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.

II.

THe said Iohn Lilbure within three moneths last past, in a certaine book by him contrived, and caused to be printed and published hereunto annexed, intituled, The Free-mans Freedom vindicated: or, A true Relation of the cause and manner of Lieu. Colonell Iohn Lil∣burns present imprisonment in Newgate, being thereunto arbitrarily and illegally committed by the House of Peeres, June 11. 1646. for his delivering in at their open Barre under his hand and seal, his Protesta∣tion against their incroaching upon the common liberties of all the Com∣mons of England, in endeavouring to try him, a Commoner of Eng∣land, in a criminall cause, contrary to the expresse tenor and form of the 29 chapter of the great Charter of England. And for making his legall and just appeale to his competent, proper, and legall Tryers, and Judges, the Commons of England in Parliament assembled; did falsly and scandalously, in the eighth page of that Book, publish and affirm concerning the said Earle of Manchester, these false and scan∣dalous

words: I clearly perceive the hand of Ioab to be in this, name∣ly, my old back-friend the Earle of Manchester; the fountain (as I con∣ceive) of all my present troubles; who would have hanged me for taking a Castle from the Cavaliers in Yorkeshire; but is so closely glu'd in in interest to that party, that hee protected from justice, Colonel King, one of his own Officers, for his good service in treacherously delivering or betraying Crowland to the Cavaliers, and never called, nor (that I could heare) desired to call to account his Officer, or Of∣ficers, that basely, cowardly, and treacherously betrayed and deli∣vered Lincoln last up to the enemy, without striking one stroke, or staying till so much as a Troop of Horse, or a Trumpetter came to demand it: His Lordships head hath stood, it seems, too long upon his shoulders, that makes him he cannot be quiet, till Lieu. Gene∣rall Cromwels charge against him, fully proved in the House of Commons, be revived: which is of as high a nature, I beleeve, as ever any charge given in there: The Epitomy of which I have by me; and his Lordship may live shortly to see it in print, by my meanes. And the said Iohn Lilburne in the Book and page last men∣tioned, in scandall and dishonour to Henry, Earle of Stamford, a Peere of this Kingdome, and late a Commander of Forces of the Parliament, maketh this scandalous expression concerning the said Earle of Stamford, viz. And for my Lord of Stamford at present; I desire him to remember but one Article made at the delivery of Ex∣ceter; which, it may be, may in time coole his furious endeavour to inflame the free people of England.