Proposition of Liev. Col. John Lilburne prisioner in the Tower of London, made unto the Lords and Commons assembed at Westminster, and to the whole kingdome of England, October 2. 1647. Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09403 of text R179954 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 2KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B09403 Wing L2166 ESTC R179954 ocm 61297066

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 eng Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. England and Wales. -- Parliament. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The proposition of Liev. Col. John Lilburne, prisoner in the Tower of London, made unto the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster, and to the who Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. 1647 1 358 4 0 0 0 0 0 111.73 F The rate of 111.73 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-07 Sampled and proofread 2014-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Proposition of Liev . Col. John Lilburne , Prisoner in the Tower of London , made unto the Lords and Commons ass●mbled at Westminster , and to the whole Kingdome of England , October 2. 1647.

I Grant the House of Lords , according to the Statute of the 14. Ed. 3. chap. 5. to have in La● a jurisdiction for redressing of grievances , either upon illegall delayes , or illegall judgements given in any of the Courts at Westminster Hall , provided they have the Kings particular Commission therefore , and all other the legall Pu●ctillos contained in that Statute , which jurisdiction and no other , seemes to me to be confirmed by the Statutes of the 27. Eliz . chap 8. and 31. Eliz . chap. 1.

But I possitively deny , that the House of Lords , by the knowne and declared Law of England , have any originall Iurisdiction over any Commoner , of England whatsoever , ei her for life , limb , libertie or estate , which is the only and alone thing in controversie betwixt them and me , And this position I will in a publique Assembly , or before both Houses in Law debate with any 40 , Lawyers in England that are practisers of the Law , and I will be content the Lords shall chuse them every m●n , and if after I have said for my selfe what I can , that any three of these forty Lawyers sworn to deliver their Iudgements according to the known Law of England , give it under their hands against me , I will give over my present contest with the Lords , and surrender my selfe up to the punnishment and sentence of the present Lords and Commons .

Provided at this debate , I may have six or ten of my own friends present to take in writing all that passeth thereupon .

Witnesse my hand and Seale , in the presence of divers witnesses in the Tower of London , this 2. of October , 1647. Iohn Lilburne .