Ordered ye 18th Touching Lilburne Prison[e]r in the Fleete
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| Where as John Lilburne Prison[e]r in the Fleet by Sentence in Starr
Chamber did this day suffer condigne Punishment for his sev[er]all
offences, by whipping at a cart and standing in the pillory and as
their Lo[rdshi]pps were this day informed, during the time that his
Body was under the said execution, audatiously and wickedly not only
utter sundry scandalous and seditious speeches, but likewise scattered
sundry Copies of seditious Bookes amongst the people that beheld the
said execut[i]on for w[hi]ch very thing amongst other offences of
like nature hee had beene censured in the said co[u]rt by the foresaid
Sentence It was thereupon ordered by their Lo[rdshi]pps That the said
Lilburne should bee Layed alone w[i]th Irons on his hands and Leggs
in the wardes of the Fleete, where the basest and meanest sorte of
Prison[e]rs are used to bee putt, And that the Warden of the Fleete
take especiall care to hinder resort of any p[er]son whatsoever unto
him, and p[ar]ticularly that hee bee not supplyed w[i]th any hand,
And that hee take especiall notice of all L[ette]res Writings and
Books brought unto him, and seaze and deliver the same unto their
Lo[rdshi]pps, And take notice from time to time, who they bee that
resort to the said Prison to vissitt the said Lilburne or to speake
w[i]th him, and informe the Board. And it was lastly ordered, that
hereafter all p[er]sons that shalbee p[ro]duced to receave Corporall
punishm[en]t according to Sentence of that Court or by order of the
Board, shall have their Garment[e]s searched before they bee brought
forth, and neither writing nor other Thing suffered to bee about them,
and their hands likewise to bee bound during the time they are under
punishm[en]t, whereof (together w[i]th the other p[re]mises) the said
Warden of the Fleete, is hereby required to take notice and to have
especiall care, that this their Lo[rdshi]pps order bee accordingly
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