The cry of the oppressed being a true and tragical account of the unparallel'd sufferings of multitudes of poor imprisoned debtors in most of the gaols in England ... together with the case of the publisher.

From Debtor's-Hall in the Toll-Booth in Cambridg.

SIR,

WE the poor Prisoners for Debt, are so Impoverished by long Imprisonment, that we have not Bread to Eat, and are some∣times forced to Drink Water, for Six of us that are in Debtor's-Hall, some have been here almost Seven Years, and some Five, others Three, and therefore we are extream poor, and have not wherewith to subsist; we have only a Basket twice a Week, and that is all, a little broken Meat, and a few Crusts of Bread. As for the Debtors in the House, there are Se∣ven of them, Four Men, and Three Women, and they are all very poor, and indeed it is a very poor Prison: Therefore we do all give you many thanks for your Care and Pains in the promoting and putting forward an Act for our Redemption: And the Great God of Hea∣ven and Earth Bless you in your proceedings.

And this is all we poor Debtors can say, or do, only pray for You and Yours, whose Names are under-written, in the behalf of the rest, Rubin Guter, Samuel Welles, &c.

October the 4th, 1690.