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<P><HI>SECVNDA PARS,</HI> De COMPARATIS COMPARANDIS: Seu <HI>Ju&s;tificationis Regis</HI> CAROLI, <HI>comparat&egrave;, contra Parliamentum.</HI></P>
<P>Or the &s;econd part of <HI>Things compared,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>Wherein (according to the Authors promi&s;e in his fir&s;t part of this &s;ubject) is at large declared, the egregious in|ju&s;tice and oppre&s;&s;ion, arbytrarie and violent acts and practi&s;es, and the palpable violation of the Laws and Li|berties of this Nation, by certain unfaithful, wicked men in this pre&s;ent Parliament, contrary to their Covenant and Prote&s;tation, the end of their ele|ction, and the Tru&s;t by their Countries repo|&s;ed in them.</P>
<P><HI>And what&s;oever is not here accompli&s;hed, &s;hall (God willing) be fulfilled in the next.</HI></P>
<P>AMON WILBEE.</P>
<Q><BIBL>I&s;aiah 1. 23.</BIBL>
<P>Thy Princes are rebellious, and companions of Thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the Fatherle&s;s, neither doth the cau&s;e of the Widdow come before them.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Vertimur in Gyro.</BIBL>
<L>Parve nec invideo, &s;ine me liber ibis in &V;rbem:</L>
<L>Hei mihi quod Domino, non licet ire tuo.</L></Q>
<P>Printed at OXFORD, 1647.</P>
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<P>_FRiends and fellow-Commoners of England, ye may remember that in my fir&s;t part of this &s;ubject, called <HI>Prima pars de comparatis comparandis, &s;eu Iu&s;tifica|tionis Regis Caroli comparate contra Parliamentum,</HI> Page 27. of that book, I promi&s;ed (by Gods help) fir&s;t to &s;hew you how the King had made us amends, &s;o far as lay in him, for the oppre&s;&s;ions and abu&s;es we had &s;uffered by his evil in&s;tru|ments: the which I then did, as ye may there read. Then,</P>
<P>2. To manife&s;t unto you certain particular actions of inju&s;tice, fraud, oppre&s;&s;ion, and violence, of trea&s;on, breach of tru&s;t, and the u&s;ual abberrations and violation of our Laws and Liberties, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> by certain members of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and through the influence of an evil party there. The chief, Authors and Actors whereof, I then gave you in that my fir&s;t part 1 and now purpo&s;e (God willing) to pro&s;ecute in this my &s;econd. Of which prepo|&s;terous and illegitimate actions, I have already given you &s;ome te&s;timonies and examples in my fir&s;t part, and that my Treati&s;e of <HI>Plain Truth without fear or flattery:</HI> and do now determine here to dilate and further exemplifie.</P>
<P>This &s;econd part I know hath been long expected: And truly hopes and expectation of a plenary redre&s;s by publick and im|partial ju&s;tice according to the Repre&s;entations and Declarations of the Army, hath principally with-held my pen until this time, from publi&s;hing what I then promi&s;ed. But finding that ju&s;tice is &s;till driven backward, and that truth cannot yet enter, by rea&s;on that the wicked are yet in power, yea and that &s;ome of her pro|fe&s;&s;ed champions &s;eek &s;till to keep her out of dores: I could not (notwith&s;Tanding the late new thundering Ordinance) but accor|ding to my engagement to my Countrey, adventure my &s;elf once again within the li&s;t, to fulfil my word. That in horrour of the evil acts I &s;hall declare, the whole Land may yet at length as one man <HI>(vis unita fortior)</HI> &s;tir up them&s;elves to have ju&s;tice im|partially executed, upon the great and mighty, a&s;wel as the &s;mall
<PB N="2" REF="3"> and mean, and that the eminent Actors and Ob&s;tructers thereof, who &s;tand &s;till as great mountains and Oaks in the way, may be removed and hewn down, for untill this be done, there neither will nor can be any firm peace e&s;tabli&s;hed, or true judgement executed in the Land.</P>
<P>And now for the further manife&s;tation of Acts of inju&s;tice, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;ham|full iniu|&s;tice, di&s;ho|ne&s;ty, and oppre&s;&s;ion of Mr. <HI>Ro|ger Hill.</HI></NOTE> fraud, oppre&s;&s;ion and violence &amp;c. I will in&s;tance you an exam|ple of Mr <HI>Roger Hill,</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, and Chair-man of the Committee for Seque&s;trations at Haberda&s;hers Hall in London. After Lieut. Collonel <HI>Penfound Corey,</HI> Captain <HI>Henry Thornton,</HI> and others, had been long in that hard and pe|rilous &s;ervice at Lyme; they left the Gari&s;on and came to London, with other Commanders, Major <HI>Shepherd,</HI> Capt. <HI>Iames Small|peece,</HI> and one Capt. <HI>William Pea&s;e,</HI> to get &s;ome of their Arrears toward their &s;ub&s;i&s;tance. And being in exigency and di&s;tre&s;&s;e, they Petitioned the Parliament for payment of &s;ome of their pay, who commended them to the Committee of Haberda&s;hers Hall, where they obtained an Order that they &s;hould have the Moiety, or one half part, of all &s;uch Papi&s;ts and Delinquents e&s;tates as they &s;hould di&s;cover, or procure to be di&s;covered, toward the payment of their Arrears. Hereupon they agreed with Cap. <HI>Pea&s;e,</HI> an Inhabitant in Town, that he &s;hould disbur&s;e 20. pounds to fol|low the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, for payment whereof, they gave Mr <HI>Pea&s;e</HI> a bond of 40. pounds. Then did Mr <HI>Broughton</HI> of the Crowne Office, di&s;cover unto them a judgement of 460. pounds recovered in the Kings bench, again&s;t <HI>Iohn Forte&s;cue</HI> E&s;quire, and <HI>Kathrine</HI> his wife, for her recu&s;ancy; which di&s;covery, they made known to the afore&s;aid Committee, who liked well of it, and willed them to bring them a Copy of the Judgement, and there &s;hould be a Seque&s;tration made of it: wbereupon they de&s;ired the Com|mittee to commend them to &s;ome Councel, and they directed them to wait on this Mr <HI>Hill</HI> the Chair-man, who undertooke and promi&s;ed to a&s;&s;i&s;t them with directions and advice: and the next morning they went to him to his Chamber in the Temple, and offered him a Fee, which he refu&s;ed, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note and compare this, with what fol|lows.</NOTE> &s;aying, I cannot take a Fee, for I am one of the Judges in the ca&s;e. (And I wi&s;h that other his brethren in the Hou&s;e, that &s;it as Judges, did not u&s;e it.) The next day the Gentlemen carryed a copy of the Judgement to the
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Committee, who pre&s;ently made a Seque&s;tration of it: but now <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erve.</NOTE> ob&s;erve the hypocricie of this pretendingly con&s;cientious Mr <HI>Hill,</HI> who even now would not accept a Fee, becau&s;e he was a Judge in the ca&s;e. On the next day morn, (being Thur&s;day) he took a Fee of Mr <HI>Forte&s;cue,</HI> again&s;t whom the Judgement was &s;igned, and Seque&s;tration made for his wifes recu&s;ancie, and mo|ved for him at the Kings Bench barre, fal&s;ly &s;ugge&s;ting, that the Judgement was &s;urreptitiou&s;ly and illegally gotten, and thereup|on it was ordered by the Court, that the Gentlemen &s;hould &s;hew the Legallity of the Judgement, the which they did by Mr Re|corder <HI>Glyn,</HI> Mr <HI>Brad&s;haw,</HI> and Mr <HI>Rich,</HI> (to their no &s;mall charge) and this &s;hamele&s;&s;e Mr <HI>Hill,</HI> Mr <HI>Maynard,</HI> Mr <HI>Har|vey,</HI> and more, were entertained by <HI>Forte&s;cue,</HI> to argue the ca&s;e again&s;t them: (thus doe the&s;e kinde of Caterpillers, like Tinkers make work one for another, devi&s;eing nothing but to con&s;ume men by contention, for their own accur&s;ed gain) but the Judgement was confirmed, and then the Gentlemen re|pared againe to the Committee, who confirmed the Seque|&s;tration: and upon the &s;eizing of one Ma&s;ter <HI>Forte&s;cues</HI> hou|&s;es in Lincolns Inn fields, by vertue of the &s;ame, they found a letter written by Ma&s;ter <HI>Bailes</HI> the Councel, to Ma&s;ter <HI>For|te&s;cue,</HI> giving him adverti&s;ement, that if hee was Seque|&s;tered at Haberda&s;hers Hall, hee was remedile&s;&s;e; but if hee could get the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e put to common Law, he would tire out the Captains) an advice and re&s;olution I confe&s;&s;e &s;utable to a man of his Con&s;cience and Vocation) for which Mr <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> upon the back of the Letter returned him thanks for having &s;uch a care of his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but told him, he need not trouble him&s;elfe about it: <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note this.</NOTE> for his very good friend Mr. <HI>Hill</HI> had undertaken, that nothing &s;hould be done in Haberda&s;hers Hall (which ac|cordingly proved true) for the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was through <HI>Hills</HI> in|direct and inju&s;t means and practi&s;es, put by that Committee to the Committee for the Revenue, and by them to the Exchequer; where it now lies. The poor Gentlemen &s;pent in the pro&s;ecuti|on hereof above 100. pounds, and at la&s;t were utterly di&s;-ap|pointed and defeated by the inju&s;tice, oppre&s;&s;ion, and fal&s;e deal|ing of the &s;ame <HI>Hill,</HI> (who pretended at fir&s;t to be their friend, and &s;o great ju&s;tice, as not to take a Fee, becau&s;e a Judge in the
<PB N="4" REF="4"> ca&s;e.) Thus ye &s;ee ye people of England, that in&s;tead of a&s;&s;i&s;ting the&s;e well-de&s;erving gentlemen, (who had adventured their deare&s;t blood for the Parliament and the publique) to part of their Pay to buy them bread; he mo&s;t inju&s;tly (contrary to his Oath, Tru&s;t, and Duty of his place,) protected a Papi&s;t and De|linquent, brought the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed gentlemen into an expen&s;ive vex|atious &s;uit of Law, &amp; a labyrinth of trouble, even to &s;ome of their undoing. For Captain <HI>Thornton</HI> and Captain <HI>Smallpeece</HI> were afterwards (for want of the&s;e monies) both &s;ued by <HI>Pea&s;e,</HI> for the twenty pounds he disbur&s;ed in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e for them, and were laid up in Pri&s;on, upon execution for it, (to wit) Mr <HI>Thornton</HI> in the Fleet, and Mr <HI>Smallpeece</HI> in the Mar&s;hal&s;eas. Nor is it to bee doubted but he that proved him&s;elfe &s;o notoriou&s;ly di&s;hone&s;t and inju&s;t in this thing, hath been likewi&s;e in many o|thers.</P>
<P>Mr <HI>Henry Pelham</HI> of Grayes Inne, a Member of the Hou&s;e of <NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;ini|&s;ter &amp; un|iu&s;t practi|&s;es of Mr <HI>Pelham.</HI></NOTE> Commons, and one of the Committee of Lords and Commons for Seque&s;trations, one of the Judges in ca&s;es of Appeal upon Se|que&s;trations, and &s;ometimes Chair-man in ab&s;ence of Mr <HI>Samn|el Brown,</HI> another of the &s;ame &s;tamp, did u&s;ually for Fees (or ra|ther Bribes) advi&s;e and a&s;&s;i&s;t Delinquents in geting off their Se|que&s;trations: He drew their Petitions, and countenanced their Cau&s;es, for his own private Lucre and advantage, taking of &s;ome twenty, &s;ome forty &s;hillings, of &s;ome fifty, of &s;ome three pound, of &s;ome more for Fees: Are the&s;e things ju&s;t and meet, actions be|coming the Tru&s;tees of a Kingdom, men, called Senatours, Par|liament men, Judges of the &s;upreme Court of England? I am cer|tain that by the Law of the Land, no Judge of any other Court, is in any cau&s;e or ca&s;e, to receive Fee or reward, or to give coun|cel a&s;&s;i&s;tance, or advice; much le&s;&s;e then &s;ure, <HI>(a minore ad ma|jus)</HI> ought the Judges of the &s;upreme Court of the Kingdome which pre&s;cribes Lawes to, and Judges of all other Courts, to do any &s;uch thing. Yet &s;o tran&s;cendently inju&s;t is the whole Tribe of the covetuous contentious Lawyers in the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, and every where, where&s;oever any of them are in the Committees. They are the only men indeed that increa&s;e our burthens, and &s;trengthen our cords of bondage, to inrich them|&s;elves and rai&s;e their own families, who&s;e ill-gotten e&s;tates and
