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Date of publication:
1639
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Place of publication and press's name from STC. Imperfect; cropped at head, affecting title and some page numbers. Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Date of publication:
1645
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Caption title. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 15 1644 London:". Place of publication from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1646
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Order to print signed: John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum. Annotation on Thomason copy: "London June 24th 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1640
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Caption title. Place and date of publication conjectured by STC. Verses appended at end. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Imprint from Wing. Signed at end: Iohn Lilburne. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1652
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Signed at end: John Lilburn. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Annotation on Thomason copy: "January. 22. 1652"; also the last number of the imprint date has been marked through.
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Date of publication:
1652
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb. 22.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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A defensive declaration of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, against the unjust sentence of his banishment, by the late Parliament of England; directed in an epistle from his house in Bridges in Flanders, May 14. 1653. (Dutch or new still, or the 4 of may 1653. English or old stile) to his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell, and the rest of the officers of his Army, commonly sitting in White-hall in councel, managing the present affairs of England, &c. Unto which is annexed, an additional appendix directed from the said Leut. Col. John Lilburn, to his Excellency and his officers, occasioned by his present imprisonment in Newgate; and some groundless scandals, for being an agent of the present King, cast upon him by some great persons at White-hall, upon the delivery of his third address (to the councel of State, by his wife and several other of his friends) dated from his captivity in Newgate the 20 of June 1653.
Date of publication:
1653
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Dated at end: 22. of June 1653. Caption title. Place of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 22. 1653". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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Reproduction of original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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A iust reproof to Haberdashers-Hall: or, An epistle writ by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn, July 30. 1651. to four of the commissioners at Haberdashers Hall, viz. Mr James Russell, M. Edward Winsloe, M William Mellins, and M. Arthur Squib, wherein is set forth their unjust and unrighteous dealing in severall cases; with the relations of the said John Lilburn, and their captiving their understandings to the tyrannical will of Sir Arthur Haslerigge, who hath most unjustly endeavoured a long time together, the exterpation of the family of the said John Lilburn.
Date of publication:
1651
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Imprint from Wing. Caption title. Annotation on Thomason copy: "August". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1651
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Includes a letter on page 7 dated and signed: April 3. 1651. John Price. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aprill 8 1651". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Caption title. Imprint from Wing.
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Date of publication:
1643
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 3d". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1638
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By John Lilburne. Place of publication and press from STC. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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A manifestation from Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn, Mr. William Walwyn, Mr. Thomas Prince, and Mr. Richard Overton (now prisioners in the Tower of London) and others, commonly (though unjustly) styled Levellers : intended for full vindication from the many aspersions cast upon them, to render them odious to the world, and unserviceable to the Common-wealth, and to satisfie and ascertain all men whereunto all their motions and endeavours tend, and what is the ultimate scope of their engagement in the publick affaires : they also that render evill for good, are our adversaries, because we follow the thing that good is.
Date of publication:
1649
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Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
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Date of publication:
1645
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 16". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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Imprint contains symbol for a bull? Date of publication suggested by Wing. In ms. on t.p.: 1659. Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Signed and dated on last page: 'July 13. 1653. John Lilburn Gentleman'. Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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A plea for common-right and freedom. To His Excellency, the Lord General Fairfax, and the commission-officers of the armie. Or, the serious addresses, and earnest desires of their faithful friends, inhabiting in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southvvark, Hamblets, and places adjacent: promoters and presenters of the late large-petition of the eleventh of September, MDCXLVIII. As it was presented to his Excellency, Decemb. 28. 1648. By L.C. Iohn Lilburn. George Middlemore. Rob. Davis. Ed. Tench. Dan. Linton. Will. Bottome. Rob. Cobbett. Richard Overton. Iohn Harris. Tho. Dassern. Tho. Goddard. Tho. Prince. Sam. Blaicklock. Andr. Dednam. Iohn Walters. Rich. Pechel.
