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A manifestation from Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn, Mr. William Walwyn, Mr. Thomas Prince, and Mr. Richard Overton, (now prisioners in the Tovver of London) and others, commonly (though unjustly) styled Levellers : Intended for their fvll vindication from the many aspersions cast upon them, to render them odious to the world, and unserviceable to the Common-wealth. And to satisfie and ascertain all men whereunto all their motions and endeavours tend, and what is the ultimate scope of their engagement in the pvblick affairesLeave the NDL website. A new complaint of an old grievanceLeave the NDL website. L. Colonel John Lilbvrns apologetisch verhael, nopende d'onwettelijcke ende ongerechtige sententie vande verbeurte van 7000 poundt sterlinghs ond' eeuwigh bannissement, tegens hemgewesen onde over hemge-executeert door 't Parlement van Englandt in January 1652. = L. Colonel John Lilbvrne his apologetical narration, relateing to his illegal & unjust sentence of 7000 pounds fine & perpetuall banishment decreed & executed upon him by the present Parliament of England January 1651Leave the NDL website. A petition from His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax and the General Councel of officers of the Army, to the Honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, concerning the draught of an agreement of the people for a secure and present peace, by them framed and prepared : Together with the said agreement presented Saturday, Jan. 20. And a declaration of his Excellency and the said General Councel, concerning the same.Leave the NDL website. Truths victory over tyrants and tyranny : Being the tryall of that worthy assertor of his countreys freedoms, Lieftenant Colonell John Lilburne, defender of the ancient and known laws of England, against men and devills, whether in King, Parliament, Army, or Councell of state. Guild-hall London, Octob. 26. Freed in open court, from his unjust and illegall charge of high-treason, and cruell imprisonment in the Tower, by the unbyassed and just verdict of this jewry, whose names are here inserted; Miles Pettit, Holburn-Condu. Stephen Iles, Friday-street. Abraham Smith, Smithfield. John King Smithfield. Nicholas Murrin, Gosling-str. Thomas Daintie, Cheapside. Edmund Keysar, Holb-bridge Edward Perkins Smithfield. Ralph Packman, Smithfield. William Cummins, Cheap. Symon Weeden, Bredstr. Henry Tooley, Bredstreet. All good men and trueLeave the NDL website. A remonstrance sent from Colonell Lilburnes regiment to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax : wherein they declare their resolutions, to stand and fall with him; desiring his speedy endeavour for the setling of all mens interests in the kingdome, and freeing the kingdome from intolerable oppressions, and then to disbandLeave the NDL website. The lawes funerall. Or, An epistle written by Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn : prisoner in the Tower of London, unto a friend of his, giving him a large relation of his defence, made before the judges of the Kings bench, the 8. of May 1648. against both the illegall commitments of him by the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, ...Leave the NDL website. To the right honourable and supreme authority of this nation, the Commons in Parliament assembled : the humble petition of many thousands, earnestly desiring the glory of God, the freedome of the Common-wealth, and the peace of all menLeave the NDL website. To every individuall member of the supream authority of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England : The humble addresse of Lieu. Col. John Lilburn, by way of answer to a most false and scandalous printed petition, delivered at the House door against him, by one William Huntington, upon Wednesday the 26 of November. 1651Leave the NDL website. Strength out of vveaknesse. Or, The finall and absolute plea of Lieutenant-Col. John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, against the present ruling power siting at Westminster : Being an epistle writ by him, Sep. 30. 1649. to his much honored and highly esteemed friend, Master John Wood, ... whose names are subscribed Aug. 20. 1649. to that excellent peece, entituled The Levellers (falsly so called) vindicated; being the stated case of the late defeated Burford Troops. And to Charles Collins, ... whose names are subscribed, August 29. 1649. to that choicest of peeces, entituled An out-cry of the young-men and apprentices of London, after the lost fundamentall-lawes and liberties of England. Which said plea or epistle, doth principally contein the substance of a conference, betwixt Master Edmond Prideaux, the (falsly so called) Attorney-Generall, and Lievetenant-Colonell John Lilburne, upon Friday the 14 of September 1649. at the chamber of the said Mr. Prideaux, in the inner-temple ...Leave the NDL website. The copy of a letter, from Lieutenant Colonell John Lilbvrne, to a freindLeave the NDL website. The saints paradise : or, The Fathers teaching the only satisfaction to waiting souls. Wherein many experiences are recorded, for the comfort of such as are under spirituall burning. The inward testimony is the souls strength.Leave the NDL website. [Houses, upon the 26. of July last, by that rable of reformadoes, and of the Prentices set on and encouraged, by the known malignant-then-ruling-part of the city]Leave the NDL website. A declaration of Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburn to the free-born pcople of England : And his speech to the Parliament, on Tuesday last; in answer to the sentence denounced against him by Mr. Speaker, by speciall order and command together with his resolution (come life come death) not personally to yield active submission to the said sentence. And divers other remarkable things, worth the knowledge of all the free-men, not only of London, but of all England. Subscribed, John LilburnLeave the NDL website. The discoverer : VVherein is set forth (to undeceive the nation) the reall plots and stratagems of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, Mr. William Walwyn, Mr. Thomas Prince, Mr. Richard Overton, and that partie. And their severall seditious wayes and wiles a long time practised by them to accomplish and effect the same. Namely, under the pretence and colour of libertie, and to take off the burdens and grievances of the people, a most dangerous and destructive designe is carried on to deprive the nation of their religion, rights, liberties, proprieties, lawes, government, &c. and to bring a totall and universall ruine upon the land. And so much is here clearely proved. The first part.Leave the NDL website. A defiance to tyrants. Or, The araignment of two illegall committees. viz. The close committee of Lords and Commons appointed to examine the London agents. And the committee of plundered ministers. In two pleas made by L.C. Lilbvrne prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London. Wherein is clearely declared the unjustness, arbitrariness, and absolute unlawfulness of the late proceedings of that close committee of Lords and Commons against the said London agents. And also, proving all the proceedings of the committee of plundered ministers in summoning and imprisoning severall citizens of London, for refusing to pay tythes, to bee an absolute subversion of the fundamentall lawes of the land, and treason of as high a nature as any the Earle of Strafford lost his head for; they making their will a law unto the kingdome; there being no law at all in the Kingdome, whereby the London-Priests can claime tythes, or recover them from any of their parishonersLeave the NDL website. Papers of the Treatie, at a great meeting of the generall officers of the Army, at the head-quarters at Putney : in behalf of the whole kingdome of England, and concerning the Kings most excellent Majesty. With the severall speeches at the Councell-table, and His Majesties resolution concerning the Protestant profession, and liberty of conscienceLeave the NDL website. England's birth-right justified : against all arbitrary usurpation, whether regall or parliamentary, or under what vizor soever. With divers queries, observations and grievances of the people, declaring this Parliaments present proceedings to be directly contrary to those fundamentall principles, whereby their actions at first were justifyable against the King, in their present illegall dealings with those that have been their best friends, advancers and preservers: and in other things of high concernment to the freedom of all the free-born people of England; by a well-wisher to the just cause for which Lieutenant Col. John Lilbvrne is unjustly in-prisoned in New-gateLeave the NDL website. Englands weeping spectacle : or, The sad condition of Lievtenant Colonell John Lilburne : crying to all who have any conscience or compassion, for assistance and deliverance from his unjust, long and cruell sufferings. Wherein (as in a glasse) all Englishmen may see the slavish condition, unto which (after so much blood, time and treasure spent) they are yet by perfidious men (who vowed and promised to deliver them from all tyrannie and oppression) still most wofully subjectedLeave the NDL website. The breaking of the day of God : wherein, four things are manifested : I. That the two witnesses are not in killing, but in rising from death, II. The three daies and half, or 42. months of the saints captivity under the beast, very near expired, III. Christ hath begun to reign in his saints, and to tread their corrupt flesh under his feet, IIII. Christs dominion over the nations of the world, near the approachLeave the NDL website. An agreement of the free people of England : tendered as a peace-offering to this distressed nationLeave the NDL website. A pearle in a dovnghill. Or Lieu. Col. John Lilbvrne in New-gate : committed illegally by the House of Lords, first for refusing (according to his liberty) to answer interrogatories, but protesting against them as not being competent judges, and appealing to the House of Commons. Next, committed close prisoner for his just refusing to kneel at the House of Lords barreLeave the NDL website. Reasons against agreement with a late printed paper, intituled, Foundations of freedome: or, The agreement of the people : VVhereby it doth appear, that the particulars proposed in the said paper are not foundations of freedome, but of tyrannie and slaverie to the people; being destructive to religion, laws, liberty, and government; against our Covenant and protestations, and very dangerous and unsafe for the kingdom.Leave the NDL website. Col: Lilburnes letter to a friend : published to vindicate his aspersed reputation, Published by authorityLeave the NDL website. The prisoners plea for a habeas corpus, Or, An epistle writ by L.C. Joh. Lilburne prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London the 4. of Aprill, to the Honourable Mr. W. Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons : In which is fully proved, that the iudges are bound by law and their oaths to grant a habeas corpus to any prisoner ... and to deny it ... is to forsweare themselves, for which they may be in law indicted for perjury, and upon conviction, are for ever to be discharged of their office, service and councell. In which is also declared the usurpation of Mr. Oliver Crumwell, who hath forcibly usurped unto himselfe the office of L.G. in the Army, for almost 12. moneths together, and thereby hath robbed the kingdome of its treasure, under pretence of pay, which he hath no right nnto, and by the power of the said office hath tyrannized over the lives, liberties, and estates of the freemen of England ... all which John Lilburne will venture his life according to the law of the land to make good ...Leave the NDL website. Vox plebis, Or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny : Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies providedLeave the NDL website. Ionahs cry out of the whales belly, Or, Certaine epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne, unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell, and Mr. John Goodwin : complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster; and the unworrthy dealing of divers (of those with him that are called) his friends. ... To the man whom God hath honoured, and will further honour, if he continue honouring him, Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane, neare the red-Lion this presentLeave the NDL website. Proposalls from nine regiaments of horse, and seven regiaments of foot, for a modell of an agreement of the people for a firme and present peace, upon grounds of common-right and freedome : As it was proposed by the agents of the five regiaments of horse; to be offered to the joynt concurrence of all the free commons of England. And since adhered to by the generall approbation of the Army. Novemb. 4. 1647. Imprimatur G.MLeave the NDL website. The prisoners mournfull cry, against the Iudges of the Kings Bench, Or, An epistle writ by lievt. col. John Lilburne, prisoner in the tower of London, unto Mr. Iustice Roll : declaring the illegall dealing of himself, and Mr. Iustice Bacon with him, in reference to his habeas corpus. Vnto which is annexed his two petitions to the said Iudges, and the petitions of Mr. William Thompson, and Mr. Woodward &c. in which are contained a lash for Mr. Oliver Cromwell and other his spaniolised creatures. With divers other remarkable things worth publique viewLeave the NDL website. A speech spoken in the Honourable House of CommonsLeave the NDL website. For every individuall member of the honourable House of CommonsLeave the NDL website. To the Commons of England, assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the well-affected, in and about the City of London, Westminster, and parts adjacent : presenters, and approvers of the late petition of the 11. of September, &cLeave the NDL website. To the Right Honorable, the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of divers wel affected persons inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, the borough of Southwark, hamblets, and places adjacent : With the Parliaments answer thereuntoLeave the NDL website. A letter from Sir Arthur Hesilrige to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons : of a great victory obtained by the Parliaments forces in Northumberland, where were taken prisoners Colonel Grey, Sir Richard Tempest, commanders in chief, Sir Francis Ratcliff, Sir Gervas Lucas, and divers lieutenant colonels, and other officers and gentlemen of quality, above three hundred soldiers, and between five and six hundred horses, and many arms, as by the list bearing date 1. July, 1648, appeareth. Together with Colonel Lilburn's letter to Sir Arthur Hesilrige. 5 Julii, 1648. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters and list be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. ComLeave the NDL website. Several votes of the Commons assembled in Parliament : against certain papers delivered in to them in the name of all the freeborn people of England. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that these votes be forthwith printed and published. H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. ComLeave the NDL website. Foundations of freedom, or, An agreement of the people : proposed as a rule for future government in the establishment of a firm and lasting peace : drawn up by severall well-affected persons, and tendered to the consideration of the General Councell of the Army; and now offered to the consideration of all persons who are at liberty, by printing, or other wise, to give their reasons for, or against it : uunto which is annexed several grievances by some persons, offered to be inserted in the said agreement, but adjudged only necessary to be insisted on, as fit to be removed by the next repesentativesLeave the NDL website. Several proposals for peace & freedom, by an agreement of the people : offered unto Commissary General Ireton for the concurrence of the Army, by the approbation and consent of many worthy persons of the Common Councel and others of the city of London, on the eleventh of this instant December, to be agreed unto, and subscribed by all the inhabitants of England & VValesLeave the NDL website. To the honourable the commons of England assembled in Parliament : The humble petition of divers thousands wel-affected citizens, and others, in the behalf of Leiutenant Collonel John Lilburn, prisoner in the tower of London. Presented the first of August 1648, with above 10000 hands thereunto subscribed, unto which is annexed the answer of the House of CommonsLeave the NDL website. A seasonable discourse written by Mr. Iohn Dury upon the earnest requests of many, briefly shewing these particulars 1. What the grounds and method of our reformation ought to be in religion and learning. 2. How even in these times of distraction, the worke may be advanced. By the knowledge of Orientall tongues and Jewish mysteries. By an agency for advancement of universall learning. Published by Samuel Hartlib. Aprill 24. 1649. Imprimatur Joseph CarylLeave the NDL website. Animadversions upon Iohn Lilburnes two last books : the one intituled Londons liberty in chaines discovered. the other An anatomy of the Lords cruelty. Published according to orderLeave the NDL website. Gods blessing upon the providers of corne : and Gods curse upon the hoarders. Read, judge, and consider, Gods judgements by the Sword. Plague. Famine. Together with the corn imported into London Port in four moneths.Leave the NDL website. A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free-born people of England, to their owne House of Commons : Occasioned through the illegall and barbarous imprisonment of that famous and worthy sufferer for his countries freedoms, Lievtenant Col. John Lilburne. Wherein their just demands in behalfe of themselves and the whole kingdome, concerning their publike safety, peace and freedome, is express'd; calling those their commissioners in Parliament, to an account, how they (since the beginning of their session, to this present) have discharged their duties to the vniversallity of the people, their soveraigne lord, from whom their power and strength is derived, and by whom (ad bene placitum,) it is continuedLeave the NDL website. A revievv of a certain pamphlet under the name of one John LilbvrneLeave the NDL website. The state of the Kingdome represented to the people concerning the King, Parliament, Army, and the whole land : In a rejoynder, by way of animadversions upon the ansvver to the Agreement of the People. Written by William Ashhurst Esquire. January 23. 1648. Imprimatur Gilbert MabbottLeave the NDL website. Englands freedome, souldiers rights : vindicated against all arbitrary unjust invaders of them, and in particular against those new tyrants at Windsore, which would destroy both under the pretence of Marshall Law. Or, The just declaration, plea, and protestation of William Thompson, a free commoner of England, unjustly imprisoned at Windsore. Delivered to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and that which is called his Councell of Warre, the 14. of December, 1647. Unto which is annexed his letter to the Generall, wherein the said plea was inclosed. Also a petition to the rest of his fellow-prisoners to his ExcellencyLeave the NDL website. The mysterie of God, concerning the whole creation, mankinde : To be made known to every man and woman after seaven dispensations and seasons of time are passed over. According to the counsell of God, revealed to his servants.Leave the NDL website. Englands lamentable slaverie : proceeding from the arbitrarie will, severitie, and injustnes of kings, negligence, corruption, and unfaithfulnesse of parliaments, coveteousnesse, ambition. and variablenesse of priests, and simplicitie, carelesnesse, and cowardlinesse of people. Which slaverie, with the remedie may be easily observed. By the scope of a modest & smooth letter, written by a true lover of his countrey and a faithfull friend to that worthy instrument of Englands freedome, Lievten. Collonell Lilburn, now unjustlie imprisoned in Newgate. Being committed first, by order and vote of Parliament without cause shewed, and then secondly for refusing to answer upon interrogatories to their committee of examinations, contrarie to 1. The great charter of England. 2. The very words of the Petition of right. 3. The act made this present Parliament; for the abolishing the Star-Chamber. ...Leave the NDL website.

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A manifestation from Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn, Mr. William Walwyn, Mr. Thomas Prince, and Mr. Richard Overton, (now prisioners in the Tovver of London) and others, commonly (though unjustly) styled Levellers : Intended for their fvll vindication from the many aspersions cast upon them, to render them odious to the world, and unserviceable to the Common-wealth. And to satisfie and ascertain all men whereunto all their motions and endeavours tend, and what is the ultimate scope of their engagement in the pvblick affaires
A new complaint of an old grievance
L. Colonel John Lilbvrns apologetisch verhael, nopende d'onwettelijcke ende ongerechtige sententie vande verbeurte van 7000 poundt sterlinghs ond' eeuwigh bannissement, tegens hemgewesen onde over hemge-executeert door 't Parlement van Englandt in January 1652. = L. Colonel John Lilbvrne his apologetical narration, relateing to his illegal & unjust sentence of 7000 pounds fine & perpetuall banishment decreed & executed upon him by the present Parliament of England January 1651
A petition from His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax and the General Councel of officers of the Army, to the Honorable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, concerning the draught of an agreement of the people for a secure and present peace, by them framed and prepared : Together with the said agreement presented Saturday, Jan. 20. And a declaration of his Excellency and the said General Councel, concerning the same.
Truths victory over tyrants and tyranny : Being the tryall of that worthy assertor of his countreys freedoms, Lieftenant Colonell John Lilburne, defender of the ancient and known laws of England, against men and devills, whether in King, Parliament, Army, or Councell of state. Guild-hall London, Octob. 26. Freed in open court, from his unjust and illegall charge of high-treason, and cruell imprisonment in the Tower, by the unbyassed and just verdict of this jewry, whose names are here inserted; Miles Pettit, Holburn-Condu. Stephen Iles, Friday-street. Abraham Smith, Smithfield. John King Smithfield. Nicholas Murrin, Gosling-str. Thomas Daintie, Cheapside. Edmund Keysar, Holb-bridge Edward Perkins Smithfield. Ralph Packman, Smithfield. William Cummins, Cheap. Symon Weeden, Bredstr. Henry Tooley, Bredstreet. All good men and true
A remonstrance sent from Colonell Lilburnes regiment to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax : wherein they declare their resolutions, to stand and fall with him; desiring his speedy endeavour for the setling of all mens interests in the kingdome, and freeing the kingdome from intolerable oppressions, and then to disband
The lawes funerall. Or, An epistle written by Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn : prisoner in the Tower of London, unto a friend of his, giving him a large relation of his defence, made before the judges of the Kings bench, the 8. of May 1648. against both the illegall commitments of him by the House of Lords, and the House of Commons, ...
To the right honourable and supreme authority of this nation, the Commons in Parliament assembled : the humble petition of many thousands, earnestly desiring the glory of God, the freedome of the Common-wealth, and the peace of all men
To every individuall member of the supream authority of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England : The humble addresse of Lieu. Col. John Lilburn, by way of answer to a most false and scandalous printed petition, delivered at the House door against him, by one William Huntington, upon Wednesday the 26 of November. 1651
Strength out of vveaknesse. Or, The finall and absolute plea of Lieutenant-Col. John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, against the present ruling power siting at Westminster : Being an epistle writ by him, Sep. 30. 1649. to his much honored and highly esteemed friend, Master John Wood, ... whose names are subscribed Aug. 20. 1649. to that excellent peece, entituled The Levellers (falsly so called) vindicated; being the stated case of the late defeated Burford Troops. And to Charles Collins, ... whose names are subscribed, August 29. 1649. to that choicest of peeces, entituled An out-cry of the young-men and apprentices of London, after the lost fundamentall-lawes and liberties of England. Which said plea or epistle, doth principally contein the substance of a conference, betwixt Master Edmond Prideaux, the (falsly so called) Attorney-Generall, and Lievetenant-Colonell John Lilburne, upon Friday the 14 of September 1649. at the chamber of the said Mr. Prideaux, in the inner-temple ...
The copy of a letter, from Lieutenant Colonell John Lilbvrne, to a freind
The saints paradise : or, The Fathers teaching the only satisfaction to waiting souls. Wherein many experiences are recorded, for the comfort of such as are under spirituall burning. The inward testimony is the souls strength.
[Houses, upon the 26. of July last, by that rable of reformadoes, and of the Prentices set on and encouraged, by the known malignant-then-ruling-part of the city]
A declaration of Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburn to the free-born pcople of England : And his speech to the Parliament, on Tuesday last; in answer to the sentence denounced against him by Mr. Speaker, by speciall order and command together with his resolution (come life come death) not personally to yield active submission to the said sentence. And divers other remarkable things, worth the knowledge of all the free-men, not only of London, but of all England. Subscribed, John Lilburn
The discoverer : VVherein is set forth (to undeceive the nation) the reall plots and stratagems of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, Mr. William Walwyn, Mr. Thomas Prince, Mr. Richard Overton, and that partie. And their severall seditious wayes and wiles a long time practised by them to accomplish and effect the same. Namely, under the pretence and colour of libertie, and to take off the burdens and grievances of the people, a most dangerous and destructive designe is carried on to deprive the nation of their religion, rights, liberties, proprieties, lawes, government, &c. and to bring a totall and universall ruine upon the land. And so much is here clearely proved. The first part.
A defiance to tyrants. Or, The araignment of two illegall committees. viz. The close committee of Lords and Commons appointed to examine the London agents. And the committee of plundered ministers. In two pleas made by L.C. Lilbvrne prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London. Wherein is clearely declared the unjustness, arbitrariness, and absolute unlawfulness of the late proceedings of that close committee of Lords and Commons against the said London agents. And also, proving all the proceedings of the committee of plundered ministers in summoning and imprisoning severall citizens of London, for refusing to pay tythes, to bee an absolute subversion of the fundamentall lawes of the land, and treason of as high a nature as any the Earle of Strafford lost his head for; they making their will a law unto the kingdome; there being no law at all in the Kingdome, whereby the London-Priests can claime tythes, or recover them from any of their parishoners
Papers of the Treatie, at a great meeting of the generall officers of the Army, at the head-quarters at Putney : in behalf of the whole kingdome of England, and concerning the Kings most excellent Majesty. With the severall speeches at the Councell-table, and His Majesties resolution concerning the Protestant profession, and liberty of conscience
England's birth-right justified : against all arbitrary usurpation, whether regall or parliamentary, or under what vizor soever. With divers queries, observations and grievances of the people, declaring this Parliaments present proceedings to be directly contrary to those fundamentall principles, whereby their actions at first were justifyable against the King, in their present illegall dealings with those that have been their best friends, advancers and preservers: and in other things of high concernment to the freedom of all the free-born people of England; by a well-wisher to the just cause for which Lieutenant Col. John Lilbvrne is unjustly in-prisoned in New-gate
Englands weeping spectacle : or, The sad condition of Lievtenant Colonell John Lilburne : crying to all who have any conscience or compassion, for assistance and deliverance from his unjust, long and cruell sufferings. Wherein (as in a glasse) all Englishmen may see the slavish condition, unto which (after so much blood, time and treasure spent) they are yet by perfidious men (who vowed and promised to deliver them from all tyrannie and oppression) still most wofully subjected
The breaking of the day of God : wherein, four things are manifested : I. That the two witnesses are not in killing, but in rising from death, II. The three daies and half, or 42. months of the saints captivity under the beast, very near expired, III. Christ hath begun to reign in his saints, and to tread their corrupt flesh under his feet, IIII. Christs dominion over the nations of the world, near the approach
An agreement of the free people of England : tendered as a peace-offering to this distressed nation
A pearle in a dovnghill. Or Lieu. Col. John Lilbvrne in New-gate : committed illegally by the House of Lords, first for refusing (according to his liberty) to answer interrogatories, but protesting against them as not being competent judges, and appealing to the House of Commons. Next, committed close prisoner for his just refusing to kneel at the House of Lords barre
Reasons against agreement with a late printed paper, intituled, Foundations of freedome: or, The agreement of the people : VVhereby it doth appear, that the particulars proposed in the said paper are not foundations of freedome, but of tyrannie and slaverie to the people; being destructive to religion, laws, liberty, and government; against our Covenant and protestations, and very dangerous and unsafe for the kingdom.