<PB N="5" REF="4"> contracted greatne&s;&s;e, (like the cankered wealth and glory of the Citizens and Clergy) may be ob&s;erved &s;eldome to continue (I am &s;ure not in their &s;plendour) unto the third heir. And here give me leave to deviate a little more in commendation of the Parliaments of Scotland, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">A wi&s;e provi&s;ion.</NOTE> which admit of no profe&s;&s;ed Law|yer to be a member of Parliament: but certain mo&s;t judicious in their Lawes and cu&s;tomes, are cho&s;en and appointed by the Par|liament, to give their attendance in a by roome, as our Judges and Ma&s;ters of Chancery do in the hou&s;e of Peers; to whom in any point of Law or Cu&s;tom, which is difficult, the Parliament repairs to (or calls for) for &s;olution: but no Lawyer there hath either intere&s;t in voting, or Law-making. For it mu&s;t needs be conceived that a bitter tree can yeeld nothing but bitter fruit. And it is the nature of the Salamander to love and live in the fire, the which, that it may never dy or be extingui&s;ht, is his de|&s;ire: and I would to God hat the &s;ame firie nature and di&s;po&s;ition, was not in this turbulent and Peace-troubling generation: I could wi&s;h therefore that we &s;hould rather imitate our brethren in this and &s;ome other points of their civil cu&s;toms, then become their Apes in erecting their in&s;laving Presbyterian Kirk govern|ment over our Con&s;ciences. But to returne to Mr <HI>Pelham</HI> and the re&s;t of his brethren in the hou&s;e of Commons; who &s;it as Judges, and yet will receive Fees, and be Lawyers and pleaders in the &s;ame ca&s;es. As no man can &s;erve two Ma&s;ters, &s;o the&s;e men cannot be hone&s;t and di&s;charge their tru&s;t as Judges and &s;ervants to the Kingdom, and neverthele&s;&s;e become &s;ervants and mercina|ries in the &s;ame ca&s;es, for money and reward to delinquents and offenders. No it is impo&s;&s;ible: but thus hath the Kingdom been co&s;ened and abu&s;ed, the Enemies thereof and tre&s;pa&s;&s;ers and tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ors protected and emboldened, the great and mighty though mo&s;t guilty for reward, have e&s;caped unpuni&s;hed, whereas the mean and poor man who hath not been able to give a Fee or gra|tifie, though much le&s;&s;e guilty, and more innocent; hath been grownd and cru&s;ht to peeces.</P>
<P>To the Committee for the reliefe of Gloce&s;ter, where Mr <HI>Pu|ry,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Strange deceitfull dealing by the Com|mitte for Gloce&s;ter.</NOTE> was Chair-man, there were certain Trunks of Sr <HI>Iohn Saltan|&s;talls</HI> a Delinquent, then with the King at Oxford, di&s;covered to be in the hou&s;e of one Mr <HI>Wheeler</HI> a Parliament man (the which
<PB N="6" REF="5"> Mr <HI>Wheeler</HI> if he had been true to his tru&s;t, ought him&s;elfe to have di&s;covered) in which Trunks among&s;t many other things of va|lue, there was found a bond made from one Mr <HI>Say</HI> of Kent, Mr <HI>Sands,</HI> and Mr <HI>Sands,</HI> of 1000. l. penaltie, for the payment of five hundred pounds, which had been &s;o many years due, as that the debt and intere&s;t thereupon accrued, amounted to above nine hundered pounds: Mr <HI>Say</HI> was a re&s;pon&s;ible man, and well able to pay: but Mr <HI>Iohn Stephens</HI> one of this Committee, and a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, was indebted to this Ma&s;ter <HI>Say,</HI> fifty pounds, &s;o that the Committee compoun|ded this debt with <HI>Say,</HI> for fifty pounds onely that ever was taken notice of, and how the re&s;t was di&s;po&s;ed or determined of, is yet unknown. <HI>Say</HI> had a Relea&s;e from the Bond, the which is a bar in Law to both the <HI>Sand&s;es.</HI> by which means, neither the com|mon wealth nor the Owner of the debt had any benefit of it, but were both defrauded. And yet the &s;eizure was made for the u&s;e of the publique, and at that time was the Gari&s;on of Gloce&s;ter di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed for want of monies: but I have ever ob&s;erved that this kinde of men did ever prefer their own ends, were they never &s;o unrea&s;onable and unju&s;t, before the nece&s;&s;ities of the publique, were they never &s;o great and urgent, propounding alway the ur|gency of the publique nece&s;&s;ities, principally to get the Countries monies to fill their own pur&s;es. There have been too many &s;uch examples as this, to the dolefull defrauding of the publique, and de&s;troying of the &s;ubject. Here in this perticular there was no le&s;&s;e then eight hundred pounds &s;wallowed at once, for (as I re|member) by the Ordinance no Committee hath power to com|pound for any debt; and I am not &s;o &s;tupid, nor is my faith &s;o weak, as to beleeve a Parliament man &s;o charitable to any, or &s;o farre out of love with mony as to remit eight hundred pounds where it is to be had.</P>
<P>I could tell you of &s;uch another peece of ju&s;tice done through the means of Serjeant <HI>Wylde,</HI> upon the Seque&s;tration of ten thou|&s;and pounds of the Lord <HI>Byrons,</HI> in Sr <HI>Iohn Stonyers</HI> hands; but I will not here be too tedious, and therefore I will referre it to an|other <NOTE PLACE="marg">Here fol|lows Mr <HI>Miles Corhet</HI> his iniu|&s;tice and breach of tru&s;t.</NOTE> time and place.</P>
<P>There was one <HI>Thomas Auger</HI> a Cannonier of the Kings ap|prehended in London, and brought before the Committee for Ex|aminations,
<PB N="7" REF="5"> whereof Mr <HI>Corbett</HI> was then Chair-man; where it was proved that <HI>Auger</HI> had confe&s;&s;ed he had once kindled a fire in London, which took not effect as he expected, and that hee &s;aid He hoped before &s;uch a time, to kindle a greater fire, and more effectual, in the City. Neverthele&s;&s;e Mr <HI>Corbett</HI> di&s;char|ged him, contrary to the duty of his place, the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in him and the Covenant.</P>
<P>Whereas the Lords and Commons by three &s;everall Declara|tions, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Miles Corbet</HI> his iniu&s;tice double dealing and ob|&s;truction of Iu|&s;tice.</NOTE> the fir&s;t on <HI>Ian.</HI> 21. 1642. the &s;econd on <HI>April</HI> 18. 1643. the third on <HI>May</HI> 30. 1643. upon his Maje&s;ties Proclamations for removing the Termes to Oxford, doe among&s;t other things <HI>Declare and Order that no Iudgement, Decree, Order or Pro|ceedings what&s;oever, which &s;hould be given, made, or had, by or in, any of the Kings Courts &s;o removed out of their u&s;ual places</HI> (the u&s;uall place for keeping whereof was at We&s;tmin&s;ter,) <HI>&s;hould binde any per&s;on that &s;hould or might be concerned therein, with|out his own voluntary con&s;ent, and that they the &s;aid Lords and Commons, would by the authority of both Hou&s;es of Parliament protect and keep indempnified all Iudges, Officers and other per&s;ons, from any dammage or inconvenience that &s;hould or might happen to them for yeelding obedience to the &s;aid Ordinance.</HI></P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all which &s;everall Ordinances, One Sr <HI>Ste|phen Scott</HI> plantiff in an unju&s;t and fal&s;e bill exhibited by him, in Chancery, again&s;t one <HI>Georger Morgan,</HI> to which Mr <HI>Morgan</HI> put in a plea and Demurrer which was never over-ruled; went afterwards to Oxford, and obtained an Order from the Lord <HI>Lit|tleton,</HI> then Lord Keeper, for decreeing the matter again&s;t <HI>Mor|gan,</HI> and it was accordingly done, to the value of two thou&s;and pounds: and the decree afterwards inju&s;tly &s;ealed at We&s;tmin&s;ter by <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Prideaux</HI> his iniu&s;tice: but of him more at large in another place.</NOTE> Mr <HI>Prideaux,</HI> without hearing the matter or merrits of the cau&s;e: upon which unju&s;t decree, &s;o illegally and unju&s;tly obtain|ed and &s;ealed, Mr <HI>Morgan</HI> now lyeth pri&s;oner in the Fleet. Which Order &s;o obtained by <HI>Scott</HI> at Oxford, for pa&s;&s;ing the Decree, con|trary to the afore&s;aid Ordinances, Mr <HI>Morgan</HI> &s;hewed to Mr <HI>Cor|bett,</HI> and petitioned the Committee for Examinations &s;everall times, <HI>(Corbett</HI> being Chair-man) for Ju&s;tice and Redre&s;&s;e ac|cording to the &s;aid Ordinances, that he might be k<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">pt indempni|fied, and <HI>Scott</HI> puni&s;hed for his contempt of the Parliaments au|thority,
<PB N="8" REF="6"> and for his Delinquency: <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note this noto|rious violation of our liberties.</NOTE> But Mr <HI>Corbett</HI> would not &s;o much as &s;uffer his Petition to be read or proceeded upon, nor yeeld him any reliefe therein: yea his man &s;aid that his Ma&s;ter commanded him to burn it. So that ye may ob&s;erve, here was <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">For there is <HI>Iu|&s;titta punient, &amp; iu&s;titia re&s;uruens:</HI> &s;o <HI>a contrario.</HI></NOTE> double inju&s;tice (be&s;ides willfull ob&s;truction in the way of Ju&s;tice) fir&s;t in not puni&s;hing the Delinquent and Couremner of the Parliaments Ordinances. 2^l^y In not protecting and keeping indempnified the injured and obedient, according to the Ordinances: yet this Mi&s;creant agravated the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions of o|thers that had gone to Oxford about their Law bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and was mo&s;t au&s;tere and &s;evere again&s;t them: yea it will be proved that <HI>Scott</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mark I pray.</NOTE> confe&s;&s;ed <HI>Corbet</HI> gave him leave to go to Oxford; and it is more then probable, becau&s;e he was &s;o indulgent to him, and would not admit of any complaint again&s;t him. Now is not this a brave Parliament man? More I could &s;ay concerning this man, but I have many things concerning many to denote, of large cir|cum&s;tance and eminent con&s;equence, therefore I will now thus pretermit this man and this matter, and come to others of like nature.</P>
<P>Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham</HI> Knight, one of the corrupt Members <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;in|ghams</HI> abomina|ble iniu&s;tice, vio|lence, and op|pre&s;&s;ion practi|&s;ed again&s;t Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey,</HI> violating all law and equi|ty.</NOTE> of the Hou&s;e of Commons, having inju&s;tly and illegally got a great e&s;tate of one Mr <HI>Robert Ram&s;eys</HI> into his hands, hath by vi|olence and indirect practi&s;es to prevent his recovery of it, kept Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> pri&s;oner in the Fleet, and el&s;ewhere, above the&s;e eleven years, by vertue of a fal&s;e Decree, indirectly obtained again&s;t him by default, in the Court of Exchequer, when Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> was &s;ick in his bed, and in danger of death; and that there was no Coun|cel then there to &s;peak or plead for him: Nor was hee or any Councel for him ever heard therein. The &s;uit beeing for &s;ome profits of Lands pretended to bee e&s;cheated for want of an heir, which &s;aid lands were devi&s;ed by a Will proved by &s;ufficient witne&s;&s;es, and charged with &s;everall Annuities for 40. l. years, or &s;everall lifes, if they &s;o long lived: and the &s;aid Anmities were heretofore accordingly paid by Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey,</HI> according to the de|vice and Tenour of the Will, and intent of the Te&s;tarour, and a Decree obtained for the confirmation of them in Chancery; which Devi&s;e (as it was proved in the high Court of Chancery) &s;hould and ought to have been conveyed by the &s;aid heir unto Mr
