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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

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

this meanes I came to be knovne and to be in esteme among some Godly Citizens and to be acquainted with them who shewed me many courtesies vvhich vvas not a little comfort unto my bands vvhich I acknowledge with all thankfullnesse to God and them and all these were the old Puritans of E●gland and now Presbiterians not one of them independent and this was the first occasion of my being knowne to the City And not long after this the good old Father brought me acquainted with some young men towardly and fearing God and they also tooke pleasure in my society and I was as glad of theirs amongst the which was Mr. Iohn Lilburne who as his occasions permitted him would now and then visit mee of whom I had then as good an opinion as of any young man in the Towne and conceived of him as an honest hopefull and godly youth and gave him as good councell as I could give to any and loved and esteemed of him as I did of any of my Christian Brethren and after some familiarity and more intimate acquaintance he made knowne unto mee his condition and told me as I remembred that he was now either out of his time or that it approached that he should be a Free-man but withall related unto me that his stocke was very small to beginne with and if my memory faile not he tould mee hee had but fifty or threescore pound for his portion which saith hee you know is very li●tle to set up withall But what trade hee was of I know not to this day and hee intreated mee that I would be pleased to give him a Copy of my Let any and my answer to the Bill of information put up against me in the Star-chamber saying that hee doubted not but hee should get money enough by them for he perceived that they were well approved of by all that read or seene them whereupon I diswaded him from thinking of such a thing telling him that it would expose him to great danger and that it might prove his ruin but withall I said if that hee did really conceive or beleeve that it might bring any benefit unto him and might raise him a stock that withall my heart most willingly I would give it him or any other Copies of anything I had either in Latin or English but I told him for my Letanies they were all gone and I had never a Copy left Then hee demanded where hee ●ight procure one and I told him that one Master Vicars a Schoole Master in Christ church had one and I thought that hee would be willing to let him have it whereupon Hee intreated mee to write unto you Master Vicars and so I did earnestly desiring you to let him have yours which you most willingly and readily condescended unto with all you may remember Mr. Vicars that I used this Argument to make you more willing to pleasure him that hee was a hopefull young man but he had but a little stock to begin with and hee conceived that it might be a meanes the better to set him up to which you the more willingly listned unto and freely gave him my Letany And all this you can witnesse unto Whereupon John Lilburne repayers to mee returning many thanks and tould mee with all that hee had my Letany and was now taking his journey into the Low-Countries to print it and brought with him a young man whom hee said he would imploy for the dispersing of his bookes that he should send over before his returne but I disswaded him for confiding in that man though I had never seene him before for I tould him I liked not his lookes and I was afraid that he would betray him but notwithstanding what I said hee ●eied most confidently upon him professing that he would put his life in his hands assuring that hee had experience of his fidelity and seeing that I could not prevaile with him to make use of some other I left him to himselfe telling him againe and againe that I was perswaded hee would prove a false friend unto him for hee looked like a knave And all this John Lilburne cannot deny and as I tould him it came to passe for he betrayed him to the Prelates afterward but it was carried so cunningly on the Prelates part and so craftely by that fellow that it did not appeare to Iohn Lilburne that he was deceived though it was palpable to all men besides But now a word or two of John Lilburnes successe in the Low-Countries when hee came thither hee made all speed to print the Letany with my answer to the Bill of information and it was no sooner published but hee got threescore pounds cleerely by it in a few dayes as hee himselfe hath often related it to mee and others as I can prove and had not that base fellow betrayed him he might for ought I know have gotten five hundred pounds by it for never did any apolegy sell better but as soone as the Bookes were landed in England and that that Judas had intelligence of it by John Lilburnes Letters hee immediatly informed the Prelate of Canterbury of it who could not endure the very name of my Letany and forthwith he sent downe a Pursevant vvith plenary authority to the place where they landed and surprised all the books burnt them there where he found them if I have not bin misinformed as soon as Iohn Lilburne was arrived he caused him to be apprehended cast into rison and after to be censured in the Star-Chamber and made him most barbarously and cruelly to be whipt pillired and gagged and afterwards to bee most tyrannically abused in the Goale against all Lawes both of God Nature and all humanity all which hee might have escaped if hee would have followed my counsell and had not trusted to his owne wit and confided in that treacherous fellow who was his overthrow This is all true Master Vicars that I have now related unto you and both your selfe and many more can witnesse for me that I have not in my relation falsified any thing Now I shall desire you and all those that shall reade what in truth I have written to consider whether I stand obliged to John Lilburne with as many tyes of friendship and respect as to any man in the world as he affirmeth or whether or no hee is not obliged rather to me in all those tyes of friendship and respect that was so willing to gratifie him meerely for a few visets for I never at that time had received a farthing of mony from him of his own Or whether he ventured his life in England and Holland for my sake or for his own profit and hope of gaine Or whether hee underwent those miseries hee speakes of for my cause or for his owne emolument and benefits which hee affirmeth All these things Master Vicars I referre not onely to your judgment to bee considered of but to the wisdom and discretion of all moderate