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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88189	The free-mans freedom vindicated. Or A true relation of the cause and manner of Lievt. Col. Iohn Lilburns present imprisonment in Newgate, being thereunto arbitrarily and illegally committed, by the House of Peeres, Iune 11. 1646. for his delivering in, at their open barre, under his hand and seal, his protestation, against their incroaching upon the common liberties of all the commons of England, in endeavouring to try him, a commoner of England, in a criminall cause, contrary to the expresse tenour and forme of the 29. chap. of the great charter of England, and for making his legall and iust appeal to his competent, propper and legal tryers and judges, the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled.; Free-mans freedome vindicated.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2111; Thomason E341_12; ESTC R200906	12,654	12

under his hand and seale as also his appeal to your Honours his competent proper and legall Tryers and Iudges a true Coppy of which is hereunto annexed for which alone they committed your Petitioner to Newgate prison as appeares by the Coppy of their commitment hereunto annexed all which your Petitioner humbly conceives tends to the disfranchizing him of his just liberties and freedomes and so to the making him a slave and to the violation of their own Oathes and Covenants and to the utter subversion and alteration of the fundamentall Lawes and government of this Kingdome for the preservation of which so much blood and treasure hath already been spent Your Petitioner therefore as a free-man of England who to his knowledge never did any act that deserveth the forfeiting of his birth-right humbly appealleth to your honourable Bar and Justice as his proper competent legall tryers and Iudges and humbly prayeth For asmuch as he is a free Commoner of England and ought not to be proceeded against nor his liberties and freedomes to be taken from him in any arbitrary or extra-judiciall way And for that their Lordships have no power nor jurisdiction according to the Law and constitutions of this Kingdome to try and adjudge any free Commoner thereof for any criminall causes whatsoever concerning life limb liberty or estate And for that your Petitioner is imprisoned contrary to the form and tenour of the great Charter of England and therefore altogether illegall and meerly arbitrary That your Honours will be pleased according to your unparaleld Declaration of the 17th of April last whereby is set forth that you will not exercise nor suffer to be exercised by any other any arbitrary power but that you will provide for the safety and weal of the People the primitive end of all government according to the great trust reposed in you and committed to you by your Im powrers the Commons of England you will take your Petitioner into your protection and not suffer him any longer to be kept in prison and spoyled of his Franchizes and liberties but according to the said Charter of liberties your Protestations Oaths and Declarations the lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome he may freely be inlarged out of prison and restored to his just libertie with iust reparations for his damages for the great wrongs done unto him by his reproachfull imprisonment in the infamous prison of Newgate and the vindication and freeing of the whole Kingdome according to their long and iust expectation from the like usurpation and incroachments of their iust rights and privledges and your Petitioner shall ever be ready to spend his life for you and his Countries iust liberties and in obedience to all iust authority to answer any Charge when the same shall be in a legall way brought against him And your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray to God to enable you to go on to finish and perfect the great things expected from you according to the trust reposed in you JOHN LILBVRNE Newgate Iune 16. 1646. A Postscript containing a generall Proposition GOD the absolute Soveraign Lord and King of all things in heaven and earth the originall fountain and cause of all causes who is circumscribed governed and limited by no rules but doth all things meerly and onely by his soveraign will and unlimited good pleasure who made the world and all things therein for his own glory and who by his own will and pleasure gave man his meer creature the soveraignty under himselfe over all the rest of his Creatures Gen. 1.26.28.29 and indued him with a rationall soule or understanding and thereby created him after his own image Gen. 1.26.27 and 9.6 the first of which was Adam a male or man made out of the dust or clay out of whose side was taken a Rib which by the soveraign and absolute mighty creating power of God was made a female or Woman cal'd Eve which two are the earthly original fountain as begetters and bringers forth of all and every particular and individuall man and woman that ever breathed in the world since who are and were by nature all equall and alike in power digniy authority and majesty none of them having by nature any authority dominion or majesteriall power one over or above another neither have they or can they exercise any but meerely by institution or donation that is to say by mutuall agreement or consent given derived or assumed by mutuall consent and agreement for the good benefit and comfort each of other and not for the mischiefe hurt or damage of any it being unnaturall irrationall sinfull wicked and unjust for any man or men whatsoever to part with so much of their power as shall enable any of their Parliament men Commissioners Trustees deputies Viceroys Ministers Officers or servants to destroy and undoe them therewith And unnaturall irrationall sinfull wicked unjust divelish and tyranicall it is for any man whatsoever spirituall or temporall Cleargy-man or Lay-man to appropriate and assume unto himselfe a power authority and jurisdiction to rule govern or raign over any sort of men in the world without their free consent and whosoever doth it whether Cleargy-man or any other whatsoever doe thereby as much as in them lyes endeavour to appropriate assume unto themselves the Office and soveraignty of God who alone doth and is to rule by his will and pleasure and to be like their Creator which was the sinne of the Devils who not being content with their first station but would be like God for which sin they were thrown down into hell reserved in everlasting chaines under darknes unto the judgement of the great day Iude ver 6. And Adams sin it was which brought the curse upon him and all his posterity that he was not content with the station and condition that God created him in but did aspire unto a better and more excellent namely to be like his Creator which proved his ruin yea and indeed had been the everlasting ruin and destruction of him and all his had not God been the more mercifull unto him in the promised Messiah Gen. Chap. 3. From my Cock-loft in the Presse yard Newgate Iune 19. 1646. per me Iohn Lilburne Curteous Countrymen to fill up this vacant place I shall desire thee to reade the words of the Declaration of the House of Commons published 27. Ianu. 1641. which you shall find in the 41. pag. of the booke of Declarations thus And this House doth further declare That all such persons as have given any Councell or endeavoured to set or maintain division or dislike between the King and Parliament or have listed their names or otherwise entred into any combination or agreement to be ayding or assisting to any such counsell or endeavour or have perswaded any other so to doe or that shall do any the things above mentioned And shall not forthwith discover the same to either House of Parliament or the Speaker of either of the said Houses respectively and disclaime it are declared Publique Enemies of the State and Peace of this Kingdome and shall be inquired of and proceeded against accordingly Secondly the three Votes of both Houses May 20. 1642. which you shall find in the book of Declarations pa. 259. Resolved upon the Question 1 That it appeares That the King seduced by wicked Counsell Intends to make Warre against the Parliament who in all their consultations and actions have proposed no other end unto themselves but the care of His Kingdoms and the performance of all duty and loyalty to His Person Resolved upon the Question 2. That whensoever the King makes Warre upon the Parliament it is a breach of the trust reposed in Him by His people contrary to His Oath and tending to the dissolution of this Government Resolved upon the Question 3. That Whosoever shall serve or assist Him in such Warres are Traitors by the Fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome and have been so adjudged by two Acts of Parliament and ought to suffer as Traitors 11. Rich. 2. 1. Hen. 4. Joh Browne Cler. Parliament 3. The Declaration of both Houses in pa. 576. in these words Whereas the King c. 4. The words in their Declaration for the vindication of Ferdinando Lord Fairfax as you shall find pa. 914. in these words The said Lords c. FINIS