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A88219	London's liberty in chains discovered. And, published by Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, Octob. 1646.; London's liberty in chains discovered. Part 1	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Lilburne, Elizabeth. To the chosen and betrusted knights, citizens and burgesses, assembled in the high and supream court of Parliament.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing L2139; Thomason E359_17; Thomason E359_18; ESTC R9983	57,117	77

insist upon for the making good of the severall Imputations in and by his the said John Whites book laid and fixed upon the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn He the said Iohn White absolutely refused to take any further time in that behalf expresly saying hee would travell no more in it We the said Arbitrators upon due consideration of the whole premises aforesaid a●e c●eer of opinion That the said Iohn White as the ca●e hath been is represented appearing before us had no sufficient ground to write print or publish That the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn was the Writer or Author of the said Bookes Treatise and Letter or any of them But that the said Iohn White in and by his writing p●inting and publishing of his said Book entituled Iohn Whites Defence c. in manner and form as aforesaid hath unjustly scandalized the said L. Col. ●ohn ●ilburn And thefore we the said Arbitrat●●s do most unanimously ●ward That the said Iohn White shall before the 10. day of this instant moneth of October make a publike acknowledgment before Col. Francis West Lieutenant of the said Tower of London at his the said Lieutenants house in the said Tower That he the said Iohn White hath done the said Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn wrong and shal make and pronounce the said acknowledgment in these words following That is to say I Iohn White one of the Warders of the Tower of London Do acknowledge that I have unjustly wronged Lieutenant Col. I. Lilburn in and by my writing and publishing in print in such sort as I did That he was the Writer Author or Contriver of a Book called Liberty vindicated against Slavery And of a Printed Letter thereunto annexed And of a Booke called An Alarum to the House of Lords For all which and for all the unjust and scandalous matters and language alleadged and used by me in my said Booke reflecting upon the said Lieutenant Col. Lilburn I am heartily sorry We the said Arbitrators doe also award That after the said Iohn VVhite hath so made and pronounced the said acknowledgment before the said Mr. Lieutenant Hee the said Iohn White shall then deliver his said acknowledgment in writing subscribed by him the said Iohn VVhite into the custody of the said Lieutenant Colonell Iohn Lilburn to be by him kept and disposed of for his better vindication against the said scandals said upon him by the said Iohn White in his the said Iohn VVhites said Book Lastly we the said Arbitrators do award That this our award shall be a finall end of all differences and matters of controversie whatsoever betwixt the said Lieut. Col. I. Lilburn and the said Iohn White to us or to our award in any wise submitted by the said parties from the beginning of the world unto the day of their said submission to our award so farre as the same doth or may concern the said parties or either of them in their particulars and that the said parties from henceforth shall continue lovers and friends without any repetition of former injuries on either part And for the better clearing of the said Iohn White in his credit touching some rumours of couzenage and perjury by him supposed to be committed or touching his being forsworn lately scattered abroad to his discredit We the said Arbitrators do unanimously declare that we have not found any colour much lesse any just ground to fix upon the said Iohn VVhite any suspition of or for the same or any part thereof But doe thereof in our opinions absolutely cleer him Given under our hands and seales the 7. day of Octob. aforesaid 1646. John Strangwaies Lewis Dives John Glanvill William Morton But the Lieutenant not being willing for causes best knowne to himself that the submission or recantation should be made before or in his presence it was done at Lir John Glanvils chamber the Copy of which thus followeth I John White one of the Warders of the Tower of London Doe acknowledge that I have unjustly wronged Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn in and by my writing and publishing in print in such sort as I did that he was the Writer Author or Contriver of a Booke called Liberty vindicated against Slavery and of a Printed Letter thereunto annexed and of a Book or Treatise called An Alarum to the House of Lords For all which and for the unjust and scandalous matters and language alleadged and used by me in my said Book reflecting upon the said Lieut. Col. Lilburn I am heartily sorry and in testimony thereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand the 8. day of October 1646. JOHN WHITE Subscribed pronounced and accepted the 9. day of Octob. 