A coppy of a letter sent by Lieu. Col. John Lilburne to Mr. Wollaston keeper of Newgate or his Deputy. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88165 of text R210488 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[62]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A88165 Wing L2091 Thomason 669.f.10[62] ESTC R210488 99869284 99869284 162600 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A88165) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162600) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[62]) A coppy of a letter sent by Lieu. Col. John Lilburne to Mr. Wollaston keeper of Newgate or his Deputy. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1646] Order to print signed: John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum. Annotation on Thomason copy: "London June 24th 1646". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Levellers -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A88165 R210488 (Thomason 669.f.10[62]). civilwar no A coppy of a letter sent by Lieu. Col. John Lilburne to Mr. Wollaston keeper of Newgate or his Deputy. Lilburne, John 1646 659 4 0 0 0 0 0 61 D The rate of 61 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-12 Elspeth Healey Sampled and proofread 2007-12 Elspeth Healey Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A coppy of a Letter serit by Liev. Col. John Lilburne to Mr. Wollaston Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy . SIR , I this morning have seen a Warrant from the house of Lords , made yesterday , to Command you to bring me this day at 10. a clocke before them , the Warrant expresseth no cause wherfore I should dance attendance before them , neither doe I know any ground or reason wherefore I should , nor any Law that compels me thereunto ; for Their Lordships sitting by vertue of Prerogative , pattents and not by Election or common consent of the People , hath as Magna Carta ( and other good Lawes of the Land ) tels me , nothing to doe to try me , or any Commoner whatsoever in any criminall case , either for life , limb , libertie , or estate , but contrary hereunto as incrochers and usurpers 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 seale , protested to their faces against them , as violent and illegall incrochers upon the rights and liberties of me , and all the Commons of England , ( a coppy of which &c. I in Print herewith send you ) and at their Barre I openly appealled to my competent , proper , legall tryers , and Iudges , the Commons of England assembled in Parliament ( for which their Lordships did illegally , Arbitrarily , and Tiranically , commit me to prison into your custody ) unto whom divers daies agoe I sent my appeale &c. which now remaines in the hands of their speaker , if it be not already read in their House , unto which I doe and will stand and obey their commands . Sir , I am a free-man of England , and therefore I am not to be used as a slave or Vassell by the Lords , which they have already done and would further doe , I also am a man of peace & quietnes , & desire not to molest any if I be not forced there unto , therefore I desire you as you tender my good & your owne , take this for an answer , that I cānot without turning traitor to my liberties , dance attendance to their Lordships Bar , being bound in conscience , duty , to God , my selfe , myne , & my country , to oppose their incroachments to the death , which by the strength of God I am resolved to doe . Sir you may ▪ or cause to be exercised upon me , some force or violence to pull and drag me out of my chamber , which I am resolved to maintaine as long as I can , before I will be compelled to goe before them , and therefore I desire you , in a friendly way , to be wise and considerate before you doe that , which it may be you can never undoe , From my Cock-loft in the Presse yard of Newgate this 23. of Iune 1646. Sir , I am Your true and faire conditioned prisoner if you will be so to me , IOHN LILBURNE The Coppy of the Order . Die Lu●oe 22. Junij 1646. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled , that Liv , Col. John Lilburne now a prisoner in Newgate , shall be brought before Their Lordships in the [ High Court of PALIAMENT ] tomorrow morning by ten of the clock : And this to be a sufficient wa●rant ▪ in that behalfe , To the Gen. Vsher of this House , or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy . John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum .