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<HEAD>A Second Addre&s;s directed to his Excellency the Lord Generall <HI>CROMWELL,</HI> and the Right Honourable the <HI>Councell of State</HI> &s;itting at WHITE-HALL: Being, <HI>The humble Petition of Lieutenant Colonell</HI> John Lilburne.</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>_THat your Petitioner hath long &s;uffered a very hard exilement from his deare&s;t Chri&s;tian friends, his neare&s;t relations, his e&s;tate, imployments, and native Country, by vertue of an Act of the late Parlia|ment. And your Petitioner hath been a very gazing-&s;tock beyond the Seas, and in con&s;tant peril of his life, only for his love to this Commonwealth, and faithfulne&s;s to their &s;ervice.</P>
<P>That the late Parliament being di&s;&s;olved, and the pre&s;ent care of the Government devolved upon your Honours, who profe&s;s the fear of the Lord, and the de&s;ign of advancing Chri&s;ts Kingdom; your Petitioner believed that he &s;hould find mercy and impartial ju&s;tice from you, and a readine&s;s to loo&s;e every heavy yoke, and cut in &s;under all wicked bonds, the Lord having led you forth to break many of the bonds of men, in order to tho&s;e ends: And in this confidence the Lord per&s;wading your Petitioners heart that he had mercy for him and his poor ruined family, in his own Country, re&s;olved to depend upon your Ju&s;tice and goodne&s;s to protect him, and to admit of a Legal examination of the late Parliaments &s;entence of Bani&s;hment again&s;t your Petitioner: But having thus ca&s;t&punc; him&s;elf and his life at your feet, he finds your Order to apprehend him, and execute the &s;aid Sentence; whereupon he is now a Pri&s;oner.</P>
<P>That the authority of the late Parliament being taken from them for mi&s;government, your Petitioner hopes you will plea&s;e to &s;u&s;pend at lea&s;t the execution of any Acts made by them, which &s;hall not clearly and evidently appear to your &s;pirits and con&s;ciences to have &s;uch Ju&s;tice in them, as God may be truly glorified in your execu|tion of them. And therefore he humbly offers to your con&s;iderations the&s;e things following concerning the Act made by them for his perpetual bani&s;hment.</P>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t, that the Parliament in the &s;aid Act did not judge your Petitioner an Offender according to any Law in being; and unle&s;s there were a Civil Law again&s;t what he had done, he was no Offender in the lea&s;t again&s;t the Laws of man.</P>
<P N="2">2. Secondly, the &s;aid Act is a Law made after a fact is done, to ordain a puni&s;hment for that fact which was never ordained or heard of before; and if that practi&s;e be admitted, the very foundations of all Government (which are Laws) are utterly overturned, and every Man governing may de&s;troy all or any of the governed at his will, without po&s;&s;ibility of account to man; for that cannot be given or taken, but by a Rule between the Governours and the governed.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly, That your Petitioner was not tryed with liberty of defence, for or again&s;t any of the pretended crimes, for which he was bani&s;hed by the &s;aid Act; for nothing was examined by the Committee of Parlia|ment, upon who&s;e Report the &s;aid Act was made; but the matter of Mr <HI>Primats</HI> Petition, for whom your Petiti|oner appeared only as Councel; and if that was &s;candal, and your Petitioner concerned therein, he conceives that he ought then to have been tryed legally for that crime at the Common Law, and no where el&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">4. Fourthly, that if your Petitioner were guilty of Scandal again&s;t Sir <HI>Arthur Ha&s;lerigg,</HI> as the Parliament had judged; yet that &s;entence of ab&s;olute Ruine to him and his whole Family is not a puni&s;hment proportionable to the Offence; and the Laws of God, and the Fundamentall Lawes of this Land require a proportion between Crimes and Puni&s;hments.</P>
<P N="5">5. Fifthly, that if the &s;aid Act he admitted to be Ju&s;t, and to be drawn into Pre&s;ident, then no Engli&s;h-man what&s;oever can ju&s;tly or rationally claim from the Governors any Freedom, Right, benefit, or Priviledg of being Tryed and Judged according to the Laws, whether he offends or not, or whether his Life, Liberty, or E&s;tate &s;hall be taken from him, or pre&s;erved.</P>
<P>And your Petitioner further Offers to your Honors, that he hath neither in the lea&s;t offered, nor intended any Contempt unto any Authority, in coming into this Nation again&s;t the &s;aid Act; he humbly conceiving, That in this juncture of Time, wherein the Parliament is di&s;&s;olved, and Right is declared to be univer&s;ally done to all of this Nation, he was capable of making his humble Addre&s;&s;e to tho&s;e who have &s;o Declared, as a Party much grieved by the &s;aid Act of the late Parliament.</P>
<P REND="indent italic">Therefore the whole Premi&s;es con&s;idered; he humbly prays your protection, and &s;u&s;pention of any proceedings against him upon the &s;aid Act, untill the Ju&s;tice of the &s;ame, as to the matter and manner of it, be legally exa|mined; That what&s;oever he now &s;uffers, being to be under your Power, your Con&s;ciences may be clearly &s;atisfied, that you do therein glorifie God, and do evident good to the Common-wealth.</P>
<CLOSER>And he &s;hall pray, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>
<SIGNED>JOHN LILBURNE.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>From Mr Sheriff <HI>Underwoods-</HI>Hou&s;e in <HI>Bucklers-Bury</HI> in <HI>London,</HI>
<DATE>June 16. 1653.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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