Col: Lilburnes letter to a friend : published to vindicate his aspersed reputation, Published by authority
The prisoners plea for a habeas corpus, Or, An epistle writ by L.C. Joh. Lilburne prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London the 4. of Aprill, to the Honourable Mr. W. Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons : In which is fully proved, that the iudges are bound by law and their oaths to grant a habeas corpus to any prisoner ... and to deny it ... is to forsweare themselves, for which they may be in law indicted for perjury, and upon conviction, are for ever to be discharged of their office, service and councell. In which is also declared the usurpation of Mr. Oliver Crumwell, who hath forcibly usurped unto himselfe the office of L.G. in the Army, for almost 12. moneths together, and thereby hath robbed the kingdome of its treasure, under pretence of pay, which he hath no right nnto, and by the power of the said office hath tyrannized over the lives, liberties, and estates of the freemen of England ... all which John Lilburne will venture his life according to the law of the land to make good ...
Vox plebis, Or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny : Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided
Ionahs cry out of the whales belly, Or, Certaine epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne, unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell, and Mr. John Goodwin : complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster; and the unworrthy dealing of divers (of those with him that are called) his friends. ... To the man whom God hath honoured, and will further honour, if he continue honouring him, Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane, neare the red-Lion this present
Proposalls from nine regiaments of horse, and seven regiaments of foot, for a modell of an agreement of the people for a firme and present peace, upon grounds of common-right and freedome : As it was proposed by the agents of the five regiaments of horse; to be offered to the joynt concurrence of all the free commons of England. And since adhered to by the generall approbation of the Army. Novemb. 4. 1647. Imprimatur G.M
The prisoners mournfull cry, against the Iudges of the Kings Bench, Or, An epistle writ by lievt. col. John Lilburne, prisoner in the tower of London, unto Mr. Iustice Roll : declaring the illegall dealing of himself, and Mr. Iustice Bacon with him, in reference to his habeas corpus. Vnto which is annexed his two petitions to the said Iudges, and the petitions of Mr. William Thompson, and Mr. Woodward &c. in which are contained a lash for Mr. Oliver Cromwell and other his spaniolised creatures. With divers other remarkable things worth publique view
A speech spoken in the Honourable House of Commons
For every individuall member of the honourable House of Commons
To the Commons of England, assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of the well-affected, in and about the City of London, Westminster, and parts adjacent : presenters, and approvers of the late petition of the 11. of September, &c
To the Right Honorable, the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of divers wel affected persons inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, the borough of Southwark, hamblets, and places adjacent : With the Parliaments answer thereunto
A letter from Sir Arthur Hesilrige to the Honorable William Lenthal Esq; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons : of a great victory obtained by the Parliaments forces in Northumberland, where were taken prisoners Colonel Grey, Sir Richard Tempest, commanders in chief, Sir Francis Ratcliff, Sir Gervas Lucas, and divers lieutenant colonels, and other officers and gentlemen of quality, above three hundred soldiers, and between five and six hundred horses, and many arms, as by the list bearing date 1. July, 1648, appeareth. Together with Colonel Lilburn's letter to Sir Arthur Hesilrige. 5 Julii, 1648. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these letters and list be forthwith printed and published. H: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com
Several votes of the Commons assembled in Parliament : against certain papers delivered in to them in the name of all the freeborn people of England. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that these votes be forthwith printed and published. H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com
