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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88191	The additionall plea of Lievt. Col. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, the 28. of October, 1647. Which he sent unto the committee of the House of Commons, where Mr. Iohn Maynard the lawyer hath the chaire, with a letter, which letter thus followeth.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2112A; Thomason E412_11; ESTC R30993	8,129	8

ever the earth bred in regard I am not then under law which all men that ever God created ought to be but under will and power by which by reason of mans corruption who here hath no perfection but are subject to actuall backsliding and degenerating I am lyable and in danger every houre to be distroyed at the pleasure of him that is stronger in power then I. And although I had often profered Bayle for my liberty to the Generall and his Lievtenant of the Tower and offered to put any difference betwixt me and any in the Army to the full and finall determination of honest men equally chosen and in case they could not agree in their judgment I was willing the Generall himselfe to whom I am but a stranger should be Vmpire and finally determine them but finding my selfe no whit secured or preserved for all this from their designed blasted calumniations I was in no small straights in my own spirit being sensible of my great and urgent necessities in my present condition the continuance of which but for a small time longer must needs in reason be the ruine and distruction of me my wife and children and having offered all time after time to those I look upon as my present Gaolers that in my thoughts it was impossible for a man of brains and honesty to invent and stoop too to obtaine his long longed liberty but all in vaine J was necessitated seeing I could not own the present mixed House of Common nor willingly submit unto their sentence in that condition I was necessitated I say to publish in print my Proposition of the 2. of October 1647. Which in private I had made unto Liev. Gen. Cromwell some weeks before face to face with divers other things as faire in themselves as it And I caused it under my hand Seale to be delivered unto the Speaker of your House that so all the Kingdome might know my readines and willingnesse to stoop to any thing in the world that was rationall and just to obtaine my thirsted for liberty and freedome Which paper your Speaker communicated to your house and caused it to read and debated which as I am told hath procured this Committee unto whose desires so farre as with a good conscience and the preservation of my principles and integrity I am willing to stoop that so I might stop the mouths of my calumniators and bring my businesse to no issue being rather willing to hazzard if I had them a million of lives then much longer remaine vnder my present tyranny and imprisonment and therefore it is that I have obeyed your summons and gon thus far with you as I have done knowing by your order you are not difinitively to judge my cause And therefore before your house finally judge my cause I desire you from me to acquaint them that Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army under his command upon the 18 August 1647. hath published a Remonstrance printed twice by two speciall Orders of the present House of Peers to the view of the whole kingdome and approved of by all the Members of the House of Commons that went to the Army for protection In which Remonstrance they utterly disclaime and renounce Mr. Pellam and all those that sate and voted with him as Vsurpers of Parliament authority forfiters of their trust and Traytors to their Country for actually by their Votes Orders and Ordinances levying of a new warre in the kingdome against the peace and the power thereof which Sir Thomas Fairfax is since by this present House of Commons owned by them for their Generall and the Army under him for their Army and yet the most of these very Members thus declared against sit in the house being in this condition by reason of their crimes declared in that Declaration under the power lash and awe of those of that Army that have the power of that Army at their beck and command Wherefore I desire that seeing Lievt Gen Cromwell is the man that ingaged we originally in my contest against the Lords and particularly against the Earle of Manchester who then in his discourse to me was the greatest Anti Lord I aver it that I conversed with in England And seeing that now of late as I have too much cause to judge he is apostatized from his principles and the peoples liberties and hath visibly shake hands with those he accused and judged to be enemies to the peace and liberties of England and is now as I have too much cause to judge become a patron approver and protector of them in all their Arbitrary illegall and tyrannicall usurpations with all his interest with the conductive power of the Army which now he hath at his beck and by meanes of which he holds a rod of feare and terror over the heads of all those Members of the House of Commons that they shall not dare for their own safety and preservation to give their Votes freely against the Lords seeing that he in interest and designe is now so neerely conjoyned unto the present House of Lords who I may now justly call his creatures at his beck to execute his will and mind and therefore desiring to stoop as low as in justice and honesty I can to put a period one way or another to my present contest with the Lords I earnestly desire that the House of Commons will publiquely declare against the foresaid Remonstrance if Mr. Pellam and those that sate with him were a true house of Cōmons that so al the said Members therin concerned may effectually be instated in the full condition and capacity of free and innocent men that so without feare of Liev. Gen. Cromwell or his power in the Army they may vote freely according to their consciences and then I shall freely submit to their judgement Or else secondly that according to the tenor of the said Remonstrance they may either be totally expelled or else pro tempore in my cause and I shall freely put my selfe upon the judgement of the remaining part of the House of Commons let it be what it will I value it not so I may come to an issue therby fully know what I have to trust to Or if neither of these can at present without further delay of time be done then in the third place I earnestly desire to put my selfe upon the issue of my foresaid proposition which I desire verbatum to read unto you but seeing this Committeee hath dealt so fairely justly and honourably with me in granting me so free open and publique hearing as I had before you upon Wednesday last and hearing me with so much patience without interrupting of me and seeing the calumny is so strong upon me that I have no mind to come out of prison I am resolved in this particular wholly and solly to put my selfe upon the judgment conscience of this Cōmittee that if you amongst your selves judg it fit that I should wholly put my self upon the present