Retsah, a cry against a crying sinne, or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the city of London, on the behalfe of transgressours : together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the Generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law.
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- Retsah, a cry against a crying sinne, or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the city of London, on the behalfe of transgressours : together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the Generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law.
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- Chidley, Samuel.
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- Printed at London :: for Samuel Chidley ...,
- 1652.
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- Subject terms
- Crime -- England.
- Criminals -- England.
- Thieves -- England.
- Capital punishment -- England -- Early works to 1800.
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"Retsah, a cry against a crying sinne, or, A just complaint to the magistrates, against them who have broken the statute laws of God, by killing of men meerly for theft manifested in a petition long since presented to the Common Councel of the city of London, on the behalfe of transgressours : together with certaine proposals, presented by Col. Pride to the Right Honourable the Generall Counsell for the Army, and the Committee appointed by the Parliament of England, to consider of the inconveniences, mischiefes, chargeablenesse, and irregularities in their law." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A32823.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- The Preface.
- To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons in Common Counsell assembled.
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Here followeth a Letter written to
Thomas Andrewes, the Lord Mayor that then was. -
Certaine Reasons of weighty consideration in reference to the Petitio
to the Common Councel in behalfe of Transgressors. -
To the Right Honorable the Councell of State. The humble Petition of
Samuel Chidley. -
To the Right Honourable the generall Councell for the Army, the humble Propo∣sals of
Samuel C idley. - A Letter written to the Regulaters of the Law, ap∣pointed by the Parliament, and sent, and presented to that Committee.
- to the reader