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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

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 LILBVRN now Prisoner in the Tower of London As also for his felonious Rob●ing the said Lieut Col. JOHN LILBVRN of betwixt 24 and 2500 l. by the meer power of his own will without ever fixing any reall or pretended crime upon the said Lieutenant Col. or so much as affording him any formall proceedings though upon a paper Petition IN WHICH ACTION ALONE he the s●i● HASLERIG hath outstript the Earl of STRAFFORD in traiterously sulverting the fundamentall Liberties of England and in time of Peace exercising an arbitrary and tyrannicall Government OVER AND ABOVE LAW and better and more justly deserves to die therefore then ever the Earl of STRAFFORD did especially considering he was one of his Judges that for such actions condemned him to lose his head as a Traytor by which tyrannicall actions the said HASLERIG is become a Polecat a Fox and a Wolf as a subverter and destroyer of humane society and may and ought to be knockt on the head therefore by the very words of Solicitor St. JOHN's own doctrine against the said Earl of Strafford 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 Isa 1.14 Your new Moons and your appointed Feasts my soul hateth they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them Vers 15. And when you spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not hear your hands are full of blood Honoured Sir YOurs of the 2 present from Durham about Sir Arthur Hoslerig and my Money I have received In answer unto which I cannot chuse but acquaint you that the Law of England is the Birth ●●ght and Inheritance of the people of England yea of the meanest as well as 〈◊〉 richest 1 Part Parliaments Book of Declarat pag. 459. 660. And though the Law of England be not so good and so exact in every particular especially manifestly proved First that before indictment the goods or other things of any offendor cannot be searched inventoried or in any sort seised nor after judgement seised and removed or taken away before conviction or Attainder Secondly That the begging of the goods or state of any delinquent accused or indicted of any Treason felony or any other offence before he be convicted and attainted is utterly unlawfull because before conviction or attainder as hath been said nothing is forfeited to the King nor grantable by him and besides it either makes the prosecution against the delinquent more precipitate violent and undue then the quiet and equall proceeding of law and justice would (*) See notably to this purpose in the 2 p. instit fol. 48. permit or else by some underhand composition and agreement stop and hinder the due course of justice for exemplary punishment of the offender And lastly when the Delinquent is begged it discourageth both Judge Juror and Witnesse to do their duty Therefore saith he there let such as beg the delinquent and prosecute against him be terrified by the villanous judgment against conspirators which you may read before cap. 1. Judgment and execution fol. 122. as also fol. 143 163 164. and 1 par fol. 269. and 2 par fol. 130. 237 238. 562. which are most excellent peeces and well worth the reading Therefore considering what is before expressed I cannnot but wonder upon what (*) Peruse carefully I intreat you the quotations in the 6 and 8 pages of my forementioned impeachment of high Treason against Cromwel as also the 12 and 15 pages of the 2 edition of my forementioned Book dated the 8 of June 1649. Intituled The Legall fundamentall liberties c. pretence Sir Arthur Haslerig Col. George Fenwick and the rest of their Committee at Newcastle can seize upon my estate in the hands of Sir Henry Belli●gham and Master Thomas Bowes and stopping my rents du●●rom Sir Henry Gibs his hands to the full value of betwixt twenty four and twenty five hundred pounds For first though the late Parliament in the height of wars a little outstript the bounds and rules of the law as themselves confesse in their notabl Declaration of the 17 of Apr. 1646. printed in the 2 part of the Book of Declarations pag. 879 in sequestring of mens estates in another manner and forme the law requires delinquents estates to be seised upon because their persons by reason of the raging of the sword could not be come by nor were all the Courts of Justice open nor the wants of the common-wealth to maintaine the wars could not well permit so great delays as the regular course of the law requires which when the wars are over as in England now they are they promise to amend and to proceed according to the forme of the law as fully appeares in their last forementioned Declaration add severall others as particularly the Declaration of this present Juncto against Kingship Dated the 17 of March 1648. Yet I am sure by the Parliaments own Ordinances no man in times of wars ought to be sequestred till it be judicially upon Oath proved that he hath been in arms against them all voluntarily contributed horse mony or plate to the King against them none of all which in the least can be so much as be pretended against me or ever was and therefore no cause to pretend to deal with me as with a Cavalier Delinquent in the least and therefore if I have transgressed I must upon their own principles he dealt with according to law and the forme thereof And therefore I have not tra●sgressed the law but am an innocent man clearly appears by their own particular dealing with me in that they never let me see either Prosecutor Informer or witnesse agai●st me nor never shewed me my Indictment Charge or impeachment no nor so much as face to face ever laid any manner of crime to my charge See my narrative of their originall wicked Tyrannicall dealing with me laid down in my Second Edition of the picture of the Councel of State in the ●6 pag. of which the Copy of their mittimus is recorded which yet layes no (*) And their warrants since for my close imprisonment runs thus without any cause or crime expressed in them Die Mercurij 9 of May 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that there be restraint upon all persons from comming to Lieu Col. John Lilburne M. Thomas Prince M. William Walwin and M. Richard Overton except their wives and children and necessary servants Hen. Scobel Cler. Parlie and

any other way and this act of Verney's should have to the eyes of the world been merit enough to have saved Verney 's life and also procured him his liberty from his Lords and Masters Haslerig and Bradshaw c. who for his traiterous and good services done them protect him against all the complaints of cheating perjury forgery and all manner of knavery that my intelligence tels on daily is brought in against him Which Verny a few dayes ago as I am from extraordinary good hands informed had the impudence for all the high complaints against him to petition or otherwise to sue for an annuall Pension for his good services done them in forsaking his Interest in the PRINCE and adhering to Them in any thing they put him upon though never so wicked Fourthly Haslerig 's design in endeavouring to murther me is not only evident in his Associats imprisoning me for nothing and so robbing me of my trade and credit but also in close imprisoning me from the society of all my friends and denying me the just and legall allowance due to me in my case and condition not one penny of which I have received to this day but also in taking away compleatly betwixt 