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A55604 An appeal to each individual member of the present Parliament and army in the case of John Poyntz aliàs Morris, Mary his wife, Isabella Smith, Leonard Darby and John Harris: who by the power, policy, treacherous insinuations, and scandalous suggestions of John Brown, Clerk of the House of Lords (who have combined with one Littleton) have been illegally imprisoned in four several prisons, by vertue of the Lords order, for the space of twenty months; and by the Lords fined and sentenced, without crime, without legal hearing, without evidence; not being suffered to enjoy the benefit of law or make their lawful defence, as by law they ought. Poyntz, John, fl. 1647-1650, attributed name. aut 1648 (1648) Wing P3131C; ESTC R205396 7,693 1

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