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 This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A62800 of text R220694 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T1608A). 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 A62800 Wing T1608A ESTC R220694 99832090 99832090 36559 2240940415

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A62800) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 36559) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2100:09) 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. A62800 R220694 (Wing T1608A). civilwar no To the right honourable members of the high court of Parliament for the Common-wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The humble petition [no entry] 1650 1 421 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 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.