24 and 2500 l. that so I may not have a penny left to buy me my wife or family a bit of bread But to ●eturne I would fain have HASLERIG to consider seriously from his friend S. Johns words and the rest foregoing what he deserves that not only by theft of murther breaks one of the Laws of England but endeavours to destroy and actually plucks up by the roots the whole Fabrick of the Laws of England and so destroyes HUMANE SOCIETY by bringing all things into the originall Chaos of confusion and when he hath so done doubly and trebly protects and secures himself by force of the sa●d and other tyrannicall Priviledges from all manner of Process of Law or Justice truely he deserves whereever he be found to be dealt with as Felton did with the Duke of Backingham which for my part I protest seriously I judge to be more juster both before God and man a thousand times over then Haslerig 's dealing with me and the last and ultimate refuge and remedie that all such men have in such cases and a thousand times more just then for a man to murder himself by fami●hing in silence by such mens oppressive and tyrannicall de●ling with him And if Strafford upon S. Johns forementioned principles were A FOX and A WOLF for arbitrarily subverting the Law and taking away mens prop●●ties and estates by proceedings upon Paper petitions then abundantly 〈◊〉 is Haslerig a FOX and a WOLF in arbitrarily subverting the Law and taking away my estate with wi●e much as any proceedings at all or any Paper Petition against me 〈…〉 so much as receiving and producing any pretended Commission from any Legall or pretended Magistracy so to doe And therefore undeniably ●rom S. Johns and his own grounds may as a POLCAT a FOX and a WOLF yea and as a Destroyer of the society of mankind he knockt on the (**) Read carefully for illustration hereof my Law-quotations in the Marginall note of the sixt page of the late Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwel and his Son in law Henry Ireton head where ever he is found 〈◊〉 he had which peradventure before much time may be expired may be for his portion and that justifiably both before God and man seeing no law in the world can be said against him in the least or take hold of him And therefore as in a Speech made one thousand six hundred and forty it is said against the Ship-money Judges Speeches and passages of Parliament page 275. Much more truly may I say now when our Liberties are violated our Fundamentall Laws abrogated our Modern Laws already obsoleted the propertie of our Estates alienated nothing left us we can call our own but our misery and our patience if ever any Nation might justifiably this certainly may now most properly most seasonably cry out and cry aloud VEL SACRA REGNAT JUSTITIA VEL RUAT CAELUM that is Either let the Heavens fall or let Sacred Justice reign But if he should deny that that which at Newcastle he hath seized upon is none of mine I prove my Legall right thus 1. Admit I had in the eye of the law illegally come by it yet being in possession of it he hath no pretence in the world to dispossess me of it of his owne head and by his own will but 2ly I answer that against the law of equity reason and Justice yea and the law of England I was in the year 1637 1638. 1639. 1640. most illegally and tyrannically dealt with by the High-Commission Councel-Board and Star-Chamber by Doctor Guinne Doctor Lambe Doctor Ali● and the Lord Keeper Coventry Lord Privy Seal Manchester Lord Newberg Old Sir Henry Vane Lord Chief Justice Bramston and Judge Jones And by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper againe Lord Treasurer Bishop of London Lord Privy-Seal again Earl of Arundel Earl of Salisbury Lord Cottington Secretary Cook and Secretary Windebank and the Warden of the Fleet who gagged me upon the Pillo● without order in writing Of which the 3. of Novemb. 164● being the first day the late dissolved Parliament sate I according to Law and Justice preferred my Petition and Complaint to to them who upon the reading of my Petit●on immediately ordered me my Liberty being as I remember the first prisoner in England set at liberty by them to foll●w my Petition and according to the legall custom of Parliaments make i● good by proof before a select Committee appointed by them to that purpose Mr. Francis Reuse having the hai●● before whom many particular dayes one after another● I appeared with my Councel being Mr. Robert Gurden brother to Mr. John Gurdon now Member of the p●es●nt J●ncto or pretended House of Commons and my Witnesses and fully proved all my Petition Upon the report of all which by Mr Reus the Chairman the House of Commons the fourth of May 164● being the very same day that the King himself caused me to be arraigned for high Treason at the Ba●r of the House of Pee●s voted and resolved upon the Question That the Sentence of Star-chamber given against JOHN LILBURN is illegall and against the libertie of the Subject and also bloody cruell wicked barbarous and tyrannicall Resolved upon the Question That reparations ought to be given to M. LILBURN for his imprisonment sufferings and lostes sustained by that illegall sentence O●dered That the Committee shall prepare this case of Mr Li●burns to be transmitted to the Lords with those other of Dr. Bastwick D●ctor L●●gh●on Mr Button and Mr. Pryn. H. E●singe Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. After which Votes being in a full free un●avisht or inforc'd legall and unquestionable Parliament after a full open free * Where I very well remember Sir Arthur Hosle●ig was one of

then the 12 of May 1649. It is Ordered and Resolved that we all four be restrained a● close Prisoners apart one from another in severall lodgings in the Tower but he were wise that knew wherefore crime to my charge for it only commits me Sir Arthur being one of the makers of it for suspition of treason and names no particular act and generals in law are nothing as appears in 2 par instit fol. 52. 53. 590. 591. 615. 616. and by the 1 par Parl. book of Dec. pa. 38. 39. 77. 66 67 101. 123. 162. 201. 203. 277. 278. 845. see also the Armies Book of Declarations pag. 70. and my Plea before the Judges of the Kings Bench the 8 of May 1648. called the Laws funerall pag. 8. 16 17. 11. At which tryal by strength of arguments I forced the Judges openly to confesse that generals are nothing in law see also the 2 Edition of my Book of the 8 of June 1649. Intituled The legall fundamentall liberties of the people of England revived asserted and vindicated pag. 5 21. all which rightly considered it cleerly appears I am an innocent man in the eyes of those very men that committed me who never laid crimes in their lives to my charge to this present houre And therefore I can stile it no better then Robbery and Felony in Sir Arthur Haslerig Colonel George Fenwicke c seizing upon my estate with a Felonious intent to deprive me of it without any pretence shadow or colour of law and not only felony but Treason it selfe in subverting our fundamentall lawes higher then ever the Earle of Straffords was for which he lost his head who in his large additionall Impeachment 1640. in the preamble of it recorded in Speeches and passages of Parliament pag. 120. 121. 