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A88208	The just mans justification: or A letter by way of plea in barre; written by L. Col. John Lilburne. to the Honrble Justice Reeves, one of the justices of the Common-wealths courts, commonly called Common Pleas wherein the sinister and indirect practises of Col. Edward King against L. Col. Lilburne, are discovered. 1. In getting him cast into prison for maxy [sic] weekes together, without prosecuting any charge against him. 2. In arresting him upon a groundlesse action of two thousand pound in the Court of Common Pleas; thereby to evade and take off L. C. Lilburns testimony to the charge of high treason given in against Col. King, and now depending before the Honourable House of Commons hereunto annexed. In which letter is fully asserted and proved that this cause is only tryable in Parliament, and not in any subordinate court of justice whatsoever.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2126; Thomason E407_26; ESTC R202758	35,413	28

your selves to desire me safely to state my cause to you that so too morrow at the grand Councell of the Army you might be able cleerly to expresse your results about it and desires to the Parliament upon it In briefe the case is thus after my deliverance out of Oxford Castle I was made Major by Lievt Gen. Crumw●ll means to Col. Edward King in Lincolneshire who severall wayes betrayed his trust and did divers such actions that he deserved by the Articles of warre and Ordinance of Parliament to loose his life of which I according to my duty and the trust reposed in me complained to my then Generall the Earle of Manchester and Lievt Gen. Crumwell and with indefatigable paines for divers moneths together spent good store of my own money about it but could not from the hands of my then Generall obtaine one dram of effective justice upon Col. King saying the lose of his great and many commands although the Committee of Lincolnshire and the Magistrates of Boston and Lievt G. Crumwell were all prosecutors as well as my sel●e Whereupon in August 1644 Mr. Mussenden and Mr. Wolley and divers of the Committee of Lincolne preferred a formall impeachment of high treason according to Ordinance of Parliament and the rules of Warre to the House of Commons containing 22. Articles against the aforesaid Col Edward King which they caused to be printed and which I reprinted at the latter end of my Epistle to Iudge Reeves da●ted Iune 6. 1646 in the 4. and ●2 Articles of which they possitively accuse him for traiterously betraying Crowland and Grantham into the hands of the Cavieleers then professed enemies in Armes to the Pa●li●ment and my selfe being an active prosecuter of King to bring him to a tryall in the House of Commons upon the said impeachment by way of revenge he confederates with D. Bastwick then bitter against me for my constant activitie against the persecuting Presbyterian Government and upon the 12 of Iuly 1645. joyntly with him sends a Which said lying and false paper you may read in the 8. p. of Bastwicks most abusive printed defence against me of the 9. of August 1645. and in the 6. page of Pryns base and lying book called the Lyar confounded in unto the Speaker or some other of the House of Commons a most lying false malicious paper under their hands against Col. Ir●ton Mr. Hawlins and my selfe about 60000. l. that then was said to be sent to Oxford by the Speaker information of which was that day in the morning given into a Committee of the house of Commons by 3. Citiz●ns of London viz Mr. Pr●tty Mr. Rawson and Mr. Worly whereupon about 8. or 9 a clock at night by the Speakers means in the House of Commons contrary to all equitie law justice and conscience w●thout either knowing my accuser or accusation or so much as being called into their House though then at their doore to speake one word for my selfe voted by the House into the custody of the Serjeant at Armes b Wh●ch Order you may read in the 13 pag. of my answer to Pryn called Jnnocency and truth justified dated in Decemb. 1645. and as prisoner without any more adoe I remained with his man Knight till the 9. of August 1645 at which time corrupt Mr. Lawrence Whittaker and the rest of the Committee of Examination most illegally contrary to all law committed me to Newgate prison for refusing to answer to their unjust Interrogatories concerning my selfe c Which illegall order you may also read in the 17. pag of the aforesaid Innoceny c. and my foresaid malicious enemies by their powerfull interest prevailed with the house of Commons upon the 26. of August 1645. to make an expresse Order to try me at Newgate Sessions d Which mal●cious order you may likewise read in the 30. pag of the aforesaid Innocency and Truth justified before Mr. Glyn Recorder of London my professed enemy and who as I was told had threatned my utter distruction and in all likelyhood I had hanged for it if God had not inabled me fully and effectually to have staited my cas● w●th my pen which I presented in print to the wo●ld e And which by the Author of Englands Birth-right is reprinted at the beginning of that not able book and my ●ury before they passed upon me which as I was told gave them such ample satisfaction that they would not meddle with me and so by spec●a●l order of the House of Commons of the 14. of October 1645. I was freely discharged f Which discharge you ma● read in the 35. pag. of Innocency and truth justied without being ever charged by any man all that time legally with the least crime in the world the whole story of my then unjust usage you may fully read in my book called Innocency and truth justified being ignorant to this very houre of the true or declared cause wherefore I was so committed and tossed and tumbled by the House of Commons saving but for what I find in Bastwicks and Pryns abusive books mentioned before in the Mergent And being at liberty I followed my Star-Chamber businesse then depending in the House of Commons and with much adoe as you may read in the 67 72. pages of Innocency and truth justified got it from thence transmitted to the Lords before whose bar upon the 13. of Feb. 1645. I had with my councell Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Iohn Cook a fair and just hearing upon which they made an effectuall and legall Decree g Which Decree you may read in the latter end of my relation of my Councells plea before the Lords the 13. Feb. 1645. for the destroying and annihillating of that most illegall and bloody sentence past against me in the Star-Chamber in Anno. 1637. and within a few dayes after decreed me 2000. l. for my dammages or reparations and transmitted an Ordinance down to the house of Commons for inabling me to receive the money in which House that Ordinance hath laid do● 〈◊〉 ever since But Col King knowing I was the chiefest man he was in danger of judged himselfe not safe nor long lived if I should gi● that money which would enable me with vigour and strength to prosecute him which he kn●w well enough I would doe therfore to divert me and to be revenged of me he most maliciously and causelesly upon the 14. of April 1646. contrary to the just priveledge of Parliament and the common law of h See Vox Plebis pag. 23 24. England caused me at Westminster as I was following my businesse then depending before the House by whom I ought therefore in justice to have been protected against him by the Bayliffe thereof to be arrested into the court of common Pleas in an action● or trespasse for 2000. l. pretending that I in October before had said Col King was a Traytor and I would prove him one whereupon I clapt in my petition to the House

House of Commons † See Dr. Bastwicks defence against me pag. 8. and my printed Epistle about that businesse daited Iuly 25. 1645. caused me to be committed as a prisoner and as a prisoner by vertue of that his uniust procurement I lay till the 14 of October 1645. to my extraordinary charge and dammage yea and to the hazzard of my life as I could easily truly and undeniably demonstrate but at present read my booke called Innocency and truth iustified pag. 29. 30. 31 32. And yet neither he nor any man for him ever prosecuted any charge against me for although I lay so long yet was I delivered before ever I knew truly and legally wherefore I was imprisonned as appeares by the following Coppy of my releasement Die Martis 14 October 1645. MR. Recorder acquainted the House that two Sessions were now passed since Lievtenant Colonel Lilburn was removed to Newgate and had continued a prisoner there and that no information or other charge had been yet brought against him and at this last Sessions he humbly desired either to be tryed or to be discharged and it is thereupon resolved upon the question that Liev. Col. Lilburne be forthwith discharged from his imprisonment To the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy Hen. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com. And that King was the instrumentall cause of my imprisonment appears clearly to me by what I find recorded by his good friend and my grand enemy Mr. Prinne in the latter end of the 6th pag. of his booke intituled the Lyar Confounded and by what I find recorded under Kings hand in the 8th pag. of his co-partner Dr. Bastwicks book written against my selfe for although Dr. Bastwick be now my bitter Enemy and his hand be with Kings to the information which Dr. Bastwick there saith was put into the House of Commons against me yet I am apt to thinke that King was the Ring-leader in it because at that time there was no visible nor professed breach of friendship