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A Whip for the present House of Lords, Or The Levellers Levelled. In an Epistle writ to Mr. Frost, Secretary to the Committee of State, that sits at Darby House, in answer to lying book said to be his called a declaratio, &c. By L.C.Io. Lilburne, Prerogative Prisoner in the Tower of London, Feb.27.1647. Into which is inserted his speech against the House of Lords Legislative and Iudi- cative power, made at the barre of the House of Commons, on the 19. of Ianuary, 1647. In which is punctually proved, both by reason, and the Parliaments own Declarations, that though the present House of Lords, (de facto) exercise a law making, and a law iudging power, yet (de jure) they have no right to either, be- ing meer prerogative Usurpers, and that the House of Lords, exercising their pretended Legislative power, is destructive to the Libertie and Freedomes of England, it alone having been the chiefe cause of all the late warrs, and blood shed in England, for which as the Bishops were, they deserve

A Whip for the present House of Lords, Or The Levellers Levelled. In an Epistle writ to Mr. Frost, Secretary to the Committee of State, that sits at Darby House, in answer to lying book said to be his called a declaratio, &c. By L.C.Io. Lilburne, Prerogative Prisoner in the Tower of London, Feb.27.1647. Into which is inserted his speech against the House of Lords Legislative and Iudi- cative power, made at the barre of the House of Commons, on the 19. of Ianuary, 1647. In which is punctually proved, both by reason, and the Parliaments own Declarations, that though the present House of Lords, (de facto) exercise a law making, and a law iudging power, yet (de jure) they have no right to either, be- ing meer prerogative Usurpers, and that the House of Lords, exercising their pretended Legislative power, is destructive to the Libertie and Freedomes of England, it alone having been the chiefe cause of all the late warrs, and blood shed in England, for which as the Bishops were, they deserve

John Lilburne

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