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A88219	London's liberty in chains discovered. And, published by Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, Octob. 1646.; London's liberty in chains discovered. Part 1	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Lilburne, Elizabeth. To the chosen and betrusted knights, citizens and burgesses, assembled in the high and supream court of Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2139; Thomason E359_17; Thomason E359_18; ESTC R9983	57,117	77

Franchises And that they namely the Commonalty have not onely liberty to chuse their Lord Maior and that not onely from amongst the Court of Aldermen but also if they please they may chuse a discreet man from amongst themselves And the Commonalty in every Ward upon a fixed day are inabled once every yeare to chuse an Alderman in every Ward with an expresse Prohibition that one man shall not be Alderman two yeares together And the Commonalty expresly have a power to chuse Chamberlaine common Sergeant Bridge-master c. and to whom alone they are to be accountable for the moneys in their offices received Now having brought this Discourse to this period it behoves me a little to Apologize for my selfe because I beleeve I shall have a whole sea of indignation to arise against me which I heere professe I feare not nor value if I may have faire play and have not my hands and feet bound and then challeng to fight and defend my self And truly I must say and that in the presence of God I have in the singlenesse of my heart without ends of my owne discharged my conscience the boylings of which I could not withstand being at the writing hereof in Jeremies case when he said pleading with God Thy word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my Bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay Jer. 20.9 But yet because what-ever I meet with besides I perswade my selfe I am sure to meet with the revilings and reproches of the barking curs of the times such as S. Shipard c. who in my close captivity have nibbled at my heeles like brats of the old Serpent I shall therefore for my present apologie publish to the view of the world the dealings of Mr. Iohn White a Warder in the Tower with me who lately writ a most false and scandalous book against me with much importuning the Lieutenant of the Tower being prohibited Pen Ink and Paper I obtained leave from him upon certain conditions made with him to write an answer to it which was that I should not in the least meddle with his masters that committed me and to let him see it before it was printed which I performed But my Angatonist old Iohn White as it appears to me hearing the Answer was very plain and home English sent me a message by a Gentleman my fellow-prisoner That he desired to put the difference betwixt us to arbitration And I being a man of peace and willing to avoid jangling if it were possible upon agreement to compose it I did chuse two of my fellow prisoners strangers to me and men of opposite principles but knowing the Justice of my cause and being convinced of the morall Justice of the Gentlemen I chose Sir Lewis Dive and Sir William Morton and he chuse Sir John Strangewayes and Sir John Glanvill and the first day of the hearing of the businesse was before Col. Francis West Lieutenant of the Tower at his own house where we both referred our selves to stand to the finall award of our foresaid Arbitrators at which hearing they were pleased to give my Antagonist certain dayes time to procure Witnesses to prove the essentials of his Charge and he out-stripping the time and I lying under his publike disgrace and calumny I pressed them for a conclusion upon which they issued out this following Warrant WE whose names are subscribed Arbitrators indifferently chosen to end all differences betwixt Lieutenant-Colonell John Lilburn of the one party and Mr. John White one of the Warders of the Tower of the other party have appointed to morrow next at three of the clock in the afternoon at Mr. Lieutenants house in the said Tower further to hear and finally to determine the said differences whereof wee desire the said parties to take notice and then to be present with their Witnesses and all such proofe as they will use in the premises Given under our hands this 5. of October 1646. John Glanvill John Strangewayes Lewis Dive William Morton But the next day the Lieutenants office not permitting him to be present at the finall hearing we all met at Sergeant Glanvils Chamber where after a large and faire hearing they made this award under their hands and seales the Copy of which thus followeth TO all true Christian people to whom these presents indented shall come We Sir John Strangewayes Sir Lewis Dive Sir John Glanvill and Sir William Morton Knights Arbitrators heretofore that is to say upon the 26. day of Septemb. last past before the date hereof indifferently chosen by Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn of the one party and John White one of the Warders of the Tower of London of the other party for the ending of all differences and matters of controversie betwixt them having entred into the hearing of the said differences and matters of controversie upon the said 26. day of September and having upon the 6 day of this instant moneth of Octob. 1646. in the 22. Yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraign Lord King Charles fully heard the said differences and matters of controversie Doe find the same to be and arise by and upon the writing and publishing in print of a certain Book entituled John Whites Defence in behalf of himself c. against a lying and scandalous Pamphlet written by John Lilburn entituled Liberty vindicated against Slavery In the 7. p. of which Book to written and published by the said John White he intimateth That the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn was and is the Author of another scandalous Libell entituled An Alarum to the House of Lords and in a Postscript added to the same Book of the said John White pag. the 12 he alleadgeth the said Lieut. Col. John Lilburn to be the Author and contriver of a printed Letter annexed to the said Book or Treatise of Liberty vindicated against Slavery of which Letter hee rehearseth a passage reflecting in a scandalous way upon the honourable houses of Parliament Of which Book entituled John Whites Defence the said John White confesseth and acknowledgeth himself to be the Author and Publisher But the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn denied himself to be in any sort the Writer Contriver Author or publisher of the said other Books Treatise and Letter or of any of them or that he had any hand direction or approbation in or concerning the writing printing or publishing of the same or any of them And the said John White did not at our entring into the hearing of the said differences and matters of controversie nor at any time since produce or offer unto us any sufficient proofs by witnesses or otherwise Wherby it did or might appear unto us That the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn was the Writer Contriver Author or publisher of the said Bookes Letters and Treatise so by him denied as aforesaid or of any of them And the said John White being now offered further time to produce his witnesses or other good proofs which he had to

