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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	according_a	law_n	nature_n	1,115	5	5.3946	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88207	The iust mans iustification: or A letter by way of plea in barre; Written by L. Col. John Lilburne, to the Honourable Justice Reeves, one of the justices of the Common-wealths courts, commonly called Common Pleas. Wherein the sinister and indirect practices of Col. Edward King against L. Col. Lilburne, are discovered. 1. In getting him cast into prison for many weekes together, without prosecuting any charge against him. 2. In arresting him upon a groundlesse action of two thousand pounds in the Court of Common Pleas; thereby to evade and take off L. Col. Lilburns testimony to the charge of high treason given in against Col. King, and now depending before the Honourable House of Commons. In which letter is fully asserted and proved that this cause is only tryable in Parliament, and not in any subordinate court of justice whatsoever.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2125; Thomason E340_12; ESTC R200876	25,288	20

then Governour of Linne to intreat him to lend him at his great need and strait 4. or 500 men to defend the Towne till such time that he could get his owne Regiment againe together which he absolutely refused and told me plainly that he would never send for another to command and affront him in his owne Jurisdiction which the Linne men would do he said if they come at which I being exceedingly troubled that he should preferre his owne domination before the preservation of so considerable a Towne and Garrison it made mee beleeve hee intended to betray it Whereupon I went to Mr. Major then as I remember at Alderman Tilsons and told them both with some others that their Towne was in extraordinary danger to be lost and they all undone if they did not looke about them presently and told them all the discourse I had had with their unjust oppressing Governor and told them I conceived all was not right and therefore I judged my self bound in duty and conscience both before God and man to tell them what I apprehended of things and how neare their danger and ruine was at hand and if they would not helpe to save themselves according to the law of Nature their ruine be upon themselves they desiring of me to let them know what I would advise them to I told them my advise was for as many of them to go with me to Colonell King once againe as they thought fit and let us joyntly presse him to send to Linne for men and if he would not do it that then we might do it without him Vpon which we went and at first found him obstinate till as I remember Alderman Tilson tould him that if he would not joyne with them they would write to the Governour without him upon which he was drawn to subscribe but my Lord of Manchester and the Governour of Lyne or some others in authority being mindfull of us in our straits had ordered Col. Waltons Major Major Franckling a stout and gallant man with about 400. men to come by Sea to us as I remember his orders were that he should secure Boston upon the arivall of whom Col. King immediately commanded them out of the Town to go and besiedge Crowland which a litle before by treachery or his own absolute wilfull negligence he had given up unto the declared Traytors and professed enemies of the State and Kingdome Of which as soone as I fully understood I went to Major Frankling and desired to see his order by vertue of which he came to Boston and told him how things stood with us and in what temper I conceived my Colonel to be and therefore entreated him to be sensible of the trust reposed in him and of his own Honour and reputation professing unto him that if he at the command of Col King marched away with all his men considering his orders and the condition which the Town was in I should look upon it as a meer design betiwxt him and Col King to betray the Town indeed telling him how weak and unfortified the Towne was in a manner all round about being in divers places easy for a man with a Pike staffe to leap over it and therefore there was no way in the eye of reason to preserve it seing the Enemies intention as wee heard was to fall upon it unlesse his men stayed in it or at least the major part of them Whereupon he went to Col. King and as I remember in Alderman Tilsons Hall debated with him his positive command and with much adoe prevailed that himselfe and a great part of his Souldiers should stay to defend the Town and my selfe being left by Col. King with the consent of the Major and Aldermen to take care of the towne I went to Major Frankling and desired him to go with me to Colonell King to know what Amunition he had in his Magazine who assured us upon his reputation that he had a hundred barrels of powder and all things fitting besides and therefore bid us take no care for Ammunition and being very busie in sending away men guns c. to the intended leaguer of Crowland I did not go to the Magazine to see whether be had told us truth or no he having taken a quantity of powder with him and an other sent him he sends his warrant to the Magazine Keeper for ten barrels more not signifying one word of his mind to me who was then betrusted with the Towne upon the reciet of which old Mr. Coney the Magazine keeper came and told me that he had received an order from the Colonell to send him ten barrels of powder and saith he what shall I doe for there is but ten barrels in all in the Magazine At the hearing of which I stood amazed and tould him it could not be possible for said I such a day I went to the Colonell with Major Frankling and he did assure us that he had 100. barrels in store but Mr. Coney assured me that there was not one more then 10 the which if wee send to him there is none to keep their guards saith he I asked him if there were not a private store-house for powder and he told me none at all then we began to reckon how many barrels were gone out since he assured Major Frankling and my selfe that he had 100 in store and all that both the Magazine Keeper and my selfe could reckon with those 10 in his hands and all he had since that day delivered out was as I remember 24 or 26 Whereupon I went to Alderman Tilsons and asked him whether the Major himselfe and the rest of his Brethren had not a private Magazine and he told me no but asked me wherefore I demanded such a question of him whereupon I tould him all the story ●t which he stood amazed and from him I went to Colonell Kings wife and desired to know of her whether shee knew of any private Magazine of powder that her husband had and shee told me no. Then I told her all the businesse and said to her that I wondred her Husband should assure Major Frankling and my selfe that he had 100 barreles of powder when he had but 28 and that he should send for all that he had left out of the Garison assuring her that if the ten barrels he had sent for should be sent him we should not have one left in the Magazine to defend the Towne with being then in expectation of the Enemy to Assault us I told her for my part I could not pick out the English of it And I being by the Generall sent post to London to the Committee of both Kingdoms about his marching to take Lincolne againe and from thence to march to York to joyne with the Scots I in the third place ceased not to put that which lay upon me as a duty forwards as soone as an opportunity served and renewed my complaint against him at Lincolne and desired it might receive