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A05465	A coppy of a letter written by John Lilburne, close prisoner in the wards of the fleet, which he sent to Iames Ingram and Henry Hopkins, wardens of the said fleet. Wherin is fully discovered their great cruelty exercised upon his body	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1640 (1640)	STC 15597; ESTC S121096	28,681	34

me the last yeare with shrillnesse and lowdnesse by way of just Complaint bitterly to cry out to the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London also to my fellow Aprentices which now with Foure other Book are all in Print and it is a wonder to me but onely Unrighteousnesse doth trample down Justice and Equity that you are not call'd to a strict accompt indeed for my just and lamentable Complaints against you and to let you know that when I had my health which was before my Friends were acquainted with Thomas Deane I was not idle but writ the• and have at command now more sheets of paper which many moneths agoe I sent into Holland to my Printer which the world yet never see then all my Printed Books doe contain filled full of such lines as will not onely vexe the Prelate of Canterburies heart but also shake his Rotten Antichristian and Babylonian Kingdome as will be seen when the time is come that I have determined that they shall be dispersed in It may be you will demand if I be mad to write such lines as these to you It is true indeed Oppression will make a wise man mad but if you say these are a mad mans lines you shew your selfe a Foole for I am as able to give a Reason for any thing that I doe as your selfe And if you would know a Reason why I thus write First of all It is because I love and take delight to rubbe a gald Horses backe especially when I perceive he will make sport by winching and kicking handsomely that so I may have something to laugh a•in my solatary condition now you have deprived me of the figh• of the face of my Friends 2. Secondly That I might a little informe you of the foolishnesse of your wayes to bring me to your bow for before any man that •rongs me as you have done get me to crouch unto him by tyrannyzing ever me I will first dye at hi• foot and therfore know that the more cruelty you exercise upon me the more notches you set upon the tally to make the Bill of my complaint in Parliament the larger against you and the more i• my spirit exasperated to cleave and sticke as closse unto you as the shirt opon your back or a• Drake did to the Spaniard and the closser you locke me up and the more you deprive me of the fight of my Friends the more active and nimbler in my meditations and invention to quit scores with you and pay you in your own coyne Yea did but your great Master his holynesse of Lambeth know how good service I have done to helpe to pull down his wicked Antichristian Kingdome since yeu last locked me up though I never made use of my neighbour Deane to carry nor bring none of my Bookes he would give you no thanks for your so doing to provoke me to it 3. Lastly I send you this that so you may know that though your cruelty make many cowards in this Prison yet I am not turned one as your great Lord Laud is though he be the King and head of the blacke Regiment of Locusts in this Kingdome yet never durst looke upon my face since I silenced him in the Star chamber in the open Court almost 3. yeares agoe though I have often since as you very well know challenged him to a disputation for I have still a true bred Souldiers heart in my belly that dreads nor feares none of my adversaries and therfore know seeing you have dealt with me as you have done that if there be but a Printing-house in any of the Cities in the Provinces of Holland I will cause this Letter to be Printed that so if it be possible it may be claimed up upon the Posts and made as publique as the Coblers Sermon that so you may if you will read it in the Streets as you goe to the Parliament house for because I hitherto could never get Iustice against you as I have often sent you word I will now Print some more of your knavery And as for the old knave Lewis the Steward who as I am told was the chiefe Informer against my neighbour Deane and my Friends because I have lately told him a little of his own by taking him to taske for his insolent domineering and insulting over the poore ma•• and for his combination with your selfe to cozen and cheate them of their due But time is a coming wherein if I live in the poore mens behalfe I shall in another manner tell him my mind And so at present I rest From your Common and bloody Slaughter-house called the Wards of the Fleet this 4th of October 1640. Your lawlesse oppressed closse Prisoner that now scornes to be beholden to your courtesie but bids defiance to your malice honest JOHN LILBURNE And this I counted my weding day in which I was married to the Lord Iesus Christ• for now I knowe •e loues me in that he hath bestowed soe rich apparrell this day upon me and counted me worthie to suffer for his sake I hauing a desire to retire into a private roome from the multitude of people that were about me which made me like to faint I had not been ther long but Mr. Lightburne the Tibstaffe of the Star-Chamber came to me saying the Lords sent him to me to knowe if I would acknowledge my selfe to be in a fault and then he knew what to say unto me To whom I replied Haue their Honours caused me to be whipt from the Fleet to Westminster and doe they now send to knowe if I wil acknowledge a fault They should have done this before I had beene whip• for now seeing I have v•dergone the greatest part of my punishment I hope the Lord will assi•t me to goe through it all and besides if I would haue done this at the first I needed not to haue come to this But as I tould the Lords when J was before them at the Barre Soe I desire you to tell them againe that I am not conscio•s to my selfe of doing any thing that deserues a submission but yet I doe willingly submit to their Lordships pleasures in my Censure He told me if I would confesse a fault it would saue me astanding on the Pillary o•herwise I must undergoe the burden of it Wel Said I J regard not a little outward d•sgrace for the cause of my God I haue •ound alreadie that sweetnesse in him in whom I haue beleeued that through his strength I am able to undergoe any thing that shalb•e inflicted on me But me thinks that J had verie hard measure that I should be condemned and thus punished vpon two Oaths in which the party hath most falslie foresworne himself• and because I would not take an Oath to betray mire owne innocency Why ' Raul found more favour and mercy from the Heathen Roman-Governors for they would not put him to an Oath to sccuse himselfe but suffered him to make the best defence •e could for