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A88219	London's liberty in chains discovered. And, published by Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, Octob. 1646.; London's liberty in chains discovered. Part 1	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Lilburne, Elizabeth. To the chosen and betrusted knights, citizens and burgesses, assembled in the high and supream court of Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2139; Thomason E359_17; Thomason E359_18; ESTC R9983	57,117	77

beene strong Instruments from time to time to doe the same to the whole Land And the present ground of my putting pen to paper at present ariseth from this ensuing The day the last Lord Major was elected It seemes Major Wansie a Watch-maker in Cornhill a man that in these late wars hath freely and gallantly adventured his life for the preservation of the present Parliament and Englands Liberties and some other free Citizens commonly by the Prerogative-men of London distinguished by the name of Cloak-men intended to have claimed their right to give their Vote in the election of the Lord Major as by Law and the Charters of London every free-man therof ought to do as also in both the Sheriffes c. And in case the prerogative L. Major Adams and the prerogative-Aldermen his Brethren would not permit them They then intended to deliver in a Protest in writing the Copy of which Protest within a day or two after I saw and read and not before and understanding how basely Major VVansey was used by the Marshall of London and of my Lord Majors prerogative-Mastives and how that contrary to Law Guild-Hall Gate was guarded with armed men which rendered the election in no sence to be free as all elections of all publike Officers ought to be and reading the Protest over the reason of it and the injustice offered to its well-willers It inflamed my spirit with indignation and set my very soule as it were all on fire Insomuch that I went immediatly to old Mr. Colet the Record-keeper of the Tower and asked him if hee had the originall Records of the Charters of London and understanding he had them out of my penury I bestowed three or foure pound for the Copies of those that were most usefull for me and also the Copy of H. 5. prerogative and unbinding Proclamation by vertue and authority of which they have invaded the rights of all the free men of London in divers particulars and as much as in them lies annihilated divers of the antient and just Charters and legall priviledges of this City confirmed by Magna Charta and making further inquiry of a man versed in antiquity I understood that there was an antient book in print above 100. yeares agoe containing many of the Liberties and Franchises of London for which I sent into Duck-lane and with some industry found it out which is a most excellent book which with the Records I sent to a true friend of mine to get him to translate the Records into English and all the Latine and French that is in that book who sent unto me the fore-going Discourse which in regard he was a stranger to London he was unwilling to set his name to it and I reading the Discourse and liking it very well judged my self bound in duty to my self and all my fellow-Commoners the Cloak-men of London to publish it in print and in regard by Gods assistance I intend shortly to publish and print the Records with a Cōmentary in point of Law upon them I judged it convenient hereby by way of Post-script to give you the understanding thereof and also to give you the reasons which moved me to resolve to hazard no small adventure there upon which are these First because the Prerogative-Pattentee monopolizing Merchant adventurers have contrary to Right Law and Justice robbed me of my trade whose illegall arbytrary destructive practises to the liberties freedome and prosperity of England I have in my answer to Mr. VVill. Pryn called Innocencie and Truth justified punctually anatomized as there you may reade from page 48. to page 63. Now as Paul saith 1 Tim. 5.8 If any provide not for his own family and specially for those of his own house he hath denied the Faith and is worse then an Infidell In which to me is implyed that a man must not only be provident and industrious to keepe and preserve what hee hath but also to maintain and defend his rights liberties and proprieties that they be not invaded or taken from him and this made honest Naboth that he would not part-with his Vineyard his inheritance to wicked King Ahab although he offered him very good tearmes for it 1 Kings 21.1 2 3. much lesse should I part with my trade to any illegall Monopoliser and every individuall Free-mans of London c. and that not only by the principles of nature and reason but also by the Law of England as is not onely proved by the fore-named Discourse but also by another excellent Treatise called Discourse for free Trade published about two years agoe by a Merchant of London Secondly the readinesse of the Prerogative-Magistrates of London to execute any illegall Commands upon the free-men thereof and particularly upon my self as for instance when I was prisoner in Newgate illegally committed by the house of Lords that had no jurisdiction over me in that case and when upon the 22. of June last by their Warrant they commanded me to dance attendance at their Bar for what cause they did not expresse neither know I any Law extant that authorizeth them so to do Which action I looked upon as a trampling the Lawes of the Land and the Liberties of all the free Commons of England under their feet and therefore for the prevention of further mischiefe I writ this following Letter to Mr. VVoollaston the chiefe Jaylor of Newgate under the Sheriffes of London SJR 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 wherfore I should dance attendance before them neither do I know any ground or reason wherefore I should nor any Law that compels mee thereunto for their Lordships sitting by vertue of Prerogative-pattents and not by election or common consent of the people hath as Magna Charta and other good Lawes of the Land tels me nothing to do to try me or any Commoner whatsoever in any criminall case either for life limb liberty or estate but contrary hereunto as incrochers 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 seale protested to their faces against them as violent and illegal incrochers 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 arbytrarily and tyrannically commit me to prison into your custody unto whom divers dayes agoe I sent my appeale c. which now remains in the hands of their Speaker if it be not already read in their 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 bee used as a slave

And again if by the Cōmand of God and the instinct of nature I must as much as much as in me lyes do good to all men then by the same strength of reason must I much more do good unto my selfe And therefore for me to know of and see mischiefe before my eyes intended me and to be so stupid and sottish as not to take care by all just and rationall meanes to prevent it is to be fellonious to my selfe and to do that unto my selfe which I should not do unto another no nor suffer to be done unto another But my adversaries have taken from me my liberty and tormented and tortured my body with cruel and close imprisonment and spoyled me of my trade and livelihood and disfranchised me without cause or ground by robbing me of my right and benefit in the lawes and liberties of England more deare to me then any earthly treasure whatsoever and thereby as much as in them lyes have made a slave and a beast of me and so changed the property that God created me in and now thirst after my life and blood which is all they have left me To preserve which finding no remedy at the hands of Justice by the powerfull operation of some prerogative-men there the names and qualities of whom you shall shortly knowe to whom I have appealed I send my adversaries this bone to pick as aspeciall meanes appearing so to my understanding to breake their cruel fangs and devoureing tusks and the mighty and omnipotent power of the Lord JEHOVAH goe along with it and make it effectuall for the accomplishing that end And I hope no rationall man will blame me for doing herof seeing as Iob saith eye for eye tooth for tooth and all that a man hath will he give or venture for his life And so much for the particular reasons concerning my selfe which moved me to write this I will onely give you two more which are more generall and then conclude And the first is because the greatest bondage of this land ariseth from the monopolizing patentee-Clergy who have been and still are the men that as Iohn in his Reu. Chap. 7.1 saith hould the four winds of the earth that the winde thereof should not blow upon the earth And though in Pauls time some preached the Gospel of envy and others of good will yet he forbids none to preach it but rejoyceth that it was preached by any whether in pretence or truth yea and thereat would rejoyce Phil. 1.15.16.17.18 But these Clergy-men like so many of the Divels Agents whose Kingdome is a Kingdome of darknesse set themselves on purpose to overspread the earth with blindnesse and darknesse and so by consequence with injustice cruelty and blood-shed and rather then any though never so able should preach Christ and his Gospel that will not receive power therefore from them by their mouldy greazy consecration and imposition of hands thousands and ten thousands of soul●s shall perish for want of knowledge and so run headlong to hell eternally yea men that will not be conformable unto them and be absolutely of their cut and fashion though never so extraordinarily adorned with the knowledge of Christ and of his will and minde shall neither eat and drinke buy nor sell amongst them no nor live nor have a habitation amongst them in the land of their nativity witnesse that most DIVELISH WICKED BLOODY VNCHRISTIAN PAPISTICALL REMONSTRANCE of the prerogative-men of London c. who amongst many other base and wicked desires would have us reduced back to the Pope of Rome