To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and supplication of Richard Overton, prisoner in the most contemptible goale of Newgate. Overton, Richard, fl. 1646. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A90248 of text R210627 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[91]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A90248 Wing O634 Thomason 669.f.10[91] ESTC R210627 99869407 99869407 162624 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A90248) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162624) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[91]) To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and supplication of Richard Overton, prisoner in the most contemptible goale of Newgate. Overton, Richard, fl. 1646. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1646] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "ber 9th 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Prisoners -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Early works to 1800. Detention of persons -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A90248 R210627 (Thomason 669.f.10[91]). civilwar no To the high and mighty states, the knights and burgesses in Parliament assembled: (Englands legall soverainge power) the humble appeale and Overton, Richard 1646 516 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion To the high and mighty States , the Knights and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled ; ( Englands legall soveraigne power ) The humble Appeale and Supplication of RICHARD OVERTON , Prisoner in the most contemptible Goale of Newgate . Humbly sheweth ; THat whereas your prisoner under pretence of a Criminall fact being in a warlike manner brought before the House of Lords to be tried , and by them put to Answer to Interogatories concerning himselfe , both which your Petitioner humbly conceiving to bee illegall , and contrary to the naturall rights , freedomes , and properties of the free Commoners of England ; confirmed to them by Magna Charta , the Petition of Right , and the Act for the abolishment of the Star-chamber : hee therefore was imboldened to refuse subjection to the said House , both in the one and the other , expressing his resolution before them , that he would not infringe the private rights and properties of himselfe , or of any one Commoner in particular , or the common rights and properties of this Nation in generall : for which your Petitioner was by them adjudged contemptuous , and by an order from the said House was therefore committed to the goale of Newgate , where , from the 11 of August 1646. to this present he hath lyen , and there commanded to be kept till their pleasures shal be further signified ( as a coppy of the said order hereunto annexed doth declare ) which may be perpetuall if they please , and may have their Wils ; for your Petitioner humbly conceiveth that thereby he is made a Prisoner to their Wils , not to the Law , except their Wils may be a Law . Wherefore your leige Petitioner doth make his humble appeale unto this most Soveraigne House ( as to the highest Court of Iudicature in the Land , wherein all the appeales thereof are to centure , and beyond which , none can be made ) humbly craving ( both in testimony of this acknowledgment of its legall regality , and of his due submission thereunto ) that your Honours therein assembled , would take his cause ( and in his , the cause of all the free Commoners of England , whom you represent , and for whom you sit ) into your serious consideration and legall determination , that he may either by the mercy of the Law be repossessed of this his just liberty and freedome , and thereby the whole Commons of England of their thus unjustly ( as he humbly conceiveth ) usurped and invaded by the House of Lords , with due repairations of the damages susstained , or else that he may undergoe what pennalty shall in equitie by the impartiall severity fo the Law , be adjudged against him by this Honourable House , in case by them he shal be legally found a transgressor herein . And your Petitioner ( as in duty bound ) shall ever pray , &c.