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A88209	A iust reproof to Haberdashers-Hall: or, An epistle writ by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn, July 30. 1651. to four of the commissioners at Haberdashers Hall, viz. Mr James Russell, M. Edward Winsloe, M William Mellins, and M. Arthur Squib, wherein is set forth their unjust and unrighteous dealing in severall cases; with the relations of the said John Lilburn, and their captiving their understandings to the tyrannical will of Sir Arthur Haslerigge, who hath most unjustly endeavoured a long time together, the exterpation of the family of the said John Lilburn.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2127; Thomason E638_12; ESTC R206637	46,507	40

so lost till 1647. when your Petitioner demised his said moity to George Lilburne and George Gray Junio● Esquires for 12 years at certain Rents who by the expence of at least 1500 l. regained the same and quietly enjoyed wrought them till 1648. the said Wray and Metcalf neglecting and refusing to joyn with them in that charge and work That in 1648. by a sad mischance with the losse of almost 60 mens lives the said Seams were fired and lost again but before the end of that year at the vast charge of your Petitioners said tenants they were regained and quietly enjoyed and wrought by them till September 1649 to the great advantage of the State in abating the price of coals and increasing Trade in that River That in September 1649 Sir Arthur Haselrig acting as one of the Committee for Sequestrations with two others viz. Col. Fenwick and Col. Francis Wren in the said county unjustly caused your Petitioners said tenants to be dispossessed of the said Seams of coals and their utensils to be seised taken from them under pretence that the said Seams wholly belonged to the said Wray being a Papist Delinquent and had been sequestred as his estate in 1644. whereas in truth they were not then in being being absolutely drowned That your Petitioner being then in that county by his Councell humbly moved that Committee before they sequestred his estate that either the said Wray who was then also in Court might shew forth his Title and Evidence your Petitioner and his Tenants being in quiet possession or that the said Order for the sequestration of the said 9 and 5 quarter Seams in 1644. might be produced But Mr. Wray could neither produce any Evidence nor Sir Arthur any such Order And yet your Petitioners said estate was presently sequestred and his Tenants ejected and dispossessed although he doth confidently believe that neither Sir Arthur nor colonel Fenwick had any legall right to act there as Sequestrators having not taken the Oath appointed by Ordinance of Parliament of 27 May 1644. for all members whatsoever of Committees of Sequestration to take before they intermeddle at all with Sequestration and two of the legal Committee of Sequestration there viz. col Milford and Rich. Lilburne Esquire did enter their Protest in the Committee Book against the unjust actings of the said Sir Arthur Haselrig to which illegall practices of Sir Arthur the major part of the Commissioners at Haberdashers Hall refused to suffer your Petitioner to examine his witnesses to That your Petitioner appealed which was upon the 28 June 1650. to the Commissioners for compounding and before them was ready to make his title appear by good evidence and particularly by the said Wrays own depositions in Chancery taken about 9 years ago in a cause then there depending about the said colliery where he positively swears he hath but a fourth part but in February last when this business came to hearing the Major part of the Commissioners rejected Wrays said depositions in Chancery and would not suffer them to be read The first time that ever depositions in Chancery were refused for good evidence especially against the party swearing them in any Court of Equity in England that ever your Petitioner could hear of That thereupon by the Order of the said Commissioners your Petitioner preferred a new Petition which was upon the of February 1650. before them setting forth his title to and possession of the said moiety of the said Seams and sent above 200 miles for 7 or 8 substantial witnesses several of which have lived a long time upon the place and were workers about the said Colliery and examined them and staid them here many days after at his own charge that they might be cross examined for the State And after obtained * * As appears by their order dated publication in the cause by consent of the States Solicitor and a report of the state of the case and got a day of hearing appointed and an Order that Mr. Wray should be present and produce his deeds and evidences at the hearing but the said Wray though duely summoned appeared not the first day nor the second nor third appointed days a a Which several days of hearing by the Commssioners orders were to be on Thursday next come 14 days after the 21 May 1651. and in three weeks next after the 22 May 1651. and upon 5 June 1651. they order that Wray shall forthwith appear to the hearing upon notice of that Order of hearting till your Petitioner got him commanded up by the Councel of State b b whose Order or Warrant is dated the 10. June 1651. That when the said Wray was come up and should have brought his deeds into Court and gone to a speedy hearing according to your Petitioners expectation and several Orders of the Commissioners for that end the Major part of them ordered the said Wray six weeks longer day to bring in his deeds and to attend the hearing and that in the mean time he might examin new witnesses which is held as your Petitioner is informed a most dangerous course in all other Courts of Justice and the mother of much perjury and which three worthy members there viz. Mr. Moyer Mr. Barners and Mr. Moor in open Court cried shame on but were overruled by the influence of Sir Arthur being the principal instrument of placing the said Commissioners in their power as your Petitioner by their dealings with him having just cause to judge hath more prevalency with them then the rules of Justice and right as in part may appear by the Copy of his Petition delivered unto them hereunto annexed The Premises considered and for that your Petitioner hath now for almost two full years been most injuriously and arbitrarily thrust out and as unjustly kept