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 ink, and paper, and no body uffered to viit him; however, he found means to write another petition, renewing his appeal to the Houe of Commons, which being delivered by his wife, September the 23d, a committee was appointed to hear and report his complaint againt the Lords. Sir Henry Martin was chairman of this committee, before whom our author made his firt plea in the inner Court of Wards, on the lat day of October, and was heard again by them in the Exchequer-chamber, November the 6th following, but no report being made to the Houe, he ent a copy of his econd plea before the Committee to Sir Henry Martin, and afterwards printed it under the title of The Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny. Not content with the jutice done to himelf in this performance, he publihed, not long afterwards, another book entitled, The oppreed Man’s Oppreion declared, &c. in which he complained of the injury done to him by the Houe of Commons, in their deferring to take his cae into conideration, and threatening to raie the people in his defence, he proceeds to charge that Houe, not only with having of late years done nothing for the general good, bur alo, with having made many ordinances notoriouly unjut and oppreive. Whereupon the whole impreion was