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A88210	L. Colonel John Lilburne revived. Shewing the cause of his late long silence, and cessation from hostility against alchemy St. Oliver, and his rotten secretary; as also of the report of his death. With an answer in part, to the pestilent calumniation of Cap: Wendy Oxford (Cromvvels spie upon the Dutch, and upon the English royallists, sojonrning [sic] in the United Provinces) closely couched in a late delusive pamphlet of the said Oxfords, called The unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England All vvhich, vvith many historicall passages, giveing light into the unvvorthy practises of the English grandees, is contained in three letters (The first to a friend in the United Provinces, The second to a friend in Scotland. And the third, to the honourable, Colonel Henry Martin, in England VVritten by L. Colonel John Lilburne.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Oxford, Wendy. Unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2128; Thomason E689_32; ESTC R206981	43,475	37

L. Colonel JOHN LILBURNE revived Shewing the cause of his late long silence and cessation from Hostility against alchemy St. Oliver and his rotten Secretary as also of the report of his Death With an answer in part to the pestilent calumniation of Cap Wendy Oxford Cromvvels Spie upon the Dutch and upon the English Royallists sojourning in the United Provinces closely couched in a late delusive Pamphelet of the said Oxfords called The unexpected life wished for death of the thing called parliament in England All vvhich vvith many Historicall passages giveing light into the unvvorthy practises of the English Grandees is contained in three letters The first to a friend in the United Provinces The second to a friend in Scotland And the third To the Honourable Colonel Henry Martin in England VVritten by L. Colonel JOHN LILBURNE The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the roareing Lion at Oxford and out of the pawes of the ravenous Beares at Guild-Hall in London and from all the earnest expectation of their Masters the incensed Beare-wards at Westminster hee will deliver me out of the hands of the uncircumcised Manqueller And the Lord said unto Satan Behold he is in thine hand only save his life Job 2.6 Goe yee and tel that FOXE that a Pleader for his countries liberties and the performance of solemne Engagements and Promises cannot be murthered out of England The Gentiles which have not the Law doe by Nature the things contained in the Law Romans 2.14 whiles alchemy Christians haveing both Law and Gospel doe nothing but make Remonstrances Declarations vowes and Covenants and write Hypocritical Letters to choake the Actings of otheres more honestly minded Printed in the Yeare 1653. In March For my Loving friend and Countryman Mr. D.D. in the United Provinces Kinde Sir THere is a saying in Scripture that in adversitie there is a friend to be found that is neerer then a brother and truely although there is betwixt you me both in things morall and divine a great deale of difference betwixt our judgements yet seriously without flattery or falshood I must aver that with that little accidentall conversing that now and then I have had with you dureing my abode in the Vnited Provinces I haue truely found you one of those real friends that hath been neerer to me then a brother yea and in my present adversitie I may really aver I have found more obligations of true friendship from you alone then I haue done from my brother and all the brothers in law I have in the world put all together in one and being now really in the condition of a true man set upon by a company of robbing theeves that robb him of all he hath for seriously since I left England I neither have now nor ever had before the absolute command of one Sixpence of all my estate the greatest part of which some moneths agoe Haselridge as I am informed hath got an extent upon and when they have done that lie waiting with a companie of murderers to take away his life also which by the following discourse you will finde to be my case and being truly really and bona fide in that condition I hope it will not appeare to you to be irrationall unworthy or an undervalueing of my self and thereby an exposeing my self to shame and contempt for me as much as in me lies to cry out for help to all ingenuous men in the world against their unjust cruel unrighteous dealing with me especially seeing if I any longer sit stil an unavoidable an apparent ruine is before me therfore whither my present crying out will accomplish the end I wish and desire it may doe or the quite contrarie there is in my present case noe choise at all for necessitie hath no law and if I sit still in my own thoughts I perish and if I write and print I can doe no more therefore through the strength of the Lord God Almighty I am resolved to do that which in my own judgement I apprehend to be my dutie and then trust God that never hitherto failed me with the issue When I left Holland to come to meet my wife in Flanders I did not then resolve to have been so long silent as I have been neither hath my long silence arose in the least from the feare of my adversaries greatnesse or any mischief they could doe to me or mine for I have long since scorned their courtesies and contemned their malice neither hath it solely and altogether to this day proceeded from my tender affection to my wife her and my poore babes afflicted condition but hath somewhat I must truely acknowledge been mixed many