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cause_n	good_a	king_n	lord_n	4,716	5	3.8323	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88171	A defensive declaration of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, against the unjust sentence of his banishment, by the late Parliament of England; directed in an epistle from his house in Bridges in Flanders, May 14. 1653. (Dutch or new still, or the 4 of may 1653. English or old stile) to his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell, and the rest of the officers of his Army, commonly sitting in White-hall in councel, managing the present affairs of England, &c. Unto which is annexed, an additional appendix directed from the said Leut. Col. John Lilburn, to his Excellency and his officers, occasioned by his present imprisonment in Newgate; and some groundless scandals, for being an agent of the present King, cast upon him by some great persons at White-hall, upon the delivery of his third address (to the councel of State, by his wife and several other of his friends) dated from his captivity in Newgate the 20 of June 1653.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2098; Thomason E702_2; ESTC R202747	17,494	20

to face that so I may speak for my self and my Lord if either Mr. Scot or any other can accuse me justly in the least as being guilty of any one action of disservice unto you since the day of our said solemn reconciliation let me for ever be esteemed by you the veriest false trecherous Rogue and Villain in the world at the saying of which his Lordship was pleased to say he had not the least ground of disgust or distast against me but that I stood right in his affection and he should be ready to do me any office of love On which I told him I was the more induced to do this because Mr. Scot being Secretary of State which being one of the greatest places of trust in the Nation I could not but judge thereby he was very deep in his Excellencies favour and therefore might have more then an ordinary influence upon him and thereby the more able to do me a mischief and I was sure he had will enough unto it forasmuch as I was able to prove it to his face while I was a prisoner in the Tower in 1649. he had made it his work to hire an Agent my great pretended friend with great sums of money to come and perswade me in my then great discontents by reason of my sad sufferings to write Letters to the King of Scots at Jersey and send them by his said Agent that so I might be drawn into a treasonable snare thereby to lose my life and having had much private discourse with his said Agent and easily perceiving his drift I was through the goodnesse of God too hard for him whereupon he and Mr. Scot failing of their wicked and bloudy ends in getting any Letters from me he the said Agent alone or joyned with Mr. Scot as I have too apparent grounds to judge hereupon counterfeited my hand and feigned and produced severall false Letters of mine intercepted as was pretended that I had writ to the King of Scots For my old friend Mr. Cornelius Holland avowed with a great deal of seriousnesse to my wife then familiar with him that he knew my hand as well as his own if ever he saw my hand in his life those Letters of mine that they had to produce against me which he said I had lately writ to the King of Scots to Jersey was every word my own individuall hand and he was very sorry that I who for my honesty he had so highly esteemed should be so Apostatized from all my principalls as to turne my back of God and of his people and the cause of the Commonwealth and to joyne with their grand enemy the King to destroy them all And the Lord Bradshaw averred the substance of this to ● very good friend of mine a Knight upon the knowledge of which I did confidently truly and solemnly avow I never writ a line in my life to the King nor was no more directly nor indirectly in combination with him then Mr. Holland or the Lord Bradshaw themselves whereupon after I was calumniated by M. Scots means all over City Country to be an absolute Agent of the King and threatned a little before my triall at Guild-Hall to be tried for my life thereupon yet upon my resolute and true averments this cheat vanished as smoke so that Sir by this you may see Mr. Scot wants no will to do me mischief therefore for time to come I beseech your Excellency not to believe any of his tales against me in his future endeavouring to make again debate and strife betwixt your honor and my self but upon all his information against me before they receive belief with you call me face to face to speak for my selfe which his Excellency solemnly promised he would do Whereupon in the second place I expressed my selfe in this manner to his honor my Lord I crave your favour to speak a few words further unto you which being granted I went on to this effect My Lord there hath been in my late imprisonment much differences betwixt Sir Arthur Haslerig and my self occasioned by his taking from me by his will and pleasure without shadow of Law or authority of any in power about 2500. l. of my own proper money and besides prosecuting to take away my life with that eagernesse and vilenesse that he did and that by ignoble and unworthy means and now my Lord there is a great contest betwixt him and my Family whom ●ruly I cannot but say he most unjustly endeavours to extirpate out of their countrey and from my Unkle and others of his friends he hath already by his will and pleasure without Law or reason taken a Colliery worth as Sir Arthur himself saith 5000. l. per annum and I know my Lord Sir Arthur is a man very dear unto you in your affections and in regard the businesse is like to come to a very high contest and I as a Counsellor against Sir Arthur am like to the utmost to be ingaged in it therefore least your honor should judge I contest with Sir Arthur upon any old score of reflection upon him as your Lordships friend or any the least design to occasion any disturbance I am come to wait upon your honor on set purpose to take out of your mind all or the least apprehension or conceipt of any disgust remaining in my heart against your honor and to let you clearly know my thoughts are fully fixed with as much respect upon your Excellency as its possible for a mans to be and therefore I am come to offer this unto your honor that seeing Sir Arthur Haslerig is your great friend and seeing we judge our cause in contest with him so just and righteous as we do I humbly and seriously profer this unto your honor that if Sir Arthur pleaseth absolutely to refer the finall judgment of the cause unto your Excellencies sole judgment and bind himself in a bond of twenty thousand pounds finally to stand to your determinate and sole judgment I will ingage my friends shall enter into as great bonds upon your Lordships full hearing of the cause on both sides to stand to and finally to acquiesce without further dispute in his honors judgment for which his Lordship very much commended my ingenuity and my honorable respect to himself and his integrity so absolutely to put our selves in a cause of so great consequence into his hands but withall told me he understood the cause was long and he had many weighty affaires upon his hands which would by no meanes afford him so much time as to hear so long a cause as he believed that was unto which I replied to this effect then my Lord because I will absolutely leave you without the least starting hole or any the least ground to harbour any disgust in your breast against me for my zealous appearing in this Colliery businesse against Sir Arthur Haslerig over whom I know you have a kind of friendly command and therefore seeing you