Date of publication:
1648
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "Dec: 29". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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A plea, or protest, made by VVilliam Prynne, Esquire, and by him sent unto J.M. Knight, one of the eleven impeached Members. Wherein he declares the injustice and illegality of the Lords, Commons, and grandees of the Armies proceedings against him. Whereunto is annexed the case of A.B. (a citizen of London, and a free commoner of England) truly stated, in reference to a pretended impeachment of treason depending in the House of Peers against him : with an answer to certain queres framed thereupon : unto which is annexed the answer of the said A.B. unto the Lords assembled in Parliament in point of law, ... in which it is fully proved, that the House of Lords ... hath not the least jurisdiction in the world over any commoner ... with a full answer to all their presidents in such cases; and that it is not safe for the said A.B. to kneel at the Lords barre, because it is stooping and submitting to their jurisdiction. / Published for the common good of all honest Englishmen, by Lionel Hurbin Gentleman, March 17. 1647.
Date of publication:
1648
Description:
Lionel Hurbin is an anagram of John Lilburne. Includes a previously unpublished work by William Prynne. Place of publication from Wing. P. 18 misnumbered 17. Annotation on Thomason copy: "John Lilburne"; the 8 in imprint ...
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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.
Date of publication:
1649
Description:
Caption title. Place of publication from Wing. Dated and signed at end: 18 of Aug. 1649. .. John Lilburn. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septemb: 13 1649". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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A remonstrance of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn: concerning the lawes, liberties, priviledges, birthrights, freedom, and inheritances, of the frec-born [sic] people of England; in relation to the sentence denounced against him for banishment. Together with his resolution, to adhere and stand firm to the fundamental lawes of this nation; and inviolably to endeavour the preservation thereof; to the end, that justice and right may not be sold, denied, or deferred to any man. / Published by a well-wisher to that faithful-Lover of his Countrey, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn.
Date of publication:
1652
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan. 28.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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Imprint from Wing. Dated at end: From my Chamber in the Tower of London this 14. of Sept. 1649. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Dated at end: From Mr Sheriff Underwoods house in Bucklers-Bury in London, June 16. 1653. Imprint date from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Dated at end: Newgate, this present Monday, being June the 20. 1653. Date of publication from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1648
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Caption title. Signed at end: "Your antagonest, John Lilburne"; also signed by Lieutenant General Robert Everard, and 11 others. Imperfect: tightly bound with loss of text. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 6th 1647". ...
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Date of publication:
1638
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Identification of printer and place of publication from STC. WIth a final leaf of verse.
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Date of publication:
1646
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb: 13th 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1645
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With an engraved frontispiece. T. B. is possibly Thomas Bakewell. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 17th"; the '5' in the imprint has been crossed out; "1644". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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An hue-and cry after the fundamental lawes and liberties of England occasionally written upon the stealing of one of the grand assertors of them out of Newgate, by a party of men on horseback, pretending themselves to be souldiers, raised and paid by the people of England (not for the subversion,) but the preservation of the said lawes and liberties, &c. Together with some queries, and brief resolves, touching the present state of things, written for the consolation of the saints now reigning. By a well-wisher to the saints now reigning on earth, had they had the patience to have staid till the people had chose them, or that Christ the King of Saints above --- had setled the government upon them.
Date of publication:
1653
Description:
A well-wisher to the saints now reigning on earth = John Lilburne. Date of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Sept: 26 1653". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, and his son in law Henry Ireton Esquires, late Members of the late forcibly dissolved House of Commons, presented to publique view; by Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilburn close prisoner in the Tower of London, for his real, true and zealous affections to the liberties of his native country. In which following discourse or impeachment, he engageth upon his life, either upon the principles of law ... or upon the principles of Parliaments ancient proceedings, or upon the principles of reason ... before a legal magistracy, when there shal be one again in England ... to prove the said Oliver Cromwel guilty of the highest treason that ever was acted in England, and more deserving punishment and death then the 44 judges hanged for injustice by King Alfred before the Conquest; ... In which are also some hints of cautions to the Lord Fairfax, for absolutely breaking his solemn engagement with his souldiers, &c. to take head and to regain his lost credit in acting honestly in time to come; ... In which is also the authors late proposition sent to Mr Holland, June 26. 1649. to justifie and make good at his utmost hazard ... his late actions or writings in any or all his books.
Date of publication:
1649
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P. 64 misnumbered 56. The last leaf bears "The charge of the Commons of England, against Charles Stuart King of England, of high treas n [sic], ..". Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 10". Reproduction of the original in ...
