A declaration of Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburn to the free-born pcople [sic] of England.: And his speech to the Parliament, on Tuesday last; in answer to the sentence denounced against him by Mr. Speaker, by speciall order and command together with his resolution (come life come death) not personally to yield active submission to the said sentence. And divers other remarkable things, worth the knowledge of all the free-men, not only of London, but of all England. Subscribed, John Lilburn.

Vox plebis, or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny.: Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.

[2], 68, [2] p.Attributed to Richard Overton by Wing.[2] p. at end = "The publisher to the reader", ...

Englands standard advanced in Oxfordshire, or, A declaration from Mr. VVil. Thompson, and the oppressed people of this nation, now under his conduct in the said county. Dated at their randezvouz, May 6. 1649. Whereunto is added An agreement of the free people of England, as the grounds of their resolutions.

Thompson, William, d. 1649.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

January 1649

[8] p.An expanded edition of "Englands standard advanced", published in the same year.Includes a rep...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

8 p.A well-wisher to the saints now reigning on earth = John Lilburne.Date of publication from Wing....

A declaration of the Armie concerning Lieut. Collonel John Lilburn; and their resolution to establish the people in all their just rights, liberties, priviledges, and freedomes. With the remonstrance, and petition, of the officers and souldiers, citizens and countrey-men, rich and poor; with all the distressed and oppressed people of England; to the Parliament. Together with their propositions and desires; and a gallant way propounded, for the taking off all taxes, a time prefixed; the uniting of all parties; the establishing of peace; and making trade free.

England and Wales. Army. aut

January 1652

8 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: The "2" in the imprint date has been crossed out and date altered t...

To the supreame authority the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England,: the humble petition of many well affected people inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent, in behalfe of the just liberties of the Common-wealth, highly concerned in the sentence against Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Imprint from Wing.Dated at end: Presented January the 20. 1651.Annotation on Thomaso...

A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free-born people of England, to their own House of Commons.: Occasioned through the illegall and barbarous imprisonment of that famous and worthy sufferer for his countries freedoms, Lievtenant Col. John Lilburne. Wherein their just demands in behalfe of themselves and the whole kingdome, concerning their publike safety, peace and freedome, is express'd; calling those their commissioners in Parliament, to an account, how they (since the beginning of their session, to this present) have discharged their duties to the vniversallity of the people, their soveraigne lord, from whom their power and strength is derived, and by whom (ad bene placitum,) it is continued.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.
Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.

January 1646

20 p., plate : ill., port.Attributed to Richard Overton, with William Walwyn. Cf. McMichael and Taft...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

20 p.Dated at end: 22. of June 1653.Caption title.Place of publication from Wing.Annotation on Thoma...

England's birth-right justified: against all arbitrary usurpation, whether regall or parliamentary, or under what vizor soever. With divers queries, observations and grievances of the people, declaring this Parliaments present proceedings to be directly contrary to those fundamentall principles, whereby their actions at first were justifyable against the King, in their present illegall dealings with those that have been their best friends, advancers and preservers: and in other things of high concernment to the freedom of all the free-born people of England; by a well-wisher to the just cause for which Lieutenant Col. John Lilburne is unjustly in-prisoned in New-gate.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

October 1645

[2], 47, [3] p.A well-wisher = John Lilburne.Caption title, page 1.Place of publication and press fr...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

16 p.Attributed to Lilburn himself.Caption title.The Act was passed in 1652.Place of publication fro...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.
Lenthall, William, 1591-1662.

January 1649

[4], 75, [1] p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 18".Reproduction of the original in the British Li...

A plea at large, for John Lilburn gentleman, now a prisoner in Newgate.: Penned for his use and benefit, by a faithful and true well-wisher to the fundamental laws, liberties, and freedoms of the antient free people of England; and exposed to publick view, and the censure of the unbyassed and learned men in the laws of England, Aug. 6. 1653.

Faithful and true well-wisher to the fundamental laws, liberties, and freedoms of the antient free people of England.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

16, [8] p.Signed and dated on last page: 'July 13. 1653. John Lilburn Gentleman'.Caption title.Impri...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.
Oxford, Wendy. Unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England.

