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A88243	The recantation of Lieutenant Collonel John Lilburne, prisoner in the Tower. Opening, all the machinations of the Independent partie: their various practises and judgements. With the reasons or grounds of his unexpected revolt from that party: also certain rules to know them, with cautions to shun most of their pernicious heresies.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657,	1647 (1647)	Wing L2171; Thomason E386_19; ESTC R201489	4,670	8

THE RECANTATION Of Lieutenant Collonel John Lilburne Prisoner in the Tower OPENING All the MACHINATIONS of the Independent Partie THEIR Various Practises and Judgements With the Reasons or Grounds of his unexpected Revolt from that Party Also certain Rules to know them with Cautions to shun most of their pernicious Heresies Printed in the Yeer 1647. THE RECANTATION of LIEV COL IOHN LILBVRNE Fellow-Commoners I Know it cannot otherwise chuse but strike a wonder into you to see me now revoke that Cause that formerly I have so unanimously maintained both with my sword and pen besides many cruell sufferings as whipping imprisonments and the like in defence of you your Priviledges Freedomes and Birth rights even with the hazard of my life against all Opposers whatsoever whether Bishops Kings Parliaments or any other Principalities or Powers in high places 1. Being imprisoned by the Bishops in the Fleet for a long time denyed ever what nature it selfe so plentifully gives to all sorts of Creatures water being neere famished shamefully betrayed by my * Ed. Childingden friends abused by Jaylors censured by Star-chamber whipped from the Fleet to Westminster afterwards enduring long Captivity by the Bishops then having obtained liberty by the meanes of my much honoured friend Liev. Gen. Cromwell no sooner released but againe arraigned for my life before the whole House of Peeres about the Earle of Strafford the King himselfe sending my Accusation against * May 24. 1641. me The House of Commons then vouchsafed me so ☜ much justice as to vote for me 1. That the Sentence of the Star-chamber given against mee was illegall and against the Liberty of the Subject as also wicked bloody cruell barbarous and tyrannis all 2. That reparations ought to be given mee for my imprisonment sufferings and losses sustained by that illegall sentence But since what justice I have received from them let the world judge considering the high esteeme I have had both of them and their Cause that had I had at the beginning of these warres ten thousand * my hot Zeale lives I should have ventured them all for the Parliament though I had stript my selfe to my very shirt and though I had not left my Wife and Family any thing wherewith to have subsisted In their service I freely adventur'd my life with an undaunted courage and resolution till being taken prisoner at Brainford I was carryed to Oxford where for almost a yeere I continued a prisoner arraigned againe for my life but when they could not worke upon mee by any threats or menaces they resolved to try to doe that by polycy they could not effect by force and made me many proffers of worldly honours and preferments which came even from the King himselfe by the hands of 4 several Lords yet I remained unmoveable as a * My strong faith ●ock stopping my eares against all those juncto Syrens and not so much as listning to any their conjurations or imprecations charmed they never so wisely though I indured at that present as much misery as it was possible for any one man to doe by sicknesse and otherwise to the utter ruine of my estate to the value of 6 or 700 l. as I can make it appeare After this being exchanged I served under the Lord of Manchester and being before Newarke was stript to the bare * Yèt fervent for their Cause skin hardly escaping with my life and although I tooke in Tickell Castle from the Cavaliers with much hazard and danger Yet the great Parliamentary Reward for all my good service was but an earnest desire to hang me an unwelcome payment for so deserving a service and an excellent new reformed way to pay old debts having due unto me under the command of the said Earle about 700 l. a summe that would have reared a gallows as high as Hamans for Mordecai but c. ☞ I forbeare to speake of Col. King But they having served their owne turnes of me I could never have justice from them since though I have been as faithfull a servant to them and the Common-wealth as any they ever imployed and have bid defiance to all men in the world to brand or taxe me with unfaithfullnesse And whereas Magna Carta saith Iustice and Right wee will deny to none nor wee will defer to none Yet did I waite at least foure yeeres upon them and in all that time could not get them so much as to put their Votes in execution since have I followed them 6 moneths to the expence of above a hundred pounds to get a Petition read that I might have Iustice and Right yet denyed both and have been since the 1 of May 1641. imprisoned three times by authority of the House of Commons before ever I knew mine accuser or ever was suffered to speake one word in mine owne defence directly against my Freedome having beene in the field with my sword in my hand for the preservation thereof But if you please to read Magna Carta 9 of Hen. 3. cap. 1. you shall finde there That no Freeman may be taken and imprisoned and disseazed of his Freehold or his Liberty or his free Customes or outlawed or banished or any way destroyed neither will we go upon him neither passe upon him but by the lawful tryal of his equals or by the law of the Land Iustice Right we will sell to none wee will deny to none nor will deferre to none all which is my proper Birth-right and Inheritance confirmed by this present Parliament in many Declarations taxing the King for the violation therof yet acting contrary thereunto themselves Deare fellow Commons I Desire you to judge impartially and tell me if they deserved so faithfull a Champion as my ☜ selfe That with undaunted courage and unparrallelled valour have disarmed their enemies even at their very doores as namely Captaine Hide and others and yet from that very house unto which those dores doe lead have received so many Votes in Commitments and otherwise as any Freeman under the Cope of Heaven the Copy of one followeth Die Sabbati 19 July REsolved upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament that Lievetenant Collonell Lilburne be forth with taken into Custody by the Serjeant at Armes attending this House and so kept till the House take further Order To the Sergeant at Armes attending at this House or to his Deputy c. H. Elsing Cler. Parl. D. Com. I Could instance you many more Tyrannies and Outrages committed upon me since my commitment to the Tower where I remaine yet a Prisoner but it is needlesse therefore enough shall suffice for this time Let me in the next place give you notice concerning your Collections in your severall Congregations I have found lately your Zeale very cold and your Talent of Charity not to abound the streame of your bounty still ebbing or flowing some other way I speake this to put you in minde of your forwardnesse to minister freely to