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A96470	Plain truth vvithout feare or flattery: or a true discovery of the unlawfulnes 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 practises, of a trayterous party in the House of Commons, concerning certain pettions [sic] for liberty and justice. Also a vindication of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning certain scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction. VVith the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtain reliefe against the said tyrannous usurpers; and for reducing the Parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes lawes and liberties / VVritten by Amon VVilbee.	Wilbee, Amon.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2112; Thomason E516_7; ESTC R204095	30,871	22

without much search find enough doubtless at this time yea have not M. Hollis and others his complices and confederates not onely verifyed many or most of those * Read consider them and compare them with their actions B. Decla page 34. articles of Treason and misdeameanours but also augmented 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 faithfulness 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 wee doe not bestir our selves and prevent it But it is better that a few presumptuous men whose Lucifer-like pride and ambition hath lifted them up to Heaven should be cast down into oblivion and darkness 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 fought 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 vigilent 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 Soveraignity 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 men be not traytors who be Where shal we find any and if this be to imploy their publicke trust for the * Book Decl. page 700. publicke good and whether their † Page 172. onely alme be herein the Kingdomes safety and the peoples peace as they have declared and spoken let all England judge And thus yee see they falcify their words and Declarations as well as breake their Oaths and Protestations but in their Booke of Declarations page 207. they say That in case of extreame danger and his Majesties refusall to settle the Militia of the Kingdome the Ordinance that is the Ordinance which was then made in that time of such extreame 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 extreame 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 publicke hurt and not to the publicke good contrary to the intent and equity of the law and the end of their trust the people are ipso facto discharged of their obedience to their Ordinance for wee are not bound to obey to our own damage and destruction see this proved by their owne distinction and argument in Book of Decl. page 150. But to make a farther discovery of the truth by discovering more of this evill Parties falshoods breach of trust and traiterous practices against us take notice that in the Booke 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 redress of their grievances and oppressions and that they are marke bound in duty to receive their Petitions here is a faire acknowledgment but I pray you marke their actions many thousand honest and really affected to the publicke liberty in the City had prepared a petition to have beene 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 dogges and beagles to discry and hunt 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 referred to a Committee whereof fierce fiery M. Lee was Chaire-man to examine and report it they did not so by the factious Petition and Remonstrance framed by the pretended Lord Mayor and common councell men against which they then nor 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 their distate and displeasure against it the which injust dealing and violation of our native liberty and priviledge the Petioners 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 traytours 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 intetcept 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 sharpe and bloody 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

standing of the Bishops were antichristian what is theirs who stand by their ordination and power antichristian Ministery and to establish Church-government whose fruites and effects are nothing but impiety and hipocrisie a Religion which consists more in outward formes and Rites after the manner of Moses then in power and piety according to the Gospell 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 tracherous 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 intend 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 conforme the People to their arbitrary wils 〈◊〉 to pay and beare ●●e and suffer whatsoever they shall thinke for 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. Booke Decl. page 700. they tell us That all Rights or interest of publicke trust be only for the publicke good and not for private advantages nor to the prejudice of any 〈◊〉 particular interest much less of the publicke And in May 1642. Booke Decla 172. They call God to witness that the safety of the Kingdome and peace of the people is their only aime and because the King would not believe them therein and well had it been for us if we had never so done not trust them wholly therewith great grew the contestation as yee may well remember between 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 Parilament then pretending that the King ought not to settle it without them that it behoved them to have the nomination of such persons as were to be intrusted therewith in whome they might confide the Kings affirmes and they afterwards grant that the whole power thereof was intrusted by Law in him for the preservation and defence of the Kingdome yet because the King would not pass the Ordinance in Febn 1641. for the setling it in such forme as they desired though the persons they nominated were not refused they presently protest I wish they were as quicke 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 express In extreame distraction when forreigne forces are probably invited and a malignant popish party offended c. the ordering it to be in them for the observe preservation of the Republick and to prevent the turning the Armes of the Kingdome upon it selfe see the Parliaments answer to their own question page hundred and fifty of the Booke of Decl. But I hope the case is now altered for although our distractions be still continued by the destructive Councels of a pernitious factious party in both Houses the heads of which were and are the cause both of those distractious and these who like katchers of Eeles love to fish in troubled waters here is now no feare of invited forreigne forces and as for that malignant popish party 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 opportunity wherein the royall assent may be had doe dispose of the Militia without him neither requiring 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 their estates liberties and lives I am certaine in case as God forbid the royall Throne should by exigent become void the Parliament are not their owne Masters not can by the fundamentall Law and constitution of this Kingdome dispose of us the Commons of England and our power armes or interest without our consents how much less at this instant All the Commons of England have more just ground of jealouse 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 committed then the Parliament ever had from and against the King for refusing onely to grant it 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 Witness though we neither approve nor 〈…〉 wee as well as the King are in this particular debarred by them of our rights and priviledge but this is not the greatest detriment we sustaine and are likely without prevention to suffer and which this predominant malicious party 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 an introduction the pretended Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councell must petition in the name of the City though the City never propounded it to them to have the Militia setled in their own hands at they had formerly and why not then to have it by their Charter but by Ordinance for a certain time and this by the power and prevalency of the malevolent party is forthwith obtained because it tends to their predominant tyrannous ends approved Alderman Pennington who stood in the breach when they all were affraid whose fidelity and ability was throughly experimented at such time when as the winds blew highest and the stormes grew strongest a man adjudged by the City worthy to be their Parliament man and by the Parliament worthy to be Lieutennant 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 KFoulk Weaver and Kenrick 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 oposite to Bunce and