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As you were, or, The Lord General Cromwel and the grand officers of the armie their remembrancer wherein as in a glass they may see the faces of their soules spotted with apostacy, ambitious breach of promise, and hocus-pocus-juggleing with the honest soldiers and the rest of the free-people of England : to the end that haveing seene their deformed and fearfull visage, they may be returning to doe their first pretended workes, wipe of their spots, mend their deformities & regaine their lost credit : in a word, save themselves and the gaspeing libertyes of the surprized and enslaved English nation : least enlargement and deliverance arise to the English from another place, but they and their fathers house shall be destroyed : Ester 4. and 14. : all which is contained in a letter directed to the Lord Generall Cromwel, to be communicated to the grandees of his army / written by L. Colonel John Libvrne May 1652 ...
Date of publication:
1652
Description:
Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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Caption title. "For the Honourable, William Lenthall, Esquire, speaker to the knights, citizens, and burgesses assembled in Parliament" (p. [13]-18) is dated Southwark, the 1. of Decemb. 1649, and signed: John Lilburn. ...
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Date of publication:
1645
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A well-wisher = John Lilburne. Caption title, page 1. Place of publication and press from from Wing; imprint date from colophon. Recto of first leaf is blank; verso reads: The preamble, to all the free-borne people of ...
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Date of publication:
1645
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Variously attributed to Richard Overton, John Lilburne, John Wildman and Edward Sexby. Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: between Sept: and 1645: "14" "7br 19th" [i.e. September 19th]; "Lilburne's ...
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Date of publication:
1649
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Signatures: A-B⁴. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 1st 1648". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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An expanded edition of "Englands standard advanced", published in the same year. Includes a reprinting of: Lilburne, John. An agreement of the free people of England. Signatures: A⁴. Annotation on Thomason copy: "with ...
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Date of publication:
1648
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Attributed to John Lilburne; cf. Wing. Sometimes attributed to William Walwyn; this attribution rejected by McMichael and Taft, The writings of William Walwyn, pp.530-1. Place of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason ...
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Signed and dated at end: Iohn Lilburne. From my lawless, tyrannicall and most uniust captivity in the Tower of London this 11 No. 1647. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb: 13. 1647". Reproduction of the ...
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Date of publication:
1645
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Anonymous. By John Lilburne. Annotations on Thomason copy (669.f.10[33]): at head of title: "Lilburnes"; "London. 30 August 1645". Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1645
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Anonymous. By John Lilburne. Annotations on Thomason copy (669.f.10[33]): at head of title: "Lilburnes"; "London. 30 August 1645". Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 26 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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L. Colonel John Lilburne revived. Shewing the cause of his late long silence, and cessation from hostility against alchemy St. Oliver, and his rotten secretary; as also of the report of his death. With an answer in part, to the pestilent calumniation of Cap: Wendy Oxford (Cromvvels spie upon the Dutch, and upon the English royallists, sojonrning [sic] in the United Provinces) closely couched in a late delusive pamphlet of the said Oxfords, called The unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England All vvhich, vvith many historicall passages, giveing light into the unvvorthy practises of the English grandees, is contained in three letters (The first to a friend in the United Provinces, The second to a friend in Scotland. And the third, to the honourable, Colonel Henry Martin, in England VVritten by L. Colonel John Lilburne.
Date of publication:
1653
Description:
Place of publication from Wing. The words: "The unexpected life .. parliament in England" are enclosed in square brackets on the titlepage. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 27". Reproduction of the original in the British ...
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Liberty vindicated against slavery. Shewing, that imprisonment for debt, refusing to answer interrogatories, long imprisonment, though for just causes. Abuse of prisons, and cruell extortion of prison-keepers, are all destructive to the fundamentall laws and common freedomes of the people. Published for the use of all the free-borne of England, whom it equally concernes, by occasion of the House of Lords commitment of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, close prisoner, first to New-gate, and next to the Tower. / By a lover of his country, and sufferer for the common liberty.
Date of publication:
1646
Description:
A lover of his country, and sufferer for the common liberty = John Lilburne. Place of publication from Wing. In two parts. Part 2 ([4] p. at end) has caption title which reads "An excellent letter written by a prisoner, ...
