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A48472	The picture of the Councell of State, held forth to the free people of England by Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, M. Thomas Prince, and M. Richard Overton, now prisoners in the Tower of London for bearing testimony to the liberties of England against the present tyrants at White-Hall, and their associates, or, a full narrative of the late extrajudiciall and military proceedings against them ; together with the substance of their severall examinations, answers, and deportments before them at Darby-house, upon March 28 last.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Prince, Thomas.; Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2155; ESTC R10562	40,210	29

old and new Lawes yea all of late that it was possible to buy or hear of and they tell me not one word of you and therefore I scarce know what to make of you or what to think of you but as Gentlemen that I know I give you civill respect and out of no other consideration But if you judge your selves to be a Councel of ●t●●e and by vertue thereof think you have any power over me I pray you shew me your Commission that I may know the better how to behave my self before you M. Bradshaw I will no●●ow question or dispute the Votes or Orders of the present single House of Commons in reference to their power as binding Lawes to the people yet admit them to be valid legal and good their due circumstances accompanying them yet Sir by the Law of England let me tell you what the House Votes Orders and Enacts within their walls is nothing to me I am not at all bound by them nor in Law can take any cognisance of them as Lawes although 20 Members came out of the House and tell me such things are done till they be published and declared by sound of Trumpet Proclamation or or the like by a publike Officer or Magist●ate in the publike and open places of the Nation But truly Sir I never saw any Law in Print or writing that declares your power so proclaim'd or published and therefore Sir I know not what to make more of you then a company of private men being neither able to own you for a Court of Justice because the Law speaks nothing of you nor for a Councel of State till I see and read or hear your Commission which I desire if you please to be acquainted with But Sir give me leave further to aver unto you and upon this Principle or Averment I will venture my life and being and all I have in the world That if the House had by a Proclaimed and declared Law Vote or Order made this Councel as you call your selves a Court of Justice yet that proclaimed or declared Law Vote or Order had been unjust and null and void in itself And my reason is because the House it self was never neither now nor in any age before betrusted with a Law-executing power but only with a Law making power And truly Sir I should have look'd upon the people of this Nation as very fools if ever they had betrusted the Parliament with a Law-executing power and my reason is because if they had so done they had then chosen and impowred a Parliament to have destroyed them but not to have preserved them which is against the very nature and end of the very being of Parliaments they being by your own declared doctrine chosen to provide for the peoples weale but not for their wo First part Declarat pag. 150 266 267 269 276 279 280 304 361 382 494 696 700 716 726. And Sir the reason of that reason is because its possible if a Parliament should execute the Law they might do palpable injustice and m●●e administer it and so the people would be robbed of their intended extraordinary benefit of Appeals for in such cases they must appeal to the Parliament either against it self or part of it self and can it ever be imagined they will ever condemn themselves or punish themselves nay will they not rather judge themselves bound in honour and safety to themselves to vote that man a Traytot and destroy him that shall so much as question their actions although formerly they have dealt never so unjustly with them For this Sir I am sure is very commonly practised now a dayes and therefore the honesty of former Parliaments in the discharge of their trust and duty in this particular was such that they have declared the power is not in them to judge or punish me o● the meanest free man in England beeng no Member of their House although I should beat or wound one of their Members nigh unto their door going to the House to discharge his duty but I am to be sent in all such cases to the Judge of the upper * See 5. H. 4. 6. 11. H. 6. ch 11. See also my plea against the Lords jurisdiction before the Judges of the Kings Bench called the Laws Funerall pag. 8. 