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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

then the 12 of May 1649. It is Ordered and Resolved that we all four be restrained a● close Prisoners apart one from another in severall lodgings in the Tower but he were wise that knew wherefore crime to my charge for it only commits me Sir Arthur being one of the makers of it for suspition of treason and names no particular act and generals in law are nothing as appears in 2 par instit fol. 52. 53. 590. 591. 615. 616. and by the 1 par Parl. book of Dec. pa. 38. 39. 77. 66 67 101. 123. 162. 201. 203. 277. 278. 845. see also the Armies Book of Declarations pag. 70. and my Plea before the Judges of the Kings Bench the 8 of May 1648. called the Laws funerall pag. 8. 16 17. 11. At which tryal by strength of arguments I forced the Judges openly to confesse that generals are nothing in law see also the 2 Edition of my Book of the 8 of June 1649. Intituled The legall fundamentall liberties of the people of England revived asserted and vindicated pag. 5 21. all which rightly considered it cleerly appears I am an innocent man in the eyes of those very men that committed me who never laid crimes in their lives to my charge to this present houre And therefore I can stile it no better then Robbery and Felony in Sir Arthur Haslerig Colonel George Fenwicke c seizing upon my estate with a Felonious intent to deprive me of it without any pretence shadow or colour of law and not only felony but Treason it selfe in subverting our fundamentall lawes higher then ever the Earle of Straffords was for which he lost his head who in his large additionall Impeachment 1640. in the preamble of it recorded in Speeches and passages of Parliament pag. 120. 121. 122. to 143. is impeached as a Traitor for procuring instructions or commission from the King to him in the North of England as Lord President to heare and determine causes according to the arbitrary course of the Star-Chamber in pursuance of which he the said Earl in the month of May in the 8 year of the said King and divers years following did put in practice the said Commission and Instructions and did direct and exercise an exorbitant and unlawfull power and jurisdiction on the persons and estates of his Majesties subjects in those parts and did disinherit divers of his Majesties subjects in those parts of their inheritances sequestred their possessions and did fine ransome punish and imprison them and caused them to be fined ransomed punished and imprisoned to their ruine and destruction and namely Sir Conyer Darcy Sir Iohn Boucher and divers others against the lawes and in subversion of the same and that by virtue of the said illegall Commission he did most Traiterously stop the efficacy of all prohibitions and habeas corpus●es and would not suffer any party to be discharged till the party performed the Arbitrary De●●ce and Orders of him and his associates and Traiterously to the subversion of the fundamentall lawe of ENGLAND and to the terrour of those that administred them did the 21 of March in the fo●●● 18 yeare at the open assises at Yorke say that some of the Justices were all for Law but they should finde that the King little finger should be heavier then the loynes of the Law but the said Sir ARTHUR HASLERIG c. more arbitrartly and more trayterously then Strafford having no pretence of REGAL Legall or Parliamentary-Commission or Authority no no● so much as from the present nothing or illegall JVNCTO or the present illegall thing called The ●ouncel of state that ever he produced or shewed hath Feloniously and trayte●ously seised upon my estate meerly by his own will and of set purpose to starve me and my family thereby without any manner of colourable pretence and therefore aboundantly ●●●h in law and reason more deserve to dye then the Earl of STRAFFORD did especially considering he was one of his Judges that in terrour and example to others seriously and judiciously condemned him to the Scaffold for these very things and this Arbitrary Power exercised in England by the Earle of Strafford is not only condemned judged (*) See the Act of his Attainder which saith that he is impeached of high treason for endeavouring to subvert the ancient and fundamentall lawes and government of his Majesties Realmes of England and Ireland and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall government against law in the said Kingdomes and for exercising a tyrannous and exorbitant power over and against the lawes of the said Kingdoms over the Liberties estates and lives of his Majesties Subjects for which he is adjudged and attainted of high Treason and shall therefore suffer the paines of death and losse of his estate See this at large in the peoples Prerogative pag 29. Treason but also the like in Ireland as appears in the 3 article of his Impeachment for that as the article saith it was governed by the same Lawes where the Earle being Lord Deputy and intending the subversion of the fundamentall lawes there did upon the 30 day of Septem in the ninth year of the late King in a publick Speech at Dublin declare and publish that Ireland (*) Which very language is now growne so common amongst them that their little Beagles commonly yelp it out See Master Prinnes Book called a legall vindication of the Liberties of England against illegall taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people pag. 1. was a conquered Nation and so say our great o●es here England now is and that the King might do with it what he pleased as Oliver c. say they may do with this And in his 4 Article he is impeached as a Traytor for arbitrarily stopping and prohibiting Richard Earl of Corke the benefit of the Law for recovery of his possession from which he was put by colour of an Order made