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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>A Salva Libertate</HI>
SENT TO
Colonell <HI>Tichburn</HI> Lieutenant of the <HI>Tower,</HI>
On <DATE>Munday, April 17. 1648.</DATE>
By Sir Iohn Gayer Knight,
Late Lord Mayor of <HI>London,</HI> now Pri&s;oner
in the TOWER, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Being occa&s;ioned by the receipt of a Paper &s;ent unto him by the
&s;aid Lieutenant, wherein the &s;aid Lieutenant was &s;eemingly anthorized to
carry him before the Lords on Wedne&s;day next, being
<DATE>the 19. of APRIL.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>To his honored Friend Colonel <HI>Tichburn</HI> Lieutenant of the Tower.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Received a Paper from you, &s;eeming to authorize you to carry my per&s;on before the
Lords, to an&s;wer to a Charge: I am con&s;trained to inform you hereby, that my per&s;on
ought not to be hurried to and fro, or di&s;turbed, at the plea&s;ure of any man, neither can
I yeeld obedience to the commands of any, which are not Legal; and therefore in ca&s;e
you intend to di&s;turb me on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> next, I expect to &s;ee a legal Warrant from &s;ome per|&s;on
or Court, which have a Juri&s;diction over me in ca&s;e of a real or &s;uppo&s;ed Crime: And I
mu&s;t acquaint you, that the Lords have no legal power to &s;ummon me to an&s;wer to any crime
whereof I am accu&s;ed or &s;u&s;pected; and therefore you mu&s;t expect to an&s;wer for what&s;oever
injury you offer to my per&s;on, and know hereby, that I &s;hall not voluntarily go from hence to
<HI>VVe&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> by vertue of the paper received, but &s;hall &s;uffer you to carry me, if you &s;hall &s;end
force which I cannot re&s;i&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From my Chamber in the <HI>Tower</HI> of <HI>London,</HI>
<DATE>the 17. of <HI>April,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Friend and Servant, <HI>John Gayer.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Publi&s;her to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P>FRiend, I de&s;ire thee to con&s;ider that this Gentleman is now entring the Li&s;ts, to combate
for thy Native Liberties, and if he &s;uffer in this encounter, not only he, but thou, and
every individual Engli&s;hman, e&s;pecially the Citizens of <HI>London,</HI> are, and &s;hall be, by the &s;ame
rule, de&s;troyed, (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 &s;uffer the Law to be
de&s;troyed, <HI>lu&s;t</HI> will become a <HI>lawgiver;</HI> and the dictates of the depraved wills of men in
power &s;hall be forced as a rule for you to ob&s;erve, and then you will neither know certainty,
nor &s;afety: Sir <HI>John</HI> claims nothing but a Legal Tryal, by a Jury of his equals in the Ordinary
Courts of Ju&s;tice, which (being a Commoner) he may ju&s;tly 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 a&s;&s;ume to them&s;elves a power over him a Commoner, and do intend to try him
in a criminal ca&s;e in their Hou&s;e with their doors &s;hut, where he &s;hall neither have Judge or
Jury, but them&s;elves, and they are both Accu&s;ers and Judges; and in order thereunto have
commanded the Lieutenant of the Tower to carry him before them on Wedne&s;day, being the
nineteenth of <HI>April</HI> in&s;tant: Therefore if thou ha&s;t any love to Freedom, and would&s;t not,
by thy &s;ilence, become acce&s;&s;ary to the de&s;truction of that Law, which will, if defended and
pre&s;erved, protect thee, on the like occa&s;ion, from the malice of ambitious men, find out &s;ome
&s;peedy way, not only to encourage this Gentleman by thy appearance for him in this his wor|thy
undertaking, but al&s;o by te&s;tifying thy di&s;like of &s;uch proceedings, as tending to the utter
&s;ubver&s;ion of all Law, and de&s;truction of the Liberty and Property of every individual
Engli&s;hman.</P>
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