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Oyes, oyes, oyes : At the quest of inquirie holden in the Court of common reason, law, and just right, it is found, 1. That the people of a nation are the supreme power. 2. That ministers of state executing supreme law are but servants, and not masters ... 4. From whence we conclude, that Mr. John Lilburn committed no crime in appealing to the people on Saturday the 16. of July, 1653

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1653]
Call number: 240063
Creator: Lilburne, John (1614?-1657)(Opens in new tab)
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The upright mans vindication: or, An epistle writ by John Lilburn Gent. prisoner in Newgate, August 1. 1653. : Unto his friends and late neighbors, and acquaintance at Theobalds in Hartford-shire, and thereabouts in the several towns adjoyning; occasioned by Major William Packers calumniating, and groundlesly reproaching the said Mr John Lilburn
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The prisoner's most mournful cry against the present oppression and tyranny that is exercised upon him. Or, An epistle written by John Lilburn Esq; prisoner in New-gate, July 1. 1653. unto the Right Honorable John Fowke Lord Maior of London
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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 ... to the Parliament
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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
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