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Lieu. Col. John Lilburn's plea in law, against an Act of Parliament of the 30 of January, 1651. entituled, An act for the execution of a judgment given in Parliament against Lieu. Col. John Lilburn. Contrived and penned, on purpose for him, by a true and faithful lover of the fundamental laws and liberties of the free people of England, ... all which compels and forceth the penman to be very studious of his own good and preservation, ... and therefore, for his own good and benefit, the honest readers information, and for Mr Lilburns the prisoners advantage, he presents these ensuing lines to thy view, and his, as the form of a plea; that the penman hereof, as a true well-wisher of his, and the people of England, would have him to ingross into parchment, and to have ready by him to make use of (in case his own braines cannot contrive a better) when he is called up to answer for his life before the judges of the upper-bench, or any other bar of justice whatsoever; and the said form of a plea for him thus followeth verbatim.
Date of publication:
1653
Description:
Attributed to Lilburn himself. Caption title. The Act was passed in 1652. Place of publication from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1646
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Contains orders from Parliament, petitions to Parliament from various groups in London concerning their liberties, etc., as well as connecting text by Lilburne. Part 2 was published December ...
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Date of publication:
1653
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Signed at end: John Lilburne. A reply to: Severall informations and examinations taken concerning Lieutenant Colonell John Lilburn. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 15". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Caption title. Attributed by Wing to John Lilburne. Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Editions/issues of this work appear with differing author statements: Written by I.L. (i.e. John Lilburne), or, Written by Amon Wilbee. NUC attributes the work to John Lilburne, Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) attributes to Amon WIlbee. ...
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Plaine truth without feare or flattery, or, A true discovery of the unlawfulnesse of the Presbyterian government it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties, and contrary both to the protestation and covenant : the end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance, the betraying votes and destructive practices of a traiterous party in the House of Commons concerning certain petions for liberty and justice : also, a vindication of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, concerning certaine scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction : with the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtaine reliefe against the said cyrannous usurpers, and for reducing the parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes laws and liberties / written by I.L.
Date of publication:
1647
Description:
Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York. Attributed to John Lilburne. cf. NUC pre-1956.
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Rash oaths unwarrantable: and the breaking of them as inexcusable. Or, A discourse, shewing, that the two Houses of Parliament had little ground to make those oaths they have made, or lesse ground to take, or presse the taking of them, being it is easie to be apprehended, they never intended to keep them, but onely made them for snares, and cloaks for knavery, as it is clearly evinced by their constant arbitrary and tyranicall practices, no justice nor right being to be found amongst them; by meanes of which they have declaratorily, and visibly lost the very soule and essence of true magistracy, (which is, the doing of justice, judgement, equity ... In which is also a true and just declaration of the unspeakable evill of the delay of justice, and the extraordinary sufferings of Lievtenant Colonell John Lilburne, very much occasioned by M. Henry Martins unfriendly and unjust dealing with him, in not making his report to the House. All which with divers other things of very high concernment, are declared in the following discourse, being an epistle, / written by Lievtenant-Colonell John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, to Colonell Henry Marten, a member of the House of Commons of England ... May 1647.
Date of publication:
1647
Description:
Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 25 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England.
Date of publication:
1647
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Attributed to John Lilburne by Wing. Includes index. Annotation on Thomason copy: "by Lilburne"; "Jan: 6th 1646"; the 7 in imprint date crossed out. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Strength out of vveaknesse. Or, The finall and absolute plea of Lieutenant-Col. John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, against the present ruling power siting at Westminster. Being an epistle writ by him, Sep. 30. 1649. to his much honored and highly esteemed friend, Master John Wood, Mr. Robert Everard, ... whose names are subscribed Aug. 20. 1649. to that excellent peece, entituled The Levellers (falsly so called) vindicated; being the stated case of the late defeated Burford troops. And to Charles Collins, Anthony Bristlebolt, ... whose names are subscribed, August 29. 1649. to that choicest of peeces, entituled An out-cry of the young-men and apprentices of London, after the lost fundamentall-lawes and liberties of England. Which said plea or epistle, doth principally contein the substance of a conference, betwixt Master Edmond Prideaux, the (falsly so called) attorney-generall, and Lievetenant-Colonell John Lilburne, upon Friday the 14 of September 1649. at the chamber of the said Mr. Prideaux, in the Inner-Temple.