9. and my grand plea against the Lords jurudiction made before Mr. Maynard of the House of Commons and the four imprisoned Aldermen of London's plea against the Lord jurisdiction published by M. Lionel Hurbin 1648. Bench unto whom by Law they have given declared rules and direction in that particular how to behave himself which be as evident for me to know as himself Now ●i● if reason and justice do not judg it convenient that the Parliament shall not be Judges in such particular cases that are of so neer concernment to themselves but yet hath others that are not of their House that are as well concerned as themselves much lesse will reason or justice admit them to be judges in particular cases that are farther remote stom their particular selves and do meerly concern the Common-wealth and sure I am Sir this is the declared Statute Law of England and doth stand in full force at this hour there being I am sure of it no Law to repeal it no not since the House of Commons set up their new Common-wealth Now Sir from all this I argue thus that which is not inherent in the whole cannot by the whole be derived or assigned to a part But it is not inherent neither in the power nor authority of the whole House of Commons primarily and originally to ●●ecute the Law and therefore they cannot derive it to a part of themselves But yet Sir with your favour for all this I would not be mistaken as though I maintained ned the Parliament had no power to make a Court of Justice for I do grant they may erect a Court of Justice to administer the Law provided that the Judges consist of persons that are not Members of their House and provided that the power they give them be universall that is to say to administer the Law to all the people of England indefinitely and not to two or three particular persons solely the last of which for them to do is * And therefore I aver that the High Court of Justice that sate upon Duke Hamilton the Earl of Holland c. was no Court of Justice but in the eye of the Law murdered those Noble men for which Bradshaw and the rest of his fellow Judges are not in the eye of the Law so excusable as was Empson and Dudly that Sir Edward Cook speaks of in the 2. part Ins●it fo 51. 3 part f. 208. 4. part Inst fol. 41. 196. 197. 198. who yet lost their lives as Traitors for subverters of the fundamentall Laws of England unjust and altogether out of their power And therfore Sir to conclude this point It being not in the

THE PICTURE OF THE Councell of State Held forth to the Free People of England BY Lieut. Col. John Lilburn M. Thomas Prince and M. Richard Overton now prisoners in the Tower of LONDON For bearing testimony to the Liberties of England against the present Tyrants at WHITE-HALL and their Associates OR A full NARRATIVE of the late extrajudiciall and Military Proceedings against them Together with the Substance of their severall Examinations Answers and Deportments before them at Darby-house upon March 28 last The second Edition with many large Additions by the Authours themselves Printed in the Yeer 1649. THE PICTURE OF THE Councel of State Held forth to the Free People of England by Lieut. Col. John Lilburn Mr. Thomas Prince and Mr. Richard Overton The Narrative of the Proceedings against Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn thus followeth ON Wednesday the 28 of March 1649 about four or five a clock in the morning my lodging at Winchester-house in Southwark was beset with about 100 or 200 armed men Horse and Foot one of which knocking at my Chamber-door I rose and opened him the door and asked him who he would speak with and what he would have He replyed he was come to take me prisoner whereupon I demanded of him to see his Warrant he told me he had one but had it not here but as soon as I came to Pauls I should see it I told him if he walked by the rules of justice he ought to have brought his Warrant with him and to have shewed it me and given me leave to have copied it out if I had desired it But divers of the foot Souldiers rushing into my room at his heels I desired him to demean himself like a Gentleman and not with any incivilities affright my children and family for if it were nothing but my person he would have I would but make me ready and go along with him without any more ado whither he would carry me for his power of armed men was beyond my present resisting or power to dispute so I desired him and another Gentleman with him to sit down which they did and when I was almost ready to go I demanded of him whether it would not fully satisfie his end in my going along with him and one or two more of his company in a boat and I would ingage unto him as I was an English man there should be no disturbance to him by me or any in my behalf but I would quietly and peacebly go with him where-ever he would have me but he told me no I must march thorow the streets with the same Guard that came for me I told him I could not now dispute but it would be no great conquest to lead a single captive thorow the streets in the head of so many armed men who neither had made resistance nor was in any capacity to do it and coming down stairs into the great yard I was commanded to stand till the men were marshalled in Rank and File and two other prisoners were brought unto me viz. my Landlord Mr. Devennish's two Sons but for what they knew not nor could imagine So away thorow the streets the armed Victors carry us like three conquered Slaves making us often halt by the way that so their men might draw up in good order to encounter with an Army of Butterflies in case they should meet them in the way to rescue us their Captives from them so coming to Pauls Church I there meet with my Comrade M. Prince and after imbraces each of other and a little discourse we see our acquaintance M. William Walwin marching at the head of another Party as a captive and having understood that our being seised as Prisoners was about a new addresse by way of Petition to the Parliament intituled The second part of Englands new Chains discovered We could not but wonder at the apprehending of M. Walwin about that he having for some months past that ever I could see or hear of never been at any of our meetings where any such things were managed But Adjutant General Stubber that was the Commander of the Party coming then to view I repaired to him and desired to see his Warrant by vertue of which his men forced me out of my bed and habitation from my Wife and children and his Warrant he produced which I read he denying me a copy of it though both there and at White-hall I earnestly demanded it as my right the substance of which so neer as I can remember is From the Committee commonly stiled the Councel of State to authorise Sir Hardresse Waller and Colonell Edward Whaley or whom they shall appoint to repair to any place whatsoever where they shall hear Lieut. Col. John Lilburn and M. Prince M. Walwin and M. Overton are them to apprehend and bring before the Councel of State for supposition of high Treason for compiling c. a seditious and scandalous Pamphlet intituled The second part of Englands new Chains discoverd And for so doing that shall be their Warrant Signed John Bradshaw President And in the same paper is contained Sir Hardresse Wallers and Col. Whaley's Commission or Deputation to Adjutant General Stubber to apprehend Mr. Walwin and my self who with his Officers dealt abundantly more fairly with us then I understand Lieut. Col Axtel dealt with Mr. Prince and Mr. Overton From which Lieut. Col. if there had been any harmony in his spirit to his profession abundance more in point of civili●● might have been expected then from the other though he sell much short But when we were in Pauls Church-yard I was very earnest with the Adjutant General and his Ensigne that apprehended me as I understood by the Adjutant he was that we might go to some place to drink our mornings draughts and accordingly we went to the next door to the School house where we had a large discourse with the Officers especially about Mr. Devenish's sons we understanding they had no Warrant at all to meddle with them in the least nor nothing to lay to their charge but a private information of one Bull their Fathers tenant between which parties there is a private difference we told them we could not but stand amazed that any Officer of an Army durst in such a case apprehend the person of any Free-man of England and of his own head and authority dragging him or them out of his house and habitation like a Traitor a Theef or a Rogue and they being ashamed of what they had done to them at our importunity let both the young men go free So away by water we three went to White hall with the Adjutant Gen. where we met with our friend M. Overton And after we had staid a White hall till about 4 or 5 of the clock in the afternoon we were by the foresaid Adjutant carried to Darby-house where after about an hours stay there were called in Lieut. Col. Goldegue a Coalyard keeper in Southwark and as some of good quality of

his neighbours do report him to have been no small Personal Treaty man and also Captain Williams and M. Saul Shoe-maker both of Southwark who are said to be the Devills 3. deputies er informers against us and after they were turned out I was called in next and the dore being opened I marched into the Room with my hat on and looking about me I saw divers Members of the House of Commons present and so I put it off and by Sergeant Dendy I was directed to go neer M. Bradshaw that sat as if he had been Chairman to the Gentlemen that were there present between whom and my self past to this following effect Lievt Col. Lilburn said he here are some Votes of Parliament that I am commanded by this Councel to acquaint you with which were accordingly read and which did contain the late published and printed Proclamation or Declaration against the second part of England New Chains discovered with divers instructions and an unlimitted power given unto the Councel of State to finde out the Authors and Promoters thereof After the reading of which M. Bradshaw said unto me Sir You have heard what hath been read unto you and this Councell having information that you have a principle hand in compiling and promoting this Book shewing me the Book it self therefore they have sent for you and are willing to hear you speak for your self But I saw no Accuser prosecutor or witnesse brought face to face which were very strange proceedings in my judgement Well then M. Bradshaw said I If it please you and these Gentlemen to afford me the same liberty the Cavaliers did at Oxford when I was arraigned before them for my life for levying war in the quarrel of the Common-wealth against the late King and his party which was liberty of speech to speak my mind freely without interruption I shall speak and goe on but without the liberty of speach I shall not say a word more to you To which he replied That is already granted you and therefore you may go on and speak what you can or will say for your self if you please or if you will not you may hold your pyace and withdraw Well then said I M. Bradshaw with your favour thus I am an Englishman born bred brought up and England is a Nation Governed Bounded and Limited by Laws liberties and for the Liberties of England I have both fought and suffered much but truely Sir I judge it now infinitely below me and the glory and excellency of my late actions now to plead merit or desert unto you as though I were forced to fly to the merit of my former actions to lay in a counter-scale to weigh down your indignation against me for my pretended late offences No Sir I scorn it I abhor it And therefore Sir I now stand before you upon the bare naked and single account of an Englishman as though I had never said done or acted thing that tendeth to the preservation of the liberties thereof but yet have done any act that did put me out of a Legal capacity to claim the utmost punctilio benesit priviledge that the laws liberties of England will afford to any of you here present of any other man in the whole Nation And the Laws and Liberties of England are my inheritance and birth right And in your late Declaration published about four or five daies ago wherein you lay down the grounds and reasons as I remember of your doing Justice upon the late King and why you have abolished Kingly Government and the House of Lords you declare in effect the same and promise to maintain the Lawes of England in reference to the Peoples Liberties * See Their Declarations of the 9 of Feb. the 17 of March 1648 in which they positively declare they are fully resolved to maintain and shall and will preserve and keep the fundamental Laws of this Nation for and concerning the preservation of the lives properties and liberties of the people with all things incident thereunto but they of late years were never so good as their words nor I am confident never intead to be they having turned their backs upon common honesty upon the Lord their strength and made lies and falsehoods their refuge and fortress and therefore beleeve them no more for I will make it good they are worse then the King was whose head they have chopt off for a Traytor and Tyrant and thereby have condemned themselves as deserving his very punishment and Freedoms And amongst other things therein contained you highly commend and extol the Petition of Right made in the third year of the late King as one of the most excellent and gloriest Laws in reference to the people liberties that ever was made in this Nation and you there very much blame and cry out upon the King for robbing and denying the people of England the benefit of that Law and sure I am for I have read and studied it there is one clause in it that saith expresly That no Free man of England ought to be adjudged for life limbe liberty or estate but by the Laws already in being established and declared And truly Sir if this be good and sound Legal Doctrine as undoubtedly it is or else your own Declarations are false and lies I wonder what you Gentlemen are For the declared and known Laws of England knows you not neither by names nor qualifications as persons endowed with any power either to imprison or try me or the meanest Free-man of England and truly were it not that I know the faces of divers of you and honour the persons of some of you as Members of the House of Commons that have stood pretty firm in shaking times to the interest of the Nation I should wonder what you are or before whom I am should not in the least honour or reverence you so much as with Civil Respect especially considering the manner of my being brought before you with armed men and the manner of your close sitting contrary to all courts of Justice whose dores ought alwayes to stand wide open M. Bradshaw it may be the house of Commons hath past some Votes or Orders to authorise you to sit here for such and such ends as in their Orders may be declared But that they have made any such Votes or Orders legally unknown to me I never saw them It s true by common Fame you are bruted abroad and s●iled a Councel of State but its possible common Fame in this particular may as well tell me a lye as a truth But admit common Fame do in this tell me a truth and no lye but that the House of Commons in good earnest hath made you a Councel of State yet I know not what that is because the Law of England tells me nothing of such a thing and surely if a Councel of State were a Court of Justice the Law would speak something of it But I have read both

one word more and that is this I am not onely in time of peace the Courts of Justice being all open fetcht and forc't out of my house by multitudes of armed men in an hostile manner and carried as a captive up and down the streets contr●ry to all Law and Justice but I am by force of Armes still kept in their custody and it may be may be intended to be sent to them again who are no Guardians of the Law of England no nor so much as the meanest Administrators or executors of it but ought to be subject to it themselves and to the Administrators of it as is cleer by the Petition of Right c. yea the General himself And truly Sir I had rather die then basely betray my Liberties into their martiall fingers who after their fighting for our Freedoms would now destroy them and tread them under their feet that have nothing at all to do with me nor any pretended or reall civill offender in England I know not what you intend to do with me neither do I much care having learned long since to die and rather for my Liberties then in my bed It s true I am at present in no capacity effectually to dispute your power because I am under guards of armed Masketiers but I intreat you if you will continue me a prisoner that you will free me from the military Sword and send me to some Civil Gaol and I will at present in peace and quietnesse obey your command and go And so I concluded and was commanded to withdraw which I did and then Mr. William Walwin was called in and while he was within I gave unto my Comrades Mr. Prince and Mr. Overton and the rest of the people a summary account of what had past between me and them And within a little time after Mr. Walwin came out again and Mr. Overton was called in next And at Mr. Walwin's coming out he acquainted us what they said to him which was in a manner the same they said to me and all that he said to them was but this That he