[2], 12, 23, [1] p.Place of publication from Wing.The words: "The unexpected life .. parliament in E...

To the Parliament of the Commonvvealth of England the humble petition of diuers wel-affected, and constant adherers to the interest of Parliaments, and their own natiue fundamental rights and freedomes therein concerned, youngmen and apprentices of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Imprint from Wing.Concering the imprisonment of John Lilburne.Annotation on Thomason...

Plain truth vvithout feare or flattery: or a true discovery of the unlawfulnes 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 practises, of a trayterous party in the House of Commons, concerning certain pettions [sic] for liberty and justice. Also a vindication of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning certain scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction. VVith the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtain reliefe against the said tyrannous usurpers; and for reducing the Parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes lawes and liberties / VVritten by Amon VVilbee.

Wilbee, Amon.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

January 1647

8, [16] p.Editions/issues of this work appear with differing author statements: Written by I.L. (i.e...

A declaration to the city and kingdome, from Major Generall Massey, Sir William Waller, Colonell Birch, and the rest rest [sic] of the impeached members of Parliament; concerning the proceedings of the Lord Generall Fairfax, and the Army; and their protestation to the people of England, touching the Parliament. Also, Major Generall Browns declaration and speech, to the Lord Generall Fairfax, touching the King, the Prince of VVales, the Duke of York, the Parliament, City, and kingdome. And the declaration of his Excellency the Lord Generall, to the kingdom of England, and his resolution thereupon. Likewise, a new covenant and agreement from the Army, to be tendered to all free born English-men, throughout the City of London, and the respective counties within the Kingdom of England.:

Massey, Edward, Sir, 1619?-1674?

January 1648

[2], 6 p.Identified as Wing D796 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700".Annotation on...

Vox plebis, or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny.: Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.

[2], 68, [2] p.Attributed to Richard Overton by Wing.[2] p. at end = "The publisher to the reader", ...

Englands standard advanced in Oxfordshire, or, A declaration from Mr. VVil. Thompson, and the oppressed people of this nation, now under his conduct in the said county. Dated at their randezvouz, May 6. 1649. Whereunto is added An agreement of the free people of England, as the grounds of their resolutions.

Thompson, William, d. 1649.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

January 1649

[8] p.An expanded edition of "Englands standard advanced", published in the same year.Includes a rep...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

8 p.A well-wisher to the saints now reigning on earth = John Lilburne.Date of publication from Wing....

A declaration of the Armie concerning Lieut. Collonel John Lilburn; and their resolution to establish the people in all their just rights, liberties, priviledges, and freedomes. With the remonstrance, and petition, of the officers and souldiers, citizens and countrey-men, rich and poor; with all the distressed and oppressed people of England; to the Parliament. Together with their propositions and desires; and a gallant way propounded, for the taking off all taxes, a time prefixed; the uniting of all parties; the establishing of peace; and making trade free.

England and Wales. Army. aut

January 1652

8 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: The "2" in the imprint date has been crossed out and date altered t...

To the supreame authority the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England,: the humble petition of many well affected people inhabiting the City of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent, in behalfe of the just liberties of the Common-wealth, highly concerned in the sentence against Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Imprint from Wing.Dated at end: Presented January the 20. 1651.Annotation on Thomaso...

A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free-born people of England, to their own House of Commons.: Occasioned through the illegall and barbarous imprisonment of that famous and worthy sufferer for his countries freedoms, Lievtenant Col. John Lilburne. Wherein their just demands in behalfe of themselves and the whole kingdome, concerning their publike safety, peace and freedome, is express'd; calling those their commissioners in Parliament, to an account, how they (since the beginning of their session, to this present) have discharged their duties to the vniversallity of the people, their soveraigne lord, from whom their power and strength is derived, and by whom (ad bene placitum,) it is continued.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.
Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.

January 1646

20 p., plate : ill., port.Attributed to Richard Overton, with William Walwyn. Cf. McMichael and Taft...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

20 p.Dated at end: 22. of June 1653.Caption title.Place of publication from Wing.Annotation on Thoma...

