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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88256	To every individuall member of the Honourable House of Commons: the humble remembrance of Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1648 (1648)	Wing L2184; Thomason E461_36; ESTC R205207	8,888	8

the said John Lilburne for his extraordinary wrongs sufferings and losses thereby susteined and the long time hitherto elapsed without any satisfaction The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament doe ordain And be it hereby ordained by the said Lords and Commons and by Authority of the same That the said John Lilburne shall have and receive the summe of three thousand pounds out of all or any the Mannours 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 see-simple or see-raile or other wise at the time of the saide sentences or decrees or of either of them in the said late Court of Star-chamber or fince within the Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales any Order or 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 speedy levying of the said summe of three thousand pounds It is further Ordered and Ordained That the severall and respective Sheriffs of the several 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 Iawfull men where the same lands do lye 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 said severall and respective Sheriffs shall deliver unto the said John Lilburn true copies in Parchment of the same inquisitions by them taken and shall then also deliver unto the said John Lilburne the said Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which shall be so comprised or mentioned in the said inquisitions To have and to hold to him the said John Lilburne and his assignes without impeachment of wast and untill he shall have received out of the issues and profits thereof to be estimated according to the yearly valews contained in the said inquisitions the said summe of three thousand pounds together with all reasonable charges and expences to bee sustained from henceforth for obtaining the said summe of three thousand pounds And all and every the said severall and respective Sheriffs and all other person and persons whatsoever that shall any waies act or assist in obedience to this Ordinance according to the true intent and meaning thereof shall bee therfore defended and kept harmlesse by the authority of both Houses of Parliament Be pleased further to take notice That after the foresaid Ordinanance was once read it came to a debate in your House for to be read the second time which was carried in the negative by majority of voices and I cannot but apprehend that there were divers in the House unsatisfied in the Ordinance it self in regard the House was divided upon the debate and Vote which I cannot but apprehend must flow from one of these two considerations Frist Either because that the whole reparations is fixed upon the Lord Coventries estate singly who had many co-partners in the sentences and who also it may be supposed hath explated his crime by his death Or else secondly Because in some mens thoughts some of my late actions have or are been so evill in themselves that they may seem to them to over ballance the merrits of all my ancient sufferings To the first of which besides the reasons contained in the foregoing Petition I humbly crave leave to offer these unto your juditious consideration First I have by almost eight years dear-bought experience found the interest of some of my forementioned potent Judges who yet fit in both Houses of Parliament to be too strong for me to grapple with and the only cause in my apprehension that hath al this while kept me from my own and the refore my own interest which compels me strongly to endeavour by all just waies and means to attain to my just end reparations necessiates me as much as I can to wave the fixing upon them Secondly I continually finde amongst the greatest part of my Judges an apprehention in their own spirits that in conscience and equity there ought to be fauour shewed to those of my Star-chamber Judges that have joyned with the Parliament and Kingdome rather then to those that have fought and contested against them both and that seeing the later are able enough in estates to make satisfaction it ought in conscience and equity soly to lye upon their heads and I being not to guide or command my Judges but rather to be in this guided and commanded by them and to acquiese in their reasons they give me especially when my own understanding tels me they most conduce to the obtaining my main end which is justice in the possessing of my own Now these things considered and conjoyned to the reasons laid down in my foregoing Petition I submissively conceive as things now stand in Law equity and conscience no juster object can be found for you to fix my reparations upon then the reall estate where-ever it is to be found of the late Thomas Lord Coventry who was the principall actor in this bloody tragidy and who was not lesse eminent in cruelty then in place being Judge of the highest seat of mercy the Chancery which ought to abate the edge of the Law when it is too keen Now for the chief Judge of mercy to degenerate into a savage cauelty not heard of amongst the barbarians nor to be read of in the histories of the bloodyest persecutors how trancendently hainous and punishable is it And though he be dead yet justice lives and whatsoever is become of him his estate ought to make satisfaction according to the rule of his own court of Star-chamber he that suffers not in his body must suffer in his purse And therfore I may justly expect my reparations out of his reall estate that he was possessor of at his death where ever I can now finde it whether it be in the possession of the present Lord Coventry or others and you may there as righteous judges fix it for these reasons First Because the said Tho. late Lord Coventries real estate in equity if not in the eye of the Common law ought to satisfy his debts though dead though now it be in the possession of the present Lord Coventry c. and in reason and conscience there is at least as much equity that it should repair injuries especially of so high a nature as mine is of and the rather if it be considered that the late Lordkeeper Coventry had besides his real estate a very considerable personal estate at his death which I desire not to medle with although it be descended to his heires c. Secondly Because the estate now in the hands of the