times with these and the like considerations First because it hath ever been esteemed by me ignoble and unworthy a man of gallantry and pure mettle indeed especially such a one as pursues a righteous and just cause as I am sure I now doe to strike his adversarie when he is down or to be revenged of him when by casualtie and not by his opposites immediate actings and indeavors his hands are full with other adversaries and that this hath been my practise to my present adversaries and others I averr it for truth and give these instances for the illustrateing and proving it Cromwell and I were professed adversaries to each other in the year 1647. but his adversaries by severall risings in England came upon him and fild his hands full of work and my prosperity comes upon me by my deliverance out of the Tower from almost a three yeares sad imprisonment originally by the then house of Peeres And haveing upon the 19. of Ianuary 1647. English stile impeached Cromwel and his son in law Ireton which impeachment is since Printed then in their full glory and Majestie of high treason at the open barr of the then house of Commons for an houre or two together themselves being then present in the house for any thing I then knew or doe to this day to the contrary and offered upon the hazard of my life legally to make it good if they would put it judiciously to triall which for feare of his guilt they durst not do but unworthily and basely committed me back again to the Tower by their order as a Traitor for my paines yet for all this when his own Major Robert Huntington the 2. of August 1648. presented to the Parliament a kinde of a shrewd impeachment against him and which is mentioned as a considerable busines by the Author of the History of Independence with which book to my knowledge you are well acquainted in his first part Pag. 98. And although I was profered no small matters by no small person or persons to have joyned with the said Huntington against Cromwell and solicited thereunto by some that had a great interest in my affections and to whom I owe a great deal of obligations to for singular courtesies done me yet I abhorred it to Huntingtons face at the Parlament

to me I meane the said peritioners even in that one particuler alone I can never in my own thoughts value at too high a rate but especialy the contrivers of it whom I very wel know But the said book of Oxford I could never gett asight of till about tenn days before Christmas last that a freind brought it me from Amsterdam since which time I have been allarumd from severall places and persons that I know wish me well either speedily to answer that book or look to my self and I must confesse as soon as I red it I apprehended my owne danger sufficiently and apprehended that Cromwel and Scot by whose consent or at least the one of them I am as confidently perswaded as that I am a man it is published doubt not but by the assistance of God in the answering thereof to render cleare and evident reasons for the evinceing the truth of my perswasions or belief had three things in their eye one of the which they judged would necessarily follow upon the publishing of that book First that either I would not answer it and then undeniably they would have had a great part of their end and be in hopes my silence would tacitly grant the truth of it and thereby would speedily cost me a Stabb or the like by some of the Kings madd blades or Secondly if I did answer it and doe it flatteringly then I should therby lose my interest in England amongst my friends there which is the thing they so much desire that so thereby I might be rendered but a single man uncapable by vertue thereof any more to wound or shake their Tyrannie or Thirdly if I answer it home throughly to the full justification of my former actions in the warrs then they hope I shall so provoke and inrage the Kings party here thereby as that from their hands for my so doing I shall be in as much danger from them as if I were totally silent for its apparent to me these or some of these considerations must be his and his setters on ends in taxing me with that notorious falshood I being very well known clearly long since published in England that I said more to the Grandees teethes against their intended taking away the Kings life I am confident of it then all the Caviliers put together in one avowedly durst have done and after it was done being all his triall and execution 200 miles from London at my coming home I runn more apparent hazards in Speaking and publikquely in the face of the Sunne acting against the essence and being of all manner of High Courts of justice then all the Cavaliers in England put together again in one man durst avowedly doe and in my zealous manageing my publique testimonie in bearing wittnes against all the Murders committed by the said high Court of justice I am confident I clearely gave an apparent and evident testimonie that if I had had two sons of my own that had sate as Judges therein and if I had had the chief judiciall power of the Nation in my hand as once that famous and renowned consull Lucius Brutus had in Rome I should undoubtedly have acted by his president have given sentence of death my self against my own two Sonnes as grand Subverters by being of and sitting in the high Court of Justice of the fundamentall securities of all English mens lives liberties and properties viz. juries tryalls by which are as equally justly due to the grossest wickedst English man whoever in all cases whatsoever as to the justest and semingest righteous