o death according to the law martial.

VIII. By pretext whereof, some of your majesty's subjects have been by
some of the said commissioners put to death, when and where, if by the
laws and statutes of the land they had deserved death, by the same laws
and statutes also they might, and by no other ought, to have been judged
and executed.

IX. And also sundry grievous offenders, by color thereof claiming an
exemption, have escaped the punishments due to them by the laws and
statutes of this your realm, by reason that divers of your officers
and ministers of justice have unjustly refused or forborne to proceed
against such offenders, according to the same laws and statutes, upon
pretence that the said offenders were punishable only by martial law,
and by authority of such commissions as aforesaid; which commissions,
and all other of like nature, are wholly and directly contrary to the
said laws and statutes of this your realm.

X. They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent majesty That no
man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence,
tax, or such like charge, without common consent, by act of parliament;
and that none be called to make answer, or take such oath, or to
give attendance, or be confined, or otherways molested or disquieted
concerning the same, or for refusal thereof; and that no freeman, in any
such manner as is before mentioned, be imprisoned or detained; and that
your majesty would be pleased to remove the said soldiers and mariners,
and that people may not be so burdened in time to come; and that the
aforesaid commissions, for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked
and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue
forth, to any person or persons whatsoever, to be executed as aforesaid,
lest, by color of them, any of your majesty's subjects be destroyed, or
put to death, contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.

XL All which they most humbly pray of your most excellent majesty, as
their rights and liberties, according to the laws and statutes of this
realm; and that your majesty would also vouchsafe to declare, That the
awards, doings, and proceedings to the prejudice of your people, in
any of the premises, shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or
example; and that your majesty would be also graciously pleased, for the
further comfort and safety of your people, to declare your royal will
and pleasure, that in the things aforesaid,