did not know why he was suspected To which Mr. Bradshaw replyed Is that all you have to say And Mr. Walwin answered Yes So he was commanded to withdraw And after M. Overton was come out M. Prince was called in and after he had withdrawn they spent some time of debate among themselves and then I was called in again So I marched in Sutable to my first posture and went close to M. Bradshaw who said unto me to this effect Lieut. Colonel Lilburn this Councel hath considered what you have said and what they have been informed of concerning you and also of that duty that lies upon them by the command of the House which enjoynes them to improve their utmost ability to find out the Author of this Book and therefore to effect that end they judge themselves bound to demand of you this question Whether you made not this Book or were privie to the making of it or no And after some pause and wondring at the strangeness of the quesion I answered and said M. Bradshaw I cannot but stand amazed that you should ask me such a question as this at this time of the day considering what you said unto me at my first being before you and considering it is now about eight yeers ago since this very Parliament annihilated the Court of Star-chamber Councel board and High Commission and that for such proceedings as these * See the Acts that abolished them made in the 16 C. R. printed in my Book called The peoples Prerogative p. 22. 23. 24. 25. And truly Sir I have been a contestor and sufferer for the Liberties of England these twelve years together and I should now look upon my self as the baseft fellow in the world if now in one moment I should undo all that I have been doing all this while which I must of necessity do if I should answer you to questions against my self For in the first place by answering this question against my self I should betray the Liberties of England in acknowledging you to have legall Jurisdiction over me to try and adjudge me which I have already proved to your faces you have not in the least And if you have forgot what you said to me thereupon yet I have not forgot what I said to you And Secondly Sir If I should answer to questions against my self and so betray my self I should do that which not onely Law but Nature abhorrs And therefore I cannot but * And well might I for M. John Cook and M. Bradshaw himself were my Counsel at the Lords Bar against the Star-chamber the 13 of Feb. 1645. where M. Bradshaw did most excellently oppen the Star-chamber injustice towards me and at the reading of their first Sentence he observed to the Lords that that Sentence was felo de se guilty of his own death the ground whereof said he being because M. Lilburn refused to take an oath to answer to all such questions as should be demanded of him it being contrary to the Laws of God Nature and the Kingdom for any man to be his own Accuser whose words you may more at large read in the printed Relation thereof drawn up by M. John Cook and my self p. 3. But he that condemned it in the Star-chamber now practiseth it in the Councel of State but the more base and unworthy man he for so doing wonder that you your selves are not ashamed to demand so iilegall and unworthy a thing of me as this is and therefore in short were it that I owned your power which I do not in the least I would be hanged before I would do so base and un-Englishman like an Action to betray my Liberty which I must of necessity do in answering questions to accuse my self But Sir this I will say to you My late Actions have not been done in a hole or a corner but on the house top in the face of the Sun before hundreds and some thousands of people and therefore why ask you me any questions Go to those that have heard me and seen me and it is possible you may finde some hundreds of witnesses to tell you what I have said and done for I hate holes and corners My late Actions need no covers nor hidings they have been more honest then so and I am not sorry for what I have done for I did look well about me before I did what I did and I am ready to lay down my life to justifie what I have done And so much in answer to your question But now Sir with your favour one word more to minde you again of what I said before in reference to my Martiall imprisonment and truly Sir I must tell you Circumstantials of my Liberty at this time I shall not much dispute but for the Essentials of them I shall die I am now in the Souldiers custodie where to continue in silence and

Harrison the Generall being but their stalking Hors and a Cipher and there trayterous faction ** For the greatest Traytors they are that ever were in this Nation as upon the losse of my head l Ioh. Lilburn will by law under take to prove and make good before the next free and just Parliament to whom I hereby appeal having by their wills and Swords got all the Swords of England under their command and the disposing of all the great places in England by sea and land andalso the pretended law executing power by making among themselves contrary to the Lawes and Liberberies of *** For the people being in reason justice and truth as well as by the Parliaments late votes the true fountain and original of all just power they ought not only in Reason Right and Justice chuse their own law makers but all and every of their law executors and to obey none what soever but of their own choice and it is not only their right by reason and justice but Sir Ed. Cooke in his second part Institut published for good Law by this present house of Commons declares and proves Fol. 174. 