Discovery of Free-State Tyranny, Title page – Frontispiece
A New Diſcovery OF FREE-STATE TYRANNY: Containing, Four Letters, together with a Subſequent Remonſtrance of ſeveral grievances and Demand of Common Right, by WILLIAM PRYNNE Eſquire; Written and ſent by him to Mr. John Bradſhaw and his Aſſociates AT WHITE-HALL (ſtiling themſelves, The Councel of State) after their two Years and three Months cloſe Impriſonment of him, under Soldiers, in the remote Caſtles of DUNSTER and TAUNTON (in Somerſetſhire) and PENDENNIS in Cornwall; before, yea without any Legal Accuſation, Examination, Inditement, Triall, Conviction, or Objection of any particular crime againſt him; or ſince declared to him; notwithſtanding his many former and late Demands made to them, to know his Offence and ACCUSERS.
Publiſhed by the Author, for his own Vindication; the Peoples common Liberty and Information; and his Impriſoners juſt Conviction of their Tyranny, Cruelty, Iniquity, towards him, under their miſnamed FREE-STATE.
Jer. 37. 18.
What have I offended againſt thee, or againſt thy Servants, or againſt this People, that ye have put me in priſon?
Acts 25. 27.
For it ſeemeth unto me unſeaſonable, to ſend a Priſoner, aud not with all to ſignifie the Crimes laid againſt him.
Acts 28. 17.
Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing againſt the People, or Cuſtomes of our Fathers; yet was I delivered Priſoner from Jeruſalem into the hand of the Romans.
Qu. Curtius. Hiſt. l. 6.
Verba Innocenti reper…e facile eſt, modum verborum miſero tenere difficile.
London Printed for the Author, and are to be ſold by Edward Thomas in Green Arbour, 1655.
All fleſh is Graſs, the best men vanity;
This, but a ſhadow, here before thine eye,
Of him, whoſe wondrous changes clearly show,
That GOD, not men, ſwayes all things here below.