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<P>A DECLARATION OF THE ARMIE CONCERNING Lieut. Collonel JOHN LILBURN; <HI>AND</HI> Their Re&s;olution to e&s;tabli&s;h the People in all their ju&s;t Rights, Liberties, Priviledges, and Freedomes.</P>
<P>With the Remon&s;trance, and Petition, of the Officers and Souldiers, Citizens and Coun|trey-men, Rich and Poor; With all the di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed and oppre&s;&s;ed People of <HI>England; To the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P>Together with their Propo&s;itions and De|&s;ires; And a gallant way propounded, for the taking off all Taxes, a time prefixed; the uniting of all Parties; the e&s;tabli&s;hing of Peace; and making Trade free.</P>
<P>Imprinted at <HI>London,</HI> for G. HORTON, 1652.</P>
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<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF THE ARMY</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To the Parliament of England; concern|ing Lieut. Col. John Lilburn; And the humble Petition of the Citizens of London, the free-born Denizens in the re&s;pective Counties, Poor and Rich; and all &s;orts, with all the Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and Oppre&s;&s;ed People of England.</HEAD>
<P>THe Officers and Souldiers in the Army, having recei|ved Adverti&s;ements of the heavy Cen&s;ure which L. Col. <HI>Lilburn</HI> (at pre&s;ent) lies under, a Councel was called, and after a large Di&s;pute, many declared their ardent affe|ction, <HI>To &s;tand and all with &s;o great and faithful an A&s;&s;ertor of</HI> England's Liberties. Others re&s;olved, To &s;ubmit their Wills, to the Will of the Power that impo&s;ed the Sen|tence,
<PB N="4" REF="3">declaring, <HI>That they will leave no means nor dangers un|attempted,</HI> to e&s;tabli&s;h the People in the fulne&s;s of their Li|berties and Freedoms. Which cordial Re&s;ult, re-minds me of that mo&s;t excellent and emphatical Petition of the free|men of <HI>England,</HI> to the Parliament; A Copy whereof fol|loweth:</P>
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<HEAD>The humble Petition of Officers and Souldiers, Citizens and Coun|trey-men, Poor and Rich, and all &s;orts, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER>SHEWETH,</OPENER>
<P>THat it being the work of Nature, Rea&s;on and Chri|&s;tianity, by which we &s;hall be judged in the la&s;t Day, (<HI>Mat.</HI> 25.) And the very bottom of all pretences in all Cor|porations and Councels, <HI>To cloath the naked, feed the hungry, vi&s;it the &s;ick, and relieve the oppre&s;&s;ed:</HI> All former Lawes, &s;ta|tetes, and con&s;ultations having been of &s;mall effect hither|to: hou&s;es of Correction being more apt to make men (from being poor) to become Vagabonds and Beggars, by taking from them the Repute of &s;o much Hone&s;ty, as not to be intru&s;ted with employment; and conveying into them a further impudency, or de&s;peratene&s;s (as by experience is manife&s;t) and many having of late years peri&s;hed for want of Nece&s;&s;aries: The Lord having now put into your hands a pre&s;ent opportunity, of adding this great Work to all the mighty works which he hath done by you.</P>
<P>May your Honours be plea&s;ed to grant to your Petitio|ners (all due re&s;pects being fir&s;t had to your great lo&s;&s;es &amp; damages, out of Delinquents Revenues) or &s;o many of them as &s;hall be thought &s;it, and to all the poor of <HI>England,</HI> the remainder of what is due upon publike Accounts. 2 All or &s;o much of the Commons, Fore&s;ts, Chaces, &amp;c. as is due unto the Poor. 3 All Mines not wrought on at pre&s;ent, all
<PB N="5" REF="3">drowned lands, lands de&s;erted of the Sea, or the like, they agreeing for what is due to any Owner. 4 The &s;ole benefit of all Manufactures, Engines and Inventions either by Sea or Land, by your Petitioners brought into U&s;e in <HI>England.</HI> 5 All Pari&s;h Collections, and concealed or abu&s;ed Charities, with power to &s;earch all Records, Wills, Church-books, &amp; books of Accounts to that purpo&s;e, <HI>gratis:</HI> to be as a pub|lique Trea&s;ure of the Land, for all publique De&s;igns, in one common joynt Stock.</P>