betwixt Dr. Bastwick and my selfe Vpon which provocation by King it might be and I doe believe it to be true that I might be free in my discourse at severall times of King and the forementioned charge of Treason given into the House of Commons against him and I am very confident it will be made good by sufficient proofes and witnesses according to the rules of Warre when it there comes to a tryall but doe not own the words specified by him in every particular Therefore I conceive it uniust irrationall and Anti-Parliamentary for an inferior and subordinate Court as the Court of Common Pleas is to meddle with this businesse it being now dependent in Parliament the supream Court and unjudged there as yet although the prosecutors are ready at their utmost perill to prove their charge against him Therefore my Lord in my apprehension Kings former mallice manifested about my commitment and his present bringing me before you are meer evasions and tricks to terrifie me and all others from prosecuting him in Parliament and also under favour your medling with it in your Court it being still depending in Parliament and not by them referred to you is an incroachment upon their Priviledges and I am the rather confirmed in this opinion when I seriously read over Mr. Prinnes Booke cal'd the doom of Cowardice and Treacherie he being Colonel Kings very good friend and Councellor and therefore his words in this case are of the more weight and authority Titus 1.12 being a professed adversary to me who citing the Rolles of Parliament of the 1. R. 2. num 38. 39. 40 in his 2 3 4 5 6 pages which containes the case of Cominy and Weston hath these observations and inferences from them in the 7 page thereof That it is to be remembred that Jeffery Martin Clearke of the Crown made this very Record and delivered it thus written in this present Roll with his own hand therefore saith he from this memorable Record I shall only observe these few particulars 1. That the surrender of Towns or Castles to the Enemy through Cowardice or Treachery is properly examinable and tryable only in Parliament It being a detryment to the whole Kingdome and so fit to be determined by the representative Body of the Kingdome 2. That the Cowardly delivering up of any Town or Castle by the Governour thereof to the Enemy is a Capitall offence deserveth death and likewise the losse of it through his negligence or default 3. That every Governour who takes upon him the custody of any Fort or Town is obliged in point of Trust and duty under Paine of DEATH to defend it to the utmost extremity 4. That the concurrent consent of a Councell of Warre or Soldiers to render up a Town to the Enemie before utmost extremity for the saving of the Houses Lives and Goods of the Soldiers or Inhabitants is no justifie excuse at all to exten●a●e such a Governours dishonourable Surrender and offence 5. That those who are accused of such an unworthy Surrender of any Town or Castle ought to be apprehended and kept in safe custody till their tryalls be past and not suffered to goe at large 6. That a Governour giving timely notice of the Enemies approach of the weaknesse of the Garrison his suing for timely said and repulsing of the Enemie for a season will no wayes excuse his surrender of a Town or Castle unlesse he bold it out to the utmost extremity or Surrender it by the consent of those who intrusted him with the Custody thereof 7. That the violent Battery of the Walles or drayning of the Dykes of any Castle or Citie or any breach made in them by the Enemy though extraordinary powerfull are no sufficient causes or excuses for any Governour to Surrender them upon composition to the Enemie while there is sufficient victualls men or ammunition to defend them And that they must in no wise be surrendred without consent of those who put in the Governour till the greatest part of the Soldiers be slaine the victualls or ammunition quite spent all hopes of reliefe dispaired of utterly upon good grounds Which is cleare saith he by the case of Weston who made a better defence of the Castle of Outhrewick with 38. men onely against more then 8000. Enemies who besiedged assaulted battered it for 6. dayes together with nine great Cannons and other Engines and pleaded farre more in his defence of his surrender of it then many now can doe for surrendring of Townes and Castles of far greater importance then this Castle was and yet for all this Weston in full Parliament was adjudged to death for it Thus farre the words of an adversary to me and Kings especiall friend and councellor and therefore of the more weight and authority Titus 1.12 13. Therefore my Lord laying all these things together as 1. Col. King and I being both Soldiers under one Generall namely the Earl of Manchester who was authorized by Parliament to govern