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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88238	The prisoner's most mournful cry against the present oppression and tyranny that is exercised upon him. Or, An epistle written by John Lilburn Esq; prisoner in New-gate, July 1. 1653. unto the Right Honorable John Fowke Lord Maior of London.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Fowke, John, d. 1662.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2163; Thomason E703_12; ESTC R202743	3,711	7

The PRISONER's Most mournful Cry Against the present Oppression and Tyranny that is exercised upon him OR An EPISTLE written by John Lilburn Esq prisoner in New-gate July 1. 1653. Unto the Right Honorable John Fowke Lord Maior of London My Lord I Know you are a rational wise man endowed with a large stock of brains and understand very well the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of England for which many yeers ago you were a sufferer and I am confident you have not the least cause in the world to be personally my enemy for any unhandsomeness that ever I acted against you in particular in my life and all this that afternoon your Marshal brought me before you you acknowledged and confessed before a great many of my friends and further did declare freely and publikely unto all my friends upon my opening of Empson and Dudley's Case to you and the danger that might come unto your self in your apprehending me as a Felon and thereby endeavouring to destroy me upon an unjust injurious and illegal Act of Parliament that you were forced to do what you did to me for the saving your own head upon your own shoulders and as your seeming-justification produced me and suffered me to read the Generals and the Gentlemens sitting at White-hall commonly called the Councel of State 's Warrant and yet notwithstanding all that I said unto you against that unjust Act you committed me to prison and sent me so far on the way to my execution at Tyburn which you know very well I have born with patience and contentedness without much grumbling against you or any other that have been administrators in that Injustice Tyranny and Oppression that I now suffer and through the strength of the Almighty my never-failing Rock of salvation undergo with comfort and rejoycing My Lord you cannot but know because they are so publikely in Print all up and down the streets that I have presented upon the 14 16 and 20 of June last from my self three submissive fair sober modest and rational Petitions unto those Gentlemen sitting at Whitehal that have by their wills and pleasures assumed the present governing of the free Nation of England after they have destroyed and rooted up by the roots by their swords wills pleasures all the formal setled legal Power and Government of this ancient free Nation in which I have offered them so fair that it is impossible for any just man in the world to offer them fairer and my friends and many of the honest private Souldiers signed an honest and just Petition in my behalf which also was presented to them upon the said 20 of June last is now published also in Print But the answers unto all of them being nothing but an absolute Declaration from the greatest amongst them of their blood-thirsty pursuing my innocent life and blood and their endeavour with lyes and falshoods by gilded agents and instruments to fix the honest conscientious just and compassionate private Souldiers against me from Troop to Troop and Company to Company as my certain intelligence tells me that so they whom I never in the least wronged in my life might become desirous and sollicitous to have me cut off as a man that their great Officers would confidently make believe hath absolutely confederated combined and sworn unto the present King Charles commonly called King of Scots to come over into England to be his Agent to embroyl the Nation in Blood and War again and thereby to destroy not onely the General but all his Officers and Souldiers and by consequence the prosperity and tranquillity liberty and freedom of the Land of my nativity although I had rather be boyled alive in hot Lead then either directly or indirectly to have the least hand or finger in any such most unspeakably-mischievous designe the very thought of which my soul abhors and yet their great Officers are not ashamed as my intelligence tells me to aver They have Letters under my own hand fully to justifie all this against me In which regard I was unavoidably compelled and forced unless I would by my silence in a great measure be Fel● de se a betrayer of my own innocencie and an executor and destroyer of my own life and therefore did pen and cause to be printed An additional Appendix dated the 23 of June last to my first Address from Flanders of the 4 of May last to the General and his Councel of Officers in which I have in honesty truth and faithfulness answered particularly all their foresaid murdering calumniations against me And it seems other people at liberty being very sensible of their Fundamental Liberties very much encroached upon in the Tyranny at present exercised upon me have therefore penned two Books the one intituled A Jury-man's judgement upon the Case of Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburn and the other intituled Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburn's Plea in Law dated the 28 of June against an Act of Parliament of the 30 of January 1651. Of either of which Books if I should say I am the Author or Penman of them or either of them I should absolutely aver a lye But yet thus much I must say and avow it with my life That having read the books with seriousness and finding them so much tending to my advantage good and preservation and so neatly compiled upon the pure and clear Principles of the Fundamental Law of England and the unspotted and undefiled Law of Nature and Reason and the publishing of them so useful profitable and advantageous to all the honest and commonly called free-born people of England and in no sense hurtful to any unless it be those that already have or hereafter intend to assume to themselves an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Power to give a Law unto and to rule and govern the people of this ancient and renowned free Nation by their Lusts Wills and Pleasures In all which regards and considerations I have caused to be printed and paid with my own money for divers thousands of the foresaid books and to avoid the displeasure of your Marshal and his envious and mischievous catch-polls I have given many hundred of the said books and other papers freely and gratis away till the charge began to grow too heavy for my poor purse which hath had nothing in it for above this six months together a very few small tokens excepted but what I have been forced to borrow and I must avow that by reason of my present malicious and cruel sufferings it hath cost me already above forty pounds since I left Callis which yet was but upon Munday last was fourteen dayes in which regards and my own necessity I was forced and compelled to set a true friend or two at work and to enter into an ingagement to bear all the charges of any trouble they should come into to disperse amongst the people called Hawkers my foresaid books and papers that I justly and honestly paid for and which thereby are become as much my proper