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7 S. V. 31, ’88.] The Ivglers Discovered in two Letters writ by Lievt. Col. John Lilburne prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London the 28 September 1647 to……Sir Thomas Fairfax……discovering the turn-coat Machiavell practises……of Leivt. Gen. Cromwell and……Ireton. [No title-page or date. Clearly of the year 1647.] B.M., G.L., S.K.

The grand Plea of Lievt. Col. John Lilburne, Prerogative Prisoner in the Tower of London, against the present tyrannical house of Lords, which he delivered before an open Committee of the House of Commons the twentieth day of October 1647, where Mr. John Maynard, the lawyer, was in the Chaire. [No title-page or date. Clearly of the year 1647.] B.M., Bodl., G.L., P., S.K.

The additional Plea of Lievt. Col. John Lilburne……the 28 of October 1647……with a letter……to John Maynard. [No title-page or date. Clearly of the year 1647.] G.L., S.K.

A new complaint of an old grievance……London November 1647. B.M.

A remonstrance sent from Colonell Lilburnes Regiment to……Sir T. Fairfax wherein they declare their resolution to stand and fall with him. London Nov. 29. 1647. B.M.

For every individuall member of the honorable house of Commons. [No title-page or place. Dated at the end] 11. Nov. 1647. B.M., P., S.K.—The B.M. copy is dated “13. Nov. 1647.”

The Triumph stain’d. Being an Answer to Truths Triumph, i. e. a Pamphlet so called, and lately set forth by Mr. John Wildman, a pretended Gentleman of the Life-Guard to his Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax. With a full and perfect account of an Information of Dangerous and bloody consequence given in to the House of Lords……January the 18 1647. against Lieut. Col. John Lilburn and John Wildman. By George Masterson, Preacher of the Gospel at Shoreditch, near London. London 1647. G.L.

The out-cryes of oppressed Commons……Febr. 1647. [No title-page.] Linc. Coll., P.

The peoples prerogative and privileges asserted and vindicated……being a collection of the marrow and soule of Magna Charta……compiled by Lievt. Col. John Lilburne……London……1647. [Dated at the end] 17. of Feb. 1647. B.M., S.K.

A Whip for the present House of Lords or The Levellers Levelled. In an epistle writ to Mr. Frost, secretary of the Committee of State, that sits at Darby House, in answer to a lying book said to be his called a Declaration, &c. By L. C. Jo. Lilburne, Prerogative Prisoner in the Tower of London Feb. 27. 1647. [No title-page.] 1647. B.M., G.L., P., S.K.

Englands weeping spectacle, or the sad condition of Lievtenant John Lilburne. [No place.] 1648. B.M., S.K.

A Declaration of some Proceedings of Lt. Col. John Lilburn and his Associates……Published by Authority for the undeceiving of those that are misled by these Deceivers, in many places of this Kingdom……London 1648. B.M., Bodl., G.L.

A Plea for common-right and Freedom. To his excellency, the Lord General Fairfax and the Commission-officers of the Armie……as it was presented to his Excellency Decemb. 28. 1648. By L. C. John Lilburn [and fifteen others, whose names are given]. London Printed by Ja. and Jo. Moxon for Will. Larnar……1648. B.M., G.L.

The Prisoners Plea for a Habeas Corpus, or an Epistle writ by L. C. John Lilburne……the 4 of Aprill to the Honourable Mr. W. Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons. [No title-page. Dated] 4 April 1648. B.M., G.L., S.K.—The S.K. copy has the date “10. May 1639.” The year is clearly a misprint. This pamphlet is a violent attack on Oliver Cromwell.

The oppressed mans importunate and mournfull cryes to be brought to the Barre of Justice, or An Epistle writ by Lievt. Col. John Lilburne. [No title. Dated] 7 of April 1648. G.L., P.

The Prisoners mournful cry against the Iudges of the Kings Bench, or an epistle writ by Lievt. Col. John Lilburne……unto Mr. Justice Roll. [No title-page. Dated] 1. May, 1648. B.M., G.L., P., S.K.

The Lawes Funerall, or an Epistle written by Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn. [No title-page. Dated] 15. of May 1648. B.M., G.L., P., Soc. Ant., S.K.

To the honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of divers wel-affected Citizens and others in the behalfe of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne, prisoner in the Tower of London. 1648. B.M., G.L., P.—Contains Parliamentary order for Lilburne’s liberation.

A few facts on Armenia are worth noting. 1. Prof. Max Müller and others have classed the Armenian tongue as, like Persian, being Iranic. But later opinions prevail that Armenian is not of the Iranic section of the Aryan or Indo-European group, but is of the Græco-Latin group, being thus (like ancient Phrygian) nearer to Greek than to Persian or Sanskrit. Vide “Armenische Studien, von H. Hübschmann. Grundzüge der Armen Etym. Erster Theil. Leips.”; also ibid., p. 14 and note.

2. That there are, or were, tigers in Armenia, as the Greek and Roman poets thought (e.g., Ovid, ‘Metam.,’ xv. 86, “Armeniæque tigres”), is a mistaken belief. Herr Hübschmann observes, “Die alten armenischen Autoren wissen nichts von armenischen Tigern.”

3. The leading historian of Armenia, Moses Chorenensis, exists in an edition printed in London, “Mosis Chorenensis Historiæ Armeniacæ Libri III. Lond. Ex Offic. Car. Ackers Typogr. Apud Joann. Whistonum Bibliopolam..” In this edition are also a Latin version and notes by “Gulielmus et Georgius Gulielmi Whistoni Filii, Aulæ Clarensis in Acad. Cantab. aliquandiu Alumni.” The motto in Greek and Armenian is from Eccl. iv. 9.

4. In Moses Chor., i. cap. xix. p. 54, mention is made of the sacred “Cypresses of Armenacus, in Armaverum.” By means of the branches or twigs of these cypresses, when shaken by a strong wind or gently moved by a breeze, the pagan Armenians used (as did the Greeks with the sacred oaks of Dodona, and possibly at the oak-grove of Soron mentioned by Pausanias) to practise divination.

5. The legend of the letter of Abgarus, King of Edessa, to Our Lord is contained in Moses Choren-