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A88246	The resolved mans resolution, to maintain with the last drop of his heart blood, his civill liberties and freedomes, granted unto him by the good, just, and honest declared lawes of England, (his native country) and never to sit still, so long as he hath a tongue to speake, or a hand to write, til he hath either necessitated his adversaries, the house of Lords, and their arbitrary associates in the house of Commons, either to doe him justice and right, by delivering him from his causelesse and illegall imprisonment, and out unto him, legall and ample reparations, for all his unjust sufferings or else send him to Tyburne: of which he is not afraid, and doubteth not if they doe it, but at and by his death, to doe them (Sampson like) more mischief, then he did them all his life. All which is expressed and declared in the following epistle, written by Lieut. Coll. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, to a true friend of his, a citizen thereof, Aprill 1647.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2174; Thomason E387_4; ESTC R201493	61,516	44

of the Committee and hath also the Posse commitatis of the whole County put into his hands as being the fitte●● man to be High Sheriffe there yea and no●irin that County what ever a King is in his Kingdome that saying of Da●i●l chap. 5.19 concerning the power of ●●●●bad nezzar being too truly verified of him and his father in ●efo●e●ce their acted and executed power in that ●oore County that whom they will they set up yea even as arch blades as Sir George himselfe and whom they will they pull down and all the people there in a manner tumble and feare before them But this is not all for the Parliament upon the clearing of the Country sent a Magazine of Ammunition and Armes downe which was landed and laid up at Sunderland in the possession of my Vn●le Mr. George Lalburn one of the Deputy Lieutenants and Iustices of Peace c. of the County which Sir George Vaine by his supreame prerogative sent for away and put into his Fathers Castle of R●b no laid in store of Provisions there but I will not say he sent for some scores of Cavieliers from a Castle in York shire to come and take possession of it so soone as be had so done but this I will say that they did come and take possession of it with a great deale of ease and it cost the Country some thousands of pounds before they could take it againe So here you have at present a briefe relation of the game that Sir Henry Vaine hath plaid this many yeares together by meanes of which he hath got a great estate but I may say an ill estate to leave to his son Sir Henry principally a man for all the experience I have had of him and I have had not a little no whit inferior in my apprehension to his Father in Machiavels principles for all his guilded professions and truly it is very strange tone what the Family of the Vaines hath deserved of this Kingdome that they must have so many thousands pounds a yeare out of the Kingdomes Revenue in its present great and extraordinary poverty as they have never any of which ever hazarded the shedding of one drop of blood for the Parliament or Kingdome And besides the two sonnes before mentioned there is a third lately come out of Holland that was a Captain there and though he hath not one foot of Land in the County of Durham yet he is as I am informed lately made a Iustice of peace and hath besides profitable and gainefull Offices there I pray Sir what doe you thinke such doings as this of which the Parliament is full as I could easily declare doth portend to the whole Kingdome doe you thinke that it portends lesse then absolute vassolage and slavery to the whole Kingdome by a company of base and unworthy men set up by the people whom they may if they please pull downe by calling them home and chuse honester men in their places in a new Parliament to call them to a strict accompt without doing of which the lawes and liberties of England are destroyed and our proprieties utterly overthrow that doe and will tyrannise ten times worse ov●r us then ever our prerogative task masters of old did Sir sure I am by the antient good just and unrepealed laws of England it is inacted that a Parliament should be holden every yeare once or m●re oftner ●f●●ed require for the maintenance of the lawes and the redresse of divers mischiefes and grievances which dayly happen 4. E. 3.14 and 36. E. 3.10 And by the act made this present Parliament in the 16. yeare of the King called an Act for the preventing of inconveniences hapning by the long intermission of Parliaments there It is provided in ease the King doe not performe his duty to the Kingdome in summoning of Parliaments as he ought