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A85123	An appeale to heaven, and heavens ministers: the most reverend Pastors of Gods word, now assembled in the synode of England: and to all the faithfull people of God: from all the prisoners, imprisoned for debt, in the severall gaols within the Kingdome of England, and principalitie of Wales. Together with divers infallible reasons, shewing, that imprisonment of men for debt, is contrary to the Law of God: the law of nations: as also, the fundamentall lawes of this kingdome. Composed in the yeare of Englands jubilie, if they doe not neglect justice and equitie, in the yeare of grace fortie foure, els will judgement enter by the dore Written by a member of the true church of Christ, J. M. F.	J. M. F.	1644 (1644)	Wing F45; Thomason E8_23; ESTC R17953	4,761	8

persist in their tyrannous courses and cruell practises upon prisoners by murthering of some starving others to death decripping of others by their iron fetters Job 24.14.22 which is a thing manifest to many prisoners and others also Fourthly In regard the Jaylors notwithstanding the just unlimited power of this Parliament most impudently still persist in threatning the poore prisoners with their iron fetters and in practising this their cruell tyranny on some as also by posting of some of them from one prison to another Psal 31.13 and from one part of the prison to another upon their private distaste taken against any of them Psal 58. as also by suffering and also causing the prisoners to be violently assaulted and beaten in their chambers by their instruments of crueltie by reason whereof their lives have been and are still indangered and their estates utterly ruined Fiftly In regard the Jaylors are also still suffered to exact their unjust extorting fees and without controule 42. of Eliz. to oppresse defraud and deceive the prisoners of their gifts and Legacies as also of the collection-moneys due unto them by the Statutes of this Realme and to detaine some men in prison meerly for their own unjust exacting fees untill such time as some Legacy comes for release to the hazard yea often to the losse of the prisoners life In all which severall extreame oppressions the poore prisoners have hitherto reaped no redresse Sixtly In regard of these distracted times the charitie of the Basket also much fayling By reason whereof divers prisoners for debt have been starved to death and more are like to follow the same way daily if this barbarous oppression course of crueltie for imprisonment of men for debt be still suffered to continue in this Kingdome For these and many other most pregnant reasons J●●● 4.11 13. ready to be manifested if by Justice countenanced and not by the subtiltie of some powerfull personages still obstructed the poore prisoners ought in all reason and conscience to injoy their liberties and also for that purpose to be speedily by Justice relieved and released For wee are a people spoyled of all our estates credits and callings and many of us from being formerly painfull and profitable Bees in this Common-wealth Pro. 21.3 ● 10 are now by these inhumane courses made Drones Pro. 21.22 23 yea we are rather as men buried alive and by the meer subtle practises of the persons aforesaid wee are all of us insnared in holes and hid yea buried in prison-houses Behold Isa 42.22 wee are set apart for a prey to oppression and none delivereth us yea for a spoyle to Lawyers and Jaylors and none saith Restore unto them their right And if it be not so now Job 24.25 who will make me a lyer and make my speech nothing worth Wee beseech you therefore by the mercies of God seriously to consider these things and let not the bloud of the innocent and the groanes of the oppressed cry any longer for vengeance lest their cry fall heavie upon the whole Kingdome For as the blessings of God shall crowne those people that truly and freely execute Justice and Judgement between man and man without respect of persons and without any pecuniary reward Amos 3.10 11 so wrath and destruction shall be upon all neglecters thereof For Psal 58.1.4 5. 10. 11. They know not to doe right saith the Lord who store up violence and oppression in their palaces and abhorre him that speaketh uprightly Amos 5.10 11 12. 15 16. 24. and tread upon the poore and afflict the just and take Bribes and turne aside the poore from their right Therefore as yee expect the favour of God and his blessing on all your weighty matters even the peace and eternall welfare of your soules as also the peace Levit. 26.6 7 8 9. 15 16 17. 