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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88258	To every individuall member of the supream authority of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England. The humble addresse of Lieu. Col. John Lilburn, by way of answer to a most false and scandalous printed petition, delivered at the House door against him, by one William Huntington, upon Wednesday the 26 of November. 1651	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2186; Thomason E647_7; ESTC R208843	12,713	12

he left her as obstinate at the latter end as she was at the beginning of the Discourse and coming up immediatly to London he wrote down to his Father and his said Cousen Blacket to go to her and her husband again before complaint was made of Them and perswade Them to imbrace some of the said Propositions who did so accordingly but all in vain Upon the knowledge of which your Suppliant did upon the 22 of April 1651. by a second Petition complain of the said Will. Huntington that he would yeild no obedience to Their said Order either in paying his rent or appearing before Them to shew cause wherefore hee would not Upon which complaint the said Committee of Obstructions did further Order That the said Will. Huntington should upon site or notice of That Order and Demand made by your Suppliant or by such person or persons as he then had or should appoint to receive the said rent with the arrearages thereof as also the possession of the said Farm pay the said rent for and give up the possession of the Farm aforesaid accordingly or otherwise make his personal appearance before the said Committee within Twenty days after such site or notice of that Order which Order being served by my Agent or Atturney George Blacket and who made abundance of Journeys from his own House thither which is about Twelve miles off Billingham to perswade Them without the utmost of compulsion to obey the Authority of Parliament which was all in vain and for his pains therein Huntington's people with great gads or cudgels set upon him and as he hath told me might have hazarded the knocking him upon the head had he not well acquitted himself with his Sword After the knowledge of which before I would goe about to execute the utmost extremity I on purpose sent down my wives brother Cornet Thomas Duel to see what he could do with them about yeilding obedience to the said Orders but fully understanding of their perverse obstinacy I ordered the reserving of the Order in the presence of one that I hired to come to Westminster to make Affidavit of the serving it which being made the said Committee made an Order to the Sheriffe by force to put me into the possession of the said Farm The Copy of which Order thus followeth 25 June 1651. At the Committee of Parliament for removing Obstructions in the sale of Deans and Chapters Lands WHereas complaint hath been made unto the Committee by Lieut. Col. John Lilburne that he hath purchased of the Contractors for sale of Deans and Chapters Lands severall Messuages Lands and Tenements with their Appurtenances lying and being in Billingham in the County of Durham that the Tenants of the said Farms refusing to pay their rents and some of them denying the Title of the Common-wealth this Committee did the 15 of January last order that they should pay their rents or else within twenty dayes after notice of that Order appeare before this Committee and shew cause to the contrary And whereas the said Lieut. Colonel in a later Petition read the 22 of April last alledged that all the said Tenants submitted to pay the rents saving William Huntington the successor of Thomas Shippard in the said Order of 15 of January last mentioned who lives upon and enjoyes the profits of a Farm lying in Billingham aforesaid part of the said purchase rated at 18 l. 15. s. 7. per Annum in present possession and will in no way obey the said former order whereupon this Committe did the said 22 of Aprill order that the said William Huntington should upon sight or notice of that Order and demand made by the said Lieut. Coll. or by such person or persons as he then had or should appoint to receive the said rent with the Arreages thereof as also the possession of the said Farm pay the said rent for and give up possession of the Farm aforesaid accordingly or otherwise make his personall appearance before this Committee within twenty dayes after such sight or notice of that order as aforesaid And forasmuch as oath hath been made unto this Committee that the said William Huntington was upon the third of June instant personally served with the said Order of this Committe of the 22 of Aprill aforesaid and wheras it is alledged that the said William Huntington hath neither paid the rent for nor given up possession of the said Farme nor appeared before this Committee according to direction of the said Order of the 22 of April aforesaid This Committee do therupon order That according to an ordinance of Parliament in that case made the Sheriffe of the County of Durham aforesaid do upon the fight of this Order repaire unto the said Farm and Farm-house and doe remove the said William Huntington or any for him or under him out of the possession of the said Farm Farm-house and appurtenances and doe deliver up the quiet possession of the said Farm Farm-house and all and singular the appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said Lieut. Col. John Lilburne or unto Richard Lilburne Esquire Cornet Thomas Dowell and George Blacket his Assignes or any of them and if hee finde resistance to raise the Posse Comitatus and by force of Arms to possesse the same and also to break open Dores and Gates for the clearing of the possession and the said Sheriffe is authorised to commit unto the next common prison for one moneth such person and persons as he shal find to resist him in the executing of this Warrant Jo. Corbet Nath. Hallows Cor. Holland Richard Sallaway John Trenchard Upon the serving of which Order upon the Sheriff of the county to Durham he with his men went to Billingham where the said Huntington and his Wise forced them to the utmost extremity that could be before they could get the possession which at last having obtained it was delivered up to my Assigns named in the foresaid Order After which my occasions in August leading me down into the North parts on purpose to complain against Sir Arthur Hesilrigg to the Generall he being then an Officer in his Army for robbing of my Unkle and other of my Relations by his Will and pleasure of their Colliery at Harraton commonly called The nine and five Quarter seams of Coles which the said sir Arthur values in his Certificate at 5475 l. per annum I say going into the North at the Post house at York I met with a large exclamation against me for a Tyrant and grand Oppressor about the said Farm being left there by M. Bowles sometimes a Chaplin in the Army as the Postmaster told me which I have cause to judge arose from some of sir Arthurs Agents one purpose to blast my Reputation Unto which I made my defence in the maner that is made before after which arriving at Billingham the said Huntingtons Wife came to me for to claim the enjoyment of her crop of Corn. Unto which I answered to this effect