Date of publication:
1649
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octo: published before his triall 6 Oct". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouemb: 1st 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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"With a petition of divers well-affected persons and a letter of Lieut. Col. Jo. Lilburn, and M. Overton, presented to the General on his behalf." Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Imprint date from Wing. Dated at end: From my present lodging in little Moor-fields in London, Tuesday this 14. of June 1653. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June. 15. 1653". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1651
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nou. 1st". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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The charters of London: or, The second part of Londons liberty in chaines discovered. In which by the ancient, rationall, and fundamentall charters of the famous City of London, is proved and declared, that it is the true and undeniable right of all and every the barons, burgesses, free-men, or commoners of London, to have their free vote in chusing out, annually from amongst themselves, a lord major, two sheriffes, and all their alder-men; ... with divers other things worth the knowledg of all the free-men, not only of London, but of all England. For whose good this is published by Lieut. Col: John Lilburn, prisoner in the Tower of London, for the common liberties of the kingdome against the usurpations of the House of Lords.
Date of publication:
1646
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Includes several charters and other documents, as well as introductory and connecting text by Lilburne. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1641
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To the reader signed : William Kiffen. Includes his "A worke of the beast." Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
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The copie of a letter, written to the General from Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn, M. Richard Overton, April 27. 1649. In behalf of M. Robert Lockwer, M. Geo. Ash, M. Joseph Hockley, M. Robert Osburn, M. Matthew Heyworth, M. Thomas Goodwin; all of them in Captain Savages troup: who by the said Councel were adjudged to cast lots for their lives, and one of them to dy. In which it is by law fully proved, that it is both treason and murder, for any general or Councel of War to execute any souldier in time of peace, by martial law.
Date of publication:
1649
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Dated at end: From our Causeless, and unjust, and Tyrannical Captivity in the Tower of London. April 27. 1649. Signed: John Lilburn, Richard Overton. The General = Thomas Fairfax, Baron Fairfax. Imprint from Wing. Reproduction ...
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Date of publication:
1645
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Caption title. Dated at end: July, 25. 1645. Identification of printer from Wing. With a letter from Oliver Cromwell dated 10 July 1645. P. 16 misnumbered 61. Quire A is in the same setting, but a different imposition, as ...
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Date of publication:
1650
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Signed at end: John Lilburne. Annotations on Thomason copy: "Jan. 23 1649", the 50 in licensing and imprint date crossed out. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Item at 109:E.705[20] signed at end: John Lilburne. Presented the 16 of July, 1653. Item at 109:E.708[4] signed at end: Signed by his learned councel in the law, John Norbury, John Maynard ... and presented to and accepted ...
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The free-mans freedom vindicated. Or A true relation of the cause and manner of Lievt. Col. Iohn Lilburns present imprisonment in Newgate, being thereunto arbitrarily and illegally committed, by the House of Peeres, Iune 11. 1646. for his delivering in, at their open barre, under his hand and seal, his protestation, against their incroaching upon the common liberties of all the commons of England, in endeavouring to try him, a commoner of England, in a criminall cause, contrary to the expresse tenour and forme of the 29. chap. of the great charter of England, and for making his legall and iust appeal to his competent, propper and legal tryers and judges, the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled.
Date of publication:
1646
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Burned by order of the House of Lords at the old Exchange in London, and in the yard of the new palace at Westminster, on July 13, 1646--McAlpin Collection Catalogue. Annotation on Thomason ...
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "8ber [i.e. October] 25 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1649
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Imprint from Wing. Dated at end: From my Captivity, & Bodily-Bondage in the Tower of London, Octob. 20, 1649. Address to the reader in the right-hand margin. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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1649
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Signed at end of letter: John Lilburne. Dated: Tower, Octob. 22, 1649. Imprint from Wing. Includes list: The names of the severall bookes and papers, written and published by Lieutenant Collonel John Lilburne since his ...
