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The just mans justification: or A letter by way of plea in barre; written by L. Col. John Lilburne. to the Honrble Justice Reeves, one of the justices of the Common-wealths courts, commonly called Common Pleas wherein the sinister and indirect practises of Col. Edward King against L. Col. Lilburne, are discovered. 1. In getting him cast into prison for maxy [sic] weekes together, without prosecuting any charge against him. 2. In arresting him upon a groundlesse action of two thousand pound in the Court of Common Pleas; thereby to evade and take off L. C. Lilburns testimony to the charge of high treason given in against Col. King, and now depending before the Honourable House of Commons hereunto annexed. In which letter is fully asserted and proved that this cause is only tryable in Parliament, and not in any subordinate court of justice whatsoever.
Bibliographic name/number: Thomason / E.407[26]; Wing (2nd ed.) / L2126.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. EEBO British Library records - unstructured. 28 p. London: s.n, 1647.
Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. EEBO British Library records - unstructured. 28 p. London: s.n, 1647.
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