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A88246	The resolved mans resolution, to maintain with the last drop of his heart blood, his civill liberties and freedomes, granted unto him by the good, just, and honest declared lawes of England, (his native country) and never to sit still, so long as he hath a tongue to speake, or a hand to write, til he hath either necessitated his adversaries, the house of Lords, and their arbitrary associates in the house of Commons, either to doe him justice and right, by delivering him from his causelesse and illegall imprisonment, and out unto him, legall and ample reparations, for all his unjust sufferings or else send him to Tyburne: of which he is not afraid, and doubteth not if they doe it, but at and by his death, to doe them (Sampson like) more mischief, then he did them all his life. All which is expressed and declared in the following epistle, written by Lieut. Coll. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, to a true friend of his, a citizen thereof, Aprill 1647.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2174; Thomason E387_4; ESTC R201493	61,516	44

times used to be so carefull in the discharge of their Da● for the welfare of the people that did chuse and be trust them that they would impose nothing upon the people that might be a burthen to them without acquainting them first with●●● 〈◊〉 Sir Edward Cooke that learned Lawyer in the 4. part of his Inst●●●tes Chap. of the high Court of Parliament fol. 1● declares his words are as followeth which is printed by the present Parliaments speciall order It is also the law of the Parliament that when any new device is moved on the Kings 〈…〉 Parliament for his aid on the like the Commons may answer that they ●●●der●d the Kings sate and are ready to aid the same only in this new device they dare not agree without conser●●●ce with 〈◊〉 Countryer whereby saith he it appeareth that such conferences is warrantable by the law ●●●●stome of Parliament And folio 34. he saith that at the Parliament holden in the 9. E. 3. whe● a m●●ion was made for a subsidy to be granted of a new kind the Commons answered that they would b●ve conference with those of their severall Countries and places who had put th●● 〈◊〉 trust before they treated of any such matter Set my b●●k●●alled Innocency and truth just f●e● pag 60. But now things by the present Parliament are so carried as if they were absolute Lords over al the estates of al every individuall in the Kindom that chuse and trusted them and as though they might leavie upon them at their wills what they pleased and dispose of it how they pleased even to their own particular pockets to the inrichment of their particular selves See the Opressed mans Oppressions declared pag. 22 35. Regall Tyranny p. 10● ●04 105 106. and Londons account So that the People now are without a Bol-warke to preserve them from being swallowed up by unlimited prerogative unknown priviledg●● exercised by them so that by their owne principles if they vote to set up ●o●ary o● the ●urki●● A●●●●● 〈…〉 it be cause they vote and declare it and if they vote into their owne 〈…〉 we must give them unto them or if they vote to monopolise unto themselves ●ll our ●ives and children we must part with them to them because they vote it and have no remedy to helpe our selves because we have trusted them O brave Parliament principles though we never intended them in the least any power at all to doe what they list nor any other power but only ra●iona●ly to the best of their understandings according to justice 〈◊〉 and right ●eason to provide for our greater happinesse and better well being which they themselves before they had ●or the King and his party downe did honestly confesse book ●ecl 1 〈◊〉 pag. 1● 〈…〉 to call the Iudges to an account and to punish them if they should per●●●● the law and justice of the Kingdome either by the King flatteries letters commands or threats which the law expresly ●aith they are not in the least to regard in the administration of justice 9. 