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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88254	Strength out of vveaknesse. Or, The finall and absolute plea of Lieutenant-Col. John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, against the present ruling power siting at Westminster. Being an epistle writ by him, Sep. 30. 1649. to his much honored and highly esteemed friend, Master John Wood, Mr. Robert Everard, ... whose names are subscribed Aug. 20. 1649. to that excellent peece, entituled The Levellers (falsly so called) vindicated; being the stated case of the late defeated Burford troops. And to Charles Collins, Anthony Bristlebolt, ... whose names are subscribed, August 29. 1649. to that choicest of peeces, entituled An out-cry of the young-men and apprentices of London, after the lost fundamentall-lawes and liberties of England. Which said plea or epistle, doth principally contein the substance of a conference, betwixt Master Edmond Prideaux, the (falsly so called) attorney-generall, and Lievetenant-Colonell John Lilburne, upon Friday the 14 of September 1649. at the chamber of the said Mr. Prideaux, in the Inner-Temple.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Prideaux, Edmond, Sir, d. 1659.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2182; Thomason E575_18; ESTC R204577	34,784	27

any pretence of Crime to my Charge but alwaies released mee as an Innocent and honest man I but Sir said hee that was their lenity mercy and compassion towards you No Mr Prideaux by your favour you are very much mistaken for I never craved any from them but alwaies scorned it continually standing upon my Justification and biding defiance to them as in my present imprisonment I am resolved to the death to doe But Mr. Lilburne why may not you as well owne our Authoritie I meane the Parliament as owne Barron Rigby that is made by us for you have call'd him Barr●n Rigby once or twice and I am sure hee was noe Barron till the present Parliament made him one Truly Mr. Prideaux I heartily cry you mercy forgive mee this crime or errour and I doe assure you you shall never catch mee in the like fault but truly Sir to excuse it I must tell you I have many materiall things in my discourse to think upon and I conceive this but a circumstantiall or accidentall one occasioned by meere forgetfullnesse having many things at present in my head but truly Sir having the other day occasion to write him a Letter at a time when my braine was troubled with nothing else I stiled him only Collonel Alexander Rigby and if you will not beleeve mee I have the copie of it about mee which I will reade to you if you please which though I did not then yet because I was unawares catch's upon the hip take heere the copie of it For my honoured Friend Col. Alexander Rigby at his lodging in Sarjeants Inne either in Fleete-street or Chancery lainc Honoured Sir MY Particular obligations to your selfe in times by past I cannot but in Ingenuitie acknowledge have beene very many and I could wish it had beene in my power really to expresse them in any other manner then words Sir the Reason of my troubling you with these lines is because I understand your man was at my house a few houres agoe as from your selfe as my wife tells mee therefore although I had rather bee silent then my scribling give distast to a man I have found so much reality in as I have done in your selfe yet out of the lowest degree of Civiltie and ingenuitie I cannot doe lesse though I must freely let you know I looke upon you and my selfe as now positively ingaged in two contrary Interests that can never subsist one by th'othe without continuall Warres each with other then tender my hearty respects personally to you and further let you know that I should bee very desirous if you conceive it might not bee prejudiciall to your selfe to waite upon you at the time and place you please to appoint to exchange a few words with you and so I commit you to God and rest Yours particularly very much Oblieged John Lilburne Winchester house this 24. of August 1649. But Sir I must confesse unto you Col. Righy is a man setting his present place aside I have a great deale of cause to love and honour hee hath beene my faithfull and true friend and I have alwaies to mee in particular found him a very just righteous and obliging man and in that regard being my selfe but a fraile man may bee like the rest of the men of the world and out of partiallity give him on a suddaine a stile more then is his due but as I said before Sir so I continue still beging your pardon for this one fault and I doe assure you you shall not catch mee commiting the like So Mr. Prideaux it seemes being almost wearied with discourse takes up my booke against Sir Arthur Haslerig and reads a preparrative to an Hue and Cry after Sir Arthur Haslerig a late Member of the forceable dissolved house of Commons and now the present wicked bloody tyrannicall governour of New Castle upon Tyne Saith hee in Lataine to this purpose good words would have done well and have beene better Mr. Lilburne Beleeve mee Mr. Prideaux for any thing I know those very words are too good for his base actions towards me as I beleeve you will cleerely find it so when you read the booke seriously through which I earnestly intreat you to doe and then it may bee it will take off the heare of your prosecuting me for can any words hee too bad for a man that by his will without legall cause casts another man in prison and when hee hath him there indeavours to hire false witnesses to take away his life yea and robs him of his Estate by will and power that should buy him and his bread to keepe them alive So hee spake another sentence in latine which I being not able to understand intreated him to speake in English for I was but a ba●e English man understanding no Latine but a company of common words and therefore intreated him to speake only English if hee would talke any more but if hee was weary hee might give over when hee pleased but for my part I was not weary nor would not give over the discourse so long as hee pleased to hould it Truly Mr. Lilburne saith hee for my surious prosecuting of you the duty of my place requires mee to doe what I doe and I doe assure you I doe not know that ever personally I did you any wrong did I. Truly Mr. Prideaux at present I doe not remember but if ever you did I doe not call to mind at present that ever personally I gave you a provocation or did you personally any wrong but it is likely Mr. Prideaux when you doe mee wrong either personally or officially that you shall heare sufficiently of it Whereupon he took up my book and looking upon it said to this effect Mr. Lilburn without doubt you scarce sleep for studying and writing of books doe you Yes Mr. Prideaux that I doe as well and as heartily as you or any man in England and as or such a book as that is if I be well in my health and my eyes and be in the vein of studying I can mak such a book upon any subject in 3 or 4 daies space I but sa●h he preces lacremae in your suffernigs were better I confesse Sir to you it were so for then you might commit all manner of oppression and Tyranny towards mee without seare or dread of ever-beeing told of it againe but Sir I know no man hath so much cause to use Prayers and teares as oppressors and Tyrants for the wrong and injury they doe to other men but Sir this Argument was the Bishops old weapon which they used to keepe the People in peace with but sure I am Paul made use of his Reason to defend himselfe against his adversaries as well as Prayers and Teares yea and with it to save himselfe with it set them together by the eares Act 23.6 7 8 9. But I pray Sir why did not you your selve I mean the house of Commons make use of these weapons and none