To his Excellencie, the Earl of Forth, Lord Generall of His Majesties army: the humble petition of divers poor prisoners in Oxford-castle, whose names are hereunder written who humble shew, that your poor petitioners have there remained in hard imprisonment, for the space of seven weeks and upwards, ... Wherefore they most humbly beseech your Excellencie to take their distressed condition into your pious consideration; ... Edw. Bradney. ... Jo: Mountgomery. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this petition be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62700 of text R222345 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1349). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A62700 Wing T1349 ESTC R222345 99833526 99833526 38003 2240928237

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62700) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 38003) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2067:5) To his Excellencie, the Earl of Forth, Lord Generall of His Majesties army: the humble petition of divers poor prisoners in Oxford-castle, whose names are hereunder written who humble shew, that your poor petitioners have there remained in hard imprisonment, for the space of seven weeks and upwards, ... Wherefore they most humbly beseech your Excellencie to take their distressed condition into your pious consideration; ... Edw. Bradney. ... Jo: Mountgomery. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this petition be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. 1 sheet ([1] p.) printed for Edw. Husbands, and are to be sold at his shop in the Middle-Temple, London : February 15. 1642. [i.e. 1643] Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Prisons -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. Prisoners -- Early works to 1800. A62700 R222345 (Wing T1349). civilwar no To his Excellencie, the Earl of Forth, Lord Generall of His Majesties army: the humble petition of divers poor prisoners in Oxford-castle, w [no entry] 1643 1 387 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-08 Rekeyed and resubmitted 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To his Excellencie , the Earl of Forth , Lord Generall of His Majesties Army : THE HVMBLE PETITION of divers poor Prisoners in Oxford-castle , whole Names are hereunder written : Who humbly shew

THat your poor Petitioners have there remained in hard imprisonment , for the space of seven weeks and upwards , having for the greatest part of that time had allowed them only five Farthings a day , sometimes nothing for the space of three dayes together ; And now at this present have only bread and water for their maintenance , no Friend being permitted to come at them , or relieve them with food or linnen ; By means whereof , with their straight imprisonment , and bad lodging , some are dead , others desperatly sick , and the rest in great perill of perishing .

Wherefore they most humbly beseech your Excellencie to take their distressed condition into your pious consideration ; And vouchsafe to give such order and direction for them , that your Petitioners may receive some relief from their Friends , or for their monies , that thereby their Lives may be preserved ; And your Petitioners will ( as they shall have just cause ) ever pray for your Excellencies health and happinesse long to continue .

Edw. Bradney . William Whitlowe . William Sarrant . Joseph Bisset . William Gough . Humphrey York . Lewis Crapon . Henry Southam . Daniel Aston . Tho. Chainy . John Allen . Tho. Chamberlain . Nathaniel Hone . Thomas Knowles . Richard Green . Edward Leader . Richard Simes . John Henly . Robert Bryant , John Fuller . William Bryant . Thomas Alline . Edward Parsons . Richard Cadle . Steven Lawrence . Christopher Wilks . Edward Hutchins . James Deane . Stephen Hooper . Robert Neale . John Hiller . John Hancock . Tho. Dauson . Christopher Shipway . Richard Brown . Jo: Tayler . James Bolton . Henry Brinckly . Jo: Mountgomery .

Ordered by the Commons in Parliament , That this Petition be forthwith printed and published :

Hen: Elsynge , Cler. Parl. D. Com.

London , Printed for EDW: HUSBANDS , and are to be sold at his shop in the Middle-Temple . February 15. 1642.