<PB N="9" REF="6"> <HI>Ram&s;ey:</HI> But Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham,</HI> during the &s;uit, contrary to the Statute, bought the &s;aid Lands in rever&s;ion (being &s;o char|ged as afore&s;aid) of him who was heir at Law, and hath ever &s;ince kept them in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and received the whole profits thereof to his own u&s;e: (which profits were and ought to have been paid to|ward the &s;atisfying of the &s;aid Annuities.) Hereupon Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> procured a hearing of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e before a Committee of the Hou&s;e of Peers, viz. the Earl of Warwick, the Lord <HI>Say</HI> and <HI>Seal,</HI> Lord <HI>Brook,</HI> Lord <HI>Roberts,</HI> the Bishop of Durham, and the then Bi&s;hop of Lincoln, which Lords &s;eemed then very zealous for the glory of God and relief of the oppre&s;&s;ed. But <HI>quantum mutati ab illis.</HI> Who after hearing of Councel on both &s;ides, their Lord&s;hips were fully &s;atisfyed of the ju&s;tne&s;s of Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> cau&s;e: whereupon Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> Council moved for his dammage and Reparations, and they thereupon tooke three dayes to con&s;ider of it, at the end of which Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> attended without Councel (be|ing &s;o advi&s;ed by his Councel, becau&s;e he conceived it needle&s;&s;e, and the cau&s;e to be pa&s;t doubt, except only in point of Dammage and reparation) at which time nor one of the &s;aid Lords which were of the &s;aid Committee did then meet, but only the Bi&s;hop of Lincoln, who was then in a little private roome beyond the Lords hou&s;e, with the Earl of Bri&s;tol, the Earl of Dover, the Earl of Bath, the Earl of Lynd&s;ey, and the Bi&s;hop of Exon, who were all meer &s;trangers to Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> cau&s;e: before whom when Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> was called in, albeit there was no report then made in the cau&s;e, nor Vote in the Hou&s;e thereupon, or Declaration of the &s;aid Committee of Lords therein, the which there ought to have been before any further or &s;mall Order in the &s;ame. The Bi&s;hop of Lincoln in&s;tead of relieving <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> with damage and Re|paration (as by the Committee of Lords which heard his cau&s;e was i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">neded) did then by his owne extrajudiciall Order, re|command <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> again pri&s;oner to the Fleet, and ordered the &s;aid fal&s;e Decree to &s;tand good untill <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> &s;hould re|ver&s;e it by cour&s;e of Law, the which <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> hath never &s;ince been able to do, by rea&s;on of the power and wicked combination of <HI>Wal&s;ingham,</HI> with the Warden of the pri&s;on, who hath inju&s;t|ly and contrary to Law, denyed <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> liberty to go forth to pro&s;ecute his bu&s;ine&s;&s;e: and although <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> hath &s;ince
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<PB N="10" REF="8"> the afore&s;aid Order cau&s;ed Sr <HI>Tho. Wal&s;ingham</HI> to be &s;erved with a proce&s;&s;e to appear, and filed a bill of review again&s;t him, in the Court of Exchequer, to the end hee might rever&s;e his inju&s;t De|cree, yet cannot <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> proceed any further therein again&s;t him without licen&s;e from the Hou&s;e of Commons, becau&s;e he is priviledged as a member thereof, who hath &s;ince by his power and indirect practice removed the &s;aid cau&s;e from before the Lords to the Hou&s;e of Commons (conceiving him&s;elf the better a|ble to &s;helter him&s;elf there: <HI>A pure age, and a pure Parliament,</HI> when the &s;upreme Court for Ju&s;tice is made the &s;anctuary of inju|&s;tice and inju&s;t per&s;ons) and there endevoured at the Committee for Examinations to have had the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note here the vi|olence and impu|dence of this Par|liament man.</NOTE> Decree taken as it was, and not to be heard upon the merrits of the cau&s;e; and then as wicked|ly and inju&s;tly, without any cau&s;e, he pre&s;&s;ed for a Seque&s;tration of <HI>Mr Ram&s;eys</HI> office in the Court of Wards, for &s;atisfying the &s;aid Decree: and neverthele&s;&s;e he had at that in&s;tant 900. l. of Rents of <HI>Mr Ram&s;eys</HI> in his hands, which he had received with|out any right or colour for the &s;aid Lands: and the whole &s;um of mony &s;o inju&s;tly Decreed again&s;t <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> was onely 552. l. 14. s. and therefore his demand of having <HI>Mr Ram&s;es</HI> Office &s;eque&s;tered to &s;atisfie his Decree, was &s;o much the more unrea|&s;onable, and inju&s;t, and as unrea&s;onable, con&s;cientiou&s;le&s;&s;e, and inju&s;t, (for that he hath neer double, as you &s;ee the &s;um mention|ed in the decree, in his hands of <HI>Mr Ram&s;eys)</HI> is his keeping of <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> under pretence of &s;atisfying the decree &s;o long and clo&s;e a pri&s;oner as he hath been; yet &s;o palpable and gro&s;&s;e hath been the oppre&s;&s;ion and inju&s;tice of this wicked Parliament man; (and I wi&s;h he hath no fellows, but I fear it may generally be &s;po|ken of them, as the Fox &s;aid &s;ometime by his Cubs, <HI>If there be one good, there is never a bad.)</HI> And note I pray that it hath ever been the &s;tudy and endeavour of the Deceiver and Oppre&s;&s;our, not on|ly to rob and &s;poil a man of his goods and e&s;tate, but utterly to di&s;able and de&s;troy him whom he hath injured and undon, that &s;o the party oppre&s;&s;ed nor his children may ever be able, for his cru|elty and inju&s;tice to que&s;tion him, an accur&s;ed practi&s;e too famili|arly and frequently u&s;ed in the&s;e pernicious times, wherein for the mo&s;t part every man is become <HI>Homini Lupus,</HI> and that there is no love of Truth or Ju&s;tice. And although Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="8"> hath endevoured by all means po&s;&s;ible to obtain an hearing, hee never could; being alway ob&s;tructed &amp; prevented by the power, cunning, and indirect cour&s;es and contrivances of Sr <HI>Thomas Wal|&s;ingham:</HI> Nay, &s;uch hath been the unparelled malice violence and inju&s;tice of this man Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> again&s;t Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey,</HI> that after Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> was removed from the Fleet to the Kings Bench, by the knavery and means of the Warden of the Fleet and his man <HI>Revet,</HI> (that <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Revett</HI> the Clark</NOTE> Fox and wolf who hath devoured more harmle&s;&s;e Sheep then his skin and life are worth) he procured of Sr <HI>William Middleton</HI> (then Mar&s;hall of that pri&s;on) liberty to goe abroad, the which Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham</HI> taking notice of cau&s;ed him to be arre&s;ted and carried again to pri&s;on, and there without any ju&s;t cau&s;e, or lawfull authority, to be by the Warden of the Fleet, kept clo&s;e pri&s;oner in his chamber for two years &s;pace together, during which clo&s;e impri&s;onment, and by means whereof Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> had his Letters of Admini&s;tration, by vertue of which (and &s;ome certain Deeds, he had beene for 12. yeers then pa&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of lands to the value of 700. l. per annum (appertaining to the &s;ame e&s;tate <HI>Wal&s;ingham</HI> hath now of his in his hands) &s;urreptitiou&s;ly vacated in the Court of Delicates, and new ones granted to others &s;trangely, for want of liberty to go to Councel and to the Court to an&s;wer Allegations, and &s;o he hath ever &s;ince been di&s;po&s;&s;ed of the &s;aid 700. l. a yeere, and had it inju&s;tly detained from him: whereas Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> had before an&s;wered &s;ive &s;everall Bills for the &s;ame in Chancery, and four in the Prerogative Court and prevail|ed in them all, again&s;t the &s;ame per&s;ons pretenders: who before now for want of the&s;e Letters of Admini&s;tration, (which till now they could never obtain) had not the lea&s;t ground or colour of ti|tle or claim to found or commence any &s;uit at equity or Law up|on. But having now thus indirectly obtained Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> Let|ters of Admini&s;tration to be rovoked after his 12. yeers, continued Admini&s;tration and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid Lands, and them&s;elves to be admitted Admini&s;trators: they immediately by vertue and colour of their &s;urrepted Admini&s;tratour&s;hip, exhibited a Bill in Chancery again&s;t Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> concerning the &s;ame 700. l. per an|num land, which Bill Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> by rea&s;on of his clo&s;e impri|&s;onment, could never an&s;wer, nor be &s;o much as admitted to have &s;it Councel come to him to take his an&s;wer; for want whereof
<PB N="12" REF="9"> (contrary to all Law, as appears 15. <HI>H.</HI> 6. ch. 4. ju&s;tice and equity) the Bill was taken <HI>Pro confe&s;&s;o,</HI> and decreed again&s;t him to his ir|repairable dammage: notwith&s;tanding he had (as above&s;aid) an|&s;wered five &s;everall Bills before in Chancery, for the &s;ame Lands, and been Victor in all: By vertue of which la&s;t unju&s;t Decree, Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> had al&s;o &s;ome of his Trunks violently taken out of his Lodging, carried away by &s;trangers and broken open, he knoweth not by whom, nor where they be, nor what he lo&s;t: and others of his Trunks in another place, were under pretence of an Order to &s;earch for writings (which were fal&s;ly &s;worn to be there, by a &s;editious woman who followed the cau&s;e, and had a &s;hare in the profit) all of them opened and &s;earched: all which fore-menti|oned notorious detriment and de&s;truction hapning to Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> (in the revocation of the Letters of Admini&s;tration, and obtain|ing of the &s;aid la&s;t unju&s;t Decree, for want of an an&s;wer, taking a|way of his Trunks, carrying them away by force, and rifling them, to the value of 700. l. yeer land, be&s;ides what they had in the Trunks) by Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;inghams</HI> unju&s;t, illegall, barba|rous and inhumane clo&s;e impri&s;onment, and his confederacy and con&s;piracy, with the Warden of the Fleet and <HI>Revett</HI> his Clark, ought in con&s;cience, Law, and rea&s;on, to be repaired and &s;atisfy|ed, by the &s;aid Sr <HI>Thomas,</HI> the Warden, and <HI>Revett,</HI> or one of them: fora&s;much as they have all combined to de&s;troy him, as will more manife&s;tly appear in convenient time. Yet here nei|ther cea&s;ed the pro&s;ecution of inju&s;tice by this unrea&s;onable man <HI>Wal&s;ingham,</HI> again&s;t Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey,</HI> nor his &s;ufferings by rea&s;on thereof: For after all this, this re&s;tle&s;&s;e Imp <HI>Wal&s;ingham</HI> cunning|ly imployed one <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Like cau&s;e like means, and like pro&s;ecutor like in&s;trument.</NOTE> <HI>Ballard,</HI> a notorious per&s;on, eminent for re|pre&s;enting (as I am informed) in his own per&s;on five &s;everall wit|ne&s;&s;es, in five &s;everall di&s;guizes, by five &s;everall Names, in one and the &s;elf &s;ame cau&s;e in Star-chamber) to treat with Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> and compound the difference with him; the which becau&s;e Mr <HI>Ram&s;.</HI> refu&s;ed, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note &s;till the mans violence, &amp; pre&s;umption, continuation and aggravations of iniu&s;tice: yer hee is not alone, for the land &s;warmes with the like ver|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> <HI>Ballard</HI> threatned him, and &s;aid he would repent it when it was too late, and that he &s;hould &s;ee within two daies: and ac|cordingly the next morning, by a warrant indirectly obtained by Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham</HI> (and as unju&s;tly by <HI>Corbet</HI> granted) Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> was plundered (or in old Engli&s;h Robbed) of all the mo|ny he had to maintain him&s;elf and children in pri&s;on; &s;ince which
