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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88209	A iust reproof to Haberdashers-Hall: or, An epistle writ by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn, July 30. 1651. to four of the commissioners at Haberdashers Hall, viz. Mr James Russell, M. Edward Winsloe, M William Mellins, and M. Arthur Squib, wherein is set forth their unjust and unrighteous dealing in severall cases; with the relations of the said John Lilburn, and their captiving their understandings to the tyrannical will of Sir Arthur Haslerigge, who hath most unjustly endeavoured a long time together, the exterpation of the family of the said John Lilburn.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2127; Thomason E638_12; ESTC R206637	46,507	40

the Book of the said Commissioners for Sequestrations And he further maketh Oath that upon ths said eleventh day of June last he together with the said George Gray desired the said Commissionerss for Sequestrations that in obedience to both the said Orders they would set a time to examine witnesses in both the said cases but they could not prevail with them to set any time and this deponent did upon the eighteenth day of June last together with the said George Gray again attend the said Commissioners for Sequestrations to appoint a time to examine witnesses according to the two Orders aforesaid that he delivered to them but they could not prevail with them to appoint any time but Master Dalavall one of them said they knew what they had to do so that this deponent and the said George Gray waited for their obedience to the said Order untill the time limited in the said Order for a return from the said commissioners for Sequestrations in the said County was elapsed and they would do nothing therein Jur. Coram Commissariis 9. July 1651. Ralph Gray R. M. Vera copia Here followeth the Copy of a third Affidavit of Mr George Gray's to prove the goods to be John Hedworth's Esquire George Gray of Harraton in the County of Durham Gentleman aged sixty eight years or thereabouts maketh Oath That whereas by a Certificate from the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the County of Durham dated 14 Novembris 1650. it is alledged that upon an Order made by the said Commissioners dated March 19 1649. whereby Colonel Hacker was Authorized to distrein the goods of this deponent for some arrears of Rents pretended to be due by this deponent to one John Jakson a delinquent that thereupon this deponent upon or about the time of the making of the abovesaid Order did cunningly and fraudulently pretend that he had assigned the cattell so distreined unto John Hedworth Esquire this deponents son in law and that this was done in colour to defraud the State to whom the said Rents were due as is alledged in the said Certificate Now this deponent deposeth and saith That the goods nor any of them so taken or distreined by the Order of the said Commissioners upon the grounds at Harraton or thereabout pretended to be the goods of this deponent were not at the time of the said distresse nor had been for the space of twelve months before that time any of this deponents goods neither had this deponent any title or interest in any of them but that the said cattell were most of them really the proper goods of the said John Hedworth Esquire and some of them belonged to some other neighbours who never yet got them again to this deponents knowledge Jur. Coram Commissariis 9. April 1651. George Gray R. M. Vera copia Now laying these few things together which yet are but a part of what I have to complain of let me appeale to your consciences as not long since I did at your open B●● whether Sir Arthur Haselrig and his under Commissioners or petty slaves in the Countrey have not dealt worse with us then ever wicked Ahab dealt with poor Naboth who scorned to take away his vineyard from him before he had proffered him a better for it or the value in money but Sir Arthur c. hath taken away our poffession by force and violence without so much as ever proffering us one peny of consideration therefore or ever so much as setting up a man of straw by way of title against us and hath dealt with us so that as I then told you so I aver now it had been a happiness for us when we fell into Sir Arthur's hands we had fallen into the hands of theeves and robbers upon the high way for then we could have raised the hue and cry after them and have had some sport at least for our money and goods or if it had been done in the day time we could at law have recovered our money of the Hundred where the robbery was committed whereas now God knows we are by Sir Arthur Strafford like expresly denied the benefit of the Law our inheritance and birthright and by you whom the Parliament hath appointed in all such cases as now I complain of to do us justice and right denied all the rules of justice conscience and equity and by you our blood-suck'd and exposed to pining by little and little and made by you ten times worse and not better by a constant attendance upon you for your Orders and then when they are got to ride above 200 miles to serve them in the Countrey and there dance attendance for their answers and then post up above 200. miles again to make Affidavit of the serving of them and then to wait upon you till your leisure pleaseth to vouchsafe to be told of your Under-Commissioners contempts of your publick Orders upon the private instructions you send them and then upon the motion to struggle for a new Order like horses in a mill you will just go round and give only in effect what was in the former after a moneths attendance to our vast expence and then make us stay a week or ten dayes sometimes before you will vouchsafe to set four of your hands to it some of your four selves having got a trick to carp and pick quarrels at any orders you like not though made according to the publick Vote that you are at the debate of yea somtimes when three hands are to an Order a fourth of you will except against it and make a new one to be drawn and then in case of rubs when it comes to be spoken unto an answer is ready that you are full of businesse and things must come in course and so there is delay upon delay ad insinitum by means of which your Court is become a greater torment and purgatory than the Pope's Nay this is not all for as I once averr'd at your Bar so I do the same now that by Sir Arthur's dealing so arbitrarily and tyrannically with us to rob us of our Lands Goods Estates and Inheritances at his will and pleasure he commits higher treason then Strafford did if destruction and levelling of properties subversion of laws and exercising of an arbitrary tyrannicall power be treason For alas poor Strafford did what he did to Richard Earl of Corck and to the Lord Mount Norris and to Thomas Lord Dillon and to Adam Viscount Loftus and to George Earl of Kildare c. in a Prerogative time when there was little hopes or expectation of seeing a Parliament to redresse the peoples grievances and yet for all that Strafford in those times did he had the then common received countenance of Authority viz. the Kings Commissions who was then commonly reputed and stiled the Fountain of Law and Justice But Sir Arthur Haslerig and his Associats hath destroyed and levelled our proprieties and in our case subverted the Laws and Liberties of Enland