English man that breathes and have seen their heads chopt off as he did therefore who being Consul or chief Magistrate of Rome did passe sentence of death against his own two Sons and see both their heades chopt off in his presence for con spiring to overthrow and betray the liberties of that famous common-wealth into the hands of its adversaries as you may reade in Plutarks History in the life of worthy Publicola fol. 101.102.103 And that I was thus zealous against all their proceedings whatsoever by a high Court of justice the understanding Author of the three parts of the most remarkable notable history of Independency doth abundantly sufficiently witnes for me in his second part thereof Pag. 32.61.129.133.135.136.138 154.156.161.162.165.166.168.178.179.180.181.197.201.151.257.263 and in his first part though he often useth my name yet he neither speakes contemptuously nor reproachfully of me as there you may reade Pag. 35.50.63.98.114.120 the said Author was Cavalier sufficient even in the highest as his book plentifully witneses for him and was as great an enemy to all the Kings judges and the high Court of Justice as could be as his putting his judges names in his 2 part Pag. 103.269 in red letters and his Commentaries upon their names and acts doe plentifully witnes as also his bitter and resolute assertions and protestations against them and their setters up in his 2. part Fol. 177.266.267 where he expresseth himself thus viz. This kingdome of the Brambles now set up viz. Oliver Cromwel and his purged little party in the House being onely able to scratch and teare not to protect and govern I further declare and protest that this combined trayterous faction have forced an Interregnum and Justicium upon us an utter suspension of all lawfull government Magistracie Laws and Judicatories so that we have not de jure any lawes in force to be executed any Magistrates or judges lawfully constituted to execute them any court of justice wherein they can be judicially executed any such instrument of the law as a lawfull great Seal nor any authority in England that can lawfully condemn execute a thief murderer or any other offender without being themselves called murderers by the law all legall proceedings being now Coram non judice not can this remaining faction in the house of Commons shew any one president law reason or authoritie whatsoever for their aforesaid doings but only their own irrationall tyrannicall votes and the swords of their Army and also saith he our words were free under Monarchie though now not free under our new free State so were they under the Romans Tacitus an 1. subfinem speaking of treasons facta arguebantur dicta impune erant These horrible tyrannies considered saith he and being destitute of all other lesse desperate relief I do here solemnly declare and protest before that God that hath made me a man and not a beast a free man and not a slave that if any man whatsoever that takes upon him the reverend name title of a judge or justice shal give sentence of death upon any friend of mine upon this before mentioned or any other illegall act of this piece of a house of Commons I will and lawfully may the inslaving scare-crow doctrine of all time-serving State-flatteriing Priests and Ministers notwithstanding follow the example of Sampson Iudith Iael and Ehud and by poyson poniard pistoll or any other

the manageing of my busines she doe it soe as that it is like the action of the wife of J. Lilburn and that to the General nor Haselridge nor none besides she by promise c. ingage not for me in any thing that is dishonourable to me for I assure her before hand I wil keep and perform nothing in that kinde she promiseth to them in my behalf notwithstanding which if she should doe that which is unworthy my wife I am confident it would take such a deep impression upon my Spirit that notwithstanding my now entire affection to her I should never owne her again as the wife of my bosome while I breathed although I should force my self thereby to live in a voluntarie Widdowhood all my dayes which truly in my present apprehensions of it would be a condition almost as upleasant to me as to live under Cromwels bloody tiranny And in her last Letter to me she tels me she is now vigorously going about her said petition the consequence of which nor nothing else can make me delay any longer from speedily and effectually endeavouring to appeare in print again because one of Tho Scotts Spyes whom he sent over on purpose to contrive my murder as I have too evident and apparent cause to judge hath lately published a Book at the Hague called the unexpected life and wished for death of the thing called Parlament in England wherein he incites all the Princes and Potentates of Europe to rise up in armes as one man against them and to extirpate them from the earth as a pack of the bloodiest wickedest and faithlessest Tyrants that ever breathed and to Re-inthrone his gracious Soveraigne Charles the Second in his three Kingdomes The book is dated from his Lodging at Delf the first of September 1652. but I could never get sight of it untill a little before Christmas hollydaies and reading it over and over very seriously I clearly perceived that in the 20. 21. 22. pages of it the wicked and lying Villaine hath layn a notable and close designe to have me murthered I having already for his former villanous practises in that kinde acted upon me in Amsterdam by Scotts instigation as Cromwels chief Agent put him in Print in my late printed Epistle to Cromwel in May last intituled As you were Page 1. 