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 eized, and our author, by a warrant directed to the erjeant at arms, February the 8th, was fetched before the Committee for uppreing candalous pamphlets; where, having obtained an expres order from the chairman [Corbet] to et open the doors, contrary to their uual practice of keeping cloe Committees on uch occaions, he acknowledged the writing, printing, and publihing of the book, in puruance of the quetion put to him, and the affair was never proecuted any farther. But as he had herein departed from his contantly avowed principle of not anwering to interogatories [sic] againt himelf, and his friends appeared to be uneay upon it, therefore, to prevent any ill conequences that might enue from that quarter, he wrote a piece hortly after for their atisfaction, and publihed it on the 30th of April 1647, with the following extraordinary title, The Reolved Man’s Reolution to maintain with the lat drop of his heart’s blood, his civil Liberties and Freedoms, granted unto him by the good, jut and honet Laws of England his native Country; and never to it till, o long as he has a Tongue to peak, or a Hand to write, ’till he hath either neceitated his Adveraries, the Houe of Lords, and their arbitrary Aitants in the Houe of Commons, either to do him Jutice and Right, by