England's birth-right justified: against all arbitrary usurpation, whether regall or parliamentary, or under what vizor soever. With divers queries, observations and grievances of the people, declaring this Parliaments present proceedings to be directly contrary to those fundamentall principles, whereby their actions at first were justifyable against the King, in their present illegall dealings with those that have been their best friends, advancers and preservers: and in other things of high concernment to the freedom of all the free-born people of England; by a well-wisher to the just cause for which Lieutenant Col. John Lilburne is unjustly in-prisoned in New-gate.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

October 1645

[2], 47, [3] p.A well-wisher = John Lilburne.Caption title, page 1.Place of publication and press fr...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

16 p.Attributed to Lilburn himself.Caption title.The Act was passed in 1652.Place of publication fro...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.
Lenthall, William, 1591-1662.

January 1649

[4], 75, [1] p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 18".Reproduction of the original in the British Li...

A plea at large, for John Lilburn gentleman, now a prisoner in Newgate.: Penned for his use and benefit, by a faithful and true well-wisher to the fundamental laws, liberties, and freedoms of the antient free people of England; and exposed to publick view, and the censure of the unbyassed and learned men in the laws of England, Aug. 6. 1653.

Faithful and true well-wisher to the fundamental laws, liberties, and freedoms of the antient free people of England.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

16, [8] p.Signed and dated on last page: 'July 13. 1653. John Lilburn Gentleman'.Caption title.Impri...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.
Oxford, Wendy. Unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England.

[2], 12, 23, [1] p.Place of publication from Wing.The words: "The unexpected life .. parliament in E...

To the Parliament of the Commonvvealth of England the humble petition of diuers wel-affected, and constant adherers to the interest of Parliaments, and their own natiue fundamental rights and freedomes therein concerned, youngmen and apprentices of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent.

1 sheet ([1] p.)Imprint from Wing.Concering the imprisonment of John Lilburne.Annotation on Thomason...

Plain truth vvithout feare or flattery: or a true discovery of the unlawfulnes 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 practises, of a trayterous party in the House of Commons, concerning certain pettions [sic] for liberty and justice. Also a vindication of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning certain scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction. VVith the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtain reliefe against the said tyrannous usurpers; and for reducing the Parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes lawes and liberties / VVritten by Amon VVilbee.

Wilbee, Amon.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

January 1647

8, [16] p.Editions/issues of this work appear with differing author statements: Written by I.L. (i.e...

A declaration to the city and kingdome, from Major Generall Massey, Sir William Waller, Colonell Birch, and the rest rest [sic] of the impeached members of Parliament; concerning the proceedings of the Lord Generall Fairfax, and the Army; and their protestation to the people of England, touching the Parliament. Also, Major Generall Browns declaration and speech, to the Lord Generall Fairfax, touching the King, the Prince of VVales, the Duke of York, the Parliament, City, and kingdome. And the declaration of his Excellency the Lord Generall, to the kingdom of England, and his resolution thereupon. Likewise, a new covenant and agreement from the Army, to be tendered to all free born English-men, throughout the City of London, and the respective counties within the Kingdom of England.:

Massey, Edward, Sir, 1619?-1674?

January 1648

[2], 6 p.Identified as Wing D796 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700".Annotation on...

Vox plebis, or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny.: Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided.

Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.

[2], 68, [2] p.Attributed to Richard Overton by Wing.[2] p. at end = "The publisher to the reader", ...

Englands standard advanced in Oxfordshire, or, A declaration from Mr. VVil. Thompson, and the oppressed people of this nation, now under his conduct in the said county. Dated at their randezvouz, May 6. 1649. Whereunto is added An agreement of the free people of England, as the grounds of their resolutions.

Thompson, William, d. 1649.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

January 1649

[8] p.An expanded edition of "Englands standard advanced", published in the same year.Includes a rep...

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.

Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.

8 p.A well-wisher to the saints now reigning on earth = John Lilburne.Date of publication from Wing....

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