<PB N="13" REF="9"> he findeth that he had then taken from him in Gold and Silver, about 190. l. and what be&s;ides he knoweth not; of which he could never recover one penny, nor had one farthing re&s;tored to this day. Concerning which illegall Arbitrarie Order, and Act upon it, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Iniu&s;tice upon in iu&s;tice.</NOTE> Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> could never obtain a hearing, though he &s;ought it earne&s;tly. At la&s;t Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> coming unexpectedly before the Committee for Examinations, concerning Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> his iniu&s;t Decree, at &s;uch time as the Committee was not compo&s;ed and packt to Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> his minde: he was by Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> his &s;ubtilety put <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ob&s;ervation they iuggle.</NOTE> off unto another day, that he might in the interim &s;it the Committee for his purpo&s;e (as by the &s;equel appears) For when Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> appeared again before the &s;ame Committee, Mr <HI>Whi|takers</HI> (a Bird of the &s;ame feather) who was then Chair-man, in|&s;tead of hearing Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> cau&s;e, and doing him ju&s;tice, asked him why hee did not &s;atisfie that Decree? Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> de&s;ired a day to be heard upon the merrit of the cau&s;e, with Councel, and then hee &s;hould under&s;tand the cau&s;e, why hee would not perform the Decree: <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See what a con|currance here is between the&s;e 2. iniu&s;t per&s;ons Wal&s;ingham and Whitakers.</NOTE> The which <HI>Whitakers</HI> refu&s;ed, and ab&s;o|lutely refu&s;ed to hear Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> Councels therein; &s;aying hee would take the cau&s;e as he found it.</P>
<P>But lea&s;t Mr <HI>Whetakers</HI> &s;hould make a fal&s;e report upon it to the Hou&s;e (as he did in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e again&s;t Sr <HI>Iohn Lenthall</HI> and others) Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> left with him. Petition to be delivered to the Hou&s;e, with exceptions in writing again&s;t the &s;aid Decree, de&s;i|ring that he would deliver them when hee made his report upon the &s;ame, if hee made any: all which Mr <HI>Whitakers</HI> promi&s;ed faithfully to do: yet Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> doubting his performance (as he had ju&s;t cau&s;e) procured Mr. <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">im&s;ton</HI> another member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, to take a petition of his be&s;ides with him, to the Hou&s;e dayly, to bee pre&s;ented if any report was made: but in a long time there was nothing done: wherefore <HI>Mr Ram&s;ey</HI> addre&s;&s;ed him&s;elf to a &s;pecial Committee appointed by the Hou&s;e of Commons to hear grievances, in whom <HI>Mr. Ram&s;ey</HI> did <NOTE PLACE="marg">See how one knave a&s;&s;i&s;ts ano|ther to de&s;troy the innocent and pervart Iu&s;tice.</NOTE> conceive the power of the Hou&s;e did re&s;ide, and there by his Councel moved for relief, and the 7. of November was appointed for a day of hearing: But Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham</HI> did that very day in the fore-noon, when as the cau&s;e was to have been heard in the afternoon, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Notorious fal&s;|hood and iniu|&s;tice.</NOTE> procured a report to be made of it for him, by
<PB N="14" REF="10"> <HI>Mr Whitakers</HI> in the Hou&s;e of Commons, unknown to <HI>Mr Ram|&s;ey:</HI> and then <HI>Mr Whitakers</HI> mo&s;t vilely and wickedly contrary to his promi&s;e (but if oaths and Covenants will not binde men, what will?) concealed and &s;uppre&s;&s;ed <HI>Mr Ram&s;eys</HI> petition, and exceptions, purpo&s;ely to perplex and precepitate the cau&s;e: by which means Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Hou&s;e abu|&s;ed into Iniu&s;tice, by Mr Whitakers fal&s;e report. Is he not therefore pu|ni&s;hable?</NOTE> obtained an Order of the Hou&s;e for &s;atisfying the &s;aid Decree; yet was not Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> &s;o much as called thereunto, or heard therein; and thus al&s;o was his hearing before the Committee of Grievances, (which &s;hould have been that day in the afternoon) utterly prevented and made fru&s;trate: But this mi&s;creant Sr <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">St <HI>Tho.</HI> in&s;atiable|ne&s;&s;e in his op|pre&s;&s;ive &amp; iniu&s;t wayes.</NOTE> <HI>Thomas</HI> being not yet &s;atisfyed with rapine, nor glutted with inju&s;tice and oppre&s;&s;ion, thir&s;ted for Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI> office of Clark of the Liveries in the Court of Wards, as <HI>Ahab</HI> did after <HI>Naboths</HI> Vineyard, thinking (as it &s;eems) Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> had yet too much left to live on; and having hitherto failed in getting the Office &s;eque&s;tered, and wanting a device and Agent to accompli&s;h it, as <HI>Naboth</HI> did, the Devil helps him to one, and who more ready to obey illegall commands, and ex|ecute inju&s;tice, then extorting Goalers? &s;o he combines and con|trives with Mr <HI>Hopkins</HI> now Warden of the Fleet, for keeping Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> again clo&s;e pri&s;oner, alledging he had better have gi|ven the Warden 200. l. then that he &s;hould have given Mr <HI>Ram|&s;ey</HI> that one dayes liberty to go abroad. (And is it not horrid that a man mu&s;t not only be inju&s;tly ca&s;t into pri&s;on, but cruelly im|pri&s;oned within a pri&s;on, and contrary to all Law of God, Nature, and Nations, and all rule of equity and con&s;cience, be re&s;trained from going abroad to &s;ee to his e&s;tate, and &s;eeke for redre&s;&s;e? O how long &s;hall the&s;e Harpeys, the&s;e Hou&s;e Tyrants, the&s;e Men|de&s;troying Goalers, be &s;uffered thus to tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the Lawes of the Land, to the ruine and de&s;truction of the Free-born &s;ubjects, upon illegall Orders or Warrants, and upon great mens private words and commands; and which is wor&s;e (as they do dayly) to <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Witne&s;&s;e Mr <HI>Ereze</HI> and Mr <HI>Ro|bins,</HI> who are now both kept clo&s;e meerly for the Warden and <HI>Re|vets</HI> plea&s;ure.</NOTE> &s;atisfie their own wicked and inju&s;t wills and humours?) This cruel and illegall act being thus effected, and Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> (to plea|&s;ure Sr <HI>Thomas)</HI> kept up clo&s;e by the Warden, without any legall (though he &s;o pretended) Warrant or Authoritie. <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Note I be&s;eech you.</NOTE> Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> moves the Court of <HI>Wards</HI> before the Lord <HI>Say</HI> and <HI>Seal,</HI> then Ma&s;ter there, and the Atturny, for a Seque&s;tration of Mr <HI>Ram&s;eys</HI>
<PB REF="10"> office, becau&s;e he did not attend it; and yet he had &s;o contrived that Mr <HI>Ram&s;.</HI> neither could or &s;hould awend it: a damnable combinati|on and project: Vpon which motion and impious fal&s;ly pretended allegation (even as <HI>Ziba</HI> wickedly did to <HI>David</HI> again&s;t <HI>Mephibe|&s;heth</HI> (Mr <HI>Ram&s;ey</HI> was di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of his Office, and di&s;&s;eized of his Freehold by Arbitrary power and grearnes, without any Bil, Information, or Indictment preferred again&s;t him, tryall or con|viction of him, according to the Law and Cu&s;tom of the Land, contrary to the <HI>Great Charter of England, and Petition of Right,</HI> and the Liberty and priviledge of every Free born <HI>Engli&s;h man:</HI> and then was the Office conferred upon one Mr <HI>Young</HI> one of the Clarks of the Office, who did an&s;wer the profits thereof to St <HI>Thomas.</HI> And now all ye friends and Free men of England, if this Sr <HI>Thomas Wal&s;ingham</HI> and the others before named, and &s;uch as the&s;e, be meet and &s;it per&s;ons to be intru&s;ted by us, with our Lawes, Lives, and E&s;tates, and Liberties, and all that is neer and deer to us, as to our outward being and to &s;it as Parliament men, and to be Judges over us and all that is ours: Do ye judge? Ac|count for their inju&s;tice and breach of Tru&s;t; and hence for|ward be more wi&s;e and judicious in your elections, and chu&s;e not Vipers in&s;tead of Pellicans. And now if any &s;u&s;pect the truth of all this Torrent of Oppre&s;&s;ion, violence and inju&s;tice of this wor|thy Member (as they are u&s;ually called) of the Hou&s;e of Commons, Sr <HI>Th. Wal&s;.</HI> Mr <HI>Ram&s;,</HI> is ready and will when-&s;oever called upon his Corporall Oath, yea by &s;ufficient Te&s;timony, upon perill of his life, prove and ju&s;tifie it, and much more al&s;o of like nature.</P>
<P>One Mrs <HI>White,</HI> wife of Mr <HI>Ioha White,</HI> &s;ometime Secretary to <NOTE PLACE="marg">Another in&s;tance of Sr <HI>Tho. Wal&s;in|gham</HI> his arbitra|ry and iniu&s;t acti|ons.</NOTE> the Earl of Dor&s;et, who came home upon the Articles at Oxford, and was admitted to his Compo&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ion, beeing lawfully po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of her own hou&s;e in Eltham Park in Kent, upon which her hu&s;|band had expended many hundred pounds: This Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> af|ter he had by indirect practi&s;es got her husband into pri&s;on, (his trade as ye have heard with M. <HI>Ram&s;.)</HI> on the 18. of Feb. la&s;t, came with the High Sheriffe of the County, the high Con&s;table and o|thers, and by force broke open Mr. <HI>Whites</HI> Chamber dores upon her, and told her, that if &s;he would not go out of her Hou&s;e, they would turn her out, and did bid &s;ome in his company carry her out. She good Gentlewoman, both told and &s;hewed them by
