A copy 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 clock before them, the Warrant expresseth no cause wherefore I should dance attendance before them, neither do I know any ground or reason wherefore I should, nor any Law that compels me thereunto; for Their Lordships sitting by virtue of Prerogative, patents and not by Election or common consent of the People, hath as Magna Carta (and other good laws of the Land) tells me, nothing to do to try me, or any Commoner whatsoever in any criminal case, either for life, limb, liberty, or estate, but contrary hereunto as incrochers and usurpers upon my freedoms and liberties; they lately and illegally endeavoured to try me a Commoner at their Bar, for which I under my hand and seal, protested to their faces against them, as violent and illegal incrochers upon the rights and liberties of me, and all the Commons of England, (a copy of which &c. I in Print herewith send you) and at their bar I openly appealled to my competent, proper, legal triers, and judges, 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 days ago I sent my appeal &c. which now remains in the hands of their speaker, if it be not already read in their House, unto which I do and will stand and obey their commands.  
Sir, I am a freeman 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 do, I also am a man of peace & quietness, & desire not to molest any if I be not forced there unto, therefore I desire you as you tender my good & your own, take this for an answer, that I cannot without turning traitor to my liberties, dance attendance to their lordship's Bar, being bound in conscience, duty, to God, myself, mine, & my country, to oppose their encroachments to the death, which by the strength of God I am resolved to do. 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 maintain as long as I can, before I will be compelled to go before them, and therefore I desire you, in a friendly way, to be wise and considerate before you do that, which it may be you can never undo,  
From my Cock-loft in the press yard of Newgate this 23. of June 1646. Sir, I am Your true and fair conditioned prisoner if you will be so to me, John LILBURNE   

The copy 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 parliament] tomorrow morning by ten of the clock: And this to be a sufficient wa●rant▪ in that behalf,  
To the Gen. usher of this House, or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy.  
John Browne Cler. Parliamentorum.