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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88182	Englands new chains discovered; or The serious apprehensions of a part of the people, in behalf of the Commonwealth; (being presenters, promoters, and approvers of the large petition of September 11. 1648.) Presented to the supreme authority of England, the representers of the people in Parliament assembled. / By Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, and divers other citizens of London, and borough of Southwark; February 26. 1648. whereunto his speech delivered at the bar is annexed.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2106; Thomason E545_27; ESTC R204425	11,714	17

Consequently discourage Sea-men and Marriners and which have had no smal influence upon the late unhappy revolts which have so much endangered the Nation and so much advantaged your enemies They also incline to direct a more equal and lesse burdensome way for levying monies for the future those other fore-mentioned being so chargable in the receipt as that the very stipends and allowance to the Officers attending thereupon would defray a very great part of the charge of the Army whereas now they engender and support a corrupt interest They also have in mind to take away all imprisonment of disabled men for debt and to provide some effectual course to enforce all that are able to a speedy payment and not suffer them to be sheltered in Prisons where they live in plenty whilst their Creditors are undone They have also in mind to provide work and comfortable maintainance for all sorts of poor aged and impotent people and to establish some more speedy lesse troublesome and chargeable way for deciding of Controversies in Law whole families having been ruined by seeking right in the wayes yet in being All which though of greatest and most immediate concernment to the People are yet omitted in their Agreement before you These and the like are their intentions in what they purpose for an Agreement of the People as being resolved so far as they are able to lay an impossibility upon all whom they shall hereafter trust of ever wronging the Common wealth in any considerable measure without certainty of ruining themselves and as conceiving it to be an improper tedious and unprofitable thing for the People to be ever runing after their Representatives with Petitions for redresse of such Grievances as may at once be removed by themselves or to depend for these things so essential to their happinesse and freedom upon the uncertain judgements of several Representatives the one being apt to renew what the other hath taken away And as to the use of their Rights and Liberties herein as becometh and is due to the people from whom all just powers are derived they hoped for and expect what protection is in you and the Army to afford and we likewise in their and our own behalfe do earnestly desire that you will publikely declare your resolution to protect those who have not forfeited their liberties in the use thereof lest they should conceive that the Agreement before you being published abroad and the Commissioners therein nominated being at work in persuance thereof is intended to be imposed upon them which as it is absolutely contrary to the nature of a free Agreement so we are perswaded it cannot enter into your thoughts to use any impulsion therein But although we have presented our apprehensions and desires concerning this great work of an Agreement and are apt to perswade our selves that nothing shall be able to frustrate our hopes which we have built thereupon yet have we seen and heard many things of late which occasions not only apprehensions of other matters intended to be brought upon us of danger to such an Agreement but of bondage and ruine to all such as shall pursue it Insomuch that we are even agast and astonished to see that notwithstanding the productions of the highest notions of freedom that ever this Nation or any people in the world have brought to light notwithstanding the vast expece of blood and treasure that hath been made to purchase those freedoms notwithstanding the many eminent and even miraculous Victories God hath been pleased to honour our just Cause withall notwithstanding the extraordinary gripes and pangs this House hath suffered more than once at the hands of your own servants and that at least seemingly for the obtaining these our Native Liberties When we consider what rackings and tortures the People in general have suffered through decay of Trade and deernesse of food and very many families in particular through Free-quarter Violence and other miseries incident to warre having nothing to support them therein but hopes of Freedom and a well-setled Common-wealth in the end That yet after all these things have bin done and suffered and whilst the way of an Agreement of the People is owned and approved even by your selves and that all men are in expectation of being put into possession of so deer a purchase Behold in the close of all we hear and see what gives us fresh and pregnant cause to believe that the contrary is really intended and that all those specious pretenses and high Notions of Liberty with those extraordinary courses that have of late bin taken as if of necessity for liberty and which indeed can never be justified but deserve the greatest punishments unless they end in just liberty and an equal Government appear to us to have bin done and directed by some secret powerful influences the more securely and unsuspectedly to attain to an absolute domination over the Common-wealth it being impossible for them but by assuming our generally approved Principles and hiding under the fair shew thereof their other designs to have drawn in so many good and godly men really aiming at what the other had but in shew and pretense and making them unwittingly instrumental to their own and their Countries Bondage For where is that good or where is that liberty so much pretended so deerly purchased If we look upon what this House hath done since it hath voted it self the Supreme Authority and disburthened themselves of the power of the Lords First we find a high Court of Justice erected for Tryal of Criminal causes whereby that great and strong hold of our preservation the way of tryal by 12. sworn men of the Neighborhood is infringed all liberty of exception against the tryers is over-ruled by a Court consisting of persons pickt and chosen in an un-usual way the practise whereof we cannot allow of though against open and notorious enemies as well because we know it to be an usual policy to introduce by such means all usurpations first against Adversaries in hope of easier admission as also for that the same being so admited may at pleasure be exercised against any person or persons whatsoever This is the first part of our new liberty The next is the censuring of a Member of this House for declaring his judgement in a point of Religion which is directly opposite to the Reserve in the Agreement concerning Religion Besides the Act for pressing of Sea-men directly contrary to the Agreement of the Officers Then the stoping of our mouths from Printing is carefully provided for and the most severe and unreasonable Ordinances of Parliament that were made in the time of Hollis and Stapletons reign to gag us from speaking truth and discovering the tyrannies of bad men are refered to the care of the General and by him to his Marshal to be put in execution in searching fining imprisoning and other waies corporally puni●●●●g 〈◊〉 that any waies be guilty of unlicensed Printing They dealing with us as the