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Lieu. Col. John Lilburn's plea in law : against an Act of Parliament of the 30 of January, 1651. entituled, An act for the execution of a judgment given in Parliament against Lieu. Col. John Lilburn. Contrived and penned, on purpose for him, by a true and faithful lover of the fundamental laws and liberties of the free people of England, ... all which compels and forceth the penman to be very studious of his own good and preservation, .. and therefore, for his own good and benefit, the honest readers information, and for Mr Lilburns the prisoners advantage, he presents these ensuing lines to thy view, and his, as the form of a plea; that the penman hereof, as a true well-wisher of his, and the people of England, would have him to ingross into parchment, and to have ready by him to make use of (in case his own braines cannot contrive a better) when he is called up to answer for his life before the judges of the upper-bench, or any other bar of justice whatsoever; and the said form of a plea for him thus followeth verbatim.

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Format:
Microformat
Author/Creator:
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.
Series:
Thomason Tracts ; 108:E.70312*.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
Great Britain.
Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660--Early works to 1800.
Local Subjects:
Great Britain--History--Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660--Early works to 1800.
Physical Description:
16 pages
35 mm
monochrome
service copy
positive
Edition:
The second edition much inlarged, corrected, and amended, July 2. 1653.
Place of Publication:
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1653]
Notes:
Attributed to Lilburn himself.
Caption title.
The Act was passed in 1652.
Place of publication from Wing.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Thomason Tracts ; 108:E.703[12*]). s1978 miun a
Cited in:
Wing (2nd ed.) L2160.
Thomason E.703[12*].
OCLC:
61375691

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