so now who will or can make me a Liar and make my speech nothing worth Fear not the face of the mighty neither be dismayed at the looks of the haughty for their end shall be suddainly Printed Anno 1646. The Copie of a letter written unto the worthy Member of the Honourable house of Commons Mr. HENRY MARTIN Apr. the 18. Anno 1646. HONOURED SIR THe many guifts and graces displaying themselves in you and by them setting forth your zeal to Gods glory and your Native Countries welfare together with the hopes of comfort we apprehend in the restoration unto the place you possessed when the Ordinance of Parliament passed for release of prisoners for debt and others as unjustly restrained incourages me to addresse my self unto you not only in mine own particular but also for and in the behalf of all suffering imprisonment for Debt in those times in which the whole Kingdome is become Banckrupt and inforced by a strong hand to work his peace for the restoration of her Liberty Laws and Religion in its purity according to the true and only rule The Word of God Yet we poor creatures whom the Lord by his just afflicting hand hath bereft of all their estates through severall crosses and losses by Sea and Land are still afflicted imprisoned and oppressed by those who doubtlesse in their hearts conceit themselves wiser then their Creator and by that their phantastick wisdome endeavour by most cruell oppression and tyranny over their brethren like to the Alcumist to extract something out of nothing viz. Satisfaction of debts out of their Brethren who have nothing being bereft long before by the just hand of heaven Onely here is the difference The Lord after his just judgement inflicted on us did in mercy suffer us still to enjoy the liberty of our persons and thereby the future use of our endeavours for subsistence and the common ayre to breath in But these most cruel Mich. 7. ● 3 1 5 6. mercilesse unjust persecuting Nimrods have not only by that abominable Statute of Bancrupt bereft us of all the remainder of our Estates to the very covering of our nakednesse but also have most cruelly shut us up in their severall prison houses for 8. 10. 20. yeers 30. yeers together There their blood thirstie Soules like so many Cainballs feeding upon our bodies and lives thinking to extract satisfaction for their debts out of the very ruins of our poore soules and lives depriving us in these their soul-destroying houses of the very ayre by the Lord alotted in common to every Creature to breath in where our conditions is farre worse then the fellons case who commonly within 2. or 3. moneths after their Commitment to prison are by the Law either aquitted of their Imprisonment or by deprivation of life released out of their miserable sufferings whereas our misery of Imprisonment for Debt is contnued many yeeres and seldome ends but by a violent untimely or naturall deprivation of our lives in extreame misery Shall we the Inhabitants of England who professe the true Knowledge Honour Love and feare of God and the Rule of true Christian Charity prove more cruel to our Brethren and fellow Members of the same Common Wealth then Turkes and Pagans who knowes not God in a saving way or the unjust judge in the Gospel who cared neither for God nor man yet because of the poore widdowes uncessant importunity he did her justice by granting her just request God forbid farre be it from this so knowing a nation to mock God thus in slighting and neglecting him their Just and dreadfull God in these his three chiefest attributes of Mercy Judgement and Justice in stopping their eares from the hearing lamentable cries of the oppressed and becoming dumb to speak in the behalfe of the afflicted oppressed and long imprisoned or to judge their righteous cause in a free current without respect of persons and yet with greife of heart be if spoken our severall uncessant humble requests have now continued more then Five yeeres crying knocking and calling at the doores of the honourable Assembly of Parliament for Justice and Release from this our unjustly inslaved Thraldome But hither to have we reaped no fruits of our humble and just desires For their faces have been hid their eares stopped against the cryes of our afflictions so that as yet none of our oppressions and wrongfull sufferings are redressed as in duty both to God and Man they ought long since to have bin and then doubtlesse our enemies had bin long ere this time at peace with us the Land should have injoyed rest For when the wayes of men please the Lord then and not till then shall their very enemies be at peace with them For what do I require of thee O man saith the Lord but to execute Justice to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God to relieve the Widdow the Fatherlesse and the stranger and to let the oppressed and long imprisoned go free for in these things I delight saith the Lord But my soule abhoreth the wayes of wickednesse Injustice Tyrannie and Oppression The long neglect of Justice I think hath brought downe these heavie Judgements from the just hand of heaven upon this Kingdome in speciall where God and his Statutes are so cleerly known but whether they be as truly practised or not I refer to your Judgement and to the due consideration of all such as truly love and feare God For now ye purpose to keepe under

