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parliament_n	ireland_n	king_n	scotland_n	4,095	5	8.1855	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90246	A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free-born people of England, to their own House of Commons. Occasioned through the illegall and barbarous imprisonment of that famous and worthy sufferer for his countries freedoms, Lievtenant Col. John Lilburne. Wherein their just demands in behalfe of themselves and the whole kingdome, concerning their publike safety, peace and freedome, is express'd; calling those their commissioners in Parliament, to an account, how they (since the beginning of their session, to this present) have discharged their duties to the vniversallity of the people, their soveraigne lord, from whom their power and strength is derived, and by whom (ad bene placitum,) it is continued.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.; Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing O632B; Thomason E343_11; ESTC R200951	15,088	21

THE LIBERTY of THE FREEBORNE ENGLISH-MAN Conferred on him by the house of lords Iune 1646. IOHN LILBURNE AETAT SVA 23 An o 1641 G Glo fecit Gaze not vpon this shaddow that is vaine But rather raise thy thoughts a higher staine To GOD I meane who set this young-man free And in like straits can oke deliver thee Yea though the lords have him in bonds againe 〈◊〉 LORD of lords will his Just cause maintaine A REMONSTRANCE OF Many Thousand Citizens and other Free-born PEOPLE OF ENGLAND To their owne House of COMMONS Occasioned through the Illegall and Barbarous Imprisonment of that Famous and Worthy Sufferer for his Countries Freedoms Lievtenant Col. JOHN LILBURNE Wherein their just Demands in behalfe of themselves and the whole Kingdome concerning their Publike Safety Peace and Freedome is Express'd calling those their Commissioners in Parliament to an Account how they since the beginning of their Session to this present have discharged their Duties to the Universallity of the People their Soveraigne LORD from whom their Power and Strength is derived and by whom ad bene placitum it is continued Printed in the Yeer 1646. A REMONSTRANCE OF Many Thousand Citizens and other Free-borne People of England to their owne House of COMMONS WEE are well assured yet cannot forget that the cause of our choosing you to be Parliament-men was to deliver us from all kind of Bondage and to preserve the Common-wealth in Peace and Happinesse For effecting whereof we possessed you with the same Power that was in our selves to have done the same For wee might justly have done it our selves without you if we had thought it convenient choosing you as Persons whom wee thought fitly quallified and Faithfull for avoiding some inconveniences But ye are to remember this was only of us but a Power of ●●ust which is ever revokable and cannot be otherwise and to be imployed to no other end then our owne well-being Nor did wee choose you to continue our Trust 's longer then the knowne established constitution of this Commonly-wealth will justly permit and that could be but for one yeere at the most for by our Law a Parliament is to be called once every yeere and oftner if need be as ye well know Wee are your Principalls and you our Agents it is a Truthe ●he you cannot but acknowledge For if you or any other shall assume or exercise any Power that is not derived from our Trust and choice thereunto that Power is no lesse then usurpation and an Oppression from which wee expect to be sreed in whomsoever we finde it it being altogether inconsistent with the nature of just Freedome which yee also very well understand The History of our Fort-fathers since they were Conquered by the Normans doth manifest that this Nation hath been held in bondage all along ever since by the policies and force of the Officers of Trust in the Common-wealth amongst whom wee always esteemed Kings the chiefest and what in much of the former-time was done by warre and by impoverishing of the People to make them slaves and to hold them in bondage our latter Princes have endeavoured to effect by giving ease and wealth unto the People but withall corrupting their understanding by insusing false Principles concerning Kings and Government and Parliaments and Freedoms and also using all meanes to corrupt and vitiate the manners of the youth and strongest prop and support of the People the Gentry It is wonderfull that the failings of former Kings to bring our Fore-fathers into bondage together with the trouble and danger that some of them drew upon themselves and their Posterity by those their unjust endevours had not wrought in our latter Kings a resolution to rely on and trust only to Justice and square dealing with the the People especially considering the unaprnesse of the Nation to beare much especially from those that pretend to love them and unto whom they expressed so much hearty affection as any People in the world ever did as in the qulet admission of King James from Scotland sufficient if any Obligation would worke Kings to Reason to have endeared both him and his sonne King Charles to an inviolable love and hearty affection to the English Nation but it would not doe They choose rather to trust unto their Policies and Court Arts to King-waste and delusion then to Justice and plaine dealing and did effect many things tending to our enslaving as in your First Remonstrance you shew skill 〈…〉 manifest the same to all the World and this Nation having been by their delusive Arts and a long continued Peace much softened and debased in judgement and Spirit did beare far beyond its usuall temper or any example of our Fore-Fathers which to our shame wee acknowledge But in conclusion longer they would not beare and then yee were chosen to worke our deliverance and to Estate us in naturall and just libertie agreeable to Reason and common equitie for whatever our Fore-fathers were or what ever they did or suffered or were enforced to yeeld unto we are the men of the present age and ought to be absolutely free from all kindes of exorbitancies molestations or Arbitrary Power and you wee choose to free us from all without exception or limitation either in respect of Persons Officers Degrees or things and we were full of confidence that ye also would have dealt impartially on our behalf and made us the most absolute free People in the world But how ye have dealt with us wee shall now let you know and let the Righteom GOD judge between you and us the continuall Oppressours of the Nation have been Kings which is so evident that you cannot denie it and ye your selves have told the King whom yet you owne That his whole 16. Yeeres reigne was one continued act of the breach of the Law You snewed him That you understood his under-working with Ireland his endeavour to enforce the Parliament by the Army raised against Scotland yee were eye-witnesses of his violent attempt about the Five Members Yee saw evidently his purpose of raising Warre yee have seen him engaged and with obstinate violence persisting in the most bloody Warre that ever this Nation knew to the wasting and destruction of multitudes of honest and Religious People Yee have experience that none but a King could doe so great introllerable mischiefes the very name of King proving a sufficient charme to delude many of our Brethren in Wales Ireland England and Scotland too so farre as to fight against their own Liberties which you know no man under heaven could ever have done And yet as if you were of Counsell with him and were resolved to hold up his reputation thereby to enable him to goe on in mischief you maintaine The King can doe no wrong and apply all his Oppressions to Evill Counsellors begging and intreating him in such submissive language to returne to his Kingly Office and Parliament as if you were resolved to make us beleeve