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.

THE REMONSTRANCE OF Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn, to the Freeborn people of England; and His Declaration and Speech to the Parlia∣ment on Tuesday last, in answer to the Sentence denounced against him at the Bar.

ON Tuesday last (being the 20 of this instant January) Lieut. Col. John Lilburn was brought before the Parliament (being attended by the Serjeant at Arms) and being come to the Bar, Mr. Speaker (in the Name of the whole House) made a lear∣ned

and excellent Oration to him, Where∣in he minded him of the Parliaments former favour and clemency, and of their gracious and free remittance of his by-past errours & transgressions; but now falling into a further Relapse, whose fact and crime, were of so sad and dangerous consequence, that it extend∣ed to a high breach of the priviledges of Par∣liament; in order whereunto Mr. Speaker declared, that he was commanded by the Parliament to denounce the Judgment of the House against him; whicd was, That he should pay the fine of 7000 l. & be banish∣ed out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, & the Dominions thereof, within the space of 30 days; and in case he shal ever return, or be found in any of the aforesaid Dominions, then to be try'd as a Felon, and to suffer the pangs of death.

A dreadful sentence, reply'd Mr. Lilburn, but not in the least terrifying to a good con∣science;

And Mr. Speaker, give me leave, I beseech you, and the rest of the members here present; to declare, That as bondage and liberty are two contraries, so you can∣not consider the one, but you must reflect your eyes upon the other: For though one be so destructive to the being of the other, that where the one is, the other cannot be; yet, each by other is more eminently distin∣guished: and look how the one is exceeding the other, by so much the other is deficient, and loseth of its property; and therefore if you will cast your eyes upon the glory and beauty of the one, your ears must be open to the cries and complaints of the other. As for my part, I am resolved, that as in heart I defie all injustice, cruelty, tyranny, and op∣pression, all arbytrary Usurpation and U∣surpers whatsoever, so in person (come life, come death) I will not be so treacherous to my self, to my wife and children, and especi∣ally

to this Nation (the Land of my Nati∣vity) in general, as personally to yield my active submission for exilement. But being remanded from the Bar, a period was put to his allegations; and a place of Confine∣ment provided, under the power and com∣mand of the Serjeant at Arms.