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A76083	A just defence of John Bastwick. Doctor in Phisicke, against the calumnies of John Lilburne Leiutenant [sic] Colonell and his false accusations, vvritten in way of a reply to a letter of Master Vicars: in which he desires to be satisfied concerning that reproch. In which reply, there is not onely the vindication of the honour of the Parliament, but also that which is of publike concernment, and behooves all well affected subjects to looke into. Printed and published with license according to order.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1065; Thomason E265_2; ESTC R212430	39,689	39

shall see such an alteration in a little time that the Nobles and Pears of the Kingdome and all the Gentry of the same the Flower and honour of all Nations to be the most contemptible and the onely men to be suspected who by all the Independent party at this day have beene accused to be the ruine of the Kingdome and to be of rotten hearts and the Kings friends and this I have heard many of them my selfe speak and I am confident it may by many be proved but this has ever been their evasion when we accuse them of any thing they say that they may not all be blamed and judged for the rashnesse of some when notwithstanding they that uttered such words spake nothing but what they had learned from their faction or what they had received from the chiefe heads of them And it is well knowne that Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne is upheld by that party and 〈◊〉 yea animated in all that he doth as all the crowds and 〈…〉 after him may sufficiently witnesse and they look upon him as their Champion applauding all his actions And it will not be a difficult thing for me to prove whatsoever I have written in my books against the Indepedent party from their owne bookes and even from his owne Letter and the proceedings of that company that followed him to the Committee of Examinations and their behaviour and carriage there may abundantly prove my charge in my booke against them for they gave lawes to the Committee and would not be examined but upon their owne tearmes crying out of injustice and threatning that they would bring up the whole City and a thousand such other insolencies they used there for many dayes together all which doe manifest that if in time their party grow a little stronger they will give lawes to the Parliament and make them doe what they would have them or else they will take the authority into their owne hands for Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne hath plainly taught his Disciples that the power that now resides in the Parliament is inherent to the people and that those of the Parliament are not to act according to their owne will and pleasure and boldly taketh upon him to instruct the Parliament and teach them their duty and affirmes that the power is the peoples birth-right and that they have but entrusted them with it so that it seemes if they shall once conceive that the Parliament doth not discharge their trust they have committed unto them they may resume it when they please for that must necessarily ensue from his premises and this is the Doctrine that he infuseth to all his followers and onely for to stirre up a commotion in the Kingdome and to put the people in a heat which if the Parliament timely prevent not they will runne the greatest hazard of being destroyed that ever any Councell in the world did And whereas he saith that when the King went to Oxford he left many of his friends behind him I for my part believe that he is one of them for I am most assured that never any friend the King had hath done the Parliament more wrong and indignity than Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne for it was not an apparent enemy to the great Councell that hath done them this wrong it was no Aulicus for then they would have laughed at it and made themselves merry with it but it was their friend their familiar one that the Common-wealth had fed at her table and one that the Parliament had in speciall honourd favourd and confided in and who they had stood by in his greatest difficulties yea and had preserved his life and for this man now to lay so foule things to their charge as unjustice and tyranny and trampling downe of the liberties of the Subjects oh let not this be spake in ●●b and Askelon truly such friends as he is both are and will prove I am afraid their greatest enemies and howsoever he often boasteth and tell●●h them that he hath drawne his sword in their defence it doth appeare that it was for his owne base ends for liberty of conscience as they call it in their dialect which is meer licenciousnesse and lawlesse liberty under the pretence of conscience which they aime at that they may both speake print and doe whatsoever please●t the●●●lves both against the Law of God Nature and the Religion and against the great Councell of the Kingdome Synod and all good men which is their daily practice as all their Pamphlets witnesse and this his Letter for had Colonell Lilburne with a good intention and an honest mind drawne his sword in the defence of the Parliament he would not now have