that then we shall have a Parliament once in 3. yeare whether he will or no as appeares by the Act it selfe which most excellent Act is altogether fruitlesse to the Kingdome if we must have a perpetuall Parliament and therefore an everlasting Parliament is the greatest abridgement and de●●ustion to our lawes liberties and proprieties that possibly can be imposed upon us the present Parliament men being in their owne principles unpuestionable lawlesse uncontrowleable and so are a kind of Monsters rather of the Divells creation then Gods for he never created and made any man lawlesse during all whose fitting as they by their actions order the matter we have no propriety in our lives liberties estates or trades for all of them are subject to be destroyed by a Vote and 〈◊〉 sometimes it may be carried but by the Vote of one of D. Bastwicks N●nyes or 〈…〉 Prynt Minors or Infants it may be but of 18. yeares old 3. yeares younger then any 〈◊〉 to be by law that can sit in that House nay to such a hight of tyrannie are these 〈…〉 grown that they by Vote without law of reason take our liberties from us upon 〈…〉 and false report of any of their Members or any of their secofanising Catch pouled 〈◊〉 either the bearing us speak for ourselves or so much as telling us the cause wherefore 〈◊〉 imprisonned and this the last yeare in every particular was my portion by the mean●● of 〈◊〉 William ●●th●ll Speaker of the House of Commons D● Bastwick and that bas● and 〈…〉 fellow Col. Edward King who divers yeares agoe deserved to be hanged for be●●●ing 〈◊〉 trust reposed in him by the Parliament this was lately the portion of Major T●●●● by 〈◊〉 means of M Hollis Sir Walier Ea●le Sir Phillip Stapleton Sir Sam. Luke the rest of their g●● trusty and doubty Associates O brave Parliament Which by its constitution on and primitive practises was a Bulwarke to secure the Commons of England from being ca●e● up and destroyed by the prerogative and wills of the Kings of England but ha●●●● now f●r ●aken this first station destroyes us with unknown unlimitted and arbitrary priviledger more th●● 〈◊〉 the prerogatives of any King of England since the first day of M●g●● Ch●●tas estiblish●●● and are unaccomptable for any thing they say and doe yea and doe not only act the Parliamentary power but also a regall power yea and though they count themselves the great●●● Iudges in the Kingdome yet contrary to law justice reason and conscience take upon them for sees which I may call bribes to plead causes before Iudges of their own making who dare as well ease their fingers ends as displease them and then in conclusion it may be the very same causes by way of appeale comes before themselves as supreame Iudges and judge yo● how those causes must goe in which they have been and it may be are Hackney Counseller which they ought not in the least to be it being not only contrary to law but the 〈◊〉 of Iudges that any Iudge should give Counsell or be a Counseller Yea Parliaments in former

Lieutenant Colonel to the Earle of Ma●●hesters Regimen● of Dragoons which 〈◊〉 sted●ill about or unto the last of April 1645 at which time I delivered the Troop and ●●●ment up to Col. John Obely neare Ab●ageon By the first Commission there is due to 〈…〉 ●●s for 223. dayes service at 24 ● per 〈◊〉 and by the second Commission there is 〈◊〉 to me 612. l. 10● 〈◊〉 for 350. ●●yes service at 3● s. per d●●m both being 〈◊〉 2.5 of all which during my service under the Earle of Manchester I aver it I never receive● 200 l. as pay for all Prins lyes t is true that 〈◊〉 or upon the 20. of December 1645. I receive 〈◊〉 Mr. Ne●thr●p Col Kings Treasures 〈◊〉 Mr. Tilsons House in Boston by the hands of 〈◊〉 St●dders tho● my Lieutenant 〈◊〉 Cap●●●ne in Sir Har●resse Wallers Regiment the 〈◊〉 51. l. 1. 〈◊〉 10. d. for so 〈…〉 ●id out for Col King at London by his own order 〈◊〉 guilt Sword a Plush Coat with 〈◊〉 and Silvey Cl●ps●s 10. yeards of ●lush for his wives 〈◊〉 a Corn●t and ric● banners two parts of Stockings one Crimson velve● saddle one bl●● 〈…〉 saddle and one Scarle● saddle with f●rnitures three pair of bou●s●ers satable and 〈…〉 and padlock to pa●k them in and then also I laid out for him 25 l 1.1 6 l. and delivered 〈…〉 a bill of particulars and received my money of his man for 7. yeards of fine gray cloth 〈◊〉 ●●●ver tri●●●ung three p●●re of Sp●●● Sold●● wi●●es Gloves a ●ath●rs cal● a 〈…〉 and forty paire of gr●●● bi●s for portage and ●●rriage from London to ●osto● of ●55 l. 