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A88237	A preparative to an hue and cry after Sir Arthur Haslerig, (a late Member of the forcibly dissolved House of Commons, and now the present wicked, bloody, and tyrannicall governor of Newcastle upon Tine) for his severall ways attempting to murder, and by base plots, conspiracies and false witnesse to take away the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn now prisoner in the Tower of London: as also for his felonious robbing the said Lieut Col. John Lilburn of betwixt 24 and 2500 l. by the meer power of his own will, ... In which action alone, he the said Haslerig hath outstript the Earl of Strafford, in traiterously subverting the fundamentall liberties of England, ... and better and more justly deserves to die therefore, then ever the Earl of Strafford did ... by which tyrannicall actions the said Haslerig is become a polecat, a fox, and a wolf, ... and may and ought to be knockt on the head therefore, ... / All which the said Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn hath cleerly and evidently evinced in his following epistle of the 18 of August 1649, to his uncle George Lilburn Esquire of Sunderland, in the county of Durham.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2162; Thomason E573_16; ESTC R12119	55,497	45

that principally passed as chief Judge of the Court both the aforesaid sentence against your Petitioner And in regard the estates of the said Lord Cottington and Sir Francis Windebank by subsequent orders of both Houses upon urgent occasions are much intangled and altered from the condition they were in in 1646 when the Lords ordered your Petitioner 2000 Marks out of them and for that the estate of James Ingram cannot be found nor at present come by Your Petition●r therefore most humbly prayeth That the greatest part if not all your Petitioners reparations may be fixed upon the said now Lord Coventries estate to be immediatly paid your Petitioner or else that his Rents and the profits of his woods and goods may be seized in the respective Counties where they lie for the satisfying thereof that your Petitioner may no longer run the hazzard of ruine to him and his by tedious delaies having already contracted the debts of many hundreds of pounds occasioned by the chargeable prosecution hereof And that if you shall think of conjoyning any other with him That it may be principally the Judges of the Law who ought to have been Pilots and guides unto the rest of the Judges of that Court who were Lords and persons not knowing the Law And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. JOHN LILBURN After the reading of which they entred into a serious debate of the whole busines and thereupon passed severall Votes to be the Heads of an Ordinance to be drawn up and reported to the House by the Right Honourable the Lord Car Chairman to the said Committee who accordingly reported the proceedings and votes of the said Committee to your House who approved of the said Votes and ordered an Ordinance to be presented to the House consonant thereunto which was accordingly done by the Lord Car which Ordinance hath been once read in your House The Copie of which thus followes An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament for the raising of three thousand pounds out of the reall Estate of the late Thomas Lord Coventry late Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England for and towards the reparation and damages of John Lilburn Gent. which he sustained by vertue and colour of two Sentences given and made against him in the late Court of Star-chamber the one the 13. of Febr. 1637. the other the 18. of April 1638. WHereas the cause of John Lilburn Gent. concerning two Sentences pronounced against him in the late Court of Star Chamber 13 Febr. 13 Car. Regn. and 18. Apr. 14 Car. Regis were voted the 4. of May 1641. by the House of Commons to be illegall and against the Liberty of the Subject and also bloody wicked cruel barbarous and tyrannical which were transmitted from the said House of Commons unto the House of Lords who thereupon by an order or decree by them made 13 Feb. 1645. Adjudged do declared the said proceedings of the said Star chamber against the said John Lilburn to be illegall and most unjust and against the liberty of the Subject and Mag. Chart. and unfit to continue upon Record c. And by another Order or Decree made by them the said Lords the 5. of March 1645. they assigned to be paid unto the said John Lilburn the sum of two thousand pounds for his reparations and the said House of Peers then fixed that sum upon the estates reall and personall of Francis Lord Cottington Sir Francis VVindebank and James Ingram (**) (**) (**) But the Lord Roberts the Lord Wharton c. told mee severall times if their estates had not been under Sequestration by Ordinance of Parliament they would never have gone about to fix my reparations by Ordinance which they must needs then doe to take off the Sequestration but have issued out a decree and extent under the great Seal immediatly to have put me in present possession of my 2000 l. which they said was their right by Law to doe late Deputy Warden of the Fleet and afterwards for the present levying thereof with allowance of Interest in case of Obstructions while the same should be in levying and of such part as should not be forthwith levyed The said House of Peers did cause an Ordinance to be drawn up and passed the same in their House the 27 Aprill 1646. and afterwards transmitted the same to the House of Commons for their concurrence with whom it yet dependeth And for as much as since that transm●ssion all or the greatest part of the estates of the said Lord Cottington and Sir Francis Wind●ban●k is since by both Houses disposed of to other uses and the estate of the said James Ingram is so small and weak and so intangled with former ni●umbrances that it can afford little or no part unto the said John Lilburn of the said reparations And for that the said late Lord Coventry was the principall Judge and chief Actor in giving of both the said Illegall Sentences in the said Court of Starchamber and for the barbarous inflicting of punishments thereupon Therefore and or satisfaction of the said 2000 l. and for the increase of reparation unto the said John Lilburn for his extraordinary wrongs sufferings and losses thereby sustained and the ●ong time hitherto elapsed without any satisfaction The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do ordain and be it hereby ordained by the said Lords and Commons and by Authority of the same That the said John Lilburn shall receive the sum of 3000 l. out of all or any the Mannors Mesuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments whereof he the said late Thomas Lord Coventry or any other person or persons to or for his use or in trust for him was or were seized in fee-simple or fee taile or otherwise at the time of the said sentences or decrees or o● either of them in the said late Court of Star-chamber or since within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any Order o● Ordinance heretofore made by either or both Houses of Parliament for the imployment of the estate of the said late Thomas Lord Coventry to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And for the more spee●ly levying of the said summe of three thousand pounds It is further Ordered and Ordained That the severall and respect●ve Sheriffs of the severall and respective Counties within England and Wales wherein any of the said Lands Tenements or Hereditaments doe lye shall forthwith upon sight and by vertue of this Ordinance cause an inquisition to be made and taken by the oathes of twelve or more lawfull men where the same lands do lie and what the same are and do contain and of the clear yearly value thereof over and above all charges and re-prises and after such inquisition so made and taken the severall and respective Sheriffs shall deliver unto the said John Lilburne true copies in Parchment of the same inquisitions by them taken and shall then also deliver unto the said John Li●burn the said Lands

any other way and this act of Verney's should have to the eyes of the world been merit enough to have saved Verney 's life and also procured him his liberty from his Lords and Masters Haslerig and Bradshaw c. who for his traiterous and good services done them protect him against all the complaints of cheating perjury forgery and all manner of knavery that my intelligence tels on daily is brought in against him Which Verny a few dayes ago as I am from extraordinary good hands informed had the impudence for all the high complaints against him to petition or otherwise to sue for an annuall Pension for his good services done them in forsaking his Interest in the PRINCE and adhering to Them in any thing they put him upon though never so wicked Fourthly Haslerig 's design in endeavouring to murther me is not only evident in his Associats imprisoning me for nothing and so robbing me of my trade and credit but also in close imprisoning me from the society of all my friends and denying me the just and legall allowance due to me in my case and condition not one penny of which I have received to this day but also in taking away compleatly betwixt 24 and 2500 l. that so I may not have a penny left to buy me my wife or family a bit of bread But to ●eturne I would fain have HASLERIG to consider