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Date of publication:
1646
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Caption title. Attributed to William Walwyn (Cf. McMichael and Taft, The writings of William Walwyn, pp.216-7) and to John Lilburne (Cf. Wing). Item at reel 717:2 identified as Wing J1234 (number cancelled). Item at 2202:9 ...
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Date of publication:
1646
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Burned by order of the House of Lords at the old Exchange in London and the palace yard in Westminster, on July 13, 1646--McAlpin Collection Catalogue. Annotation on Thomason copy: "June ...
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The ivglers discovered, in two letters writ by Lievt. Col. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, the 28. September, 1647. to his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, Captaine Generall of all the forces in England and Wales, discovering the turn-coat, Machiavell practises, and under-hand dealings of Lievt. Gen. Cromwell, and his soone in law, Commissary Generall Ireton, and the rest of their hocus pocus faction in his Excellencies Counsell of Warre, the first of which letters thus followeth. Unto which is annexed some advice to the private soldiers.
Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. P. 11, 12 misnumbered 12, 11. Annotation on Thomason copy: "8ber [i.e. October] 1st. 1647.". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1653
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug: 23 1653". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Place of publication from Wing. Variant: has "maxy" corrected to "many". Annotation on Thomason copy: "7ber 28. 1647". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1654
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Place of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "May 27". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. Not in fact Lilburne's last testament. Lilburne is quite alive until 1657. Sister Abigail Lemmon ...
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Date of publication:
1648
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Caption title. Signed at end: John Lilburne. Tower the 15. of May. 1648. The final page is unnumbered; the 2 preceding pages are misnumbered 31 and 23. In this edition, the initial "A" of the epistle is surrounded by a ...
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The legall fundamentall liberties of the people of England revived, asserted, and vindicated. Or, an epistle written the eighth day of June 1649, by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburn (arbitrary and aristocratical prisoner in the Tower of London) to Mr. William Lenthall Speaker to the remainder of those few knights, citizens, and burgesses that Col. Thomas Pride at his late purge thought convenient to leave sitting at Westminster ... who ... pretendedly stile themselves ... the Parliament of England, intrusted and authorised by the consent of all the people thereof, whose representatives by election ... they are; although they are never able to produce one bit of a law, or any piece of a commission to prove, that all the people of England, ... authorised Thomas Pride, ... to chuse them a Parliament, as indeed he hath de facto done by this pretended mock-Parliament: and therefore it cannot properly be called the nations or peoples Parliament, but Col. Pride's and his associates, whose really it is; who, although they have beheaded the King for a tyrant, yet walk in his oppressingest steps, if not worse and higher.
Date of publication:
1649
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Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 18". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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The Levellers (falsly so called) vindicated, or The case of the twelve troops (which by treachery in a treaty) was lately surprised, and defeated at Burford, truly stated, and offered to the judgment of all unbyassed, and wel-minded people, especially of the Army, their fellow souldiers, under the conduct of the Lord Fairfax. / By a faithful remnant, late of Col. Scroops, Commissary General Iretons, and Col. Harrisons regiments, that hath not yet bowed their knee unto Baal, whose names (in the behalf of themselves, and by the appointment of the rest of their friends) are hereunto subscribed.
Date of publication:
1649
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Caption title. Dated and signed on ¹B4v: London this 20 of August 1649, by us John Wood [and 5 others]. Includes a reissue of Wing L2079, "An agreement of the free people of England" by John Lilburne. Colophon reads: London, ...
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Place of publication from Wing. Dated at end "30 Ian. 1646". Year given according to Lady Day dating. Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library.
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The opressed mans opressions declared: or, An epistle written by Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, prerogative prisoner (by the illegall and arbitrary authority of the House of Lords) in the Tower of London, to Col. Francis West, Lieutenant thereof: in which the opressing cruelty of all the gaolers of England is declared, and particularly the Lieutenant of the Tower. As also, there is thrown unto Tho. Edwards, the author of the 3 vlcerous Gangrænes, a bone or two to pick: in which also, divers other things are handled, of speciall concernment to the present times.
Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "Feb: 1st. 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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Date of publication:
1647
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Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "March 1st 1646"; the 7 in imprint date crossed out. Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
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