againe to believe as the Church believes for they would have us be conformable in Church Government c. not onely to what is already established but what ever shall be established and to speake properly this very Remonstrance is but one of their brats which with other of their actions doth demonstrate them cleerly to be part of that Antichristian beastly power spoken of Reu. 13.11 12 13 14 15 16 17. And what Doctor Leighton in his booke called Syons Plea pag. 69. saith of the prelates in reference to the popish Bishop may we say of the present Clergy in reference to the Bishops whose office and function they have condemned for Antichristian viz. that they are garments cut out of the very same cloth a paire of sheeres as we say went but betweene them only divers hands have cut them out And to me it is the greatest riddle in the world how the Bishops can be Antichristian as themselves say and themselves Christs Ministers although they have no other ordination but what is derived from them seeing as nature tells me every like begets its like and reason also tells me that there is no being beyond the power of being and the Scripture saith without all contradiction the lesse is blessed of the greater Heb. 7.7 but no where saith the better or greater is blessed of the lesser and Iames demands a question which in reason and the ordinary course of nature is impossible to be saying Iames 3.11 doth a fountaine send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter and Iob demands to know who he is that can bring a cleane thing out of an uncleane● and answers ●ot one Now these Clergy-men demonstrating by all their actions that they are the naturall and true-bred children of their bloody fathers the Prelates if not worse then they for all their faire speeches and glosing pretences to the contrary therefore we may safely avert that proposition to be true of them that Doctor Leighton in the foresaid booke pag. 51. averrs and proves to be true of their spirituall forefathers viz. that of all the evills inflicted and of all the good hindered since Anno. 600 one or more of the hierarchy have been a principall cause And I add and averr that there is no misery befallen this Kingdome nor no good hindered from coming to it since the Prelates were put downe but some of the present Clergy have been the maine principall in it witnesse their continuall and daily dividing and distracting the Kingdome in all the parts of it on ●et purpose for the establishing that divilish and tyrannicall interest of pride Lordship and Domination which they will effect or else they will lay it in blood and force Witnesse their bloody intended Ordinance brought in by Mr. Tate and Mr. Bacon And have they not already almost brought us to the doore of a new warre with the Scots which God prevent But if for a plague to us it should come upon us I hope the people of England will have their eyes opened to see the Clergy to be no small causes of it whom I hope they will not let passe without due punishment as grand disturbers of the peace of this distressed Common-wealth Seeing that the temporall and trade-Monopolizers and other prerogative-men in London are their stalking-horses by which they act their designes the more strongly the one helping the other to inslave the people and therefore are

insist upon for the making good of the severall Imputations in and by his the said John Whites book laid and fixed upon the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn He the said Iohn White absolutely refused to take any further time in that behalf expresly saying hee would travell no more in it We the said Arbitrators upon due consideration of the whole premises aforesaid a●e c●eer of opinion That the said Iohn White as the ca●e hath been is represented appearing before us had no sufficient ground to write print or publish That the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn was the Writer or Author of the said Bookes Treatise and Letter or any of them But that the said Iohn White in and by his writing p●inting and publishing of his said Book entituled Iohn Whites Defence c. in manner and form as aforesaid hath unjustly scandalized the said L. Col. ●ohn ●ilburn And thefore we the said Arbitrat●●s do most unanimously ●ward That the said Iohn White shall before the 10. day of this instant moneth of October make a publike acknowledgment before Col. Francis West Lieutenant of the said Tower of London at his the said Lieutenants house in the said Tower That he the said Iohn White hath done the said Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn wrong and shal make and pronounce the said acknowledgment in these words following That is to say I Iohn White one of the Warders of the Tower of London Do acknowledge that I have unjustly wronged Lieutenant Col. I. Lilburn in and by my writing and publishing in print in such sort as I did That he was the Writer Author or Contriver of a Book called Liberty vindicated against Slavery And of a Printed Letter thereunto annexed And of a Booke called An