〈…〉 l. But I hope Col. King doth not inten● to make either me or the State to pay for all this his bravery After this I laid out for divers other particulars mentioned in a note which I gave 〈…〉 and his clarke 23. l. ● ● 7 d. which money I received in February 16●3 and being Ma●● of the town of ●●ste● under him that often occasion to lay but small sums of money for 〈◊〉 fall things to the value of above 50. l. the particulars of which I alwayes gave him 〈…〉 clearke under my hand ●●d received my money in reference to such a ●●●e dated such 〈◊〉 as by my notes and receites under my own hand with him and his Clarke will fully 〈◊〉 I also the 13. Ianuary 1643. at Lincol●e received of his Clarke 200. l. which was laid 〈…〉 followeth Paid to Captai●e Cotton for the Colonels company and Lieutenant Col● 〈◊〉 ●●srots and Capt. ●res 〈◊〉 a ●●●●le towne within halfe a mile of Lincol●e upon the 〈…〉 house ne●t the heath 140. 〈◊〉 p●●d to Cap. D●t●●gs Lie●t 15. l. paid to Capt. Wregs 〈…〉 l. paid to him that Commands Capt. A●ers men as Quarter master upon the beating 〈◊〉 of their Quarters neare Lincol●● 4. l. that he is to be accountable for and six pound for himselfe by the Col●● order paid by his order to Iohn ●●ost and Iohn H●gger two of his Soldiers ●o carrie them to Cambridge 2. l. laid out to my Soldiers as per my rowle of the 17. D●●●●er appears ●7 l. 3. s. ● d. paid for bringing armes ●●o●● Lincol●e 〈◊〉 paid for carrying ammun●●●● at severall times to S●mpringb●●● and S●le●f●rd 11. s. 4. d. and this note his Cle●●● 〈…〉 selfe did a little while after the said 1● Ianuary perfect and he received particular 〈◊〉 from the severall Officers upon their acknowledging they had received the above said some of me and I dare ●●ldly say it I was as exact in perfecting all such accounts as this with his 〈◊〉 as an who pl●ce p●●in England is in keeping his bookes a● by the notes of particulars in his hands will manifestly app●●re and then for my Soldiers with him they were so con●●●●●ly mustered under the Collon●l● no●e by one of his owne creatures that it 〈◊〉 impo●●●● 〈◊〉 man had a mind unto it to have paid the k●●ve especially either I or any under my particular command being●●●●mity with his Muster master and besides J a●er it that if one 〈◊〉 we made a muster and the 〈…〉 we made another if my one of the Soldiers that was in his muster roule the week before were absent by sicknesse the second time although he lay sick● in the very same Towne and though we named the house where he was sick and were ready to go● to shew him to the Muster Master yet so exact w●● Col. King that I nor my Lieutenant was not trusted with the pay of my particular fie● Soldiers and as for the payment of them their money was most commonly received and paid by my Lieutenant yet I commonly g●●e the rece●●● for it inder my hand in as exact a way as it was possible to make it viz received such a day so much money far so many dayes pay for say ●●figne two Sergeants three Corporalls and so many common Soldiers My Lieutenant himselfe usually received his owne money and I received of Th● Hewer the Cols man at three severall payments about three sco●epoun●s which in my receipts I mentioned as my owne porticular pay Besides this in February and March 1643. I received of the ●●nd T●●ma● Hewer and one Mr. Browne by Col. Kings appointment betwixt two and three hundred pounds in part of payment for divers things delivered at his e●●est desi●e in his straights into his Magazine at ●oston at least by 20. l. in the hundred cheaper then he there paid at the 〈◊〉 time for the like the exact copy of which particulars as I had them under 〈◊〉 hand of his o●ne Magazine k●epet the originall it selfe to my remembrance being delivered to Mr. 〈◊〉 at Lincol●● thus followeth A note of all the Swords Belts and Holsters for Pistols and Bandel●ers That Major Lilburuc caused to be brought into the Magazine at Boston February 5. 1643. Received from London by Major Lilburno● appo●●●●● two hundred and ●i●●ty Swords more received immediately after by M●●●r Lilburno● 〈◊〉 five hundred Swords Feb. 1643 Received from Thomas Forman at Lyn by ●●●ior Lilburnes appointment me chest of Swords containing two hundred received 〈◊〉 Aprill after from Ma●or Lilburne that his men brought into the Magazine and delivered 〈◊〉 to my s●● Sh●pherdson twenty Sword● so 〈◊〉 ●●ceived in Swords 1010. Received of Maior Lilburn 80. pair of Holsters for Pistols and th●● hundred ●●●ts for Swords ●●●ived of Mr. Wood and Mr. Wind by Maior Lilburnes ●pp●●●●●● ●e 〈◊〉 s●●●d c●llers of ●●●del●rs all these S●●ords H●●●●●ers for Pist●ls 〈…〉 ●●●i●rec●●ved 〈◊〉 the Magazine from Maior Lilburn but what 〈◊〉 is paid 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 of them I 〈◊〉 not By me Richard Coney keeper of the Magazine in Boston Now if you please to read the 42 43 44. and 46. pages of 〈◊〉 ●●●●●y and Truth i●●stifi●d and the ● 4 5 6 ● 8 9. pages of my painted Epistle to ●●●ge 〈◊〉 called Th● iust 〈…〉 you shall largely and particularly 〈◊〉 the cause of Kings ●●lling