by the said Earl of S●rafford and the Councel Table there whom upon the 20 of Feb. in the 11 yeare of the late King upon a paper petition without a legall proceeding he threatned to imprison him unlesse he would surceae his suit and said that he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders and further said he would make the the Earl and all Ireland know so long as he had the government there any act of State there made or to be made should be as binding to the sub●ects of that Kingdom a an act of Parliament and upon sundry other occasions ●ust Host●●ig like by his words and speeches did arrogate to himselfe a power above the fundamental● Lawes and established government of that Kingdom and scorned the said Laws and established government And in Article 6. he is impeached as a Traitor in that without any legall proceedings and upon a paper petition of Richard Ralstone he did cause the said Lord Mo●n● Norris to be disseised and put out of possession as the Trustees for

Bishops Lands hath lately but more unjustly done my self and my Landlord * Whose legal interest thereunto is thus Nicholas Young Esquire had a Patent from Bishop Montague about 30 yeers since confirmed by the Dean and Chapter of Winchester which is unquestionably good in Law for the keeping of the Manor of Winchester House in Southwark and not only so but also for his life to enjoy all the profits benefits c. of the said Manor house gardens orchards and all things thereunto belonging as is largely set forth in the said Patent All which upon speciall view of Youngs Evidence by a select Committee of Parliament hath been since solemnly confirmed by an Ordinance of a full free and unquestionable Parliament about five yeers agoe which Ordinance forced Devenish to pay Young as his tenant for his un●●●estionable legal and confirmed right in the said house 52 l. per ●●nun for the bare Manor House reserving unto the said Young as much besides as was worth about as much more per annum all which right the said Devenish bought for money of him and M. John Cook drew up the conveyances who hath often told me Devenish his right was as good as either Law or Ordinance could make it of which Devenish I took a Lease for three yeers in case Young lives so long for as much as I am to pay 13 l. per annum and yet by force of arms without any manner of proceedings at Law by the command and wil of the said T●uftees c. we are dispossessed of our just and legall possessions by the hands of the Sheriff of Surrey who if we could enjoy any Law as in the least we cannot is liable to repay all our wrongs c. But for my part seeing I live in a Land where Law and Justice is in words professed I am resolved as soon to part with my heart blood as in silence slave and vassal-like part with my legal and unquestionable right and possession although the Trustees have lately sold it as it is said to M. Walker of Newington which they have no more right to do then so many theeves have to sel the clothes of my back Ob●ave Independent Justice more abominable in their ways and doings then all the currupt Interest that pretendedly for tyranny they have pulled down Devenish at Winchester house of his free-hold and inheritance of his Manor of TYMORE in the County of ARMAGH after he had two yeers quiet possession In the 7 and 8 Articles of which are severall other cases of the like nature as of Thomas Lord Dillons Adam Viscount Losius and George Earl of Kildare and the Lady Mary Hibbots which eighth Article concludeth in these words That the Earl in like manner did imprison divers others of his Majesties subjects upon pretence of disobedience to his Orders Decrees and other illegall commands by him made for pretended Debts titles of Lands and other causes in an arbitrary and extrajudiciall course upon paper Petitions to him preferred and no other cause legally depending For aggravation of whose offences in treasonably subverting the fundamentall Laws and Liberties of England and Ireland read the Masculine speech of Mr. John Py● against him and the Argument of Solicitor S. John now the pretended Lord chief Justice of the Common Pleas against him who toward the last end of his argument by way of aggravation of Straffords crime in setting up an arbitrary Government in the overthrow of the Law saith The Parliament is the representation of the whole Kingdom wherein the King as Head your Lordships as the more noble and the Commons the other members are knit together in one body politick this crime of Straffords dissolves the arteries and ligaments that hold the bo●y together viz the Lawes he that takes away the Laws takes not away the allegeance of one s●bject alone but of the whole kingdom It was saith he made treason by the Statute of the 13 Eliz for her time to affirm That the Laws of the Land do not binde the descent of the Crown No Law no descent at all No Laws no PEERAGE no ranks or degrees of men the same condition to all It s Treason to kill a Judge upon the Bench This kils not only the Judge but the Judgment It s Felony to imbezell any one of the judiciall Records of the Kingdom This at once sweeps them all away and from all It s treason to counterfeit a twenty shillings Piece Here 's a counterfeiting of the Law we can neither call the counterfeit nor true Coin our own It s Treason to counterfeit the Great Seal for an Acre of Land No property hereby is left to any ‖ It was well said in a Speech against the Ship mony Judges Take from us as the said Judges by that Judgment had done the propriety of our estates our subsistence and we are no more a people Speeches and Passages of Parliament pag. 271. land at all Nothing Treason now neither against King NOR KINGDOM no Law to punish it And therefore he concludes in aggravation against Strafford or any thing by way of Plea advantage