〈…〉 8.5 E. 3.9.14 E. 3.14 11. R. 2.10 And if they see cause to call the Lord 〈…〉 c. to account to know and see if the publique Treasure of the ●●●dome be 〈…〉 according to the end and uses that it is assigned 〈…〉 for the good preservation safety and protection of the Kingdome and not to be imbe●elled or ●●●●●ed 〈◊〉 ends or use 〈◊〉 warrantable not justifiable But they were never in the least betrusted with a power to protect and beare out their own Members in all manner of treachery and basenesse committed by them against the Kingdome as I could easily instance they have done in divers and to cheat and 〈◊〉 them of great and vast sums of their money and yet not to be liable to be called to any account for it see Mr. Andrew Burrells Remostrance to the Parliament of England and the state of Irish affaires presented to the Parliament by the Committee of adventures in London for Ireland and Regall Tyranny pag. 101 102 103 104 105 10● in which pages i● i● declared that a right reverend Gentleman of the House of Commons Sir John Clotworthy and his agent Mr. Davis have put in their particular pockets 97195. l. of the money raised for the relief of Ireland and I have heard that the foresaid Committee of L●●dou●r● ha●●●s●●●ted Sir J●●● Clotworthy to the purpose in the House of Commons about 24000. d. that they possitively say he hath in his hands if as I am informed he had not by a great deale of industry found some very great Citizens tardy contrary to the law in transporting beyond the Seas Silver and Gold who improved all their interest to keep him from complaining and it is thought prevailed on purpose with the said Committee to cease prosecuting Sir John Clotworthy that so he might cease of securing them for their transportations nay it is verily though some lickt their fingers soundly about this businesse for I have from very good hands heard there are some notable blades about London that can easily discover so many great men about London capitally tardy with transporting of the Kingdome treasure beyond the Seas that if there were any that would doe impartiall justice in 〈…〉 the penalty of the lawes divers hundreds of thousands of pounds might easily be raised to be put into the publique purse only it were worth the Commons of Englands serious looking to it that three quarters of it were not put into particular Parliament mens pockets Oh for a new chosen Parliament to find out that almost unfadomable knavery that i● amongst divers of this Parliament about mighty sums of the publiques money J d●re boldly aver it that all the businesse against Strafford Canterbury Lord Keeper Finch Lord Chieft Iustice Br●mstone Iudge Ba●●let Barron Tr●ver Sir George Ratcl●ffe The Farmers of the Custome house Alderman Abell Mr. C●●vet and the rest of their Cater-piller brethren Monopolisers was never when they were openned more odious to the people then the villanny and roguery of divers of the present Parli●●●●● men would end●ay appeare if there were any uncorrupted and ●●partiall ●udge●● 〈◊〉 open which 〈◊〉 they are is impossible to be found or had they being generally and 〈◊〉 in a manner so corrupted with ●●g●●ing the States money that for my part I am very 〈◊〉 dea● of it they da●e not ●ip up one anothers knavery for ●eare he that first begins gets a 〈◊〉 himselfe before he hath done Yea I have observed it for divers moneths together that 〈◊〉 a common practice in the House of Commons that as soone as a Soldier is chosen a Parliament man of whose honesty valour and boldnesse many people had high thoughts of but ●●minatish him and low up his lips which gifts doe Pa●● 23.8 Deut. 16.19 Eccles 1● 11 within a moneth or six weeke● very commonly order that he shall have his Arrears can ●pa●● paid him of else a Vote for 〈◊〉 or

more ripe understanding so that I am now able to speak without being dictated unto what I should say and therefore if you please to give me leave to speak my own words in my owne manner and forme well and good if not I have no more to say unto you Sir saith he the question is but short therefore you are commanded to give a possitive answer to it unto which I replyed Sir if you will not let me speak my owne words in my owne way I will neither tell you whether I will owne it or disavow it and with that he took his pen and writ part of what I said and read it to me Sir said I what you have writ is not full what I said and therefore if you please to give me pen inke and paper I shall write what I said my selfe and set my hand unto it which he refused but divers of the Parliament men pressed him to keep me to the question Vnto which I said Gentlemen if you please to give me leave to speak well and good if not lets come to an issu● and command me out of doores for I will not answer you till I have free liberty to speak upon which one or two of the Committee said let him speak but saith Mr. Corbet if after you have liberty for to speake will you returne a possitive answer to the question yea Sir said I that I will well then speak said he speak Sir said I what I have to say is in the first