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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

the Tower from St. Albans immediatly after the solemn ingagement was made complaining that Cromwel Ireton c. one of which two pen'd this engagement would needs 〈◊〉 by force and frowns totally break and dissolve it of which baseness though then we we●e not visibly faln out I told Cromwel very freely and plainly of as appears by my Letters to him of the 22 of June 1647 and the 1 of July 1647. and in my Advise to the Adiutators of the 16 of July 1647. All which I caused immediatly after to be Printed in my Book called Jonahs cries out of the ●hales belly and the like in my little Book called the Jugl●rs D●scovered and I am sure it was August following when the Armies Head quarters were at Kingston where Cromwel b●gun to be afraid of the Adiutators apprehending his underhand and night Juglings with the King to make himself able like cardinal Woolsey to say I and my K●ng which he was afraid the Adiutators should take too much notice of although long before their power and authority was destroyed and therefore was not willing they should at all remain or lodge at the Head-quarters although Crumwel had weeks and some moneths before designedly and of set purpose with all his power and interest walked in a continual breaking and trampling the engagement under his feet and therefore about that time he and his agents set that Petition a foot to rid the Head quarters of the Adiutators that they might not so much as see his baseness but alas that Petition could not null and destroy that that was broken nuld in efficacy and power annihilated long before but yet I could not for all this ever hear that Petition was one tenth part so formall as they report it to be But from what hath been already said and in time will speedily be declared it is evident that the General and the Officers at St. Albans broke their solemn engagement with their Souldiers and the Kingdom immediatly after it was mad● and tyrannicall and treacherously invaded their Rights and Freedoms which bred heart-burnings and those divisions which the publique enemy so called took the advantage of and so came on the wars God ever after their abominable and villanous appostacy filling their hands with troubles and confusions besides loss of reputation and good name upon whose score alone lies the true guilt of all the blood-shed in the last years war and of all the miseries that since have befaln Ireland * Which they might easily have relieved if they had pleased with those forces they disbanded in several places of the Nation immediately after the making the foresaid Engagement or with those twenty they the last Spring disbanded out of every Troop and Company Part of which in discontent at their base using of them run to La●ghorn and Poyer and others to Goring Cavel and others to Sir Marmaduke La●gdale and the Scots but Cromwel it seems was resolved then That no forces should go to relieve Ireland till he went with them with an absolute Commission to be King of Ireland Which Commission though he hath got yet he may fail of his expected Town both there and elsewhere and this year again is likely by forraign invasions of strange Nations and by intestine broyles to befall England and therefore if you love the Lord Fairfax tell him that though people at the present deal by him and Cromwel c. as the Parliament used to do with the King laying all the evill of his actions upon his evill Councellors yet he and his Officers in their Remonstrance from St Albons 16. of November 1648. say That the King himself is the reall Fountain and true originall from whom principally all that mischief hath issued that of late in his Raign hath befaln the Kingdom being himself the principall Author and causer of the first and second War and thereby guilty of all the innocent blood spilt therein and of all the evils hapning thereby pag. 17. 19. 23. 24. 61. 62 64. whos 's one example in doing Justice upon to future Generations would be of more terror and avail then the execution of his whole party pag. 47. 48. It being as they say a most unjust and unconscionable thing to punish inferior Ministers the accessories and let the King the principall go free pag. 50. Even so though most men now lay the blame of all the Armies apostacy baseness perfidiousness and treachery upon Cromwel and Ireton as the Generals evil Councellors yet they his Screen betwixt him and the peoples wrath being gone from him towards Ireland he will now appear nakedly and singly to be as he is in himself and let him take heed lest from his by-past constant signing assenting to approving of and acting in all their perfidiousness treachery and baseness with his present carriage now he stands as it were a Noun Substantive upon his own legs and may now most gloriously act honestly and justly if he please without their controul or any others and so regain his lost credit and reputation if wickedness and baseness be not as largely inherent in his heart as it is in either Cromwels or Iretons I say let him take heed from all his actings the knowing and seeing people do not justly conclude him to be the principal Author and causer of all their miseries distresses and woes and so in time serve him as he hath served the King and only put Cromwel Ireton Ha●●●rig Bradshaw Harrison c. in Hambletons Hollands Capels Gorings and Owens places as but accessories or dependants upon Fairfax the principall But my true friends I shall hear take upon me the boldness in regard of the great distractions of the present times to give a little further advice to you from whose company or society or from some of them hath begun and issued out the most transcendent cl●ar rational and just things for the peoples Liberties and Freedoms that I have seen or read in this Nation as your notable and excellent Petition of May 20 1647. burnt by the hands of the common Hangman Recorded in my Book called Rash Oaths unwarrantable pag. 29 30 31 32 33 34 35. with divers others Petitions of that nature and the Petition of the 19 of Jan. 1647. Recorded in the following discourse pag. 45 46 47 48 c. and the masculine Petition of the 11. of Sept 1648. so much owned by Petitions out of severall Counties yea and by the Officers of the Armies large Remonstrance from St Albans of the 16. Novemb. 1648. pag 67 68 69. The substance of all which I conceive is contained in the Printed sheet of paper signed by my fellow prisoners Mr. Will. Walwin Mr. Tho Prince Mr. Rich. Ov●rton and my self dated the 1. of May. 1649. and intituled An Agreement of the free people of England c. The principles of which I hope and desire you will make the final Center unwavering Standard of all your desires hazards and indeavors as to the future