London, Printed in the grand yeer of hypocriticall and abominable dissimulation. 1649. A tract of 75 pages, of which there is a copy in the British Museum Library. It was written by Lilburn, while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and is thus dated by him:-- "From my close, unjust, and causelesse captivity without allowance (the legall right of all men in my case) in the Tower of London this 8. of June 1649. The first yeer of England's declared Freedom, by the lying and false pretended Conservators thereof, that never intended it." At the end is this note. "The Printer to the Reader. "Reader, As thou the faults herein dost spy, "I pray thee to correct them with thy Pen: "The Author in Close Prisonn, knows not why; "And shall have Liberty, he knows not when. "But if he falls; as he hath Liv'd, he Dies "A Faithfull Martyr for our LIBERTIES." 177. A preparative to a Hue and Cry after Sir Arthur Haslerig, (_a late Member of the_ forcibly _dissolved House of Commons, and now the present wicked, bloody, and tyrannical Governor of Newcastle upon Tine_) for his severall ways attempting to _murder_, and by _base plots, conspiracies, and false Witnesse_ to take away the life of Lieutenant Colonel _John Lilburn_ now _Prisoner_ in the _Tower_ of London: As also for his _felonious Robbing_ the said Lieut. Col. _John Lilburn_ of betwixt 24 and 2500._l._ by the _meer_ power of his _own will_, without ever fixing any _reall_ or pretended _crime_ upon the said _Lieutenant Col._ or so much as affording him any _formall_ proceedings, though upon a paper Petition. _In which action alone_, he the said _Haslerig_ hath outstript the Earl of _Strafford_, _in traiterously subverting_ the fundamentall _Liberties of England_, and (in time of Peace) exercising _an arbitrary and tyrannicall Government, over and above Law_, and better and more justly deserves to die therefore, then ever the Earl of _Strafford_ did (especially, considering he _was one_ of his Judges, that for such actions condemned him to _lose his head as a Traytor_) by which _tyranicall_ actions the said Haslerig is become a _Polecat_, a _Fox_, and a _Wolf_, (as a subverter and destroyer of humane society) _and may and ought to be knockt on the head therefore_, by the very words of Solicitor _S^t. John's_ own doctrine against the said Earl of _Strafford_. All which the said Lieutenant Col. _John Lilburn_ hath cleerly and evidently evinced _in his following Epistle of the 18 of August 1649_, to his Uncle _George Lilburn Esquire_ of _Sunderland_, in the County of _Durham_. A copy of this pamphlet is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains 40 pages. 178.