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A90231	The commoners complaint: or, A dreadful warning from Newgate, to the commons of England. Presented to the honourable committees for consideration of the commoners liberties. Wherein (as in a glasse) every free-man of England may clearly behold his own imminent insufferable bondage and slavery under the Norman-prerogative men of this kingdom, represented by the present sufferings of Richard Overton; who for his just vindication of the commoners rights and freedoms against the arbitrary domination of the House of Lords, hath by them bin imprisoned these 6 months in the goal of Newgate, his wife and his brother also by them most unjustly cast into Maiden Lane prison: ... Whereunto is annexed the respective appeales of his wife, and his brother, unto the High Court of Parliament, the Commons of England assembled at Westminster.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1647 (1647)	Wing O625; Thomason E375_7; ESTC R201344	16,596	23

their hands in the blood of their husbands and to betray their friends and faithfull lovers of their Country into their mercilesse hands impose oathes upon servants to betray their Masters Councels and secrets imprison fine censure and molest the Commoners of England for their vindication and defence of the great Charter of their Liberties and freedoms for appealing from their usurped jurisdiction to the House of Com and for refusing to be againe entangled in the Star-Chamber High-Commission abolished Bondage of Interrogatories and the like as also for those Lords to overturne the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdom both for liberty property and freedome endeavouring the Introduction of an Arbitrary Government and to crush and destroy all such as shall adventure the discoverie of their oppressions or shall as legally they are bound resist their arbitrary proceedings stop all free progresse in the Law commit the Compter Serjeants and such Ministers of the Law unto prison for arresting their sons or kindred for debt and that by the authority of that House as a contempt offered thereto All which insufferable oppressions and cruelties with manifold others I can and will God permitting justifie and prove to their faces if I shall be called thereto And I do hereby before this honourable Committee and consequently before the whole Commons of England both represented and representative Charge the House of Lords which usually assemble at Westminster and which do arrogate unto themselves a Parliamentarie title and power without the free election and common consent of the free borne people of England with those forementioned usurpations and devastations of the Commoners Liberties and Freedoms Which Charge I am ready everyday upon the Peril of my vital blood to make good against them for the case of Lieutenant Col. Iohn Lilhurne of Mr. Learner of mine of some others if but duly considered is sufficient to evidence and confirme the truth then of to every common capacity as also to their Prerogative Lordships everlasting shame confusion of face if not to the utter extirpation of that their unlimited Arbitrary Domination and power the which I shall faithfully endeavour to the utmost of my power for the freedome and weale of the rest of my Nationall Brethren the free borne Commons of England though in that hot and desperate service I and mine wife children and all be devoured by their unreasonable cruelty Thus Sir having made my complaint unto you and in mine to this Honourable Committee the complaint of the whole Commons of England all being equally interrested with me in this contest betwixt the Lords and the Commoners both in life limb liberty and estate I present my cause and in mine the cause of the whole Commons of England to your grave and judicious consideration for looke what is done unto me or to any other though never so meane or of inferiour degree for mine or their vindication and maintenance of the just Rights and freedoms of the Commons of England is as done unto the whole Commons of England for by those their insultings all as well as one are made lyable to the unlimited cruelty and oppression of their prerogative jurisdiction And if they may rule by prerogative then farwell all liberty and property all Lawes justice and equity and if it must be so I pray you beare us no longer in suspence and expection of redresse but forthwith let our Doom be proclaimed to the whole world that the Commons of England may know what to trust to that we may loose our labour no longer in petitioning appealing complaining and seeking for reliefe at your hands that such as will may sit down as contented slaves with halters about their necks to be hanged up till the pleasure of that House forsooth shall be further signified Now Sir I shall use no other provocations incitations or Arguments to this Honourable Committee to the discharge of their duty but shall altogether leave the whole matter hereof to your consciences whether for justice or injustice mercy or cruelty for my part I care not though you and all men forsake me so long as I know the Lord liveth who will once judge every man according to his deeds whether good or evel and then I am sure I shall have righteous judgment withou● respect of persons and against that to deprive me thereof neither the gates of Hell nor the powers of Earth are able to prevaile that is my comfort my hope and support against all afflictions cryalls and troubles And therefore in that sure confidence though I be thus enthralled encompassed on ev●ry sidewith Bands Aff●ictions I am resolved not to yeeld an haires-bredth of subjection no not so much as the appearance of subjection either in word or deed to any arbitrary power orders significations of their pleasures c. maugre their Prisons Irons Halters c. either for me or mine And this I pronounce to this Honourable Committee and to the whole Commons of England in open defyance and contempt of the Arbitrary Domination of the House of Peers their usurpation and incroachments over the Rights and freedoms of the Commons of England come what come will or what the utmost of their usurped might and power can inflict upon me for it I scorne their mercy and dare them to do their worst let them find Prisons Dungeons Irons Halters c. I le find Carkesse Neck and Heeles for one in contempt to their usurped jurisdiction for resolved I am to break before I bend to their oppressions c. Sir I am From Newgate the place of my Prerogative Captivity Feb. 1. 1647. Yours and all mens for their just Rights and Freedoms faithfull to the death Richard Overton FINIS

