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.
             Vaughan, Henry, Sir, 1587?-1659?
          
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             1647.
          
           
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             Signed at end: Henry Vaughan, Wingfield Bodenham, J. Slaughter, David Jenkins, John Morley, Thomas Lunsford, William Morton.
          
        
      
    
     
       
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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
           Prisons
           where
           by
           reason
           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
           sworn
           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
           perfixed
           their
           Letter
           ,
           which
           the
           14
           of
           October
           1647.
           was
           delivered
           to
           the
           Speaker
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           .
        
         
           Printed
           in
           the
           Year
           .
           1647.
           
        
      
       
       
       
         
           SIR
           ,
        
         
           VVE
           being
           extreamly
           pressed
           by
           our
           unsupportable
           wants
           and
           Calamities
           ,
           have
           thought
           it
           expedient
           once
           more
           to
           put
           you
           in
           mind
           thereof
           ,
           and
           of
           our
           former
           proceedings
           ,
           and
           frequent
           solicitations
           ,
           for
           releif
           in
           this
           our
           starving
           condition
           ;
           the
           several
           applications
           we
           have
           made
           ,
           to
           obtain
           Justice
           in
           this
           particular
           ,
           is
           so
           wel
           known
           ,
           both
           to
           the
           Honourable
           Houses
           and
           your self
           ,
           as
           it
           wil
           be
           needless
           for
           us
           at
           present
           to
           repeat
           :
           whereunto
           may
           be
           added
           the
           noble
           favour
           and
           care
           ,
           the
           General
           hath
           expressed
           towards
           us
           ,
           who
           as
           we
           are
           enformed
           ,
           was
           pleased
           upon
           our
           addresses
           unto
           him
           to
           intercede
           for
           us
           ,
           and
           to
           recommend
           the
           Consideration
           thereof
           unto
           the
           Honourable
           House
           ,
           with
           great
           efficacy
           ;
           but
           what
           hath
           all
           this
           produced
           as
           to
           our
           remedy
           ,
           truly
           no
           other
           effect
           ;
           save
           an
           increase
           to
           our
           sorrows
           ,
           and
           a
           new
           addition
           ,
           (
           if
           any
           addition
           can
           be
           made
           )
           to
           our
           former
           miseries
           ,
           as
           is
           evident
           by
           the
           order
           ,
           lately
           made
           for
           our
           removal
           to
           other
           prisons
           ,
           one
           of
           them
           being
           infected
           with
           the
           plague
           ,
           where
           if
           by
           Gods
           mercy
           we
           should
           be
           preserved
           from
           the
           Contagion
           of
           that
           disease
           ,
           we
           must
           likewise
           look
           for
           a
           miracle
           from
           the
           same
           hand
           ,
           to
           preserve
           us
           from
           famishing
           .
           The
           great
           debts
           we
           have
           contracted
           in
           this
           place
           ,
           and
           the
           persons
           unto
           whom
           it
           is
           owing
           left
           unsatisfied
           ;
           being
           likely
           to
           prove
           an
           ill
           letter
           of
           recommendation
           to
           procure
           us
           credit
           ,
           in
           those
           places
           where
           we
           are
           to
           be
           removed
           ,
           so
           as
           since
           it
           apparently
           threatens
           our
           distructions
           ,
           we
           cannot
           but
           protest
           against
           it
           ,
           with
           ful
           resolution
           ,
           
           not
           willingly
           to
           remove
           from
           hence
           ,
           but
           by
           force
           ,
           which
           we
           cannot
           resist
           ,
           unless
           our
           debts
           here
           be
           first
           payd
           ,
           and
           provision
           made
           for
           the
           future
           ,
           for
           our
           maintenance
           in
           those
           places
           where
           we
           are
           appointed
           to
           go
           ;
           which
           Protestation
           we
           have
           sent
           you
           here
           inclosed
           with
           our
           names
           subscribed
           thereunto
           Having
           thus
           stated
           our
           cause
           before
           you
           ,
           with
           candor
           and
           truth
           ,
           the
           ill
           Consequences
           thereof
           ,
           and
           how
           prejudicial
           it
           may
           prove
           hereafter
           ,
           even
           to
           those
           that
           have
           least
           sence
           of
           our
           sorrows
           ,
           we
           hope
           it
           wil
           be
           taken
           into
           your
           most
           serious
           thoughts
           ,
           who
           having
           no
           Charter
           of
           exemption
           ,
           may
           peradventure
           themselves
           ,
           come
           to
           tast
           of
           those
           bitter
           waters
           ,
           wherewith
           we
           have
           already
           surfeted
           ,
           and
           how
           sad
           a
           president
           our
           oppressions
           wil
           afford
           to
           future
           times
           ,
           we
           shal
           leave
           to
           the
           world
           impartially
           to
           judg
           of
           ;
           in
           the
           bitterness
           therefore
           of
           our
           souls
           ,
           we
           are
           inforced
           once
           more
           to
           call
           upon
           you
           ,
           and
           to
           conjure
           you
           ,
           as
           you
           believe
           a
           time
           wil
           come
           when
           all
           must
           render
           an
           account
           of
           their
           actions
           ;
           and
           as
           you
           wil
           answer
           it
           in
           that
           dreadful
           day
           ,
           before
           the
           tribunal
           of
           the
           Almighty
           ,
           that
           you
           neglect
           not
           the
           crys
           of
           the
           oppressed
           any
           longer
           ,
           but
           that
           you
           will
           speedily
           apply
           your self
           to
           the
           Honourable
           House
           ,
           to
           procure
           such
           timely
           remedy
           for
           us
           ,
           as
           our
           necessities
           require
           ,
           that
           so
           the
           inhumanity
           of
           these
           times
           may
           not
           lie
           as
           a
           brand
           of
           infamy
           upon
           this
           Nation
           to
           all
           posterity
           .
           It
           being
           the
           last
           request
           which
           we
           intend
           to
           make
           unto
           you
           ,
           whose
           names
           are
           hereunto
           subscribed
           .
           
