Whereas _John Lilburne_, Prisoner in the _Fleet_, by Sentence
in _Star Chamber_, did this day suffer condign Punishment for
his several offences, by whipping at a Cart, and standing in the
_Pillory_, and (as their Lordships were this day informed) during
the time that his Body was under the said Execution, audaciously and
wickedly, not only uttered sundry scandalous and seditious Speeches,
but likewise scattered sundry Copies of seditious Books amongst the
People that beheld the said Execution, for which very thing, amongst
other offences of like nature, he had been Censured in the said
Court by the aforesaid Sentence. It was thereupon ordered by their
Lordships, that the said _Lilburne_ should be laid alone with Irons
on his Hands and Legs in the Wards of the _Fleet_, where the basest
and meanest sort of Prisoners are used to be put; and that the Warden
of the _Fleet_ take special care to hinder the resort of any Person
whatsoever unto him, and particularly that he be not supplied with
any Hand, and that he take special notice of all Letters, Writings,
and Books brought unto him, and seize and deliver the same unto their
Lordships. And take notice from time to time who they be that resort
to the said Prison to visit the said _Lilburne_, and to speak with
him, and inform the Board....