drawne his pen to have cut all their throats and to enrage all the people against them as in this his Letter he hath done He telleth many stories of his service for the State and what danger he hath exposed himselfe unto in their quarrell and upbraideth them all with their ingratitude and how little requitall they have made him for all there are many in this Kingdome that have adventured themselves as farre as ever he did out of their love to the publike and have I beleeve suffered as much as ever he did yet make no noyse but with modesty and patience wait and attend till the great and weighty matters in the Kingdome will give leave for private businesses And all men know that the publike good the preservation of the whole body is to be looked unto in the first place and then afterward as occasion doth offer it selfe without damage to the publike private bus●nesse and the reliefe of the necessiited are taken into consideration and satisfaction is given unto them that can justly complaine and this has ever been the practice custome of all Nations as the Annals and Histories of all times relate Neither have such as have been forced to wait forthwith published disgracefull books and mutinous complaints against the Councels and States of any Country to bring them into hatred amongst the people neither would such proceedings be thought tolerable in any well governed Country It is well knowne that there are many Noble-men and great Gentlemen also of honour and eminency in the Kings Army that have not onely ventured their lives and all their estates but are at this day brought to such extremities and necessities as to relate would exceed beliefe so that many of those that had some three some four thousands by the yeer some more are brought to such streights as they have not bread to put in their families mouths nor cloathing to p●t on their backs yet I never heard that they did ever print Letters in disgrace of the King or his Councel and upbraid him with ingratitude towards his Souldiers because their particular necessities were not satisfied or because they conceived they were wronged by his Majesties Councel And I am most assured that if any of those that follow the King should doe any such thing or durst attempt

obedience and that has taken the Covenant and Protestation is tyed in as much as in him lyes to preserve and defend them in their lives and reputation And if any be informed concerning any one in that Councell that he should either doe practice or attempt any thing that tends to the ruine of the rest and of the whole State and Kingdome he is in conscience bound to reveale it that if false the divulgers of such calumnies may receive condigne punishment if true evill may be prevented and this I say he ought to doe though it should be to the prejudice of his nighest alies and intimatest acquaintance and this I conceive among the Independents may be thought no unjust act which this information of mine could not have done 〈◊〉 I by name put it up against Lieutenant-Colonell Lilbure as he falsly 〈◊〉 me for he might as well have freed himselfe from all danger and 〈…〉 reputation if he had told me those things as well as Hankins who 〈◊〉 ●ithstanding he related them unto us not as hear-sayes and 〈…〉 others but as truths which he said should be proved yet this 〈…〉 questioned about it and but relating that he received and heard it 〈…〉 Colonell Lilburne he was forthwith discharged even so might he have been if he had modestly told where he had heard that report and not in a disguised rebellious and proud manner behaved himselfe And it makes all men wonder to see the inconsiderable rashnesse of all that party who fall so violently upon me for but putting up my paper against Hankins when Saint Worly and his associates for so they would be accounted made the same information to four Members of the House before and have ever since with Spirit Sprat been the onely prosec●tors of that but businesse especially they ought not to have been so furio●s against me when Hankins reported it that he related it to Colonell King and my selfe for this very end that the whole matter might be fully searched into saying after I had lodged it with the Doctor and Colonell King I left it desiring that the naile might be droven to the head and that the truth might be found out This was his expression Now when I have gratified Master Hawk●ns desires who is the Sagamore of the Independants and done but my duty what he and his company would have me to doe and what they themselves do act may it not seeme a strange thing both to your selfe Master Vicars and all that shall understand the true relation of these things that the Independants should thus clamour against me and that for no other cause Lievtenant Colonell should accuse me for lying and ungratitude in the face of the Kingdome I am almost of opinion that many of the Independants when they shall heare the truth will condemn all their rashnesse in this point and truly if ever there were not onely temerity and uncharitablenesse but unjustice in an action it doth appear in their dealing towards me and the Parliament for their malice extends not to me onely but to many Members of the