irited, nor
put to death, without being brought to answer by due process of law.

V. Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes, and other the
good laws and statutes of your realm to that end provided, divers of
your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed; and
when, for their deliverance, they were brought before justice, by your
majesty's writs of habeas corpus there to undergo and receive as the
court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the causes of
their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by
your majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your privy
council, and yet were returned back to several prisons, without being
charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the
law.

VI. And whereas of late great companies of soldiers and mariners have
been dispersed into divers counties of the realm, and the inhabitants,
against their wills, have been compelled to receive them into their
houses, and there to suffer them to sojourn, against the laws and
customs of this realm, and to the great grievance and vexation of the
people.

VII. And whereas also, by authority of parliament, in the five and
twentieth year of the reign of King Edward III., it is declared and
enacted, That no man should be forejudged of life or limb, against the
form of the Great Charter and law of the land; and, by the said Great
Charter, and other the laws and statutes of this your realm, no man
ought to be judged to death but by the laws established in this
your realm, either by the customs of the same realm, or by acts of
parliament; and whereas no offender, of what kind soever, is exempted
from the proceedings to be used, and punishments to be inflicted by
the laws and statutes of this your realm; nevertheless, of late divers
commissions, under your majesty's great seal, have issued forth, by
which certain persons have been assigned and appointed commissioners,
with power and authority to proceed within the land, according to the
justice of martial law, against such soldiers and mariners, or other
dissolute persons joining with them, as should commit any murther,
robbery, felony, mutiny, or other outrage or misdemeanor whatsoever, and
by such summary course and order as is agreeable to martial law, and
as is used in armies in time of war, to proceed to the trial and
condemnation of such offenders, and them to cause to be executed and put
t