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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69827	An account of Robert Crosfeild's proceedings in the House of Lords, the last session, and this session of Parliament wherein will appear the present miserable state and condition of the nation, by the open violating and invading of the law and liberty of the subject : humbly presented to the consideration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1692 (1692)	Wing C7240; ESTC R8024	9,466	10

in the aforemention'd manner their Report whenever they make it will appear to their shame and so your Petitioner humbly Conceives it naturally follows they will never obey the present order of this most Honourable House which has already been fifteen days unanswer'd so as to make a Report of these matters willingly but Endeavour by all means possible to Evade and delay it this Session of Parliament also under diverse specious pretences of other more Important business For preventing of which and for that your Petitioner humbly Conceives the distresses and danger that the publick lies under is very great by reason of the violent perverting and obstructing of Justice and for that the adversaries have no way to withstand a Legal hearing of these Notorious matters but by the aforesaid method of delays Your Petitioner does therefore most humbly pray your Lordships to appoint a Committee to hear and Examine the Articles and Allegations in his late Petition who in the mean time that the Commissioners of Accounts may delay their Report shall have diverse Ennormous Crimes prov'd before their Lordships that were never before the said Commissioners of Accounts And your Petitioner shall ever Pray c. Robert Crosfeild This Petition Enclos'd in the aforesaid Letter was deliver'd by the Usher of the Black-Rod to Sir George Treby and I expecting his Lordship would have mov'd the house therein as my Lord Keeper had done before I attended that day but heard nothing of it Then I came to the House the next morning and understood from one of the Clerks of the Parliament whose name I think is Walker That Sir George Treby had given my Letter and Petition to him and told him he had nothing to do to move the House in it and that every body knew Mr. Crosfeilds business and offer'd to give my Petition back Thus all these foul Crimes that have been laying open these two Sessions of Parliament are knock'd down dead by this last Act of denial of Justice in the highest Court of Indicature which has oblig'd me to Print these Proceedings and because the matters are so notorious as hardly to be Parell'd in any Age or Nation I shall therefore crave leave to make some short Observations upon the whole And 1st observing our unaccountable Losses and Miscarriages with the great Streights into which the publick is brought to find out Mony for Carrying on the War It is matter of amazement to Consider That there should be such Coldness or rather unwillingness to Examine into that Mass of Wickedness that has been laid open which having overspread the Nation like a Leprosy has been the true Cause of all our pass'd and present miseries and must Inevitably bring us to Ruine if the Laws are not speedily put in Execution to prevent it I say 't is matter of Amazement that we should be backward to Enquire into the Cause of our Misery 2dly Our practices are not only contrary to the Rules of common Prudence and Reason but also to the practise of all other Nations It being publickly known That the French and Venetians have lately constituted Commissioners to Enquire into publick frauds as naturally concluding tho none are Complain'd of that there will be Cheats and Embezelments of the publick Mony in time of War when there is most need of frugality But we are so far from doing like them that we are unwilling to Enquire into those Notorious Miscarriages that are already laid open tho some of them have been actually prov'd over and over and the Criminals Protected and Continu'd in their Employments to this day 3dly That as my Lord Keeper Acted with much Honour and did his Duty for the publickgood in Reporting my Letter before mention'd to the House of Peers so on the contrary Sir George Treby in refusing to Read or Report my Letter or Petition to the House has only deny'd Justice and put a stop to this necessary Discovery and Contributed to protect those Criminals that ought to be brought to Justice But has also given a president to Encourage Evil Practices and Destroy the Liberty of the subject by taking away the Petition Right For if Officers and Ministers of Trust Act Corruptly and Oppress the People and there be no way to appeal from their Justice but to Parliament then such Appeal or Complaint must be by Petition But if the known Liberty and Right of Petitioning be destroy'd our Laws are Ineffectual and all great Men become Lawless none being able to bring them to answer their Crimes And if our Laws are not put in Execution they are in effect Discontinu'd and Abolish'd And if Laws be the Foundation support and upholder of Government Then whatever Government wants will or strength to assert its own Laws and bring offenders to Justice must needs be in a very weak and Tottering Condition and near a period and this ought to be matter of great sorrow to all thinking Men that wish the prosperity of their Country for however slightly it may be thought of 't is certainly a most fore and dangerous Disease and Requires a speedy and strong purge or 't will be past Cure And therefore in short if there be any Law in England to punish those hanious Crimes that I have offer'd to prove I do and shall insist on and Demand it as my Birth Right to be Speedily and Legally heard upon my Petition and Articles now lying in the House of Peers Not doubting but by their Lordships Wisdom Prudence and Moderation matters may soon be Regulated to the Happiness of the King and Kingdom Robert Crosfeild February 18th 1695 6 Publis●●● 〈◊〉 me in my entituled stice perv c. pag. * 〈…〉 〈…〉 ion and Arti 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 belong 〈◊〉 ●his ●aper * Vid. The Pe●●tion and A●ticles in th● begining of this paper * Duke of Shrewsbury Lord privy Seal Marquess of Normanby Earl of Rochester Earl of Bridgwater Earl of Stamford Earl of Malborough Earl of Monmouth Earl of Torrington Lord Cornwallis Marquess of Carmarthen Lord Cornbury Sir Richard Onslow Sir Samuel Bernadiston