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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

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

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

the People of God for Bond men and Bond women unto you But are there not with you even with you sinnes against the Lord your God And because we have not from the first sought the Lord after a due order and in the true practice and faithfull execution of Justice Judgement and mercy Therefore hath the Lord God made this breach upon us as at this day to the Kingdomes woe The neglect of Justice Judgment and mercie and the practise of the contrary by the Israelites informed the Lord to become an enemy unto them to swallow them up by his judgments of Plague Pestilence Famine and the Sword and also to destroy all their strong holds and places of habytation in the Land and to increase unto them Mourning Lamentation and Woe and can we who are guilty of the same transgressions if not more being but wild branches of that Olive tree presume to receive more favours from the hand of that most just God then those his peculiar chosen people the Israelites Certainly no For what measure ye mete unto the poor afflicted and oppressed shall be measured to you again Oh that there were some just Jehoshaphat to give som speedy and strict charge for the due execution of justice between man and man in a free current without respect of persons and without the taking of Fees Gifts alias Bribes and otherwise stiled New-years gifts The 2 d. of Chron. 19.5 6 7 9.10 verses Or that there were in that honourable Assembly some undaunted zealous Nehemiah to stand up for the birth-right and just liberty of his brethren according to the true intent of his being called to that place of trust to inforce justice to take its free current without respect of persons or the wages of Balaam in despight of all wicked abhominable opposers of the same Nehem. 5.5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. verses And I wish also from my heart that the 58 and 59. Chapters of Isaiah the 58. Psalme the 6. of Jeremiah and the 22. of Ezekiel were truly looked into piously considered and well weighed by all the Inhabitants of the Land from the highest euen to the lowest of them and that they might open their mouthes in the cause of the oppressed and such as are appointed by cruelty and tyranny for destruction that they might open their mouthes and judge righteousnesse and plead the cause of the poor and needy I will say no more for this present but onely from my poor oppressed and afflicted soul most earnestly and uncessantly wish and pray for the prosperity of Sion and the peace and flourishing state of this Kingdome Beseeching you also in the bowels of compassion to think upon your afflicted oppressed and long-imprisoned Brethren to cast your eyes upon these inclosed papers Intituled An Appeal to Heaven and the other called A Declaration and appeal to all the free-born People of England and then as the Lord shall direct you to prove a Moses for our delivery out of this Egyptian bondage of unjust imprisonment which is the most earnest and humble sute of him who is and will be Your assured friend in the Lord to serve you in what he may to his power JAMES FRES● From my chamber of close imprisonment in the Fleet since the 11 of Febr. 1645. contrary to the Subjects liberty and the Parliaments own vote in the ease of Sir Rich. Wiseman and others complaining of their close imprisonment in the year 1641. this 〈◊〉 of April 1646. Woe unto that Kingdome and people where the wicked walke on every side without controul and the vilest men are exalted to places of eminencie and trust Isai 10.1 2 3 4. that they may oppresse and do violence with both hands yea that they may the more effectually exercise their cruel tyranny of injustice and oppression without let or hindrance upon the poore the needy the afflicted oppressed and long imprisoned in especiall upon such as honour love and feare God and most earnestly wish the peace and prosperity of this Kingdome some such as these have been brought to most untimely ends by Jaylor and their substitutes others quite lamed by their Iron fetters others of them have surfered unjustly most cruel and heavie afflictions in severall prison houses and denns of cruelty from some eminently supports Jaylors and their cruel substitutes yet hitherto none of these oppressed Christians have been righted but rather discouraged from seeking any redresse their severall Articles exibited against Jaylors extreamly slighted and themselves still exposed to the inhumane rage and unlimited crueltie of these Jaylors and their hellish substitutes to be by them if not murthered yet beaten abused reviled daily and starved to death and decreppit by Irons for instance the prisons of the Kings Bench the Fleete and Newgate Behould they tread upon the poore they afflict the needy they murther the innocent and crush the prisoners under their feet before the face of the most high not regarding the Lord of Hosts nor his Power nor his Justice nor his Judgements although he hath divided them in setting the Prince against the people the Father against the Sonne and one friend against another