House yea it redounds upon the whole Parliament every particular Gentleman of the same that are Presbyterians for Lievt. Col. Lilburn blams them al as guilty of unjustice unrighteous dealing and so did all his company spak it openly in the presence of hundreds that there was no just proceeding amongst them and that they had not the liberty of Subjects and their priviledges according to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and this they with one accord affirmed openly at the Committee doore so that Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne is but their mouth and the foreman of that Tribe and what he did they all owne and to this day persevere in it and not onely so but labour to spread his Letter through the Kingdome that so they may with the more facility spread abroad and publish the sentence given by the Lieutenant against the whole Parliament the better to bring an Odium upon them all for in his book he pronounceth sentence against them all being party witnesse jury and judge in his owne cause and in his so doing whiles he cals to Heaven for justice against the Parliament he shewes himselfe very unjust and behaves himselfe rather like the wicked Judge that neither feared God nor cared for men then the most righteous Judge of the whole world who would not condemne the innocent 〈…〉 wicked as we may see in the 18. of Genesis 〈…〉 doe beleeve that the Lieutenant conceives very worthily of his own party in both Houses and thinks that they are just upright righteous men and the onely godly party in the Parliament for so I have heard the Lieuten. Col. speak and I perswade my selfe also that he is not so uncharitable as to think all the Presbyterian party in both Houses unjust and unrighteous now then if there be any either of the Independent party or of the Presbyterian that are truly just and righteous in their proceedings he ought to have spared them there is an old saying we ought not per lutum uni●● totam gent●m perstr●●gere he should indeed if he had knowne any guilty of crime and if he would have dealt justly have singled them out as he did me and by name have aspersed them and not have condemned the whole Councell in one blast and with one dash of his quill Any as he deales unjustly with the Parliament so he he dealeth not very righteously with me and my Brother Pryn for he condemnes us both of lying yet never convinced me of a lye nor I hope never shall be able for I writ nothing in my books against the Independents but what upon my owne knowledge I can affirme to be true yea depose it having had what I wrote from the Independ●●ts owne mouthes but that which coroberates what I say I can prove all I wrote against them by a cloud of witnesses the worst of them being better then the best of those witnesses they produced against Sir Iohn Lenthall and Master Speaker and therefore that which I writ against their Faction is so far from being a crime 〈◊〉 a lye as I stand upon my justification undertake upon my life to make good the charge in my postscript against the Independents or whatsoever I writ in any other book against them Nay I undertake to prove a great deale more then I have yet published and that that may concerne all Presbyterians especially and make them looke to themselves for if they get the day and prevaile they will spare none of them for they have a purpose to put downe all the Nobility and Gentry in the Kingdome I speake nothing but what I know howsoever their designe is carried very cunningly but let them once attaine unto their purpose at the recruting of the Parliament which is to bring in out of all the Countyes the Independent country Courtiers to whom they will give instructions for this purpose and you

to be beleeved it being an untruth And as little credit is to be given to that he relateth of himselfe how he dared Master Prynne to dispute with him but the Simpleton as he calleth him durst not If Lievetenant Colonell Lilburne had really challenged him in that place it had bin very incivily done in him for the Committee as it is well known doth not sit there to heare Disputations and I beleeve if he should have shewed himselfe so vaine and light as to have vented his folly in this kinde they would not onely have sharply reproved him for his temerity but have clapt him by the heeles as they might not have done but as I have beene credibly informed it is nothing so he never challenged him and therefore it is a notorious lye although it be in Print And whereas he sayeth my brother Prynne is besotted and out of his wits in collecting and publishing Marty●● Books and the scurrilities of the Independent party with many of the blasphemings and railing speeches against the great Councell of the Kingdome and their proceedings and against the reverend Synod and Assembly and indeed against all Authority I conceive he hath done a very good and acceptable worke in reducing their railings revilings and blasphemies into a volumne that they may be left to all postity and future ages that in times to come the following generations may heare what a hideous and monstrous Sect in these last and worst times of the world is now risen up which speake evill of dignities