The Legal Fundamental Liberties Of the People of England, Revived, Asserted and Vindicated. Or an Epistle, Written the 8. of Iune, 1649. By Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn to Mr. William Lenthal, Speaker to the remainder of those few Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, that Colonel Thomas Pride, at his late purge, thought convenient to leave sitting at Westminster who pretendedly stile themselves The Parliament of England, intrusted and authorised by the consent of all the people thereof, whose Representatives by Election in their Declaration last mentioned, pag. 27. they say) they are; although they are never able to produce one bit of a Law, or any piece of a Commission to prove, That all the people of England, or one quarter, tenth, hundred, or thousand part of them au- thorized Thomas Pride, with his Regiment of Souldiers, to chuse them a Parliament, as indeed he hath de facto done by this pretended Mock-Parliament

And therefore it cannot properly be called, the Nations or Peoples Parliament, but Colonel Prides and his Associates, whose really it is; who, although they have beheaded the King for a Tyrant, yet walk in his oppressingest steps, if not worse, and higher

by John Lilburne

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