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             To the right honourable members of the high court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition of divers prisoners in the Fleet
             England and Wales. Parliament.
          
           1 sheet ([1] p.)
           
             s.n.,
             [London :
             1650?]
          
           
             Date of publication conjectured by Wing.
             A petition to be released from unjust debts.
             Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.
          
        
      
    
     
       
         eng
      
       
         
           Debt, Imprisonment for -- England -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
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           To
           the
           Right
           Honourable
           Members
           of
           the
           High
           Court
           of
           Parliament
           for
           the
           Common-wealth
           of
           
             England
             ,
             Scotland
             ,
          
           and
           
             Ireland
             .
          
        
         
           The
           humble
           Petition
           of
           divers
           Prisoners
           in
           the
           Fleet
        
         
           SHEWETH
           :
        
         
           THat
           your
           Petitioners
           by
           the
           oppression
           of
           their
           cruell
           Adversaries
           and
           Creditors
           ,
           and
           pollicy
           of
           subtile
           Attorneys
           and
           Solicitors
           adhering
           to
           them
           ,
           are
           upon
           Judgements
           ,
           Executions
           ,
           Contempts
           ,
           and
           Decrees
           ,
           surruptitiously
           obtained
           ,
           most
           unjustly
           imprisoned
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Judges
           now
           appointed
           have
           no
           power
           upon
           the
           same
           to
           relieve
           them
           ;
           some
           of
           which
           Judgements
           ,
           Executions
           ,
           Contempts
           ,
           and
           Decrees
           are
           upon
           pretended
           Debts
           ,
           where
           nothing
           is
           due
           ,
           others
           for
           far
           greater
           sums
           then
           are
           due
           ,
           or
           your
           Petitioners
           able
           to
           pay
           ,
           by
           which
           means
           they
           are
           bereft
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           credits
           ,
           and
           imployments
           ,
           to
           the
           utter
           ruine
           of
           themselves
           and
           families
           .
        
         
           That
           whereas
           many
           of
           your
           Petitioners
           who
           formerly
           lived
           comfortably
           ,
           and
           in
           these
           sad
           times
           of
           War
           have
           been
           utterly
           undone
           (
           should
           be
           the
           objects
           of
           Mercy
           and
           pitty
           )
           yet
           they
           find
           nothing
           but
           the
           Rigor
           of
           the
           Law
           executed
           upon
           them
           ,
           to
           the
           satisfaction
           of
           Obdurate
           Creditors
           and
           misery
           of
           your
           undone
           Petitioners
           .
        
         
           That
           the
           remainder
           of
           the
           Estates
           of
           your
           poor
           petitioners
           undone
           as
           aforesaid
           by
           judgements
           ,
           Executions
           &c.
           being
           so
           obtained
           ,
           must
           goe
           to
           satisfie
           one
           man
           onely
           ,
           whereas
           many
           other
           conscientious
           Creditors
           ,
           some
           perhaps
           as
           poore
           as
           your
           Petitioners
           not
           having
           obtained
           that
           advantage
           must
           have
           no
           satisfaction
           .
        
         
           Your
           Petitioners
           humbly
           pray
           ,
           that
           the
           Judges
           appointed
           may
           have
           power
           to
           right
           and
           free
           them
           from
           the
           said
           Judgements
           ,
           Executions
           ,
           Contempts
           ,
           and
           Decrees
           ,
           so
           unjustly
           gotten
           (
           which
           power
           given
           them
           by
           the
           said
           Act
           )
           is
           abridged
           and
           taken
           away
           by
           the
           Ordinance
           ;
           your
           Petitioners
           through
           restraint
           wanting
           meanes
           to
           relieve
           themselves
           by
           course
           of
           Law
           ,
           and
           that
           those
           who
           have
           beene
           ruinated
           by
           Sea
           and
           Land
           by
           the
           sad
           accidents
           of
           War
           ,
           may
           have
           Equity
           according
           to
           conscience
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           rigour
           of
           Law
           to
           passe
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           those
           who
           have
           nothing
           to
           satisfie
           ,
           or
           are
           willing
           to
           part
           with
           what
           they
           have
           ,
           may
           bee
           discharged
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           late
           Act
           as
           poore
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           compassionate
           Creditor
           ,
           aswell
           as
           cruell
           ,
           may
           have
           their
           equall
           proportions
           .
        
         
           And
           your
           Petitioners
           shall
           ever
           pray
           ,
           &c.
           
        
      
    
    