place in reference to the house of Commons for apprehending with my selfe that my carriage and speeches this day before the Committee may be represented to the honourable House of Commons to my detriment and dammage I therefore judge it convenient for me to fortifie my self as wel as I can and therfore I desire humbly to declare that I own the constitu●ion of the honorable house of Commons as the greatest best and legallest interest that the Commons of England have for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties and I doe not only owne their constitution but also I honour their authority and power and the power and authority of all Committees legally deriving their power therefrom and shall readily and cheerfully yeeld obedience to all their commands provided they act according to the rules of justice and to the good knowne lawes of the hand but not otherwise And in the second place I desire to speake a few words of my thoughts of this Committee but I was exceedingly interrupted not only by the Chairman but also by other Members of the House and very much pressed to give an answer to the question which made me say Mr. Corbet if you please to let me goe on in my own way well and good if not I have no more to say to you for I came not hither of my owne head to make a complaint unto you of my own but I was sent for by you as I conceive in a criminall way to answer something before you in which regard it behoves me to stand upon the best guard that either law reason or judgement can furnish me with and being that I apprehend I am so much concerned in my present appearance before you it exceeding much concernes me to be very considerate and wise in managing my businesse before you therefore i● you please let me goe on to speak out what I have to say and I thinke in conclusion I shall give you as possitive an answer to the question as you desire So up stepped a welsh Gentleman one Mr. Harbert as I remember his name desired Mr. Corbet to let me speak on for saith he you hear him promise to give you a possitive answer to your question Well then saith Mr Corbet but will you as soone as you have spoken give a possitive answer to the question Yea Sir said I and clapt my hand upon my breast upon my credit and reputation will I then goe one saith he Well then Sir said I two words concerning this Committee and that at present I have to say is this that I looke upon this Committee as a branch deriving its power from the House of Commons and therefore honour it and I looke upon you in the capacitie you fit here as a Court of justice and I conceive you look upon your selves in the very selfe same capacity but in case you do not I have no more to say unto you neither if ye be not a Court of Justice doe I conceive have you in law any power at all to examine me But none of them replying upon me made me take it for granted they took themselves for a Court of justice and therefore I went one and said if you so doe that is own your selves for a Court of justice then I desire you to deale with me as it doth become a Court of Justice and as by law you are bound which is to let me have a free open and publique hearing For Gentlemen you have all of you taken the Covenant in which you have lifted up your hands to the most high God and sworne to maintaine the lawes of the Land And it is the law of the land that all Courts of Justice ever have been are and ought to be held openly and publiquely not close like a Cabinet Counsell from whence no Auditers are or ought to be excluded * See Mr. Pryns relation of Colonell Fines his tryall pag. 11. 12 13. and Regall Tyranny discovered pag. 81. 82. 83. and therefore as you would not give cause to me to Judge you a company of forsworne men I desire you to command your doore to be opened that so all the people that have a mind to heare and see you and beare witnesse that you proceed with justice and righteousnesse may without check or comptrole have free accesse to behold you they behaving themselves like civill men But here arose a mighty stir by some Parliament men who declared fiery indignation in their very countenances against me but especially a Gentleman that sa●e on the left hand of the forementioned Gentleman in the fur jacket who pressed vehemently to hold me close to the question and keep to their Committee proceedings but truly I conceived the Gentleman to be but a very young Parliament man and one that neither had read nor understood the lawes of England and therefore Sir said I to him to stop your mouth I tell you I blesse God I am not now before a Spanish Inquisition but a Committee of an English Parliament that have sworne to maintaine and preserve the lawes of the Kingdome and therefore Mr. Corbet I know you are a Lawyer and know and understand the lawes of the Kingdome and I appeale to your very conscience whether my desire of an open and publique hearing be any otherwise then according to Law sure J am Sir it was the constant practise of this very Parliament at the beginning thereof that in all their Committees whatever where they

