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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

the contrary is true by true I speake not in favour of his Majesty further then conscience and * Do unto all men as ye would be done unto equity the Lord my maker knowes I am sincerely for truth and justice without partiallity and against the contrary wheresoever or in whomsoever I find it but a traytor or felon by the Law looseth not any of his franchizes possessions or estate before he be convict let Cesar have his due and us the free Commons ours if not I do not doubt but you will in due time have yours If the King be King let him raign if he have otherwise deserved why proceed you not legally against him that the World may see and judge and yee be cleared of all callumny and aspersion But as you do and deale with us so yee deale with him Us yee do unjustly imprison and oppress rob and spoyle destroy our Liberties take away our estates and undoe our Families and shew us no Law Cause or Reason but a tyrannicall unjust illegall or treasonable Vote Order or Ordinance Sic vultis sic jubetis stat pro ratione voluntas Your Arbitrary wills are become Englands Lawes And would yee know yee Commons of England why the King is not in all this time brought home nor any thing resolved nor determined of him I will tell you deare friends what I conceive I see The Earle of Manchester M Hollis Stapleton and others who are absolutely the chiefe instrumentall causes of all the evils wee have lately suffered and do still sustaine and some of which have received vast summes of monies whereof they know themselves unable to give any good account are in danger to be punished as traytors and deceivers and be sacrificed to justice and therefore through their power prevalency and pollicy a settlement betweene King and Parliament is deferred because by reason of the Army whose integrity and zeale for justice they feare and therefore only would disband them they cannot impose such particular peculiar conditions upon the King as will fully secure them and conduce to their Presbyterian designe this I doe beleeve is the summe of all But must the King and his People be still divided the breach lye open and the difference uncomposed the Kingdome unsetled the peoples peace and happiness still delayed and our miseries still prolonged and continued to satisfie the unjust desires of a company of matchless Machiavllian traytors who to save themselves have endeavoured by all meanes to destroy us Must wee languish in our sufferings and sorrwes to waite their opportunities It is neither meet nor right it should be so nor prudence or wisedome to permit it so let us therefore have an end of our troubles and distractions or else apply our selves to put an end to their tyranny treason and Lordliness that they may not wholly and utterly lay us wast and ruine us And if in case of the Kings failing of his trust and denyall to settle the Militia or strength of the Kingdome in such hands and in such a way as the people may be thereby safe and secured the Parliament the representative body may for the safety of His Majesty and Kingdomes take the dispose and ordering of it into their hands then by the same rule forsomuch as the Parliament have failed of their trust and put the Militia and strength of the Kingdome into such hands and in such a way as wee cannot confide or be safe in Wee the free Commons of England the reall and essentiall body polliticke or any part of us may order and dispose of our owne Armes and strength for our owne preservation and safety and the Army in particular without question may lawfully retaine order and dispose of their armes and strength to and for the preservation and safety of the King and Kingdome the principall end for which they were raised This is the Parliaments owne doctrine as you may read in Booke Declarations page 93. and 150. and therefore I hope neither heresie nor schisme blasphemy nor treason I have done and a rush for him that is angry and as much for him who is fearefull in a just cause Let such weigh well that saying of the holy Spirit Prov. 29. 25. and then happily they may looke up and take courage The feare of man bringeth a snare but whosoever trusteth in the Lord shall be safe Timida probitas nunquam Reipublicae est utilis Cowardly honesty is never profitable to the Common-wealth FINIS

forgot to shew you deare friends and fellow Commoners how ye have beene abused and betrayed by this very party and faction in both Houses their Agents and instruments from the beginning at Sherborne Morthampton Worcester Edgehill Kingston Bramford Mewarke Exeter Reading Thame O Thame the Devizes Chalgrove field whete * S. Philip Stapleton was there also beheld afar ffo t was he that would not suffer the queenes Regiment to be charged at Salisbury or Blandsord noble Hampden it is conceived and who knoweth but it may in time be proved was delivered to death Lincoln Boston Crowland Cornwall Denington-Castle where Manchester acted Treason Newarke againe and Oxford Durham Cumberland Westmerland even in every place and all along untill the Lord raised up Sir Thomas Fairfax to be a Saviour to the People and that he is so these wicked men are offended But me thinkes I already see this serpentine brood like the old Serpent casting a flood out after-me to destroy me and their defiled consciences being like the Sea troubled they send forth mire and dirt wrath and revenge reproches curses beagles and blood-hounds Votes Orders and Messengers like the Popes execrations with bell book and candle Alas bene latet qui bene vivit I wish these miscreants for their soules sakes had no more cause to be afraid then I the righteous is as bold as a Lyon but the wicked flees when none pursues the theefe thinks every bush and every bulk a Constable and a gaulled horse hath no patience when his sore is rubbed this Sir Phillip Stapleton knowes for he hath good skill in horse-flesh But seeing these vile men will dare to sinne openly and to deale falsly before the World why should we be afraid to reprove them openly and to declare it to the World They declare their sins as Sodome they hide them not Isai 3. 