<PB N="16" REF="11"> what authority &s;he was there, conceiving that that in rea&s;on would have &s;atisfyed them: Notwith&s;tanding they nailed up her dores upon her, &s;o that none with her could go out, or any come in, un|to her, and gave &s;trickt Order and command that neither &s;he nor any with her, &s;hould have any <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Good Chri&s;tian u&s;age, &amp; wel-be|fitting one that is cho&s;en a Patri|ot of his Coun|trey.</NOTE> meat, drink, or fireing, and left a guard of 6. men, armed with Swords and Muskets (which were releived every 12. or 24. hours) to watch night and day, and &s;ee his inhumane and heatheni&s;h commands fulfilled, endeavouring thereby to &s;tarve her out or her po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion: (which of them would be at half, yea any charge or trouble, yea or improve their autho|rity according to their duty, to re&s;tore a man oppre&s;&s;ed, or by force expelled, to his own?) which inju&s;t commands were by his Buf|fens &s;o &s;tricktly and exactly performed, that for 28. dayes &s;hee could not prevail <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Was not this more barbarous, then congruous to Law, or Iu|&s;tice?</NOTE> for one cup of cold water, nor &s;o much fire as would light a candle. After the&s;e 28. dayes were ended, &s;hee was permitted to receive any thing up to her by a rope, and &s;ome|times by a Ladder: but finding that &s;ome per&s;ons of honour and quality came to &s;ee her, the Ladder was taken away: and now finding they could not prevail by extremity; upon the 24. of May la&s;t, they u&s;ed down-right blowes, and about ten men with &s;words and other weapons, (by Sr <HI>Thomas</HI> his own Order yee may be &s;ure, for mauy of them were his own &s;ervants) broke o|pen the dores, which they had before nailed up, and by force of Arms, and with much in&s;olence, barbarou&s;ly dragged Mrs <HI>White</HI> and tho&s;e which were with her, out of her Hou&s;e, and expo&s;ed her to the wide world.</P>
<P>Now if force and arms in &s;uch ca&s;es, without any ju&s;t Right to a mans e&s;tate, or Legal proce&s;&s;e awarded, bee a Parliament mans means and method to maintain the Law of the Land, and the pro|priety and Liberty of the Subject (as they have prote&s;ted and de|clared) my de&s;ires &s;hall be to live rather under a Patroone in Turkey, then under the power of tho&s;e called (though fal&s;ly) Pa|trons of my Countrey; or to inhabit among&s;t the rude Savages, who have neither the knowledge of God, nor form of Law or rule of Government, rather then to abide under the power of an Engli&s;h Parliament, the which in its own pure and primitive con|&s;titution, is mo&s;t admirable and Honourable, but through the cor|ruption and accur&s;ed deprivation thereof, by tho&s;e dregs of hu|mane-kinde, is now become mo&s;t odible and counterrptible. And
<PB N="17" REF="11"> I pray you ob&s;erve, that all this mans Law and Ju&s;tice, is clo&s;e im|pri&s;onment, violence, cruelty, oppre&s;&s;ion and force, and all by rea&s;on of his power, as a Parliament man: O degenerate man! to pervert &s;o &s;acrid a power and con&s;titution: &s;uch a Senatour as he hath made him&s;elf eminent by inju&s;tice, would bee made emi|nently exemplary by Ju&s;tice. <HI>Fiat Iu&s;ticia ruat Coelum.</HI></P>
<P>I could cite you &s;uch another peece of Ju&s;tice, executed by the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Col. and Captain <HI>Purefoy,</HI> and Mr <HI>Allen.</HI></NOTE> Purefoyes in point of another mans po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion in the County of Warwick: and the like of Mr <HI>Allen</HI> a Parliament man, and a pretending Independant, again&s;t one Mr <HI>Stephen&s;on</HI> here in Lon|don; whom Mr <HI>Allen</HI> hath inju&s;tly &s;hut up pri&s;oner in the Fleet, and by force contrary to Law driven out of his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. What|&s;oever he profe&s;&s;eth, I will maintain and ju&s;tifie, he hath falcifyed his tru&s;t to the publique, and willfully done acts illegally, uncon|&s;cionable and unju&s;t, to the violation of the Lawes and de&s;tructi|on (&s;o far forth as in him lies) of our liberties and proprieties: contrary to the end of his election, the Covenant and prote&s;tation. And truly with &s;orrow of heart I &s;peak it (becau&s;e truth and true Godline&s;&s;e, and all &s;uch as are of an upright heart, &s;uffer by it:) Many of late time, becau&s;e the people called Independents have had a general repute of religious and hone&s;t, have profe&s;&s;ed them|&s;elves the &s;ame, and &s;eemed to affect and adhere to that party, whereby they have gained them&s;elves good credit and e&s;teem, but their hearts were never upright and &s;incere, nor ever had they any love of truth or ju&s;tice in them only by this means they have intere&s;&s;ed them&s;elves in good mens opinions, and obtained pla|ces and imployments of profit and power, received monies, ad|vanced their own ends and de&s;ignes, and taken occa&s;ion thereby the more colourably and &s;ecurely to act the highe&s;t Trea&s;ons, in|ju&s;tice, oppre&s;&s;ion and villany: I know what I &s;ay, and whereof I affirm; and do but wait the time when God will unmark them: &s;ome of the&s;e are already di&s;cryed and di&s;coved, and their cunning craftine&s;&s;e in their workings: the re&s;t I am certain cannot long ly hid, for the time is at hand, that will try and &s;ift them even as bran: The&s;e are wolves in &s;heeps cloathing, they look lambs, &s;peak like Innocents, walk like Foxes, but act works of darkne&s;&s;e like the devil: they dig deep to hide their Councels from the Lord, and they &s;ay no eyes &s;ees us; but God will drive their Councels head|long, and reveal their works wrought in the dark to the &s;ight of all
<PB N="26" REF="12"> men, before the Sun at Noon: Alas, the bed is too &s;hort to &s;tretch them&s;elves on, and the covering is too narrow to cover them; and what will they doe in the end, whether will they flee to hide their &s;hame? Pardon this digre&s;&s;ion, it is that the&s;e Mummers may know they walk not without notice and ob&s;er|vation; and &s;ome become the more wary and wi&s;e by a caution; though the Fool hardneth him&s;elf and goeth on to de&s;truction.</P>
<P>But as for the two la&s;t Pre&s;idents of Mr <HI>Purefoy</HI> and Mr <HI>Al|len,</HI> I will deferre to explicate and expaciate them till my third part come (which God willing &s;hall not be long:) For &s;uch a multiplicity of odious and abominable pre&s;idents and practi&s;es, I have to recite and exhibite to the Kingdoms view, that they may know where and upon whom to challenge Ju&s;tice, and to be|ware of the per&s;ons for time to come, that this my &s;econd part will not comprehend halfe; and to extend it in Volume above that which is meet, and every mans purcha&s;e, I conceive it not &s;o expedient: for I would not onely have it publi&s;hed in <HI>Gath,</HI> but declared in <HI>Askelon:</HI> and not that I glory in blazoning any mans private or per&s;onall infirmities; God forbid, farre, O ever farre bee it from mee: But the&s;e are publique ca&s;es, which require redre&s;&s;e, perpetrated again&s;t the publique, by men &s;ent and intru&s;ted by the publique, and that for their weal, not for their own, and for their pre&s;ervation, not for their de&s;tru|ction; and therefore (I hope it cannot but be by all conceived) both requi&s;ite and ju&s;t, that the publique, or parties tru&s;ting &s;hould have information of the abu&s;es and injuries done them by their tru&s;tees, that they may apply them&s;elves to means for the removing tho&s;e pe&s;ts, and ea&s;ing them&s;elves of their &s;ufferings: And how can a Ma&s;ter call his &s;ervant to an accompt, or re|claime him, if hee know not his errours? and how &s;oone and unavoidably may an unfaithfull &s;ervant, by his &s;e|cret wicked wayes, bring his Ma&s;ter unto ruine, if his Ma&s;ter have not timous notice of it? and according to the old Romane rule,
<Q><L>Non &s;cipioni, &s;ed Senatui, Non Senatui, &s;ed Reipublicae Re&s;pondenda:</L>
<L>Et ergo Rei publicae nece&s;&s;e o&s;tendenda &s;unt.</L></Q></P>
<P>But deare Countrey men and Friends, I be&s;eech you, before wee goe any further, ob&s;erve this with me; To wit, how ea&s;ie a
<PB N="2" REF="12"> thing it is, and as u&s;uall it hath been, and &s;till is; the more mi&s;er|able hath been, and &s;till is the condition of this Free-born Nati|on) for a man rich in pur&s;e, and great in power and place, to de|fraud, rob, and wrong another of his monies, lands, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|ons, and then if the party grieved do, or that hee may not que&s;tion the fact, nor take cour&s;e for his own) to ca&s;t him by inju&s;tice and violence into pri&s;on, and de&s;troy both him, and his po&s;terity after him: And truly friends, till this mon&s;trous evil be by impartiall Ju&s;tice removed, the mean and poor man of this Kingdom lives but at the mercy of his Lord and Land-lord, of the rich and man of power, although the beggar of this Land be as free born, as the King on his Throne: and the Law (which is his birth-right) be as open for him in any ca&s;e what&s;oever, as for the greate&s;t and highe&s;t Peer. The veritie of this mi&s;ery hath been too well ex|perimented, to the ruine of millions of men and their families in this wofull Land. Cea&s;e not therefore now Countrey-men, till ye have obtained a free current of Ju&s;tice, and that the good old Lawes of the Land may be truly and ju&s;tly executed, without re|&s;pect of per&s;ons. And nothing but the e&s;tabli&s;hment of this (to wit, of true ju&s;tice and judgement can &s;ecure you and your po&s;te|rities in your per&s;ons, e&s;tates, lives, and liberties: As Faith, that Cardinall Vertue is in the Government Spirituall, &s;o is this pri|mary Civil vertue of Ju&s;tice, in the Regiment temporall; it di|rects all things to a right end, it makes all publique Acts accept|able, it quells &s;welling humors, qualifies di&s;tempers, &s;ubjects the proud, encourages the humble, and &s;afely carries on the &s;hip of a State or Common wealth, not only by <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> rocks of Cjvil di&s;&s;enti|ons and di&s;contents, whence ari&s;e rebellions and wars: but al&s;o by all dyrts and &s;ands of corruption, and ill manners which u&s;e to gather, to the endangering of a State in the calmes and &s;mooth waters of peace and plenty: and to make the paralel be|tween the&s;e two eminent vertu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">s, as they &s;tand in their &s;eve|rall Spheares, a little more obvious: As Faith <HI>&s;ubdues King|doms,</HI> &s;o doth Ju&s;tice in &s;ubjecting all his Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects to a &s;weet harmony of Legall obedience: Faith &s;tops the <HI>mouth of Lions;</HI> &s;o doth Ju&s;tice, it re&s;trains all Ravenous and devour|ing Rulers; (viz.) inju&s;t Judges, Ju&s;tices, and other corrupt Officers and Mini&s;ters of State, and all Extortioners and Oppre&s;|&s;ours of the poor; all which &s;ort of Creatures are in a State
