To his Excellency the Lord Generall Cromwell and to the rest of the Right Honourable the Councel of State, patriots and defenders of the common-laws and liberties of the Common-wealth of England The humble petition of many thousands of prisoners for debt, in severall prisons of a[l]lthe counties of England and Wales; remonstrating the illegality of the arrests, out-lawries and imprisonments for debt, being the saddest grievance, and of the most considerable concernment to all the free people of this nation (s.n, 1653)
Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 1. 1653". - At end: Signed by Sir William Smith K. in the behalf of himself and the prisoners aforesaid. - Imprint from Wing. - Reproduction of the original in the British Library. - Thomason, 669.f.17[28]. - Wing (2nd ed.), T1353