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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88233	A plea at large, for John Lilburn gentleman, now a prisoner in Newgate. Penned for his use and benefit, by a faithful and true well-wisher to the fundamental laws, liberties, and freedoms of the antient free people of England; and exposed to publick view, and the censure of the unbyassed and learned men in the laws of England, Aug. 6. 1653.	Faithful and true well-wisher to the fundamental laws, liberties, and freedoms of the antient free people of England.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2158; Thomason E710_3; ESTC R207176	34,122	24

concerning themselves but it shall be examined and tryed before the Justices of Assizes in the Sessions of the Assize as appeareth by the 8. of Hen. 6. chap. 7. and 23. Hen. 6. chap. 15. Yea the Parliament are not to punish those that will not pay them their wages for their service done in Parliament but the refusers are to be punished by the legal administers of the law in the ordinary of Courts of Justice as appears by the 23. of Hen. 6. chap. 11. Yea the law of England which is right reason or as Sir Edward Cooke stiles it in his second part Institutes folio 179. the absolute perfection of reason and which as he saith is the surest sanctuary that a man can take and the strongest fortress to protect the weakest of all and therefore it is called the best birthright the Subjects hath for thereby his goods lands wife children his body life honour and estimation are protected from injury and wrong for saith he to every one of us there comes a greater inheritance by the law then by our parents it being the Judges guide in all causes that come before them in the wayes of right Justice which never yet misguided any man that certainly knew them and truly followed them 2 part of the Lords Cooks Institutes fol. 56 63 97 526. and the 4. part folio 41. yea and the law-book of Ed. 6. folio 36. with the arguments in the Law in the Court of Kings Bench upon the Writ of Habeas Corpus in the cases of Sir John Eliot Sir Thomas Daniel c. pag. 11. in Michaelmas-terme in the third of the late King Charles calls the good old fundamental Laws of England the great inheritance of every subject and the inheritance of inheritances without the injoyments of which inheritance we have no inheritance at all And therefore the said Oracle of the Law of England the Lord Cook doth bitterly cry out of the unexpressible mischief that accrues to the whole body of the people of England when any fundamental maximes of their good old fundamental Laws are invaded or incroached upon either by Parliament or any other power whatsoever as appears in his 2 part Institutes folio 29 46 48 51 74 103 104 179 210 249 529 533 534 540. and 3. part fol. 208. 4. part fol. 41 196 197 198. and the preface to the 4. part of the Lord Cookes Reports where he saith the Laws of England consist of three parts the Common Laws Customes and Acts of Parliament for any fundamental point of the ancient Common Laws and customs of the Realm it is a maxime in policy and a tryal by experience that the alteration of any of them is more dangerous for that which hath been refined and perfected by all the wisest men in former succession of ages and proved and approved by continual experience to be good and profitable for the Commonwealth cannot without great hazard and danger to be altered or changed see also that old Law-book called The myrror of Justice page 239. And which law as the author of the ancient and excellent law book called the Doctor and Student chap. 4.8 is grounded upon six foundation or basis viz. the law of reason Secondly the Law of God 3. Upon divers general customes of common utility 4. On divers principals that be called maximes 5. On divers particular customes 6. On divers Statutes made by the Kings and the Common-councel of the Nation all which do abhor arbitra●iness in the law-proceedings especially in criminal cases and especially it abhors the arbitrary uncertain way of proceedings in Parliaments the rules of which certainly no man in heaven or earth knoweth the vileness wickedness and mischeviousness of which is sufficiently demonstrated in the Lord Cravens late printed case And saith that worthiest of English Lawyers Sir Edward Cook in the Proeme to the third part of his Institutes It is a miserable servitude or slavery where the law is uncertaine or unknown and therefore it is that the twenty ninth Chapter of Magna Charta the Petition of Right and the Act that abolished the Star-Chamber expresly saith That no freeman of England shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized of his freehold or liberties or free customes or be outlawed or be exiled but by lawful judgement of a Jury of twelve sworn men of his equals of the same neighbourhood according to the law of the Land And that none shall be taken for any crime whatsoever by any person or Court whatsoever unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawful people of the same neighbourhood where such Deeds be done in due manner or by Process made by Writ original at the Common Law and that none be put out of his franchise or freehold unless he be duly brought in to answer and adjudged of the same according to the course of the law and if any thing be done by any persons or courts whatsoever against the tenour of the same it shall be void in law and holden for error which two last Statutes of the Petition of Right and the Act that abol●sheth the Star-chamber doth expresly and nominally ratifie and confirme the Statute of the 42. of Edward the third which according to the peoples true fundamental law of England makes void and null all Acts of Parliament Ordinances Orders Judgements and Decrees whatsoever made by any power whatsoever that are contrary unto or in diminution of the free people of Englands foresaid liberties and freedoms of due Process of Law And the Petition of Right expresly saith No man whatsoever shall be any wayes punished especially in criminal cases but according to the laws and Statutes already established in the land And those also by the said Petition of Right and the Statute that abolished the Star-chamber are precisely declared to be according to our good old native fundamental rights and liberties or else they are ipso facto null and void in law this very thing or the securing thereof alone being the principal and chief declared cause of all the late Parliaments and present armies bloodshed and wars with the late King and his son and without the inviolable preservation of these our fundamental laws and liberties it is impossible that any in the Army from the highest to the lowest in the least can acquit themselves of being justly esteemed both before God and just men real and wilful murderers of all those persons that they have staine in the late civil wars and if so wo unto them when God makes inquisition for innocent blood Neither indeed is he the now prisoner at the Bar guilty of any such high crimes and misdemeanors as is expressed in the said Act neither ever was he the now prisoner at the Bar in the least duely and legally banished and fined by the said Act nor yet is a Felon nor guilty of felony in no manner of respect whatsoever as by the said Inditement now read unto him is supposed neither can he rationally