id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
A82337	Dendy, Edward.	To the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Edward Dendy.	1654.0		.xml	application/xml	1090	43	58	That in obedience to the said Order of Parlament , your Honours Petitioner accordingly repaired thither , and the day following , being Munday , gave the Parlament an Account of the Condition of the said Prison , and particularly of the place called the Rules of the Upper Bench Prison , where ( for want of Room in the Prison houses ) Prisoners are lodged , and where your Petitioner found that nothing was of force to keep the Prisoners there lodged within their bounds , but the securities which they usually gave to the Marshall of the said Prison ; which securities being refused ro be delivered to your Petitioner , your Honours Petitioner thereupon declared to the Parlament , That he had no more power over the Prisoners lying in the Rules , than he had of the Birds in the air ; and therefore besought the Parlament , that he might not stand charged with that Trust , which your Petitioner never sought , and being imposed upon him , was not able to give an Accompt of . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82337 of text R212141 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[53]).	cache/A82337.xml	txt/A82337.txt