             October
             .
          
           13.
           
        
         
           
             Henry
             Vaugham
             ,
             Wingfield
             Bodenham
             ,
             Iohn
             Slaughter
             ,
             David
             Ienkins
             ,
             Iohn
             Morley
             ,
             Tho.
             Lunsford
             ,
             Wil.
             Morton
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
       
         
           The
           Protestation
           .
        
         
           VVE
           whose
           names
           are
           subscribed
           ,
           being
           prisoners
           in
           the
           Tower
           of
           London
           ,
           committed
           by
           several
           Warrants
           of
           Mr
           Speaker
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           being
           destitute
           of
           Means
           or
           Money
           to
           subsist
           withal
           ,
           having
           made
           several
           Addresses
           to
           both
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           by
           Petition
           and
           by
           divers
           Letters
           and
           Solicitations
           made
           to
           the
           Committee
           for
           Relief
           of
           Prisoners
           ,
           to
           his
           Excellency
           Sir
           THO.
           FAIRFAX
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           whom
           we
           thought
           powerful
           or
           willing
           to
           relieve
           Us
           in
           our
           most
           Urgent
           necessities
           ,
           and
           having
           daily
           and
           hourly
           prosecuted
           our
           sute
           on
           that
           behalf
           ever
           since
           the
           midst
           of
           December
           last
           ,
           and
           Maintainance
           being
           due
           to
           prisoners
           committed
           as
           wel
           to
           the
           Tower
           as
           to
           all
           other
           Prisons
           of
           England
           ,
           especially
           Prisoners
           of
           War
           ,
           both
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           Armes
           ,
           the
           
             Law
          
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           the
           ancient
           Customes
           of
           the
           Kingdoms
           ,
           as
           by
           divers
           Authentick
           Records
           and
           Presidents
           of
           all
           ages
           hath
           and
           wil
           be
           made
           manifest
           and
           
           having
           had
           divers
           promises
           of
           relief
           and
           maintainance
           from
           the
           Committee
           for
           relief
           of
           Prisoners
           ,
           and
           that
           an
           Ordinance
           should
           passe
           for
           the
           same
           ,
           contrary
           to
           which
           ingagement
           there
           are
           Warrants
           under
           the
           Speakers
           hand
           of
           the
           Hous
           of
           Commons
           ,
           come
           to
           remove
           and
           disperse
           Us
           into
           other
           prisons
           ,
           whereof
           some
           are
           infected
           with
           the
           plague
           ,
           and
           others
           are
           more
           chargeable
           lodgings
           ,
           being
           to
           be
           payd
           for
           there
           (
           but
           not
           here
           )
           and
           not
           a
           bit
           of
           meat
           to
           be
           had
           in
           them
           ,
           but
           for
           present
           money
           ,
           which
           we
           have
           not
           to
           give
           ,
           and
           we
           having
           some
           credit
           to
           live
           upon
           in
           this
           prison
           where
           we
           are
           ,
           but
           have
           not
           any
           acquaintance
           nor
           can
           expect
           any
           credit
           in
           those
           prisons
           :
           which
           Warrants
           are
           procured
           for
           our
           prejudice
           (
           if
           we
           be
           removed
           hence
           ,
           without
           competent
           provision
           made
           for
           our
           Maintainance
           )
           it
           wil
           be
           inevitably
           to
           the
           destruction
           of
           us
           and
           losse
           of
           our
           lives
           ;
           we
           therefore
           being
           instructed
           thereunto
           by
           the
           law
           of
           nature
           ,
           warranted
           by
           the
           laws
           of
           God
           and
           laws
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           for
           the
           necessary
           preservation
           of
           our
           lives
           ,
           least
           we
           should
           become
           self-murderers
           ,
           do
           professe
           &
           declare
           to
           all
           the
           world
           and
           
           to
           the
           Speaker
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           that
           we
           cannot
           suffer
           our selves
           to
           be
           removed
           out
           of
           this
           Prison
           ,
           wherein
           we
           now
           are
           ,
           but
           by
           Force
           and
           Violence
           ,
           which
           we
           cannot
           withstand
           until
           such
           time
           as
           the
           honorable
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           have
           past
           their
           Ordinance
           for
           our
           future
           maintainance
           in
           those
           Prisons
           whereunto
           we
           shal
           be
           sent
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           by
           the
           same
           Ordinance
           take
           care
           of
           our
           Arrears
           and
           provide
           for
           the
           payment
           of
           such
           debts
           as
           we
           have
           contracted
           for
           our
           necessary
           subsistance
           in
           this
           prison
           of
           the
           Tower
           ;
           and
           this
           being
           done
           ,
           we
           shal
           willingly
           remove
           to
           those
           prisons
           they
           have
           appointed
           unto
           us
           ,
           provided
           that
           they
           be
           not
           infected
           with
           the
           Plague
           :
           Signed
           by
           us
           ,
           this
           9.
           day
           of
           October
           :
           1647.
           
        
         
           
             Henry
             Vaughan
             ;
             Wingfield
             Bodenham
             ;
             I.
             Slaughter
             ;
             David
             Ienkins
             ;
             Iohn
             Morley
             ;
             Thomas
             Lunsford
             ;
             William
             Morton
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .