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A82113	A declaration of some proceedings of Lt. Col. Iohn Lilburn, and his associates: with some examination, and animadversion upon papers lately printed, and scattered abroad. One called The earnest petition of many free-born people of this Kingdome : another, The mournfull cries of many thousand poor tradesmen, who are ready to famish for want of bread, or The warning tears of the oppressed. Also a letter sent to Kent. Likewise a true relation of Mr. Masterson's minister of Shoreditch, signed with his owne hand. Published by authority, for the undeceiving of those that are misled by these deceivers, in many places of this Kingdom.	Masterson, Geo. (George)	1648 (1648)	Wing D625; Thomason E427_6; ESTC R204593	42,707	64

the wrong of all the rest The whole Iudgment of the Kingdom is in the Iudgment of the Houses you can represent your own pressures but not those of all the Kingdom for you are not all the Kingdom You may account that your pressure which others and as many as you may judg their benefit and the Houses trusted by all must judg what is good for all To the Supream Authority of England the Commons Assembled in Parliament The earnest Petition of many Free-born People of this Nation SHEWETH THAT the devouring fire of the Lords wrath hath burnt in the bowels of this miserable Nation until it s almost consumed That upon a due search into the causes of Gods heavy Judgments we find a a A●ns 5.9 10 11 12. Micah 2 2.3 Micah 3.3 4 9.10.11.12 Habba 2.8.17 Joel 3.3 that in justice and oppression have been the common National sias for which the Lord hath threatned woes confusions and desolations unto any People or Nation Woe saith God to the oppressing City Zeph. 3.1 That when the King had opened the Flood-gates of injustice and oppression b b See the Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom Decem. 1641. p. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15. upon the people and yet peremptorily declared that the people who trusted him for their good could not in or by their Parliam nt require any account of the discharge of his trust and when by a pretended negative vo ce c c See the Kings Answer to the Parliaments Remonst of May 19 1642. 1 part book Decla page 254 284 285. See the Kings Answer to the Parl. Decla of May 26. 1642. page 298. to Laws he would not suffer the strength of the Kingdom the d d See the Ordinance for the Militia Feb. 1641 1 book Decla page 89 pa. 96 105 106. 114 126 175 176 182 243 289 292 Militi● to be so disposed of that oppression● might be safely remedied oppressors brought to condign punishment but raised a War e e See the Parliaments Votes May 20 1642 1 part Book Decla 259 see also page 5●9 576 577 580 584 617. to protect the subvertors of our Laws and Libe ties and maintain Himself to be subject to no accompt even for such oppressions and pursuing after an oppressive power the Judg of the Earth with whom the Throne of iniquity can have no fellowship hath brought him low and executed fierce wrath upon many of his ad●…r●nts That God expects Justice from those before whose eyes he hath destroyed an unjust generation Zeph. 3.6.7 and without doing justly and releeving the oppressed God abhors fastings and praye s and accounts himself mocked Esa 5 8.4 5 6 7. Mic. 6.6 7 8. That our eyes fail with looking to see the Foundations of our Freedoms and Peace secured by this Honorable House and yet we are made to depend upon the Will of the King and the Lords which were never chosen or betrusted by the People to redress their grievances And this Honorable House which formerly declared that they were the representative of al England betrusted with our Estates Liberties and Lives 1 part Book of Decla 264.382 do now declare by their practise that they will not redress our grievances or settle our Freedoms unless the King and the Lords will That in case you should thus proceed Parliaments wil be rendered wholly useless to the People and their happiness left to depend solely upon the Will of the King and such as he by his Patents creates Lords and so the invaluable price of all the precious English blood spilt in the defence of our freedoms against the King shal be imbezelled or lost and certainly God the avenger of blood wil require it of the obstructors of justice and freedom Iudges 9.24 That though our Petitions have been burned and our persons imprisoned reviled and abused only for petitioning yet we cannot despair absolutely of all bowels of compassion in this Honorable House to an inslaved perishing people We still nourish some hopes that you wil at last consider that our estates are expended the whole trade of the Nation decayed thousands of families impoverished and merciless Famine is entered into our Gates and therefore we cannot but once more assay to pierce your eares with our dolefull cries for Iustice and Freedom before your delays wholly consume the Nation In particular we earnestly intreat First That seeing we conceive this Honorable House is intrusted by the People with all power to redress our grievances and to provide security for our Freedoms by making or repealing Laws errecting or abolishing Courts displacing or plaecing Officers and the like And seeing upon this consideration we have often made our addresses to you and yet we are made to depend for all our expected good upon the wils of others who have brought all our misery f f See the Kings Decla of the 12 Aug. 1642. 1 part book Decla page 522 526 528 548 pa. 617. upon us That therefore in case this Honorable House wil not or cannot according to their trust relieve and help us that it be clearly declared That we may know to whom as the Supream power we may make our present addresses dresses before we perish or be inforced to flie to the prime Laws of nature g g See 1 part book decla pa. 44.150 382 466 637 699 or refuge 2. That as we conceive all Governors and Magistrates being the ordinance h h See Col. Nath. Fines his Speech against the Bishops Canons made in 164● in a book called Speeches and Passages of Parliament from 3 Nove. 1640. to June 1641 page 50.51 52. of m●n before they be the ordinance of God and no Authority being of God but what is erected by the mutuall consent of a People and seeing this Honorable House alone represents the People of this Nation that therefore no person whatsoever be permitted to exercise any power or Authority in this Nation who shal not clearly and confessedly receive his power from this House and be always accountable for the discharge of his trust to the People in their Representers in Parliament If otherwise that it be declared who they are which assume to themselves a power according to their own Wills and not received as a trust from the People that we may know to whose Wils we must be subiect and under whom we must suffer such oppressions as they please without a possibillity of having Iustice against them 3. That considering that all iust Power and Authority in this Nation which is not immediatly derived from the People can be derived only from this Honorable House and that the People are perpetually subiect to Tyranny when the Iurisdiction of Courts and the Power and Authority of Officers are not clearly described and their bounds and limits i i See your Remonstrance of the state of the kingdom book decla pag 6 8 See also the Acts made this Parliament that

the Houses and among the people to hinder the advancing or levie of moneys to satisfie them And what workings there hath been both toward and in the Army under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax to breed faction and division there to irritate it or to break it by whom it was done and whose interest those men carried on all men know And how incredible soever it seem yet even the Cries for liberty endeavors of levellin● perfectly play the Kings Game his Tyranny can with greater ease overflow a levell then where it meets with the opposition of the power of the Kingdom in the Parliament The Instruments of those designes know that it is impossible for Tyranny ever to grow again upon Us till that power be taken away or disabled by which it hath been broken and our right recovered and that so long as the people acknowledge their Protectors and own their Protection they will be safe under it The Woolves perswade the Sheep if the Dogs were away there would be a happy peace between them The difficulty now is to make the Sheep believe they are Woolves that make the overture The truth is t is the greatest pity in the world that plain and simple integrity and well-meaning innocency should be deceived But their unhappinesse is there is nothing easier it is necessary the Serpent the Dove should go together else he that only consults his own Candor and Integrity will never believe that another mans Propositions or Designs have any worse principle When Absolon went about to dethrone his father there followed him three hundred men from Jerusalem that went in the simplicity of their hearts knowing nothing the man pretended only a Religious Vow and these poor believed him And every age produceth sufficient numbers of as little foresight and there is no doubt but if many among those that promote the dividing destructive Agreement of the people and indeavor an Anarchicall levelling had had but as much light to have judged the designs of their leaders and to have foreseen the end of their motions as they have good meaning their Musters had never swelled to the numbers they account them though in that there is very little credit to be given to their own Roll. It hath not been the least part of the Art of those that drive on these designs to imploy such to serve their turns whose former merit might seem to priviledge a mistake in their duty and that it must be ingratitude at least if not cruelty in the Parliament to proceed to any severe animadversion against men of so much merit as the Leaders or so large and good affection as their followers In which Stratagem they have not failed for by the Parliaments lenity and forbearance toward such men in hope they would see their mistakes and return to the wayes of their duty and safety they are grown to that height both by making Combinations Printing and dispersing all manner of false and scandalous Pamphlets and Papers against the Parliament to debauch the rest of the people gathering monyes and making Treasurers and Representons of themselves as it is necessary to obviate by present and effectuall means And the Parliament can no longer suffer them in these seditious wayes without deserting their trust in preserving the Peace of the Kingdom and the freedome and property of peaceable men Among all the Instruments they have out-witted to carry on their designs with this sort of people there are none have visibly done them more service then Lieutenant Col. Iohn Lilburn a man who hath made himselfe sufficiently known to the world by those heaps of scandalous Books and Papers that he hath either written or owned against the House of Peers and such as have done him greatest courtesies filled with falshoods bitternesse and ingratitude whereby he hath given himself a Character sufficient to distinguish him with the Judicious from a man walking according to the rules of sobriety and the just deportment of a Christian 'T is true he suffered much from the Bishops in the time of their exorbitancies and he was one of the first the Parliament took into their care for liberty and redresse But the present temper of his spirit gives some ground to beleeve that he added much to the weight of his pressures by his want of meeknesse to bear what Providence had laid him under 'T is also true that he hath done good service for the Parliament and adventured his life and lost of his blood in the Common Cause But some that know him well observe that he brought not the same affections from Oxford that he was carried prisoner thither withall though indeed he hath also done service since that time And the Parliament hath not been unmindfull either of his sufferings or of his services but hath given him severall sums of money notwithstanding the Committee of Accounts reported to the House that in their judgements there was nothing due to him But let his services be as great as himself or his friends will have them yet 't is possible for a man to reflect too much upon his own desert and mens overvaluing their services have oftentimes produced such subsequent Actions as have buried their first merit in a punishment It is very probable many of those that he misleads into these dangerous Actions look upon him as a Martyr in the Cause against the Bishops and believe that all his zeal is only for the promotion of Righteousnesse and just things and for the Vindicating and Asserting the peoples liberty against Oppression and Violence and that only by Petition and indubitably just and allowed way for all men to seek their grievances by and by which they may without offence addresse to any authority or greatnesse whatsoever To take off this disguise and disabuse well meaning men who cannot judge him by his Character drawn of himself by himself in his severall books It will be necessary to give the world a Narrative of what his deportment and carriage was toward the House of Peers upon which he was imprisoned it having yet been spread to the World only as he and his friends have pleased to dresse it all which is taken out of the Records of that House and is as followeth UPon the publishing of a Book by him written called The just mans Iustification and complaint thereof made to the House It was Ordered the 10. of Iune 1646. That Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilborne shall appeare and answer such things as he stands charged with concerning a Book entituled The just mans Iustification The 11. of Iune he appeared and there delivered at the Barre a paper entituled The Protestation Plea and Defence of Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilborn given to the Lords at their Barre the 11. of Iune 1646. with his Appeal to his proper and legall Tryers and Judges the Commons of England assembled in Parliament In which Protestation after he hath acknowledged an Obligation to the House for dealing justly and honourably with him

Legislative power for their lives Lieutenant Col. Lilburn told them That they the Commissioners had their constant meetings on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays in the evening at the Whalebone and the other three dayes at Southwark Wapping and other places with their friends and that upon the next Lords day they were to meet at Dartfort in Kent to receive an account of their Agents from Gravesend Maidstone and most of the choice Townes in that County how they had promoted the businesse there Lieutenant Colonel Lilburn drawing a paper-Paper-Book from under his short Red Coat and turning over the leaves of it told them that there were certain Letters one to Colonel Blunt another as I remember to Sir Anthony Welden and that he said he wrote himself likewise divers Letters to our friends the well-affected of such and such a County whose names I remembred not he the said Lieutenant Colonel told them likewise That because the businesse must needs be a work of charge there being thirty thousand Petitions to come forth in Print to morrow and it would cost money to send their Agents abroad though the honest souldiers now at White Hall would save them something in scattering them up and down in the Counties they had therefore appointed Treasurers namely Mr. Prince Mr. Chidly and others and Collectors whose names as I remember he did not reade who should gather up from those that acted with them of some two pence three pence six pence a shilling two shillings half a Crown a week and thus promising to meet them the next night he tooke leave But immediately before his departure told them that they shut him up in the Tower the night before but they should not have his company these fourteen nights for it This is the summe and sence of that which was delivered and affirmed in the House of Lords at the conference and in the Commons House by Geo Masterson BY this testimony of Mr. Masterson which was all but one particular as was said before confessed by Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilburn himselfe Its hoped all men truly conscientious will take heed how they comply with these men who have conceived those black designes in the dark and think to bring them forth by murders and assassination certainly these Councels look as if they were suggested from him that is a Murtherer from the beginning and yet many are drawn into the same guilt danger and disservice to the peace of the Kingdome The Conspiracy seemes to be formed and the actings to be at hand Treasurers chosen Collectors appointed moneys gathered Emissaries sent abroad to stirre up the people Murders and assassinations are undertaken and Lilburn and Wildman know the Instruments Can any man now that desire to have Peace and prosperity setled and conserved and that abhorres to think of Confusion of all things and the effusions of innocent bloud wonder if the Parliament takes care in discharge of their Trust to make abortive these monstrous conceptions and prevent the like for the future by present securing in order to punishing the Authors of these To say any thing further upon this relation seems needlesse it being not imaginable That after so clear and full a discovery there should be found any man either so simple or so wicked as not to discover the monster under the mask to see the danger hate the design and feare the Event and that will not flie from the Councels Companies of these Pests and Incendiaries who while they cal themselvs Christians do yet project or else at least conceal and applaud designed murthers and assassinations And that all men may the better see what is like to be the end to which these actions ●end let them here take this account given from a sure hand in forreign parts Namely that a Priest a Chaplaine of a forrain Minister of State whose name which is to be concealed seemes to make him an English man was lately employed hither as a Spie and at his returne gives this account to his Master and to other Confidents That there are foure hundred Missionaries now in London and in the Army under severall disguises and that some of them act the Preacher all which with all diligence attend the service of their Mission with hope to give a very good account to their Superiours Are not these Designes these Councels and the violent carrying thereof more like to be the Doctrine of those Wolves under Sheeps skins than of any man that hath resigned up himself to be led by the Spirit of God But that which covers all is that you doe but Petition and addresse to the House of Commons with much seeming respect and deferencie But what account you make of their Authority is seen by Lieutenant Colonel Lilburns Answer to Lieutenant Level his Objection and what account of all the Parliament hath done in asserting and vindicating the just freedome of the Nation is seen in the said objection And how farre you meane to attend upon and acquiesce in the Judgement of the House to which you addresse is likewise seen in some of the Letters mentioned by Mr. Masterson to be sent to their friends the wel-affected of such and such a County That to all the peaceable and wel-minded people in Kent who desire present Peace Freedome Justice and common Right and good of all men is as followeth the Originall whereof is ready to be produced when occasion is Worthy Gentlemen and dear Friends OVr bowels are troubled and our hearts pained within us to behold the Divisions Distractions heart-burnings and contentions which abound in this distressed Nation and we are confounded in our selves upon the foresight of the confusion and desolation which will be the certain consequence of such divisions if they should be but for a little time longer continued there are now clouds of bloud over our heads again and the very rumors and fears of Warre hath so wasted Trading and enhaunsed the price of all food and cloathing that Famine is even entring into your gates and doubtlesse neither pen nor tongue can expresse the misery which will ensue immediately upon the beginning of another Warre Why therefore O our Country men should we not every man say each to other as Abraham to Lot or Moses to the two Israelites Why should we contend each with other seeing we are brethren O that our advice might be acceptable to you that you would every man expostulate each with other and now while you have an opportunity consider together wherefore the contention hath been these six or seven years Hath it not been for freedome and Iustice O then propound each to other the chief principles of your freedome and the foundation of Iustice and common Right and questionlesse when you shall understand the desires each of other you will unite together inviolably to pursue them Now truely in our apprehensions this work is prepared to your hands in the Fetition which we herewith send to you certainly if you shall all joyne together