out of his rightfull estate and possession without ever having any pretence of title set up against him the clear profit whereof by Sir Arthur Haselrig 's own Certificate amounts to 15 l. a day and all that while no piece of a proof of the States Title offered or produced and in regard Sir Arthur Haselrig hath put certain of his Officers and Soldiers into the possession of the said Colemynes which are but unskilfull Collyers and as your Petitioner is lately informed do work the Mynes very foully and injuriously and are like to destroy them and so will indanger your Petitioners utter undoing in point of breach of Covenant with his Landlord John Hedworth Esquire son and heir of the aforesaid Sir John Hedworth the Inheritor of the said Mynes Your Petitioner therefore most humbly prays the Justice of the Parliament that he may either be restored to his possession upon good security given to the Parliament to be answerable for the profits in case hereafter the said Mynes shall appear to be duely sequestrable Or otherwise that the Commissioners for compounding may be commanded by your Order forth with to hear and determine the whole

consciences and do as he will have us to find your land for him or else you know he will destroy both us our wives and children and therefore say they to him We beg of you for Gods sake to advise with your Councell to finde out some clause in the Law to except against us having been Cavaliers as unfit to be of your Jury or else if you get us not put off we must find against you although it be against our owne knowledge and conscience But the man fully knowing the integrity of his cause and believing they knew it as well as himself he said If they would damn their souls let them and so was overthrowne and now is like as he himself told me and others totally thereby to be ruined And the truth of it is Sir Arthur can in our County find no man so fit for his purpose as these that have guilt enough upon their shoulders and therefore it is that he hath under him Master Thomas Shadford for our high Sheriffe a strongly reputed Cavalier in both the warrs and approved one in the first but yet never sequestred But besides Sir Arthur hath not onely the command over our bodies and estates there but also he is turned the Arch-bishop of our soules having Master Wels under him for his officiating Bishop or commissary by whom he hath almost made sure of all the Pulpits and tithes in the country So that truly and ingeniously Sir Arthur Haslerig there hath reduced us to that nighnesse of affinity to French Peasants that can call nothing they buy or work for their own longer then their Lords and Masters please to let them injoy it that in good earnest I speak it from my very soul and conscience that I verily beleeve if I or some body else should not rise up against him to indeavour to bring him to a just account for his unjust actions all the land that I have in that country which the Parliament as the price of my blood for my Episcopal and Star-chamber sorrows have by the Honourable and Noble mediation of the present Lord Generall settled upon me and my heires in one year or two more would not be as yet I will justifie it it hath not been worth unto me one groat the tenants rebelling both against the State and me and telling my agents they have powerfull backers and being it is the price of my blood and the product of so many piercing sorrows as I have undergone for it I am resolved through the strength of God that never a private or particular man in England shall deprive me of it or of the priviledges that belong unto me by it unless his sword be so long and strong that it is able to cut mine in peices and the hand that holds it and also the tongue that useth to plead cheerfully without amazement for my life and liberty There is much more of your juggling and unjust dealing about my Uncle George's delinquency behind in your sending down private commissions to examine witnesses against him without his knowledge with such instructions as that you are so ashamed to have seen that when I bid Master Baily your clark five peices of gold to let Master Hugh Peters then with us to read them or twenty peices to give me a copy of them he ingeniously told Master Peters and my self he durst not and being ask'd by him Why he was by his Masters commanded to the contrary and being ask'd by which of them he told us he durst not tell us but they sat at the table and if he pleas'd he might go and discourse with themselves and see if he could find it out himself for truly he was but a servant and durst say no more and therfore desired to be prest no further Upon which Master Peters with open mouth coming to the table cryed shame of you to the purpose and you may remember honest Master Moyer told you he knew not of it nor had no finger in it and it was an abominable shame any such thing should be done and promised me a copy of it but to this day I could never set my eyes upon it But the full discoursing of this with much more must remaine for a second part And so at present I bid you farwel and rest From my house without Ludgate at the end of the old Baily this 30. July 1651. JOHN LILBURNE now as honest as ever and as ready to justifie the esentiall substance of all here written with his life and fortune as ever he was to do any action in the world POSTSCRIPT Gentlemen Your interest with Sir Arthurs may be very great and to do me a mischief to the purpose you may incense the Parliament against me to destroy me for medling with them but truly I hope I have been too wise for you by totally I hope avoyding the medling with them in the least And I hope seeing lately they have taught me such a piece of gallant justice in the Lord Howards case they wil not be offended at me for faithfully indeavouring to prepare for them a greater offender then he viz. Sir Arthur Haselrig and I hope I stand now as right in the eye of the Parliament in generall as any man in England having of late done all such actions in respect and obedience to them that is fitting for a wise man or a man of conscience or honour to do to take off all their jealousies from him that I go not about in the least to disturb their peace and quietnes but mind and desire the tranquility of this Common-wealth in my little sphere as much as they do in their great And so I remain August 2. 1651. The same John Lilburne I used to be FINIS