“ Accordingly, as that faction soon after gave a manifest proof that they had play’d the supreme power into their own hands [sidenote 38] , we find our prerogative prisoner consulting with the agitators, how to turn this new revolution to his service [sidenote 39] ; and being informed by these friends, that all their endeavours in his favour were defeated by the commanding officers, and chiefly by Cromwell, he sent this last a threatning letrer, August the 13th, wherein he charges the Lieutenant-General with a design of usurping the sovereignty [footnote 29] ”

“ Our author being exceedingly provoked with this prosecution, which hindered him from bringing the affair of the Lord’s decree to a good issue, having put in extraordinary bail for his appearance [sidenote 31] , he first offered a petition to the House of Commons, to bring the Colonel to his trial upon the abovementioned impeachment [footnote 20] : and receiving no satisfaction there [sidenote 32] , he penned an epistle by way of appeal to Judge Reeves, and printed it with the title of The just Man’s Justification [footnote 21] . ”

“ While this cause was depending, he published a pamphlet in the beginning of August, intitled, A just Reproof to Haberdasher’s-Hall, &c. therein charging Sir Arthur, with several base practices [footnote 52] in the proceedings thereon. And in the further prosecution of this affair, he delivered to several members at the door of the House of Commons the same year, a petition, setting forth, that the said Baronet had overawed a Committee appointed for trying this cause, to give a false judgment contrary to the plain evidence before them [sidenote 56] . ”

“ He had not been there long before he joined with them in writing another pamphlet, intitled, The Agreement of the People, which was published on the first of May, with a licence by Gilbert Mabbot [footnote 48] . ”

“ All which is expressed and declared in the following Epistle, written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, to a true friend of his, a citizen thereof, April 1647. In this piece, having intreated his friend to ply the Parliament well with petitions and remonstrances [sidenote 37] , he intimates a design, if that method did not succeed, to apply himself to the army. ”