122. to 143. is impeached as a Traitor for procuring instructions or commission from the King to him in the North of England as Lord President to heare and determine causes according to the arbitrary course of the Star-Chamber in pursuance of which he the said Earl in the month of May in the 8 year of the said King and divers years following did put in practice the said Commission and Instructions and did direct and exercise an exorbitant and unlawfull power and jurisdiction on the persons and estates of his Majesties subjects in those parts and did disinherit divers of his Majesties subjects in those parts of their inheritances sequestred their possessions and did fine ransome punish and imprison them and caused them to be fined ransomed punished and imprisoned to their ruine and destruction and namely Sir Conyer Darcy Sir Iohn Boucher and divers others against the lawes and in subversion of the same and that by virtue of the said illegall Commission he did most Traiterously stop the efficacy of all prohibitions and habeas corpus●es and would not suffer any party to be discharged till the party performed the Arbitrary De●●ce and Orders of him and his associates and Traiterously to the subversion of the fundamentall lawe of ENGLAND and to the terrour of those that administred them did the 21 of March in the fo●●● 18 yeare at the open assises at Yorke say that some of the Justices were all for Law but they should finde that the King little finger should be heavier then the loynes of the Law but the said Sir ARTHUR HASLERIG c. more arbitrartly and more trayterously then Strafford having no pretence of REGAL Legall or Parliamentary-Commission or Authority no no● so much as from the present nothing or illegall JVNCTO or the present illegall thing called The ●ouncel of state that ever he produced or shewed hath Feloniously and trayte●ously seised upon my estate meerly by his own will and of set purpose to starve me and my family thereby without any manner of colourable pretence and therefore aboundantly ●●●h in law and reason more deserve to dye then the Earl of STRAFFORD did especially considering he was one of his Judges that in terrour and example to others seriously and judiciously condemned him to the Scaffold for these very things and this Arbitrary Power exercised in England by the Earle of Strafford is not only condemned judged (*) See the Act of his Attainder which saith that he is impeached of high treason for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamentall lawes and government of his Majesties Realmes of England and Ireland and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall government against law in the said Kingdomes and for exercising a tyrannous and exorbitant power over and against the lawes of the said Kingdoms over the Liberties estates and lives of his Majesties Subjects for which he is adjudged and attainted of high Treason and shall therefore suffer the paines of death and losse of his estate See this at large in the peoples Prerogative pag 29. Treason but also the like in Ireland as appears in the 3 article of his Impeachment for that as the article saith it was governed by the same Lawes where the Earle being Lord Deputy and intending the subversion of the fundamentall lawes there did upon the 30 day of Septem in the ninth year of the late King in a publick Speech at Dublin declare and publish that Ireland (*) Which very language is now growne so common amongst them that their little Beagles commonly yelp it out See Master Prinnes Book called a legall vindication of the Liberties of England against illegall taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people pag. 1. was a conquered Nation and so say our great o●es here England now is and that the King might do with it what he pleased as Oliver c. say they may do with this And in his 4 Article he is impeached as a Traytor for arbitrarily stopping and prohibiting Richard Earl of Corke the benefit of the Law for recovery of his possession from which he was put by colour of an Order made by the said Earl of S●rafford and the Councel Table there whom upon the 20 of Feb. in the 11 yeare of the late King upon a paper petition without a legall proceeding he threatned to imprison him unlesse he would surceae his suit and said that he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders and further said he would make the the Earl and all Ireland know so long as he had the government there any act of State there made or to be made should be as binding to the sub●ects of that Kingdom a an act of Parliament and upon sundry other occasions ●ust Host●●ig like by his words and speeches did arrogate to himselfe a power above the fundamental● Lawes and established government of that Kingdom and scorned the said Laws and established government And in Article 6. he is impeached as a Traitor in that without any legall proceedings and upon a paper petition of Richard Ralstone he did cause the said Lord Mo●n● Norris to be disseised and put out of possession as the Trustees for

Sir FRANCIS WINDEBANK'S heir the said Committee were pleased seeing they judged it a difficult piece of work for me to get it proportionably from all or most part of my unjust Judges to fix it intirely upon the Lord Keepers estate as the principal guilty man of which when the young Lord COVENTRY his Son and Heir heard thereof in France he came posting to England as in a maze fearing what such a precedent might bring upon him if his Fathers estate then dead should be compell'd to make me satisfaction he being so capitall in injustice that if that course should be taken his estate left him by his Father if it were trebled would not satisfie for his Fathers palpable injustice committed in his life time And Manchester being in the same Bryers with his Father being as unjust as the other and having a Brother viz. George Montague and other considerable Interests in the House of Commons so plyed their friends there that they put a stop to the second reading of the aforesaid Ordinance Which I first fully understood by the Speakers means then my great pretended friend who one day began to reason with a Member of the House and my special Friend about the unreasonablenesse to fix my Reparations upon the estate of the deceased Lord COVENTRY nay or to give me any Reparations at all out of the estates of those persons that did me wrong for fear the precedent in time might reach to themselves for Sir said the Speaker as the Member told me if my Son and Heir should be liable in law to make satisfaction to all those men out of that Estate I should leave him that I have in the eye of the Law wronged by signing Warrants Orders and Decrees by the Command of my Superiours he would soon be a begger although I should leave him 5 or 6000 l. per annum and therefore desired as it were the said Members concurrence with them who see a necessity both in justice and for the clamorous importunity as they called it of me and my friends to give me reparations but yet to do it in such a way that the Precedent might not in future make themselves smart for their injustice to particular men Of which when the said Member told me and withall told me they were resolved to make the Common wealth my Pay-Master out of the publick Treasury and colour over the justness of it with this pretence That Cottingtons estate c. formerly assigned me they had since disposed of for the Common-wealths use to the Lord Sey and therefore now it would be no injustice to the Common-wealth although in the Star-chamber it never wronged me to pay me my reparation Of all which when I understood their designe I was not a little troubled and perplexed in my spirit although I was grown much into debt by reason of my long and chargeable sufferings and large