To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and supplication of Richard Overton, prisoner in the most contemptible goale of Newgate.

To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and supplication of Richard Overton, prisoner in the most contemptible goale of Newgate.

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To the high and mighty States, the Knights and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled; (Englands legall soveraigne power) The humble Appeale and Supplication of RICHARD OVERTON, Prisoner in the most contemptible Goale of Newgate.

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To the high and mighty States, the Knights and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled; (Englands legall soveraigne power) The humble Appeale and Supplication of RICHARD OVERTON, Prisoner in the most contemptible Goale of Newgate.

Humbly sheweth;

THat whereas your prisoner under pretence of a Criminall fact being in a warlike manner brought before the House of Lords to be tried, and by them put to Answer to Interogatories concerning himselfe, both which your Petitioner humbly conceiving to bee illegall, and contrary to the naturall rights, freedomes, and properties of the free Commoners of England; confirmed to them by Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the Act for the abolishment of the Star-chamber: hee therefore was imboldened to refuse subjection to the said House, both in the one and the other, expressing his resolution before them, that he would not infringe the private rights and properties of himselfe, or of any one Commoner in particular, or the common rights and properties of this Nation in generall: for which your Petitioner was by them adjudged contemptuous, and by an order from the said House was therefore committed to the goale of Newgate, where, from the 11 of August 1646. to this present he hath lyen, and there commanded to be kept till their pleasures shalbe further signified (as a coppy of the said order hereunto annexed doth declare) which may be perpetuall if they please, and may have their Wils; for your Petitioner humbly conceiveth that thereby he is made a Prisoner to their Wils, not to the Law, except their Wils may be a Law.

Wherefore your leige Petitioner doth make his humble appeale unto this most Soveraigne House (as to the highest Court of Iudicature in the Land, wherein all the appeales thereof are to centure, and beyond which, none can be made) humbly craving (both in testimony of this acknowledgment of its legall regality, and of his due submission thereunto) that your Honours therein assembled, would take his cause (and in his, the cause of all the free Commoners of England, whom you represent, and for whom you sit) into your serious consideration and legall determination, that he may either by the mercy of the Law be repossessed of this his just liberty and freedome, and thereby the whole Commons of England of their thus unjustly (as he humbly conceiveth) usurped and invaded by the House of Lords, with due repairations of the damages susstained, or else that he may undergoe what pennalty shall in equitie by the impartiall severity fo the Law, be adjudged against him by this Honourable House, in case by them he shalbe legally found a transgressor herein.

And your Petitioner (as in duty bound) shall ever pray, &c.

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To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and supplication of Richard Overton, prisoner in the most contemptible goale of Newgate.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.

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1646

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Date

2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

ID [DLPS]

A90248

ID [STC]

Wing O634

ID [STC]

Thomason 669.f.10[91]

ID [STC]

ESTC R210627

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

99869407

ID [PROQUEST]

99869407

ID [VID]

162624

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— To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and supplication of Richard Overton, prisoner in the most contemptible goale of Newgate., Overton, Richard, fl. 1646..

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s.n.,. [London :: 1646]. (Imprint from Wing.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "ber 9th 1646".) (Reproduction of the original in the British Library.)

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