of England, and utterly detest: all such plots and
confederacies, as were entred into by Eusebius Andrews, lately
adjudged, by the High Court of Justice, to dye as a Traytor
for the same, yet deeply weighing, that of all the Fundamentall
Liberties of England, none were ever either by people or
Parliament, esteemed so precious, as Tryals by Juries, consisting
of indifferent, uningaged sworn men, although for facts of
highest Treason. against the very safety and being of the Common-wealth;
whereby the publique peace hath-been saved,
and justice done upon the greatest Traytors. And that for
preservation of the said just way of Tryals, the 29. Chap, of
Magna Charta, and the Petition of Right, were principally constituted,
and have been ever by our Ancestors exceedingly contended
for; and for which chiefly, the Parliament undertooke
their Warre against the late King, as without which Magna
Charta, and the Petition of Right, were both dead and uselesse
to the people.
And being well assured that the principal cause of abolishing
the High Commission, Councel-Table, and Star-Chamber (in all
which they never attempted life) was, for that they were contrary
to the 29, Chap. of Magna Charta, and the Petition of
Right, in proceeding without Juries. And being very sensible
of the manifest danger of Tryals by another way (without any
respect in the person of the said Andrews otherwise than
as bound in duty and Conscience, to preserve this our fundamentall
liberty, it deed our sole Liberty, and without which,
Liberty is but an empty name) Grieving at our very souls to
have seen the same violated more then ONCE in this kind, w[unr]
(after your Declarations of Febr. and March, 1648. to maintain
inviolable that most excellent Law (as you Call it) of the
Petition of Right, with all things incident and belonging to
the Lives, Liberties, and properties of the people of England)
We hoped would have been the last.
We therefore most earnestly intreat, that you will be pleased to
suspend execution of the said Eusebius Andrews, and to admit
unto him and to all other offenders whatsoever, the benefit of
Legall Tryals by Juries in an ordinary way, and that the