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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88156	An anatomy of the Lords tyranny and iniustice exercised upon Lieu. Col. Iohn Lilburne, now a prisoner in the Tower of London. Delivered in a speech by him, Novem. 6. 1646. before the honorable Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider of the priviledges of the commons of England: the originall copy of which, he in obedience to the order and command of the said Committee, delivered in writing to the hands of Col. Henry Martin, chairm-man of the said Committee: Nov. 9. 1646 and now published to the view of all the commons of England, for their information, & knowledge of their liberties and priviledges.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2080; Thomason E362_6; ESTC R201211	18,985	23

An Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny and iniustice exercised upon Lieu. Col. IOHN LILBURNE now a prisoner in the Tower of LONDON Delivered in a speech by him Novem. 6. 1646. before the honorable Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider of the priviledges of the Commons of England The originall Copy of which he in obedience to the order and command of the said Committee delivered in writing to the hands of Col. Henry Martin Chairm-man of the said Committe Nov. 9. 1646 and now published to the view of all the Commons of England for their information knowledge of their Liberties and Priviledges To the Honorable the COMMITTEE for the Liberty of the Commons of ENGLAND May it please this Honorable Committee in obedience to your command and Order of the 6. of November last I here humbly present you with the narration under my hand which by word of mouth I made unto you upon Friday last of my particular sufferings since my commitment by the Lords MAY it please this Honorable Committee I had a hearing before you upon Tuesday the 27 of October last and then I truly acquainted you with the manner of the Lords first sending for me to their Barre by order of the 10. June 1646. to answer a charge there I acquainted you truly what passed betwixt their messenger my self also what was said to me at their Bar and how that for no misbehaviour or any other cause saving my exhibiting to them my Protest and refusing to answer illegall Interrogatories they the 11. of June 1646. committed mee to Newgate and how that upon the 16. of June 1646. I sent my appeale to the Honorable House of Commons which was accepted of And the last time I was before you I was reading the second Warrant of the Lords to bring me the second time to their Barre In the midst of which you were called away and therefore for what then passed I shall referre you Mr. Martin to your own Notes and my Papers delivered in to you but especially to my printed relation of their first proceedings with me which you have And now I shall humbly desire liberty methodically to goe on And as to me it appeares the Lords taking notice that I had appealed to your House their indignation being thereby increased sent a warrant the 22. of June 1646. to the Keeper of Newgate in these words Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburne now a prisoner in Newgate shall be brought before their Lordships in the high Court of Parliament to morrow morning by 10. of the clock And this to be a sufficient Warrant in that behalfe John Brown Cler. Parl. And I being in bed was by my Keeper about 10 a lcock at night certified that such a Warrant was come to carry me in the morning to the Lords Barre I rose betimes and went and spoke with Brisco the Clerk of Newgate and my Keepers Master and told him the Lords had no power nor jurisdiction over me by law and therefore I told him I neither could nor would give my consent to goe up to them And then he told me he would force me Wherupon I went up to my chamber and locked my door and writ a Letter to Mr. Wollastone the chiefe Keeper under the Sheriffes of London And in his absence my wife and a friend carried it to the Sheriffes then at Guild-Hall with the Court of Aldermen and delivered it and my appeale c. to them who as they conceive amongst themselves read it But for any thing I know ordered Brisco to make a forcible entry upon my lodging for hee came up and broke my Chamber-wall and by force carried me down and put me in a Coach which carried me to the Lords The Copy of the above-mentioned letter in print I here present unto you SIR I This morning have seen a Warrant from the House of Lords made yesterday to command you to bring me this day at ten a clock before them the warrant expresseth no cause wherefore I should dance attendance before them neither doe I know any ground or reason wherefore I should nor any Law that compels me thereunto For their Lordships sitting by vertue of Prerogative-patents and not by election or common consent of the people have as Magna Charta and other good lawes of the land tell me nothing to doe to try me or any Commoner whatsoever in any criminall case either for life limb liberty or estate But contrary hereunto as incroachers and usurpers upon my freedomes and liberties they lately and illegally endeavoured to try me a Commoner at their Bar for which I under my hand and seal protested to their faces against them as violent and illegall incroachers upon the rights and liberties of me and all the Commons of England a copy of which c. I in print herewith send you and at their Bar I openly appealed to my competent proper legall Tryers and Judges the Commons of England assembled in Parliament for which their Lordships did illegally arbitrarily and tyrannically commit me to prison into your custody unto whom divers dayes agoe I sent my appeal c. which now remains in the hands of their Speaker if it be not already read in the House unto which I do and will stand and obey their commands Sir I am a free-man of England and therefore I am not to be used as a Slave or Vassall by the Lords which they have already done and would further doe I also am a man of peace and quietnesse and desire not to molest any if I be not forced thereunto therefore I desire you as you tender my good and your own take this for answer that I cannot without turning traytor to my Liberties dance attendance to their Lordships Barre being bound in conscience dutie to God my selfe mine and my Countrey to oppose their incroachments to the death which by the strength of God I am resolved to doe Sir you may or cause to be exercised upon me some force or vielence to pull and dragge me out of my Chamber which I am resolved to maintain as long as I can before I will be compelled to goe before them and therefore I desire you in a friendly way to bee wise and considerate before you doe that which it may be you can never undoe From my Cock-loft in the Presse-yard of Newgate this 13 of Iune 1646. Sir I am your true and faire conditioned prisoner if you will be so to me JOHN LILBURN And being in the Painted Chamber talking with Col. Francis Russel a Member of your House Brisco came to me and before him told me that the Lords had commanded that I should not speak with any To which I replied Are the Lords ashamed of their cause that they dare not venture my declaring of it to my friend But goe tell their Lordships from me I understand the liberties of England better then so suddenly to be their slave and to