adversaries and the severall mercies cruelties of Jaylors and their cruell substitutes for many yeers or whether the inrichment of a few Lawyers Atturneys Solicitors Clarkes and Jaylors be to be preferred before the flourishing Peace and tranquility of this whole Nation and also whether it be according to Gods Law whose people we professe our selves to be that justice should not be executed nor administred unto the poore of the Land in particular nor to all in generall without the price and reward of iniquity I meane without paying to Judges Lawyers Atturneys Clarkes Jaylours their deputies and servants their severall great unjust exacting Fees Fees I say and Newyeers gifts besides Bribes for expedition and setting downe of a sause for hearing or else it may be staved off by many jugling tricks and devices of our Lawyers from being heard since the 44th yeer of Queene Elizabeths Rayne untill this present especially in the Court of Chancery where the succeeding Orders like so many vipers still eat up and devour all the preceeding Orders or that Court and one cause of 40. l. value produceth at the least 700. severall orders before it be determined and the expence of that Suite on the Plaintifs part only amount unto 2500. l. at the least these and such like causes and the severall commitments upon the same makes Lawyers and Jaylours laugh and both plaintiff and defendant to come heavily home by weeping crosse to the utter ruin of them and their posterity and at the last inforces them to sell their Lands to their Lawyers and Atturneys We reade that Samuel judged Jsrael many yeeres yet we reade not that he nor any of his Servants and subordinate Officers exacted or rceived any fees and rewards of the people for the administration of Justice or that the people were barred from pleading their causes but only by Lawyers Advocates and Atturneys or that ever there were such a generation of men or Instruments of contention knowne or appointed by Gods Law to the overthrowing of many a poore and righteous mans cause by their severall tricks and unjust devices tending meerly for their owne ends and self-advantage of private gayne although to the apparent inslaving of the Nation and ruine of the People Who but some Lawyers are for these 5. yeeres past conceived to be the only obstructors of Magna Charta in poynt of the Subjects Liberty and inslaving their persons in their severall prison-houses notwithstanding the peoples severall Remonstrances Petitions Declarations and appeales unto the honourable houses of Parliament and Commonalty of the Land and instead of reliefe their miseries have been augmented to them by the crueltie of Jaylors who are countenanced and the poore Prisoners complaints rejected and themselves discouraged from exhibiting any further complaints against them for Justice and Reliefe who but Lawyers make merchandise of Justice and confine the practise of the same unto the Latine Tongue and Pedlars French like unto the Masse Priests who in like manner confine the Service of God to the Latine Tongue that they may make merchandise of the word of God and by keeping the people in Ignorance inforce them like slaves to walke by their light as the Lawyers and Atturneys do by this Nation For their Tongues devise mischief working deceitfully because they love evill more then good contention more then Peace and lying and swearing more then to speak the truth because contention strife and debate is the only thing that brings the price of gayne Riches Honour and Preferment unto their Mill of contention and profession The Lord in mercy looke upon the deplorable afflicted oppressed and distressed Estate of this distracted Kingdome and now at the last after five yeeres expectation be pleased to open the eyes and incline the hearts of the honourable Assembly in Parliament unto the speedy and free execution and administration of Justice Judgment and Mercy in a cleere current without respect of persons or the wages of Balam that so the wrath of God may be appeased his present Judgements diverted and the poore affllicted oppressed and long imprisoned relieved and released and also inabled to reape the fruits of justice against their oppressours Psal 123.4 Psal 140.3 Psal 142.6 And the high and honourable Court of Parliament also thereby cleerly acquitted of and from the severall blemishes fastned on them not only in this Kingdome but also in other Countries for the neglect of the due administration of Justice according to expectation upon their first Summons and convening and the restoration of the Commonalty unto their just and ancient Birth-right of Liberty according to Magna Charta and the late Petition of Right ratified and confirmed by his now Majesty more then 4. yeers since I do also therefore in all humility most humbly and earnestly implore the high and Honourable Assembly Piously to consider That the miseries happening to one man at one time may redound to another man the next and that the same divine hand of power which at the first did cast us downe into the dust of reproach misery and oppression is also able at his pleasure to bring the mightiest the richest yea the proudest downe to the like dust of misery and bands of oppression Beseeching them also to consider that if any their carses were the same with us whether they then would be willing contented thus to suffer to be oppressed by the indirect practise of the Law and Tyrannie of Jaylors and their hellish Instruments To be by them close imprisoned put in Irons starved yea murthered in Goale I trowe not yea I am confident that they woud account it a great measure of cruelty inflicted on them or their posterity and have not many thousands of ancient families in this Kingdome by imprisonment been brought to utter ruine and destruction and have not I knowne divers personages nobly desended of very ancient Families in this Kingdome that have perished miserably in Goal and their misery not pittied by any nor their death no more regarded by the Jaylour nor any his Substitutes then the barking of a Dogg These things piously considered according to the Rule of Christian Charity it is then to be wished that the facred Rule of our Saviour Christ might speedily be put in practice amongst the Inhabitants of this Land from the highest to the lowest of them To do as we desire others should do to us and not like Caniballs out of meere malice and revenge and the great gayne by contention to devoure one another in prison houses that so the God of Justice Love Mercy and Peace may receive us againe to mercy and returne unto us with healing in his wings Note this vvell For behold wickednesse and oppression shall not deliver those that are given to it And there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt And because sentence against evill doers is not speedily executed therefore the hearts of the Sons of Belial is fully set in them to do