A whip for the marshalls court and their officers the petition of Robert Robins gent. to the House of Commons against the abuses practised in the marshalls court, and a discovery of the jurisdiction and priviledge of that court, with some of the particular greevances the subjects suffer under the pretended authority threof ... written for the releife and redresse of all that have, or hereafter shall be arrested or wronged there : with directions where to repaire for advice and assistance therein, and how and where to get restitution for the same / by Ro. Robins.
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- A whip for the marshalls court and their officers the petition of Robert Robins gent. to the House of Commons against the abuses practised in the marshalls court, and a discovery of the jurisdiction and priviledge of that court, with some of the particular greevances the subjects suffer under the pretended authority threof ... written for the releife and redresse of all that have, or hereafter shall be arrested or wronged there : with directions where to repaire for advice and assistance therein, and how and where to get restitution for the same / by Ro. Robins.
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- Robins, Robert.
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- [1648?]
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- Justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.
- Denial of justice -- Great Britain.
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"A whip for the marshalls court and their officers the petition of Robert Robins gent. to the House of Commons against the abuses practised in the marshalls court, and a discovery of the jurisdiction and priviledge of that court, with some of the particular greevances the subjects suffer under the pretended authority threof ... written for the releife and redresse of all that have, or hereafter shall be arrested or wronged there : with directions where to repaire for advice and assistance therein, and how and where to get restitution for the same / by Ro. Robins." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57415.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 10, 2025.
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TO THE READER,
SIR.
HAving by the malice of the false and cruell Marshalls mens periuries, an opportunity to ••ivulge what I long since intended, their false swearing the last Term, procuring me a Prison, leasure to manifest the Iurisdicti∣on of that Court, and to discover some of their abuses, and vile extortions by the assistance of the Printers Presse to your view, hereby intreating you to per∣ruse this little booke, and then to repaire to me, either in the Fleete, or at the three Pigeons in King-street West∣minster, where I shall not faile to bee, and satisfie you the true course that the Law of England hath in this Case, pro¦vided whereby you may recover not only what expence or charge, or summes of money it hath cost you, or you have paid by any arest or suit there, but also dammage for your false imprisonment thereby susteyned, by due and iust
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Course in Law (every Arrest by a Marshalls man made being cleerely (as I shall shew you) false Im∣prisonment, And I shall shew you Iudgements, for pre∣sident in the Case, and shall let you farther to know where to levy any Iudgement upon Persons whose Estates are responceable untill which time I am
Your most humble Servant to Command: RO. ROBINS.
From my Iron Cage in the Fleet, 29th. of August 1647.