against the liberty of the Subject and also bloody Wicked cruell barbarous and tyrannicall Resolved upon the question That reparations ought to be given to Mr. Lilburne for his Imprisonment sufferings and losses sustained by that illegall sentence Ordered that the Committee shall prepare this case of Mr. Lilburnes to be transmitted to the Lords with those other of Doctor Bastwicks Doctor Leighton Master Burton and Mr. Pryn. Hen. Elsing Cler. Dom. Com. And though it war a matter of foure yeares before I could get this my case transmitted to the Lords the obstructing of which I cannot altribute to any but principally to that old crafty For Sir Henry Vaine who I am confident of it hath long since deserved the Ax or Halter and and his powerfull interest and influence especially by his sonne young Sir Henry though Machiavel like he faces and lookes another way who for ●ll his religious pretences I for my part thinke to be as crafty though not so guilty a Colt as his Father which I beleeve I could easily and visibly demonstrate which I groundedly apprehend I have sufficient cause administred unto me to doe especially for some suttle cunning but mischievous late underhand dealings by as guilded instruments as himselfe but at present for my own interest sake I will spare him though my ●ingers itches yet I must tell him I am very confident for all his ●●●guises he will shortly be known to consciencious men to be but at the best if he be no more then one of the p●e●●gative quench coales to keep the people in silence from acting and ●●●ring t● deliver themselves from slavery and bondage And when● came amongst the Lords they the 13 Feb 1645. decreed that that sentence and all proceedings thereupon shall forthwith be for ever totally vacuated obliterated and taken of the file 〈…〉 Cou●●s where they are yet remaining as illegall and most unjust against the liberty of the Subject and law of the land and Magna Charta and unfit to continue upon Record And 〈…〉 said L●lburn shall be for ever absolut●ly freed and totally discharged from the said s●●●●●ce and all proc●e●ing thereupon as ●ully and ample as though never any such thing h●●●●n c. 〈…〉 may a● large read in the foresaid relation yea and by an other decree ordered 〈…〉 And down into the House of Commons they send my Ordinance for their c●ncu●rance which is there again bl●ckt up as I may too justly conceive by the powerfull and unjust 〈◊〉 of the fore mentioned old tyr●nnicall Monopo●izer Sir Henry Va●ne for which by Gods a●●●sta●ce s●eing I have no other ●●medy nor meanes left me to obtain my right and the 〈…〉 of the Kingdome I am resolved to pay him and all that I can g●oundedly know and heare joynes and concurs with him to destroy me and hinder me of justice and my right which should preserve me and keep me and mine alive cost it hanging burning drowning strangling poysoning starving cutting to peices or what ever it will or can yea though it loose me all the interest I have in the world in any or all the great ones thereof put Lie● Ge●● Cromwell into the number And therefore J desire not only your selfe but all impartiall Readers that reads these lines to judge whether it be not the hight of partiallity and in justice in the House of Commons to ●●●●er him to sit and vote there especially they having throwne out divers others for ten times lesse faults then he is publiquely known to be guilty of and I desire you to satisfie me whether or no the people for their owne wellfare are not bound and may not groundedly petition the House of Commons to throw out him who is so great a transgressor and violater of the Lawes of England and therefore altogether unfit to be one of those that maketh and gives lawes unto the free men of England for in my apprehension if there were no more to be laid unto his Charge but to have been so unjust and unrighteous a Iudge as to have had a ●inger in inflicting a sentence that is voted by the house of Comons in the dayes of their verginity purity and uncorruptnesse to what it is visibly now yea himselfe