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 ''delivering him from his cruel and illegal imprionment, and holding out unto him legal and ample Reparation for all his unjut ufferings, or ele end him to Tyburn, of which he is not afraid; and doubteth not, if they do it, but at and by his death to do them, Samon-like, more Michief at his Death, than he did them all his Life. All which is expreed and declared in the following Epitle, written by Lieutenant-Colonel John Lilburne, prerogative prioner 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 remontrances, he intimates a deign, if that method did not ucceed, to apply himelf to the army. Accordingly, as that faction oon after gave a manifet proof that they had play’d the upreme power into their own hands, we find our prerogative prioner conulting with the agitators, how to turn this new revolution to his ervice ; and being informed by thee friends, that all their endeavours in his favour were defeated by the commanding officers, and chiefly by Cromwell, he ent this lat a threatning letrer, Augut the 13th, wherein he charges the Lieutenant-General with a deign of uurping the overeignty; which was econded by another on the 29th, addreed to Fairfax the General,