FRiend, I desire thee to consider that this Gentleman is now entring the Lists, to combate for thy Native Liberties, and if he suffer in this encounter, not only he, but thou, and every individual Englishman, especially the Citizens of London, are, and shall be, by the same rule, destroyed, (contrary to Law), by the Arbitrary Decrees of ambitious men in power; for if the Law cannot protect one, it cannot protect another; and if you suffer the Law to be destroyed, lust will become a lawgiver; and the dictates of the depraved wills of men in power shall be forced as a rule for you to observe, and then you will neither know certainty, nor safety: Sir John claims nothing but a Legal Tryal, by a Jury of his equals in the Ordinary Courts of Justice, which (being a Commoner) he may justly challenge (by vertue of the Great Charter, and thirty five other Statutes) as his birth-right; but contrary to Law or Equity the Lords do assume to themselves a power over him a Commoner, and do intend to try him in a criminal case in their House with their doors shut, where he shall neither have Judge or Jury, but themselves, and they are both Accusers and Judges; and in order thereunto have commanded the Lieutenant of the Tower to carry him before them on Wednesday, being the nineteenth of April instant: Therefore if thou hast any love to Freedom, and wouldst not, by thy silence, become accessary to the destruction of that Law, which will, if defended and preserved, protect thee, on the like occasion, from the malice of ambitious men, find out some speedy way, not only to encourage this Gentleman by thy appearance for him in this his wor­thy undertaking, but also by testifying thy dislike of such proceedings, as tending to the utter subversion of all Law, and destruction of the Liberty and Property of every individual Englishman.