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L. Col: Lilburne, By your favour Mr Prideaux, that is more then I do know, but whether it be or not, by the expresse Law of England, it ought not to be, therefoe I pray let me have no more of it.
Mr Br⟨o⟩ughton, And further, thou the said John Lilburne stands Indicted, for that thou the aforesaid first day of Ooctober, in the year of our Lord, 1649. and divers daies and times, as well before as after, in London aforesaid, and in the Parish and ward aforesaid, didst maliciously, advisedly, and trayterously publish another false poysonous, trayterous, and scandalous Book, Intituled, An outcry of the Young-men and apprentices of London, Or an inquisition after the lost fundamentall Laws and Liberties of England: having these Trayterous and scandalous words (amongst other things) following; that is to say, we (meaning the Young men and Apprentices of London) considering what is before premised,[1] are necessitated and compelled to do the utmost we can for our own preservations, and for the preservation of the Land of our Nativity, and never (by popular Petitions) addresse our selves to the men sitting at Westminster any more, or to take any more notice of them, then as of so many Tyrants, and Usurpers; and for the time to come to hinder as much and as far as our poor despised interest will extend to) all other whatsoever from subscribing or presenting any more popular Petitions to them, and only now as our last refuge, mightily to cry out to each other, of your intollerable oppressions, in Letters and Remonstrances signed in the behalfe, and by the appointment of all the rest, by some of the stoutest and stiffest amongst us, that we hope will never apostatise, but be able by the strength of God, to lay down their very lives for the maintaining of that which they set their hands to: And further, that thou the aforesaid John Lilburne afterwards, that is to say, the aforesaid first day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1649, and divers other daies and times as well before as after, not being an Officer or Souldier, or member of the Army aforesaid, at London aforesaid, in the Parish and Ward aforesaid, as a false Traytour did maliciously, advisedly and Trayterously indeauour to stir up a dangerous mutinous, & Trayterous distemper, Mutiny and Rebellion in the Army, now under the Command of Thomas Lord Fairfax, and didst indeavour to draw Thomas Lecoies, Iohn Skinner, and John Toppe from their obedienceto
- ↑ Which words are in pag: 11.