9. they have as the Scripture speaks a brazen face and a Whores forehead and why should we be silent and connive at that which all Christendome sees or turne our backs and be pymps and panders to out own ruines Why should we be more afraid whom it concernes to publish their robbery oppression injustice and Treason then they are to act and execute it contrary to their Oaths and duties Our Law condemnes no man for saying the Cole is blacke or calling a Spade a Spade although of late many have been * imprisoned and punished for no more nor other * Such works such waies means Marke thing in effect yet the looser will speake and the oppressed will cry out nor by the power of heaven shall my tongue be silent or my Penne be flack for the cause of God and this miserable land untill they do set themselves in a way that is right and execute justice and judgement Is it not more then high time to speake and stirre when our just and lawfull Petitions are not only rejected but infamously burned as feditious our inveterate Enemies armed our persons for presenting our grievances illegally imprisoned when we are voted out of our Rights and Priviledges contrary to all Law and custome of Parliamente All men may now see and plainly understand that it is altogether vaine any longer to use Petitioning for that due right and liberty is denyed and debarred We must I say we must if we will recover our selves and our Priviledges use action Necessity hath no law and extream danger driveth to extream means And now know for certain ye Trayterous party ye false deceiptfull men whose hearts are set upon wickednesse and whose heads devise mischiefe and violence that it is not your * Without the King meere treason and without his assent worse then nothing breaking open of houses taking away mens goods by force spoyling of Printing Presses and imprisoning of the Printers without proose or cause and punishing poore soules who carry Books to sell will or can hide your shame the day of your judgement is comming your wickedness is manifest as the Sunne and your actions both publique and private are so abominable that they stink in every reasonable mans nostrills yee are become odious and have made your selves a reproach and a hissing and the very abjects disdaine and scorne yee insomuch that the name of a Parliament man is as contemptible in the thoughts of most as the name is generally of a Committee-man And thus doe the good and vertuous of the House suffer in their repute and esteeme by your vitiousnesse yea your beloved friends and favorites cannot justify you nor open their mouths clearly for yee and what will yee do what can yee doe when God shall stirre up the People to revenge Remember Straford and Canterbury Finch and Windebanke Yee have deceived the People and falsifyed your trust to them yee have broken oathes promises and all manner of assurances with them under a pretence of redeeming their liberties and making them free yee involved them in an unnaturall and bloody Warre against each other and now yee your selves exercise more abundant tyrannie and keep them in most strict and intollerable slavery under the pretence of paying the Souldiers yee have by your Committees and instruments oppressed and robbed the Countries and notwithstanding there is no Army paid no reparations made no debts satisfyed and thousands of Widowes and fatherless and maimed souldiers unprovided for under pretence of preserving the people yee have destroyed them and under the colour of establishing Law and justice yee have taken away both and although yee raysed Armes to redeem the King from his wicked councell and have solemnly sworne to maintaine his Crowne and dignity and declared Book Dec. pag. ●4 that what you did was for his honour and greatnes and the weale of his Kingdomes yet though he be redeemed he is not restored nor is his Crowne and dignity maintained Nay yee your selves exercise the Kingly office yee I say it again yee your selves exercise the Kingly office For yee make Lord Keepers Judges and Barons grant Pardons and give Commissions of Oyer and Terminer I have known a meane man dye as a traytor for doing less nor are the Acts or Process passed under the broad Seale of any vallue In all which ye are but usurpers I should not mistake if I said Traytors I say usurpers and take too much upon you for by Law there is no such power or right belonging to you or invested in yee You keepe the King under restraint and with-hold him from the execution of it and do not satisfy the World wherefore ye do it you are like the Dog in the manger which will neither let the horse eat the hay nor eat it himselfe yee will neither admit the King to do justice and redress our grievances nor will yee your selves yee have made no other use of the Kings power and name then to deceive oppress and abuse the People Is this to do for his honour and greatnes and the good of his Kingdomes contrarium verò est verum

