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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93094	The famers fam'd or An answer, to two seditious pamphlets, the one intituled The just man in bonds, the other A pearle in a dunghill, written in the behalfe of that notorious lyar, and libeller John Lilburne. Also a full reply, with a confutation of certaine objections devised by the trayterous author of a seditious and unparraled [sic] libell, intituled A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free borne people of England, to their owne House of Commons, &c. Wherein the wickednesse of the authors, and their abettors, the destructive courses of the sectaries, and their adherors is amply discovered. So that all (not wilfully blind) may cleerely see, that they are men stirred up by mans enemie, the Devill, as to ruine themselves, so this poore nation, that yet lies bedrid of her wounds lately received. And ought to be avoided as serpents, to be contemned as abjects, and to be delivered over to Satan, as blasphemers and reprobates. / Written by S. Shepheard.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel)	1646 (1646)	Wing S3163; Thomason E349_5; ESTC R201022	25,285	34

THE FAMERS FAM'D OR AN ANSWER To two Seditious Pamphlets the one Intituled THE JUST MAN IN BONDS the other A PEARLE IN A DUNGHILL written in the behalfe of that notorious Lyar and Libeller JOHN LILBURNE Also a full reply with a confutation of certaine objections devised by the Trayterous Author of a Seditious and unparraled libell Intituled A REMONSTRANCE of many Thousand citizens and other free borne people of England to their own House of COMMONS c. Wherein the wickednesse of the Authors and their Abettors the destructive courses of the Sectaries and their Adherors is amply discovered So that all not wilfully blind may cleerely see that they are men stirred up by mans Enemie the Devill as to ruine themselves so this poore Nation that yet lies Bedrid of her wounds lately received And ought to be avoided as Serpents to be contemned as Abjects and to be delivered over to Satan as Blasphemers and Reprobates Likewise also these filthy Dreamers defile the flesh despise Dominion and speake evill of Dignities Jude ver 8. But these speake evill of these things which they know not but what they know naturally as bruit beasts in those things they corrupt themselves ver 10. Omnium malorum Stultitia est Mater Cicero Quid tam impium est quod mortalium Vulgus non admittat Demosthenes Written by S. SHEPHEARD London Printed for Iohn Hardesty at the Signe of the black-spread Eagle in Duke-Lane 1646. To The Right Honourable the house of Peers Assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honourable YOu whose names are graven so deeply on the Bedrole of Fame that the rust of all devouring time shall never be able to eat or diminists a Letter Adulation and my nature are ods and I have the least to answer for that of all my Crimes yet it becomes the just to be thankfull and those that will not honour the Instruments of Gods Glory detract from their Maker First therefore all thankes be rendred to your honours for your constant fidelity to your Country that you would not degenerate but choose rather to be afflicted with Gods people then to injoy the pleasures of sinne for aseason that you would be pleased to under goe Callumnies and the * Traytors Brand of infamie the subjects of this Kingdome cannot chuse but mutually joyne with me as once the women in the dance andsay many Peeres have done worthy deeds for the good of the people but ye have exceeded them all undergoing the frowne of Majestie which who so lookes on sees a Basilisk and seldome escapeth Death venturing your Estates wherein some men place their Summum Bonum and many of you your lives to purchase Freedome for a people altogether ungratefull I say not so but some men furnisht with corrupted mindes whom satan hath filled with the spirit of Enmitie and Detraction to the griefe of my soule and of all the least vertuous with their pennes like so many sharpened Pikes as Saul once to David his Preserver they stab at their deliverers men that are as unconstant as the wind more foolish then Claudius more wicked then Stajus who place their felicity in that to be avoyded City-racer Mutabilitie some of whose seurrilous Emptie Pamphlets coming to my hands I conceived I was bound in honour to my Maker and in thankfulnesse to your Honours to Reply to the said Pamphlets for these ravenous Fowles the People are naturally inclined with greedinesse to swallow whole Gobbets of such carion though they surfet themselves thereby and are often forced for it to be let bloud Thus desiring that great God who hath greatly assisted your Honours hithereto to keepe you for ever untouched by your Enemies I cease and shall ever remaine Your Honours most humble Servant S. S. THE FAMERS FAM'D IF a Commander doe faithfull service for a space and afterward revolteth