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A48481	To all the affectors and approvers in England of the London petition of the eleventh of September, 1648, but especially to the owners of it, by their subscriptions, either to it, or any other petition in the behalf of it; and particularly to the first promoters of it, my true friends, the citizens of London, &c. (continuing unshaken in their principles, by offices, places, or other base bribes or rewards) usually meeting at the Whalbone in Lothbury, behinde the Royal Exchange, commonly (but most unjustly) stiled Levellers.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2183A; ESTC R220125	11,753	8

settlement of the peace and government of this distracted wasted and divided Nation the firm establishing of the principles therein contained b●ing that only which will really and in good earnest marry and knit that interest what ever it be that dwells upon them unto the distressed and oppressed Commons or people of this Nation yea the setling of which principles is that that will thereby make it evident and apparent unto all rationall and understanding people in the world that the reall and hearty good and welfare of the people of this Nation hath cordially and in good earnest been that that their souls have hunted for and thirsted after in all the late bloody civill wars and contests All the Contests of the Kings party for his will and Prerogative being meerly Selvish and so none of the peoples interest and the contest of the Presbyterians for their mak●-bate dividing and hypocriticall Covenant no better in the least and the present contest of the present dissembling interest of Independents for the peoples Liberties in generall read the following Discourse pag. 27 28 29. meerly no more but Self in the highest and to set up the false saint and most desperate Apostate murderer and traytor Oliver Cromwel by a pretended election of his mercinary souldiers under the false name of the godly Interest to be King of England c. that being now too too apparently all the intended them by his Will and ●leasure and so destroy and envassalize their lives and properties to his lusts which is the highest treason that ever was committed or acted in this Nation in any sense or kinde either first in the eye of the Law or secondly in the eye of the ancient but yet too much arbitrary proceedings of Parliament or thirdly in the eye of their own late declared principles of reason by pretence of which and by no rules of Law in the least they took away the late Kings head and life which if there were any Law or Justice in England to be had or any Magistrates left to execute it as in the least there is not I durst undertake upon my life plainly evidently and undeniably to make good the foresaid unparalleld treasons against the foresaid Ol. Cromwel upon against all the three forementioned principles viz. Law Parliament and Reason yea and to frame against him such an Impeachment or Indictment which way of Indictments is the true legall and only just way of England to be tried at the Common Law higher and greater then all the charges against the fourty four Judges hanged for false and illegal Judgments by King Alfred before the conquest which with their crimes are recorded in the Law Book called The mirror of Justice Printed in English for Matthew Walbank at Grayes Inn gate 1646. page 239. 240. 241. 242. 243. 244. 245. See also page 196. 197. 207. ibid. Or then the impeachment or accusation Of the Lord chief Justice Wayland and the rest of his brother Judges and Lawyers tormented in Edward the first his time and mentioned in Speeds Chronicle fol. 635. Or then the impeachment in Parliament against Judg Thorp who for taking small bribes against his oath was condemned to die in Edward the third his time of whom you may read in the 3. part Cooks Institut fol. 155 156 and in Mr. Pyms Speech against the Earl of Strafford in the Book called Speeches and Passages of Parliament pag. 9. Or then the impeachment or a charge of the dethroned King Edward the second in full Parliament the maner of whose dethroning you may notably read in Speeds Chronicle fol. 665. Or then the many Articles of impeachment of the dethroned King Richard the second in full Parliament recorded at large in the Chronicles or History of Will. Martin fol 156. 157. 158 159. the 8. 10. 12. 15. 21. Articles of which I conceive most remarkable as to the people which are extraordinary well worth the reading for in them the King himself in those dark days of Popery is charged To have perverted the due course of the Law or Justice and Right and that he destroyed men by information without legal examination or tryal and that he had declared the Laws of the Kingdom were in his own Brest just the same thing do Mr. Peters and other mercenary Agents of the Grandees of the Army now constantly declare of them and that by himself and his own authority just Cromwel and Ireton like onely much short of them he had displaced divers Burgesses of the Parliament and had placed such other in their rooms as would better fit and serve his own turn Or then the impeachment of the Lord chief Justice Tris●…ian who had the worship or honor in Richard the second his time in full Parliament to be apprehended in the forenoon and hanged at Tiburn in the afternoon with his brother Judges viz. Ful●horp Be●knap Care Hot Burge and Lockton or their associates Sir Nicholas Bramble Lord Mayor of London Sir Simon Burley Sir William Elinham Sir John Salisbury Sir Thomas Trevit Sir James Bernis and Sir Nicholas Dodgworth some of whom were destroyed and hanged for setting their hands to Judgments in subversion of the Law in advancing the Kings will above Law yea and one of them banished therefore although a dagger was held to his brest to compel him thereunto Or then the indictment of those two grand and notorious traitorly subvertors of the Laws and Liberties of England Empson and Dudley Privy Counsellors to Henry the seventh recorded in Cooks 4. part Institut fol. 198. 199. read also fol 41. ibid. and 2. part Instit fol. 51. Or then the impeachment of that notorious wicked and traiterous man Cardinal Woolsey by King Henry the eight his Privy Councel recorded in the 4. part Cooks Instit fol. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. Read especially Artic. 17. 20. 21. 23. 25. 26. 30. 31. 33. 35. 38. 