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| | The Diary of Thomas Burton: 28 February 1658-9 | British History Online |
 | | John Lilburne died in 1657, at Eltham, where he is said to have "joined the quakers, and preached among them." Though only in his thirty-ninth year, he had suffered, and probably, in some instances, had provoked, numerous injuries, unfeelingly inflicted by the successive powers in possession. |
 | | Yet it appears that John Lilburne might freely enjoy air and exercise amidst the rural scenes of Kent, and, resolving not to "learn war any more," was occupying the last days of a harassed and tumultuous life, in teaching the religion of purity and peace, while Mr. |
 | | Noble, "refused to sit with Pride and Hewson, one of whom had been a drayman, the other a cobler." The undoubted possession of armorial bearings by these Lords, risen by good fortune from "the working clashes," seems to have perplexed that diligent investigator of heraldic lore. |
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