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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE
VINDICATION
OF
SEVERAL PERSONS
Committed Pri&s;oners to the TOWER, GATE-HOUSE, and other Pri&s;ons of this Nation;
Publickly reproached, as Actors or Contrivers of &s;ome horrid Plot.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Publi&s;hed by PETER GOODMAN, who continues a Vi&s;itor of Pri&s;oners, Encouraged by this following Warrant;
<Q><BIBL>Prov. 31. 8.</BIBL><HI>Open thy Mouth for the Dumb in the Cau&s;e of all &s;uch as are appointed to De&s;truction.</HI></Q></HEAD>
<P><LABEL>I.</LABEL><LB>_I Find that the Per&s;ons Impri&s;oned, having in all faithfulne&s;s publickly manife&s;ted their Peaceable Demeanors,
were (&s;ome of them) formerly, notwith&s;tanding his Maje&s;ties gracious Letter from <HI>Breda,</HI> and the Act for <HI>In|dempnity,</HI>
upon fal&s;e Informations, without &s;eeing Accu&s;er or Accu&s;ation, impri&s;oned in the <HI>Tower</HI> and el&s;ewhere,
their Hou&s;es, as ho&s;tile Enemies, by Souldiers (without Warrants) &s;earched and di&s;armed; but after very long
and chargeable Re&s;traints, were thereof di&s;charged: And whenas they, according to Ju&s;tice, might have expected
Satisfaction for the Lo&s;s of Goods and wrongful Impri&s;onment, from tho&s;e who were the Authors and occa&s;ion
thereof, the Parliament was plea&s;ed (in one Clau&s;e, in&s;erted in an Act, Intituled, <HI>An Act declaring the Sole
Right of the Militia to be in the King</HI>) to Indempnifie and &s;ave harmle&s;s all &s;uch per&s;ons, as having acted for
the Service of his Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><LABEL>II.</LABEL><LB>That the afore&s;aid Per&s;ons, hoping for the future not to have heard of any more Names or Terms of Di&s;tinction,
but expecting Protection equal with others, did again apply them&s;elves to their &s;everal Callings and Imploy|ments,
for &s;upport to them and their Families, believing their Concernments &s;o wrapt up in the General Act of <HI>Indemnity,</HI> as not to be
Di&s;armed, Reproached, or Impri&s;oned, upon any pretence, hwo &s;pecious &s;oever; which neverthele&s;s is now their Portion, when tho&s;e of the
<HI>Popi&s;h Religion,</HI> who have neither the Law, as to wearing Arms, nor Publick Promi&s;es to lay claim to, yet both in their Per&s;ons and E&s;tates are
very much Indulged, whil&s;t others remain in loath&s;om Pri&s;ons; wherein al&s;o are many other Sufferers becau&s;e of Oaths, which in their original in|&s;titution
were to di&s;cover <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> from <HI>Prote&s;tants;</HI> but now, as to the <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> are di&s;-u&s;ed, and are become a Snare to entrap all other Per&s;wa&s;ions,
who in Doctrine and Di&s;cipline are mo&s;t contrary to the <HI>Pope</HI> and his Adherents.</P>
<P><LABEL>III.</LABEL><LB>That within the moneths of <HI>October</HI> and <HI>November</HI> la&s;t, many of tho&s;e Per&s;ons were again taken from their &s;everal Habitations, by Pur&s;evants
or Me&s;&s;engers, and carried to the <HI>Tower, Gatehou&s;e,</HI> &amp;c. (the Keepers refu&s;ing to deliver Copies of the Cau&s;e of their Detainor) and not a
little wounded in their Reputations and Credits, being publickly a&s;per&s;ed, as if they, among&s;t others, were the Contrivers or Actors in &s;ome
horrid Plot, thereby rendring them and their Friends mo&s;t odiou&s;ly Infamous, both in City and Country; as if their Actions did occa&s;ion the
loading the Nation with more Taxes, and continuing of Mercinary Souldiers; Whereas in truth their Demeanors have been very inoffen&s;ive;
and for ought they, or any of their Relations yet know, they are not &s;o much as accu&s;ed of any Crime: and might they but be permitted to
&s;peak for them&s;elves, or to enjoy a Tryal according to the known ju&s;t Laws of this Nation, doubt not but they would &s;oon make known, and
vindicate their Innocency to all People, however at pre&s;ent by &s;uch A&s;per&s;ions prejudiced again&s;t them in their &s;uffering Conditions.</P>
<P><LABEL>IV.</LABEL><LB>
I al&s;o find, in the&s;e places, and in this manner, have many been continued about a quarter of a year; others, upon as &s;light pretences, have
remained above a whole year pa&s;t: And albeit the utmo&s;t endeavours of their Relations have not been wanting, &s;ome for Ten, Eleven, and
more weeks pa&s;t, by their humble Petitions to his Maje&s;ty and Council, to procure their Liberties, who are not permitted Pen, Ink or Paper,
their Friends, Atturneys, Solicitors, and dome&s;tique Servants not &s;uffered to come at them, to be directed in any manner of bu&s;ine&s;s: And al|though
&s;ome of their Conditions, as to Maintenance, be extream &s;ad, who after the lo&s;s of their E&s;tates, have (many of them) by the proceedings
afore&s;aid, been forced to expend within the&s;e Eighteen Months la&s;t pa&s;t, upon Jaylors Fees, and Charges within, and to get out of Pri&s;ons,
much more Moneys, than is now left them to maintain them&s;elves, their Wives and Children: And further to aggravate their di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Condi|tions,
again&s;t the very Law of God, Nature and Nations, their Wives are denyed the &s;ociety of their Husbands; only &s;ome of them, after
chargeable Solicitations, are permitted to &s;ee them, which is but at certain &s;ea&s;ons, and for a &s;hort time in the pre&s;ence of a Keeper; who&s;e
Afflictions are rather increa&s;ed than le&s;&s;ened, to behold their Relations under &s;uch cruel Re&s;traints.</P>
<P><LABEL>V.</LABEL><LB>
This being the Truth of their &s;ad and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Ca&s;es, I find them every way di&s;abled, by &s;peaking or writing, to &s;pread their deplorable Ca&s;es
before the Commons of <HI>England</HI> a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, the wonted Refuge of all oppre&s;&s;ed Commoners, Unle&s;s &s;ome grave Patriot, in faith|fulne&s;s
to his Country and Po&s;terity, meeting with this their <HI>Ju&s;t Vindication,</HI> will vouch&s;afe, on the behalf of the Pri&s;oners, to implore their
Relief, by &s;etting them at Liberty, without paying Fees or Chamber-Rent, repairing them for Lo&s;&s;es and Dammages &s;u&s;tained, and make Pro|vi&s;ion
to prevent &s;uch hard u&s;age and Arbitrary Proceedings for the future, That &s;o Innocent People may not be thus hurried from Pri&s;on to
Pri&s;on, but may enjoy Protection to live peaceably in the Land of their Nativity: Or, if after this long Impri&s;onment, Accu&s;ations &s;hall be pre|tended
again&s;t all, or any of them, That then a &s;peedy Tryal may be ordered to be had, agreeable to the known ju&s;t Laws of this Nation; where|in,
if any of them &s;hall be found guilty of any Plot, Con&s;piracy, or Oath of Secre&s;ie, again&s;t his Maje&s;ties Per&s;on or Government, (as lately pub|li&s;hed
in two learned Speeches) Then let never more Credit be given to the Vi&s;itor of Pri&s;oners, who aims at no other advantage but the Peace
and Welfare of the&s;e Nations.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>January the 8th, 1661.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year, 1661.</P>
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