42. in all which he is charged with Arbitrariness and subversion of the Law Or then the impeachment of the Shipmoney Judges who in one judgment did as much as in them lay destroy all the Properties of all the men in England read the notable Speeches against them in Speeches and Passages Or then the impeachment of the Bishop of Canterbury in the late Parliament Or then the impeachment of the Lord Keeper Finch Earl of Strafford Secretary Windebank Sir Richard Bolton Lord Chancellor of Ireland John Lord Bishop of Derry Sir Gerrard Lowther Knight Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland and Sir George Ratcliff all whose impeachments are recorded in a Book intituled Speeches and Passages of Parliament from November 1640. 10 June 1641. Pag. 76. 77. to 83. and 117. 118. to 143. and 174. and 256. 257. 258. Or then the Articles or charge against the two Sir John Hothams the elder of which kept the King out of Hull the beginning of these Wars when the House of Commons durst not command him positively to do it although they were

effectually put upon it by a motion from the younger then sitting in the House and yet they were both beheaded as Traytors for but endevoring to betray Hull to the King Or then the late impeachment of Sir Philip Stapleton Master Denzil Hollis and the rest of the eleven Members whose impeachment of high Treason is recorded in the Armies Book of Declarations pag. 47. to 50. and pag. 94 95. 96. c. And yet the same things that some of them in a capital maner were impeached for as Traytors their impeachers acted and did at the very self-same time as is clearly declared in the following discourse pag. 31. 32. to 39. and page 53. to 62. Yea or then the impeachment of King Charls whom Cromwel and Ireton principally Bradshaw being but their hired mercinary slave have beheaded for a Tyrant and Traytor whose impeachment is recorded in the following discourse page 65. 66. 67. But the principles of the foresaid Agreement being so detestable and abominable to the present ruling men as that which they know will put a full end to their tyranny and usurpation and really ease and free the people from oppression and bondage that it is something dangerous to those that go about the promotion of it yet I shall advise and exhort you vigorously to lay all fear aside and to set on foot the promotion of it in the same method we took for the promotion of the foresaid Petition of the 19 of January 1647. laid down in the following discourse page 23. 24. 25. And write to your friends in every Country of England to chuse out from amongst themselves and send up some Agents to you two at least from each County with money in their pockets to bear their charges to consider with your culd and chosen Agents of some effectual course speedily to be taken for the setling the principles thereof as that onely within an earthly Government can make you happy or at least to know one anothers mindes in owning and approving the principles thereof that so it may become to you and all your friends your Center Standard and Banner to ●●ock together to in the time of those forraign invasions and domestick insurrections that are like speedily to bring miseries enough upon this poor and d●stressed Nation and unanimously resolve engage one to another neither to side with or fight for the Cam●●oes fooleries and pride of the present men in power nor for the Prince his will or any other base interest whatseover the which if you should fight for it would be but an absolute murdering of your Brethren and Countrymen you know not wherefore unless he or they will come up to those just righteous and equitable principles therein contained and give rational and good security for the constant adhering thereunto and upon such terms I do not see but you may justifiably before God or man Joyn with the Prince himself yea I am sure a thousand times more justly then the present ruling men upon a large and serious debate joyned with Owen Roe O●eal the grand bloody rebell in Ireland who if we must have a King I for my part had rather have the Prince then any man in the world because of his large pretence of Right which if he come not in by Conquest by the hands of Forraigners the bare attempting of which may apparently hazard him the loss of all at once by gluing together the now divided people to joyn as one man against him but by the hands of Englishmen by contract upon the principles aforesaid which is easie to be done the people will easily see that presently thereupon they will injoy this transcendent benefit he being at peace with all forraign Nations and having no regall pretended Competitor viz. the immediate disbanding of all Armies and Garrisons saving the old Cinque-ports and so those three grand plagues of the people will cease viz. Free-quarter Taxations and Excise by means of which the people may once again really say they injoy something they can in good earnest call their own whereas for the present Army to set up the pretended false Saint Oliver or any other as their elected King there will be nothing thereby from the beginning of the Chapter to the end thereof but Wars and the cutting of throats year after year yea and the absolute keeping up of a perpetuall and everlasting Army under which the people are absolute and perfect slaves and vassals as by woful and lamentable experience they now see they perfectly are which slavery and absolute bondage is like daily to increase under the present tyrannicall and arbritrary new erected robbing Government And therefore rouze up your spirits before it be too late to a vigorous promotion and setling of the principles of the foresaid Agreement as the onely absolute and perfect means to cure you of all your maladies and distempers So with my hearty and true love presented to all that remain upright amongst you without being perverted to Apostacy by the pretended Councell of States places or bribes I commit you to the safe tuition and protection of the most high the Lord Jehovah and Almighty and re●t Gentlemen Yours and the Nations faithful hearty resolved friend and servant in the midst of all adversity afflictions trials and sorrows that never more in all my life incompassed me round about then now till death JOHN LILBURN From my unjust and illegall though contented captivity for my honesty and innocencie and nothing else as to man in close imprisonment in the Tower of London without any legall and just allowance of maintenance this present 17. of July 1649.