or excuse that can be said for him He that would not have others to have Law why should he have any himself why should not that be done to him that himself would have done to others It s true saith he We give law to Hares and Deers because they be beasts of chase but it was never accounted cruelty or foul play TO KNOCK FOXES AND WOLVES ON THE HEAD AS THEY CAN BE FOUND because these be beasts of prey Out of thine own mouth saith Christ thou wicked servant will I judge thee Luke 19 21. And saith Paul Tit. 1.12 13. One of themselves even one of their own prophets said The Cretians are alwa●es Lyars evill beasts flow bellies This witnesse is true Therefore I desire Sir ARTHUR HASLERIG to consider that if he deserves death that steals a sheep or an o● c. because it is a transgression of a Law which Law I say in it self is unjust for putting men to death for theft what doth he deserve that breaks not only that Law by theft as he hath done in stealing my goods but breaks all the Laws of humane society by murder plots and conspiracies to take away the innocents lives all which he hath done to me First By endavouring to murder me by cruell and illegall imprisonment and close and barbarous imprisonment for he was one of my unjust Judges that for nothing committed me Secondly By conspiracy (**) The punishment of Conspirators saies Cook in his 3 Part Inst f. 222 is five fold 1. That their bodies shall be imprisoned in the Common Goal 2. Their Wives and children amoved out of their houses Thirdly that all their Houses and Lands shall be seized into the Kings hands and the House wasted and the Trees extirpated Fourthly All their goods and chattels forfeited to the King Fiftly That they shall lose the freedom and franchise of

my zealous and forward Judges and when Warned James Ingram came to the B●● of the Court of Wards and brought Master Herne ●●h C●uncellor to plead for the Lords and in excuse of himself● who st●sly insisted in a high manner upon the orders and decrees of Star-Chamber upon which I very well remember Sir Arthur with a great deale of indignation said unto Herne I value not a Decree of the Lords in Star-Chamber a rush if it be not expresly according to the tenor of their commission the Law and I further tell you it is a ridiculous thing Sir to summon Parliaments to meet together to make Laws if the Lords decrees in Star-Chamber against law should be bind●ng and therefore although you have proved for your Clyant Master Ingram that the Lords in open Court the Court sitting commanded him on the Pillory to gagg Master Lilburn● yet for speaking against them I tell you by law that order ought to have been in writing according to the custom of the Court which you confesse it was not and therefore Master Ingram must smart for his executing of orders on M. Lilburne made illegally and fan hearing and examining of all my foresaid sufferings and complaints troubles and the warres came on and being in my own conscience folly satisfied of the justness● of the Parliaments then cause in the height of zeale accompanied with judgment and conscience upon the principles I have largely laid down in the 26. 27. 75. 76 pages of my book of the 8th of June 1649. intituled Englands legal fundamentall c. I took up Armes for them and fought heartily and faithfully in their quarrel for maintaining of which I had like to have been hanged at Oxford while during my in prisonnment there I lost 5 or 600 l. out of my estate at London till the p●esent Earle of Manchester had like to have hanged me for being a little to quick in taking in Tikell Castle which spoyled a souldier of me ever since after which in the year 1648. I followed the House of Commons close to transmit my foresaid votes to the Lords which with much difficulty occasioned chiefly by Mr William Prinne and other his zealous Presbyterian frien●s I got by peice-meales transmitted where by reason of Manchesters interest I might have expected long delay yet I found quick dispatch and upon the 1 of December 1645 by specially decree they took off the fine set upon me by the Starchamber and afterwards I got the whole vote transmitted who at their open Barre Judicially upon the 13 of February 1645. appointed me a solemn hearing de novo of the whole matter and assigned Mr. John Bradshaw and Mr. John Cook for my counsell who with abundance of witnesses accordingly appeared where Mr. Bradshaw did most notably open the Starchamber injustice towards me but especially their (*) Whose very words all are recorded by M. John Cook in his printed Relation of that dayes proceedings before the Lords who in the 3 page thereof upon the reading of the Star-chamber sentence against me most truly recites Mr. Bradshaws observations in these very words viz. that the said sentence was felo de se guilty of its own death the ground whereof being because Mr Lilburne refused to take an oath to answer to all such questions as should be demanded of him It being so contrary to the Lawes of God Nature and the Kingdom for any man to be his own accuser and yet the same Mr. Bradshaw after he hath most illegally taken away the Kings life and drenched his hands in his blood commits me then to prison for suspition of Treason meerely for refusing to answer to a question that he himself demanded of me as fully appears in the 2 edition of my picture of the Councell of state pag 10. 11. 16. ex officio or interogatogatory proceedings with me and produced my witnesses upon oath punctually to prove every head of his argument Upon which full hearing the Lords made a notable decree and adjudged and declared tho 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 Law of the Land and Magna Charta and unfit to continue upon record But not assigning me any reparations in that Decree the doing of which the House of Commons left unto them and the Lords according to former custome looked upon to be their right in law to do whereupon I got Mr. John Cook to draw me up that dayes work with most pregnant and notable aggravations which I printed and presented a few dayes after to every one of the Lords praying their assigning me particular reparations according to Law and Justice out of the Estates of my unjust Judges that had done me so much wrong upon which new addresse to them they did upon the fifth of March 1645. order and decree and assigned to be paid unto the said John Lilburne the summe of ten thousand pounds for his Reparations which for many reasons as there being ayding in the warres to the King c. they fixed upon the Estates reall and personall of Francis Lord Cottington Sir Francis Windebank and James Ingram late Deputy Warden of the Fleet and afterwards by an other Decree for the present levying thereof out of their lands at eight yeers purchase as they were before the Warres with the allowance of Interest at 8 l per centum per annum in case of obstruction for all or any part of it and to this purchase caused an Ordinance to be drawn up which fully passed their House the 15 20 and 27. of Aprill 1646. and afterwards transmitted it to the House of Commons where by reason of my bloody adversary old Sir Henry Vains Interests and of my imprisonment by Manchesters means in the Tower of London it lay asleep till the 1. of August 1648 at which time 7. or 8000. of my true friends in London signed and caused to be delivered a Petition to the House of Commons for my Liberty and the passing of the said Ordinance which Petition is since printed with the Speech of my true Friend Sir John Maynard upon it And in reference to which Ordinance the House made this Order Die Martis 1 August 1648. Sir JOHN MAYNARD Sir PETER WENTVVORTH Lord CARRE Col. BOSVVEL Col. LUDLOVV Mr HOLLAND Mr COPLEY IT is referred to this Committee or any five of them to consider how Colonel John Lilburn may have such satisfaction and allowance for his sufferings and losses as was formerly intended him by this House Henry Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. Upon which Order I got the Committee to meet and preferred a Petition to them the true copy of which followeth in my addresse to every individuall Member daied 4 of September 1648. Upon which Petition at my discourse with them the Parliament having disposed of all that part of the Lord COTTINGTONS estate that I should have had unto the Lord SEY and also compounded with

Jones And after the barbarous execution of this Sentence being April 18. 1638. the said Lord Coventry Arch bishop of Canterbury Bishop of London Earl of Manchester Earl of Arundel Earl of Salisbury Lord Conington Lord Newburgh Secretary Cook and Windebank passed another Sentence in effect for the Starving of your Petitioner and for the tormenting of him with irons upon both hands and legs both night and day and by keeping him close in the comm●n Gacle of the Fleet from the speech of any of his friends all which was executed with the greatest cruelty that could be for the space of almost three yeers together to the apparant hazard of his life both by starving him which was with all art and industry severall wayes attempted and also by severall assaults made upon him by the said Wardens men instigated thereunto by the said Deputy Warden to the maiming and wounding him whereby to this day he is totally deprived of the use of two of his fingers All which with much more too tedious to be here inserted was fully proved by sufficient witnesses before a Committee of your House whereof M. Francis Rous had the Chair upon whose report made May 4. 1641 your House voted That the Sentence in the Star-chamber given against the said John Lilburn and all the proceedings thereupon was illegall and against the liberty of the Subject and also bloody wicked cruell barbarous and tyrannicall and that he ought to have good Repa●ations therefore Which Votes by reason of multiplicity of businesse in your House cost your Petitioner some yeers of importunate and chargeable attendance to get them transmitted to the Lords which was obtained in February 1645. the 13 day of which month your Petitioners whole cause was effectually opened at the Lords Bar by his learned Councel M. John Bradshaw and M. John Cook and there every particular again proved upon Oath by testimony of people of very good quality whereupon they concurred in all things with the House of Commons saving in the matter of Reparation But upon the delivery of a true narrative the Copy whereof is hereunto annexed which your Petitioner with his own hands in the same month delivered unto every individuall Lord they made a further Decree that your Petitioner should have 2000 l. reparations out of the estates of the said Lord Cottington Sir Francis Windebank and James Ingram for the reasons alledged in an Ordina●ce which they passed in April 1646 and transmitted to your House where it hath lain dormant ever since and is now referred to the consideration of this Honorable Committee Now forasmuch as by the judicial Laws of God which are the pure laws of right reason he that wilfully harteth his neighbour is bound to the performance of these five things First If it be a blemish or wound Like for like or to redeem it with money thereby to satisfie him for his wound Secondly For his pain and torment Thirdly For the healing Fourthly For his losse of time in his calling Fifthly For the shame and disgrace all which are to be considered according to the quality of the person damnified which reparations are to be paid out of the best of the goods of him that damnified him and that without delay And as the Law of God so the Laws of this Nation doth abhorre and hath severely punished above all persons Judges many times with the losse of their ‖ ‖ ‖ See notably to this purpose those pregnant instances in my Epistle to my nick named Levelling friends usually meeting at the Whalebone in Lothbury behind the Exchange dated From my close imprisonment in the Tower of London the 17 of July and recorded in my Impeachment of high-Treason against Oliver Cromwel c. pag. 6. 