2. by the name of Capt. Wendy Oxford where I positively accuse him as being a Spye in pay for Cromwel and Scot among the Hollanders and Caviliers but the impudent knave takes no notice of the accusation to make any defence against it it being too true and too evident to be denied and too easie for me as he very wel knows punctually to prove and which in a Letter to an eminent person in the Hague I have already proffered to prove face to face before the States General themselves but he being at Amsterdam discovered by me to be in truth what he was and thereby in danger not onely to loose his large Salarie as being no farther usefull to Scott but it might probably be his life also to gull and cheat the Credulous Cavaliers and Dutch men and the better to take them off from the conceit of his being a Spie I beleeve with the advice or consent of Tho Scott himself he hath published his said Book for his Wife alias his Whore as she is avowedly by divers reported to be hath severall times since I came into these parts gone and come to and from England from Mr. Scott and I could name her the City and the Person where she either begged or borrowed money the first time she went to beare her charges thither and I could also tell her of a Message that that very Person from whom she had the said monie immediately after brought me to Bridges from her pretended Husband And the knave to be revenged to the purpose of me knowing the Kings partie to be so madd against al those that were actors in the taking away of the late Kings life that about 18 of them in the Hage in May 1649. beset the house of Doctor Dorislaus the Parlaments Agent there and slew him therefore although at most he was but one of the petty under actors prosecutors or Lawyers to pleade against the late King at his tryall and if one of the inferior prosecutors of him in the Cavaliers thoughts deserve forcibly in his own lodgeing to be stabd and murdred then what in their opinion must one of the chief complotters and layers of the designe deserve But in the foresaid pages he accuseth the people nicknamed Levellers to be the principall contrivers of the Kings death and me by name to be one of the principallest among them and therefore if I have any affection left to my own life and being notwithstanding all my Wives irrationall perswasions to be quiet and silent or any reason left in me to judge of things it behooves me well to look about me and not too long delay to publish my Vindication in this particular Especially considering besides the attempts that have been upon me by this very Rogues underhand meanes at Amsterdam as I have too cleare cause to judge which are partly mentioned in my already printed books At my coming from Holland to Bridges to meet my Wife I was certainly informed that as I past through that City at my first coming out of England where I lodged but two nights ther was a conspiracie to have stabd or pistold me there the actors in it as my information told me were to have been a Major or such an officer of the late Kings and two of the Duke of Lorraigns soldiers that were hired for that purpose as I have too much ground to feare by the foresaid Oxford and the first of the three came into my Lodging though unknown to me to view my person and countenance that so when the intended blow should be given me they might not be mistaken in my person and thereby destroy another for me and upon a jealousie of a person in the world asking the reason of his earnestnesse to know me the intention was discovered and prevented and the said Cavilier for his intended rashnes could render no other reason for it but that I had been a devilish or zealous Parlamentier an active man against the King in the late warr which actions and sayings makes it evident to me that my Friends that petitioned for me to the Parliament upon the 20 of January 1651. English stile before I came out of England which Petition is recorded in my Apologie to the people of the Netherlands Pag. 53. 54. 55. 56 were no false Prophets in that assertion of theirs there laid down viz. that my banishment in relation to my person considering my affection to Parliaments and my zeale to and for publique freedome renders all forraigne nations so unsafe to me as that in effect as they say I am bannished into a wildernesse exposed naked to the furie of Beares and Lions Whose affection

meanes whatsoever secret or open prosecute to the death the said Judge or Justice and all their principall abettors and I doe hereby invite and exhort all generous free-borne Englishmen to the like resolutions and to enter into League defensive and off nsive and Sacramentall associations seaven or eight in a company or as many as can well confide in one another to defend and revenge mutually one anothers persons lives limbs and liberties as a foresaid against this and all other illegall and tyrannous usurpations And in his third part of his said history of independency he sufficiently shows his enmitie against them by arraigneing the high Court of Iustice or Cromwels new Slaughter house in Engeland as he calls it with the authoritie that constituted it ordained it and by law convicting and condemning them both of usurpation treason tyrannie theft and murder in which third part of his said historie are the notablest things against the illegallitie and being of a high Court of Iustitie that ever I redd in my life all which three parts bound up together are openly and avowedly to be sold at the Hague and of which the said false Knave Oxford in