seriously from his friend S. Johns words and the rest foregoing what he deserves that not only by theft of murther breaks one of the Laws of England but endeavours to destroy and actually plucks up by the roots the whole Fabrick of the Laws of England and so destroyes HUMANE SOCIETY by bringing all things into the originall Chaos of confusion and when he hath so done doubly and trebly protects and secures himself by force of the sa●d and other tyrannicall Priviledges from all manner of Process of Law or Justice truely he deserves whereever he be found to be dealt with as Felton did with the Duke of Backingham which for my part I protest seriously I judge to be more juster both before God and man a thousand times over then Haslerig 's dealing with me and the last and ultimate refuge and remedie that all such men have in such cases and a thousand times more just then for a man to murder himself by fami●hing in silence by such mens oppressive and tyrannicall de●ling with him And if Strafford upon S. Johns forementioned principles were A FOX and A WOLF for arbitrarily subverting the Law and taking away mens prop●●ties and estates by proceedings upon Paper petitions then abundantly 〈◊〉 is Haslerig a FOX and a WOLF in arbitrarily subverting the Law and taking away my estate with wi●e much as any proceedings at all or any Paper Petition against me 〈…〉 so much as receiving and producing any pretended Commission from any Legall or pretended Magistracy so to doe And therefore undeniably ●rom S. Johns and his own grounds may as a POLCAT a FOX and a WOLF yea and as a Destroyer of the society of mankind he knockt on the (**) Read carefully for illustration hereof my Law-quotations in the Marginall note of the sixt page of the late Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwel and his Son in law Henry Ireton head where ever he is found 〈◊〉 he had which peradventure before much time may be expired may be for his portion and that justifiably both before God and man seeing no law in the world can be said against him in the least or take hold of him And therefore as in a Speech made one thousand six hundred and forty it is said against the Ship-money Judges Speeches and passages of Parliament page 275. Much more truly may I say now when our Liberties are violated our Fundamentall Laws abrogated our Modern Laws already obsoleted the propertie of our Estates alienated nothing left us we can call our own but our misery and our patience if ever any Nation might justifiably this certainly may now most properly most seasonably cry out and cry aloud VEL SACRA REGNAT JUSTITIA VEL RUAT CAELUM that is Either let the Heavens fall or let Sacred Justice reign But if he should deny that that which at Newcastle he hath seized upon is none of mine I prove my Legall right thus 1. Admit I had in the eye of the law illegally come by it yet being in possession of it he hath no pretence in the world to dispossess me of it of his owne head and by his own will but 2ly I answer that against the law of equity reason and Justice yea and the law of England I was in the year 1637 1638. 1639. 1640. most illegally and tyrannically dealt with by the High-Commission Councel-Board and Star-Chamber by Doctor Guinne Doctor Lambe Doctor Ali● and the Lord Keeper Coventry Lord Privy Seal Manchester Lord Newberg Old Sir Henry Vane Lord Chief Justice Bramston and Judge Jones And by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Lord Keeper againe Lord Treasurer Bishop of London Lord Privy-Seal again Earl of Arundel Earl of Salisbury Lord Cottington Secretary Cook and Secretary Windebank and the Warden of the Fleet who gagged me upon the Pillo● without order in writing Of which the 3. of Novemb. 164● being the first day the late dissolved Parliament sate I according to Law and Justice preferred my Petition and Complaint to to them who upon the reading of my Petit●on immediately ordered me my Liberty being as I remember the first prisoner in England set at liberty by them to foll●w my Petition and according to the legall custom of Parliaments make i● good by proof before a select Committee appointed by them to that purpose Mr. Francis Reuse having the hai●● before whom many particular dayes one after another● I appeared with my Councel being Mr. Robert Gurden brother to Mr. John Gurdon now Member of the p●es●nt J●ncto or pretended House of Commons and my Witnesses and fully proved all my Petition Upon the report of all which by Mr Reus the Chairman the House of Commons the fourth of May 164● being the very same day that the King himself caused me to be arraigned for high Treason at the Ba●r of the House of Pee●s voted and resolved upon the Question That the Sentence of Star-chamber given against JOHN LILBURN is illegall and against the libertie of the Subject and also bloody cruell wicked barbarous and tyrannicall Resolved upon the Question That reparations ought to be given to M. LILBURN for his imprisonment sufferings and lostes sustained by that illegall sentence O●dered That the Committee shall prepare this case of Mr Li●burns to be transmitted to the Lords with those other of Dr. Bastwick D●ctor L●●gh●on Mr Button and Mr. Pryn. H. E●singe Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. After which Votes being in a full free un●avisht or inforc'd legall and unquestionable Parliament after a full open free * Where I very well remember Sir Arthur Hosle●ig was one of

Sir FRANCIS WINDEBANK'S heir the said Committee were pleased seeing they judged it a difficult piece of work for me to get it proportionably from all or most part of my unjust Judges to fix it intirely upon the Lord Keepers estate as the principal guilty man of which when the young Lord COVENTRY his Son and Heir heard thereof in France he came posting to England as in a maze fearing what such a precedent might bring upon him if his Fathers estate then dead should be compell'd to make me satisfaction he being so capitall in injustice that if that course should be taken his estate left him by his Father if it were trebled would not satisfie for his Fathers palpable injustice committed in his life time And Manchester being in the same Bryers with his Father being as unjust as the other and having a Brother viz. George Montague and other considerable Interests in the House of Commons so plyed their friends there that they put a stop to the second reading of the aforesaid Ordinance Which I first fully understood by the Speakers means then my great pretended friend who one day began to reason with a Member of the House and my special Friend about the unreasonablenesse to fix my Reparations upon the estate of the deceased Lord COVENTRY nay or to give me any Reparations at all out of the estates of those persons that did me wrong for fear the precedent in time might reach to themselves for Sir said the Speaker as the Member told me if my Son and Heir should be liable in law to make satisfaction to all those men out of that Estate I should leave him that I have in the eye of the Law wronged by signing Warrants Orders and Decrees by the Command of my Superiours he would soon be a begger although I should leave him 5 or 6000 l. per annum and therefore desired as it were the said Members concurrence with them who see a necessity both in justice and for the clamorous importunity as they called it of me and my friends to give me reparations but yet to do it in such a way that the Precedent might not in future make themselves smart for their injustice to particular men Of which when the said Member told me and withall told me they were resolved to make the Common wealth my Pay-Master out of the publick Treasury and colour over the justness of it with this pretence That Cottingtons estate c. formerly assigned me they had since disposed of for the Common-wealths use to the Lord Sey and therefore now it would be no injustice to the Common-wealth although in the Star-chamber it never wronged me to pay me my reparation Of all which when I understood their designe I was not a little troubled and perplexed in my spirit although I was grown much into debt by reason of my long and chargeable sufferings and large losses to see that my sufferings should produce no benefit at all to the Common-wealth which I must as before God in the sincerity of my heart aver was much in mine eye no earthly Treasure in the world being of that value to me to make me undergo those sorrows and distresses that I underwent in the Bishops time neither had I undertaken any hazards and continued in them out of any other consideration but out of conscience and duty to God and my native Country I was much perplexed and raised up in my spirit seeing the main end of my struglings was like to be frustrated which was That the Nation might have good by it by the creating of Precedents and terrour for the future to Tyrants and Knaves that so the people hereafter might live more in freedom and peace in the enjoyment of their Laws and Liberties the consideration of which made me something fearlesse of my own particular welfare and in my discourse at their door to set all my expectation on the Tenter-hooks and a little recollecting my thoughts I modellized the fore-mentioned Addresse of the 4 of Sebtember 1648 and printed it and the next day as I remember with my own hands presented it to every Member that would receive it as they went into the House The true copy of which thus followeth To every individuall Member of the Honourable House of Commons The Humble Remembrance of Lieut. Col. JOHN LILBURN Septemb. 4. 1648. Honoured Sir VOuchsafe to take notice and seriously to consider That the first week this present Parliament sate which is now almost full 8 yeers agoe I presented a humble Petition to the House of Commons for justice and right against the cruell Judges of the high Commission Court and the Star-chamber and I had the honour the same day it was presented to be one of the first prisoners in England that was set at liberty by this Parliament and also received a speedy full fair and candid proceeding in the hearing and examining of my tyrannicall sufferings but by reason of multiplicity of publick businesse and other great obstructions I have not as yet been able to attain to the full end of my legall and just expectation and right viz. Reparations for my long sad and tormenting sufferings by the foresaid unjust and unrighteous Judges Be pleased also favourably to take notice That upon the first of August last there was an humble Petition presented to the Honourable House of Commons subscribed by many thousands of honest citizens c humbly to desire you to put me in the fall possession of all your be-past just Votes about my foresaid sufferings upon reading and debating of which Petition as in answer to that particular of it your House were pleased to make this ensuing Order Die Martis 1 Augusti 1648. Lord Carre Sir John Maynard Sir Peter Wentworth Col. Boswell Col. Ludlow M. Copley M. Holland IT is referred to this Committee or any five of them to consider how Col. John Lilburn may have such satisfaction and allowance for his sufferings and losses as was formerly intended him by this House Henry Elsing Cler. Dom. Com. Unto which said Committee at their first sitting I presented a Petition the copy of which thus followeth To the Honourable the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider of Lieut. Col. Lilburns businesse in reference to the Star-chamber The humble Petition of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn SHEWETH THat besides your Petitioners sufferings by reason of his banishment into the Low Countries he was first committed by D. Lamb Guin Ayle● 1637. and afterwards had 3 yeers imprisonment in the common Gaole of the Fleet being whipt from Fleet-bridg to Westminster and enduring the cruell torment of above five hundred stripes with knotted cords afterwards being set in the Pillory for the space of two hours and by James Ingram Deputy Warden of the Fleet gagged tearing his jaws almost in pieces without Order which Sentence was given by Lord Keeper Coventry Earl of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Lord Newburgh Sir Henry Vane senior Lord chief Justice Brampston and Judge

he is also authorized hereby to go and repair to Henry Young Banchman of the Collyery of Carterthorn or to his Deputy or Deputies and fully to enquire and inform himself of the true estate and value of the said Collyery as relating to the said Mr. Thomas Bowes As also to repair to the Iron Mill and Furnace at Hunwick and Witton and there to take a true and perfect account and Inventory of all the Stock Implements Vtensills and necessaries and of all profits and advantages arising growing or coming thereby unto the said Mr. Thomas Bowes and speedily to certifie this Committee thereof also to summon John Hodgson Steward of the Iron works at Witton and the said Henry Young to be before this Committee at Gatshead upon Wednesday next to give in and testifie their knowledge touching Mr. Bowes his interest in the said Iron works and Collyery Isaac Gilpin Cler. Com. By vertue of which Order my Father and my self went to the Tenants of the three forementioned Delinquents as also to the foresaid Young and Hodgson which Young and Hudgson according to the aforesaid order appeared at Gateside before Sir Arthur Haslerig and your said Committee of Sequestrations unto whom I punctually gave an ex●ct account of Mr. Bowes his ●oles at Karterthorn and his Iron Mill and Forge at Hunwick and Witton upon which the foresaid Stewards were examined what they conceived M● Bowe● interest in the said Colepits and Iron Mill to be worth and after they had given in their Verdict and opinion the said Committee of Sequestration sold with my good liking the said Bowes his interest to Sir Arthur Haslerig for 400. l present money upon his ingagement to pay it me at London which he did within the compasse of about a moneth after as part of my 3000. l. and I also received then in the Countrey of the respective Tenants ● of the foresaid three Gentlemen betwixt 100. and 200. l. ready money all which I certified your Committee of at Durham and by 〈◊〉 speciall order delivered to their Clark and A●●itor copies of all the discharges I had given the severall Tenants who comparing them with the respective rentalls and deductions for assessements and free-quarter the originalls of which they had by them did audit my accounts and gave me a discharge under b● 〈…〉 hands upon the eighth day of February 1648. si●ned Isaac Gilpin Cler. Com Ex● per Ca●hl●●t Haw● Auditor so that now I have from step to step shewed you my right and ti●●e to my 3000. l. which is not ab●●ne o● gratuity given me ●as some men imagine by the Parliament but the issue and product of severall legall Parliamentary judgements judicially given me for damage sustained in body estate and losse of time and trade by illegall unjust decrees made and given against me which Parliamentary judgments and decrees of mine and some of them of eight years standing before any warrs or ●ar●● betwixt the King and Parliament others of 5 and 4. years standing while the Lords and Commons were a free just and unquestionable Parliament in the 〈◊〉 opinion of all the Parliamenteers in England others of my decrees and judgements meerly in confirmations of the former of 3. and 2. years standing while ●●th Houses were commonly received and owned for an unforc●d unpurged and unravished Parliament and the very last passing of my Ordinance was by both Houses before the Lords dissolution or the Kings beheading whose death in Law unquestionably put a period to the Parliament In most of which judgements For full pre●●se of which assertion read my arguments 〈◊〉 the second edition of my book of the 8. of June 1649. in●●●ted The legall F●●● 〈◊〉 ●ill Liberties of the people of England revived pag. 55. 56 57. and Mr. William P●ins a●●●ments in his late book 〈…〉 the illegall tax of 90. thousand pounds per annum pag. 3. 46 47. Sir Arthur Haslerig was one of the ●udges I am sure of it eminently in some of them and who was one of those that was active in putting me into a quiet just and legall possession for so it was eminently up in his own principles of my long strugled for and dear bought right unto which in the strictest eye of God or man I have as true a judiciall legall right unto as either he or you have or ever had to any cloaths you wore in your lives and therefore Sir I may well call it theft in him in stealing my goods or moneys from me by will and force just like a cutter upon the high way yea and by his own and the late Parliaments principles treason it self in disp●ssessing me of my legall and just come by estate without any manner of proceedings is Law yea or so much as upon any proceedings upon a paper Petition or so much as ever summoning 〈◊〉 to answer for my self or to know what he had to lay to my charge as a colourable pretence to take it away from me it is impossible for him to plead ignorance of my right he having as is before truly declared been privy to all the circumstances of my just proceedings yea as I understand my Father did not a little plead my right with him and produced my Ordinance c. to his face to maintain it when he took it away which notwithstanding he valued not but most maliciously premiditately and in despite and contempt of the Law of England and most trayterously in subversion thereof hath exercised an arbitrary and tyrannicall power over and above the Law in his taking it away for which felonious and trayte●ous Action of his by Gods assistance I will stick as close to him as ever his shirt did to his back or as ever I did to the Bishop of Canterbury who for lesse villanies then his I saw lose his head as a Traytor upon Tower Hill Sir the late King hath lost his head by Sir Arthur and his associates for tyranny in advancing his will above the Law of England as in his impeachment printed at the last end of my late Impeachment of Cromwell you may read pag. 57. 58. And yet I am sure he formerly and for any thing I groundedly know to the contrary legally impeached Haslerig of high Treason and yet never pretended any right to a penny of his estate before conviction but Haslerig nor any body else never laid any crime in the world to my charge either of Treason particularly or of Felony or Misdemeanour or any thing else and yet hath seized upon my estate without any pretence or shadow or colour of Law And that the King impeached him you may read in 1. part Parliament book Decla pag. 34. 35. which verbatim thus followeth Articles of high Treason and other Misdemeanours against the Lord Kimbolton Mr. Pym John Hampden Denzill Hollis Sir Arthur Haslerig and William Strode being all Members of the House of Commons 1. That they have trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamentall Laws and Government of this Kingdome