Edward Peacock

Biographical details

Edward Peacock Notes and Queries, Series 7, Volume 5…

For upwards of thirty years I have had it in my mind to write a biography of John Lilburne. Whether he was a mere noisy agitator and fanatic, as the popular history books for the most part represent him, or an honest and resourceful person who, from the year 1638, when he was whipped at the cart’s tail from the Fleet Ditch to Westminster, to the time of his death, in August, 1657, devoted himself with single-minded earnestness to what he believed to be the highest interests of the English people, I do not now wish to inquire, though I hold the latter opinion with some confidence.
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Edward Peacock Notes and Queries (1888)

Liberty vindicated against slavery, shewing that imprisonment for debt, refusing to answer interrogatories, long imprisonment though for just causes, abuse of prisons, are all distructive of the fundamentall Laws of England. Published......by occasion of the House of Lords commitment of Lieut.
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Edward Peacock Notes and Queries, Series 7, Volume 5…

A Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, with their Resolution that if Captaine Catesby, Captaine Lilborne, Captaine Vivers, or any others, which are or shall be taken Prisoners, by his Majesties Army; shall be put to death, or any other hurt or Violence offered to their Persons......the like punishment shall be inflicted by death or otherwise, upon such Prisoners, as haue bin or shall bee taken by the forces raised by authority of both Houses of Parliament......Decemb.
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