175. 558. 559. that by law it was and is the peoples right to chuse their Coroner Justices or conservators of the Peace as also their high Sheriff and Verderors of Forest and saith he there expresly for the time of War there were likewise Leaders of the Countreys Souldiers of Ancient time chosen by the Free-holders of the county but it 's true the chiefest of these things were expresly taken from the people and invested in the King by the Statute of the 27. Hen. 3 chap. 24. and therefore Kingly government being abolished the right is returned into the people the king or fountain of power and cannot be exercised as a new devise by the Parliament although they were never so legally and Justly chosen by them without a conference with them thereupon a power deputed to them for that end as Sir Edward Cooke declares in the 4 part of his Institutes chap. High Court of Parliament Fol. 14. 34. therefore I do hereby declare all the present Parliaments Justices Sherifs c. to be no Justices Sherifs c. either in law or reason but meer tyrants invadors and usurpers of their power and authority and may very well in time come to be hanged for executing their pretended offices England all Judges Justices of Peace Sheriffs Bailiffes Committee-men c. to execute their wils and tyranny walking by no limits or bounds but their own wils and pleasures And trayterously assume unto themselves a power to levie upon the people what money they please and dispose of it as they please yea even to buy knives to cut the peoples throats that pay the money to them and to give no account for it till Dooms-day in the afternoone they having already in their wills and power to dispose of Kings Queen Princes Dukes and the rest of the Childrens Revenues Deans and Chapter lands Bishops lands sequestered Deliquents lands sequestred Papists lands Compositions of all sorts amounting to millions of money besides Excise and Customs yet this is not enough although if rightly husbanded it would constantly pay above one hundred thousand men and ●urnish an answerrable Navy thereunto But the people must now after their trades are lost and their estates spent to procure their liberties freedoms be sessed about 100000. pound a month that **** But saith there own Oracle Sir Ed. Cook in the 4 part of his instutes chap. High Court of Parliament Fol. 14. 34. It is also the Law and custome of Parliament that when any new device is moved on the Kings behalf in Parliament for his aid or the like the Commons may answer that they tend●ed the Kings estate and are ready to aide the same only in this new device they dare not agree without conference with their countries whereby it appeareth saith he that such conferences is warrantable by the law and custome of Parliament and this was do●e in the Parliament of the 9. Ed. 3. nu●b 5 but the present Parliament assume unto themselves the regall office in the height and therefore ought not to be their own carvers in reference to the peoples purses but ought to demand and obtain their consents especially in time of peace before they levie either 90000 pounds per month or any such like new device what ever and therefore I know neither law equity or reason to compel the people to pay a penny of it unlesse they have a desire to bring themselves into the same condition in reference to the present Parliament that the Egyptians were to Pharoah when Joseph was so hard hearted as to make the Egyptians to pay so dear for b●ead-corn that it cost them all their money and all their cattle yea all their lands and also themselves for his slaves Gen. 47. 14. 15. 16. c. for which tyranny God plagued him and his posterity by making them slaves to the Egyptians afterwards so they may be able like so many cheaters and and State theeves to give 6. 8. 10. 12. 14. 16000. pounds apeice over again to one another as they have done already to divers of themselves to buy the Common-wealths lands one of another contrary to the duty of Trustees who by law nor equity can neither given or sell to one another or two or three yeers purchase the true and valuable rate considered as they have already done and to give 4 or 5000l per annum over again to King Crumwell with ten or twenty thousand pounds worth of wood uponit as they have done already out of the Earl of Worcesters estate c. Besides about four or five pounds a day he hath by his places of Lieut. Generall and Colonel of Horse in the Army besides the extraordinary advancement of many of his kindred that so they might stick close to him in his tyranny although he were at the beginning of this Parliament but a poor man yea little better then a begger to what he is now as well as other of his neighbours But to return those Gentlemen that would have had us bailed lost the day by one vote as we understood for all their wicked oath of secrecy and then about 12. at night they broke up a fit hour for such works of wickednesse John 3. 19. 20. 21. and we went into their pretended Secretary and found our commitments made in these words our names changed viz. These are to will and require you to receive herewith into your custody the Person of Lieu. Col. John Lilburn and him safely to keep in your Prison of the Tower of London untill you receive further order he being committed to upon suspition of high Treason of which you are not to fail and for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant given at the Councel of State at Derby-house 28. day of March 1649. To the Lieu. of the Tower of London Signed in the name