the 15. page of his said booke declares he is not ignorant of for there speaking of the late Earle of Essex he setts downe his Character compleatly transcribing it out of the first part of the said historie of independencie pag. 25. And the Apostle Paul declares Act. 17.28 Titus 1.12 13. that there is no better testimonie in the world to witnes against a man then the testimonie of one of his owne party and that the considerations aforesaid towards my person and not a designe to make the Parlement rationally odious as he would seem by his booke to doe to Forraigne Nations is Oxford designe is to me very evident by the simplicitie and Falshood of Oxfords said booke which upon my life I dare aver and easilye undertake to proove undeniably that it hath above halfe a dozen if not above halfe a score lyes and falshoods in only one lease and therefore when any peece of a rationall and pertinent answer is published against it its effects in that particuler cease But if by books it had been his designe indeed to have don the Parlement a mischeife with a witnes he then should either have gotten the said most notable three parts of that most mischeiuous booke to them that ever was pend in the world against them and which was done by a learned man in the knowledge of the lawes of England and one commonly reputed one of their owne members and therby immediately furnished with the true and certaine knowledge of abundance of matter of fact contained in it which one without doores could have but by heare say translated and published in Severall languages or else have got divers thousands of them disperst in England where 3. yeares agoe to my knowledge one single booke of one single part of them hath been sold for 10. sh 20 apiece and tenn or twenty thousand of the last part against the high court of Iustice which in it selfe is but a short booke well dispersed in England its territories by the operation of it in a very few moneths after would pussell Cromwel and his grandees there more I am confident of it then van Tromp and all his fleet at Sea which yet many letters out of Engeland say is not a little My deare faithfull friend I have been the more large and plaine in unbowelling my Soul in my present condition to you who in tymes by past I have found so much truth faithfullnes and simpathizeing in and so much willignes readines activitie to be a fellow Soliciter and helper to my wife in her former greatest straites especially in my Guildhall busines in 1649. on purpose if it be possible and savour not of toe much unreasonablenes to create in you a serious apprehension of that extraordinary steed you may stand me and my poor wife and babes in in reference to our estate onely by as speedie repaireing to London to helpe her me and where yet I have something of instructions about it more to say unto you when you come thether then is fitt to be put in this hazardable to miscarry paper as possible the parting with your own delightfull injoyments will permitt you and the season of the weather will rationally afford you safetie to travell in which will be the greatest obligation that ever you put upon me in your life and probably of the greatest conse quence to me of any action that ever you did in your dayes and of which journey I am confident hereafter you will have no cause to repent So with my heartie and affectionate respects presented to your whole selfe with my true love to all the honest Sea-green blades that in your quarters shall aske for me I committ you to the protection of the most high and shall rest Your faithfull and very loveing Freind and Servant JOHN LILBVRNE Bridges in Flanders Saterday the 18 Ianuary 1653 new or the 8 Ianuary 1652 3. English stile POSTSCRIPTVM I hear by a letter from London there is likely to happen a strange thing viz a resurrection from the dead or a conjunction of severall honest blades of formerly disjointed interests once more vigourously to act againe for their known full and declared libertyes and I perceived this is occasioned by van Trumps late beating of Blake If such good effects follow such kind of actions I wish he would come and doe as much for you in Scotland provided it would make you rise againe from your dead condition in most unworthily and basely turneing your backs upon all your printed promises and solemne ingagements in reference to the peoples liberties thereby rendring your selves the scorne and contempt of all Europe and also therby haveing given too just occasion to the nations round about you to Iudge you lesse faithfull and your oathes and promisses lesse to be regarded then Turks Pagans and infidels with abundance of whom as History doth fully witnes their solemne Publique faith hath often times been more valued then their lives or all other earthly relations the so open palpable and not to be hid or covered over or pleaded for breach of it in you undoubtedly wil be the visible occasion of the hazard of a totall ruine of the English nation which must needs and unavoidebly fall upon you if speedily you doe not manifest your repentance by a speedy settleing the nation upon that just fundation or principles of rightiousnes you have so often before God and the World solemnely declared for as the only and alone Iustifiable ground and reason to warrant you either before God or man for breaking all the setled and legally established power and Magistracy in England as you have done and as the only and Iustifiable reason to acquit you before God and man of being reputed absolute and willfull murderers of all those persons