7. 8. lives and estates who under colour of Law have violated their Oaths and destroyed the lives liberties and properties of the People whom by law they should have preserved as may be instanced by the 44 Judges and Justices hanged in one yeer by King Alfred divers of them for lesse crimes then hath been done in this case of your Petitioner as may be read in the Law-book called The Mirrour of Justice pag. 239. 240. 241. translated and re-printed this very Parliament and by Justice Thorp in Edw the third his time who was condemned to death for the violation of his Oath for taking small summs of money in Causes depending before him as appears in the 3 part of Cooks Institute fol. 155.156 And by the Lord chief Justice Tresilian c. who in full Parliament in Rich. the seconds time was attached as a Traitor in the forenoon and had his throat cut at Tyburn in the afternoon because he had given it under his hand that the King might create unto himself as his pleasure another rule to walk by then the Law of the Land prescribes him as appears by the Parliament Records in the Tower by many of your own Declarations and also by the Chronicles of England Now forasmuch as your Petitioners sufferings hath been unparalel'd and his prejudice sustained thereby altogether unrepatrable having lost his limbe c. And forasmuch as by the Law of God Nature and Nations reparations for hurts and damages received ought to be satisfied as far as may be in all persons though done by a●cident and not intentionally and though through ignorance much more when the Persons offending did it knowingly and on purpose in the face nay in the spight of the fundamentall Laws of the Land which they were swoon to preserve And for that the reparations in the said Ordinance assigned doth scarce amount to what your Petitioner spent in his three yeers sad captivity and his now almost eight yeers chargeable attendance ●n suing for it besides the losse of a rich and profitable trade for eleven yeers together and his wounds torments smart and disgrace sustained by his said Tyannicall sentences He therefore humbly prayeth the favour and Justice of this honorable Committee for some considerable augmentation of his said Reparations and the rather because his fellow sufferer Doctor B●stwick had 4000 l. reparations alotted him whose sufferings he submissively conceiveth was nothing nigh so great in torment pain and shame as your Petitioners And forasmuch as the now Lord Coventry son and heir to the foresaid Lord Coventry hath walked in his Father Steps in enmity to the Laws Liberties and freedom of the Nation by being in arms at the beginning of the Wars against the Parliament and made his peace with the Earl of Essex for a small matter hath since disened the Kingdom living in France privately receiving the profits of a vast estate which his Father left him And forasmuch as his said Father the late Lord Coventry was the activest man in infringing the Laws and liberties of the Nation although a Lawyer and Judge sitting on the supream seat of justice and a person as is groundedly conceived who got a great estate by corruption and particularly a man

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

and deprive the King of his legall power and to place on Subjects an arbitrary and tyrannicall power 2. That they have endeavoured by many foul aspersions upon his Majesty and his Government to alienate the affections of his people and to make his Majesty odious to them 3. That they have endeavoured to draw his Majesties late Army to disobedience to his Majesties command and to side with them in their trayterous design 4. That they have trayterously invited and incouraged a Forraign Power to invade his Majesties Kingdome of England 5. That they have trayterously endeavoured to subvert the very rights and beings of Parliament 6. That for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have endeavoured as far as in them lay by force and terrour to compell the Parliament to joyn with them in their trayterous designs and to that end have actually raised and countenanced tumults against the King and Parliament 7. That they have trayterously conspired to levy and actually have levied warr against the King And therefore the premisses duly considered Haslerig hath dealt more unjustly more illegal●y and more unrighteously with me then ever the King dealt with him or his Associates and therefore as a Tyrant and a Traitour he ought to die therefore upon his own practised and declared principles But moreover although the King formally and for any thing I know to the contrary Parliamentarily impeached him as a Traitour and yet for all that never sought for or challenged any of his money Lands or Goods untill he were Legally convicted and yet by the Parliament it self it was looked upon for such a violation of the Law because it was not as they pretended formall in every punctilio according to the Law as occasioned the highest Declarations against the King that their pens could invent with aggravation upon aggravation and no personall recantatation from the King himself could serve their ●●rn ●he illustration of which you may notably and fully read in the 2 Edition of my book of the 8 of June 1649 pag. 12. 13. 14. 15. 18. 19. 20. 21. 