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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88214	A letter of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburns, written to Mr. John Price of Colemanstreet London, (and a member of Mr. John Goodwins congregation) the 31. of March 1651. about the harsh and unequal dealing that his unckle Mr. George Lilburn, and several others of his family findes from the hands of Sir Arthur Haslerig. Unto which is annexed Mr. John Price his answer thereunto.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Price, John, Citizen of London.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2133; Thomason E626_19; ESTC R206552	8,487	12

A LETTER OF Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburns written to Mr. John Price of Colemanstreet London and a Member of Mr. John Goodwins Congregation the 31. of March 1651. about the harsh and unequal dealing that his Unckle Mr. George Lilburn and several others of his Family findes from the hands of Sir ARTHUR HASLERIG Unto which is annexed Mr. John Price his Answer thereunto Mr. Price HAving for some certain weeks by past been out of the City in the North at my coming home I met with a reproachful caluminons pamphlet without any Authours name to it entituled Musgrave muzled or The mouth of Iniquity stopped Printed by John Meacock of London and inquiring as diligently after the Authour of it as posibly I can I am confidently informed that it came to the Presse in your handwriting that your self in person were at the Printing house to look after the correcting of it and that you are the Authour of it And finding my self and some of my night relations somewhat d●eply concerned in it I have been at some pains in the perusal of it and it may be have some thoughts to deale with it as it deserves but least any reflexion upon slender grounds should be upon you I judged it but the part of a man that hath but either a gra●● of honesty or a dram of metall in him to write these few lines unto you and to desire of you if you please within 3. dayes after the date hereof to let me receive 2 or 3 lines from you for the disavowing of it to be yours or else in the failer thereof I shall take it for granted it is yours and further if you own it to avoid any further paper jangling I shall if you please give you a meeting face to face with a few friends of yours and mine where I doubt not but in every circumstance fully to clear up unto you that my Father Mr. Richard Lilburn and my Uncle Mr. George Lilburn have been as faithful Servants hearty as zealous and as honest unto the Parliament of England and the true interest of the Nation of England both before the warrs in the Kings prerogative time and from the first day of the late warres to this very hour as any two Committeemen imployed by the Parl. in any County whatsoever in the whole Nation of England never did either jointly or dividedly in the whole progress of their Committee actions or any other actions any one single act that in the strictest sense comes within the compass of the Ordinance of sequestration and that they both have been great losers and not in the least gainers by the warres and troubles of the Nation and that they have neither jointly nor dividedly done any one action in all their publick imployments or by any colour thereof that justly deserves to have them or either of them branded as cozeners and cheaters of the State of great sums of money as Sir Arthur Hazlerig hath taxed them or the one of them to be in the Speakers Chamber of late before divers Members there and also at Haberdashers-Hall openly and several times and although most unjustly he hath sequestred the one of them and endeavoured the destruction of them both and their whole posterity and hath also strongly endeavoured to root them out for having a name or being in the County where they have received their first breath and have had their most constant abode And that Sir Arthur himself is the man of all them three guiltiest of every particular thing he chargeth upon them All which if you decline a fair and friendly meeting as is before desired I give you hereby authority to acquaint Sir Arthur that if he please to procure an Order from the Parliament I will meet him at the open barre of their House upon equal fair and just tearmes and in the behalf of my Father and Unckle George or either of them I will meet him face to face and will hazard my life and estate as far as by Law any pretended crimes against them are capable of punishment to justifie and make good by credible witnesses appearing vivâ voce at the barre of the Parliament at the intire charges of him or them that they shall judge the offender and guilty party provided his person and estate may be declared to be as liable to repair wrongs done to the State and us I mean the parties aforesaid as ours may be to repair wrongs done to the State or him and I think this is fair and honest especially considering he hath ten times my interest in the Parliament And that you may a little know I speak not at random I must let you know I lost divers hundreds of pounds about 3. years agoe that in probability I might have injoyed had not the malice of a North Countrey Parliament man been who made use of a charge of delinquency then prefered against my Unckle to be revenged of me his Nephew to my losse and detriment of about 5 or 600 l. that I might justly have expected to have possessed of which being acquainted by my faithful and never to be forgotten friend Col. Rigby I hastned down to the Countrey and told my Uncle of it and all the circumstances of it and further protested to him his crimes should not be my ruine and therefore if he would not endeavour to bring his business to a final tryal that thereby he might be cleared I would become prosecutor in the States behalf to bring him to his deserts but if he knew himself clear and would endeavour his justification by a final Tryal I would venter my life and estate with him and become his Agent to mannage his business for him upon which I digged into the very bottom of all he was charged with and came to the Committee of Durham and before Sir Arthur and the then Committee opened his case and pressed for a set day of hearing which Sir Arthur and the Committee granted and caused the Order to be sent to Shadford his prosecutor a Delinquent in both the first and second warre or one of them I do aver it at my peril ingaging to make it good now Sir Arthurs High Sherief of the County of Durham whose heart failing him and his Conscience telling him my Unckle was an honest man and free from all his false accusations for he pretended my Unckles power was so great in that Countrey his witnesses durst not speak the truth against my Unckle whereupon with my Unckles consent I moved that seeing the Gentleman had a Brother sitting in Parliament viz. Mr. John Blaxston and my Unckle had none that therefore in regard he might not doubt of fair play I desired all things betwixt them by that Committe might be transmitted to Parliament which the Committee with Sir Arthur unanimously ordered but after the Order was drawn by Isaac Gilpin their Clark then sitting amongst them according to all their desires and openly read the prosecutor Shadford whispered Sir Arthur