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A88229	The out-cryes of oppressed commons. Directed to all the rationall and understanding men in the kingdome of England, and dominion of Wales, (that have not resolved with themselves to be vassells and slaves, unto the lusts and wills of tyrants.) Fron Lieut. Col. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, and Richard Overton, prerogative prisoner, in the infamous gaole of Newgate. Febr. 1647.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2150; Thomason E378_13; ESTC R201382	26,058	20

unreverend Dissembly of Divines that rob Iesus Christ of his honour and glory by jusling him out of his regalliry and Kingship given unto him by his Father and yet take oathes themselves and force other men to doe so too to maintaine the Lawe and liberties of the Kingdome and to set up and Ecclesiasticall Church government according to the word of God and yet set up nothing but a spirituall and temporall tyranny and with a high hand indeavour the destruction of every man that indeavours to keep them close to their violated oaths and Covenants therefore whatsoever the author of the forementioned discourse avers of a King when he seekes to governe according to his lawes the same doe we aver of a Parliament and Parliament-men that when they cease to execute the end of their trust which is as themselves say to provide for the peoples weales but not for their woes and doe meerly indeavour to make themselves tyrants over the people to governe them not by the established lawes but by their lusts and wills they doe thereby make the people their vassels and slaves as much as in them lyes and thereby disobleidge the people to obey stoop or submit to any of their commands but in the eye of God and all rationall men may as justly resist and withstand them and by force of Armes defend themselves against them as a company of forsworne men that have forfeited their Majesteriall trusts and are degenerated into the habits of tyrants as they withstood and by force of armes defended themselves against the King for the further proofe of which in the second place read their owne words 1. par b. dec pag. 150. which thus followes For it cannot be supposed that the Parliament would ever by Law intrust the King with the Militia against themselves or the Common wealth that intrusts them to provide for their weale not for their woe So that when there is certain appearance or grounded suspition that the letter of the law shall be improved against the equity of it that is the publique good whether of the body reall or representative then the commander going against its equity gives liberty to the commanded to refuse obedience to the letter for the Law taken a stract from its originall reason and end is made a shell without a kernell a shadow without a substance and a body without a soule It is the execution of Lawes according to their equity and reason which as I may say is the spirit that gives life to authority the letter kills Nor ne●d this equity be expressed in the law being so naturally implyed and supposed in all Lawes that are not meerly imperiall from that Anologie which all bodies politick hold with the naturall whence all government and governours borrow a proportionable respect and therefore when the Militia of an Army is committed to the Generall it is not with an expresse condition that he shall not turne the mouthes of his Cannons against his own Soldiers for that is so naturally and necessarily implyed that it is needlesse to be expressed in so much as if he did attempt or command such a thing against the nature of his trust and place it did ipso facto estate the Army in a right of disobedience except we thinke that obedience binds men to cut their owne throat or at least their companions We shall at present leave the application to them whom it most concernes and wait as patiently as we can to see the operation of it which if it be not according to our expectation we shall be necessicated to put some stronger pills into the next and so at present conclude and rest From our Prerogative Captivity for the Lawes and the publique liberties of all the Commons of England against the tyranny and usurpation of the House of Peers in the prisons of the Tower of London and Newgate this last of Februa 1647. Your faithfull and true Country-men though commonly by the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites of our present age called Heretiques and Schismatiques and Movers of sedition Iohn Lilburn Richard Overton The Publisher to the Reader Curteous Reader having here some spare roome I judge it convenient to fill it up with a notable petition delivered to the House of Commons the 1. of March 1646. by young men whose zeale and forwardnesse for their Countrys good may be a shame to all the old men in the City the Petition it selfe thus followeth To the High and Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in the supreame Court of Parliament Assembled The Petition of divers Young men and Apprentices of the City of London humbly Sheweth THat out of the grounded confidence we have of the readinesse of this Honourable House to heare and repaire the grievances of all those for whose well fare you were chosen and betrusted to take care and provide and being incouraged unto the same by severall good Ordinances and Declaration of your own to that purpose * * A Declaration May 19. 1642. Remonst may 26. 1642. We whose names are hereunto annexed although the meanest members of this great Common-wealth yet having by birth a right of subsistance here conceive our selves in our proportion to have as reall an interest in the Kingdomes inioyments as those who in respect of place or other accidents are above us As also many of us having under the direction of your Honourable grave Counsell and Guidance freely adventured our lives for the preservation of our Native Rights and the just Priviledges of our deare Country against the publique violaters of the same upon these and other serious grounds we are bold at this time to make our humble addresses to this Honourable and supream Court of Iudicature the only refuge under God we have to fly to And in the first place we cannot but with all thankefullnesse take notice of the unwearied paines together with many great and almost intolerable difficulties by you undergone in the faithfull discharge of your trust in bringing about the establishment of a well grounded peace The perfection of which in relation to the common enemie seems now by the blessing of God to bee brought neare to a wished period Yet the consummation of this work being as it were the Crowne of all our labours we humble conceive it may deservedly challenge from you a more then ordinary respect which we doubt not but that your grave wisedoms are very sencible of yet noble Senators let it seem no presumption if we your poor Petitioners in al humility make known the grounds of some feares and jealousies to us apparent in this particular And those are amongst other great grievances chiefly derived from the present sense we have of the too much prevalency of that party who have dealt in the late wars declared themselves disaffected to the peace and well-fare of the Kingdom who now seem to be in hopes of obtaining that by policie which they have not been able to doe by force Cunningly contriving

