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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88258	To every individuall member of the supream authority of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. The humble addresse of Lieu. Col. John Lilburn, by way of answer to a most false and scandalous printed petition, delivered at the House door against him, by one William Huntington, upon Wednesday the 26 of November. 1651	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2186; Thomason E647_7; ESTC R208843	12,713	12

privately up and down amongst Parliament men That I lately took a false Oath at Haberdashers Hall about the Colliery at Harraton unto which I shal answer no more at present but This That the business is of many Thousand pounds consequence per annum of concernment to other men and I would be very loth in an hasty Apology for my self to let any thing drop that might give any just occasion to the Judges There to be peevish and thereby to have any colourable pretence to put off the ●inall Judgement of the case longer then Tuesday next in the afternoon the Time appointed for it after many days hearing and many hours already expended in private debates amongst the Judges Themselves And in the mean Time I intreat every ingenious man to suspend his censuring of me for a few days after the Judging of the said cause and if then I do not with as much ease blow off al that dirt that by art about that business is thrown upon me as the wind blows the lightest of chaff before it let me forfeit my reputation amongst all ingenious men for ever And Therefore at present to conclude vouchsafe me liberty without distaste to acquaint you That at our grand day of hearing about that Colliery Sir Arthur Hesilrig much insisted upon a Book I had lately about it writ against him and therefore desired the Commissioners freely to give me leave to lay all the evil in the world to his charge there that I knew against him unto which when it came to my part to speak I told Them in these words or to this effect That I very much commended Sir Arthur for his wisdom to save himself for he could not be so ignorant to immagine but that I very well knew those Commissioners had no power to question him for though it were as he was there subsequestrator in the County of Durham which mean and low Office I knew never a Parliament man in England besides himself but he scorned to execute he was under them and ought to be obedient to their orders to give them a submissive an account of his actions but as he was a Parliament man and thereby one of the supreme Authority of the Nation he was above them and one of their Lords and Masters and if I were such a child and fool to question him for his offences before them that had no jurisdiction over him but absolutely inferior to him I should be laught at for my pains and they if they should be so misunderstanding of their own Authority as to assume jurisdiction over him upon my complaint and thereupon go about to punish him they might very well be clapt by the heels for their sawsiness for breaking the priviledges of Parliament in judging one of their Members that they have no authority given them so to do unto But as I told the Chair-man Sir Arthur saith I have printed a book lately against him in which he saith I call him Traytor Tyrant and worse then Strafford unto which I answered to this effect Sir it is true I have writ and caused a late book to be printed against him in which its possible such expressions may be and if there are I will justifie and prove them at my utmost peril and that Sir Arthur and all the company may know that I am not afraid nor ashamed to own the said book be it known to him that since I last came to Town I took the boldness upon me as to wait upon the General under whose command I look upon Sir Arthur as he is a Colonel to be and I told him a little of Sir Arthurs Tyranny which I told him was somwhat fully expressed in a late book of mine one of which I gave him and beged him to read it seriously further telling him it was mine and I would justifie it with my life and earnestly entreated him that he would please to vouchsafe to take upon him the hearing and judging of the cause and we would ty our selves in bonds to stand to his judgment but he put it off as being full of business Upon which in the second place hearing that in Parliament there was to be some questioning of the Speaker I hasted away as fast as I could to their Doore supposing it a very fit season for me to get my complaint against Sir Arthur heard before them that have a proper jurisdiction over him And at the Dore of the Parliament meeting with an honourable member of Parliament called Mr Love I told him what I heard the House was to be about and having in my hand I was confident of it a higher Charge against Sir Arthur Haslerig then any could bee pretended against the Speaker I therefore intreated him as he was a Gentleman to take a Book of mee in which it was contained and acquaint the House with it and tell them It was mine give to him to bring in and I was at the Dore ready at their Bar to justifie and prove it And as I am informed he did acquaint the House with it sir Arthur himself being present who it seems had not so much Innocency in his Breast as to dare to presse to have me cald into justifie it And therefore said I to the Chairman as earnest as sir Arthur is to desire you to give me free liberty to lay all I can to his charge before you that hee very well knows have no jurisdiction over him so earnest am I with him to question me and call me if he dare to the Bar of the Parliament his proper Judges to justifie my said Book and so much at present to Sir Arthur And now said I if you please Gentlemen a word or 2 to som of you Commissioners Som of you say I have writ a Book in which I have abused you It s tru said I a Book I have written against you but I have not belyed or abused you if you please to joyn Issue with me you shall find me very ingenuous ready either as a Christian or an Englishman to give you full satisfaction And therefore First As a Christian if you please to choose 2 honest godly men I will choose 2 more and bind my self in large Bonds to stand to their Arbitration and Judgment and if upon the hearing of both sides they shal find I have done you wrong and judge it Just for me to repair you by a publique printed Recantation I will freely do it with my Hand to it Or Secondly If you like not this Proposition as a rationall Man I will give you satisfaction that is to say if you please to enter your Action in the Vpper-Bench or any Court of Justice in England I will appear to it gratis and give you such satisfaction as by the extremity of the law you can obtain which I think is so fair as no ingenious man in England can offer fairer And therefore Right Honorable to conclude all give me leave to make this Proposition to you seeing sir Arthur indirectly struggles so to maintain his guilt That if you please to declare That I may have as free liberty and the same priviledges against sir Arthur Haslerig as your selves had against the Earl of Strafford I do hereby engage my Life against his in the behalf of the Commonwealth of England to prepare and bring into your House in a very short time as formal a charge in the ey of the Law as high and criminal in its nature against sir Arthur Haselrig as ever yours was against Strafford and before you openly by legal and good testimony to prove it or otherwise let my life go for his So humbly craving pardon for my tediousness I take leave to subscribe my self Your faithful Suppliant who desires to live no longer in this world then he is able the frailty of poor weake feeble man set aside to justifie the honesty of his Actions and Dealings with all private persons whatever before the Judgment seat of the strictest Justiciarie in England JOHN LILBURNE London this 28 November 1651. Finis