and fighteth against that cause which erst he maintained must the memory of his former Service hinder the course of Justice surely no if Lievtenant Colonell Lilburne sometime an obscure Apprentice in London have formerly done Acts for his Countrey worthy acceptance though it may be evidently proved the maine reason why he accepted of the Parliaments Service was not so much out of an affection he bare to the Parliament and their cause as to protect himselfe against his creditors Arrests I say is he therefore to be excused if he degenerate and become an open and profest Enemie to that state whose cause hee erst seemed so stiff●y to maintaine Was there ever Papist Malignant Royalist or Cavaleer did demeane himselfe so libellously slanderously contemptuously and ungratefully to the Parliament as this Lilburne hath done and indeed the man understandeth not what he speaketh nor whereof he affirmes he hath erred from the truth and is now turned unto vaine Ianglings not knowing the end of the Commandement is love 1 Tim. Chapter 1. Which commands him not to Raile on Dignities and speake evill of Governments this is the man and that the first that findeth fault and proclaimeth it a breach of Magna Charta which himself had yet never Law enough to understand because he was cited to come before Authority before he was acquainted with his Accuser or accusation whereas the meanest capacities know that there is nothing more usuall then for Judges Justices and all superior or inferior Offices or Courts of the Realme upon credible information not onely to Summon but to Attach men by Constables and other Officers to appeare before them to answer such matters as shall be objected against them and this none ever deemed Lilburne excepted to be illegall or contrary to Magna Charta or the Subjects Liberty and shall not the Parliament the Supreamest of all Courts claime and have the same Priviledge that under and inferior Courts enjoy this superbious most egregious malapert upstart Lilburne whom Satan so often as he listeth inciteth and prompteth to compile seditious Pamphlets destructive to the Peace of the Kingdome this man out of his private spleene to Colonell Edward King a man under whom once he served wrote a scandalous Pamphlet wherein he taxeth the said King for a betrayer of the trust reposed in him by the Parliament that through his default many Townes of worth became a prey to the Enemy with divers other which were notoriously knowne to be false and suborned in the same Pamphlet he Rayleth against the Lawes terming them Norman Innovations with many other strange and unparreleld speeches all which he sent to Judge Reeve who himselfe or some other for him made a complaint to the Lords who Immediately summoned the Libeller before them their warrant this Die Mercurii 10 Iune 16. 1646. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled that Leivtenant Colonell Lilburne shall forth with upon sight hereof appeare before the Lords in Parliament to answer such things as he stands charged with before their Lordships concerning a Pamphlet Intituled The just mans justification or a Letter by way of Plea in Barre and

that they have not in all things their swinge and sway that they could wish out of vengeance the Kingdome were on fire while they warmed themselves by the light on t and therefore they leave no projects unattempted no Falsities unsaid to raise Discord and Division And to make his argument invincible as he supposeth he insinuateth that maine ground of this more then unnaturall Warre was to abolish illegall and tyrannicall power which is most true but doth it therefore follow that we having cut the throat of Innovation should forsake the worship of God or that ' cause we have crushed to pieces Aristocraticall or Tyrannicall power we should not now make use either of Law or Justice GOD FORBID If yee did intend to expose this Kingdome to the miseries of war for no other end but that one kind of Arbitrary government Star-obamber Chamber and High-commission power might be abolished and others of that kind established over us why would ye not tell us that we might have both spared our lives and estates Now steeres the Pamphleter another course more irregular then before now he exclaimeth on the house of Commons that they did not give advertisement that having puld down one Arbitrary power they would erect another the rancorous and evill minde of the Pamphleter how many waies trieth he to worke contention and confusion because Lilburne is not countenanced in his pernicious waies as he hath been formerly too too much now they are netled to the purpose and they care not what they affirme and therefore forsooth the House of Commons ' cause they not opposed the House of Lords in their legall tryall and just censure of Lilburne are taxed that though they have abolished one kind of Arbitrary power they are props of another and therefore the trayterous Pamphleter seemeth to lament that they had not