or appealed and their being no other due and legall way wherein they which are agrieved by them can seeke redresse yea in other of their Declarations they declare that is the liberty of the people in multitudes to come to the Parliament to deliver their Petitions and there day by day to waite for answers to them 1 part book decl pag. 123. 201. 202. 209 448. And there is not a little harmony betwixt these their Declarations and the antient and just Law of the Land as appeares by the statute of 36. E. 3. 10 which expresly saith th●t for maintenance of the law and redresse of divers mischiefes and grievances which dayly happen a Parliament shall be holden every yeare as another time was ordained by a statute of the 4. E 3. 14. yea saith learned Sir Edward Cooke in the 4 part of his in st●tutes chap. high Court of Parliament fo 11. One of the principall ends of calling of Parliaments is for the redresse of the mischiefes and grievances that dayly happen and therefore saith he Ibim the Parliament ought not to be ended while any Petition dependeth undiscussed or at least to which a determinate answer is not made but truly we are afraid that if this last rule should be observed this present Parliament must sit tell the day of judgement for we foe our particulars may truely say it is the furthest thing in their thoughts duly to redresse the grievances of the people for care they take none for any thing we can see but how to accomplish their owne pecuniary ends and to study wayes how to increase mischiefe and grievances and to involve the generallity of the people in an everlasting case of confusion by making their wills and lusts a law their envy and malice a law their coveteousnesse and ambition a law for we for our parts are necessitated to declare with anxiety of spirit that we can obtaine no justice nor right at their hands though we have long since appealed to them for it yet can we not obtain so much justice from them as to get our reports made in the House from their owne Committee they themselves appointed to examine our businesse neither can we so much as get our businesse publiquely debaited in the House because as it seemes they have no time to spare to spend to redresse the Commons grand grievances from their weighty Imployments in unjustly sharing vast sums of the Common wealths money among themselves although we have not ceased to use all the legall meanes that both our own braine and all the friends and interests we had about London could furnish us with and when they failed us God himselfe raised us up divers friends in the Country of our fellow Commons who made ou● oppressions their owne and of their selves before we know any thing were about framing a Petition in our behalfe which as soone as wee knew it we could not chuse but tooke upon it as to us in the nature of a resurrection from the dead who we have too iust cause to thinke were buried alive and swallowed up quick in the Canaball breasts and mans of the man eating and devouring House of Lords And therefore as Paul in the like case said in the 2 Tim. 1.16 17 18. The Lord g●ve mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chaine But when he was in Rome he sought me out very diligently and found me The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day Even so say we in the inlargednesse of our soules the Lord give mercy to the honest man-like and Saint like Inhabitants of Buckinghamshire and Harford shire for they have greatly and extraordinarily refreshed us and were not ashamed of our chaines and bonds for the libertys of their country and when they were in London sought us out very diligently and found us and not only so but the greatest part of ten thousand of them as we understand subscribed a petition for us to the House of Commons to desire them according to their duty to deliver us out of the devouring Paus of the tyrannicall House of Lords and to free us from their arbitrary and illegall power and divers hundreds of them at their owne costs and charges through much underhand opposition came to the Cities of London and Westminster about or upon the 10. Feb. 1646. But not finding speedy and free accesse to the House of Commons with their Petition according to their just expectation their owne primative practice and publiquely declared duty in which regard they left behind them 6. of themselves as Commissioners for all the rest to improve their utmost interests to get the Petition to be delivered and read in the House and gave unto them instructions in writing to explaine some things in the Petition in case they were called into the House and then to give a perfect account unto them what was done about their petition but their Commissioners waited with all deligence upon the House till the 17 or 18. of Feb. 1646. and improved as we credibly understand all their interests in all or the most of their own Knights and Burgesses c. but could not by all the meanes they could use get their Petition read in the House the reason of which we are not able to render unlesse it be that the peoples chosen trustees of the house of Commons are resolved to betray their trust and to sacrifice the lives liberties and proprieties of all the Commons of England to the mercilesse tyranny and barbarous cruelty of the House of Lords Oh Commons of England awake awake and looke seriously and carefully about you before you be made absolute vassells and slaves unto the lusts and wills of those that you have preserved alive with your blood and treasures from whom yee deserve better then you find or are likely to injoy The Lord grant unto the foresaid men of Buckingham-shire and Harfordshire that they may find mercy of the Lord in the day of their account and the Lord God grant that their spirits may not faint flag nor be weary but that they may reneue their strength double and trible their Petition and never give over till they have made them and their posterity free from the bondage of the Lords and shakt of all arbitrary power whatever And the Lord God of heaven raise up the spirit of all their fellow Commons in all the Countys of England to second them and joyne with them in that legall just and righteous worke they have begun and to glue their hearts and soules together as Jonathan and Davids was that they may never part nor be devided till they have accomplished their just enterprise and the good Lord require all their kindnesses and labour of love manifested unto us poor afflicted and distressed prisoners seven fold into their owne bosoms Amen Amen But now in regard our friends nor their Commissioners cannot get their Petition