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cause_n	authority_n	king_n	parliament_n	1,836	5	6.6012	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88918	Match me these two: or The conviciton [sic] and arraignment of Britannicus and Lilburne. With an answer to a pamphlet, entituled, The parliament of ladies.		1647 (1647)	Wing M1077; Thomason E400_9; ESTC R201743	8,685	16

for the attaining of those immunities for which he went forth as otherwise he might have done 2 That he the said Lievt Col. Lilburne according to his demerits justly shut up in prison ceased not continually to divulge Pamphlets and Papers of very dangerous and evill consequence and tending to steale away the hearts of the people from their Rulers and to make the high Court of Parliament as odible in their eyes as ever was the High Commission or Star-Chamber 3 That the said Col. Lilburne had revolted from his principles and of a seeming helper was become a furious demolisher and that he had showne himself a perfect temporizer 4. That he the said Col. Lilburne had assayed to eradicate even the very fundamentall Lawes of the Land to root out Monarchy and set up Anarchic as in his Free-mans Freedome vindicated pag. 11. where he desperately inveigheth against all power and authority what soever both divine and humane and therefore in so doing his fact was treasonable 5. That he the said Colonell Lilburne in a book intituled A Remonstrance of the free-borne people of England maintaineth a doctrine never before heard of which overturneth all Law and breaketh in pieces the sword of Justice and openeth a gap to all licentiousnesse exorbitancie and prophanenesse saying that the body of the People may do that of themselves which their Deputies Trustees Representators chosen ones doe for them onely for greater conveniency they depute them and they may go no further in any thing nor sit no longer nor dispose of any thing but according to their commission and power received from the represented and that the State universall the body of the common People is the earthly Soveraigne Lord King and Creator of the King Parliament all Officers Ministers of Justice underived Mejesty and Kingship inherently resides in the State universall the common People c. 6. That the said Col. Lilburne hath most traiterously and vilely spoken against the Kings Majesty in his late printed book called Regall Tyranny discovered as in Page 14. We may see he saith The office of a King is not in the least of Gods institution neither is it to be given to any upon earth And p. 56 57. he saith of the King in these words Charles Stuart hath committed Treason against the Kingdome of England c. and that he is guilty of all the innocent blood shed in England Scotland and Ireland since the Wars which is the blood of thousands for which if all the sons of men should be so base and wicked as not to doe their duty in executing justice upon him which legally may and ought to be done by those especially who have power and authority in their hands yet undoubtedly the righteous God will and I am confident in an exemplary manner in despight of all his wicked protectors and defenders 7. That the said Col. Lilburne now arrived at the height of impudence layeth the cause of the Parliament against the King in the one scale and the cause of the oppressed people of England enslaved by them in the other scale and censureth that the Commons of England are now more burthened by them then ere they divulged they were by the King and have the same and greater reasons to fight against them who have entred themselves into a conspiracie and are become a company of lawlesse unlimited unbounded men setters up of the highest Tyrannie that can be set up in the world who have no rule to walke by but their owne corrupted and bloody wills and are a company of devouring Lions ravening Wolves and crafty Foxes as pag. 7. of his last Book intituled Oathes unwarrantable 8. That he the said Col. Lilburne to the disgrace of Christianity and all inlightned men who know that they are forbidden to raile on those that are in authority no although their Government were vitious and tyrannicall according to the example of Saint Paul who excused himselfe when he had but in a slight manner something taunted Ananias hath avouched he will maintaine the Parliament to be degenerated into the most notorious pack of tyrants that ever in the world were assembled together since Adams Creation minding visibly nothing in the world but pleasure oppression cheating and cozening the whole Kingdome of its treasure and revenues trades lives bloods liberties and properties for which he censureth them to deserve nothing but to be pulled out by the eares and throwne out to the dunghill and be trodden under foot by all men c. as in his Book aforesaid pag. 38. 9. That he the said Col. Lilburne hath endeavoured to perswade the people the Parliament of England are no longer a Parliament and in his Book afore-mentioned pag. ibid. have forfeited their essence and absolutely nullified the end of their sitting and are from a company of faithfull Shepherds become a company of devouring Lions and rauenous Wolves and because they are so he adjudgeth them to be worried to death with mastiffe-dogs which alas cannot but be too weak to encounter them and that by them they should be worried and pulled in pieces The Court taking into consideration the substance and import of the several Articles Ordered the principal Heads of them to be drawn up and a Messenger to be dispatched with plenary power to bring the bodies of the three Libellers before-mentioned to answer each of their offences at their Bar the next ensuing day and so for that day adjourned The next day the Court being sate Britanicus and Lilburne were at hand to shew themselves but the Author of The Parliament of Ladies could not be found although diligent search was made for him The Messenger related to the Judge and the Judge to the Bench that they had brought the two Incendiaries Britanicus and Lilburne who were ready to attend at their Bar and that they had more to doe to bring Lilburne then to find Britanicus for the one alledged that it was a breach of Magna Charta for any free-man of England to render an account of his actions or to suffer punishment for any crime were it never so hainous and therefore they were inforced to ravish his person and bring him perforce before them That they found Britanicus in his bed in to deep a studie that at their approach he scarcely credited his eyes that they guessed by the papers which they then had seized on that he was deeply projecting how to find a clew which might guide him out of that labyrinth in which he had involved himselfe and that his papers imported that he had a purpose so he could slip his owne neck out of the coller to leave others therein though they were strangled to lay his guilt on them that had hired him to ra●le and proclaime himselfe a transcedent Rebel a reviler of his Soveraigne for money The Judge then commanded Britanicus to be brought to the Bar and caused the Clerk of their Court to read his Charge upon which Philo thus inferred Behold the man before