Foundations of freedom, or, An agreement of the people : proposed as a rule for future government in the establishment of a firm and lasting peace : drawn up by severall well-affected persons, and tendered to the consideration of the General Councell of the Army; and now offered to the consideration of all persons who are at liberty, by printing, or other wise, to give their reasons for, or against it : uunto which is annexed several grievances by some persons, offered to be inserted in the said agreement, but adjudged only necessary to be insisted on, as fit to be removed by the next repesentatives
Several proposals for peace & freedom, by an agreement of the people : offered unto Commissary General Ireton for the concurrence of the Army, by the approbation and consent of many worthy persons of the Common Councel and others of the city of London, on the eleventh of this instant December, to be agreed unto, and subscribed by all the inhabitants of England & VVales
To the honourable the commons of England assembled in Parliament : The humble petition of divers thousands wel-affected citizens, and others, in the behalf of Leiutenant Collonel John Lilburn, prisoner in the tower of London. Presented the first of August 1648, with above 10000 hands thereunto subscribed, unto which is annexed the answer of the House of Commons
A seasonable discourse written by Mr. Iohn Dury upon the earnest requests of many, briefly shewing these particulars 1. What the grounds and method of our reformation ought to be in religion and learning. 2. How even in these times of distraction, the worke may be advanced. By the knowledge of Orientall tongues and Jewish mysteries. By an agency for advancement of universall learning. Published by Samuel Hartlib. Aprill 24. 1649. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl
Animadversions upon Iohn Lilburnes two last books : the one intituled Londons liberty in chaines discovered. the other An anatomy of the Lords cruelty. Published according to order
Gods blessing upon the providers of corne : and Gods curse upon the hoarders. Read, judge, and consider, Gods judgements by the Sword. Plague. Famine. Together with the corn imported into London Port in four moneths.
A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free-born people of England, to their owne House of Commons : Occasioned through the illegall and barbarous imprisonment of that famous and worthy sufferer for his countries freedoms, Lievtenant Col. John Lilburne. Wherein their just demands in behalfe of themselves and the whole kingdome, concerning their publike safety, peace and freedome, is express'd; calling those their commissioners in Parliament, to an account, how they (since the beginning of their session, to this present) have discharged their duties to the vniversallity of the people, their soveraigne lord, from whom their power and strength is derived, and by whom (ad bene placitum,) it is continued
A revievv of a certain pamphlet under the name of one John Lilbvrne
The state of the Kingdome represented to the people concerning the King, Parliament, Army, and the whole land : In a rejoynder, by way of animadversions upon the ansvver to the Agreement of the People. Written by William Ashhurst Esquire. January 23. 1648. Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbott
Englands freedome, souldiers rights : vindicated against all arbitrary unjust invaders of them, and in particular against those new tyrants at Windsore, which would destroy both under the pretence of Marshall Law. Or, The just declaration, plea, and protestation of William Thompson, a free commoner of England, unjustly imprisoned at Windsore. Delivered to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and that which is called his Councell of Warre, the 14. of December, 1647. Unto which is annexed his letter to the Generall, wherein the said plea was inclosed. Also a petition to the rest of his fellow-prisoners to his Excellency
The mysterie of God, concerning the whole creation, mankinde : To be made known to every man and woman after seaven dispensations and seasons of time are passed over. According to the counsell of God, revealed to his servants.
Englands lamentable slaverie : proceeding from the arbitrarie will, severitie, and injustnes of kings, negligence, corruption, and unfaithfulnesse of parliaments, coveteousnesse, ambition. and variablenesse of priests, and simplicitie, carelesnesse, and cowardlinesse of people. Which slaverie, with the remedie may be easily observed. By the scope of a modest & smooth letter, written by a true lover of his countrey and a faithfull friend to that worthy instrument of Englands freedome, Lievten. Collonell Lilburn, now unjustlie imprisoned in Newgate. Being committed first, by order and vote of Parliament without cause shewed, and then secondly for refusing to answer upon interrogatories to their committee of examinations, contrarie to 1. The great charter of England. 2. The very words of the Petition of right. 3. The act made this present Parliament; for the abolishing the Star-Chamber. ...