To the right honourable members of the high court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of divers prisoners in the Fleet

To the right honourable members of the high court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of divers prisoners in the Fleet

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To the Right Honourable Members of the High Court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble Petition of divers Priſoners in the Fleet

To the Right Honourable Members of the High Court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The humble Petition of divers Priſoners in the Fleet

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SHEWETH:

THat your Petitioners by the oppreſſion of their cruell Adverſaries and Creditors, and pollicy of ſubtile Attorneys and Solicitors adhering to them, are upon Judgements, Executions, Contempts, and Decrees, ſurruptitiouſly obtained, moſt unjuſtly impriſoned, and that the Judges now appointed have no power upon the ſame to relieve them; ſome of which Judgements, Executions, Contempts, and Decrees are upon pretended Debts, where nothing is due, others for far greater ſums then are due, or your Petitioners able to pay, by which means they are bereft of their Eſtates, credits, and imployments, to the utter ruine of themſelves and families.

That whereas many of your Petitioners who formerly lived comfortably, and in theſe ſad times of War have been utterly undone (ſhould be the objects of Mercy and pitty) yet they find nothing but the Rigor of the Law executed upon them, to the ſatisfaction of Obdurate Creditors and miſery of your undone Petitioners.

That the remainder of the Eſtates of your poor petitioners undone as aforeſaid by judgements, Executions &c. being ſo obtained, muſt goe to ſatisfie one man onely, whereas many other conſciencions Creditors, ſome perhaps as poore as your Petitioners not having obtained that advantage muſt have no ſatisfaction.

Your Petitioners humbly pray, that the Judges appointed may have power to right and free them from the ſaid Judgements, Executions, Contempts, and Decrees, ſo unjuſtly gotten (which power given them by the ſaid Act) is abridged and taken away by the Ordinance; your Petitioners through reſtraint wanting meanes to relieve themſelves by courſe of Law, and that thoſe who have beene ruinated by Sea and Land by the ſad accidents of War, may have Equity according to conſcience, and not the rigour of Law to paſſe upon them, and that thoſe who have nothing to ſatisfie, or are willing to part with what they have, may bee diſcharged, according to the late Act as poore, and that the compaſſionate Creditor, aſwell as cruell, may have their equall proportions.

And your Petitioners ſhall ever pray, &c.

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To the right honourable members of the high court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of divers prisoners in the Fleet

Edition statement

1650

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2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A62800

ID [STC]

Wing T1608A

ID [STC]

ESTC R220694

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99832090

ID [PROQUEST]

99832090

ID [VID]

36559

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— To the right honourable members of the high court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of divers prisoners in the Fleet, England and Wales. Parliament..

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1 sheet ([1] p.)

s.n.,. [London :: 1650?]. (Date of publication conjectured by Wing.) (A petition to be released from unjust debts.) (Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.)

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