The free-mans freedome vindicated. Or A true relation of the cause and manner of Lievt. Col. Iohn Lilburns present imprisonment in Newgate, being thereunto arbitrarily and illegally committed, by the House of Peeres, Iune 11. 1646. for his delivering in, at their open barre, under his hand and seal, his protestation, against their incroaching upon the common liberties of all the commons of England, in endeavouring to try him, a commoner of England, in a criminall cause, contrary to the expresse tenour and forme of the 29. chap. of the great Charter of England, and for making his legall and iust appeal to his competent, propper and legal tryers and judges, the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled.
Lilburne, John,1614?-1657.
Glover, George,approximately 1618-engraver.
[London : s.n.,
1646]
Caption title.
Imprint from Wing.
P. 9-12 contain Lilburne's "To the right honourable the chosen and representative body of England assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of L.C. Iohn Lilburne a free man of England." P. 11 is signed "A2". This section has been catalogued as Wing L2187A, but there is no evidence that it was separately issued, and it is sometimes missing.
Burned by order of the House of Lords at the old Exchange in London, and in the yard of the new palace at Westminster, on July 13, 1646--McAlpin Collection Catalogue.
Annotation on Thomason copy: "June 23 London 1646".
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)
ESTC
Thomason
Microfilm.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657
Civil rights
Detention of persons
England London.