Unto every individual member of Parliament The humble representation of divers afflicted women-petitioners to the Parliament, on the behalf of Mr. John Lilburn. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A95814 of text R211647 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.17[36]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A95814 Wing U99 Thomason 669.f.17[36] ESTC R211647 99870357 99870357 163286 2240941525

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A95814) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163286) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f17[36]) Unto every individual member of Parliament The humble representation of divers afflicted women-petitioners to the Parliament, on the behalf of Mr. John Lilburn. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1653] Caption title. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July the 29th: 1653". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657 -- Imprisonment -- Early works to 1800. Detention of persons -- England -- Early works to 1800. Prisoners -- Civil rights -- Early works to 1800. A95814 R211647 (Thomason 669.f.17[36]). civilwar no Unto every individual member of Parliament: The humble representation of divers afflicted women-petitioners to the Parliament, on the behalf anon. 1653 1 604 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 C The rate of 17 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Unto every individual Member of Parliament : The humble Representation of divers afflicted Women-Petitioners to the Parliament , on the behalf of Mr. JOHN LILBURN , SHEWETH ,

THat we cannot but be much sadded to see our undoubted Right of Petitioning with-held from us , having attended several days at your House-door with an humble Petition , desiring the making null of that most unrighteous , illegal Act made against Mr. Lilburne by the late Parliament , although it is the known duty of Parliaments to receive Petitions : and it is ours and the Nations undoubted right to petition , although an Act of Parliament were made against it ▪ Your Honours may please to call to minde the unjust and unrighteous Acts made by King Ahasuerus in the case of Mordecai and the Jews ; yet Esther that righteous woman being encouraged by the justness of the Cause ( as we at this time are , through the justness of Mr. Lilburn's Cause , and the common Cause of the whole Nation ) did adventure her life to petition against so unrighteous Acts obtained by Haman the Iews enemy . Your Honours may please to consider whether the late unjust and illegal Act against Mr. Lilburne was not obtained by such an enemy as proud Haman was , having no more cause for so doing , then Haman had ; neither do we hope that your Honours , upon mature consideration , will have the less regard unto our Petition , although women ; judging that you will not be worse unto us , then that Heathen King was to Esther , who did not onely hear her Petition , but reversed that Decree or Act gone forth against the Iewes , and did severely punish the obtainer thereof , as in truth we hope your Honours will judge that man to deserve no less punishment , who obtained the said most unjust and illegal Act against Mr. Lilburne ( though a favourite , as Haman was . ) Truely we cannot but judge the said Act against Mr. John Lilburne to be of no less concernment to our selves and the whole Nation , then unto Mr. Lilburne , since what is done or intended against him ( being against common right , and in the face thereof ) may be done unto every particular person in the Nation .

Your Honours may be pleased to call to minde that never-to-be-forgotten deliverance obtained by the good women of England against the usurping Danes then in this Nation . You may likewise consider the readiness and willingness of the good women of this Nation , who did think neither their lives , nor their husbands and servants lives and estates to be too dear a price for the gaining of yours and the Nations ancient Rights and Liberties out of the hands of incroachers and oppressors .

And therefore we hope , that , upon second thoughts , your Honours will not slight the persons of your humble Petitioners , nor with-hold from us our undoubted right of petitioning , since God is ever willing and ready to receive the Petitions of all , making no difference of persons . The ancient Laws of England are not contrary to the will of God : so that we claim it as our right to have our Petitions heard ; you having promised to govern the Nation in righteousness : therefore we trust that you will not suffer any further proceedings to be had upon that most unrighteous Act against Mr. Lilburne .