<PB N="20" REF="13"> or Common wealth, as &s;o many <HI>devouring lyons and ravenons bears,</HI> Pro. 28. 15. <HI>Faith quenches the violence of fire,</HI> &s;o doth Ju&s;tice, is quencheth the fires of In&s;urrections, Deadly fewds and revenge, (the fruits of malice) which are often kindled be|tween families, and among the people; by Faith the <HI>weake are made &s;trong, wax valiant in fight, and turne to flight the Armies of the Alien<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">s:</HI> So by Ju&s;tice the poor and mean become &s;trong, and grow couragious and valiant, for &s;o much as by this vertue, they live without fear of the rich, cruel and great man, and whole Armies of Alients are al&s;o put to flight by it, (to wit) all reign|ing, rageing mi&s;cheefs, in&s;olencies, and outrages of men are ex|pelled and bani&s;hed: in a word, <HI>By Iudgement the Land is e&s;ta|bli&s;hed,</HI> It is not my &s;aying, but Gods, pro. 29. 4. Wherefore good Friends and Fellow Commoners re&s;t not, &s;pare no paines, grudge not at co&s;t, nor neglect any opportunity, but improve and imploy all your powers and intere&s;ts, without wearine&s;&s;e, untill the King, Parliament and Army do accord and agree, to make up unto you this &s;overaigne balme, this only curing medicine of all our publique maladies, the chief Citadel and Fortre&s;&s;e again&s;t all incur&s;ions and inva&s;ions of violence, oppre&s;&s;ion and inju&s;tice. And then are we happy, yea thrice happy, and the remembrance of that Sea of blood, ma&s;&s;e of Trea&s;ure, and Hell (as I may &s;ay) of &s;ufferings, which we have lo&s;t, expended, and &s;u&s;tained, under the notion of acquiring this Cele&s;tial Gemme, but as yet have not at|tained to it, will be but as a dream to us, yea as nothing, in re&s;pect of this unvalueable vertue of Peace-&s;ecuring, Judgement, and Ju&s;tice, by which we &s;hall felicitate our &s;elves and the generati|ons after us: I have the more degre&s;&s;ed to &s;hew the excellency and nece&s;&s;ity of e&s;tabli&s;hing true Ju&s;tice and Judgement among&s;t us; becau&s;e otherwi&s;e without this, what&s;oever our Grandees and wi&s;e men (that would or &s;hould be) tell us or pretend to us, all their propounding and propo&s;ing, hawking and halting, Iame and blinde doing and dealing, will prove but as broken reeds in our &s;ides, and they Phy&s;itians of no value. <HI>He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.</HI> And &s;o I will return again to my Subject in hand. <NOTE PLACE="marg">A notorious peece of Iniu|&s;tice, done com|trary to the Law and his Oath, by Mr <HI>Glyn</HI> Recor|der of London.</NOTE></P>
<P>Take one pre&s;ident or two more of high Inju&s;tice done by Mr <HI>Glyn</HI> Recorder of London, one of the 11. accu&s;ed Members, and others Parliament men, (though never good Common-wealths-men:)
<PB N="21" REF="13"> The ca&s;e follows thus (viz.) one <HI>Thomas Scrivener</HI> &s;ometime Trumpeter to Capt. <HI>Wingate,</HI> a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons, when he went fir&s;t forth with the Earl of E&s;&s;ex to Worce&s;ter, who after the Cap. was there taken in fight, by P. <HI>Ru|pert,</HI> and carried captive to Shrewsbury, continued in the Troop, under one <HI>Thomas Evans,</HI> a Baker in Long Acre: Captain <HI>Win|gates</HI> then Livetenant (&s;ince if I mi&s;take not, made a Captain un|der Sr <HI>Sam. Luke,</HI> and afterwards &s;erved under Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> in the We&s;t, and marched with him from Worce&s;ter to a place called Ha&s;elow not far from Ere&s;ham, and there the Troop quartered: where he received orders from his Lievet. <HI>Evans</HI> to &s;ound a march to another place: the which <HI>Scrivener</HI> the Trum|peter did: and when the Troop was hor&s;ed and ready, hee had command given to &s;ound a march, and did, in obedience to his command: But the Lievetenant <HI>Evans</HI> having a de&s;igne at that in&s;tant (as him&s;elf afterwards confe&s;t) to de&s;towre the Con&s;ta|bles daughter of the Town, and perceiving the Troope was mar|ched &s;o far before, that he could not &s;tay to accompli&s;h his impi|ous purpo&s;e without danger; He was enforced to decline his &s;il|thy de&s;igne, and to ha&s;ten away after the Troope: the which he overtaking about two miles off, pre&s;ently in a fury rode up to the other Trumpeter, and &s;truck him, &s;wearing God damne me, I could finde in my heart to pi&s;toll you: but fell with much more violence upon <HI>Tho. Scrivenor,</HI> and give him many great and &s;ore blows with his thick Cane about his head and called him Rogue, and Ba&s;e Rogue; &s;aying, Who gave you command to march? The Trumpeter an&s;wered, The Cornet: whereunto the Lievtenant replyed, How dur&s;t you march without my command? and &s;o the Troope marched on to Eve&s;ham, where they quartered that night: and where (to be brief) the Trumpeters head exceed|ingly &s;welled, and hee fell pre&s;ently blinde, by rea&s;on of tho&s;e blows <HI>Evans</HI> had given him: and after hee had lain under the hands of three Chirurgions, by the &s;pace of ten dayes, or therea|bouts, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Here is plain murde. See the Statute 1. <HI>Iac.</HI> 8.</NOTE> he dyed of the &s;ame blows, his brains (as I have beene told) purging afterwards out of his no&s;e. After this, the Trumpeters wife (poor widdow) brought <HI>Evans</HI> before a Councel of War, when the Earl of E&s;&s;ex lay at Wind&s;ee, where &s;he fully proved the murder by good and &s;ufficient witne&s;&s;es, as appears by the depo|&s;itions then taken, and here Printed to the view of the world, that
<PB N="30" REF="14"> all men may &s;ee the extream inju&s;tice of this Recorder <HI>Glyn;</HI> and judge if &s;uch a Magi&s;trate de&s;erve not hanging.</P>
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<P N="1">1. <HI>Chri&s;topher Sanders</HI> &s;worn, doth affirm that hee was with <HI>Thomas Scrivener</HI> the Trumpeter &s;ome five dayes or thereabouts before he dyed, and heard him &s;ay, that Lievtenant <HI>Evans</HI> was the cau&s;e of his death, if he could not be recovered of tho&s;e blowes he received by the &s;aid <HI>Evans,</HI> upon the march from Ha&s;elow to Eve&s;ham.</P>
<P N="2">2. And further that he heard the Lievtenant &s;ay, that the cau&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg">Note I pray.</NOTE> he was &s;o offended at the afore&s;aid Trumpeter, was for leading the Troop onwards on the march: <HI>Evans</HI> as he &s;aid, having an op|pertunity to be naught with a Con&s;tables daughter in Ha&s;elow, which he had not before from his coming out of London, till that time.</P>
<P N="3">3. And further that Lieut. <HI>Evans</HI> being at &s;upper at Captain <HI>Biggs</HI> his hou&s;e, boa&s;ted what an opportunity he had at Ha&s;elow: and being asked by Mrs <HI>Biggs,</HI> what &s;atisfaction he could have gi|ven the La&s;&s;e, if &s;he had proved with childe? he replyed, that if it was a Girle, he would give it 100. l. if a boy, he would take it home, and make a Baker of him.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Iohn Burliman</HI> &s;worn, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>John Burliman</HI> Iur.</NOTE> &s;aith That in Ha&s;elow in the Con|&s;tables yard, he heard <HI>Henry Dalden,</HI> Captain <HI>Wingates</HI> Cornet, give the word of Command to the Trumpeters to &s;ound a march: and &s;o they did, and the Troop did pre&s;ently advance, and the Lievtenant &s;taid behind to dine.</P>
<P N="2">2. That after the Troop had marched &s;ome two miles, or thereabouts, the Lievtenant overtook them, and rode up to the &s;urviving Trumpeter, and &s;truck him, &s;wearing God damne him, he could finde in his heart to pi&s;toll him: and fell upon the de|cea&s;ed Trumpeter, and &s;truck him divers blows with a Cane, calling him Rogue, and ba&s;e Rogue; demanding of him, who gave him command to march? who an&s;wered that the Cornet did command him &s;o to do. And the Leivt. <HI>Evans</HI> replyed, How dur&s;t he march without his Command?</P>
<P N="3">3. The Corner did at that pre&s;ent affirm that hee had Com|mand from the Lievt. to march away with the Troop: but the Lievt. not denying that, &s;wore, How dur&s;t tho&s;e Rogues (mean|ing the Trumpeters) advance without him?</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="31" REF="14">4. That the decea&s;ed Trumpeter came to Eve&s;ham that night. and the Lievetenant asked him how he did? and he an&s;wered him, the wor&s;e for him; for he thought he had given him his death: The Lievt asked him, if he would make Oath of that? the Trum|peter replyed, that if he could not be recovered of tho&s;e blowes, he would affirm that he was the cau&s;e of his death.</P>
<P N="5">5. And further that the Lievr. had a bigg Cane in his hand, with a bra&s;&s;e ring on the end of it, with which he &s;truck <HI>Scrivener</HI> the Trumpeter a principle blow, under the li&s;t of the ear, which pre&s;ently &s;welled, and of which he was forced to keep the Cham|ber ten dayes or thereabouts, and then dyed in Eve&s;ham.</P>
<P N="6">6. And further this Deponant &s;aith, That hee vi&s;iting of him, &s;ome three dayes before his death, he heard <HI>Scrivener</HI> the Trum|peter &s;ay, that he &s;hould never recover it; and that Lievt. <HI>Evans</HI> had killed him. And he &s;aith further, that he was pre&s;ent at the time when the &s;aid Lievt. <HI>Evans</HI> &s;truck the &s;aid Trumpeter the &s;aid blow under the li&s;t of the ear. And hee further &s;aith that &s;ome four dayes after, when the &s;aid Lievt. came to &s;ee the &s;aid Trumpeter, who lay a bed very ill in Eve&s;ham. The &s;aid Lievt. asked this Deponent, how the &s;aid Trumpeter could po&s;&s;ibly come by &s;uch a blow and this Deponent replyed, that the Trum|peter turning his head might take a blow that way: whereupon the Lievt. replyed, I am heartily &s;orry for it. Vpon which <HI>Scri|vener</HI> the Trumpeter &s;aid, That will make no &s;atisfaction to my poor wife and childe. A dolefull &s;tory. This is a true coppy of the Depo&s;itions, and the matter wilbe (if cau&s;e require) proved by many more witne&s;&s;es per&s;onally.</P>
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<P>Notwith&s;tanding which manife&s;t proof: by the means of Sr <HI>Philip Stapleton</HI> decea&s;ed, and &s;ome others, (after they had wea|ried our the poor widdow with long attendance for a tryall, till all her mony was &s;pent &s;o that &s;he was forced to return to London: while &s;he was away, <HI>Evans</HI> was cleared by the Councel of War: but the widdow not cea&s;ing to pro&s;ecute, and importuning the Earl ince&s;&s;antly for Ju&s;tice, He at length referred her to the Com|mon Law, and turned <HI>Evans</HI> out of his Command. Whereupon after a long time, and much trouble and abu&s;es pa&s;&s;ed and &s;u&s;tained by her, by rea&s;on of her poverty and di&s;ability; and <HI>Evans</HI> his po|teney and refuge in the Army, who was now gotten to &s;erve un|der Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey.</HI> She after his coming home out of the