THE COMMONERS COMPLAINT OR A DREADFVL WARNING FROM Newgate to the Commons of England PRESENTED To the Honourable Committee for consideration of the Commoners Liberties Wherein as in a Glasse every Free-man of England may clearly be hold his own imminent insufferable bondage and slavery under the Norman-Prerogative Men of this Kingdom represented by the present sufferings of Richard Overton who for his just Vindication of the Commoners Rights and Freedoms against the Arbitrary Domination of the House of Lords hath by them bin imprisoned these 6 Months in the Goal of Newgate his wife and his brother also by them most unjustly cast into Maidenlace prison And from thence she with her tender babe of half a years age in her armes was for refusing active subjection to their Arbytrary Orders dragg'd most barbarously and inhumanely head-long upon the stones through the streers in the dirt and mire as was her husband formerly Novemb. 3. 1646 for the said cause worse then Rebels Traytors Thieves or Murtherers to the place of execution And in that most contemptible and villainous manner cast into the most reproachful infamous Goal of Bridewell And their 3 small children as helplesse Orphans bereft of Father and Mother Sister and Brother exposed to the mercy of the wide world Whereunto is annexed the respective Appeales of his wife and of his brother unto the High Court of Parliament the Commons of England assembled at Westminster Isa 59. 14. And judgment is turned backward and justice standeth a farre off for Truth is fallen in the street and Equity cannot enter Printed Anno Dom. 1646. To his honoured friend Col. Henrie Martin a Member of the House of Commons and Chair-man to the honourable Committee for consideration of the Commoners Liberties and in him to all the M●mbers of the said Committee The humble Information Complaint of Richard Overton prisoner in the infamous Goal of New-Gate concerning the barbarous cruelties and inhumane practises of the house of Lord and of their Prerogative-Agents exercised upon himself his wife children and whole family since his legall tryall before the said honourable Committee Jam. 2 13. He shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy Psalm 41. 1 2. Blessed is he that considereth the poore the Lord will deliver him in the time of trouble the Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the Earth Master Chair man AS B●ndage and Liberty are two contraries so you cannot truly consider the one but you must reflect your eye upon the other For though one be so destuctive to the Being of the other that where the one is the other cannot be yet each by other is more eminently distinguished And looke how much the one is exceeding the other by so much the other is deficient loseth of its Property for quorum unum altero latius est non suntre anum Therefore I humbly conceive that to the consideration of the Commoners Liberties the usurpations encroachments destructions thereof fall inavoydably into like consideration even so as the one cannot be truly considered without the other If you will cast your eye upon the glory and beauty of the one your eare must be open to the cry and complaint of the other And therefore answerably as you are by the Soveraign power of the Land ordained and deputed for the due and grave consideration of the Common●rs Liberties you are by the same Authority also impowred for the rec●ption of all Petitions Informations and Complaints of the Afflicted Commoners touching their Birth-right Liberties and Freedomes and thereof to judge and accordingly to make Report unto the House Wherefore Sir I shall presume to present this honourable Committee with the late most barbarous inhumanities and Turkish Cruelties by the most Arbytrary Tyrannicall House of Lords and their Prerogative-Butchers perpetrated upon my self upon my wife my three smal children upon my brother and the rest of my family in all consisting of 8 persons all committed and acted since the late legall consideration and tryal of my cause before you yet still depending upon the Report of this honourable Committee As for their former illegal usuapations over me I shal omit their repetition they being already made publike unto the world only acquaint you with the latter But first I shal present you with those their illegal cruelties See the defiance the Arrow against ryrannie which concern my self they falling first in order together with the mutual passages concerning the same betwixt their Instruments and me then answerably I shal descend to their barbarous unheard of inhumanities such as never were acted by their Norman Progenitors since the Prerogative-Foundation of that Norman house was ever laid or ever since they bore the name of an House of Peers now lately upon the 6. and 8. of this instant Ian. 1646 most villainously perpetrated upon my wife children and the rest of my family and commit the mutual passages on both sides faithfully pend and presented unto your grave and judicious consideration to judge impartially betwixt us And all that I in the behalf of my self of mine shall crave from this honourable Committee is but the Benefit of what the Lord himself hath commanded Lev. 19. 15. Ye shall do no unrighteousnesse in judgment thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty but in rightousnesse shalt thou judge thy neighbour If I be found a transgressour then let me speedily suffer my doome but if I be found none then let me have speedy reliefe I craue no favour nor boon at your hands it is onely justice which I desire and that 's but a reasonable suit a suit which of Pagans Turks Infidels would not be condemned and therefore justly may be expected from you Thus then Sir give me leave to acquaint you that after my last departure from you in the Palace yard Novemb. 3. 1646. and that I was cleared from your presence and the presence of my friends and was only left in the hands of my Gaolers my indignation and detestation fore-uttered in your presence in the inward Court of Wards against the Arbytrary tyrannie and usurpation of the house of Lords over the Commoners natural legal Freedomes and Rights and over mine in particular burst out afresh and upon consideration whether I should be so base to my Country and to my self in particular as to yeeld these Arbytrary Lords so much Villain-service as to become their Lordships Prerogative-Porter to carry my self to the stinking lowsie barbarous Goal of Newgate again or no I resolved in my self that as in heart I defied all injustice cruelty tyrannie and oppression all arbitrary usurpation and usurpers whatsoever so in person come life come death come what come would I would not be so treacherous to my own selfe to my wife and children and especially to this Nation the Land of my Nativity in general as personally to yeeld my active