He was the only one, however, of the original Lancashire leaders who had an interview with Lilburne in the campaign of 1651.

Since February the rising had been getting every day more serious, and still no one was sent to supersede Lilburne.

Lilburne's pamphlets were exceedingly numerous, and his popularity, in London particularly, enormous.

Lilburne and Warton disregarded the foregoing order, and printed and published libellous and seditious works.