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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

almost confident of gaining it Then shall we be in a condition to furnish our selves with Armes and have a place of retreat upon any occasion And untill such a thing be done it will not be wisdome in any publickly to appear You will conclude the like or any rationall man therefore my request to you is that you would seriously weigh and take into your consideration this my Letter and returne me your absolute answer by my Porter But if I should be so foolish as accidentally to speak a word or so he is so honest that it passeth no further the experience I have had of him assureth me as much Moreover if you should require a longer time in returning me an answer of what I desire my lodging is in Aldersgate street in Trinity Court at one Master Edward Pearse his house hard by Aldersgate therefore whom you are pleased to send to me may there finde me But in these dangerous times we cannot be too cautious in our Company therefore unlesse I am well a assured that they that shall treat with mee in your behalfe come really from you I shall be very sparing in unfolding my minde therefore I pray send me a token in writing by my Porter that he which shall come to me as from you may deliver me the same token then shall I not be sparing to let him know my resolution I dare not come to the Tower least there should be notice taken (*) (*) And yet at the same time had Bradshaws and Frosts Commission to write this Letter O pure Rogue of me Thus have I in part made a discovery of my mind unto you though to you not very well known I am the more sorry for it For seriously all the acquaintance that ever I had with you was in the Tower where I had the happinesse three or foure times to bee in your company in my honored friend Sir Iohn Maynard his Chamber I know not whether you may call me to mind or no but really you wil finde a most trusty secret and a most obliging friend and servant of May thee 8th 1648. THO. VERNEY I beseech you deale as freely with me as I have with you But returning a considering answer to this judging the Author at the first view a Knave I enquired of a Presbiterian friend of Sir Iohn Maynards whether he knew the man or no who told me that a quondam fellow prisoner of mine had lately sent word out of the Low-Countries that this man was empl●yed by those of Darby-House to lay a Trap to ship the Prince and send him over unto them to England to destroy him but the next day being made a kinde of a close prisoner by the restraint of my friends and inhabitants of the Tower upon my stayers stopt the originall of these following lines in my hand For my esteemed good friend Colonel John Lilburne these present Sir MY Porter was at the Tower this morning thinking to have admittance in but they would not suffer him which hath much troubled me but being well acquainted with this Gentleman one of the Coyners in the Tower I have prevailed with him to deliver you this Note beseeching you to returne an answer of the former in writing (*) (*) The answering of which in any kind had apparently hazarded my life sealed up and this my friend will see that it first 〈◊〉 safe to my hand I pray use meanes to burn my Letter as I shall cruel yours for feare of the worst and you shall extreamly oblige a most faithfull Servitor of May 9th 1649. THO. VERNEY Much newes abroad but I dare not commit to Paper Upon receeipt of this I was more confirm'd in my own mind he was a Cheat but having not absolute proofs of my thoughts I judg'd it the most safe way for me to sit still and return no written answer nor yet much reveal him So within two dayes after he sent me a third Letter the Copy of which thus followeth SIr by a Monyers meanes I gate leave to come in thinking to have had the good fortune to have had an hours discourse with you but I found I could not obtaine my desire with safety either for you or my selfe upon that I departed and leaving you this note by the which you may the better know of my willingnes to engage with you assuring you that my friendship shall be advantageous My desire is to receive a full answer of my first Letter which I sent by my Porter Ric. Vaughan whose name you have taken If then inke and paper be kept from you I am confident as yet your speech is not nor I hope will not therfore you may desire a friend whom you have a good confidence of to treat with me in your behalfe and I doubt not but to give him satisfaction to your and the Common-wealths good content But as I told you in my first letter so I do in this which is that unlesse I can receive a certaine token from you that you really send him I shall be very sparing in my discourse Yesterday morning I received a Letter from one Master William Parkins whom I do not all know and in that he advertized me that he was desired by your self to signifie unto me that it was your desire to have me speedily to r●pair into Buckingham-shire to engage my friends in your behalfe and how that he was going thither himselfe If that be true I pray use a speedy meanes add let me know asmuch and let me but receive a Letter from you to any one of quality in that County that is of your party that we may advise together and you will finde that you have a most faithfull Servant of 11 of May 1649. THO. VERNEY This M. Parkins specified in his Letter that I should finde him at the George at Ailsbury where your friends and my self should meet and advise about ingaging the Country IF I AM BETRAYD I pray let me know the truth from you Upon the receipt of which third Letter I was absolutely of opinion he was a perfect Knave and Cheat and especially by reason of the afore mentioned Parkins who to my knowledge is a Man I never saw nor heard of before But with the Letter I received a Message That at such a ho●s● in the Tower there was a Gentleman must needs speak with me about earnest businesse which I presently judged to be the fore-mentioned Thomas Verney and as I was going to him I met accidentally a Gentleman formerly of the Kings party and enquired of him if he knew one M. Tho. Verney a Knights Son or no And he told me that a Knight of the Kings party had lately told him that Sir Edward Verney the Kings Standard-bearer had a son lately come from the Hague which was looked upon to be a very odd strange light kinde of fellow but yet to the Cavaliers pretended to be some kind of Agent from the Prince Whereupon I told the Gentleman the

