A pitifvll relation of the Kings prison keeper at Oxford [microform] : shewing the most transcendent cruelties, threatnings, cozenings, and base dishonest dealings of William Smith , provost marsall generall of the Kings army, against the Parliament prisoners under his custodie, as it was delivered at the barr in the House of Commons by one, who with many others, were sworn before the Lords, assembled in Parliament, and were prisoners in Oxford six moneths, being further confirmed by Captaine Wingate in the Commons House, hee being member of the said House, and some time prisoner in Oxford, the space of nine moneths : together, with the copy of a letter from a gentleman of qualitie, confirming the former particulars : also the copy of a pitition and articles exhibited to the King, his councell of warre against Smith : likewise a letter to the speaker, subscibed [sic] with three score and ten prisoners hands : whereunto is added the unsufferable crueties, exercised upon the Cirencester men, in their passage to Oxford, and at Oxford, in the castle and Bridewell, when they were taken / written by Edm. Chittenden.
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| Other title: | Pitifull relation of the Kings prison keeper at Oxford. |
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| Language: | English |
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Printed at London :
By G.D. for Iohn Bull,
1643.
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| Series: | Early English books, 1641-1700 ;
1664:38. |
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