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    provoked by the cruelty of the creditor or carelessness of the debtor . And all such poor prisoners as are in want , and not

    able to work , may be released and relieved , that so prisons may neither be places of protection to men of estates , nor of destruction to such as laave none .

    "The answer by some of the prisoners to the first proposition was , that they thought it reasonable , so as they might have like relief against their debtors .

    " Others said that they lay in prison for other men * s debts , who died men of great estates , and left them to descend to their children in tayle , and they prayed their estates might be made liable to pay their debts .

    " Others said they were imprisoned unjustly at the suit of corporations , and those corporations were indebted to thern ^ and prayed that a law might be made to make corporations liable to pay their debts .

    C 4 Divers prisoners complained thatthey were kept in prison by feigned actions , and no declarations upon them , to shew for what cause ; and when they had been

    so imprisoned three terms , because then they might free themselves upon common bail , their adversaries would lay other feigned actions upon the > m , and so they were never like to get out .

    " These and many otherthings of moment , for redress in these cases , are under consideration , and to he presented to the Council of State for present relief . " Of the committee named on the

    title-page , Colonel Pride is famous for that act of military violence in 1048 , when he forcibly detained

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    from the House certain Common * ers obnoxious to his party , a transaction which was ludicrously described as Pride ' s purge . He and Colonel Tomlinson had sat

    among the kings judges . The latter had commanded the guard during Charles ' s imprisonment and on the scaffold . To his humane conduct in this office Wood , the

    royalist , bears the following testimony : c 4 Coll . Math . Tonalinson * wheresoever he was about the king was so civil , both towards his

    Majesty and such as attended him , as gained him the king ' s good opinion , and , as an evidence thereof , he gave him his gold pick-tooth , case , as he was one time walking in the presence chamber / ' ( Ath . Ox . ii . 700 . )

    Milton in his History of England , considering the case of Cam nute , says , ' * It is a fond conceit in many great ones , to cease from no violence till they have attained the utmost of their ambitions and

    desires ; and then , lastly , to grow zealous of doing right when they have no longer need to do wrong . " Milton might possibly have had Cromwell in his recol-.

    lection , who well exemplified the remark . He threw off the republican vizor , Wtiich he had worn so successfully , and forcibly ejected from their House the remainder

    of the Long Parliament , April 20 , 1653 ; commencing his government with the appointment of this committee . According to Old * mixon ' s House of Stuart , ( Fol . p # 414 , ) " The first act of civil go * vernment which Cromwell and his

    council exercised , was their exam * ining the grievances and oppressions committed by Sir John Lenthall [ brother of the Speaker ! in n ^ anag-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 503, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/15/