To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of many well-affected citizens, and other the free-born people of England. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94604 of text R210788 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.11[126]). 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. 2 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 A94604 Wing T1618 Thomason 669.f.11[126] ESTC R210788 99869545 99869545 162777 2240954973

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94604) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162777) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f11[126]) To the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of many well-affected citizens, and other the free-born people of England. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1648] Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Due process of law -- England -- Early works to 1800. Detention of persons -- England -- Early works to 1800. Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Law -- Great Britain -- History -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A94604 R210788 (Thomason 669.f.11[126]). civilwar no To the Right Hon. the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of many wel-affected citizens, and other free-born peo anon. 1648 1 289 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. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-07 Sampled and proofread 2007-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the Honourable the Commons of ENGLAND in Parliament assembled . The humble Petition of many well-affected Citizens , and other the free-born People of ENGLAND , Sheweth ,

THat as Your Petitioners conceive it to be farre beneath the Authority and Honour of this House to be the Executors of the Law ; so likewise wee apprehend it to be contrary to the cleare fundamentall Lawes of England , for the Lords ( in criminall Cases ) to exercise any jurisdiction over Commoners .

That we collect from the Common and Statute Law , that no Free-man ought to be taken , and imprisoned , passed upon , censured or condemned , but by the Lawfull judgement of his Equals , and whatsoever judgement shall be otherwise given is to be holden for nought .

That neverthelesse Sir John Maynard , Sir John Gayre , Alderman Bunce , Alderman Langham , Alderman Adams , Com. Copley , Master John Wildman , and many other Commoners have been and are imprisoned , and the Lords have assumed to themselves a jurisdiction over Sir John Maynard , and many other Commoners .

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray , That no Commoner be henceforthimprisoned during pleasure ; but onely untill the time of a Legall Tryall . That the Lords doe not henceforth exercise any jurisdiction over Commonersin matters criminall ; but that Sir John Maynard , and all other Commonersmay enjoy our Ancient Freedome of indifferent Tryals by our Equals : And that all Cases elsewhere determinable ( according to the Declaration of this Honourable House ) be left to the ordinary courts of Justice unto which they legally appertain .

And we shall daily pray , &c.