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<PB N="32" REF="17"> We&s;t, upon the disbanding of Major Generall <HI>Ma&s;&s;eys</HI> Brigade, procured fir&s;t Ju&s;tice <HI>Edwards</HI> (a Member of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons) his Warrant to apprehend him; and having thereby &s;ei|z<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d him, &s;he charged him (before the &s;aid Ju&s;tice) with killing her husband, and de&s;ired to have him committed, to the end &s;hee might pro&s;ecute the Law upon him: But Ju&s;tice <HI>Edwards</HI> did not only talk with the murderer in private (which he ought not to have done) but openly denyed the poor widdow Ju&s;tice, and &s;aid plainly, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Here is manife&s;t violation both of Law and Iu&s;tice, by Mr <HI>Edwards</HI></NOTE> that he would commit the malefactour, and did accord|ingly free him: and &s;he the day following meeting Mr <HI>Edwards</HI> in We&s;tmin&s;ter Hall, importuned him for Ju&s;tice: whereupon he thus an&s;wered Woman thou would&s;t have Ju&s;tice, and there is none. A true &s;aying, (but an impudent one, and ill becoming a Parliament-man and a publick Magi&s;trate, who&s;e place it is to do Ju&s;tice, and to redre&s;&s;e inju&s;tice) to the &s;hame of him and all &s;uch be it &s;poken.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;&s;e in confidence of better redre&s;&s;e by Mr <HI>Glyn</HI> the Recorder of London, this poore oppre&s;&s;ed widdow went unto him, and obtained his Warrant, by vertue whereof, &s;he re-appre|hended <HI>Evans:</HI> and Mr <HI>Glyn</HI> being not in the way when he was fir&s;t taken, the widdow had him before Sr <HI>Robert Pye</HI> the Elder, who would not meddle in it, becau&s;e he was taken upon the Re|corders Warrant, but referred it to him: But before the Recorder could be &s;poke with, the murderer <HI>Evans,</HI> and Mr Recorders Clark (who is &s;aid to be as good <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Trim Tram.</NOTE> as his Ma&s;ter) according to that of <HI>Solomon,</HI> Prov. 29. 12. <HI>If a Ruler hearken to lyes, all the &s;ervants are wicked,)</HI> had private communication together a long time in a Taverne (at the Gallow&s;e had beene fitter) and the Clark in this time promi&s;ed <HI>Evans</HI> to doe him all the good hee could, (I am confident not without a bribe) and afterwards when <HI>Evans</HI> was brought before the Recorder, and charged by the wid|dow with killing her husband, de&s;iring earne&s;tly to have him committed, that &s;he might pro&s;ecute the Law upon him; the Re|corder would not <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Mr Recorders manife&s;t violati|on of law and Iu|&s;tice.</NOTE> commit him, but turning him&s;elf to <HI>Evans</HI> the murderer, &s;aid to him openly, I di&s;charge you: and u&s;ed many &s;harp and taunting &s;peeches to the poore afflicted and op|pre&s;&s;ed widdow, as if &s;he had been the offender, to the murder|ers great incouragement, and her un&s;peakable di&s;comfort: and &s;he affirming that &s;he was a Free-born Subject, and did onely de|&s;ire
<PB N="33" REF="17"> the benefit of the Law, and the liberty of the Subject: The Recorder replyed, <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Can we expect that &s;uch men will e&s;tabli&s;h our Laws and Liber|ties, that will not abide to heare of them? No.</NOTE> what do&s;t thou talk to me of the benefit of the Law, and liberty of the Subject, thou peevi&s;h woman? Do I hinder thee? the Kings Bench is open, thou maie&s;t indict him. Here note, that the Recorder confe&s;&s;es &s;he might ju&s;tly take her cour&s;e at Law again&s;t <HI>Evans,</HI> and yet would not do her Ju&s;tice to commit him to &s;afe cu&s;tody, that hee might bee forth coming to an&s;wer the Law: Yea many other &s;trange di&s;-heartning &s;peeches the Recorder u&s;ed, very incongruous both to the per&s;on and place of a Mini&s;ter of Ju&s;tice: and &s;o wrath and violent was this good member again&s;t the poor woman (becau&s;e like the Go&s;pel-wid|dow) &s;he importuned for Ju&s;tice (though he was not &s;o ju&s;t as the Judge whom that poor widdow importuned) that he &s;mote off her hat in di&s;dain, and &s;aid, You had be&s;t que&s;tion mee too. And truly I think &s;he hath good cau&s;e &s;o to doe. But how impudent and pre&s;umptuous are the&s;e &s;ort of men, that they will not onely audatiou&s;ly dare to do palpable inju&s;tice, but to dare the per&s;ons wronged by them to que&s;tion them for &s;o doing? It is more then time they were cha&s;ti&s;ed. Thus this Murderer <HI>Evans</HI> went a|way acquitted, and the poor widdow was left remidile&s;&s;e, and o|pen to his rage and malice: For hereupon, hee bloudy wretch, grew &s;o in&s;olent, that hee threatned and al&s;o endeavoured to lay her up in pri&s;on, under a pretence &s;hee had &s;landered him. And &s;ince (as I have heard) he li&s;ted him&s;elf for the City, and was to have been a principall Commander under Major General <HI>Ma&s;&s;ey,</HI> in the Cities late intended de&s;parate expedition again&s;t the Army.</P>
<P>Now by the Law of the land, if a Murderer or Thief be brought <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ob&s;erve I pray.</NOTE> before a Ju&s;tice of Peace, and changed, and hee refu&s;e to commit him, being thereunto required: The Ju&s;tice makes the felony his own, and becomes an acce&s;&s;ary in the highe&s;t degree. See <HI>Stam|fords Pleas upon the Crown,</HI> lib. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. ch. 45. fol. 41. 42. 43. <HI>Fitz-Herbets. Coro. Placit,</HI> fol. 195. <HI>Bracton tract de Coro.</HI> lib. 3.</P>
<P>Ju&s;tice <HI>Long</HI> at the beginning of this Parliament was pro&s;ecu|ted in this very ca&s;e, for acquitting one <HI>Carnaby,</HI> who was brought before him and required to be committed by him, for act|ing a murder. This being the law of the land, what then I pray do the&s;e two good Ju&s;tices demerit? Indeed &s;uch Judges and Ju|&s;tices do (as I conceive) more worthyly de&s;erve death then com|mon Malefactors, for by corrupting Ju&s;tice, and ju&s;tifying the No|cent,
<PB N="34" REF="18"> they cau&s;e all manner of wickednes to abound, and encou|rage evil per&s;ons to per&s;i&s;tan their pernicious de&s;tructive cour&s;es, to the robbing, &s;poiling, and murdering of many of the Kings people.</P>
<P>This Recorder <HI>Glyn,</HI> within the&s;e twelve moneths, committed one Mr <HI>Shaw,</HI> a Citizen of note, from the Se&s;&s;ions hou&s;e, to New|gate, not admitting him <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Another violati|on of Law and Iu&s;tice by M <HI>Glyn.</HI></NOTE> to put in bail, upon pretence bee was a Common Drunkard: becau&s;e he had upon ju&s;t cau&s;e &s;ued one of his good Ma&s;ters, that hone&s;t man (that &s;hould be) Sr <HI>Iohn Wola|&s;ton,</HI> to an outlawrye.</P>
<P>But the more to aggravate this cardinall peece of inju&s;tice and violation of the law, by the&s;e two Magi&s;trates; I pray you ob&s;erve with me what is contained in the Oath of a Ju&s;tice of Peace, when he is made and &s;worn to the admini&s;tration of his Office: a|mong&s;t other heads contained in the Oath, this en&s;uing is the fir&s;t and principall, and the form is thus, (viz.) <HI>You &s;hall &s;wear, that as a Iu&s;tice of the Peace,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>In all Articles in the Kings Com|mi&s;&s;ion to you directed, you &s;hall do equal right to the poore and the rich, after your <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">But they now commonly u&s;e their power and cunning, to op|pre&s;&s;e the poore, though innocent, and to acquit the rich, though ne|ver &s;o wicked.</NOTE> cunning wit and power, and after the Lawes and Cu&s;toms of the Land, and Statutes thereof made: and you &s;hall not be of Councel of any quarrell</HI> (or controver&s;ie) <HI>hanging before you</HI> &amp;c. <HI>That you take nothing for doing your Office, but of the King, and the accu&s;tomed fees appointed by the Statutes</HI> &amp;c. with much more not &s;o needfull here to in&s;ert. But you by thus much plainly &s;ee, that all partiallity and bribery, is by the Oath exclu|ded, and by the Ju&s;tice abjured: and among&s;t the Articles in the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion, directed to Ju&s;tices, this is a principall one, (viz.) <HI>ad inquirendum de omnimodis felonis, venificijs</HI> &amp;c. to en|quire (not only of all, but) of all manner of Fellonies, (whereof Homicide is the highe&s;t) Witchcrafts, Sorceries, &amp;c. and to in|dict th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">m &amp;c. (not acquit them:) &s;o that whether the&s;e two Ju|&s;tices have kept their Oath, and faithfully di&s;charged the duty of their place, I referre to all men, and query whether they bee not worthy to be expunged their Commi&s;&s;ion, and to &s;uffer exempla|rily for violation thereof, and of the Law in &s;o high and hainous a manner, in a matter of &s;o high and hainous a nature.</P>
<P>I never heard that his Maje&s;ty ever tollerated any &s;uch act of inju&s;tice in the wor&s;t of his dayes: He would acquit no Murder|er, or pardon any willfull blood&s;hed, or murder: Nor do we hear
<PB N="35" REF="18"> that ever the wor&s;t of his publique Mini&s;ters, dur&s;t (while he was in power) &s;o tran&s;cendantly tran&s;gre&s;&s;e the Law, and their Du|ty, in an act of this nature, in &s;uch a horrid manner. Nay, I will tell you (as I have received it from right tru&s;ty per&s;ons) of a &s;pe|ciall peece of Ju&s;tice and mercy of his, during the&s;e late unhappy warres, with<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> his own Gari&s;ons, of Ju&s;tice upon the offender, of Ju&s;tice and mercy both toward the poor widdow, who&s;e husband lo&s;t his life, as the widdow <HI>Scriveners</HI> did) by his owne Com|mander.</P>
<P>There was a poor man, by calling (as I have heard) a Broom|man, <NOTE PLACE="marg">A remarkable peece of Iu&s;tice, done by the King in the behalf of a poor widdow.</NOTE> one of the Kings common &s;ouldiers, who &s;tanding Centi|nell in a Gari&s;on of the Kings; did according to his charge and duty bid a Collonell of the Kings (at his coming into the Gari|&s;on) Scand: The Collonel it &s;eems, being proud and &s;tately, took it ill and in &s;corn, and would have pa&s;&s;ed without giving an account, according to the manner of war: the which the Soul|dier refu&s;ed, and &s;tourly oppo&s;ed, an&s;wering the Collonells im|perious termes with as peremptor) &s;peeches: Hereupon the Co|lonell forthwith killed the &s;ouldier upon the place. Of which his poor wife having notice, addre&s;&s;ed her &s;elfe to the King, then at Oxford, for redre&s;&s;e: And being a poor di&s;pi&s;ed woman, with|out friends, means or habit, with &s;carce a &s;hot to her foot; the King at her fir&s;t appearing and complaint gave her 10. pounds, and Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> 5. pounds, for her reliefe. And his Maje&s;ty cau&s;ed the Colonell, notwith&s;tanding his place and power, to be apprehended, and impri&s;oned, and tryed: and had he not beene a man eminent, and made great friends, hee had beene executed. How&s;oever his Maje&s;ty enjoyned him to give the poor widdow a thou&s;and pounds in &s;atisfaction, to maintain her, before hee could be di&s;charged; and &s;he accordingly received it here in London: By means whereof, &s;he advanced her fortime, and obtained ano|ther husband within a &s;hort time following.</P>
<P>GO ye O Parliament, who have declared &s;o much for Ju&s;tice, and do for this poor widdow of yours, likewi&s;e; but ye are not &s;o good as to allow her bread. And now let all men judge, if here in this ca&s;e was not more ju&s;tice, and &s;ence of the &s;ubjects grie|vance manife&s;ted from the King, t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">en ever was yet manife&s;ted to the Kingdom from the Parliament? And thus ye &s;ee my paralell is &s;till verified.</P>