in the after-noon because he had given it under his hand that the King might create unto himself at his pleasure another rule to walk by then the Law of the Land prescribes him as appears by the Parliament Records in the Tower and by many of your own Declarations Now for asmuch as your petitioners sufferings hath been unparralled and his prejudice sustained thereby altogether unrepairable having lost his limbes c. And forasmuch as by the Law of God nature and Nations reparations for hurts and damages received ought to be satisfied as far as may be in all persons though done by accident and not intentionally and though through ignorance much more when the persons offending did it knowingly and on purpose in the face nay in the spight of the fundamentall Lawes of the Laud which they were sworn to preserve And for that the reparations in the said Ordinance assigned doth scarse amount to what your petitioner spent in his three years sad captivity and his now almost eight years chargable attendance in suing for it besides the losse of a rich profitable Trade for eleven years together and his wounds torments smart and disgrace sustained by his said tyrannicall sentences He therefore humbly prayeth the favour and justice of this honorable Committee for some considerable augmentation of his said reparations and the rather because his fellow sufferer Doctor Bastwick had 4000 li. reparations alotted him whose sufferings he submissively conceiveth was nothing nigh so great in torment pain and shame as your Petitioners And forasmuch as the now Lord Coventry son and heire to the foresaid Lord Coventry hath walked in his Fathers Steps in enmity to the Lawes Liberties and freedome of the Nation by being in armes at the beginning of the wars against the Parliament and made his peace with the Earle of Essex for a small matter and hath since diserted the Kingdome living in France privately receiving the profits of a vast estate which his Father left him And forasmuch as his said Father the late Lord Coventry was the activest man in the infringing the Lawes and liberties of the Nation although a Lawyer and Judge sitting on the supreme seat of Justice and a person as is groundedly c●nceived who got a great estate by corruption and particularly a man that principally passed as chief Judge of the Court both the aforesaid sentences against your Petitioner And inregard 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 Maskes out of them and for that the estate of James Ingram cannot be found nor at present come by Your Petitioner 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 immediately paid your Petitioner or else that his Rents the profits of his woods and goods may be seized in the respective Counties where they lye 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 chargable 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 Lilburne After the reading of which they entered into a serious debate of the whole businesse 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 Carre Chair-man 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 Carre which Ordinance hath been once read in your House The Copy 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 Lilburne Gent. which he susteined by ver●ue colour of two Sentences given and made against him in the late Court of Starchamber the one the 13. of February 1637. and 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 Starchamber 13. Febr. 13. Car. Regis and 18. April 14. Car. Regis which were Voted the 4. May 1641. by the House of Commons to be Illegall and against the liberty of the Subject and also bloody wicked cruel barbarous and tyrannicall were transmitted from the said House of Commons unto the House of Lords who thereupon by one Order or decree by them made 13. Febru 1645. Adjudged and Declared the said proceedings of the said Starchamber against the said John Lilburn to be Illegal and most unjust and against the liberty of the Subject and Law of the Land and Magna Charta and unfit to continue upon Record c. And by another Order or Decree made by them the said Lords the the 5. March 1645. they assigned to be paid unto the said John Lilburn the summe of two thousand pounds for his reparations and the said House of Peeres then fixed that summe upon the estates reall and personall of Francis Lord Cottington Sir Francis Windebanck and James Ingram late Deputy Warden of the Fleet and afterwards for the present levying thereof with allowance of Interest in case of obstruction 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. April 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 transmition all or the greatest part of the estates of the said Lord Cottington and Sir Francis Windebanck is since by both Houses disposed of to other uses and the estate of the said James Ingram is so smale and weak and so intangled with former incumbrances that it can afford little or no part unto the said John Lilburn of the said reparation And for that the said late Lord Coventry was the principall Judge and chief Actor in the giving of both the said Illegal Sentences in the said Court of Starchamber and for the barbarous inflicting of punishments thereupon Therefore and for satisfaction of the said two thousand pounds and for the increase of reparation unto