and all government at pleasure Neither hath my brother Prynne in this transgressed but hath imitated all the Prophets and the blessed Apostles and Evangelists who have lest upon record all the blasphemies of Senacharib and of all the wicked men in their severall ages David hath done the same concerning the enemies of God and his people in his dayes the Evangelists also have recited all the blasphemous speeches they spake against Christ and Saint Iohn Baptist and all the other Apostles have done the same as Peter in speciall and Iude so that by their writings all men may see what a wicked generation of men were then living and what judgements of God lighted upon them for their so doing to lesson all people in future ages to take heed by their examples lest they provoke God by the like wickednesse for whatsoever was written was written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the world are come Now when my brother Prynne hath in this done nothing but what he hath presidents for and that out of Gods Word he is neither besotted nor out of his wits as he maliciously and falsly asperseth him but they rather are besotted that either write read or entertaine in their houses with delight such wicked Bookes as tend to no other end but to the corrupting not onely of good manners but the adulterating of the true Religion and perverting of mens judgements and yet Bookes of this nature are continually to be found in the hands and houses of all the Independents and I know few other that are by them either regarded or looked after so that it is just with God to give such as they are over to fearefull errours who leave the fountaines of living waters and digge unto themselves such broken cesternes that hold nothing but puddle and s●inking filth This I thought by the way to speak in my brother Prynnes behalf nothing doubting but himselfe or some friend for him will shortly publish his just defence against all other reproaches to the world And now Master Vicars I hope you are satisfied concerning Iohn Lilburnes calumnies against me and my brother Prynne but for a corolary let me say thus much that whereas Iohn Lilburne would accuse me of ingratitude I may justly complain of his unthankfulnes uncharitablenes toward me who hath rewarded me evil for good for all that know me can testifie for me that I was ever his friend to my power but it is not he alone that would make me an ungratefull man but all of that way asperse me with the same crime many of the which notwithstanding have for smal favors done to me in the time of my imprisonment been six times over requited for it as I can prove and yet they cry out of my unthankfulnesse and others of them that sent me now and then a Piece as a token of their love and as a free gift when they turned Independents demanded it all of me againe and I have paid them every penny four pounds at a time according to their asking and yet they cry out of my ingratitude and have to my face most basely upbraided me with their kindnesses Solomon sayth he that contends with a foole whether he rage or laugh there is no peace so he that hath to doe with the Independents can have no peace with them if in the least they differ from them for if ye be merry with them in telling them of their grolleries then they say ye jeere them if ye be serious then they say ye raile so that no man can tell how to please or humour them or how to enjoy the lawes of civility amongst them or to have any peace in their societies neither the Parliament nor Synod nor Presbytry or any government can please them for if the Parliament will have them fast then they will feast and if they would have them feast and be merry then they will mourne and set dayes apart for humiliations and say they are sad times nothing can please the Gentlemen as their practises can witnesse And truly if ever there were a contradicting people and an ungratefull generation of men to all sorts of benefactors these are if a man consider things either in generall or in speciall As for the Parliament it is well knowne that they have honoured that Sect as much as ever any authority did any for they have the principall Offices in the Army and through the Kingdome places of chiefe trust and government put in their hands the prime places of gaine and emolument likewise bestowed upon them through all Counties and are ordinarily as well paid for their service as any and yet none speak more unreverendly of the great Counsell more harsh more bitter invectives against them and their proceedings then they and more asperse their authority by their practises then they doe as all their words pamphlets preachings and actions can witnesse As for their ingratitude towards our brethren the Scots and it is notorious to all men for they cannot give them a good word for all their love to us no not at this time of their di●●esse when it appeareth to the whole world that they have by assisting us not onely exposed all their lives to perill but endangered their whole Country and now lye wallowing in their blood at home for being friends to us and yet for all this their love they cannot neither think nor speak well of them such ingratitude was never seen in any