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<P>will only give you one example more of inju&s;tice, tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ion <NOTE PLACE="marg">Sr <HI>Peter Temples</HI> good payment.</NOTE> of Law, di&s;hone&s;ty and violence committed by Sr <HI>Peter Temple,</HI> another vile Member of the Parliament: and &s;o acqui|e&s;ce for this Tract, and this time. This Sr <HI>Peter Temple</HI> having run into a Corn Chandlers debt in Covent Garden, for Oats and beans for his Hor&s;es, to the &s;um of 20. pounds; the man having come to him often for his money: Sr <HI>Peter</HI> at la&s;t, appointed him to come &s;uch a day, and he would pay him, and truly &s;o hee did to the purpo&s;e: for the Chandler coming according to his appointment, Sr <HI>Peters</HI> Coachman carryed his Ma&s;ter up word: who gave command that he &s;hould come up: and the Chandler accordingly went up, expecting his mony, but was cozened as the Dog was, which thought he had been called in to breakfa&s;t, but it was to be hanged; for &s;o &s;oon as he was come up, Sr <HI>Peter</HI> ask|ed him if he would be paid? and the Chandler told him, he was come to that purpo&s;e: whereupon Sr <HI>Peter</HI> and his Coach-man fell upon him, and <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Breach of peace.</NOTE> &s;o grievou&s;ly beat him, as that hee kept his bed three or four moneths: and when Sr <HI>Peter</HI> had &s;o done, hee told him, that &s;hould be his payment, and that he was a Rogue to ask mony of a Parliament man. It &s;eems Parliament men are law|le&s;&s;e, and by their places exempt from payment of their debts: But if the&s;e be Parliament priviledges, Give me the Royall Prero|gative: for King <HI>Iames</HI> (as I have heard) obeyed an arre&s;t, and paid the debt. And to this action of Sr <HI>Peter Temples,</HI> an&s;wers that of Mr <HI>Nicholls,</HI> who having long time owed a Gentleman ten pounds, and being told by the Gentleman that hee would &s;ue him for it: he asked the Gentleman if he did not know what he was, was he not a Parliament man? As if he was therefore privi|ledged to pay nothing, but cozen every man. And if this bee the Ju&s;tice of a Parliament man, and his keeping the Law of the Land; it is better for a Commoner to tru&s;t a Jew, or a Turk, then any of them.</P>
<P>How can the&s;e men expect &s;uch exact obedience to their illegal Orders and Ordinances, when they them&s;elves will yeeld none to the known Lawes of the Realme? and indeed did they make more con&s;cience of obeying, they would have more con&s;cience in commanding: according to the old rule, <HI>Qui ne&s;cit parerene&s;cit bene imperare.</HI></P>
<P>I had purpo&s;ed to have proceeded higher; but I &s;ee that then
<PB N="37" REF="19"> this volumne would too much &s;well, for the&s;e are but mole-hills, to tho&s;e mountains, I intend to make bare: and (through the power of Heaven) although they have barracadoed them&s;elves by all po&s;&s;ible means, and by &s;ubtilty got the Army to become their Screan. I will in my third part make an on&s;let on &s;ome of the talle&s;t among them, <HI>Aquila non capit mu&s;cas:</HI> why &s;hould the little theeves &s;uffer, while the great ones &s;ecure and defend each others?</P>
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<P>Page 3. line 19. read, one of. p 3. l. 32. for 40. l. r. 40. years. p. 9. l. 31, for intneded r. intended. p. 16. l. 38, for deprivation, r. depravation. p. 17. l. 5. for hath, r. having. l. 32. for di&s;coved, r. di&s;covered. p. 27. l. 29. for dyrts, r. Syrts. p. 21. in the note, for murde, r. murder.</P>
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<P>TEN SEVERALL ORDERS TO Be put in execution by the Lord Major and Aldermen of <HI>London,</HI> for the price and &s;ale of Meale, Fle&s;h, Butter, and other Commodities; and to prevent Di&s;orders in the Markets: with the penalties to be inflicted upon every per&s;on or per&s;ons, which &s;hall not obey the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>ALSO,</HI> The coming in of twenty thou&s;and Quarters of Como and Graine. And a Li&s;t of the particulars thereof, as it is entred at the Cu&s;tome Hou&s;e.</P>
<P>And care is al&s;o taken, that every one may buy at the cheape&s;t rate, and that there be no regrating or fore|&s;talling the Markets.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>NOVEMBER,</HI> 5. 1647.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Imprimatur,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Gilb. Mabbot.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Bernard Al&s;op,</HI> dwelling neere Cripple-Gate, 1647.</P>
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<HEAD>Ten &s;everall ORDERS OF THE Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of <HI>London,</HI> for regulating the price of Meale, and other Commodities.</HEAD>
<P>THE generall dearth which of late hath beene on all &s;orts of commodities, both rich and poor are very &s;en&s;ible of, e&s;pecially on the price of corn &amp; chiefly of that which makes bread (the &s;taffe of man life) which hath not only afflicted the needy but oc|ca&s;ioned &s;unday queries from whence the cau&s;e &s;hould ari&s;e in the riche&s;t there appearing little vi&s;ible cau&s;e for the &s;ame, the earth yielding a plentifull increa&s;e in all parts, and to excu&s;e the matter &s;ome are plea&s;ed to aive their opinions, 1. That the &s;tore of the Kingdom in the time of the late warre is exhau&s;ted, 2ly. That the quartering of the Army neere this populous City was an em<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">nent cau&s;e thereof, And thirdly the great a|bu&s;e of regrating and fore&s;talling the markets was not of the lea&s;t; which was chiefly done by tho&s;e which would fain have woven them&s;elves into a neerer Cor|poration who not only &s;ore&s;talled the market and keep
<PB N="2" REF="22"> backe the Countrey people for comming in, but &s;et up meale &s;hops in every corner (a new trade out of the &s;tanding of two Apprenti&s;hipps) which being lately taken into con&s;ideration by the pre&s;ent Lord Major and Court of Aldermen they found apparent abu&s;e thereby and therefore thought good to order that no meale &s;hopps &s;hould be kept in the City of London and Liberties thereof after the third day of this in&s;tant <HI>No|vember</HI> and no meale &s;hould be &s;old but in open mar|ket the market dayes on forfeiture of &s;uch penalties as are inflicted on regraters and fore&s;tallers by &s;everall good and whol&s;ome lawes and &s;tatutes in that ca&s;e pro|vided.</P>
<P>There be al&s;o &s;everall orders for the market ordered by the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen to bee ob|&s;erved.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>The Lawes or orders of the Lord</HI> Major <HI>and Court of Aldermen to be ob&s;erved in every market with|in the City of London.</HI></HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t in all the markets of this City no victuall &s;hall be &s;old but by the price &s;et by the Mayor of the City.</P>
<P>Secondly No man &s;hall fore&s;tall any victuall com|ming to the market as for to buy in any Iune or other privy place, or yet comming to the market, whether it be found in the hands of the buyer or of the &s;eller, under pain of forfeiture of the &s;ame, and no Inholder &s;hall &s;uffer any thing to be &s;old in his hou&s;e upon pain of forty &s;hillings.</P>
<P>Thirdly No man &s;hall regrate any victuall which is in the market, or buy any victuall to Ingrate in the
<PB N="3" REF="22"> market, &s;o that the Commons can or may have any part of of &s;uch victuall, as in &s;peciall &s;uch as be known for Huck&s;ters or other people occupying their living by &s;uch victuall as they would &s;o ingro&s;&s;e under paine of &s;uch victuall &s;o regrated, provided alwayes that any &s;teward for any noble fea&s;t may buy or in grate &s;uch victuall as is convenient ior the &s;ame fea&s;t.</P>
<P>Fourthly No butter &s;hall be &s;old but according to the time of the yeare allowed.</P>
<P>Fifthly No Poulterers &s;hall deceivably occupie the marke to &s;ell any &s;tale victuall or &s;uch as the Poul|ters of this City, for to &s;tand in &s;trange cloathing &s;o to do under Pain of forty &s;hillings and forfeiture of &s;uch victuall.</P>
<P>6ly No Huck&s;ters &s;hall &s;tand or &s;it in the market but in Lower places and ends of the market to the intent they may be perfectly knowne and the &s;tranger market|people have the preheminence of the market under pain of three &s;hillings foure pence, if the Huck&s;ters di&s;obey the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Seventhly No unwhol&s;ome or &s;tale victuall &s;hall be &s;old under paine of forty &s;hillings foure pence and for|feiture of the &s;ame victuall.</P>
<P>Eightly No Butcher or his &s;ervant &s;hall u&s;e to drive any oxe or oxen a trot in the &s;treets, but peaceably, and if any oxe happen to be let go, when he is prepared to &s;laughter, the Butcher &s;hall forfeit two &s;hillings be|&s;ides recompence, if any per&s;on be hurt thereby.</P>
<P>Ninthly No Butcher &s;hall &s;ell any Mea&s;ell Hog, or unwhol&s;ome fle&s;h under pain of ten pounds.</P>
<P>Tenthly No Butcher &s;hall &s;ell any old &s;tale victuall, that is to &s;ay, about the &s;laughter of three dayes in the winter and two in the Summer under pain of ten pound.</P>
<PB N="4" REF="23">
<P>No victules of the City &s;hall give any rude or un|fittiug language or make any clamour upon any man or woman in the, open market for cheapning of vi|ctuall under pain of three &s;hillings foure pence.</P>
<P><HI>Memorandum,</HI> that every offence, found in this City It is accu&s;tomed that the office, a free man finding it, which is called <HI>Primm Iuventor,</HI> hath halfe the penalty by the grace of the Court.</P>
<P>Having here given you the good orders of the Lord Major and Court of Aldermen for the well ordering of victvall that the pri&s;es of Commodities may not be inhumane nor the City and Country abu&s;ed, It will not be a mi&s;&s;e in the next place to give you a briefe account of the great penalty of wheat Rice, Barley, Mault, Oates, Beanes and pea&s;e was brought into the City by water of late in doing whearof for better &s;atisfaction I &s;hall in the next place communicate to you a perfect Li&s;t of all &s;uch corne ond Graine as hath beene entred in the cu&s;tome hou&s;e of London from the fir&s;t of October la&s;t to the thirtieth of the &s;ame as followeth.</P>
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<HEAD>Entred in the Cu&s;tomes Book of Entries.</HEAD>
<P>Of Wheat 1587 quarters. Of Rice. 6845, quar|ters. Of Barley 965 quarters. Of Mault, 1048
<PB N="5" REF="23"> quarters. Of Oates 2275 quarters. Of Beanes and pea&s;e 1435 quarters, which in all amounts to 14175 quarters.</P>
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<P>In which may likewi&s;e take notice that it is not the u&s;uall cour&s;e to certifie the whole quantity of the Lading at the fir&s;t entry for &s;ometimes neere a fourth part more is brought in for a po&s;t entry vvhich together with what hath beene brought in &s;ince it thought can|not amount to le&s;&s;e the twenty thou&s;and quarters (in a matter of a moneth or five weekes) at the lea&s;t which with the remain|der that is expected and comes in dayly, with the care and well ordering thereof by the Governours of this City (who daily com|municate to the poore out of the &s;tore laid every Companies the price of corne will pro|bably be abated of which theat begins to ap|peare &s;ome earne&s;t of our hopes though not &s;o nauch informed might be for we have heard &s;ome affirme that wheat may be afforded at this time as in the bu&s;hell cheaper then it could within this fortnight.</P>
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<PB N="6" REF="24">
<HEAD>A perfect Li&s;t or Note of all &s;uch Corn and Grayne, as have been entred in the Cu&s;tome-hou&s;e of <HI>Lon|don.</HI> From the fir&s;t of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t to the 30. of the &s;ame.</HEAD>
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<ITEM><HI>Wheat</HI>&mdash;1587 quarters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rye</HI>&mdash;6845 quarters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Barley</HI>&mdash;0965 quarters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mault</HI>&mdash;1048 quarters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Oates</HI>&mdash;2295 quarters.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Beanes</HI> and <HI>Pea&s;e</HI>&mdash;1435 quarters.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In the whole&mdash;14175</ITEM>
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