servants of the prisoners be allowed access to them, the second cutting
off even this liberty. But the wording of the second vote will scarcely
bear such a construction; the four prisoners are to "be restrained as
close Prisoners, apart one from the other, within several Lodgings in
the Tower." Commons Journal, VI, 205 ff. The point is important
because the Discourse represents Lilburne's wife as with him. As for
Peters, orders of the House of Commons were never intended to keep
out that bustling divine; especially if, as Lilburne surmised, he came
on a mission from the Grandees.

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