losses to see that my sufferings should produce no benefit at all to the Common-wealth which I must as before God in the sincerity of my heart aver was much in mine eye no earthly Treasure in the world being of that value to me to make me undergo those sorrows and distresses that I underwent in the Bishops time neither had I undertaken any hazards and continued in them out of any other consideration but out of conscience and duty to God and my native Country I was much perplexed and raised up in my spirit seeing the main end of my struglings was like to be frustrated which was That the Nation might have good by it by the creating of Precedents and terrour for the future to Tyrants and Knaves that so the people hereafter might live more in freedom and peace in the enjoyment of their Laws and Liberties the consideration of which made me something fearlesse of my own particular welfare and in my discourse at their door to set all my expectation on the Tenter-hooks and a little recollecting my thoughts I modellized the fore-mentioned Addresse of the 4 of Sebtember 1648 and printed it and the next day as I remember with my own hands presented it to every Member that would receive it as they went into the House The true copy of which thus followeth To every individuall Member of the Honourable House of Commons The Humble Remembrance of Lieut. Col. JOHN LILBURN Septemb. 4. 1648. Honoured Sir VOuchsafe to take notice and seriously to consider That the first week this present Parliament sate which is now almost full 8 yeers agoe I presented a humble Petition to the House of Commons for justice and right against the cruell Judges of the high Commission Court and the Star-chamber and I had the honour the same day it was presented to be one of the first prisoners in England that was set at liberty by this Parliament and also received a speedy full fair and candid proceeding in the hearing and examining of my tyrannicall sufferings but by reason of multiplicity of publick businesse and other great obstructions I have not as yet been able to attain to the full end of my legall and just expectation and right viz. Reparations for my long sad and tormenting sufferings by the foresaid unjust and unrighteous Judges Be pleased also favourably to take notice That upon the first of August last there was an humble Petition presented to the Honourable House of Commons subscribed by many thousands of honest citizens c humbly to desire you to put me in the fall possession of all your be-past just Votes about my foresaid sufferings upon reading and debating of which Petition as in answer to that particular of it your House were pleased to make this ensuing Order Die Martis 1 Augusti 1648. Lord Carre Sir John Maynard Sir Peter Wentworth Col. Boswell Col. Ludlow M. Copley M. Holland IT is referred to this Committee or any five of them to consider how Col. John Lilburn may have such satisfaction and allowance for his sufferings and losses as was formerly intended him by this House Henry Elsing Cler. Dom. Com. Unto which said Committee at their first sitting I presented a Petition the copy of which thus followeth To the Honourable the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider of Lieut. Col. Lilburns businesse in reference to the Star-chamber The humble Petition of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn SHEWETH THat besides your Petitioners sufferings by reason of his banishment into the Low Countries he was first committed by D. Lamb Guin Ayle● 1637. and afterwards had 3 yeers imprisonment in the common Gaole of the Fleet being whipt from Fleet-bridg to Westminster and enduring the cruell torment of above five hundred stripes with knotted cords afterwards being set in the Pillory for the space of two hours and by James Ingram Deputy Warden of the Fleet gagged tearing his jaws almost in pieces without Order which Sentence was given by Lord Keeper Coventry Earl of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Lord Newburgh Sir Henry Vane senior Lord chief Justice Brampston and Judge

that principally passed as chief Judge of the Court both the aforesaid sentence against your Petitioner And in regard the estates of the said Lord Cottington and Sir Francis Windebank by subsequent orders of both Houses upon urgent occasions are much intangled and altered from the condition they were in in 1646 when the Lords ordered your Petitioner 2000 Marks out of them and for that the estate of James Ingram cannot be found nor at present come by Your Petition●r therefore most humbly prayeth That the greatest part if not all your Petitioners reparations may be fixed upon the said now Lord Coventries estate to be immediatly paid your Petitioner or else that his Rents and the profits of his woods and goods may be seized in the respective Counties where they lie for the satisfying thereof that your Petitioner may no longer run the hazzard of ruine to him and his by tedious delaies having already contracted the debts of many hundreds of pounds occasioned by the chargeable prosecution hereof And that if you shall think of conjoyning any other with him That it may be principally the Judges of the Law who ought to have been Pilots and guides unto the rest of the Judges of that Court who were Lords and persons not knowing the Law And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. JOHN LILBURN After the reading of which they entred into a serious debate of the whole busines and thereupon passed severall Votes to be the Heads of an Ordinance to be drawn up and reported to the House by the Right Honourable the Lord Car Chairman to the said Committee who accordingly reported the proceedings and votes of the said Committee to your House who approved of the said Votes and ordered an Ordinance to be presented to the House consonant thereunto which was accordingly done by the Lord Car which Ordinance hath been once read in your House The Copie of which thus followes An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the raising of three thousand pounds out of the reall Estate of the late Thomas Lord Coventry late Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England for and towards the reparation and damages of John Lilburn Gent. which he sustained by vertue and colour of two Sentences given and made against him in the late Court of Star-chamber the one the 13. of Febr. 1637. the other the 18. of April 1638. WHereas the cause of John Lilburn Gent. concerning two Sentences pronounced against him in the late Court of Star Chamber 13 Febr. 13 Car. Regn. and 18. Apr. 14 Car. Regis were voted the 4. of May 1641. by the House of Commons to be illegall and against the Liberty of the Subject and also bloody wicked cruel barbarous and tyrannical which were transmitted from the said House of Commons unto the House of Lords who thereupon by an order or decree by them made 13 Feb. 1645. Adjudged do declared the said proceedings of the said Star chamber against the said John Lilburn to be illegall and most unjust and against the liberty of the Subject and Mag. Chart. and unfit to continue upon Record c. And by another Order or Decree made by them the said Lords the 5. of March 1645. they assigned to be paid unto the said John Lilburn the sum of two thousand pounds for his reparations and the said House of Peers then fixed that sum upon the estates reall and personall of Francis Lord Cottington Sir Francis VVindebank and James Ingram (**) (**) (**) But the Lord Roberts the Lord Wharton c. told mee