sitting as a Member there to be not only illegall and against the liberty of the Subject but also bloody wicked cruell barbarous and tyrannicall it alone were legally and justly cause enough for ever to eject him O England England woe unto thee when thy chosen preservers turne to be thy grand destroyers and in stead of easing thee of thy grievances with a high hand of violence protect from justice those that commit them and thou seest it and knowest it and yet art like a silly Dove without heart and dares not open thy mouth wide to reprove it and indeavour by petition or otherwise the amending of it surely and undeniably that body who or what ever it be that is not able to evacuate its excrements is nigh unto the giving up the Ghost or bursting out into such botches and ulcers that it shall be an eye sore to all that behold it and stinke in the nostrels of all men that have their senses But with your patience I will trace this old For a little further and see how he hath plaid his cards since this Parliament fate and to let pass● his unfaithfull dealings with his master the King whose Secretary of State he was and yet could not or would not keep his secrets which is an act base enough in it selfe although as J have been told by one very neare and deare unto him his places he injoyed under the King were w●ith to him 8●00 l. per ann●● but having as before is truly observed before this Parliament by acts of basenesse done ●●he was a Courtice and a ●rivie Counseller too himselfe over boo●● and ●hooes and seeing that it was impossible for him and all his confederates to break of this Parliament as they did the late short Parliament therefore it behoved him for the safety of his own head to lay his designes so as that h● might by the swaying party merit preservation to himselfe which to doe being as he was a Secretary p●●rie to all the King and Court● principall secrets though he was under an Oath and the strictest obligation of se●●ecie that could be yet they must all out and out they went as in the case of the Earle of Strafford of which I have heard some great ones say it was scrued to the highest pin if it were not higher then in honesty justice it should but all this was done that he might not only save himselfe but gaine an esteeme in the present Parliament and so be in a possibillity by the interest of his son Sir Heary although to men that were halfe blind there was and I thinke still is a seeming enmity betwixt him and his Father in time to make himselfe amonds for his 8000. l a yeare by his places which by disserting

tossed and c●mbled me at Committees so as if 〈◊〉 would have beat me to dust and powder as you may partly read in my printed Epistles 〈◊〉 25. Iuly 1635. and December 1645. Yea and one day in Westminster H●ll laid violent 〈◊〉 upon me having my sword in my hand to provoke me to strike him that so I might loose 〈◊〉 hand by striking in the face of the Judges fitting in the Kings ●ench 〈◊〉 Westminster hall 〈◊〉 afterwards his two great Co●●●● Dr. ●est●ick and Col King having b● the Spea●en meanes Pr●●s Patron got me ●ni●stly clapt by the heeles from the 19. of Iuly 16●● to the 14. of October 1645. I was by the whole house of Commons honourably released as you may read in the 34. pag. of J●nocency and fr●th justified but yet in that unjust and untighteous imprisonment I was ordered by the House of Commons to be tryed at New-gate S●ff●●● for my life by the powerfull influence of Mr. Speaker and Mr. Gline Recorder of London in which businesse I have just cause to thinke that Pryn had more then a finger because that when he see I was likely honourably to be delivered as a spotlesse and innocent man he frames a booke and publisheth it Cumprivilegi● and dedicates is to Mr. Speaker in which book called The Lyar confounded he possitively acculeth me of a most transcendent crime viz th●● I have consp●●ed with other Separates and 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 out the Members of this Parliament by degrees beginning with Mr. Speaker when if they could eat off he saith all the 〈◊〉 would easily follow and if this s●●●●ded not then to suppresse and cut off this Parliament by force of Armes and set up a new Parliament of our owne ●●●se and faction by this ba●●● charge P●yn manifestoth himselfe a perfect Knave and enemie to the Kingdome in that he knew me guilty of such a thing and never to this day durst question me or prosecute me for it and if it be but one of his false malicious suggestions then he proves and declares himselfe a lyar to f●ix so notorious