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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46383	The iust man in bonds, or, Lieut. Col. John Lilburne close prisoner in Newgate, by order of the House of Lords	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1646 (1646)	Wing J1234; ESTC R186225	4,599	5

appeare by the exactnesse and speedinesse of your delivering of this your owne and his Countries faithfull servant Mr. Lilburn from prison with all due reparations Banish all base fears for there be more with you then against you and the justnesse of your cause will daylie increase both your number and power for God is alwaies present where Justice is extant and yee cannot but observe by manifold experiences that he not only loves and protects just men but by his Almighty power so abaseth all their Enemies that they shall flee before him and his like the dust before the wind If yee will but take example by the courage and justice of your owne Armies and doe as they doe doubtlesse the same God who hath prospered them will also prosper you yea and be with you in all your proceedings whilst yee are with him but if yee forsake him by denying selling or delaying justice contrary to your duties Oaths Covenants Protestaions and declarations he will also forsake you as he hath in all ages even his owne People for their injustice sins and abominations and stirred up both forraigne and intestine enemies to revenge his just quarrell and true cause against them For more particular information these ensuing lines will be a speciall meanes VPon the 22. of June 1646. the House of Lords sent an Order to the Keeper of Newgate to bring Mr. Lilburn before them upon the 23. thereof at ten a clock wherof he having notice that morning wrot a letter to the said Keeper declaring his just liberties and the House of Lords usurpation thereof contrary to Magna Charta and other fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome and that he would not go to them willingly but had appealed and petitioned to the House of Commons and therefore he desired the Keeper to take heed what he did lest he could not recall any violent action not grounded upon Law And after Mr. Lilburn had sent the said letter by his wife together with the printed coppy of his protestation against the House of Lords illegal proceedings against him as a Commoner his appeale Petition to the House of Commons as his competent Judges but sh●e not finding the Keeper at Newgate prison nor at his owne house the hour of his appearance before the House of Lords near aproching shee delivered the same to the Sheriffs of London being then in Guild-hall at the Court of Aldermen where doubtles both the said letter and book were read and as Sheriffe Foote informed her that they sent a messenger to Newgate with their answer what it was is not yet knowne But if it came at all it was not in due time for after the deputy Keeper and his assistants had attended halfe an hour for Mr. Lilburns comming from his chamber to go with them before the House of Lords at the time appointed and upon his constant refusing to go willingly with them or so much as to open his Chamber doore but shut it in token of his constant opposing so unjust a power over him a free borne Englishman and before the m●ssenger whom he sent to Guild-hall with their consent had returned with an answer and whose returning they promised to attend they brake open his doore tooke him away to Westminster and no messenger was sent who yet wee have heard off from the Court of Aldermen When they had brought him to the painted chamber next the House of Lords doore where he attended with his Keepers almost two houres before he was called in as it seemeth the House of Lords servants and attendants taking notice of the of the intercourse of Parliament men and others speaking to him told their masters thereof● and left their usurpation of the Commons liberties and his just cause should be manifested as well by word as by writing the Lords did call his Keepers and commanded them that they should speedily charge him to hold his peace and speake with none at all but to be altogether silent untill he was called in before them to answer their interrogatories Unto whom he returned this answer and bad them tell the same to the House of Lords who sent them that he would not hold his peace but speak with any man who in the way of love spake to him so long as he had his tongue except the Lords should put a gag into his mouth at their Fellow Lords the Bishops did to him 8. yeares agoe on the Pillory at Westminster after they had caused him to be whipt from the Fleet prison thither and after he had told them their spirituall usurpations as it doth these Lords their temporall encroachments on free mens liberties Then he being called into the House of Lords was commanded by their keeper of the Black-Rod to kneele before them which he absolutely refused to doe and after their still urging and his constant refusing they asked him the reason he answered that he had learned both better Religion and manners then to kneele to any humane or mortall power how great so ever whom he never offended and ●●r lesse to them whom he had defended with the adventure both of his life and estate yea and withall the friends he could make whereupon they not only returned him to Newgate prison but commanded him to be kept close-Prisoner as appeareth by these ensuing orders Die Lunae 22. Junij 1646. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that Liev. Col John Lilburne now a prisoner in Newgate shall be brought before their Lordships in the High Court of PARLIAMENT to morrow morning by ten of the clock And this to be a sufficient warrant in that behalfe To the Gent-Usher of this House or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum Die Martis 23. Iunij 1646. Ordered by the LORDS in PARLIAMENT assembled that Iohn Lilburn shall stand committed close prisoner in the Prison of Newgate and that he be not permitted to have pen inke or paper and none shall have accesse unto him in any kind but only his Keeper untill this Court doth take further order To the Keeper of Newgate his deputy or deputies Ioh. Brown Cleric Parliamentorum Exam. per. Rec. Bristoe Cleric de Newgate FINIS