severall times if their estates had not been under Sequestration by Ordinance of Parliament they would never have gone about to fix my reparations by Ordinance which they must needs then doe to take off the Sequestration but have issued out a decree and extent under the great Seal immediatly to have put me in present possession of my 2000 l. which they said was their right by Law to doe late Deputy Warden of the Fleet and afterwards for the present levying thereof with allowance of Interest in case of Obstructions while the same should be in levying and of such part as should not be forthwith levyed The said House of Peers did cause an Ordinance to be drawn up and passed the same in their House the 27 Aprill 1646. and afterwards transmitted the same to the House of Commons for their concurrence with whom it yet dependeth And for as much as since that transm●ssion all or the greatest part of the estates of the said Lord Cottington and Sir Francis Wind●ban●k is since by both Houses disposed of to other uses and the estate of the said James Ingram is so small and weak and so intangled with former ni●umbrances that it can afford little or no part unto the said John Lilburn of the said reparations And for that the said late Lord Coventry was the principall Judge and chief Actor in giving of both the said Illegall Sentences in the said Court of Starchamber and for the barbarous inflicting of punishments thereupon Therefore and or satisfaction of the said 2000 l. and for the increase of reparation unto the said John Lilburn for his extraordinary wrongs sufferings and losses thereby sustained and the ●ong time hitherto elapsed without any satisfaction The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do ordain and be it hereby ordained by the said Lords and Commons and by Authority of the same That the said John Lilburn shall receive the sum of 3000 l. out of all or any the Mannors Mesuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof he the said late Thomas Lord Coventry or any other person or persons to or for his use or in trust for him was or were seized in fee-simple or fee taile or otherwise at the time of the said sentences or decrees or o● either of them in the said late Court of Star-chamber or since within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any Order o● Ordinance heretofore made by either or both Houses of Parliament for the imployment of the estate of the said late Thomas Lord Coventry to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And for the more spee●ly levying of the said summe of three thousand pounds It is further Ordered and Ordained That the severall and respect●ve Sheriffs of the severall and respective Counties within England and Wales wherein any of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments doe lye shall forthwith upon sight and by vertue of this Ordinance cause an inquisition to be made and taken by the oathes of twelve or more lawfull men where the same lands do lie and what the same are and do contain and of the clear yearly value thereof over and above all charges and re-prises and after such inquisition so made and taken the severall and respective Sheriffs shall deliver unto the said John Lilburne true copies in Parchment of the same inquisitions by them taken and shall then also deliver unto the said John Li●burn the said Lands

guilty thereof therefore my reparations for transcendent injuries done in such an extraordinary case out of the estate of the Father though it be descended to the Son or Sons c. is no injury to them in equity nor conscience neither do I conceive that in case this Parliament should impose a Fine of ten-times as much as my reparations amount unto out of the aforesaid late Lord Coventries vast estate to be paid to the publike purse of the Kingdome for the satisfaction of the publike Justice thereof and the expiation of his notorious and superlative crimes could not in the least in equity reason and conscience be esteemed unjust in the eye of any impartiall righteous or just man in England and so much in answer to the first Objection And now with all respect to the just honour of Parliament a word or two to the second which is That it may be in some Parliament mens thoughts the evill of some of my late actions may weigh down the merit and desert of all my ancient sufferings and therefore to quit scores with me without passing my Ordinance for Starchamber reparation is too large Justice in the strictnesse of Justice for me To which with all modesty and respect I Answer Admit my late actions were as vile and as punishable as by the worst of my enemies can be supposed to be yet there can be no Justice in quitting scores with me therefore and the reason is because that were not only to punish me for good actions done which my sufferings against the Starchamber was and was almost eight years ago so adjudged by your own Votes but it were also to acquit and gratifie the guilty and obnoxious which the present Lord Coventry upon your own principles is as well as his Father was and the Spirit of truth saith To justifie the wicked and to condemn the righteous is both an abomination in the sight of God Secondly I answer It is not now seasonable for me to justifie my self * * Yet I have since that do●e it with justification as you may clearly and fully read in the second Edition of my book of the eighth of June 1649. intitulled The legall fundamentall Liberties c. p. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. c. but rather to intreat you to do me justice and right in passing my present Ordinance without any more delay for my reparations wherein I have deserved well by your own often and ancient confessions before ever you had any pretence of evill to fix upon me or lay unto my charge and when you have so done if for any subsequent actions any of you be offended again with me I will put you in sufficient and good security to answer the Law without interceding for mercy or compassion But O if you be men of gallantry justice honesty or conscience punish not my poor and afflicted wife and tender babes for my pretended transgressions by exposing them to famish or eat one another by keeping my own from me which should preserve them alive voted unto me by your selves almost eight years ago and when you have done do your pleasure with me even whatsoever seems good in your eyes rather then expose me to see my dearest Consort and the tender off-spring of our wombs to perish before my eyes which I must ingeniously confesse the strength of duty and naturall indeared affections will not inable me to behold with patience and silence So desiring God to direct your hearts now at the last to doe just and righteous things to me and the Kingdome for just and righteous ends I take leave in sincerity to subscribe my selfe From the Tower of London this fourth of Septem 1648. Yours to the last drop of my heart-blood if either you be Gods or your Countreys JOHN LILBVRN Neverthelesse we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righocousnesse 2 Pet. 3.13 Upon the presenting of which my Ordinance was called for to be read the second time which Elsynge the Clerke pretended he had laid ready upon the table before him but what betwixt his knavery old Henry Vanes the Speakers and young Mountagues my Ordinance was stoln and could never after be found so that I was sent to out of the House to get another fair copie writ over presently which being long in doing my friends went away not expecting it would any more be medled with that day so that when most of them were gone my adversaries took the advantage to call for it and in a thin House read it the second time and upon debate threw it out of doors and at present to stop my mouth voted me 300. l. ready money as they pretended out of Sir Charls Kemish his Composition to inable me for present subsistence and to follow my businesse and also made this further Order Die Martis Septem 5. 1648. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the sum of three thousand pounds be allowed and paid unto Lievtenant Colonell John Lilburne for reparations of his damages sustained by colour of the sentences given against him in the late Court of Star-Chamber where Lord Carr hath the Chaire with the addition of Sir John Danvers and Colonell Rigby to consider of and present to this House an Ordinance for setling of Lands to him and his heires to the value of 3000. l. at twelve yeers purchase out of the estates of new Delinquents In the Insurrections not yet sequestred H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. Of which when I fully understood I was troubled but knew not how to help myself and having already met with so many difficulties and received so manie baffles as I had done I thought it was better being almost wearied out with strugling to take half a loaf then go away without any bread at all so I addressed my selfe to the Committee who left me to my choice to fix my reparations upon what Delinquents I thought fittest that were not already disposed of and some of them told me of an Order the House had made against Sir Henry Gibbs who had a good estate in the County of Durham upon an information M. Ashurst and the rest of their Commissioners from Scotland had brought them upon which they made this Order Die Luna Aug. 28. 1648. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the estate of Sir Henry Gibbs reall and personall in England be forthwith sequestred H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. Upon consideration of which and my Fathers and Vncles being Committee-men in the said County of Durham I then judged it most fittest for me for the speedy dispatch of my businesse without any more baffles delayes or cheats to fix in that County and accordingly I got my foresaid Committee to write a Letter to them the copy of which thus followeth For their honoured friends the Committee of Sequestrations in the County of Durham or to any three of them Gentlemen IT being by an Order of the House of

of the first profits of the sequestred estates both lands and goods of Sir Henry Gibb Knight * * And therefore for the Committee of Durham who by this Ordinance stand ingaged to pay me my 3000. l. according to the tenure thereof to suffer Sir Arthur Haslerig that is no member of their Committee and so by consequence hath no more to doe amongst them then any other man by his meer will just tyrant like to take my money Sir Henry Bellingham Knight and Baronet and Thomas Bowes Esquire lying and being in the County of Durham having been all active in the late Northern insurrections and aiding and assisting to the most wicked invasion of Duke Hamilton And the said Committee are hereby authorised to sell all such woods except timber trees now standing as may conveniently be spared and now standing upon the said lands or already felled or any of them And if the said Sir Henry Gibb Sir Henry Bellingham and Thomas Bowes or any of them shall compound for their estate so much of the said three thousand pounds as then shall remain unsatisfied shall be paid unto the said John Lilburne or his assignes out of their or the first of their Compositions And this Ordinance or copie thereof attested under the hand or hands of the Clerk or Clerks of one or both Houses of Parliament shall be a sufficient Warrant to the said Committee of Sequestrations in the said County of Durham to pay the said 3000. l. as ●s before expressed unto the said John Lilburne or his assignes and likewise to indemp●ifie and save harmlesse all and every person or persons that shall any way act in the performance of the true intent and meaning of this Ordinance Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. With which Ordinance I posted away to you of the Committee of Durham where as you may remember I found Sir Arthur Haslerig amongst you continually sitting with you not onely as a Member of your Committee of Militia and of Sequestrations but also Chair-man to them both and not only that but also Lord paramount over you all doing even what himselfe pleased by meere will tearing your Orders rasing cancelling and putting in what he pleased of the most of which I then being an eye-witnesse I very seriously as you may well remember inquired of my Father Colonell Midford M. Bra● and your selfe whether by Ordinance of Parliament Sir Arthur was a Member of your Committees and you all told me no he was not of either of them at which I wondered and stood amazed that he durst do that which he constantly did and that you were men of such low and meane spirits as to suffer him yea or to permit him so much as to sit amongst you but it was replyed to me as you may remember how could you help it for your County was more in slavery then all the Counties of England never having either Knights or Burgesses in Parliament to speak and act there for the welfare of your County or any that belong to it and wish'd it well and besides Sir Arthur was a great and a powerfull man both in Parliament and Army and had souldiers enough at his heels upon all which he bears himselfe so high that he presumes to do even what he pleaseth and who dare to controule him for hath he not meerly by his will and of his own Authority laid foure shillings a chaldern * Sir Arthurs very excize of coles alone in the two Ports of Newcastle and Sunderland being commonly by the knowingest Ship-masters c. computed to be worth wel nigh a hundred thousand pounds per annum Excize upon coles which at the dearest with you are sold under twenty shillings the chaldern in which arbitrary taxation not onely all London is concerned but almost all the Sea and great Townes in the South of England c. and yet the City of London it selfe never prosecuted him therfore no nor so much as complained of him and therefore much more may he doe what he pleaseth amongst you who rationally have scarce any means afforded you so much as to complaine of him much lesse to help your selves aganst him and therefore you advised me then to heare and see and say nothing but look after my owne businesse to get that dispatched which you very well know I fully acquainted your Committee with at Durham while Sir Arthur Haslerig was there before whom my Ordinance was read and approved of without the least exceptions and the originalls delivered to your Clerke to record in your Journall and with whose consent and approbation I meane Sir Arthur● your Committee made this following Order Dunelm Septimo die Januarii 1648. WHereas by an Ordinance of Parliament dated Decemb. 21. 