To the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Edward Dendy. Dendy, Edward. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82337 of text R212141 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[53]). 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. 5 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 A82337 Wing D988 Thomason 669.f.19[53] ESTC R212141 99870788 99870788 163390 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. A82337) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163390) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[53]) To the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Edward Dendy. Dendy, Edward. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb: 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Prisoners -- England -- Early works to 1800. Prisons -- England -- Overcrowding -- Early works to 1800. A82337 R212141 (Thomason 669.f.19[53]). civilwar no To the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Edward Dendy. Dendy, Edward. 1654 757 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. 2007-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion 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 .