'till they had made it the first declared occasion to ki●dle the flames of all the ' late eight yeers cruell warres in England yea and for it and such like as it at the conclusion they took off the Kings head as a Tyr●nt ' for that he had set his will above the law ●y which he ought to have governed as appears in the first Article of his impeachment Therefore let Haslerig look to himself for I do b●leeve if he or hi● bloodthirsty associates should murder me yet God out of my ashes would raise up some vigorously to endeavour to bring h●s neck to the gallows or his head to the block for his Tyrannies and A●bitrary dealing with me and for my part so long as I have bre●th by the gracious assistance of God I shall not bate him an●●ce although I perish in the prosecution of him let him and all his associates do the worst they dare or can And therefore Sir I most earnestly beg of you to intreat my Father to pluck up so much courage as truly and exactly to state the present condition of my businesse with Haslerig and send me an exact Narrative of it from the beginning of Haslerig 's medling with it and also I intreat you your self to certifie me if you dare under your hand the manner and particulars of all his arbitrary dealings with your particular self and your Committees c. And whether that he himself were not the absolute and single Instrument that caused you and my Father for your publike and known good affection to the Common-wealth and nothing else to be turned out of the Commission of the Peace c. And when he had so done whether he alone by his meer Will and Prerogative did not name Master Henry Draper and caused him to be made a Justice of the Peace c. although as I am credibly and certainly informed he was a notable Cavalier and had a Commission from the Earle of Newcastle and not three months before HASLERIG 's making him a Justice of Peace he had paid part of his Composition to HASLERIG 's own particular hands or his Treasurer by his order and appointment And whether he did not also lately name and by his Prerogative will put in Sir Richard B●ll●s for another Justice of Peace for your County who to my own knowledge was about my last being in your County found and proved a Delinquent Sir Arthur himselfe being one of his chiefest Prosecutors and stands sequestred as a Delinquent Cavalier to this day And whether he did not lately the same to Sir George Vane who you may remember at the Committee betwixt you and John Blaston and his Cavalier brother in Law Mr. Shadforth where Sir Arthur at Westminster in Febr. last sate Chairman I offered before Sir Arthurs face and all the rest of his fellow Members to prove Sir Georg● Vane a Cavalier and to have been actually in Arms with the King at Edge hill and also opened to Haslerig 's face and the whole Committees Haslerig 's base and partiall dealings in the North in contradicting the Orders of your Committe of Sequestration and racing out of their Orders what he pleased in the case of Shadforth and your self and putting in what he pleased yea and against the Order and mind of the Committee would have i● in his pa●ticular Order to passe for your and Shadforths drawing stakes to the great intentionall cheating and cozening of the Common wealth after Shadforth was fully proved a Delinquent upon the 14. Articles and to save himself had impeached you who desired nothing but a fair and judiciall triall to be another of which false Charge since as I understand for all Haslerig 's and John Blastons power and malice The present Jancto hath fully 〈◊〉 you which Shadforth by his meere will as I understand he hath since made a justic● of peace c. as also Colonell Francis Wren who he himself knowes was most basely and vildly in the head of his Regiment in Scotland cashiered by his friend Cromwell for a desperate plunderer c. And all th●s he hath done as to me clearly appears that he may rule and govern you by his will and pleasure and have none in power that shall dare to controul him or to tell tales of him of which rather then he will faile hee will against his owne declared Principles and the ' Ordinances of Lords and Commons yea the acts of the present Juncto make use of the notablest Cavaliers amongst you to be your principall governours and more especiall Rulers and yet lately would have hanged me for but appearing corresponding with the Princes Agents of wh●ch he was so zealous to take away my life for that rather then he would fail he c. attempted to bribe and hire false witnesse to swear against me declaring bare correspondency with the Prince his Agents to be crime enough to take away

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 LILBVRN now Prisoner in the Tower of London As also for his felonious Rob●ing the said Lieut Col. JOHN LILBVRN of betwixt 24 and 2500 l. by the meer power of his own will without ever fixing any reall or pretended crime upon the said Lieutenant Col. or so much as affording him any formall proceedings though upon a paper Petition IN WHICH ACTION ALONE he the s●i● HASLERIG hath outstript the Earl of STRAFFORD in traiterously sulverting the fundamentall Liberties of England and in time of Peace exercising an arbitrary and tyrannicall Government OVER AND ABOVE LAW and better and more justly deserves to die therefore then ever the Earl of STRAFFORD did especially considering he was one of his Judges that for such actions condemned him to lose his head as a Traytor by which tyrannicall actions the said HASLERIG is become a Polecat a Fox and a Wolf as a subverter and destroyer of humane society and may and ought to be knockt on the head therefore by the very words of Solicitor St. JOHN's own doctrine against the said Earl of Strafford 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 Isa 1.14 Your new Moons and your appointed Feasts my soul hateth they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them Vers 15. And when you spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not hear your hands are full of blood Honoured Sir YOurs of the 2 present from Durham about Sir Arthur Hoslerig and my Money I have received In answer unto which I cannot chuse but acquaint you that the Law of England is the Birth ●●ght and Inheritance of the people of England yea of the meanest as well as 〈◊〉 richest 1 Part Parliaments Book of Declarat pag. 459. 