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A82337 To the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Edward Dendy. Dendy, Edward. 1654 (1654) Wing D988; Thomason 669.f.19[53]; ESTC R212141 1,350 1

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To the Parlament of the COMMON-WEALTH of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND The humble Petition of Edward Dendy SHEWETH THat upon Saturday the 30. of July 1653. the Parlament then sitting they were pleased to Order That your Honours Petitioner should immediately take care of the Prison and Prisoners of the Upper Bench and have the like charge of and power over the Prisoners and Officers there as the Marshal of the said Upper Bench at any time had or ought to have had That in obedience to the said Order of Parlament your Honours Petitioner accordingly repaired thither and the day following being Munday gave the Parlament an Account of the Condition of the said Prison and particularly of the place called the Rules of the Upper Bench Prison where for want of Room in the Prison houses Prisoners are lodged and where your Petitioner found that nothing was of force to keep the Prisoners there lodged within their bounds but the securities which they usually gave to the Marshall of the said Prison which securities being refused ro be delivered to your Petitioner your Honours Petitioner thereupon declared to the Parlament That he had no more power over the Prisoners lying in the Rules than he had of the Birds in the air and therefore besought the Parlament that he might not stand charged with that Trust which your Petitioner never sought and being imposed upon him was not able to give an Accompt of That the Parlament thereupon being Munday the first of August Ordered That the Prisoners of the Upper Bench should continue in the same places as formerly till further order by which Order your Petitioner supposed himself indempnifyed Nevertheless since the dissolution of the late Parlament your Petitioner hath been sued from all points of the Compass for the escape of Prisoners lying in the Rules though your Honours Petitioner was not able to secure them for the reason aforesaid neither could your Petitioner receive so much as a List of the said Prisoners names till about a moneth after your Petitioner had been there That your Petitioner for the better looking to the Prisoners in the Prison houses did as impowred by the Parlament make choice of several servants to the number of twenty being fewer than the Marshall usually imployed who continually attended often watching whole nights and with much faithfulness and diligence discharged the said trust for about the space of eight moneths during which time these poor men received not one penny of salary because your Petitioner received not the benefit of Chamber Rents the chief profits of the place which the Prisoners refused to pay till further order of the House nor any other way so much as your Petitioner expended in that service although according to the known Maxim Qui sentit onus sentire debet commodum Wherefore your Honours Petitioner with all humble earnestness prays That your Honors will be pleased to put on bowels of speedy Compassion for the relief of your Petitioners poor Servants who maintaining themselves at their own charge for so long time together in the service of the Parlament have thereby reduced themselves and families to so great need and misery as your Petitioner wants words to express the sadness of their condition Lastly in as much as your Honours Petitioner never sought the said place and yet hath undergon great charge and trouble in obeying the Parlament Your Petitioner most humbly prayes that according to your Honours justice he may be relieved from all further troubles arrests and suits at Law for the escape of Prisoners which as your Petitioner hath humbly declared was impossible for him to secure and to this end your Petitioner humbly prays that your Honours will be pleased to grant your Petitioner an Act of Indempnity and that your Honours will permit your Petitioner with the advice of his Council to draw the said Act which your Petitioner humbly submits to your Honours consideration And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall pray Edward Dendy