37. plentie and prosperitie of this Kingdome Then must you seek good and not evill establish true Justice and Judgement according to Gods law and let Judgement run downe freely as water and Righteousnesse as a mighty streame and then yet not till then no doubt but the Lord God will be gracious unto the remnant of his people and heale the Land If you shall doe all these things Isa 40.23 and feare the Lord your God who onely worketh wonders and is able to bring Princes to nothing and make all the Judges of the earth as vanitie and weaken the strength of all the mightie Then shall yee not be destroyed For what doth the Lord require of thee O man but to doe Justice to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God To relieve the poore the widow and the stranger and to let the oppressed goe free Then shall your light break forth as the Sunne and the Lord your God will have mercy upon you and divert these his present judgements from you and heale your Land Then will he crowne you with Victories against your enemies and will also cover your heads in the day of Battle Yea he will then also blesse all your designes Deut. 28.7 10. 20. and will utterly confound the secret Counsells of all the mightie Achitophels of these times But if yee shall neglect the due execution of Justice and Judgement in all your Cities then shall your adversaries still remaine as Goads in your sides as Rocks of offence and continuall stumbling blocks to you and your posteritie untill ruine and desolation take hold on all the places of your habitations in the Land Run to and fro through the streets Jere. 5. and see if there be any that executeth Judgement and seeketh the truth But they are as wild horses every one neighing after his neighbours wife Yet they say Psal 73.6 8. No evill shall come upon us neither shal we see the sword nor famine Shall not my soule be avenged on such a Nation as this saith the Lord Who lay waite and set snares and traps to catch men and to bury them alive in Prison-houses yea they surpasse the deeds of the wicked because they judge not the Cause of the fatherless and the oppressed and the Right of the needy doe they not judge For I considered all the oppressions that are done Ezech 4.1 and behold the teares of such as be oppressed and they have no comforter and in the hands of their oppressors there is power but the oppressed have no Comforter And if it be not so now who will or can make me a lyer and make this my speech nothing worth Job 24.25 FINIS LONDON Printed in the yeare of grace and expected Reformation of Injustice and Oppression Anno 1644.

AN Appeale to Heaven AND HEAVENS MINISTERS The most Reverend Pastors of Gods Word Now assembled in the Synode of ENGLAND And to all the faithfull People of God From all the Prisoners imprisoned for Debt in the severall Gaols within the Kingdome of ENGLAND and Principalitie of WALES Together with divers infallible Reasons shewing that imprisonment of men for Debt is contrary to the Law of God The law of Nations as also the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome Composed in the yeare of Englands Jubilie if they doe not neglect Justice and Equitie In the yeare of grace fortie foure els will Judgement enter by the dore Written by a member of the true Church of Christ J. M. F. Humbly shew THat having formerly addressed our selves by our severall humble Petitions unto the high and honorable Court of Parliament for redresse of our intolerable grievances and Christian slavery suffered under the heavie and unexpressible yoke of tyrannicall Imprisonment where they that rule over us make us to howle Isa 52.5 Isa 52.5 A thing in it self surpassing the tyranny of Turks and Pagans and not to be paralleld in any other Kingdome or State throughout Christendome Being also a thing far different from the liberty of the Subject and quite contrary to the Contents of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right Both which were also ratified and confirmed by his Majesty for the benefit of all his people And whether Imprisonment for Debt be a thing consonant to the word of God wee refer to your pious judgements upon your serious perusall of these severall portions of holy Scripture viz. Psal 14.4 6. Psal 53.3 4. Psal 82.2 3 4 5. Psal 94.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. 20. Isa 3.14 15. Isa 10.1 2 3 4. Isa 58.5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Jere. 5.27 28. 30. Ezech. 22. Micah 7.2 3 4. Zach. 8.16 17. Matthew 23.23 1 Cor. 13.1 2 3. with many other such like places proving the unlawfulnesse of Oppression Imprisonment for Debt and the neglect of Justice for reliefe of such whom the Lord hath afflicted Psal 69.24 25. 