A protestation of the gentlemen prisoners in the Tower of London dated October 1647 made by them upon the occasion of an order of the House of Commons for their sudden removall thence to severall other persons where by treason of the sequestring them of all their estates (contrary to the known and fundamentall laws of England, contained in Magna Charta and the petition of right, &c. so often sword to be maintained and inviolably observed by this present Parliament) and denying unto them according to the known law of the land, allowance for their maintenance) they must in reason be necessitated to sterve and perish : unto which is prefixed their letter, which the 14 of October 1647 was delivered to the speaker of the House of Commons.
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- A protestation of the gentlemen prisoners in the Tower of London dated October 1647 made by them upon the occasion of an order of the House of Commons for their sudden removall thence to severall other persons where by treason of the sequestring them of all their estates (contrary to the known and fundamentall laws of England, contained in Magna Charta and the petition of right, &c. so often sword to be maintained and inviolably observed by this present Parliament) and denying unto them according to the known law of the land, allowance for their maintenance) they must in reason be necessitated to sterve and perish : unto which is prefixed their letter, which the 14 of October 1647 was delivered to the speaker of the House of Commons.
- Author
- Vaughan, Henry, Sir, 1587?-1659?
- Publication
- [London :: s.n.],
- 1647.
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- Civil rights -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
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"A protestation of the gentlemen prisoners in the Tower of London dated October 1647 made by them upon the occasion of an order of the House of Commons for their sudden removall thence to severall other persons where by treason of the sequestring them of all their estates (contrary to the known and fundamentall laws of England, contained in Magna Charta and the petition of right, &c. so often sword to be maintained and inviolably observed by this present Parliament) and denying unto them according to the known law of the land, allowance for their maintenance) they must in reason be necessitated to sterve and perish : unto which is prefixed their letter, which the 14 of October 1647 was delivered to the speaker of the House of Commons." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56112.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.