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A88191	The additionall plea of Lievt. Col. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, the 28. of October, 1647. Which he sent unto the committee of the House of Commons, where Mr. Iohn Maynard the lawyer hath the chaire, with a letter, which letter thus followeth.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2112A; Thomason E412_11; ESTC R30993	8,129	8

The additionall Plea of Lievt Col. Iohn Lilburne prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London the 28. of October 1647. which he sent unto the Committee of the House of Commons where Mr. Iohn Maynard the Lawyer hath the Chaire with a letter which letter thus followeth To his honoured friend Mr. Iohn Maynard Chairman to the Committee for revuing of Lievt Col. Iohn Lilburnes businesse against the Lords at his Chamber in the Temple or at the House of Common this deliver with speed Mr. Maynard J Cannot but in civility returne you many thankes for your readinesse and freenesse to heare me at large make my grand Plea against the Lords unto you upon Wednesday the 20. present hoping upon Tuesday last according to your own Order I should have been heard out to have said unto you what I had behind and so have left it to your judgements and consciences what to have reported to your house but truly Sir the Committees not comming together I looke not upon as an accident but a reall designe upon me that so J should not have a period put to my busines about the Lords for which I have almost to my utter ruine waited upon you about 17. months nor reap no present benefit for all my most barbarous sufferings from the Bishops and the Star Chamber for which I have earnestly followed you for iustice and right now almost full seaven yeares to the expence of many hundred pounds and that upon the motion of Mr. Henry Martin in your House this day for the further and effectuall ordering of a speedy care to bee taken to put a period to my long since just Appeale the tryall of which you have so often taken upon you that you now cannot well evade the iudging of it tooke no effect at all which I also look upon as a meere designe of the Lords sons and Lords would be in your house with the powerfull influence of my grand adversaries the grandees of the Army that have of late eagerly and visibly for my honesty sought my ruine And truly Sir being that I have not a penny inheritance in all the world nor any trade agoing to bring me in a penny to buy me bread nor a penny allowed me either from you or the Lords to buy me food and all my friends strongly indeavoured to be scared away from me by the strictnesse of the present Lievt of the Tower the meere creature of my now grand adversarie Lievt G. Cromwell in causing all their names at the gate to be taken that come to see me contraoy to all law reason equity iustice and conscience in which condition if I continue a little longer I must of necessity perish And therefore that I may not be guilty of my own ruine by any delay on my part I have inclosedly sent you my additionall Plea under my hand and seale which on Tuesday if the Committee had sate J intended to have delivered both by word of mouth and writing unto you as the conclusion of all I have to say against the Lords unlesse they give in an answer and now I earnestly desire you to call your Committee together and trouble your selves no further to send for me but draw your conclusions of the whole matter as it is before you and then I intreat you without any further delay to quit your hands of it by making a speedie report to your house that so I may by your long expected iustice be preserved from a speedie and unavoidable ruine which I cannot willingly suffer to come upon me without the attempting of the effectuallest meanes that reason and compeld necessitie can dictate unto me for my preservation though I run the hazzard of being cut in ten thousand pieces thereby and if J perish the ruine and blood of me and mine must be both by God and man requied of your adomant and flinty hearted house Sir this I have writ unto you on purpose to communicate it to your house before I print it as my last in tended addresses to leave both you and them before God and the whole world without excuse so with my service presented unto you I commit you to God and rest From my most illegall Captivitie in the Tower of London this 28. of October 1647. Sir your true friend to serve you if you will effectually acquit your selfe as a true servant of the Common wealth that dare attempt the effecting of the the desperatest designe in the world that appeares to his understanding iust and honest if compeld thereunto by necessitie John Lilburne The Plea it selfe thus foloweth And now Sir I desire to speake a few words to that which I have conceived as essential to my good benefit as any thing that yet I have said that is this in some of my late letters to M. Martin I have declared that I cannot own the iudgment of the present mixed house of Cōmons being compounded of two Anty-parties the one of which must of necessitie upon their own publique declared principles be guilty of the highest of crimes upon which some of the active agents of my close and heavie adversaries of the Army have taken occasion thereby to doe the utmost they can to blast my reputation indeavouring to make honest consciencious men in London beleeve and report me to be a man fallen from the principles I formerly went upon and from the Parliament and the interest of the Commons of England and am totally become a Gavialeere and soly captivated or degenerated to their principles and interest and act what they in their desparate Councells put me upon when they have distempered me with drinke c. And at the Head quarters and in other quarters of the Army I am by the foresaid wicked and Lordly agents rendred a man that would distroy the King and kingly government the Parliament and most of the chiefe men in the Army and that I am the head and chiefe of a generation or faction of men that are altogether for Anarchy and confusion and would have no government at all in the Kingdome but have every man to doe what he list and have all things common and so distroy all law and property and that I might have my liberty and freedome if I would which say they I have by all the wayes and meanes I could invent declined being a gainer by my imprisonment and fully hearing of these things and how dissignedly maliciously lyingly and confidently from one company to another they were blasted abroad by the Agents and instruments of no meane ones And although my principles and the constant visible and publique Declarations thereof fully declares as my late Plea before you also witnesseth that I am for meum tuum liberty and property continually professing that I had rather live under a very harsh law whereby I may know by what rule to walke then live under the moderatest arbitrary government in the world begun to be exercised by the godlyest justest or choisest men that

judgment concience of the final judgment and determination of the present mixed house of Commons I do here before you all freely voluntaryly declare I am willing to doe it and in testimony whereof I give it you under my hand and seale and desire you that upon all that this day and upon Wednesday last I have said and declared to you that you would immediately consult amongst your selves and give your sense and opinions as farre in it as your present power will inable you and thereupon withall speed make your report unto the House that so without any more delay I may receive their long expected judgement and finall determination and so I leave you desiring the Lord to direct you now at last to acquit your selves towards me and the kingdome like men of honestie and honour and so rest yours in your faithfull serving of the kingdome Tuesday this 26. October 1647. Iohn Lilburne I cannot but acquaint the Reader that a grand objection against me wherfore I should not have my liberty and justice is because if I were at liberty it is said I would goe down to the Army and make new hurly bulyes there but to take of this ungrounded fallacy and falsehood I proferred Lievt Gen. Cromwell face to face in the Tower the begining of September last that I was so far from intending to trouble either the Armie Parliament or Kingdom that upon that condition the house of Commons would forthwith doe me but a reasonable proportion of justice I would imediately leave the Kingdome and voluntarily ingage not to come into it againe so long as the present troubles lasted And for a prevention of any clashing betwixt the present Lords and Commons about me in regard he apprehended it of extraordinary prejudice to the kingdom I proferred him so my Appeale might be adiudged by the House of Commons and the kingdomes liberties secured for future against the Lords usurpations out of that affection I beare to the peace and quietnesse of my native Country I would willingly wave all things concerning my particular individuall selfe in reference to the present House of Peers illegall and tyrannicall dealing with me till the next Parliament and if that never came I would never seeke for reparations of them nor from them And I had then divers very faire promises from him but I never injoyed from him the least performance in the world although my businesse was moved in the house by Col. Henry Martin the next day being Tuesday after my discourse with L. G. Cromwell but nothing was done in it although L. G. Cromwell was then sitting in the House and although it was 14. dayes before by speciall order of the House ordered to be debated that day the next being Tuesday Mr. Martin moved it again and then it was put of till Friday after upon which day Mr. Martin moved it again but it was put of till Tuesday and upon Tuesday it was reported to the Hous but nothing was don then in it saving to turne it back to the Committee there to be delayed 15. moneths longer and power given them to search for presidents for no other end as I conceive but to see whether the Lords iniustice to me could not easily be iustified by their former iniustice to others and so because to severall men they have done iniustice their tyrannicall illegall dealings towards me must passe for good law and with much adoe that day my wife in the afternoone got the Committee together where Mr. Knightly as I was inform'd plaid the learned Procter for the Lords