26. through severall crosses and losses by sea and land Whose afflictions also have been redoubled upon them by the tyranny of some persecuting Nimrods whereby they are brought to extreame want and misery Yet notwithstanding all this their miserable bodies are daily sacrificed by the merciless Common Law unto the tyranny of Jaylors and their adherents as also to the oppression of their cruell merciless Creditors Thus having as we said before addressed our selves by our severall Petitions of complaint but by what unjust hand we know not our complaints have been hitherto obstructed and we thereby for these three years past have not reaped the pleasing fruit of our humble just desires for the work of our reliefe in and release from these our severall dungeons of misery and places of tyrannicall oppression notwithstanding the Dormant Ordinance of Parliament to that effect The anchor of our hope now resting on heaven and on you the pious servants and instruments of God for the crying aloud in the ears and stirring up of all those Worthies to whom the Lord hath committed the sword of Justice to and for the work of our deliverance and speedy accomplishment of our just desires Wee doe therefore in all humilitie beseech you by the mercies of God to commiserate these our present deplorable conditions and to make these our grievous and unjust oppressions manifest unto that high and honorable Court of Parliament that so thereby wee may become capable of their great care for the honour of God in the reliefe and release of us his afflicted and long oppressed members by the flowing streame of true justice and judgement Exod. 23.6 7 8 9. without respect of persons in a free current without any pecuniary charge which is a thing that our extreame povertie cannot reach unto And that this just and pious act of reliefe and release may through their wisdoms be conferred on us by men truly fearing God and hating covetousnesse and not by any covetous Lawyers seditious Atturnies oppressing Jaylors Psal 10.3 nor by any their adherents who like unto the Masse-Priest have ever by their calling and profession from their youth been taught this one impious Principle viz. Give me my fee 1 Cor. 6.4 5 6 7 8. or else No Peny no Pater noster no money no Justice no true judgement nor mercy In confidence of your pious favour to be extended for the accomplishment of this our humble request wee shall ever continue our prayers for you and all your pious undertakings and send our praises to heaven for you as for the pious instruments of our delivery from these seminaries of iniquitie and seed plots of all abomination tyranny and oppression Infallible Reasons shewed why men for Debt ought not to be Imprisoned FIrst They conceive themselves to have been most unjustly and tyrannously detained in prison by the corrupt practises wayes and meanes of evill minded Judges covetous Lawyers Levit. 25.23 24. 35. 43. seditious Atturnies and by and for the particular benefit of cruell exacting Jaylors Especially such of them who are allied to persons of eminency in the State Contrary to the lawes of God the lawes of Nations and the fundamentall lawes of this Kingdome For The words of Magna Charta are these viz. That no freeborne Subject shall be detained in prison for Debt Will. 2. chap 18 Magna Charta 9. of Hen. 3. chap. 19. Regis 〈◊〉 77. D. Homine 〈…〉 sel●o 6. 3. Edw. 1. chap. 15. Anno 5.9 A●no 25. Edw. 3. chap. 4. any Ordinance Law Act or Statute made or hereafter to be made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And the power of this law is not nor ought not to be extinguished at this day being a perpetuall Law and obtained by the bloud of many thousands of our ancestors By which they freed themselves and us from being slaves and thereby have made us free-borne Subjects and for divers other most weightie causes whereupon it was first founded being at this day styled and taken to be the Fundamental law of this land And all Statutes that shall be made in any one particular point contrary to Magna Charta are voyd by the Statute of the 42 Ed. 3. chap. 1. Secondly In regard of the continuance of these unjust and tyrannous courses For that ever since the beginning of this Parliament the poore prisoners have been by no wayes nor meanes inabled Gen. 18.19 freely to reape the fruit of Justice for their release out of prison and reliefe against their oppressors For notwithstanding all our severall grievous complaints these three years past against our oppressors and crueltie of Jaylors and their merciless Substitutes our complaints have been slighted Hosea 4.1 2. and we our selves still detained in prison under the cruell bonds of oppression and Christian slavery Thirdly In regard the Jaylors are still countenanced and suffered to