660. And though the Law of England be not so good and so exact in every particular especially manifestly proved First that before indictment the goods or other things of any offendor cannot be searched inventoried or in any sort seised nor after judgement seised and removed or taken away before conviction or Attainder Secondly That the begging of the goods or state of any delinquent accused or indicted of any Treason felony or any other offence before he be convicted and attainted is utterly unlawfull because before conviction or attainder as hath been said nothing is forfeited to the King nor grantable by him and besides it either makes the prosecution against the delinquent more precipitate violent and undue then the quiet and equall proceeding of law and justice would (*) See notably to this purpose in the 2 p. instit fol. 48. permit or else by some underhand composition and agreement stop and hinder the due course of justice for exemplary punishment of the offender And lastly when the Delinquent is begged it discourageth both Judge Juror and Witnesse to do their duty Therefore saith he there let such as beg the delinquent and prosecute against him be terrified by the villanous judgment against conspirators which you may read before cap. 1. Judgment and execution fol. 122. as also fol. 143 163 164. and 1 par fol. 269. and 2 par fol. 130. 237 238. 562. which are most excellent peeces and well worth the reading Therefore considering what is before expressed I cannnot but wonder upon what (*) Peruse carefully I intreat you the quotations in the 6 and 8 pages of my forementioned impeachment of high Treason against Cromwel as also the 12 and 15 pages of the 2 edition of my forementioned Book dated the 8 of June 1649. Intituled The Legall fundamentall liberties c. pretence Sir Arthur Haslerig Col. George Fenwick and the rest of their Committee at Newcastle can seize upon my estate in the hands of Sir Henry Belli●gham and Master Thomas Bowes and stopping my rents du●●rom Sir Henry Gibs his hands to the full value of betwixt twenty four and twenty five hundred pounds For first though the late Parliament in the height of wars a little outstript the bounds and rules of the law as themselves confesse in their notabl Declaration of the 17 of Apr. 1646. printed in the 2 part of the Book of Declarations pag. 879 in sequestring of mens estates in another manner and forme the law requires delinquents estates to be seised upon because their persons by reason of the raging of the sword could not be come by nor were all the Courts of Justice open nor the wants of the common-wealth to maintaine the wars could not well permit so great delays as the regular course of the law requires which when the wars are over as in England now they are they promise to amend and to proceed according to the forme of the law as fully appeares in their last forementioned Declaration add severall others as particularly the Declaration of this present Juncto against Kingship Dated the 17 of March 1648. Yet I am sure by the Parliaments own Ordinances no man in times of wars ought to be sequestred till it be judicially upon Oath proved that he hath been in arms against them all voluntarily contributed horse mony or plate to the King against them none of all which in the least can be so much as be pretended against me or ever was and therefore no cause to pretend to deal with me as with a Cavalier Delinquent in the least and therefore if I have transgressed I must upon their own principles he dealt with according to law and the forme thereof And therefore I have not tra●sgressed the law but am an innocent man clearly appears by their own particular dealing with me in that they never let me see either Prosecutor Informer or witnesse agai●st me nor never shewed me my Indictment Charge or impeachment no nor so much as face to face ever laid any manner of crime to my charge See my narrative of their originall wicked Tyrannicall dealing with me laid down in my Second Edition of the picture of the Councel of State in the ●6 pag. of which the Copy of their mittimus is recorded which yet layes no (*) And their warrants since for my close imprisonment runs thus without any cause or crime expressed in them Die Mercurij 9 of May 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that there be restraint upon all persons from comming to Lieu Col. John Lilburne M. Thomas Prince M. William Walwin and M. Richard Overton except their wives and children and necessary servants Hen. Scobel Cler. Parlie and

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

this Committee you were pleased to write to the Committee of Sequestrations of the County of Durham to make Certificates to this Committee of the estates of new Delinquents in their County who by their Letter and Certificates of the 12. of October present certifie of the clear delinquency of Sir Henry Gibb Knight Sir Henry Bellingham Knight and Baronet and Thomas Bows Esquire all of whom have reall estates in the said County of Durham the obtaining of which Certificate cost your Petitioner a tedious and chargeable journey into those parts That your Petitioner for divers weighty reasons in his own thoughts fixed principally upon the estate of Sir Henry Gibb but having been with divers and severall Counsellours learned in the Law of England he clearly finds that in Law strictly his nor no other Delinquents Lands can immediately be made over absolutely to your Petitioner and his heirs for ever without