insist upon for the making good of the severall Imputations in and by his the said John Whites book laid and fixed upon the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn He the said Iohn White absolutely refused to take any further time in that behalf expresly saying hee would travell no more in it We the said Arbitrators upon due consideration of the whole premises aforesaid a●e c●eer of opinion That the said Iohn White as the ca●e hath been is represented appearing before us had no sufficient ground to write print or publish That the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn was the Writer or Author of the said Bookes Treatise and Letter or any of them But that the said Iohn White in and by his writing p●inting and publishing of his said Book entituled Iohn Whites Defence c. in manner and form as aforesaid hath unjustly scandalized the said L. Col. ●ohn ●ilburn And thefore we the said Arbitrat●●s do most unanimously ●ward That the said Iohn White shall before the 10. day of this instant moneth of October make a publike acknowledgment before Col. Francis West Lieutenant of the said Tower of London at his the said Lieutenants house in the said Tower That he the said Iohn White hath done the said Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn wrong and shal make and pronounce the said acknowledgment in these words following That is to say I Iohn White one of the Warders of the Tower of London Do acknowledge that I have unjustly wronged Lieutenant Col. I. Lilburn in and by my writing and publishing in print in such sort as I did That he was the Writer Author or Contriver of a Book called Liberty vindicated against Slavery And of a Printed Letter thereunto annexed And of a Booke called An Alarum to the House of Lords For all which and for all the unjust and scandalous matters and language alleadged and used by me in my said Booke reflecting upon the said Lieutenant Col. Lilburn I am heartily sorry We the said Arbitrators doe also award That after the said Iohn VVhite hath so made and pronounced the said acknowledgment before the said Mr. Lieutenant Hee the said Iohn White shall then deliver his said acknowledgment in writing subscribed by him the said Iohn VVhite into the custody of the said Lieutenant Colonell Iohn Lilburn to be by him kept and disposed of for his better vindication against the said scandals said upon him by the said Iohn White in his the said Iohn VVhites said Book Lastly we the said Arbitrators do award That this our award shall be a finall end of all differences and matters of controversie whatsoever betwixt the said Lieut. Col. I. Lilburn and the said Iohn White to us or to our award in any wise submitted by the said parties from the beginning of the world unto the day of their said submission to our award so farre as the same doth or may concern the said parties or either of them in their particulars and that the said parties from henceforth shall continue lovers and friends without any repetition of former injuries on either part And for the better clearing of the said Iohn White in his credit touching some rumours of couzenage and perjury by him supposed to be committed or touching his being forsworn lately scattered abroad to his discredit We the said Arbitrators do unanimously declare that we have not found any colour much lesse any just ground to fix upon the said Iohn VVhite any suspition of or for the same or any part thereof But doe thereof in our opinions absolutely cleer him Given under our hands and seales the 7. day of Octob. aforesaid 1646. John Strangwaies Lewis Dives John Glanvill William Morton But the Lieutenant not being willing for causes best knowne to himself that the submission or recantation should be made before or in his presence it was done at Lir John Glanvils chamber the Copy of which thus followeth I John White one of the Warders of the Tower of London Doe acknowledge that I have unjustly wronged Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn in and by my writing and publishing in print in such sort as I did that he was the Writer Author or Contriver of a Booke called Liberty vindicated against Slavery and of a Printed Letter thereunto annexed and of a Book or Treatise called An Alarum to the House of Lords For all which and for the unjust and scandalous matters and language alleadged and used by me in my said Book reflecting upon the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn I am heartily sorry and in testimony thereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand the 8. day of October 1646. JOHN WHITE Subscribed pronounced and accepted the 9. day of Octob. 1646 in the presence of us Knights John Strangwaies Lewis Dive Iohn Glanvill William Morton Henry Vaughan Christopher Comport Warder in the Tower And now to conclude at the present because there is not any discourse of mine own abroad in Prin● since I was first locked up so close as I was by the Lords in Newgate by way of Narrative to state my case to the world I shall it may bee informe and silence many mens rash censures by inserting first my Wifes late Petition to the House of Commons and because by a Gentleman of the Committee to whom my cause was referred it was judged a D●claration rather then a Petition and so unfit to be insisted upon any further after once reading there although I am not apt to think if I had been a man accustomed to write Letters to my Lord Cottington when he was at Oxford at that time when by Ordinance of Parliament it was little lesse then death so to doe her Petition and my cause would have found more favour from that Gentleman then they did whose cavels necessitated me to send a Petition of my own to the same Committee which I sha●l also insert But first of all my wifes Petition thus followeth To the Chosen and betrusted Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in the high and supream Court of PARLIAMENT The Humble Petition of ELIZABETH LILBURNE wife to Lieu. Col. JOHN LILBURNE who hath been for above eleven weeks by-past most unjustly divorced from him by the House of Lords and their tyrannicall Officers against the Law of GOD and as she conceives the law of the Land Sheweth THat you only and alone are chosen by the Commons of England to maintain their Lawes and Liberties and to do them justice and right a a Coll. of decl pag. 264. 336. 382 508 613. 705. 711. 716 721 724 725 726 729. 730. which you have often before God and the World sworn to do b b Coll. decl page ●6● 6●● protestation ● and covena●● yea and in divers of your Declarations declared it is your duty in regard of the trust reposed in you so to doe c c Coll. decl pag. 81● 17● 262 266 267 340 459. 462 471 473 5●● 690. without any private aimes personall respects or passions whatsoever d d Col. declar p. 464 490