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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48481	To all the affectors and approvers in England of the London petition of the eleventh of September, 1648, but especially to the owners of it, by their subscriptions, either to it, or any other petition in the behalf of it; and particularly to the first promoters of it, my true friends, the citizens of London, &c. (continuing unshaken in their principles, by offices, places, or other base bribes or rewards) usually meeting at the Whalbone in Lothbury, behinde the Royal Exchange, commonly (but most unjustly) stiled Levellers.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2183A; ESTC R220125	11,753	8

I have fully declared sent me by force of Arms to the Tower for all my short eternity in this world But I intreat you seriously to consider that I cannot advise you to make address to him as the General of the Nations forces for he is no such thing but is meerly a great Tyrant standing by the power of his own will and a strong sword born by his vassals slaves and creatures having no commission to be General either from Law the Parliament or from the prime Laws of Nature and Reason For First when he was first made General by both Houses of Parliament it was expresly against ●he letter of the Law which action cannot be justified either before God or man but in case of extream necessity and for the accomplishment of a universall righteous end viz. The redeeming setling and securing the peoples rational and just Rights and Freedoms and not in the least for setting up any particular selvish or factious interest But secondly in refusing to disband c he hath rebelled against his Parliament commission and thereby destroyed and annihilated it And at New-Market Heath the fifth of June 1647 betook himself to the prime Laws of Nature and by common consent of his Officers and Souldiers became their General and entred into a solemn and mutuall ingagement before God and one another for the accomplishment of those righteous ends therein contained for the good of the Kingdom and themselves by subscribing his name or at least expresly assenting thereunto and approving thereof with solemn ingagement as is at large Printed in the Armies Book of Declarations p. 23 24 25 26. by the very letter of which he nor his Officers could not govern the Army jointly or severally by the former Rules or Articles of Martiall Law no nor so much as make an Officer of the meanest quality nor put forth any publike Declaration nor treat with nor conclude with any in reference to the Army but by the joynt advice and approbation of their new erected and established councel of Adjutators which for order and methods sake the General was betrusted to convene and call together as the King formerly was Parliaments or the Lord Mayor of London Common Councels and yet notwithstanding he and his Officers like a generation of most perfidious false and faithless men broke all this ingagement to pieces within less then twenty dayes after it was made and so annihilated and destroyed his power authority or commission flowing from the consent of the Souldiers before he had really accomplished any one thing he or they ingaged for and hath since two severall times put a nullity or force upon his originall Creators Lords and Masters the Parliament And that he and his Officers broke their forementioned solemn ingagements in so short a time I prove fully out of their own book of Declarations in which page 36. to 46 I finde a Declaration dated the 14. of June 1647. made and published by his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax with the Officers and Souldiers of his Army mark it well for in the very words of it it is in Excellency worth all the Declarations that ever the Army made since and in page 47. to 50. I finde a generall charge against the eleven Members with a paper delivered with it to the Parliaments Commissioners at St. Albans the 17. June 1647 by the appointment of his Excellency Sir T. Fairfax and the Soldiers of the Army under his command but in the following pages viz pag. 51 52 53 54. I finde that the 21 22 25. of June 1647. his Excellency and his Councel of War alone without the Councel of Adjutators representing the Souldiers according to their ingagement writ letters to and entered into a Treaty with the Lord Mayor and Common-Councel of London which was a base perfidious treacherous act and an absolute breach of their solemn ingagement yea in page 57. June 23. 1647. The General and twenty eight Grandee and creature Officers publish a Remonstrance to the Kingdom and that in the name of the Army in which base and abominable apostacie they continued without ever wiping their mouths or recanting what they had so unjustly done as ●he whole tenor of their Book of Declarations doth declare yea when the particular charge against the eleven Members comes from them it comes onely in the name of the General and his Councel of War page 94. yea and all this with ten times more as I beleeve the world will shortly and fully see was done in despite of the Adjutators or consent of th● R●giments Troops or Companies for all those two grand and lying Apostates Corn●t Den. and Parson John Can a late cheat at Amsterdam confident affirmations to the contrary in their late Printed lying books intituled the Levellers Design page 4. 5. and the second part of the Discoverer page 5 6. where they av●r That the councel of Adjutators esta●●●shed by the Armies solemn ingagement was d●ssolved and made null by the s●me power by which they had their constitution and that it was done by a Petition to the Generall from most of the Regiments c. But although I iudg the two forementioned lying base Apost●tes to be so abominably vile that I judg not my excrements mean enough upon equal terms to ballance against them yet knowing the affairs of the Army then so extrraordinarily well as I do I will ballance life against life that neither they nor any man breathing can produce a Petition so much as from one single Troop or Company much less from a Regiment and therefore much less from the greatest part of the Regiments both of Horse and Foot for calling home their Adjutators before the Gen. and his Officers had as is before mentioned broke in pieces the solemn engagement again and again and Invasion of Rights and Priviledges was the true declared ground and cause of all the late wars with the late beheaded King and is really the originall ground of most if not all the cruell wars in the world But if the Souldiers had made such a Petition which they never did it were not much materiall I think for they ingaged something to and for the Kingdom in reference to the setlement of their Liberties and Freedoms whith I am sure they in no one title ever accomplished or performed and therefore till that be done they can not rationally or justly absolve themselves from the true intent or meaning of that engagement But I wish those Champions for lies and Apostasie would instance the place where the time when and the Regiments that subscribed and delivered such a Petition and deal ingeniously with the world whether it were a free act or a compulsive one wrought underhand by all the snares pol●cies tricks gins and slights that possible the Officers could invent without or b●low a visible and compulsive force which can never of right unty that knot Sure I am divers of the Adiutators c. sent severall complaints to me c. to