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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88195	An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, and his son in law Henry Ireton Esquires, late Members of the late forcibly dissolved House of Commons, presented to publique view; by Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilburn close prisoner in the Tower of London, for his real, true and zealous affections to the liberties of his native country. In which following discourse or impeachment, he engageth upon his life, either upon the principles of law ... or upon the principles of Parliaments ancient proceedings, or upon the principles of reason ... before a legal magistracy, when there shal be one again in England ... to prove the said Oliver Cromwel guilty of the highest treason that ever was acted in England, and more deserving punishment and death then the 44 judges hanged for injustice by King Alfred before the Conquest; ... In which are also some hints of cautions to the Lord Fairfax, for absolutely breaking his solemn engagement with his souldiers, &c. to take head and to regain his lost credit in acting honestly in time to come; ... In which is also the authors late proposition sent to Mr Holland, June 26. 1649. to justifie and make good at his utmost hazard ... his late actions or writings in any or all his books.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2116; Thomason E568_20; ESTC R204522	95,549	77

but acquaint you for all the fair dealing my wife supposeth to finde abroad I am informed since Hast write to you That there is one Thomas Verney * * Which Thomas Verney is son to Sir Edward Verney the Kings Standard Bearer who was slain at Edg-Hill which Verney though he was Traveller yet is lately become an Agent of the Derby house Committee and Councel of State who as I am from very good hands informed they imployed to the Hague to lay a design to put the Prince on Ship-board and so send him for England to lose his head as his Father hath done but Verney being a little discovered comes lately over into England and amongst some pretends to be an Agent from the Prince and upon that score the Councel of State imployes him to write Letters of Friendship to me and to enter into treaty with me to betray Oxford c. to whom I will appoint that so if I had treated with him by his testimony they might have taken away my life for a Traytor in holding correspondency with the Prince by his Agents For the refusing to swear I so did honest young Master Blank being thereunto much perswaded and promised large bribes by Sir Arthur Haslerig but especially upon the 23 of April last as that alone for which they would take away my life was forced by Sir Arthur Haslerig the covetous and blood-thirsty Governor of Newcastle Ireton Pride c. to run the Gantlop at Saint James whom they whipped most barbarously and inhumanely therefore as by his Printed Testimony under his hand dated the 20 of April 1649. now in Print in Mercurius Militaris Number 3 he declares But knowing Verney before I saw him I was to hard for the Knave and have his Letters by me which I have several times told the Lieutenant of the Tower of that the Councel of State hath lately received his Oath against me in order to some tryal the Copy of whose Letters dated the eighth ninth and eleventh of May 1649. I have ordered my wife to bring you also a Surrey Justice of Peace being yesterday at a friends House in London declared He understood I was the third of July next to be tryed at Croyden Assizes Reports sometimes are but reports But if these should be true I may draw many inferences from them but whether true or false I shall not be altogether unprovided In the third place I am newly told it is intended that I and my three Comrades shall have our Liberties by an Act of Grace I confess if upon the day time any shall come up to my Chamber and say All the Gates are opened on purpose for me to go out I will take my liberty and go to my own house c. let the Gates be opened by whom they will but yet an Act of Grace is so ugly a thing in reference to my own innocency that I loath the thoughts of it in that sence For if I had been a condemned Felon I should have expected at the end of a Session of Parliament my portion in an Act of Grace and though I shall not be so much a fool but to take my liberty by it yet though I perish for it I must declare publikely abroad my Reasons to the Nation That those that sent us hither more stand in need of an Act of Grace from us then we from them Sir I love to be plain with any man I deal with as abhorring to accomplish my ends upon any man by deceit and therefore intreat you to desire Master Holland to think seriously upon my late Letter to him That I may have some kinde of answer from him by the day prefixt and send me my Ordinance and the Printed Sheet of Paper I sent you with it So with my love remembred to you I rest As much an Englishman as ever John Lilburn Tower the 29. of June 1649. And accordingly Master Holland sent me a large Letter dated from Sommerset House the 2. of July 1649. But although it takes notice of my foregoing Letter to him of the 26 of June 1649. yet it hath not one word of a direct answer to the three main things I therein desire of him that I can read in all his being meerly a Discourse built upon mistakes for I must here in a fair way tell him I have not in the least changed my principles but he his as I will upon the hazard of the greatest disgrace in the world make evidently appear to his face before any rational men in England whensoever he pleaseth Therefore I say I am no way by my foresaid Letter engaged to silence but am free at Liberty to prosecute my fixed intentions before the writing thereof which was to lay a firm foundation for my late promised Second part of the Legal Fundamental Liberties of the people of England revived asserted and maintained and fully to treat upon all those Heads mentioned in the last page of it being 9. And because I intend and hope I have matter enough already to make it the master-peece of all that ever I have writ And because unadvoidably it must have a dependency on what here follows which would make it to large to be therein Printed therefore I must go on with my former intended thoughts to publish in Print my impeachment of High Treason yet never extant to publique view against Lieutenant General Oliver Cromwel and his son in law Commissary General Henry Ireton as I formerly delivered it openly at the Bar of the House of Commons the nineteenth of January 1647. Which with the Preamble or Introduction thereunto belonging thus followeth UPon Munday the 17. Jan. 1647. I was at the h●●se of one Mr. Williams a Gardiner in Ratcliff-high-way neer East Smithfield where I met with divers honest men Inhabitants thereabouts about a Petition now on foot amongst whom was one Mr. Masterson the Parson or Priest of Shoreditch neer London who as since I am told came pretendedly as a Scrupler but said never a word there as I heard coming resolvedly to catch and intrap as by the sequel of his carriages appears For the next day being Tuesday up he comes with a full careere to the House of Lords as if he had been running for a fat Benefice as I was informed makes a most desperate complaint against Mr. John Wildman and my self as though under the pretence of managing a Petition we carried on a desperate design to destroy or cut the throats of the Parliament men and the execution of our desperate designs could not be far off for that I had as he said appointed blew Ribbons to be the sign to be worn in our hats to know one another by upon that day And after he had given in some such information as this with much more of the like nature at the Lords Bar where without doubt it was hugg'd to the purpose and rejoyced in as the issue of a design of their own brain to blast without all peradventure as