1646 in the presence of us Knights John Strangwaies Lewis Dive Iohn Glanvill William Morton Henry Vaughan Christopher Comport Warder in the Tower And now to conclude at the present because there is not any discourse of mine own abroad in Prin● since I was first locked up so close as I was by the Lords in Newgate by way of Narrative to state my case to the world I shall it may bee informe and silence many mens rash censures by inserting first my Wifes late Petition to the House of Commons and because by a Gentleman of the Committee to whom my cause was referred it was judged a D●claration rather then a Petition and so unfit to be insisted upon any further after once reading there although I am not apt to think if I had been a man accustomed to write Letters to my Lord Cottington when he was at Oxford at that time when by Ordinance of Parliament it was little lesse then death so to doe her Petition and my cause would have found more favour from that Gentleman then they did whose cavels necessitated me to send a Petition of my own to the same Committee which I sha●l also insert But first of all my wifes Petition thus followeth To the Chosen and betrusted Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled in the high and supream Court of PARLIAMENT The Humble Petition of ELIZABETH LILBURNE wife to Lieu. Col. JOHN LILBURNE who hath been for above eleven weeks by-past most unjustly divorced from him by the House of Lords and their tyrannicall Officers against the Law of GOD and as she conceives the law of the Land Sheweth THat you only and alone are chosen by the Commons of England to maintain their Lawes and Liberties and to do them justice and right a a Coll. of decl pag. 264. 336. 382 508 613. 705. 711. 716 721 724 725 726 729. 730. which you have often before God and the World sworn to do b b Coll. decl page ●6● 6●● protestation ● and covena●● yea and in divers of your Declarations declared it is your duty in regard of the trust reposed in you so to doe c c Coll. decl pag. 81● 17● 262 266 267 340 459. 462 471 473 5●● 690. without any private aimes personall respects or passions whatsoever d d Col. declar p. 464 490

sinne upon him Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the Children of thy People but thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy selfe I am the Lord. And when the fulnesse of time was come that Christ the Restorer and Repairer of mans losse and fall should come and preach Righteousnesse Justice to the world He saith it is the Law the Prophets that whatsoever we would that men should do to us that wee should do to them Matth. 7.12 Luke 6.31 Yea and further saith That as it is the great Commandement that we should love our Soveraign Creator and Preserver the Lord our God with all our hearts and all our soules and with all our minds so the second Commandement which is like unto it is That we should love our neighbours as our selves and on these two saith hee hang all the Law and the Prophets So that by this it is cleerly evident that Religion Christianity or the knowledge of Christ doth not destroy morality civility justice and right reason but rather restores it to its first perfection beauty splendor and glory and therefore the Apostle exhorts Saints and Believers Ephes 4.17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Not to walk as other Gentiles do in the vanity of their mind having their understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesse of their heart Who being past feeling have given themselvs over to lasciviousn●sse to work all uncleannesse with greedinesse But saith the Apostle to all that love Christ Ye have not so learned Christ If so be ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitfull lusts And be renewed in the Spirit of your mind And that ye put on that new man which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse and excellent to this purpose is that of the Apostle Col 3.7 8. where speaking of and to those that have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which saith he is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him And therefore the same Apostle layeth down his exhortation at large and declareth it is not only the duty of the Saints to doe good each unto other but as much as in them lyes to doe good unto all the Sons of Adam saying Gal. 6.10 as we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the Houshold of Faith But the greatest good that I know of that any man can do unto the Sons of Men besides the discovery of the knowledge of Christ and the benefits and priviledges that are to be injoyed by him is rationally to discover the privilege that is the Right Due and Propriety of all the Sons of Adam as men that so they may not live in beastlinesse by devouring one another and not onely so but also to stand for and maintain those Rights and Priviledges in any Kingdome or Nation wheresoever they are in any measure established that so the trusted made great and potent by a power conferred