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A48473	Plaine truth without feare or flattery, or, A true discovery of the unlawfulnesse of the Presbyterian government it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties, and contrary both to the protestation and covenant : the end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance, the betraying votes and destructive practices of a traiterous party in the House of Commons concerning certain petions for liberty and justice : also, a vindication of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, concerning certaine scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction : with the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtaine reliefe against the said cyrannous usurpers, and for reducing the parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes laws and liberties / written by I.L.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2156; ESTC R12537	30,822	22

Treason and misdeameanors but also argumented and exceeded them in many things I could but at present for speciall reasons will not particularize in the mean time my friends make use of your owne observations call your memories to account and compare things with things advise well make your selves strong and feare not Why should the old English proverb for our love and faithfulnesse be made true upon us Save a traytor or theefe from the gallowes and he shall be the first that shall hang you indeed we are neer it if we doe not bestir our selves and prevent it But it is better that a few presumptuous men whos 's Lucifer like pride and ambition hath lifted them up to Heaven should be cast down into oblivion and darknesse then the whole Nation perish And therefore yee free Commoners of England up quickly and looke about you consider seriously the snare prepared for you and compare the vehement endeavours of these trayterous persons to disband the Army which hath tought and is resolved to stand for your liberties with this their patterne and first piece of thraldome in setling the Militia thus at this time in such mens hands in London and their putting power into the hands of such as are enemies to the publicke in the Country and see if these men intend any thing to you and yours but bondage and slavery and this is part of that ye are told in the * Both worth your notice books called the Warnings for all the Counties of England and the New found Stratagem upon the Petition of Essex Be vigilant therefore and assistant to keep the Army on foot for your owne defence and preservation of your selves your estates and liberties Country and posterities from inextricable vassalage and irrecoverable ruine for that once downe this ambitious party who aime at Soveraignty to make the King their scorne and us their slaves will presently not only turne the Militia in every place upon the Country as they have already designed in the City but raise horse also after the manner of Germany in all Counties of the Kingdome for the better securing themselves and this their forme of tyranny and if such bee no traytors who be Where shall we find any and if this be to imploy their publicke trust for the * Book Decla page 700. publicke good and whether their † Page 172. onely aime bee herein the Kingdomes safety and the peoples peace as they have declared and spoken let all England judge And thus yee see they falsify their words and Declarations as well as break their Oaths Protestations but in their Booke of Declarations page 207. they say That in case of extreme danger and his Majesties refusall to settle the Militia of the Kingdom the Ordinance that is the Ordinance which was then made in that time of such extreme danger agreed upon by both Houses for the Militia doth oblige the people and ought to be obeyed by the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome but now blessed be God here is no such case of extreme danger neither hath the King been so much as petitioned or sought unto for this Ordinance of the Militia of London and therefore it doth not bind the People nor can they by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land be compelled to obey it besides they ordering the Militia to the publique hurt and not to the publique good contrary to the intent and equity of the Law and the end o● their trust the people are ipso facto discharged of their obedience to their Ordinance for we are not bound to obey to our own dammage and destruction see this proved by their owne destruction and argument in Book of Decl. page 150. But to make a farther discovery of the truth by discovering more of this evill parties falshood breach of trust and traitorous practices against us take notice that in the Book of Declarations pa. 720. the Parliament declare That it is the liberty and priviledge of the people to petition unto them for the ease and redres●e of their grievances and oppressions and that they are marke bound in duty to receive their Petition here is a fair acknowledgement but I pray you marke their actions many tho●sand honest and really affected to the publick liberty in the City had prepared a petition to have been presented to the House of Commons for redress of some grievances and oppressions and restoration of some liberties and priviledges comprehending nothing but things legall and just what they ought to grant this Petition contrary to all course of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject was by the power and subtilty of the aforesaid faction or party who have their setting dogs and ●●agles to discry and h●nt for them intercepted as thus they anticipated the Armies Petition before it was perfected and made ready to be presented the copy of it was read in the House and re●erred to a Committee whereof fierce-siery M. Lee was Chair-man to examine and report it they did not so by the factions Petition and Remonstrance framed by the pretended Lord Maior and Common-Coucnell-men against which they then not finding any just cause of exception held the vowchers thereof with faire words in hopes of an answer untill they had mounted their late new Ordinance of the militia for London and then they declared thir distaste and displeasure against it the which in j●st dealing violation of our native liberty and priviledge the petitioners not brooking presented a Petition to the House of Commons for justice and redress and desire that their former Petition might not be censured before it was in due order presented hereupon Hollis Stapleton and the rest of that faction traitours to their Country according to their usuall course through their malignant influence prevalency procured this latter Petition to be voted seditious and that both it and the former should be burnt by the hands of the hang-man was there ever such a thing done before by a Parliament in England sure not and that to question any act done in the House was a breach of the priviledges of Parliament but by cunning to intercept the former Petition and tyrannically to suppress and reject it and illegally to imprison some of the Petitioners for it as they have done M. Tue and M. Browne was no breach of the priviledge of the subject No deare friends and fellow Commoners unless ye have like fooles resolved with your selves after so sharp and Hoody a contestation for your Law and your liberties to relinquish your claime by Magna Charta and the good old Law and to hold your lives and liberties and all you have by the Arbitrary Votes of the House of Commons and to become Tenants at will unto a company of Traitors and Tyrants up in Gods name up demand redresse and vindicate your selves and native rights against Votes and Votesr hodie mihi cras 〈◊〉 what these men doe to this or that part or place of the Kingdome and people to

