Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus / Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted

by W. H. Hart

On January 6th, 1647/8, the House of Commons ordered that this pamphlet should be referred to the Committee for printing unlicensed pamphlets.[139]

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A Salva Libertate, sent to Collonell Francis West, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, on Fryday the fourteenth of September 1649. by Lieutenant Collonell John Lilburne, unjustly, and illegally imprisoned in the said Tower, ever since the 28. of March, 1649. Occasioned by the receipt of a Verball Command (which in law is nothing, nor signefies nothing) whereby the said Lieut. was seemingly authorized, to carry the said John Lilburne before Mr. Prideaux the nicknamed, and falsly so called Atturney Generall, on Fryday, 14. Sept. 1649.

A folio sheet, signed "As much a Christian and an Englishman as ever, John Lilburne. From my Chamber in the Tower of London, this 14. of Sept., 1649." A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.

For writing and printing this and the four following pamphlets, Lilburne was prosecuted and tried in October, 1649, but was acquitted. The proceedings are given at great length in Howell's State Trials.

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An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwel, and his son-in-law Henry Ireton, Esquires, late Members of the late forcibly dissolved House of Commons, presented to publique view; by Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn, close prisoner in the Tower of London, for his real, true, and zealous affections to the Liberties of his Native Country. In which following Discourse or Impeachment, he engageth upon his life, either upon the principles of Law (by way of indictment, the only and alone legall way of all tryals in England) or upon the principles of Parliaments ancient proceedings, or upon the principles of reason (by pretence of which alone they lately took away the King's life) before a legal Magistracy, when there shall be one again in England (which now in the least there is not) to prove the said Oliver Cromwel guilty of the highest Treason that ever was acted in England, and more deserving punishment and death then the 44 Judges hanged for injustice by King Alfred before the Conquest; or then the Lord Chief Justice Wayland and his associates tormented by Edw. I. Or, then Judge Thorpe, condemned to dye for Bribery in Edw. 3. time; Or, then the two dis-throned Kings Edw. 2. and Rich. 2. Or, then the Lord Chief Justice Tresillian, (who had his throat cut at Tyburn as a Traitor in Rich. 2. time, for subverting the Law) and all his associates; Or, then those two grand Traytorly subverters of the Laws and Liberties of England, Empson and Dudley, who therefore as Traytors lost their heads upon Tower-hill, in the beginning of Henr. 8 raign; Or, then trayterous Cardinal Wolsey, who after he was arrested of Treason, poysoned himself; Or, then the late trayterous Ship-Money Judges, who with one Verdict or Judgment destroyed all our propertie; Or, then the late trayterous Bishop of Canterbury, Earl of Strafford, Lord-Keeper Finch, Secretary Windebanck, or then Sir George Ratcliff, or all his Associates; Or, then the two Hothams, who lost their heads for corresponding with the Queen, &c.; Or, then the late King Charls whom themselves have beheaded for a Tyrant and Traytor. In which are also some Hints of Cautions to the Lord Fairfax, for absolutely breaking his solemn Engagement with his souldiers, &c., to take head and to regain his lost Credit in acting honestly in time to come; in helping to settle the Peace and Liberties of the Nation, which truly, really, and lastingly can never be done, but by establishing the principles of the Agreement of the Free People; that being really the peoples interest, and all the rest that went before, but particular and selvish. In which is also the Authors late Proposition sent to Mr. Holland, June 26. 1649, to justifie and make good at his utmost hazard (upon the principles of Scripture, Law, Reason, and the Parliaments and Armies ancient Declarations) his late actions or writings in any or all his Books. London. 1649.

A copy of this pamphlet is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains 66 pages.

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An outcry of the young men and Apprentices of London: or an Inquisition after the lost Fundamentall Lawes and Liberties of England. Directed (August 29. 1649) in an Epistle to the private Souldiery of the Army, especially all those that signed the solemne Ingagement at Newmarket-Heath, the fifth of June, 1647. But more especially to the private souldiers of the Generalls Regiment of Horse, that helped to plunder and destroy the honest, and true-hearted Englishmen, trayterously defeated at Burford the 15. of May, 1649. Signed by Charles Collins, Anthony Bristlebolt, William Trabret, Stephen Smith, Edward Waldegrave, Thomas Frisby, Edward Stanley, William White, Nicholas Blowd, John Floyd, in the name and behalf of themselves, and the young-men and apprentices of the City of London. Who are cordiall approvers of the Paper, called, The Agreement of the Free People, dated May 1. 1649 and the defeated Burford-mens late Vindication, dated the 20. of August 1649.