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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82115	A declaration of the Armie concerning Lieut. Collonel John Lilburn; and their resolution to establish the people in all their just rights, liberties, priviledges, and freedomes. With the remonstrance, and petition, of the officers and souldiers, citizens and countrey-men, rich and poor; with all the distressed and oppressed people of England; to the Parliament. Together with their propositions and desires; and a gallant way propounded, for the taking off all taxes, a time prefixed; the uniting of all parties; the establishing of peace; and making trade free.	England and Wales. Army. aut	1652 (1652)	Wing D629; Thomason E654_11; ESTC R205928	2,692	8

A DECLARATION OF THE ARMIE CONCERNING Lieut. Collonel JOHN LILBURN AND Their Resolution to establish the People in all their just Rights Liberties Priviledges and Freedomes With the Remonstrance and Petition of the Officers and Souldiers Citizens and Countrey-men Rich and Poor With all the distressed and oppressed People of England To the Parliament Together with their Propositions and Desires And a gallant way propounded for the taking off all Taxes a time prefixed the uniting of all Parties the establishing of Peace and making Trade free Imprinted at London for G. HORTON 1652. A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY To the Parliament of England concerning Lieut. Col. John Lilburn And the humble Petition of the Citizens of London the free-born Denizens in the respective Counties Poor and Rich and all sorts with all the Distressed and Oppressed People of England THe Officers and Souldiers in the Army having received Advertisements of the heavy Censure which L. Col. Lilburn at present lies under a Councel was called and after a large Dispute many declared their ardent affection To stand and all with so great and faithful an Assertor of England's Liberties Others resolved To submit their Wills to the Will of the Power that imposed the Sentence declaring That they will leave no means nor dangers unattempted to establish the People in the fulness of their Liberties and Freedoms Which cordial Result re-minds me of that most excellent and emphatical Petition of the freemen of England to the Parliament A Copy whereof followeth The humble Petition of Officers and Souldiers Citizens and Countrey-men Poor and Rich and all sorts c. SHEWETH THat it being the work of Nature Reason and Christianity by which we shall be judged in the last Day Mat. 25. And the very bottom of all pretences in all Corporations and Councels To cloath the naked feed the hungry visit the sick and relieve the oppressed All former Lawes statetes and consultations having been of small effect hitherto houses of Correction being more apt to make men from being poor to become Vagabonds and Beggars by taking from them the Repute of so much Honesty as not to be intrusted with employment and conveying into them a further impudency or desperateness as by experience is manifest and many having of late years perished for want of Necessaries The Lord having now put into your hands a present opportunity of adding this great Work to all the mighty works which he hath done by you May your Honours be pleased to grant to your Petitioners all due respects being first had to your great losses damages out of Delinquents Revenues or so many of them as shall be thought sit and to all the poor of England the remainder of what is due upon publike Accounts 2 All or so much of the Commons Forests Chaces c. as is due unto the Poor 3 All Mines not wrought on at present all drowned lands lands deserted of the Sea or the like they agreeing for what is due to any Owner 4 The sole benefit of all Manufactures Engines and Inventions either by Sea or Land by your Petitioners brought into Use in England 5 All Parish Collections and concealed or abused Charities with power to search all Records Wills Church-books books of Accounts to that purpose gratis to be as a publique Treasure of the Land for all publique Designs in one common joynt Stock And some of your Petitioners will put in sufficient security 1 To provide all necessaries for the Army 2 To pay the Arrears of the Army within 5 years 3 To take off all Taxes within one year except Customs 4 To pay all the debts of the publique Faith which remain due at 6. per Cent within 10 years 5 To set up a publique Banck as in Amsterdam Venice and other places And if your Honours shall think good to grant the Fishings Customs and Revenues of the Navy o. then your Petitioners will undertake to maintain a constant Navy at Sea and to secure the Merchants at 1 per Cent a month for the narrow Seas 2 To take off the Customs from unwrought Materials and Commodities and Food and Ammunition imported and lay them upon unwrought Materials and Commodities and Food and Ammunition exported 2 To take off all Customs from Manufactures exported and lay them upon Manufactures imported Thus may your Honours be eased of great Burthens be free to other great affairs Take away all Taxes and Groanings of the people Reconcile all parties Gain the love of the people Make Trade free Establish the peace of the Nation Establish your own peace before God and Man And bring down the blessings of God abundantly upon all your faithful Endeavours The Freemans Appeal As for my own part I am a free-man yea a free Den●zen of England and I have been in the field with my sword in my hand to adventure my life and my bloud against Tyrants for the preservation of my just freedom and I do not know that ever I did an act in all my life that disfranchised me of my freedom and by vertue of my being a freeman I conceive I have as true a right to all the priviledges that do belong to a freeman as the greatest man in England Whatsoever he be and the ground and foundation of my freedome I build upon the grand Charter of England which is published and expressed in the 9 of HEN. 3. Chap. 29. which I humbly crave leave to illustrate as followeth viz. That to freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or be diseised of his free-hold or liberties or free Customs or be out-lawed or exiled or any wise destroyed Nor we will not passe upon him nor condemn him but by lawful Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land we will sell to no man we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right And the priviledges contained herein are my birth-right and inheritance which priviledges have been ratified and confirmed to the free people of England by the Parliament assembled at Westmidster and many Declarations put out against the late King for violating of them And truly I cannot chuse but remind you That the Law of England is the birth-right and inheritance of the people of England yea of the meanest as well as of the richest And although the Law of England be not so good in every particular especially in the administrative part of it as I could wish it were yet till I can see a better I for my part will make much of that which we have as the principal Earthly preserver and safeguard of my life liberty and property for it viz. Magna Charta Chap. 29. saith No free-man shall be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or free Customes or be outlawed or exiled or any otherwise destroyed nor past upon nor condemned but by lawful Judgment of this Peers or by the Law of the Land and that Justice and Right shall not be sold denied or deferred to any man See Sir Edw. Cook 's excellent Exposition upon this in his 2. par Instit fol. 46 47. c. Printed by the late forcibly dissolved Parliament for good Law And positively declared To preserve unto the people inviolably their fundamental Laws and Liberties in reference to their Lives Estates and all things appertaining thereunto A Charge of High-Treason is preparing to be exhibited against Mr. Ainslow a learned Professour of the Law and now prisoner in the Presse-yard at New-gate for writing and divulging a Treasonable Book against Mr. Attorney-General Prideaux and divers other Honourable Members His Tryal is ordered to be upon Friday the 30 of this instant January At which time the Articles of Impeachment are to be read which its believed will produce an immediate Sentence answerable to his demerits being a matter of great and incomparable consequence FINIS