fruits and effects are nothing but impiety and hypocrisie a Reli on which consists more in outward formes and rites after the manner of Moses then in power and piety according to the Gospel which conduceth as appears more to tyranny then Christianity And so I will pretermit their Vowes and Oaths and come to some of their speeches and sayings and here I will shew you another truth by the discovery of another falshood and treacherous vanting act of the same traiterous party or faction which serves as a patterne representation or image of the forme of the yoake of bondage which it may be suspected they study and intond to put upon all the Counties and Corporations in the Kingdome and by which with the helpe of their determined new Army of Horse it is probable they purpose if they can to subjugate the whole Land and to consorme the People to their arbitrary wills even to pay and bease doe and suffer whatsoever they shall thinke sit to enjoyne them or exact upon them as well in respect of things spirituall as civill In the Parliaments Remonstrance of the 2 of November 1642. Book Decl. pag. 700. they tell us That all Rights or Interest of publicke trust are only for the publicke good and not for private advantages nor to the prejudice of any mans particular interest much lefle of the publique And in May 1642. Book Decla 172. They call God to witnesse that the safetie of the Kingdome and peace of the people is their onely aime and because the King would not believe them therein and well had it been for us if we bad never so done nor trust them wholly therewith great grew the contestation as yee may well remember betweene the King and the Parliament about the setling of the Militia of the Kingdome and indeed it was one unhappy cause of the quarrell between them The Parliament then pretending that the King ought not to lettle it without them that it behoved them to have the nomination of such persons as were to be intrusted therewith in whom they might conside the King affirmes and they afterwards grant That the whole power thereof was intrusted by Law in him for the preservation and defence of the Kingdom yet because the King would not passe the Ordinance in Febu 1641. for the setling it in such forme as they desired though the persons they nominated were not refused they presently protest I with they were as quick to doe justice as they are to take exceptions to dispose of it without him and accordingly resolve Rebus sit stantibus nolenti Regi that is they expresse in extream distraction when sorreigne forces are probably invited and a malignant Pepish paritie offended c. the ordering it to be in them for the observe preservation of the Republicke and to prevent the turning the Armes of the Kingdome upon it selfe see the Parliaments answer to their owne question pag. 150. of the Booke of Decla But I hope the case is now altered for although our distractions be still continued by the destructive Councell of a pernicious sactions partie in both Houses the heads of which were and are the cause both of those distractions and these who like katchers of Eeles love to fish in the troubled waters here is now no seare of invited forreign forces and as for that malignant Popish partie then so much condemned it is utterly subdued and suppressed and therefore in all reason Rebus nunc sic stantibus that is the so much feared publicke adversary being long since conquered all visible danger removed and the King recovered out of the hands of evill Counsellors and at present with themselves and not legally divested of his Regall power and right of trust in a word all just pretext and colour of extremity being taken away they take too much upon them and abuse both King and People who in this opportunitie 〈…〉 Royall Assent may be had doe dispose of the Militia without him neither requiting his consent therein nor admitting the People according to the Law to the Election of a thing the King allowed them the persons who are to be intrusted with the dispose and command of their strength and armes and so by consequence of 〈◊〉 estates liberties and lives I am certaine in case as God ●o●bid the Royall Throne should by ●xige●t be●ome vold the Parliaments are not their owne Mesters nor can by the fundamentall Law and constitution of this Kingdome dispose of us the Commons of England and out power armes or interest without our consents how much lesse at this instans All the Commons of England have more just ground of jealous●e from them in now so doing and of complaint and accusation against that malevolent ill-affected party among them by whose power and influence it hath beene effected considering the persons unto whom the Militia and strength of the Kingdome is in divers places of late 〈…〉 then the Parliament ever had from and against the King for refusing onely to 〈◊〉 in their way and manner for they chose the persons and he approved them but the Parliament are herein both choosers and approvers as in many things many of them are both Judge and Witnesse though we neither approve nor assent and thus wee as 〈…〉 the King are in this particular debarred from them of our right and priviledge but this is not the greatest detriment we sustaine and are likely without prevention to suffer and which this predominant malicious partie intends hereby for doe but cast your eye and see and consider what persons are put out of the Militia and what persons are continued admitted and intrusted and yee will presently judge by a little what the whole meanes For example first for for an introduction the pretended Lord Maior Aldermen and Comon-Councell must petition in the name of the Citie though the Citie never propounded it to them to have the Militia setled in their owne hands as they had formerly and why not then to have it by their Charter but by Ordinance for a certaine time and this by the power and prevalency of the malevolent partie is forthwith obtained because it tends to their predominant tyrannous ends approved Alderman Pennington who stood in the breach when they all were afraid whose sidelitie and abilitie was throughly experimented at such time when as the winds blew highest and the stormes grew strongest a man adjudged by the Citie worthy to be their Parliament-man and by the Parliament worthy to be Lieutenant of the Tower of London is now no longer worthy to be intrusted with the Militia but turned out as a man suspected so are the Aldermen K. Foulk Weaver and 〈◊〉 Col. Wilson though a Member of the House also Col. Player Tichburn and others And why they are not absolute for the Faction they were opposite to Bunce and Bellamy the Court of Aldermen and Common-Councell in the prosecution of the last indirect illegall and factious Remonstrance of Presbytery and therefore they are