To the honourable the knights, Cittizens and Burgesses of the Commons House now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Dame Mary Hewytt widow, late wife of John Hewytt, Doctor in Divinity. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B24130 of text R229296 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 4KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B24130 Wing H1640 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 190.g.12[11] ESTC R229296 ocm99888303

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 eng Hewit, John, 1614-1658 -- Early works to 1800. Due process of law -- England -- Early works to 1800. Executions and executioners -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo To the honourable the knights, Cittizens and Burgesses of the Commons House now assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of Dame Mary Hewytt widow n/a 1660 1 570 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. 2014-03 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
To the HONOURABLE the Knights , Cittizens and Burgesses of the Commons House now assembled in PARLIAMENT . The humble Petition of Dame Mary Hewytt widow , late wife of John Hewytt , Doctor in Divinity . Humbly Sheweth ,

THat Oliver late pretended Protector thirsting after Innocent Blood , did , in May 1658. by the Advice of his Council , contrary to the known fundamental Lawes of the Land ( whereto every Free-born English-man hath an inherent Birth-right , and according to which Laws the said Bloody Tyrannical pretended Protector at his Installment swore to Governe the three Kingdomes ) erect a High Court of Justice ( or rather Injustice ) to try several persons for supposed Crimes against the said pretended Protector , Whereof he appointed John Lisle Esq ; President .

That your Petitioners late husband , Doctor John Hewytt , being in June next following convened before the said Court , was by the said John Lisle , and divers others that sate with him accused of Treason without Presentment or Indictment , and contrary to the Tenour of the Commission ( granted them ) authorizing them to proceed according to Justice , which hath alwayes been interpreted according to the known Laws .

That your Petitioners said husband protesting his Innocency to the death , humbly desiring to be tryed by God and his Countrey , offered to plead to any such Indictment as the Judges of the Land ( who were also Commissioners in the said Commission , but refused to act ) should declare to be Legall , or according to any Act of Parliament ; And therefore appealed to their Judgement , whether he , being an English-man , was otherwise bound to plead , there being no Act at that time in being , to constitute any High Court of Justice to try any man otherwise then by the ancient known Laws .

That all the Judges refusing to fit and joyne in any such proceeding ; The said John Lisle , did , notwithstanding , without Jury or Witness produced , sentence your Petitioners said husband to death , and caused him to be Executed as a Traytor upon Tower-Hill , To the unspeakable grief , and irreparable losse of your desolate Petitioner and her fatherlesse children , and in the consequence of it , to the subversion of all Law , Justice and Liberty .

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prayeth your Honours ( out of an inflamed zeal to publick Justice , Law , and the peoples Liberties ) and for the future to deterre others from the like horrid , bloody , arbitrary and detestable proceedings , as the effusion of Innocent Christian Blood , which cries aloud for vengeance ; to order that the said John Lisle may be speedily brought to exemplary Justice , and that he may be ( as a Murtherer ) excepted from pardon in the Act of Oblivion ; And that the other Commissioners who sate and acted with him , ( to wit ) Alderman Tichborne , Alderman Ireton , Alderman Pack , Serjeant Crook , John Barkstead and John Phelpes , and the rest may be ordered to give her such due reparations for her damages sustained by the Execution of her said husband , as your Honours shall conceive fit .

And your Petitioner shall ever Pray .