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also by another scandalous, poysonous, and traiterous Book, intituled The legall fundamentall liberties of the people of England, revised, asserted and vindicated, did publish that the Government aforesaid, is tyrannicall, usurped, and unlawfull; and that the Commons Assembled in Parliament, are not the supreme Authority of this Nation: and further that thou the said John Lilburn as a false Traitor, God before thine eies not having, but being moved and led by the instigation of the Devil, endeavouring, and maliciously intending, the Government aforesaid, as is aforesaid, well and happily established; thou the said John Lilburn, afterwards (that is to say) the, aforesaid first day of October[1] in the year of our Lord 1649. aforesaid, and diverse other daies and times, as well before as after, at London aforesaid, that is to say, in the parish and ward aforesaid, London aforesaid, maliciously, advisedly, and traiterously didst plot, contrive and endeeavour to stir up, and to raise force, against the aforesaid Government, and for the subverting and alteration of the said Government, and to doe those wicked, malitious and trayterous advisement to put iu execution, &c. and thou the said Jo. Lilburn, afterwards, that is to say, the aforesaid first day of October in the year of our Lord 1649. aforesaid, and divers daies and times as well before as after, at London aforesaid, that is to say, in the parish and ward aforesaid, of thy depraved mind, and most wicked imagination, in and by the aforesaid scandalous, poysonous, and trayterous Book, intituled An Impeachment of high Treason against Oliver Cromwell, and his son in law Henry Ireton, Esquires, late members of the late forcibly dissolved House of Commons; presented to publike view by Lieutenant Colonell Iohn Lilburn, close prisoner in the Tower of London, for his reall, true and zealous affection to the liberties of his native Country; falsely, malitiously, advisedly, and trayterously, didst publickly declare, amongst other things in the said Book, those false, scandalous, malitious and trayterous words following: but my true friends (meaning the friends of the said Iohn Lilburn) I (meaning the foresaid Iohn Lilburn) shall here take upon[2] me the holdnesse, considering the great distractions of the present
- ↑ Note, that Mr. Lilburn was imprisoned by the Counsel of State as a Traytor, the twenty eight of March 1649. and they there came and after arraign him as a Traytor, for actions done above five months after, waving all the pretended crimes for which they first imprisoned him.
- ↑ This passage you may read in that Book page 5.