and hath set the sword as a destroyer of them all yet they still provoke the Lord of Hosts the God of Justice unto wrath and indignation against themselves by neglecting the due execution of Justice Judgements and mercy in a free current without respect of persons and the wages of Balaam intituled Fees Nowyeers-gifts and Bribes It seemeth 〈◊〉 Riddle not only to me but also to many thousands in the Kingdome that the greatest Contest betweene King and Parliament being for the Liberty of the subiect and hath been the cause of so much efusian of Christion blood for almost 5. yeers together the Peers of the Realme constantly enjoying the same and yet the commonalty hitherto most unjustly debarred of the same and still inslaved as formerly unto the arbitrary will and power of a few mercinarie Lawyers whose profession and gayne inslaves them to the will and disposition of the very worst and skum of men and women and ingages them as hirelings to maintaine their cause at any barre of justice so called for the price of iniquity I meane for their fee of ten or twenty shillings be the cause never so bace and unjust so by them mayntained It is therefore to be considered whether it be agreeable to justice and the freedome and prosperity of this Nacion that the prosperity and flourishing state of a few Lawyers Atturneys Jaylours and their adherents should be preserved before the just liberty peace and well being of this whole Nation and their posterities and whether it savour of Christianity or any Charity to inslave your brethren to their works and unjust wills to coope them up as a bird in a cage in your prison houses and not to provide for their subsistence there or for their determinate time of delivery from thence but expose them to the oppression of their

evell with both hands For they lye in wayte for blood they haunt their Brethren with the net of cruelty and oppression The best of them is as a Briar or as a Thorny hedge unto his poore afflicted Brother And if it be not so now who will make me a lyer and make this my speech nothing worth J●be 24 25. For thus saith the Lord who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of men that shall die and the Sons of men which shall be made as Grasse and forgettest the Lord thy maker because of the fury of the oppressour as if he were ready to destroy Feare not the reproach of men be not dismaid at their lookes neither be afraid of their revilings for the Moth and the Worm shall eat them horrer coufusion and eternall destruction shall take hold of them And where then is the fury of the oppressour I am he that comfort thee for I am a just and a righteous God who bring Princes to nothing and make all the Judges of the Earth as vanity Therefore fear not man whose breath is in his Nosthrils for wherein is he to be accompted of Behold I the Lord execute Righteousnesse and Judgement for all that be oppressed Therefore be not afraid of their faces nor of their haughty and proud looks for I am with thee Imprisonment may be compared to Hell Where punishment among them shall excell And Hels musick is to curse and swear And ban their wicked friends so do they there As they in Hell shall daily howl and cry For to obtain some ease or liberty So men in prison daily make complaint How they with grief and hunger pine and faint And are tormented by the Jaylors still With iron fetters abused at their will Yet these unto Delinquents Traytors Papists Knaves Yeild liberty give moneys onely make us slaves That loyall are no Enemies to th' state This is our lot this is our cruell fate And fruits we reap for our fidelity From these vile imphs of all disloyalty Who most of them being none other then Fiends of hell walking in shapes of men Acting Belzebubs pleasure on us all That are their captives lying in Bonds and thrall Yet we these five years past no right can have Though we the same full oft with tears did crave Of King and Parliament to grant but that Which they themselves full oft have sworn flat For to maintain the liberties and right Of free-born Subjects and thereto have plight Their faith their covenant and their Protestation Yet for all this we still reap molestation Anguish and sorrow afflicts our hearts and will Cruelty of Jaylors doth torment us still If Lawes if oathes if vowes if Protestation If covenant with God produce such reformation Then Judges Lawyers Atturneys Jaylors all This Kingdomes glory unto your lot must fall Then Bribes and Fees all Hellish gain Shall flourish to the peoples pain And sorrow grief and misery Shall still possesse the Commonalty For justice judgement and mercy Are grounded on true piety But want of justice in this land Hath brought on all Gods heavie hand Be carefull then suppresse the Imphes make sure Your Rights and Liberties may still endure To future ages posterity then may Have cause to blesse your memories for aye For God is God of Unity of Love and Peace alone But these men for deceit and strife the like of them there 's none Probatum est For whatsoever is not of God is from the Divell But injustice contention and the instruments of the same Oppression Bribery imprisonment of men unjustly starving and murthering of men in Goal are not from God Therefore from the Divell And whosoever doth them doth the will of his father the Divell for he is a murtherer from the beginning and the grand Enemy to Justice Love Mercy and Peace Therefore if we be of God we must then do the works of God and manifest the fruits of the same And these are the works of God To execute justice and judgement to shew mercy to relieve the Widdow the fatherlesse and the stranger and to let the oppressed go free Let us therefore now at the last by suppressing of Contention Injustice Tyranny and Oppression and the wicked instruments of the same And by a speedy administration of justice judgement and mercy try the Lord our God and see if the Lord will not forthwith powr down his mercies on us withdraw his present judgements of Devision Sword and Plague from us and heal the Land and so become a father of mercies a God of comfort and consolation unto us and our posterity after us It is to be wished that the Lawes of England favoured of as much justice and mercy and were but as truly executed without respect of persons as the Lawes of some Forraign Nations are that there were some honest men appointed for the Visitation of Prisons every first Munday in the Month for to restrain the cruelty of Jaylours and to know the causes of mens Imprisonment To whom the prisoner declaring himself by Petition declares the reall value of his estate and as in the presence of God affirms the contents of his Petition to be the whole truth unto which the Commissioners then subscribe Let the Creditors see this Petition and by the next Visitation day either disprove the contents thereof or else the Petitioner to be set free upon the assignement of the two third parts of the said declared Estate unto them In the mean time the Creditors or party imprisoning the Debtor are to take care for his subsistence in Goal and to discharge all just Prison fees And if the Creditor happen to disprove the said Debtors Petition before the said Commissioners and prove that he hath concealed some part of his estate then for a punishment to such a deceiver his whole estate is by the said Commissioners assigned to the Creditors and both he his wife and children deprived of their third part of the same and the said fraudulent Debtor is then also adjudged to stand in the Pillory and a hole punched or bored through his ear But upon the Debtors discovery of his whole estate be it more or lesse really and truly then the Commissioners do forthwith assigne two third parts of the said estate to the Creditors and the other part thereof unto the said Debtor for and towards the future subsistence of himself and his wife and education of his children And further that if any Debtor do of purpose take up goods monies with an intent to defraud and take a prisoner as his surety by assigning over in trust the said estate to some of his friends this being proved then the said Commissioners have power to assigne all the said estate unto the Creditors prohibiting by proclamation all persons from paying or delivering unto the said cheating Debtor any monies goods or Lands or to any other persons for his use but only unto the Creditors And the said Cheator or fraudulent Debtor is then also adjudged to stand three hours in the Pillory and to have then both his Nosthrils slit up by the common Hangman or some base Hounds-Cut Such a course as this truly and justly put in execution here in England would soon increase the number of honest men and produce if not inforce honest and plainer dealing from and amongst all men and it would also destroy the great number of Deceivers Oppressors Extortioners and Gentlemen-cheaters as well as common-Cheaters and all Knights of the Post common Bail-men and all such cunny-catching deceitfull companions The opening of this gap I doubt not will draw upon me the rage and malice if not the curse of all Knights and Gentlemen Jaylours and their Substitutes as also the revengefull fury of some evill-minded Lawyers Atturneys Clarkes Soliciters Sergeants and Bumbayliffes From whose Milles by this meanes the great gainfull waters of contention fraud injustice and oppression will be dreyned dry theit deceitfull craft fall to the ground and their Goddesse Diana quite drowned in the Sea of Englands Peace and Tranquility Truth from Injustice may hap to reap some Blame Yet truth shall stand Injustice shall reap the shame FINIS Gentle Reader I Pray thee to accept of this small Treatise for the present and if this unjust bondage of Imprisonment be any longer continued upon the Commonalty of this Land then expect a more larger Relation and Declaration of the many severall oppressions indirect practises and abuses of the severall Courts and Committees as also of the severall murthers and cruelties by Jaylors committed on prisoners when where on whom and by whom so farre forth as God shall enable me and give me life and health In the mean time I remain thine and the Kingdomes friend and well-wisher and a professed Enemy to all instruments of Injustice Tyranny and Oppression For the Lord upholdeth my soul he even the God of Justice Judgement and Mercy is on my side and taketh my part against all those that seek to destroy my soul Therefore will I not fear what man can do unto me FAREWELL This year of Hope 1646.