more timely notice thereby to have prevented the great effussion of blood and losse of their estates All these questions and affirmations had not been thought on had JOHN LILBURNE been walking abroad But if ye would either free your selves from suspition or us of these just fears then shew your selves such Worthies as doe truely deserve the title by using this happy opportunity which God hath put into your hands and making us Free men it being the maine cause for which we used and intrusted you and as a present signe of your fidelity and magnanimity let all your reall intentions in the generall appeare by the exactnes and speedinesse of your delivery of your own and his Countries saithfull servant JOHN LILBURNE from prison with all due reparations I told you before the cause of all this trouble in print was for * Namely Lilburnes b● soundly ch● sed for his orbitancy his slande● and lies 〈◊〉 stir●ing up people both words and 〈◊〉 to Re●●●lion agains● PARLI●MENT 〈◊〉 God 〈◊〉 preservers Lilburnes imprisonment which here the Pamphleter plainly confesseth and saith that if they will cleare themselves of the feares the Pamphleter and his complices hath that then they should set at liberty Lieut. Col. LILBURNE And then all Acts for the good of the Subject are ratified and confirmed and then they shall truely deserve the title of Worthies and be Worthies indeed Into what a further labyrinth of misery were poor England involved if the Parliament should allow and take the advice of these malevolent Idiots certainly although we are greatly impoverished and brought low then we should not faile to become the most wretched and abject people in the world which evill God divert An answer to a seditious Pamphlet lately in print entituled * A PEARL IN A DVNGHILL Written in Defence of that famous Libeller Li●ut Col. LILBURNE SUre the Author of that Dunghill * piece before answered was ●he just man ●onds the Author also of this scurrilous Pamphlet entituled A Pearle in a Dunghill save that this is a little more finely spun then the other He begins thus ●o be 〈◊〉 in an ill se is wo●s●●n cower Although most States and Statesmen be of late turnd upside downe like a wheel● yet this worthy * valiant and publique spirited Gentleman unto whom this Nation is as much bound to at least as unto any one all things considered is the very same man both in principles and practice Rom● wa● 〈◊〉 whom the Bishops so long imprisoned in the Fleet by a most cruell and barbarous censure caused to be weary of his life which censure they procured in the Star-chamber against him and so he was whipt gag'd and pinni●n'd and in his close imprisonment almost famished and murthered This this is the man that thinketh he indeed hath proved and that with one Argument of Lilburnes quondam sufferings that he hath been faithfull to God and his Countrey to the death in times past and in the same stedfastnesse remaineth to this day now therefore that his Country may see and know how deeply they stand ingaged to the said Lilburne let us search diligently and shew First the eminency of the party the sufferer Secondly the cause of his so suffering Thirdly the quality of the paine suffered The discovery hereof I know he will exclaime against and say it is a breach of MAGNA CHARTA according to his wonted manner First then for the eminency of his person we must know that it is even JOHN LILBURNE during his minority an Apprentice of London and being of an insinuating spirit he ende●red himselfe and wan the love of some silly Schismaticks who for his strange yet empty expressions deemed him one inspired So that by that time he came out of his time and had served his apprentiship who but Lilburne of note amongst the Sectaries his approbation desired and his counsels followed in all things Secondly the cause of his suffering during the imprisonment of Doctor Bastwicke by the rigorous censure of the Prelates divers persons affecting the said Doctor out of their love resorting to him amongst the rest one of them tooke John Lilburne with him as his associate after plenty of cheere Dr Bastwick to solace his guests read to them his merry * A Book● laying 〈◊〉 the pride 〈◊〉 leachery 〈◊〉 abominal 〈◊〉 acts of the 〈◊〉 ●●ts in 〈◊〉 Lettany which highly pleased them all Lilburne also hearing the said Lettany read and knowing that Whatsoever was written in defiance of that power then generally hated would be very acceptable he desired of Dr Bastwick to have a copy of one of them with which he would travell beyond Sea and cause it to be printed not doubting to be enriched by it the winde of this fancie transported him over Sea accompanied with a fellow whose fidelity he doubted not there he printed many Bookes and by them got much money selling them even at what rates he pleased afterwards comming into England bringing with him many Bookes hoping to have a new Mart the fellow that accompanied him was his betrayer who gave information to the then * William 〈◊〉