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• To the Right Honorable the representative power of the people of England in Parliament assembled at Westminster. : The humble petition of all the imprisoned persons for debt, inslaved within the severall prisons of this land, by the law of cruelty, injustice, tyranny and oppression.
  Published: (1649)
• A petition to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, the Lords spirituall and temporall, and Commons of the Parliament now assembeld. VVherein is declared the mischiefes and inconueniences, arising to the King and Common-wealth, by the imprisoning of mens bodies for debt
  Published: (1622)
• The crie of bloud: : or, the humble answer in the behalf of the prisoners for debt in the Marshalsey of the Upper Bench, Fleet, &c. to the frivolous reasons of the filacers, attornies, &c, practicing at VVestminster for the maintenance of the Capias, and arrest of men's bodies for debt, or rather of their extortions, and unlawful gains made thereof upon the ruine as well of the plaintifs as defendants, and murthers of thousands, &c. Dedicated in their names, and behalf to his Excellence Oliver Cromwel, Lord General of the Parlament's armie. Whereunto is added two cases; 1. concerning justice, 2. concerning tithes. /
  by: Jones, John, of Neyath, Brecon
  Published: (1651)
• An act for the relief of creditors and poor prisoners. : Wednesday the 5th of October, 1653. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.
  Published: (1653)
• A Brief dialogue between creditor & prisoner; : clearly setting forth how both of them have been shamefully abused for many years: with a short and easie way to free all prisoners for debt, with a just care of all creditors; and fully satisfactory to all such who have any religion or morall honesty.
  Published: (1653)