this Committee you were pleased to write to the Committee of Sequestrations of the County of Durham to make Certificates to this Committee of the estates of new Delinquents in their County who by their Letter and Certificates of the 12. of October present certifie of the clear delinquency of Sir Henry Gibb Knight Sir Henry Bellingham Knight and Baronet and Thomas Bows Esquire all of whom have reall estates in the said County of Durham the obtaining of which Certificate cost your Petitioner a tedious and chargeable journey into those parts That your Petitioner for divers weighty reasons in his own thoughts fixed principally upon the estate of Sir Henry Gibb but having been with divers and severall Counsellours learned in the Law of England he clearly finds that in Law strictly his nor no other Delinquents Lands can immediately be made over absolutely to your Petitioner and his heirs for ever without such clauses of reservation as may totally indanger your Petitioner within a few moneths to lose the fruit of his almo●t eight yeares extraordinary chargeable attendance for justice in the premises in your House the termes of the conveyance in law being so ticklish that your Petitioner would not willingly give one yeares purchase for land so conveyed Wherefore and in regard your Petitioner cannot believe that your House intends him a●fiction without a● substance for his already twice voted 3000. l. reparation he 〈…〉 humbly prayeth that he may receive your honourable assistance for the immediate 〈◊〉 of an Ordinance for your Petitioner to receive 8. l. per centum per annum for 〈◊〉 forbearance of his money from the hands of the Committee of Sequestrations of the County of Durham arising out of the estates sequestred in the said County of the said S● Henry Gibb Sir Henry Bellingham and Thomas Bows Esquire beginning at the 25. of March ●●st past and that the residue of the profits of the lands woods or other goods of the forsaid persons lying in the said County may as they arise go to the paiment of your Petitioner his said 3000. l. till it be fully paid with an assurance unto 〈◊〉 P●●●t●●ner that in case any or all of them compound with the Parliament for their delinquency that so much of your petitioner reparations as thou shall remaine may be sat●●●●ed and paid out of their compositions And your Petitioner shall pray c. John Lilburne W●ich Petition of mine the Committee granted and caused an Ordinance accordingly to be drawn up very fully on●ly my back friend John Blaxston and my unkle M George Lilburne being sorely falled out the man indeavoured to revenge himselfe of me and busled so hard against me in the House as that he got all consideration for the fu●u●e forbearance of my money dasht out which I was fain to beare with patience at the present being not able to help my self and as I remember it was read and past the second time but the streame of the House running after the personall Treaty with the supposition or jealousie of divers of my acquaintance and former friends amongst those men that I had too deep a hand in the late London Petition of 11. September 1648. which seemed to them to be a choak peare to the Treaty and they conceiving that I still pursued the same ends made the chariot wheels of the finishing of my Ordinance to got heavier then they used to do so that for my blood I totally could not get fit to passe the House of Commons in October 1648. and other businesse of the Army coming on I left looking after my Ordinance and visibly and totally devoted my self to an industrious indeavour to see if I with any other nicknamed levelling friends could prevent another cheat by the Army who promised faire in their large Remonstrance from S. Albans of 16. Novemb. 1648. pag. 66 67 68. but especially in their most remarkable Declaration shewing the reasons of their last advance to London the true narrative of my proceedings with them and their friends you may read in the 2. edition of my book of the 8. of June 1649. intituled The legall fundamentall Liberties of the People of England received asserted and vindicated pag. 33 34 35 36 37 38. which pages I intreat you seriously to read and with them I continued very diligently and closely following them to see if it were possible to get them consent to the setling of the Kingdome upon the bases and foundations of the principles of true freedom and justice by an * The speedy doing of which they both publikely and privately as solemnly promised and ingaged to perform as almost it was possible for men to doe as clearly you may fully read in their two last forementioned Declarations but especially that of the reasons of their last advance to London which being but short I have herewith sent you and intreat you most seriously to peruse as a cleare and everlasting testimony against their present wretched and apostatized basenesse Agreement of the People that had not fought against their Freedoms the onely and alone just cure of all Englands maladies not onely in my thoughts then but still at this present day but when I apparently and visibly saw their jugling and cheating of which I with out feare told them as you may read in pag. 39 40. of my last named books I say at the perceiving of their basenesse I judged it Impossible for me ever to get my Ordinance fully passe unlesse I would be their slave and vassall which Harrison Sir William Constable and Sir Hardresse Wader at their first coming to Whitehall laboured to get me to be and to ingage my pen for them but my positive answer to them all three face to face in their chamber was That I would as soon ingage for the Turk as for them unlesse they would come to a righteous center where they would fixedly acquiesce before they so much as attempted the medling with those great things they intended as the breaking the House and taking off the Kings hea● I say perceiving they were resolved to be knaves in the highest and to go through with their intended resolutions what ever it cost I thought it best for me to stir before all their fears and troubles were over to get my Ordinance fully to passe before they fully got up into the throne being confident if I staid till they had got their 〈◊〉 businesse about the King over I should never get it passe then but upon implicit ingagements to be their slave which I us much abhorred as I did the cutting of my own 〈◊〉 and therefore I put pen to paper and write a netling Letter to the Speaker about it being resolved to lay my bones at their door in the pursuit of it and its effect it had for as I remember the next day my Ordinance was transmitted to the Lords the copy of which Letter thus followeth M. Speaker THough I cannot challenge much interest in you yet being a suffering