A Preparative To An Hue And Cry After Sir Arthur Haslerig, For his severall ways attempting to Murder, and by base plots, conspiracies and false Witnesse to take away the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Lilbvrn now Prisoner in the Tower of London

As also for his felonious Robbing the said Lieut. Col. John Lilbvrn of betwixt 24 and 2500 l. by the meer power of his own will, without ever fixing any reall or pretended crime upon the said Lieutenant Col. or so much as affording him any formall proceedings, though upon a paper Petition. In Which Action Alone, he the said Haslerig hath outstript the Earl of Strafford, in traiterously subverting the fundamentall Liberties of England, and exercising an arbitrary and tyrannicall Government, Over And Above Law, and better and more justly deserves to die therefore, then ever the Earl of Strafford did by which tyrannicall actions the said Haslerig is become a Polecat, a Fox, and a Wolf, and may and ought to be knockt on the head therefore, by the very words of Solicitor St. John's own doctrine against the said Earl of Strafford. All which the said Lieutenant Col. John Lilburn hath cleerly and evi- dently evinced in his following Epistle of the 18 of August 1649, to his Uncle George Lilburn Esquire of Sun- derland, in the County of Durham. ...

by John Lilburne

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