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death_n	desire_n	distress_n	great_a	21	3	2.1077	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88237	A preparative to an hue and cry after Sir Arthur Haslerig, (a late Member of the forcibly dissolved House of Commons, and now the present wicked, bloody, and tyrannicall governor of Newcastle upon Tine) for his severall ways attempting to murder, and by base plots, conspiracies and false witnesse to take away the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn now prisoner in the Tower of London: as also for his felonious robbing the said Lieut Col. John Lilburn of betwixt 24 and 2500 l. by the meer power of his own will, ... In which action alone, he the said Haslerig hath outstript the Earl of Strafford, in traiterously subverting the fundamentall liberties of England, ... and better and more justly deserves to die therefore, then ever the Earl of Strafford did ... by which tyrannicall actions the said Haslerig is become a polecat, a fox, and a wolf, ... and may and ought to be knockt on the head therefore, ... / All which the said Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn hath cleerly and evidently evinced in his following epistle of the 18 of August 1649, to his uncle George Lilburn Esquire of Sunderland, in the county of Durham.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2162; Thomason E573_16; ESTC R12119	55,497	45

my life as is truly noted and declared before pag. 7. 8. 9. 10. ' O brave Arthur whom for his base and villanous wicked dealings with me c. I hope not onely to scare but also really to scourge and thereby put him into a greater fright then he was in when the Earle of Stamford a lesser man then himself tamed him as he was going to his house nigh Islington although he had his sword by his side of which a few days after like a poor cowardly School boy with little better then his finger in his eye he complained of to his Masters or Associates in the House of Commons And as for your desire in your letter for me a few dayes to come downe to look after my owne businesse my selfe I cannot but return you this answer First If I would I cannot for I am not absolutely at liberty as you suppose onely I have liberty upon the day time to go see my distressed wife and family which I procured not upon a petition to the house ' as their Friday Newes-monger Henry Walker that lying and base fellow with other falshoods about me hath lately printed but upon a letter the Copy of which thus followeth For my honoured and noble friends the Lord Grey of Groby Colonel Henry Martin Col. Francis Russell Capt. Fry or any of them these present My Lord and Gentlemen A Greater triall then ever I had upon me in my life forces and compells me to bee troublesome unto you or else I should not have presumed to have put you upon so unwelcome an imployment as to make a publike Motion for a man so despicable and obnoxious to the eyes of the great men in present power as I am but necessity hath no Law and therefore I must acquaint you that the over-ruling disposing hand of him that without whose over-ruling providence the meanest hair of my head shall not fall to the ground hath so pleased to lay his visiting hand upon my eldest son by a violent sicknes for this 3. weeks and my selfe being very dear to the poor boy continually in his sicknes to the exceeding spending of his spirits CRYED OUT TO SEE HIS FATHER OR BEE CARRIED TO PRISON TO HIM and upon Saturday was sevennight my child being very ill all night crying scores and some hundreds of times for his Father to come to him the knowledge of which in the morning very much pierced the bowels of his tender mother and supposing that if I could be got to come and see him it might much refresh his spirits and so ease the child of some of his extremitie of pain Upon Lords day after in the morning in little better then half a distempered condition she posted away to Mr. Holland to Sommerset house and with teares begged him to get me two or three daies liberty upon my Paroll to come and see him knowing he had if he pleased power enough to get it done and have since again and again sent to him but all in vain Truly Gentlemen I have often mused upon that saying of the Spirit of God Prov. 12.10 That the tender mercies of the wicked are cruelty but that the tender mercies of men professing God godlinesse and a publike Reformation of tyranny and cruelty should be so full of Barbarisme as to TORMENT THE POOR CHILD FOR THEIR INDIGNATION AGAINST ME HIS FATHER is that that 〈◊〉 m●● and amazeth me and makes death more desirable to me fully knowing in whom I do● beleeve then to live under such mens Government Sure I am the B●SHOPS in the days of the highest of Lands Tyranny had more bowels of compassion in ●●em to men in my case as I could instance and all my torments suffered by then I can never equall to this But how-ever I must be patient although my poor B●be ●●●●lain in the height of torment till this afternoon with HIS ABSENT FATHER CONTINUALLY IN HIS MOUTH so long as he had strength to speak of me 〈◊〉 whose sorrows and miseries with both my other childrens falling sick upon Sunday ●●st of the small Pocks the youngest of which sucks its mothers brests hath so overwhelmed her spirits that yester-night it brought her close to deaths doo● Of which when I understood to day I posted away to you four to BEG AND BESEECH YOU or any one of you at this great strait to make a Motion openly in your House 〈◊〉 little liberty for me to go see my distressed Wife and Children I CONFESSE I SHOULD NOT HAVE PUT YOU TO SUCH A TROUBLE FOR THE SAVING OF MY OVVN PARTICULAR LIFE But your House being risen the messenger brings me tidings of the death of my poor babe and the exceeding i●lnesse of my Wife and her exceeding desire to see me in her great distresse Therefore I earnestly beseech you as bowels of men dwell within you to make an effectuall and speedy Motion in your open House for a few dayes liberty for me to go see my distressed Wife giving satisfactory Security to the Lieutenant of the Tower for my faithfull return at the hour appointed Make your own terms as strict as you please FOR THOUGH I LIE IN A DUNGEON IN FETTERS OF IRON AT MY COMING BACK I care not so I may but see her So with my reall Service presented to you all four craving your pardon for my troubling of you for a Motion in your House which I know cannot be pleasing to you I take leave to rest From my close Imprisonment in the Tower of London this 17 of July 1649. SIRS Your affectionate and hearty Friend and Servant JOHN LILBURN Upon the delivery of which said Letter to Col. Henry Martin the other three which it was directed to being out of Town he procured this following Order Die Mercurii 18. July 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the Lieutenant of the Tower of London permit Lieut. Col. JOHN LILBURN to go out of the Tower to visit his Wife and Children being sick upon such security as the Lieutenant of the Tower shall think fit to render himself again to the prison of the Tower HENRY SCOBEL Cler. Parliament Secondly Being as I am although my not coming down would lose me six times as much as Haslerig hath a ready seised upon yet could I not be free in my own spirit against the dictates of which I will not go for all the world to addresse my self to those men for liberty to come down no nor so much as give my consent that any other shall do it for me But thirdly If I were absolutely at liberty I should scarce judge it either wisdom or discretion to come immediately under the armed power of a man that hath so thirsted after my blood and dealt so illegally and barbarously with me as Haslerig hath done in the face of the throng of my friends and without all question he that at London where I have more friends then Haslerig himself will not stick to run the hazards of going so many indirect wayes to work to take away my innocent life will make no bones himself to knock my brains out could he catch me in the remote clutches of his armed mercenary power at New-castle far off from the throng of my friends So with my true and obliged love and respect presented to your self and my Ant your second self I heartily commit you to God and rest From my Imprisonment in the Tower of London this 18 of Aug. 1649. Your faithfull and affectionate loving Nephew JOHN LILBURN FINIS