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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

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