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A88202	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 unworthy 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.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2122; Thomason E400_5; ESTC R201740	21,051	15

you complained before me and my wife to Rich his face in your owne chamber at Dillinghams house and called him before us base Rascall and cowardly and perfidious fellow with much more I very well remember You cannot but know that all my present sorrowes are come upon me by Manchesters meanes and his creatures for my zeale to truth and justice against him and all his treacherous confederates who had as I conceive eare now got the gallowes if you had followed him with as much vigour and strength as you should and I was made beleeve you would But you pluckt your head out of the * Accursed bee the vote of the House of Commons which voted you 2500 l per annum which vote and nothing else hath kept Manchesters head upon his shoulders coller and I was catched in the bryers and have been exposed to a thousand deaths by my imprisonment c. most illegally barbarously and tyrannically and the House of Commons would do me no justice though I turned I think as many stones to procure it as any man whatsoever in England could But was betrayed and unworthily disserted both by your selfe Henry Martin † Reade my late Epistle to him page 1 2 3. 4 5 6 c. now in Print Dated 31. of May. 1647 and all my friends there whose actions to me are nothing else but declara●ions of your selfe seekings without purely eyeing either Trust or Justice for which God undoubtedly will lash and scurge you And when I saw that they wou●d not heare regard or receive but burnt or sleighted all those just Petitions I set underhand on foot for Justice and my liberty I applyed my selfe vagarously unto the honest blades the private Souldiers I meane of the Army though I have nothing to speake of your gallant Generall to me in a manner a stranger but prayses And when by much indust●y with much of position from your selfe and others of your fellow Grandees in the Army I had been instrumentall with the expence of a great deale of money and with all the interest and industry I had in the world acted both night and day to settle the Souldiers in a compleat and just posture by their faithfull agitators chosen out by common consent from amongst themselves as resolute s●● and just instruments to effect my Liberty to give a checke to tyranny and settle the peace and justice of the Kingdome not looking for any good at all from your selfe and the rest of your fellow great ones that truly in my apprehension are transendently degenerated have bought and sold and intend visibly more fully to do it the Lawes Liberties and Justice of the Kingdom for your owne ends and greatnesses which opinion is every day confirmed and strengthned in me in that you have not only done it alreadie but goe on still and intend more fully to do it in that in a manner you have rob'd by your unjust subtiltie and shifting trickes the honest and gallant agitators of all their power and authority and solely placed 〈◊〉 in a thing called a Counsell of Warre or rather a Cabenet Junio of seven or eight proud selfe ended fellowes that so you may without controule make up your owne ends for I know your practises of old which I am credibly informed is lately renued and the chiefest of them before mentioned whom I c. have experience sufficiently of are as base as base can be And will sell Christ their Country friends relations and a good conscience for a little money or worldly honour And yet some of them must be the chiefe and only men to place and displace all Officers in the Armie And the aforesaid two general Officers were as I am confidently informed from a good hand moved for by your selfe at a Councell of Warre to be the mannagers of the charge against the eleven Members although your selfe I dare aver it believes That put them both together they have not so much courage as to encounter with a Wesell or a Poulecat much lesse with such sons of Anak as the eleven Members are and I am sure both of them put together hath not so much honestie as will fill a Tailors thimble much lesse so much as will make them deny their lives liberties and interests which of necessitie they must have that resolutely and faithfully undertake that imployment yet as I am tould they had been the men if your wise son Ireton had not been apprehensive that the Councell of warre had lost all their braines at their departure Sir in short what I heare not once twise thrise nor a dozen times from you hath so perplexed my spirit and fil'd me with amazement that thereby I must as a faithfull plaine dealer tel you that I am necessitated wholly to withdraw my present good thoughts from you and others with you and must and will print my conceptions to the view of the world that so you may delude and destroy honest simple hearted plain dealing men no longer cost it what it will I valew it not being necessitively compelled either to remove every stone that lyes in my way that hinders me from obtaining my just ends Justice and my just liberty or else to power out my bowels upon them with lifting them and I sufficiently heare of the Jeeres plottings and contrivings of your favourites against me and all such as I am Therefore doe you and they looke to your selves as well as you can for the uttermost of my strength and interest shall speedily be amongst you publiquely unlesse you speedily and effectually without complement take some speedy course that I face to face may speake my mind to your selfe of which I desire a positive and satisfactory answer within foure dayes at the farthest I desire no favour from Lords or Commons c. but if I have transgressed the Law let me fully be punished by the Law * And by the Law of this Kingdom which by all your oathes you your selfe have sworn to maintaine there ought to bee Gaole deliveries three times a yeare and more oftner if need required 4. Ed. 3. 2. see the oppressed mans expressions declared pag. 3. 4. part Iustit cap. 30. pag. 168. 169. And all this is for that end that the prisoner may have according to the 29. chap. of Magna Charta the Kings Coronation oath speedy Justice not be destroy'd by a long lingring imprisonment which the Law abhorres and therefore the late impeached members in their own case lately in their petition to the House tells them That delayes of Iustice is equally forbidden with the deniall of Iustice and yet I have above a whole yeare been imprisoned by the Lords and can come to no triall though I have with earnestnesse sought it neither have I any accusation or crime layd unto my charge or so much as any witnesse or informer to appeare against me to the transcendent violation of all the lawes of the land and contrary to all Rules

were like to be the most pernicious instruments in it which is before named And seeing my writing was to no purpose nor took not any such effect as I hoped it would but rather procured me menaces and threats which I value no more then the wind that blowes fearing no man in the world nor caring for the favour or friendship of any in the world whatsoever he be no further then I find him just and honest at least morally so And therefore in mercy to my own Being and the wel-being of my native countrey I can doe no lesse then publish the fore-going Letters as an Alarum to all the privat Souldiers in the Army and to all their honest Officers that really cordially and heartily desire the settlement of all mens just interest in England whose principles are not destructive to cohabitation and humane neighbourhood and society that they may awake out of their sluggish dreames before their and the Kingdomes enemies surprize them beat up and destroy them in their quarters which I am confident will speedily and unavoidably be their portion unlesse they have extraordinary watchfull eyes over Nich. Machiavils chiefe sonnes amongst them and preserve their fore-mentioned agreement intire and doe what they intend to doe quickly and resolvedly their delayes already having amongst thousands that honoured them shaken their reputation And if any guilded or varnished Scribe or Pharisee as tythe monging Noy or Marshall ' who were principall instruments to bring the Scotch and the Divels Fetters the Covenant into this Kingdome almost to the ruine I am sure to the perjury thereof find themselves agreiv'd I desire to let them know that Fiat justitia ruat Celum is my Motto and if I perish it shall be in the following of justice for justice sake 16. of July 1647. John Lilburne A Copy of a Letter written to Coll. Henry Martin a Member of the House of Commons by Leiu Col. Iohn Lilburn Iuly 20. 1647. SIR YOur Delitory and unjust delaying to make my Report to your House according to your duty hath so hastned forward the ruin destruction of me my wife tender infants and riveted the House of Lords fast in their tyrannicall domination That I cannot now style you either a friend to me the Common-wealth or to justice truth or honesty and of all men in the world I should least have dreamed to have found such unworthy and unjust dealing from you But yet notwithstanding by reason of a Paper come from the Army a copy of which I have even now seen which desires of the House of Commons that I c. may immediately and legally be tried or if the great Affaires of the Kingdome will not suffer them to debate my businesse at present that then I may be bailed I therefore desire you to acquaint the House that the Law of the Land is cleare and plaine that the Lords in the case in controversie betwixt me and them have no Jurisdiction at all over me or any Commoner of England whatsoever and I have justly protested against them and legally appealed * Which Appeale you may reade in the Free mans Freedome vindicated pag 9 10 11. above a year ago to your House for justice against their insufferable usurpations and incrochments the enjoyment of which is principally hindred by your selfe and therefore I require according to Law justice equity conscience and reason either to be justified or condemned by your House which is done in an houre there being nothing wanting but your Report of it and their Jud●ement upon it And as for baile I wil by the goodnesse of God be cut in a thousand pieces before I will in this case stoop the bredth of one heire or do any act that in my owne understanding shall declare my owning of their Iurisdiction in the least over me which my giving baile or so much as my Parroule would do which in my apprehension would be a granting that their most devillish tyrannicall illegall sentensing of mee to pay 4000 l' and to be seven yeares in prison and for ever to be d●●sranchised of the Liberties of an English man were just and legall And therefore if you will discharge your duty after above a years unjust delay in making my Report to your House I shall yet thanke you but if you will not the blood and ruine of mee and mine be upon the head of you and your posterity and the righteous and just God of heaven and earth either incline your heart to make my Report for me now at last let the issue be what it will be I care not as I fully told you in my last large Epistle to you of the 31. of May 1647. now in print pag 4 5 6. or else speedily avenge my cruell sufferings by your means without mercy or compassion upon you and yours Sir in short if your House will as they ought give me my Liberty without intanglements I will take it if not I am resolved to sticke so close to my just cause till I be forced to eat my own flesh for want of bread which in the eye of humaine reason cannot be long before I be forced to doe it but assure your selfe that if the putting forth all the resolution in a man that for this ten years never feared death tortures nor torments no nor yet knew what belong'd to base feare will save me or do me good I will by the strength of God leave no meanes whatsoever unattempted or unassaid though it lose me all the earthly props and relations I have in the world and I advise you as a friend to look well to your self do not continue such insupportable burthens upon mee by your delay of justice after suffering ship-wracke of my estate and fortunes by the grand tyrannicall Tyrants of England for above ten yeares together as I am not able longer to beare without evident destruction to me mine so at present I rest wish I could subscribe my self Your Servant John Lilburne From my causlesse and most unjust Captivity in the Tower of London the place of my fixed and resolved resolution to spend the last drop of my heart blood against the House of Lords Vsurpations over the legall rights and freedoms of all the Commons of England Iuly 20 1647.