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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>A coppy of a Letter &s;erit by Liev. Col. <HI>John Lilburne</HI> to Mr. <HI>Wol|la&s;ton</HI> Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy.</HEAD>
<P>SIR, I this morning have &s;een a Warrant from the hou&s;e of <HI>Lords,</HI> made ye&s;ter|day, to Command you to bring me this day at 10. a clocke before them, the Warrant expre&s;&s;eth no cau&s;e wherfore I &s;hould dance attendance before them, neither doe I know any ground or rea&s;on wherefore I &s;hould, nor any Law that compels me thereunto; for Their Lord&s;hips &s;itting by vertue of Prerogative, pat|tents and not by Election or common con&s;ent of the People, hath as <HI>Magna Car|ta</HI> (and other good Lawes of the Land) tels me, nothing to doe to try me, or any Commoner what&s;oever in any criminall ca&s;e, either for life, limb, libertie, or e|&s;tate, but contrary hereunto as incrochers and u&s;urpers upon my freedomes and liberties; they lately and illegally endeavoured to trie me a Commoner at their Bar, for which I under my hand and &s;eale, prote&s;ted to their faces again&s;t them, as vi|olent and illegall incrochers upon the rights and liberties of me, and all the Com|mons of England, (a coppy of which &amp;c. I in Print herewith &s;end you) and at their Barre I openly appealled to my competent, proper, legall tryers, and Iudges, the Commons of England a&s;&s;embled in Parliament (for which their Lord|&s;hips did illegally, Arbitrarily, and Tiranically, commit me to pri&s;on into your cu&s;tody) unto whom divers daies agoe I &s;ent my appeale &amp;c. which now re|maines in the hands of their &s;peaker, if it be not already read in their Hou&s;e, unto which I doe and will &s;tand and obey their commands.</P>
<P>Sir, I am a free-man of England, and therefore I am not to be u&s;ed as a &s;lave or Va&s;&s;ell by the Lords, which they have already done and would further doe, I al&s;o am a man of peace &amp; quietnes, &amp; de&s;ire not to mole&s;t any if I be not forced there unto, therefore I de&s;ire you as you tender my good &amp; your owne, take this for an an&s;wer, that I ca~not without turning traitor to my liberties, dance attendance to their Lord&s;hips Bar, being bound in con&s;cience, duty, to God, my &s;elfe, myne, &amp; my country, to oppo&s;e their incroachments to the death, which by the &s;trength of God I am re&s;olved to doe. Sir you may&punc; or cau&s;e to be exerci&s;ed upon me, &s;ome force or violence to pull and drag me out of my chamber, which I am re&s;olved to maintaine as long as I can, before I will be compelled to goe before them, and therefore I de&s;ire you, in a friendly way, to be wi&s;e and con&s;iderate before you doe that, which it may be you can never undoe,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From my Cock-loft in the Pre&s;&s;e yard of Newgate <DATE>this 23. of Iune 1646.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Sir,</SALUTE> I am Your true and faire conditioned pri&s;oner if you will be &s;o to me,
<SIGNED>IOHN LILBURNE</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Lu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oe 22. Junij 1646.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Ordered by the Lords in Parliament A&s;&s;embled, that Liv, Col.</HI> John Lilburne <HI>now a pri&s;oner in Newgate, &s;hall be brought before Their Lord&s;hips in the [High Court of PALIAMENT] tomorrow morning by ten of the clock: And this to be a &s;ufficient wa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rant&punc; in that behalfe,</HI></P>
<P>To the Gen. V&s;her of this Hou&s;e, or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Browne</SIGNED> Cler. Parliamentorum.</CLOSER>
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