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cause_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	2,073	5	3.6840	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88215	A letter sent from Captaine Lilburne, to divers of his friends, citizens, and others of good account in London, wherein he fully expresseth the misery of his imprisonment, and the barbarous usage of the Cavaliers towards him. Desiring them (if it were possible) to use some means for his releasement.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1643 (1643)	Wing L2134; Thomason E84_5; ESTC R212814	3,750	8

A LETTER Sent from Captaine LILBVRNE To divers of his Friends Citizens and others of good account in LONDON Wherein he fully expresseth the misery of his imprisonment and the barbarous usage of the Cavaliers towards him Desiring them if it were possible to use some means for his releasement London Printed for Iames Rogers 1643. A Letter sent from Captaine Lilburne to divers of his friends in LONDON My deare friends IT will seeme strange to you considering the miserable condition of my present fortune and the strictnesse of my imprisonment to receive any notice from me of my affaires but God having blest me with the opportunity of this treaty and convenient messenger I thought it fit to give you the true intelligence how things stand with me at this instant time of my writing I am thanks be to God in very good health though in as strict imprisonment as can be possible unlesse I should be in a dungeon and since Judge Heath whom God forgive pronounced sentence of death against me I have been loden with Irons but those either by direct command from His Majesty or out of his owne clemency or by the mediation of some about him are now taken o● from me The report was here immediately after my condemnation that I should suffer an ignominious death but since the Honourable the High Court of Parliament in my favour put out their Declaration that rumour hath been quite dashed so that I must confesse I owe my life more to their bounty then to the gentlenesse of my enemies who went about as much as possible in them lay to deprive me of it and truly I should very cheerfully have received my f●eath being secured by the innocence of my owne conscience that I should have dyed Gods true religious and my Countries Martyr for whose sake I put on Armes And not my imprisonment nor death would have so much afflicted me as doe the thoughts that by my restraint I am deprived of doing my best endeavour according to my poore abilities in serving the affaires of that strength of this kingdome and champion of true Religion the Honourable the High Court of Parliament In whose service if I had dyed valiantly in the field in the face of those enemies to all goodnesse and humanity the Cavaliers it would have been a more welcome benefit to me then this imprisonment wherein I lye and languish under a daily death the griefe whereof would certainly take away my life did not the goodnesse of the cause for which I suffer like an Angell of light come and comfort me in this darknesse and make me not onely scorne my afflictions but even rejoyce that I am held worthy for Gods cause and my Countries to undergoe these bonds and should they never so long imprison my body it should not a jot inthrall the liberty of my minde which is above the unhappinesse of my fortune and I doe still serve the State and Parliament as much in the integrity of my heart and wishes as I did when I had my freedome and converse as familiarly with you in my understanding as when I was at London with you marry the greatest crosse that hath befallen in this my durance is that the barbarousnesse of my Gaolers and visitants the Cavaliers who never cease reviling me calling me Round-head Parliament-dog and termes of the like villany and disgrace never suffering me to enjoy the quiet of being alone but when they are weary of tormenting me so that sometimes as I am a man I am not enough fortified against their reproaches which to a couragious mind breed more torments then to have ones body cut into a thousand peeces and certainly I should unarmed as I am divers times fly in the faces of these adversaries to God and all good men did not my reason tell me it were an act of desperate cowardise rather then truly valour in any man to seeke his owne death For no more mercy would they shew to me in such a case then Turks would nay perhaps not so much the Turks themselves being surely better civilized then these monsters of Christianitie who neither respected the Divine or Humane Lawes but make whatsoever their wicked desires guide them to that onely is a Law to them nor is it in the power of the King or his Officers to restraine them from any outrage they have a will to commit they keeping his Mayestie and those Noble-men that are with them scarcely in any condition better then that of imprisonment or as hostages for their owne safetie so that in my duty to his Majesty to whom I told the Cavaliers to their teeth I was as loyall a Subject as the best of them I doe much pity the misery of his present misfortune being inforced to doe nothing contrary to their desires not having liberty to dispose of his owne intentions or Person but these Cavaliers have their powerfull agents in his Councells and as it were their spies upon his Person lest Hee should as I doe verily believe His Highnesse would if it were possible make an escape from them of whose behaviour His goodnesse must needs be weary to London to His high Court of Parliament as I was informed from an old friend of mine at Court a Yeoman of the Guard one very well affected to the King and Parliament who hath given mee divers visits since my imprisonment hee further more avowing that the Cavaliers insult so much over His Majesties meniall servants that they with their domineering and the want of their salaries are so much oppressed that they would if it were possible withdraw themselves from Court to London to their houses but if any one of them should but attempt his escape the Cavaliers would cut his throat And surely this man whom you all know hath beene next to my owne innocence the greatest comfort I have had in my imprisonment and hee that hath given mee to understand for I am never suffered to goe abroad or to speake with any body else that will informe me any thing truely that his Majesty intends certainly to make His aboad at Oxford during this Winter and hath for that cause bought up or taken upon trust all the corne and other provision could be possible procured in the Countrey thereabouts that they are in great want of powder and ammunition in the Kings Army and that ther souldiers steale away daily for want of pay and that all the hopes his Majesty hath of supplies is from the Earle of Newcastle who should receive them from beyond sea that the towne of Oxford is not so well fortified as is reported and that the Kings Army there is nothing so strong as they report it and this was all the newes which he would relate to me for truth And this I thought good to certifie unto you and as concerning mine owne affaires you may imagine my deare friends how heavie a burthen it is for mee to groane under the weight of this imprisonment which surely