Alarum to the House of Lords For all which and for all the unjust and scandalous matters and language alleadged and used by me in my said Booke reflecting upon the said Lieutenant Col. Lilburn I am heartily sorry We the said Arbitrators doe also award That after the said Iohn VVhite hath so made and pronounced the said acknowledgment before the said Mr. Lieutenant Hee the said Iohn White shall then deliver his said acknowledgment in writing subscribed by him the said Iohn VVhite into the custody of the said Lieutenant Colonell Iohn Lilburn to be by him kept and disposed of for his better vindication against the said scandals said upon him by the said Iohn White in his the said Iohn VVhites said Book Lastly we the said Arbitrators do award That this our award shall be a finall end of all differences and matters of controversie whatsoever betwixt the said Lieut. Col. I. Lilburn and the said Iohn White to us or to our award in any wise submitted by the said parties from the beginning of the world unto the day of their said submission to our award so farre as the same doth or may concern the said parties or either of them in their particulars and that the said parties from henceforth shall continue lovers and friends without any repetition of former injuries on either part And for the better clearing of the said Iohn White in his credit touching some rumours of couzenage and perjury by him supposed to be committed or touching his being forsworn lately scattered abroad to his discredit We the said Arbitrators do unanimously declare that we have not found any colour much lesse any just ground to fix upon the said Iohn VVhite any suspition of or for the same or any part thereof But doe thereof in our opinions absolutely cleer him Given under our hands and seales the 7. day of Octob. aforesaid 1646. John Strangwaies Lewis Dives John Glanvill William Morton But the Lieutenant not being willing for causes best knowne to himself that the submission or recantation should be made before or in his presence it was done at Lir John Glanvils chamber the Copy of which thus followeth I John White one of the Warders of the Tower of London Doe acknowledge that I have unjustly wronged Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn in and by my writing and publishing in print in such sort as I did that he was the Writer Author or Contriver of a Booke called Liberty vindicated against Slavery and of a Printed Letter thereunto annexed and of a Book or Treatise called An Alarum to the House of Lords For all which and for the unjust and scandalous matters and language alleadged and used by me in my said Book reflecting upon the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn I am heartily sorry and in testimony thereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand the 8. day of October 1646. JOHN WHITE Subscribed pronounced and accepted the 9. day of Octob. 1646 in the presence of us Knights John Strangwaies Lewis Dive Iohn Glanvill William Morton Henry Vaughan Christopher Comport Warder in the Tower And now to conclude at the present because there is not any discourse of mine own abroad in Prin● since I was first locked up so close as I was by the Lords in Newgate by way of Narrative to state my case to the world I shall it may bee informe and silence many mens rash censures by inserting first my Wifes late Petition to the House of Commons and because by a Gentleman of the Committee to whom my cause was referred it was judged a D●claration rather then a Petition and so unfit to be insisted upon any further after once reading there although I am not apt to think if I had been a man accustomed to write Letters to my Lord Cottington when he was at Oxford at that time when by Ordinance of Parliament it was little lesse then death so to doe her Petition and my cause would have found more favour from that Gentleman then they did whose cavels necessitated me to send a Petition of my own to the same Committee which I sha●l also insert But first of all my wifes Petition thus followeth To the Chosen and betrusted Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in the high and supream Court of PARLIAMENT The Humble Petition of ELIZABETH LILBURNE wife to Lieu. Col. JOHN LILBURNE who hath been for above eleven weeks by-past most unjustly divorced from him by the House of Lords and their tyrannicall Officers against the Law of GOD and as she conceives the law of the Land Sheweth THat you only and alone are chosen by the Commons of England to maintain their Lawes and Liberties and to do them justice and right a a Coll. of decl pag. 264. 336. 382 508 613. 705. 711. 716 721 724 725 726 729. 730. which you have often before God and the World sworn to do b b Coll. decl page ●6● 6●● protestation ● and covena●● yea and in divers of your Declarations declared it is your duty in regard of the trust reposed in you so to doe c c Coll. decl pag. 81● 17● 262 266 267 340 459. 462 471 473 5●● 690. without any private aimes personall respects or passions whatsoever d d Col. declar p. 464 490