1648. it is declared That Lievtenant Col John Lilburne having had two Sentences pronounced against him in the late Court of Starchamber Febr. 13. decimo tertio Caroli Regis and 18. of April decimo quarto Caroli Regis which were voted the 4. of May 1641. by the House of Commons to be illegall and against the Liberty of the Subject and also bloody wicked cruell barbarous and tyrannicall were transmitted from the said House of Commons unto the House of Lords in which the House of Peers concurred in judgement and the 13. of Febr. 1645. declared the proceedings of the said Star-chamber to be illegall and most unjust and against the Liberty of the Subject and the Law of the Land and Magna Charta and unfit to continue upon record c. whereupon the Lords and Commons did conceive it most just equitable and reasonable to repaire him in some considerable manner and therefore ordained that the said Lievtenant-Col John Lilburn shall have and receive the sum of 3000. l. to be paid unto him or his Assigns by the Committee of Sequestrations for the County of Durham out of the first profits of the sequestred estates both lands and goods of Sir Henry Gibbs Knight Sir Henry Bellingham Knight and Baronet and Thomas Bowes Esquire lying and being within this County of Durham having been all active in the late Northern Insurrections and aiding and assisting to the most wicked invasion of Duke Hambleton in obedience unto which said Ordinance it is this day ordered by the Committee of Sequestrations for this County That the said Lievtenant Colonell Lilburn or his assigns shall and may and hereby is authorized to go to the severall Tenants and Creditors of the said severall Delinquents to demand and receive the severall rents profits and debts due to each or any of them for and towards the payment of the said three thousand pounds and his or their receipt shall be their sufficient discharge and the said Tenants Farmers or Creditors are presently or within 14. daies after to send copies of the said receipts to this Committee and the said Lievtenant Colonell John Lilburn is from time to time to certifie this Committee the manner of his proceedings herein and

he is also authorized hereby to go and repair to Henry Young Banchman of the Collyery of Carterthorn or to his Deputy or Deputies and fully to enquire and inform himself of the true estate and value of the said Collyery as relating to the said Mr. Thomas Bowes As also to repair to the Iron Mill and Furnace at Hunwick and Witton and there to take a true and perfect account and Inventory of all the Stock Implements Vtensills and necessaries and of all profits and advantages arising growing or coming thereby unto the said Mr. Thomas Bowes and speedily to certifie this Committee thereof also to summon John Hodgson Steward of the Iron works at Witton and the said Henry Young to be before this Committee at Gatshead upon Wednesday next to give in and testifie their knowledge touching Mr. Bowes his interest in the said Iron works and Collyery Isaac Gilpin Cler. Com. By vertue of which Order my Father and my self went to the Tenants of the three forementioned Delinquents as also to the foresaid Young and Hodgson which Young and Hudgson according to the aforesaid order appeared at Gateside before Sir Arthur Haslerig and your said Committee of Sequestrations unto whom I punctually gave an ex●ct account of Mr. Bowes his ●oles at Karterthorn and his Iron Mill and Forge at Hunwick and Witton upon which the foresaid Stewards were examined what they conceived M● Bowe● interest in the said Colepits and Iron Mill to be worth and after they had given in their Verdict and opinion the said Committee of Sequestration sold with my good liking the said Bowes his interest to Sir Arthur Haslerig for 400. l present money upon his ingagement to pay it me at London which he did within the compasse of about a moneth after as part of my 3000. l. and I also received then in the Countrey of the respective Tenants ● of the foresaid three Gentlemen betwixt 100. and 200. l. ready money all which I certified your Committee of at Durham and by 〈◊〉 speciall order delivered to their Clark and A●●itor copies of all the discharges I had given the severall Tenants who comparing them with the respective rentalls and deductions for assessements and free-quarter the originalls of which they had by them did audit my accounts and gave me a discharge under b● 〈…〉 hands upon the eighth day of February 1648. si●ned Isaac Gilpin Cler. Com Ex● per Ca●hl●●t Haw● Auditor so that now I have from step to step shewed you my right and ti●●e to my 3000. l. which is not ab●●ne o● gratuity given me ●as some men imagine by the Parliament but the issue and product of severall legall Parliamentary judgements judicially given me for damage sustained in body estate and losse of time and trade by illegall unjust decrees made and given against me which Parliamentary judgments and decrees of mine and some of them of eight years standing before any warrs or ●ar●● betwixt the King and Parliament others of 5 and 4. years standing while the Lords and Commons were a free just and unquestionable Parliament in the 〈◊〉 opinion of all the Parliamenteers in England others of my decrees and judgements meerly in confirmations of the former of 3. and 2. years standing while ●●th Houses were commonly received and owned for an unforc●d unpurged and unravished Parliament and the very last passing of my Ordinance was by both Houses before the Lords dissolution or the Kings beheading whose death in Law unquestionably put a period to the Parliament In most of which judgements For full pre●●se of which assertion read my arguments 〈◊〉 the second edition of my book of the 8. of June 1649. in●●●ted The legall F●●● 〈◊〉 ●ill Liberties of the people of England revived pag. 55. 56 57. and Mr. William P●ins a●●●ments in his late book 〈…〉 the illegall tax of 90. thousand pounds per annum pag. 3. 46 47. Sir Arthur Haslerig was one of the ●udges I am sure of it eminently in some of them and who was one of those that was active in putting me into a quiet just and legall possession for so it was eminently up in his own principles of my long strugled for and dear bought right unto which in the strictest eye of God or man I have as true a judiciall legall right unto as either he or you have or ever had to any cloaths you wore in your lives and therefore Sir I may well call it theft in him in stealing my goods or moneys from me by will and force just like a cutter upon the high way yea and by his own and the late Parliaments principles treason it self in disp●ssessing me of my legall and just come by estate without any manner of proceedings is Law yea or so much as upon any proceedings upon a paper Petition or so much as ever summoning 〈◊〉 to answer for my self or to know what he had to lay to my charge as a colourable pretence to take it away from me it is impossible for him to plead ignorance of my right he having as is before truly declared been privy to all the circumstances of my just proceedings yea as I understand my Father did not a little plead my right with him and produced my Ordinance c. to his face to maintain it when he took it away which notwithstanding he valued not but most maliciously premiditately and in despite and contempt of the Law of England and most trayterously in subversion thereof hath exercised an arbitrary and tyrannicall power over and above the Law in his taking it away for which felonious and trayte●ous Action of his by Gods assistance I will stick as close to him as ever his shirt did to his back or as ever I did to the Bishop of Canterbury who for lesse villanies then his I saw lose his head as a Traytor upon Tower Hill Sir the late King hath lost his head by Sir Arthur and his associates for tyranny in advancing his will above the Law of England as in his impeachment printed at the last end of my late Impeachment of Cromwell you may read pag. 57. 58. And yet I am sure he formerly and for any thing I groundedly know to the contrary legally impeached Haslerig of high Treason and yet never pretended any right to a penny of his estate before conviction but Haslerig nor any body else never laid any crime in the world to my charge either of Treason particularly or of Felony or Misdemeanour or any thing else and yet hath seized upon my estate without any pretence or shadow or colour of Law And that the King impeached him you may read in 1. part Parliament book Decla pag. 34. 35. which verbatim thus followeth Articles of high Treason and other Misdemeanours against the Lord Kimbolton Mr. Pym John Hampden Denzill Hollis Sir Arthur Haslerig and William Strode being all Members of the House of Commons 1. That they have trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamentall Laws and Government of this Kingdome