upon them may not there-with as is too commonly seene Lord it domineer over and destroy by their Prerogative-will and pleasure the Betrusters yea and also to maintain the liberties and priviledges established in a Land by Law against the incroaching usurpations of some great and mighty Nimrods of the world made so by wayes and meanes more immediatly and properly flowing from the Divell then God and by their false-assumed incroaching power tyrant-like tread under their feet all just and innocent persons and protect defend and countenance none but those that will comply applaud and assist them in their brutish woolvish and tyrant-like proceedings which practises are contrary to the very end of Government and Magistracy as is largly declared by the Apostle Rom. 13.3 4. where he plainly saith Rulers are not no nor ought not to be a terrour to good workes but to the evill wilt thou then not be afraid of the power Do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the Minister of God to thee for good But if thou do that which is evill be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill but not upon him that doth good The knowledge of which in some measure in my own soule hath been the true ground that conscienciously made me out of duty to my selfe and neighbours and obedience to God stand against and oppose my self against the Bishops and with resolution so often since in the middest of many deaths hazard my life for my liberties and the lawes liberties and rights of all the people of this Land which is the only principle that now carryes me on in opposition against the Lords unto whom as so many men I have and must confesse I am ten times more oblieged for my own particular than to the house of Commons it self having found at their hands several times cordiall and speedy Justice which I never enjoyed from the House of Commons in my life although I have waited upon them therefore these six years and followed them as close as any man I think in England and I dare safely say it without vain or lying boasting for these nine or ten years together I have been as serviceable to the Common-wealth of England in my place and condition as any one man whatsoever that sits in that house though I have been as ungratefully dealt with by them as ever man in England was yet I say when the Lords forced me to contest with them which I professe I was as unwilling to do as I was to run my head against the wall the which I told unto one of themselves yet I say before I would have parted with my reason and understanding and so have defaced obliterated and annihilated as much as in me lay the Image that God created me in and which Christ by communicating of himself to me hath restored confirmed and inlarged and degenerated into the habit of a beast which all slaves that live in the World without a rationall and just Law are in by parting with and betraying my native naturall just liberties which the fundamentall lawes of this Land give me I will part with my very heart-blood first yea and if I had a thousand lives they should all go before I will part with my just liberties either to them or any power on earth what ever it be that dare assume unto themselves so much tyranny and satanicall pride as to go about it or endeavour it And it is this very principle that now engageth to write this Postscript to beget a Contest with the Prerogative-men of London Englands mighty Nimrods who haue inslaved not only this City but

beene strong Instruments from time to time to doe the same to the whole Land And the present ground of my putting pen to paper at present ariseth from this ensuing The day the last Lord Major was elected It seemes Major Wansie a Watch-maker in Cornhill a man that in these late wars hath freely and gallantly adventured his life for the preservation of the present Parliament and Englands Liberties and some other free Citizens commonly by the Prerogative-men of London distinguished by the name of Cloak-men intended to have claimed their right to give their Vote in the election of the Lord Major as by Law and the Charters of London every free-man therof ought to do as also in both the Sheriffes c. And in case the prerogative L. Major Adams and the prerogative-Aldermen his Brethren would not permit them They then intended to deliver in a Protest in writing the Copy of which Protest within a day or two after I saw and read and not before and understanding how basely Major VVansey was used by the Marshall of London and of my Lord Majors prerogative-Mastives and how that contrary to Law Guild-Hall Gate was guarded with armed men which rendered the election in no sence to be free as all elections of all publike Officers ought to be and reading the Protest over the reason of it and the injustice offered to its well-willers It inflamed my spirit with indignation and set my very soule as it were all on fire Insomuch that I went immediatly to old Mr. Colet the Record-keeper of the Tower and asked him if hee had the originall Records of the Charters of London and understanding he had them out of