and L. G Cromwell came not very short of him for though it were to grosse for him especially having been such a grand Antagonist to the Lords to plead down right for the Lords and their apparent incroachments upon the Commons rights yet as very good intilligence tells me he made a zealous and earnest motion that because the cause was so knotty and of so great concernment that they might get a company of Lawyers in their House to debate it pro and con although he himselfe last yeare being one of my Committtee and often times at it when I was before them declared himselfe them as free from scruples that by law the Lords had no jurisdiction at all over me in the case in controversie as Mr. Henry Martin did but the wind being now changed and the Lords being now become his white boyes he must become their faithful servant against his own interest as a Commoner yea his conscience the interest of al the Commons of Eng of which when I heard my soule was in an agony and perplexity that I should be so dealt with by him that originally brought me into my contest with the Lords and who but the other day had promised me face to face so fairly And looking upon this motion of his as divellish and mischievous a motion as ever was made against me by any of my adversaries for having writ so bitterly against the Lawyers corruptions as I had done and especially against those of the House of Commons for pleading causes at inferior bars before Judges of their own making and so out of feare over awing them and thereby as it were compelling them to doe injustice for feare of loosing their favour who are able to turne them out of their places I therefore iudged it impossible by all the interest I had in the world in half seaven yeares to get a company of Lawyers of the House of Commons to come to a Committee to doe me or my present cause a curtesie and this is all the good I have received by L. G. Cromwells serious promises made to me in the Tower saving his deare and bosome friend and creature stout and valiant Nathaniell Fines made I will not say as the mouth of L. G Cromwell as I am from good hands told a most fiery fierce and bitter speech against me and my cause in the open house of Commons Whereupon my pen and tongue hath been very free since in discovering L G. Cromwells Hocus Pocus dealing with me and the Kingdome who appeares to be one of the notablest Juglers that ever I was familiar wchih in the kingdom with freenesse giving no small distast to some of my neare friends who comming to see me fell upon mee soundly told me I would not only undo my self but all that had any relatition unto me or familiarity with me and pressed me to doe something that was reasonable and moderate to get my liberty assuring me that if I would doe so and so he knew I might have my liberty c. whereupon I drew him up these following lines which pleased him very well For my perticular in England were I at liberty I could not live to follow any imployment except Oathes or Tithes were abolished for either J must follow my traid which heare I cannot doe without taking oathes which I cannot take or else I must live in the Country and there I neither can nor would pay Tythes in which regard if I were at liberty I must of necessity go beyond seas and doe hereby promise that upon that condition the house of Commons will passe their judgement upon my protest against the Lords and my Appeale to them for justice and protection and evacuate and annihilate my sentence and immediatly helpe me to the 2000 l. the Lords adjudged me from my Starchamber Iudges and give me but in ready money one halfe of my Arrers for the whole being about 6. or 700. l. audited before a Committee of their own house and I will imediatly lay out my money in cloath or other commodities and if I can passe with them I will forthwith leave the Kingdome to which I will promise without licence I will not returne for the space of 12. moneths after the receipt of the money and so shall leave this Parliament to the management of their own affairs amongst themselves witnesse my hand and seale this sixt of October 1647. John Lilburne But in stead of obtaining my liberty c. hereby as I was confidently made believe I should this my own moderate faire proffer served my adversaries to no other end but to upbraid and calumniate me behind my back though made by their own procurement and to render me contemptible as a man that neither cared for England nor the liberties thereof but meerly and only sought for my money and my own ends whose jugling dealing with me I shall more largely in some marginall notes c. discover when I print my letter to suttle Mr. Allen the Agitator which by Gods assistance shall speedily follow and then my Appeale next to that wherein I shall cry out aloud murther oppression and cruelty to the whole kingdom and with strong cryes presse all that have honest english hearts vigarously to presse the house of Commons to judge my Appeale which I judge is now hindred by the grandees of the Army who I may say are body and soule the Lords creatures and as great lovers of tyranny oppression injustice and dissimulation as they and so I rest John Lilburn that neither loves basenesse nor feares greatnes FINIS