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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88156	An anatomy of the Lords tyranny and iniustice exercised upon Lieu. Col. Iohn Lilburne, now a prisoner in the Tower of London. Delivered in a speech by him, Novem. 6. 1646. before the honorable Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider of the priviledges of the commons of England: the originall copy of which, he in obedience to the order and command of the said Committee, delivered in writing to the hands of Col. Henry Martin, chairm-man of the said Committee: Nov. 9. 1646 and now published to the view of all the commons of England, for their information, & knowledge of their liberties and priviledges.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2080; Thomason E362_6; ESTC R201211	18,985	23

his country to the utmost of my endeavours to defend and maintain his Rights and Liberties which is as justifiable by the Law of this Kingdome and in the eyes of all understanding men as for a true and just man to draw his sword and to cut a Theefe or Rogue that sets upon him upon the high-way on purpose to rob him of his life and goods And if after such a hearing before your honourable house it shall appear to their judgments and understandings that I have wronged the Lords in generall or the Earl of Manchester or Col. King in particular which two are the principall causes of all my present trouble and against whom are two Grand charges in your house as I judge them of no lesse then high treason commitmitted against the Kingdom which as I humbly conceive the justice of the Kingdom requires should come to a finall determination I shall with all willingnesse and cheerfulnesse submit to what punishment shall be just for them to inflict upon me and I hope that by this faire offer you will be provoked with the strength of resolution to deal impartially betwixt the Lords and me without fear punish those where the just fault is especially considering that you in your most excellent Declaration of the 17. April 1646 published by you to the view of the whole kingdome have solemnly declared That you will preserve the Rights and Liberties of the people and abolish the exercise of arbitrary power and so provide for the safety and weal of the people which is as you say the end of the primitive institution of all government And therefore in the behalf of my self and all the Commons of England I most humbly beseech and entreat his thonourable Committee to improve all the interest you have in the house of Commons to make good unto us this their own just and honest Declaration I beseech you heare me but one word more which I intreat you well to observe that the Lords have joyned with you in severall Declarations in which the Kings Oath is printed which I read in the Book Decl. pag. 268.713.714 where you and they declare positively and back it with many strong arguments That the King by his Coronation-Oath is bound to passe such lawes as his people shall chuse and if so then he hath no power in him to give a law unto the people or impose a law upon them much lesse can hee give a power to the Lords his meer creatures made by his will pleasure for them to oppose or give a Law unto the people and I am sure if they have a legislative power in them to do what they please and so by the authority of that presumed to do with mee as they did I am sure by the established Law of the Kingdom they have no power at all not in the least to do with me as they have done And therefore I humbly entreat you to presse home unto your House the Lords usurpations and incroachments upon our common rights that so they may effectually curbe them as in Justice they ought For Sir that which addes sorrow to all my sorrowes is this that I suffer all these inhumanities and illegall usages during the time of the sitting of a free Parliament and yet can have no effectuall redresse in five moneths time though earnestly sought for Alas Sir the Parliament is the English-mans legall last refuge and if that faile us to speak as men we are undone unlesse God set his power at work to work miracles and raise up meanes for our preservation And Sir if the Lords dare thus tyrannize over the free Commons of England in time of Parliament that used to be the fear and dread of Offendors what is it that they will not do unto us out of a Parliament Therefore again I most earnestly beseech this honourable Committee to remember them and improve all your interest to punish or at least effectually to curbe them for which as well as for your present patience in hearing me so largely I shall both now as well as formerly remain oblieged to improve my best and utmost ability for the preservation of the just supreame interest power and authority of your honourable House Esa 48.10 Behold I have refined thee but not with silver I have chosen thee in the fulnesse of affliction Job 23.10 When he hath tryed me I shall come forth as gold Novemb. the 9. 1646. JOHN LILBURN Reader thou art requested to take notice of two faults committed in the printing of this Booke the first in page 2. line 1. left out and also what passed betwixt my L. Wharton and my self the 2. in p. 5. l. 26. where thou shalt find these words a Commitment lawful viz. to be in the 28. line which ought to be placed at the end of the 26. line as thou mayst easily perceive For other faults if thou meet with any impute them not unto the Authour who could not be at the correcting hereof but in love to him amend them Vale. FJNJS