my penury I bestowed three or foure pound for the Copies of those that were most usefull for me and also the Copy of H. 5. prerogative and unbinding Proclamation by vertue and authority of which they have invaded the rights of all the free men of London in divers particulars and as much as in them lies annihilated divers of the antient and just Charters and legall priviledges of this City confirmed by Magna Charta and making further inquiry of a man versed in antiquity I understood that there was an antient book in print above 100. yeares agoe containing many of the Liberties and Franchises of London for which I sent into Duck-lane and with some industry found it out which is a most excellent book which with the Records I sent to a true friend of mine to get him to translate the Records into English and all the Latine and French that is in that book who sent unto me the fore-going Discourse which in regard he was a stranger to London he was unwilling to set his name to it and I reading the Discourse and liking it very well judged my self bound in duty to my self and all my fellow-Commoners the Cloak-men of London to publish it in print and in regard by Gods assistance I intend shortly to publish and print the Records with a Cōmentary in point of Law upon them I judged it convenient hereby by way of Post-script to give you the understanding thereof and also to give you the reasons which moved me to resolve to hazard no small adventure there upon which are these First because the Prerogative-Pattentee monopolizing Merchant adventurers have contrary to Right Law and Justice robbed me of my trade whose illegall arbytrary destructive practises to the liberties freedome and prosperity of England I have in my answer to Mr. VVill. Pryn called Innocencie and Truth justified punctually anatomized as there you may reade from page 48. to page 63. Now as Paul saith 1 Tim. 5.8 If any provide not for his own family and specially for those of his own house he hath denied the Faith and is worse then an Infidell In which to me is implyed that a man must not only be provident and industrious to keepe and preserve what hee hath but also to maintain and defend his rights liberties and proprieties that they be not invaded or taken from him and this made honest Naboth that he would not part-with his Vineyard his inheritance to wicked King Ahab although he offered him very good tearmes for it 1 Kings 21.1 2 3. much lesse should I part with my trade to any illegall Monopoliser and every individuall Free-mans of London c. and that not only by the principles of nature and reason but also by the Law of England as is not onely proved by the fore-named Discourse but also by another excellent Treatise called Discourse for free Trade published about two years agoe by a Merchant of London Secondly the readinesse of the Prerogative-Magistrates of London to execute any illegall Commands upon the free-men thereof and particularly upon my self as for instance when I was prisoner in Newgate illegally committed by the house of Lords that had no jurisdiction over me in that case and when upon the 22. of June last by their Warrant they commanded me to dance attendance at their Bar for what cause they did not expresse neither know I any Law extant that authorizeth them so to do Which action I looked upon as a trampling the Lawes of the Land and the Liberties of all the free Commons of England under their feet and therefore for the prevention of further mischiefe I writ this following Letter to Mr. VVoollaston the chiefe Jaylor of Newgate under the Sheriffes of London SJR I This morning have seen a Warrant from the house of Lords made yesterday to command you to bring me this day at ten a clock before them the Warrant expresseth no cause wherfore I should dance attendance before them neither do I know any ground or reason wherefore I should nor any Law that compels mee thereunto for their Lordships sitting by vertue of Prerogative-pattents and not by election or common consent of the people hath as Magna Charta and other good Lawes of the Land tels me nothing to do to try me or any Commoner whatsoever in any criminall case either for life limb liberty or estate but contrary hereunto as incrochers and usurpers upon my freedomes and liberties they lately and illegally endeavoured to try me a Commoner at their Bar for which I under my hand and seale protested to their faces against them as violent and illegal incrochers upon the rights and liberties of me and all the Commons of England a copy of which c. I in Print herewith send you and at their Bar I openly appealed to my competent proper legall tryers and Judges the Commons of England assembled in Parliament for which their Lordships did illegally arbytrarily and tyrannically commit me to prison into your custody unto whom divers dayes agoe I sent my appeale c. which now remains in the hands of their Speaker if it be not already read in their house unto which I do and will stand and obey their commands Sir I am a free-man of England and therefore I am not to bee used as a slave