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<DATE>2012-10-03</DATE>
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<NAME>John Pas</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B120719.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A Caveat again&s;t Generall Indempnity. OR, <HI>Rea&s;ons why the Patentee Commi&s;&s;ioners and Farmers of</HI> Beer <HI>and</HI> Ale, &amp;c. <HI>Within the Cities of</HI> London <HI>and</HI> We&s;tmin&s;ter, &amp;c. <HI>and the Subcommi&s;&s;ioners and Farmers of</HI> Beer <HI>and</HI> Ale, <HI>in the &s;eve|rall Counties of</HI> England, Scotland, <HI>and</HI> Ireland, <HI>&s;hould not be comprehended in the generall Act of Indempnity and Oblivion, humbly offered to the High and Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. _BEcau&s;e it will not &s;tand with Parliamentary Ju&s;tice, to grant them Indempnity, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> before the Petition of the Ma&s;ter and Wardens of the Company of Brewers of <HI>London;</HI> (now lying before this Honourable Parliament) be read, and in that, the cau&s;e of all the Brewers, Inkeepers, and Victuallers within the&s;e Nati|ons be heard, <HI>qu&igrave; &s;tatuit aliquid, parte in audit&acirc; alter&acirc;, aequum licet &s;tatuerit, hand aequus fuerit.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e the Farmers the&s;e two years la&s;t pa&s;t, have under the pretence of advancing the late Protectors Revenues; robbed the good people of this Nati|on of above one Million of pounds Sterling, of which they have not paid above one moyety into the publick trea&s;ury, &s;o that by this generall Act of Oblivion: The Common-wealth will lo&s;e neer 300000^l Sterling, whereby the burthens will lye the heavier upon tho&s;e who have been impove|ri&s;hed by bearing of them already.</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e by the oppre&s;&s;ions, rapines, and cruelties of the&s;e Farmers; (as was lately made appear be|fore a Committee of the late Parliament &s;o called; whereof M. <HI>Scott,</HI> was Chair-man, and &s;everall other per|&s;ons of worth and honour, of this honourable Parliament were members) mo&s;t of the Brewers have been impoveri&s;hed, &s;ome utterly ruined, and others enforced to give over their trade; So that it did appear to mo&s;t of the members of that Committee, that the tender mercies of the&s;e wicked men were cruell. How then can &s;uch men be capable of an Act of grace, mercy, and Indempnity, when as the Scripture &s;aith, <HI>Jam.</HI> 2.13. <HI>He &s;hall have judgement without mercy, that hath &s;hewed no mercy.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Becau&s;e the&s;e men, having gained very great E&s;tates by the ruines of others, ought to make re&s;tituti|on to tho&s;e poor people whom they have robbed of 200000^l by their wicked and unju&s;t Gage. And by their returning of &s;mall Beer for &s;trong, and by Gaging worts boiling in the Copper, and hot in the Backs, the which they are not obliged to do, if they are comprehended in the generall Act of Indempnity and Obli|vion. So that your &s;elves likewi&s;e wil be acce&s;&s;ary to the peoples ruine, and be partakers of the&s;e men &s;ins, and Act contrary to the command of God, <HI>I&s;ai.</HI> 1.17. <HI>Learn to do well, &s;eek judgement, relieve or righten the oppre&s;&s;ed, judge therfatherle&s;s, plead for the widow.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. Becau&s;e to grant the&s;e men an Act of Indempnity and Oblivion, is not to a&s;&s;ert the Good Old Cau&s;e; One part of which is to bring Capitall Delinquents, to condign puni&s;hment, and to vindicate the liberties and properties of the people: again&s;t all arbitrarine&s;s, oppre&s;&s;ion, and tyranny of any &s;ingle per&s;on what&s;o|ever. Their Court, Para&s;its, Agents, or In&s;truments.</P>
<TRAILER>Dabit Deus his quoque Finem.</TRAILER>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;al. 12.5.</HI></BIBL> For the Oppre&s;&s;ion of the poor, for the &s;ighing of the needy: Now will I ari&s;e &s;aith the Lord, I will &s;et him in &s;afety from him that would en&s;uare him.</Q>
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