a falshood upon him that now as well as formerly in this and all other things bids defiance to him see my answer to this in the ●5 page of my booke called Innocency and t●uth Justified yea and in the some false scandalous and transcendent lying booke of his beside scores of lyes he 〈◊〉 po●sitively 13. or 14. upon me in lesse then I. lines as I have truly declared in the 4 5 6. pages of the last ●●●●tioned booke and there offered to his face publiquely to prove ●hat there I say against 〈…〉 ●●e lying and pa●lte●y fellow durst never embrace my challenge there made to him ●●r never so much as in any of his late volumin●s lines return one word of answer that ever I could see to what there I justly 〈◊〉 upon him and therefore by his silence in their particular though be hath pr●●●ed scores of she●●● since have given me just cause now to procla●●● him so 〈…〉 and base a lyar that he is not ashamed ●o ●ell and publish above a dozer in ● lines But the cowardly unworthy fellow like one of 〈◊〉 broad who was 〈◊〉 from the beginning John 8.44 knowing that I was fast by the h●●les under a great indignation of the house of Lo●ds and knowing that my businesse by way of appeale was depending in the house of Commons and eady for a report that he might blast my reputation and credit and so by consequence destroy me and mine some weekes agoe at the house of Commons b●t as I have been informed from many good hands made a most false groundlesse and lying report of me that I was in their debt above 2000. l. which I had little be●●● then co●●●ed them of and in his late booke published since and dedicated to the House of Commons called the Sword of Christian Magistracy supported in the 10.11 pages of his Epistle he strongly endeavours to 〈◊〉 me more odious and capitall then the late beheaded Arch Bishop of Canterbury and there and else where in his base lying booke presseth them to punish me as se●●rely as they did him although I am confident he is not able to si● any crime upon ●e but that I am honester and j●ster then himselfe and stands for the lawes and liberties of England which he endeavours to destroy and overthrow and set up a perfect tiranny as by his late printed book● is to evident and though in this book as well as the Epistle he hath so many bitter charges against me yet in regard I have proved him so base and notorious a lyar already which by his not vindicating of himselfe he to my understanding grants to be true I shall only at the present returne as briefe an answer as I can to that most notorious lye of his laid 〈◊〉 in the 12. p. of his said Epistle after he hath expressed the Lords ●●●ity to me i● not mu●●hering and destroying of me ask● would have them for no crime in the world but for maintaining the just and good lawes of the Kingdome which they have all often sw●r●● to preserve he expresseth himselfe in these words And yet this obstinate seditious ungratefull w●●ch in stead of ●aving pardon for his most insolent a fain like Libels * Thou ●rt a calumniater for my books are no Libels having my name to them to justifie them contempts against the whole House of ●●ers and severall particular M●●●ers of it because your honourable House of Commons will ●orr●l●●se him upon his Libelle us Petition against all Law and justice i● affront of the Lords * Who I say justly deserves it for treading under their fe●● the fundamentall lawes and liberties of England as in my cas● they have 〈◊〉 which 〈◊〉 will 〈…〉 the Pri●● and all thy g●●gli●● lying a●●●ciates in England and their priviledges in this his mutinous Libell viz. The Oppressed want oppressions declared railes more upon your honours then the House of Peets not only clamouring upon you for arrears of pay when as there is not one farthing 〈◊〉 to him for ought he could make appeare upon the reference of his Pe●●tion to the Committee of Accounts who gave him a charge of ●●ove 1100. l. received from the Earle of Manchester and his officers ●●ly besides free quarter which he tooke of which he ●ever yet gave 〈◊〉 account but like a most seditious unworthy creature ●●●●ed●●ted of with so●e Malignants in the Tower who have furnished him with ●●●taken law and Records to drive on their designes he th●●● 〈◊〉 you c. Now for answers to which charge of 1100. l. that ●e falsely saith I received for my ow●e vindication 〈◊〉 ●●e world I shall give you this account that by Commission under the hand and scale of 〈…〉 of Manchester ●ated the 7. day of October I 〈◊〉 I was made Major of a foot Regimens to Ch●● Edward ●●y and then the 16. of May 〈◊〉 I was made