Lieu. Col. John Lilburn's plea in law

British Museum. Catalogue of the pamphlets, books, newspapers, and manuscripts relating to the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and Restoration, collected by George Thomason, 1640-1661: E.703[12*]
Folger bibliographic ID: 139935
ESTC number: R202744
Wing number: L2160
Folger call number: Film Acc. 640
Folger holdings ID: 201784

Edition

The second edition much inlarged, corrected, and amended, July 2. 1653

Bibliographic format

quarto

General notes

Attributed to Lilburn himself Caption title. The Act was passed in 1652 Place of publication from Wing Signatures: A-B⁴

Extended title: 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

England and Wales. Public General Acts. 1652-01-30 Great Britain

author: Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657