I knew none she had nor had taken none from her for if she would sow a crop of Corn upon my Ground in despite of me and to force me to all the Extremities that in Law I could be put unto to get my own and by it had legally recoverd it I knew no other way if she found her self agrieved at me but to take the same course to right her self against me And in Equity I knew not of a penny she could challenge at my hand for I did and do believe That a crop of Corn growing upon a Farm let for under 20 pounds per annum and upon such ground as by the Tradition of people there hath bin constantly plowed without ever lying swarth for many scores of years if not som 100 of years could countervails a ful years Rent which then they were almost compleat in arrear to me and those vast expences that for almost 12 months together I had constantly bin at to get possession of my own besides the loss of all my time and divers of my Friends besides the charge of reaping c. of the said Crop and therfore so long as she came unto me upon those Terms of claiming it as her own after she had done what in her lay to blast my Reputation for using no other means but what the Law allows me to get my own after all fair means of Composure were scorned and rejected by her and therefore she must now doe as she had forced me to do which was to take her couse at Law But perceiving that with much art her Reproaches against me was much spread in the Country finding at my coming down the Church dores shut up and the Parson put out of the Living being a sat sequestred Living the profits of which going to I know not what use upon divers first days during my abode there I supplyed the ejected Parsons place with Prayer and the best words of Exhortation and Instruction that the Incomes of God upon my Soul inabled me to afford unto the people And upon a day after the end of our meeting there being a large Auditory of many hundreds of people I took occasion to shew what a vain and fruitless thing Notions and Speeches are when the Practise or Actions were quire contrary And hearing of a rumor That there was hard dealing by me to some of my Tenants which although as I told them my own conscience did not in the least accuse me having used all the fair means that the wit of man could use to avoid extremity of Law yet so willing was I to avoid being my own Judg That if any one in that Town thought I had done them wrong let them choose one Neighbour and I would choose another who should hear us both and to whose determination I would bind my self in Bonds to stand unto And I the rather spoke it in that place That so my readiness to give all just satisfaction to the meanest persons might be taken notice of After which time one Richard Rutlas an Inn-keeper in that Town a fair conditioned man and her Cousin spoke to me largely about her and her Farm and after I had made him a Narrative of her evil dealing with me which he partly knew before being privy to my first proffers to her I desired him from me to goe to her and her Husband and tell them That if they would under both their hands acknowledg The Parliament had a right to sell the said Farm and that I had a just freedom to buy it I would then although they had lately been with Sir Arthur Hesilrig to petition against me I would then I say lay aside my right in law to the said crop and in equity come to an exact account with them for all that in any kinde of equity they can call theirs and lay my rent my disbursments and charges in getting my possession c. together and rather give them more then less it there were any overbalance but as I told him so long as they continued obstinate in that opinion that the Parliament was Tyrants in selling their farm and my self no better then a Rogue in buying it I would never treat with them while I lived and after this one Mr. Brough as I remember his name being the Minister of Norton that joyns to the said Billingham came to me about the same business in her name unto whom I made the same answer in effect as is before expressed and told him that if they would acknowledge the Parliaments title and that they had a right to sell it I would with all my heart he being Judge come to an exact equitable account with them and do that he himself should judge to be full of conscience and honesty although I conceived my self not in the least bound unto it by law but I could never have a return of my desire from either of them so that in some time after leaving the Country and coming to London I accidentally upon Wednesday last being the 26. of November 1651. met with a Petition in print at the House door delivered against me the Copy of which thus followeth To the supreme authority of this Nation the Parliament of the Commonwealth of ENGLAND The humble Petition of William Huntington of Billingham in the Country of Durham Yeoman SHEWETH THat your Petitioner having lately married a poor Widow with four small Children who had the Possession and ancient Tenant-right of a Farm in Billingham aforesaid holden by Lease of the Dean and Chapter in Durham which with two Cows and a Crop of Corn was the onely maintenance of that whole family your Petitioner being unable to purchase the Reversion thereof the Lease expiring intended to have concluded a Bargain with an Officer of the Army who propounded to purchase the said Tenement rendring the Moyety thereof back to your Petitioner for his Tenant-right and the same had been effected had not Lieutenant Colonel John Lilborn interposed concluding the Purchase thereof upon the terms of Tenant right by vertue of an Act of Parliament given him in that behalf together with divers other Tenements in that Manor declaring at the time of his Contract That he neither intended or desired any of the Tenants Estates had not the Parliament forced him upon that course for the gaining of 150 l. which they ought him further promising that if the Tenants would at any time make good the Rates of his Purchase he would return their Lands and Tenements to them Now so it is Right Honorable that the said Mr. Lilborn no sooner perfected his Conveyance but immediately thrusts out your Petitioner his Wife and four Children with the addition of one to your Petitioner and most barbarously and tyrannically against Law and Equity hath possessed himself of all your Petitioners Corn upon the ground and threshes out the same for his own use taking his two Cows from him with almost a years stock of Hay Straw and a great quantity of Manure