The commoners complaint: or, A dreadful warning from Newgate, to the commons of England. Presented to the honourable committees for consideration of the commoners liberties. Wherein (as in a glasse) every free-man of England may clearly behold his own imminent insufferable bondage and slavery under the Norman-prerogative men of this kingdom, represented by the present sufferings of Richard Overton; who for his just vindication of the commoners rights and freedoms against the arbitrary domination of the House of Lords, hath by them bin imprisoned these 6 months in the goal of Newgate, his wife and his brother also by them most unjustly cast into Maiden Lane prison: ... Whereunto is annexed the respective appeales of his wife, and of his brother, unto the High Court of Parliament, the Commons of England assembled at Westminster.
Overton, Richard,active 1646.
[London : s.n.],
Printed anno Dom. 1646. [i.e. 1647]
Dated and signed at end: Feb. 1. 1647. Richard Overton.
Place of publication from Wing.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "feb: 10th".
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
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Thomason,
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Censorship
Detention of persons
England London.