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A48481	To all the affectors and approvers in England of the London petition of the eleventh of September, 1648, but especially to the owners of it, by their subscriptions, either to it, or any other petition in the behalf of it; and particularly to the first promoters of it, my true friends, the citizens of London, &c. (continuing unshaken in their principles, by offices, places, or other base bribes or rewards) usually meeting at the Whalbone in Lothbury, behinde the Royal Exchange, commonly (but most unjustly) stiled Levellers.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1649 (1649)	Wing L2183A; ESTC R220125	11,753	8

settlement of the peace and government of this distracted wasted and divided Nation the firm establishing of the principles therein contained b●ing that only which will really and in good earnest marry and knit that interest what ever it be that dwells upon them unto the distressed and oppressed Commons or people of this Nation yea the setling of which principles is that that will thereby make it evident and apparent unto all rationall and understanding people in the world that the reall and hearty good and welfare of the people of this Nation hath cordially and in good earnest been that that their souls have hunted for and thirsted after in all the late bloody civill wars and contests All the Contests of the Kings party for his will and Prerogative being meerly Selvish and so none of the peoples interest and the contest of the Presbyterians for their mak●-bate dividing and hypocriticall Covenant no better in the least and the present contest of the present dissembling interest of Independents for the peoples Liberties in generall read the following Discourse pag. 27 28 29. meerly no more but Self in the highest and to set up the false saint and most desperate Apostate murderer and traytor Oliver Cromwel by a pretended election of his mercinary souldiers under the false name of the godly Interest to be King of England c. that being now too too apparently all the intended them by his Will and ●leasure and so destroy and envassalize their lives and properties to his lusts which is the highest treason that ever was committed or acted in this Nation in any sense or kinde either first in the eye of the Law or secondly in the eye of the ancient but yet too much arbitrary proceedings of Parliament or thirdly in the eye of their own late declared principles of reason by pretence of which and by no rules of Law in the least they took away the late Kings head and life which if there were any Law or Justice in England to be had or any Magistrates left to execute it as in the least there is not I durst undertake upon my life plainly evidently and undeniably to make good the foresaid unparalleld treasons against the foresaid Ol. Cromwel upon against all the three forementioned principles viz. Law Parliament and Reason yea and to frame against him such an Impeachment or Indictment which way of Indictments is the true legall and only just way of England to be tried at the Common Law higher and greater then all the charges against the fourty four Judges hanged for false and illegal Judgments by King Alfred before the conquest which with their crimes are recorded in the Law Book called The mirror of Justice Printed in English for Matthew Walbank at Grayes Inn gate 1646. page 239. 240. 241. 242. 243. 244. 245. See also page 196. 197. 207. ibid. Or then the impeachment or accusation Of the Lord chief Justice Wayland and the rest of his brother Judges and Lawyers tormented in Edward the first his time and mentioned in Speeds Chronicle fol. 635. Or then the impeachment in Parliament against Judg Thorp who for taking small bribes against his oath was condemned to die in Edward the third his time of whom you may read in the 3. part Cooks Institut fol. 155 156 and in Mr. Pyms Speech against the Earl of Strafford in the Book called Speeches and Passages of Parliament pag. 9. Or then the impeachment or a charge of the dethroned King Edward the second in full Parliament the maner of whose dethroning you may notably read in Speeds Chronicle fol. 665. Or then the many Articles of impeachment of the dethroned King Richard the second in full Parliament recorded at large in the Chronicles or History of Will. Martin fol 156. 157. 158 159. the 8. 10. 12. 15. 21. Articles of which I conceive most remarkable as to the people which are extraordinary well worth the reading for in them the King himself in those dark days of Popery is charged To have perverted the due course of the Law or Justice and Right and that he destroyed men by information without legal examination or tryal and that he had declared the Laws of the Kingdom were in his own Brest just the same thing do Mr. Peters and other mercenary Agents of the Grandees of the Army now constantly declare of them and that by himself and his own authority just Cromwel and Ireton like onely much short of them he had displaced divers Burgesses of the Parliament and had placed such other in their rooms as would better fit and serve his own turn Or then the impeachment of the Lord chief Justice Tris●…ian who had the worship or honor in Richard the second his time in full Parliament to be apprehended in the forenoon and hanged at Tiburn in the afternoon with his brother Judges viz. Ful●horp Be●knap Care Hot Burge and Lockton or their associates Sir Nicholas Bramble Lord Mayor of London Sir Simon Burley Sir William Elinham Sir John Salisbury Sir Thomas Trevit Sir James Bernis and Sir Nicholas Dodgworth some of whom were destroyed and hanged for setting their hands to Judgments in subversion of the Law in advancing the Kings will above Law yea and one of them banished therefore although a dagger was held to his brest to compel him thereunto Or then the indictment of those two grand and notorious traitorly subvertors of the Laws and Liberties of England Empson and Dudley Privy Counsellors to Henry the seventh recorded in Cooks 4. part Institut fol. 198. 199. read also fol 41. ibid. and 2. part Instit fol. 51. Or then the impeachment of that notorious wicked and traiterous man Cardinal Woolsey by King Henry the eight his Privy Councel recorded in the 4. part Cooks Instit fol. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. Read especially Artic. 17. 20. 21. 23. 25. 26. 30. 31. 33. 35. 38. 42. in all which he is charged with Arbitrariness and subversion of the Law Or then the impeachment of the Shipmoney Judges who in one judgment did as much as in them lay destroy all the Properties of all the men in England read the notable Speeches against them in Speeches and Passages Or then the impeachment of the Bishop of Canterbury in the late Parliament Or then the impeachment of the Lord Keeper Finch Earl of Strafford Secretary Windebank Sir Richard Bolton Lord Chancellor of Ireland John Lord Bishop of Derry Sir Gerrard Lowther Knight Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland and Sir George Ratcliff all whose impeachments are recorded in a Book intituled Speeches and Passages of Parliament from November 1640. 10 June 1641. Pag. 76. 77. to 83. and 117. 118. to 143. and 174. and 256. 257. 258. Or then the Articles or charge against the two Sir John Hothams the elder of which kept the King out of Hull the beginning of these Wars when the House of Commons durst not command him positively to do it although they were