and deprive the King of his legall power and to place on Subjects an arbitrary and tyrannicall power 2. That they have endeavoured by many foul aspersions upon his Majesty and his Government to alienate the affections of his people and to make his Majesty odious to them 3. That they have endeavoured to draw his Majesties late Army to disobedience to his Majesties command and to side with them in their trayterous design 4. That they have trayterously invited and incouraged a Forraign Power to invade his Majesties Kingdome of England 5. That they have trayterously endeavoured to subvert the very rights and beings of Parliament 6. That for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have endeavoured as far as in them lay by force and terrour to compell the Parliament to joyn with them in their trayterous designs and to that end have actually raised and countenanced tumults against the King and Parliament 7. That they have trayterously conspired to levy and actually have levied warr against the King And therefore the premisses duly considered Haslerig hath dealt more unjustly more illegal●y and more unrighteously with me then ever the King dealt with him or his Associates and therefore as a Tyrant and a Traitour he ought to die therefore upon his own practised and declared principles But moreover although the King formally and for any thing I know to the contrary Parliamentarily impeached him as a Traitour and yet for all that never sought for or challenged any of his money Lands or Goods untill he were Legally convicted and yet by the Parliament it self it was looked upon for such a violation of the Law because it was not as they pretended formall in every punctilio according to the Law as occasioned the highest Declarations against the King that their pens could invent with aggravation upon aggravation and no personall recantatation from the King himself could serve their ●●rn ●he illustration of which you may notably and fully read in the 2 Edition of my book of the 8 of June 1649 pag. 12. 13. 14. 15. 18. 19. 20. 21. 'till they had made it the first declared occasion to ki●dle the flames of all the ' late eight yeers cruell warres in England yea and for it and such like as it at the conclusion they took off the Kings head as a Tyr●nt ' for that he had set his will above the law ●y which he ought to have governed as appears in the first Article of his impeachment Therefore let Haslerig look to himself for I do b●leeve if he or hi● bloodthirsty associates should murder me yet God out of my ashes would raise up some vigorously to endeavour to bring h●s neck to the gallows or his head to the block for his Tyrannies and A●bitrary dealing with me and for my part so long as I have bre●th by the gracious assistance of God I shall not bate him an●●ce although I perish in the prosecution of him let him and all his associates do the worst they dare or can And therefore Sir I most earnestly beg of you to intreat my Father to pluck up so much courage as truly and exactly to state the present condition of my businesse with Haslerig and send me an exact Narrative of it from the beginning of Haslerig 's medling with it and also I intreat you your self to certifie me if you dare under your hand the manner and particulars of all his arbitrary dealings with your particular self and your Committees c. And whether that he himself were not the absolute and single Instrument that caused you and my Father for your publike and known good affection to the Common-wealth and nothing else to be turned out of the Commission of the Peace c. And when he had so done whether he alone by his meer Will and Prerogative did not name Master Henry Draper and caused him to be made a Justice of the Peace c. although as I am credibly and certainly informed he was a notable Cavalier and had a Commission from the Earle of Newcastle and not three months before HASLERIG 's making him a Justice of Peace he had paid part of his Composition to HASLERIG 's own particular hands or his Treasurer by his order and appointment And whether he did not also lately name and by his Prerogative will put in Sir Richard B●ll●s for another Justice of Peace for your County who to my own knowledge was about my last being in your County found and proved a Delinquent Sir Arthur himselfe being one of his chiefest Prosecutors and stands sequestred as a Delinquent Cavalier to this day And whether he did not lately the same to Sir George Vane who you may remember at the Committee betwixt you and John Blaston and his Cavalier brother in Law Mr. Shadforth where Sir Arthur at Westminster in Febr. last sate Chairman I offered before Sir Arthurs face and all the rest of his fellow Members to prove Sir Georg● Vane a Cavalier and to have been actually in Arms with the King at Edge hill and also opened to Haslerig 's face and the whole Committees Haslerig 's base and partiall dealings in the North in contradicting the Orders of your Committe of Sequestration and racing out of their Orders what he pleased in the case of Shadforth and your self and putting in what he pleased yea and against the Order and mind of the Committee would have i● in his pa●ticular Order to passe for your and Shadforths drawing stakes to the great intentionall cheating and cozening of the Common wealth after Shadforth was fully proved a Delinquent upon the 14. Articles and to save himself had impeached you who desired nothing but a fair and judiciall triall to be another of which false Charge since as I understand for all Haslerig 's and John Blastons power and malice The present Jancto hath fully 〈◊〉 you which Shadforth by his meere will as I understand he hath since made a justic● of peace c. as also Colonell Francis Wren who he himself knowes was most basely and vildly in the head of his Regiment in Scotland cashiered by his friend Cromwell for a desperate plunderer c. And all th●s he hath done as to me clearly appears that he may rule and govern you by his will and pleasure and have none in power that shall dare to controul him or to tell tales of him of which rather then he will faile hee will against his owne declared Principles and the ' Ordinances of Lords and Commons yea the acts of the present Juncto make use of the notablest Cavaliers amongst you to be your principall governours and more especiall Rulers and yet lately would have hanged me for but appearing corresponding with the Princes Agents of wh●ch he was so zealous to take away my life for that rather then he would fail he c. attempted to bribe and hire false witnesse to swear against me declaring bare correspondency with the Prince his Agents to be crime enough to take away