<P>And &s;ome of your Petitioners will put in &s;ufficient &s;e|curity; 1 To provide all nece&s;&s;aries for the Army. 2 To pay the Arrears of the Army within 5 years. 3 To take off all Taxes within one year, except Cu&s;toms. 4 To pay all the debts of the publique Faith which remain due at 6. <HI>per Cent,</HI> within 10 years. 5 To &s;et up a publique Banck, as in <HI>Am&s;terdam, Venice,</HI> and other places. And if your Honours &s;hall think good, to grant the Fi&s;hings, Cu&s;toms, and Reve|nues of the Navy, &amp;o. then your Petitioners will undertake to maintain a con&s;tant Navy at Sea, and to &s;ecure the Mer|chants at 1 <HI>per Cent,</HI> a month, for the narrow Seas. 2 To take off the Cu&s;toms from unwrought Materials and Commo|dities, and Food and Ammunition imported, and lay them upon unwrought Materials and Commodities, and Food and Ammunition exported. 2 To take off all Cu&s;toms from Manufactures exported, and lay them upon Manufactures imported.</P>
<P><HI>Thus may your Honours be ea&s;ed of great Burthens; be free to other great affairs; Take away all Taxes and Groanings of the people; Reconcile all parties; Gain the love of the people; Make Trade free; E&s;tabli&s;h the peace of the Nation; E&s;tabli&s;h your own peace before God and Man; And bring down the ble&s;&s;ings of God abundantly upon all your faithful Endeavours.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Freemans Appeal.</HEAD>
<P>As for my own part I am a free-man; yea, a free Den<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zen of England; and I have been in the field with my &s;word in my hand, to adventure my life and my bloud (again&s;t Tyrants) for the pre&s;erva|tion of my ju&s;t freedom; and I do not know that ever I did an act in all my life, that disfranchi&s;ed me of my freedom; and by vertue of my being a free|man (I conceive) I have as true a right to all the pri|viledges that do belong to a freeman as the greate&s;t man in England What&s;oever he be and the ground and foundation of my freedome I build upon the grand Charter of England, which is publi&s;hed and expre&s;&s;ed in the 9 of HEN. 3. Chap. 29. which I humbly crave leave to illu&s;trate as followeth, viz. That to freeman &s;hall be taken or impri&s;oned; or be di&s;ei&s;ed of his free-hold or liberties; or free Cu|&s;toms; or be out-lawed or exiled; or any wi&s;e de|&s;troyed: Nor we will not pa&s;&s;e upon him, nor con|demn him; but by lawful Judgment of his Peers; or by the Law of the Land; we will &s;ell to no man; we will not deny; or defer to any man either Ju|&s;tice or Right. And the priviledges contained here|in are my birth-right and inheritance; which privi|ledges
<PB N="7" REF="4">have been ratified and confirmed to the free people of England by the Parliament a&s;&s;embled at We&s;tmid&s;ter; and many Declarations put out a|gain&s;t the late King for violating of them.</P>
<P>And truly, I cannot chu&s;e but remind you, That the Law of England is the birth-right and inheri|tance of the people of England; yea of the meane&s;t as well as of the riche&s;t: And although the Law of England be not &s;o good in every particular, e|&s;pecially in the admini&s;trative part of it, as I could wi&s;h it were; yet till I can &s;ee a better, I (for my part) will make much of that which we have, as the principal Earthly pre&s;erver and &s;afeguard of my life, liberty and property for it, viz. Magna Charta Chap. 29. &s;aith, No free-man &s;hall be taken or im|pri&s;oned, or be di&s;&s;ei&s;ed of his freehold or free Cu|&s;tomes, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwi&s;e de&s;troyed; nor pa&s;t upon, nor condemned, but by lawful Judgment of this Peers; or by the Law of the Land; and that Ju&s;tice and Right &s;hall not be &s;old denied, or deferred to any man. See Sir Edw. Cook's excellent Expo&s;ition upon this in his 2. par. In&s;tit. fol. 46, 47. &amp;c. Printed by the late forcibly di&s;&s;olved Parliament for good Law. And po&s;itively declared, To pre&s;erve unto the people inviolably their fun|damental Laws and Liberties, in reference to their Lives, E&s;tates, and all things appertaining thereunto.</P>
<PB N="8" REF="5">
<P>A Charge of High-Trea&s;on is preparing to be exhibited again&s;t Mr. Ain&s;low, a learned Profe&s;&s;our of the Law, and now pri&s;oner in the Pre&s;&s;e-yard at New-gate, for writing and divulging a Trea&s;onable Book again&s;t Mr. Attorney-General Prideaux, and divers other Honourable Members: His Tryal is ordered to be upon Friday the 30 of this in&s;tant Ja|nuary. At which time, the Articles of Impeachment are to be read; which (its believed) will produce an immediate Sentence, an&s;werable to his demerits, be|ing a matter of great and incomparable con&s;e|quence.</P>
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