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7 S. V. 5, ’88.] A Book without a Title. [No place or date, but probably 1649.] P.—This appears to be the first part of a newspaper; it is marked No. 1. Lilburne is mentioned at the end.

The plea itself thus followeth. [No title-page. Dated at the end] 8 June 1649. C.C.C.

The Picture of the Councel of State, Held forth to the Free people of England by Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, Mr Thomas Prince, and Mr Richard Tower of London……The Substance of their several Examinations……before them at Darby House upon the 28 of March last. [No place.] 1649. B.M., Bodl., G.L., P., S.K.—The G.L. contains a pamphlet entitled ‘The Narrative of the Proceedings against Mr Thomas Price.’ It is dated “1 Day of April 1649.” It is a fragment of ‘The Picture of the Councel of State’ noticed above, beginning with p. 49.

To the Supream authority of this Nation, the Commons assembled in Parliament. The humble petition of divers wel-affected Women……affecters and approvers of the large Petition of the eleventh of September 1648. In behalf of John Lilburn, Mr William Walwyn, Mr Thomas Prince, and Mr Richard Overton, now Prisoners in the Tower of London, and Captain William Bray close prisoner in Windsor Castle, and Mr. William Sawyer Prisoner at White-Hall. London 1649. B.M., G.L.

A brief discourse of the present power of magistracy and justice, occasioned upon the tryall of……John Lilburne by R. L. [No place.] 1649. B.M.

A Salva Libertate sent to Coll F West Lt of the Tower, by John Lilburne. [Single sheet, folio.] 1649. B.M.

A letter……to the General……in behalf of R. Lockyer under sentence of a court martial. [No place.] 1649. B.M.—There is also in B.M. another edition in the form of a folio broadside.

The votes of Parliament concerning John Lilburn. [No place.] 1649. B.M.

To the Supreme Authority of the Nation, the Commons of England assembled in Parliament: The humble Petition of divers well-affected persons of the Cities of London and Westminster……In the behalf of John Lilburn [and others] now prisoners in the Tower. G.L.—This tract has no title, and begins at p. 8. It is dated at the end “11. April 1649.” It may possibly be a portion of one of the tracts already mentioned.

An Agreement of the Free People of England, Tendered as a Peace offering to this distressed Nation by Lieut. Colonel John Lilburne [and others]……Prisoners in the Tower of London May the 1. 1649. [No title-page. Imprint at end.] London April 30. 1649. B.M., Bodl., G.L., P., S.K.—There are two editions of this tract.

To my honored Friend Mr Cornelius Holland these. [No title.] G.L., S.K.—It contains letters of Lilburne, a prayer against Cromwell by him, Huntington’s reasons for laying down his commission, a petition from East Smithfield and Wapping, with names. The petition relates to Lilburne and Wildman.

To all the Affectors and Approvers……of the petition of the eleventh of September 1648, but especially to……my true friends……usually meeting at the Whalbone in Lothbury, behinde the Royal Exchange, commonly (but most unjustly) stiled Levellers. [No title-page. Dated at the end] 17. July, 1649. C.C.C., G.L.

Lindsey House is on the west side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and was built by Inigo Jones for Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, and occupied, I suppose, by him before he went to Lindsey House at Chelsea, a house which he also had built for himself, and which has a most interesting history of its own, although it cannot be touched upon in this connexion. Timbs says the Lincoln’s Inn Fields house has a handsome stone front, and had formerly vases upon the open balustrade. Cunningham gives a good deal more about it. He says that this Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, was general of the king’s forces at the outbreak of the Civil War, and fell at the battle of Edgehill. The fourth earl became Duke of Ancaster, and the house was called Ancaster House. Then it passed by purchase to the proud Duke of Somerset. In Hatton’s ‘New View,’ 1708, it is said to have a “strong beautiful court gate, consisting of six fine spacious brick piers, with curious ironwork between them, and on the piers are placed very large and beautiful vases.” The open balustrade at the top was also, Cunningham says, surmounted by six urns. Again, Cunningham, in his ‘Life of Inigo Jones,’ published by the old Shakspere Society, 1853, writes that there exists at Wilton a careful elevation in oil colour of Inigo’s plan for Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and that Lindsey House figures in it as the principal feature of the west side, which, with its stone facade, stands boldly out from the brick houses which support it on either side. There are two houses on the west side, standing side by side, and both of them beautiful. The one is stone fronted, and would, according to Cunningham and Timbs, be by Inigo. The other is of brick, which has, unhappily, been plastered in the customary botching way of the ordinary London builder. It is thus that the really beautiful brickwork of Gray’s Inn gateway, Holborn, has of late years been ruined; it is thus that the ignorance of the hodman is allowed to deface the masterly arrangements in brickwork of our very few artists in architecture. We first deface, and afterwards destroy. I stood before these two houses the other day, and my attention became riveted by the much superior beauty of the stuccoed edifice to that of the stone house, and I came to the positive conclusion that the stone-fronted house was the performance of a quite inferior mind to the “shaping” genius that could create the other. It is an unsymmetrical reproduction by a novice of the brick building beside it, and I apprehend there must be some record extant that will prove it so. Perhaps some one can tell us what the plan at Wilton indicates. Cunningham says that it shows a stone façade. I doubt it much. One thing I feel persuaded of, that the man who did the brick house was a greater artist than he who did the stone one; next, that the old Lindsey House was of much greater breadth of frontage than either of these—as much, at least, as the two together.

Hatton’s description, which I have given above, speaking of the court gate and six brick piers,