The Petition of Right

V. and that divers Subjects have been imprisoned without Cause shewn, or Cause of Detainer certified;

Neverthelesse against the tenor of the said Statutes and other the good Lawes and Statutes of your Realme to that end p[ro]vided, divers of your Subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause shewed: And when for their deliverance they were brought before your Justices by your Majesties Writts of Habeas corpus there to undergoe and receive as the Court should order, and their Keepers co[m]maunded to certifie the causes of their detayner, no cause was certified, but that they were deteined by your Majesties speciall co[m]maund signified by the Lords of your Privie Councell, and yet were returned backe to severall prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make aunswere according to the Lawe.