such clauses of reservation as may totally indanger your Petitioner within a few moneths to lose the fruit of his almo●t eight yeares extraordinary chargeable attendance for justice in the premises in your House the termes of the conveyance in law being so ticklish that your Petitioner would not willingly give one yeares purchase for land so conveyed Wherefore and in regard your Petitioner cannot believe that your House intends him a●fiction without a● substance for his already twice voted 3000. l. reparation he 〈…〉 humbly prayeth that he may receive your honourable assistance for the immediate 〈◊〉 of an Ordinance for your Petitioner to receive 8. l. per centum per annum for 〈◊〉 forbearance of his money from the hands of the Committee of Sequestrations of the County of Durham arising out of the estates sequestred in the said County of the said S● Henry Gibb Sir Henry Bellingham and Thomas Bows Esquire beginning at the 25. of March ●●st past and that the residue of the profits of the lands woods or other goods of the forsaid persons lying in the said County may as they arise go to the paiment of your Petitioner his said 3000. l. till it be fully paid with an assurance unto 〈◊〉 P●●●t●●ner that in case any or all of them compound with the Parliament for their delinquency that so much of your petitioner reparations as thou shall remaine may be sat●●●●ed and paid out of their compositions And your Petitioner shall pray c. John Lilburne W●ich Petition of mine the Committee granted and caused an Ordinance accordingly to be drawn up very fully on●ly my back friend John Blaxston and my unkle M George Lilburne being sorely falled out the man indeavoured to revenge himselfe of me and busled so hard against me in the House as that he got all consideration for the fu●u●e forbearance of my money dasht out which I was fain to beare with patience at the present being not able to help my self and as I remember it was read and past the second time but the streame of the House running after the personall Treaty with the supposition or jealousie of divers of my acquaintance and former friends amongst those men that I had too deep a hand in the late London Petition of 11. September 1648. which seemed to them to be a choak peare to the Treaty and they conceiving that I still pursued the same ends made the chariot wheels of the finishing of my Ordinance to got heavier then they used to do so that for my blood I totally could not get fit to passe the House of Commons in October 1648. and other businesse of the Army coming on I left looking after my Ordinance and visibly and totally devoted my self to an industrious indeavour to see if I with any other nicknamed levelling friends could prevent another cheat by the Army who promised faire in their large Remonstrance from S. Albans of 16. Novemb. 1648. pag. 66 67 68. but especially in their most remarkable Declaration shewing the reasons of their last advance to London the true narrative of my proceedings with them and their friends you may read in the 2. edition of my book of the 8. of June 1649. intituled The legall fundamentall Liberties of the People of England received asserted and vindicated pag. 33 34 35 36 37 38. which pages I intreat you seriously to read and with them I continued very diligently and closely following them to see if it were possible to get them consent to the setling of the Kingdome upon the bases and foundations of the principles of true freedom and justice by an * The speedy doing of which they both publikely and privately as solemnly promised and ingaged to perform as almost it was possible for men to doe as clearly you may fully read in their two last forementioned Declarations but especially that of the reasons of their last advance to London which being but short I have herewith sent you and intreat you most seriously to peruse as a cleare and everlasting testimony against their present wretched and apostatized basenesse Agreement of the People that had not fought against their Freedoms the onely and alone just cure of all Englands maladies not onely in my thoughts then but still at this present day but when I apparently and visibly saw their jugling and cheating of which I with out feare told them as you may read in pag. 39 40. of my last named books I say at the perceiving of their basenesse I judged it Impossible for me ever to get my Ordinance fully passe unlesse I would be their slave and vassall which Harrison Sir William Constable and Sir Hardresse Wader at their first coming to Whitehall laboured to get me to be and to ingage my pen for them but my positive answer to them all three face to face in their chamber was That I would as soon ingage for the Turk as for them unlesse they would come to a righteous center where they would fixedly acquiesce before they so much as attempted the medling with those great things they intended as the breaking the House and taking off the Kings hea● I say perceiving they were resolved to be knaves in the highest and to go through with their intended resolutions what ever it cost I thought it best for me to stir before all their fears and troubles were over to get my Ordinance fully to passe before they fully got up into the throne being confident if I staid till they had got their 〈◊〉 businesse about the King over I should never get it passe then but upon implicit ingagements to be their slave which I us much abhorred as I did the cutting of my own 〈◊〉 and therefore I put pen to paper and write a netling Letter to the Speaker about it being resolved to lay my bones at their door in the pursuit of it and its effect it had for as I remember the next day my Ordinance was transmitted to the Lords the copy of which Letter thus followeth M. Speaker THough I cannot challenge much interest in you yet being a suffering