To all the Affectors and Approvers in England of the London Petition of the eleventh of September 1648. but especially to the owners of it by their subscriptions either to it or any other Petition in the behalf of it and particularly to the first promoters of it my true Friends the Citizens of London c. continuing unshaken in their principles by Offices Places or other base bribes or rewards usually meeting at the Whalbone in Lothbury behinde the Royal Exchange commonly but most unjustly stiled Levellers Gentlemen and worthy Friends IT is the saying of the Spirit of God Prov. 17.17 That a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity And Prov. 18.24 There is a friend that sticketh closer then a brother the last of which sayings I am able by experience to seal to the truth of and even amongst you I have found some that in the burning heat of the day of my Adversity have stuck closer to me then my brother which was not onely largely manifested by your Petitioning for me when I was prisoner in Newgate about four yeers ago and by your effectual Petitioning for me last year which was the instrumental means of my deliverance out of an almost three years captivity But also your late unwearied pains taken for me c. in divers Petitions of a hazardous nature at the beginning of my present captivity which though fruitless in themselves as to my liberty yet are strong demonstrations of the continuance of your zealous affections to me in particular and to the Liberties of the Land of your nativity for which I suffer and am in bonds But hearing that you had some thoughts of new motions for me and my fellow-prisoners I judg it a fit opportunity for me to visit you with a few lines and to acquaint you how things at present stand with me I beleeve the most of you have seen if not read my late Book of the eight of June 1649. Intituled The legal fundamental Liberties of the people of England revived asserted and vindicated in which from the 43. page to the 59. page I have fully both by Law and Reason undeniably and unanswerably proved That the present Juncto sitting at Westminster are no Parliament at all in any sense either upon the principles of Law or Reason but are a company of usurping Tyrants and destroyers of your Laws Liberties Freedoms and Properties sitting by vertue of the power and conquest of the Sword from whom if we will believe their Oracle Mr. John Cook we may and ought if we can to deliver our selves His words in the Kings Case stated page 10. are That all people that live at the beck and nod of Tyrannical men may and ought to free themselves from that Tyranny if and when they can for such Tyrants that so domineer with a rod of Iron do not govern by Gods permissive hand of approbation or benediction but by the permissive hand of his providence suffering them to scourge the people for ends best known unto himself until he open a way for the people to work out their own infranchisements And in page 22. saith he Conquest onely makes title amongst Wolves and Bears but not amongst men And in page 8. That a man ruling by Lust and not by Law is a Creature that was never of Gods making nor of Gods approbation but his permission and though such men are said to be gods on Earth it s in no other sense th●n the Devil is called the god of this world The same Note also the great men of the Army sing in their late Remonstrance from Saint Albans Novemb. 16. 1648. p. 48. 67. and in page 22. they say That when a Magistrate intrusted with a power to protect and preserve the peoples R●ghts and Liberties shall rise to the assuming hurtful powers which he never had committed to him and indeed to take away all those foundations of Right and Liberty and of redress or remedy too which the people have reserved from him and to swallow up all into his own absolute will and power to impose or take away yea to destroy at pleasure and declaring all appeal herein to the established equal Judgment or to any other Judgment of men at all shall flie to the way of Fame upon the trusting people which both Cromwel and Ireton c. have already a● really done as ever the King did and by it attempt to uphold and establish himself in that absolute tyrannical power so assumed over them and in the exercise thereof at pleasure such a person in so doing does forfeit all that trust and power he had and absolve the people thereby from the Bonds and Covenant of Peace betwixt him and them does set them free to take their best advantage and if he fall within their power to proceed in judgment against him even for that alone if there were no more of all which in the evil part of it in the highest the chief Authors of that Remonstrance are guilty Therefore out of thy own mouth will I judg thee thou wicked servant sa●th Christ Luke 19.22 And saith Paul to his One of themselves even a Prophet of th●ir own said The Cretians are always liers evil Beasts slow Bellies this witness is true therefore c. Now I say considering that which is before declared I cannot upon any terms in the world either with safety justice or conscience as things stand with me at present give my consent but hinder as much as I am able all addresses from you or any others for me that shall own those usurping Tyrants as a Parliament especially by Petition Which was a course saith the pretended Parliament Solicitor against the King in his Case stated page 24. which Gods people did not take with Rehoboam for they never Petitioned him although he was their lawful and supreme Magistrate but advised him he refusing their counsel and hearkened to young and wicked Counsellors and they cry out To thy Tents O Israel and made quick and short work of it But I shall rather desire and advise you by Letter like your selves address your selves to the Lord Fairfax by the sword of whom and his Souldiers I am now in prison for my honesty and innocency and nothing else and demand my liberty of him if he refuse print it and do as God and Reason shall direct you for it was his and his Souldiers force that fetcht me out of my Bed the 28 of March 1649. without all shadow of Law or Justice and against the tenor of all their own Declarations the particular pages of which you may read in my following Letter to Mr. Holland page 5. And by force of Arms carryed me to whitehal and then to Derby house before a company of men that in Law had no more power to commit my body to prison then so many theeves and robbers upon Suiters Hill have who by the Rules of their own wills as in the second Edition of the Picture of them