Beliamy the Court of Aldermen and Common Councell in the prosecution of their last indirect illegall and factious Remonstrance and Petition by which meanes they discovered themselves opponants to their Scotch design of Presbyterie and therefore they are not any longer to be confided in or fit to have the command of any power howsoever they had a parcell of dry thanks from the House for their former fidelity and paines it is better I confess then a Prison as Lilburn Tuleday Robinson Nichols and multitudes more have had for their good service Yet I must tell them it is but after the old manner of the Court who used to put a man off with an hypocriticall complement when they had no further occasion to use him or were desirous to be quit of him and it is observed that empty thanks is a sufficient reward from the House for any honest man though his service hath been never so good and superlative unless they have some other design or ingagement upon him but to Knaves and fooles they have been very forward and free witnes the 10. l. given to the two Officers that brought up Ensign Nichols the arreares lately ordered to be paid two great ones for discovering two great lyes by which you may see they can pay whom they list and whom they list they will not I could instance you some examples of late and their own nests are generally so well feathered that many or most of them are almost smothered they can neither see heare nor speake Alas poore Commons of England your backs in the meane time are left bare and naked But to proceed marke what honest men are continued put in and intrusted with the Militia for the honest men that are put out and distrusted Aldermen Bance Adams Langham every man of knowledge can read them Colonels West and Bellamy the one an oppressive Goaler the other an arrogant Mag-pye and Bromfield that ran away at Newberry the Lord Major Sir John Geere who was plundered for his 20th and 5th part who maliciously circumvents men that he may like the devill take them in a snare and then imprisons them contrary to law as he did Master Tew and then sent his Marshall to apprehend him without a Warrant a hopefull Magistrate and fit to be intrusted with the publique Sword for the execution of the Lawes and defence of the Subjects just Rights and Libertyes and that Sir John Woolaston who by the Law is more worthy to be arraigned before a Bench of Assize for buying stoln * It is truth and when time serves will be proved Plate of the Kings then to sit upon the Bench of Judgement to oppress and do injustice as his common practise is or to be intrusted with the Militia for it is contrary to all principles of reason that a Magistrate or publique Minister who is unjust to the People in his place or practise will ever be faithfull to them in time of trouble or distress or defend either them or their liberties whensoever they are assayled the Hawke will as soon defend the Dove and the Kite the Chickens this is that Sir John Woolaston who right or wrong commits all to Newgate that come before him for the benefit of his brother the head Goaler there who is as diligent to starve and destroy them when he hath them under custody as he did one Sparks lately and hath done many more as the other is to commit them As for Alderm-Gibbs of the Militia he hath a good stock of money in the name of his Sonne beyond the Seas he need not care which way the world goes good Sir John Woolaston and he had their singers both in one Pye I hope they lick'd them cleane and themselves like Bullocks fat though they have lickt others leane their silver tongue acquit them well in Rylees busines and they have you know been esteemed honest and trusty ever since I could read you a character of most of them but to avoid prolixity I will now forbeare till a more convenient time and will only tell you what I apprehend to be the end of this sudden and so happy settlement of the Militia of London the effect and what you may expect by it 1. By this meanes the Earle of Manchester M. Hollis Stapleton Earle senior and the rest of this nayterous faction who have occasioned the violation of all our Lawes and Libertyes betrayed their trust and are the chiefe obstructers of the course of justice and redress of grievances promoters of all evill councels and the cause of the continuince of all our troubles and distractions who among other things drive a design to save their own Stakes and secure their own lives for that they know they are for these things lyable to question and abnoxious to justice do conceive they have well secured themselves from all invasion by petition or cry for justice against them from any party within the City 2. That they shall by this meanes the more easily erect their new formed Monster of presbyterie for what they cannot perswade they will inforce and who thinke they now dare or can resist it 3. They conceive they shall easily suppress the independent party as they terme them and divert them from petitioning for Law and liberty to both which these vile men are altogether averse and that if they do notwithstanding continue such their petitioning yet may they the more securely deny and distaste their petitions and punnish their persons for is not the Militia in their hands and if they will not submit like slaves but beginne to stir and struggle then the Militia is ready to oppose them as Rebels and Traytors although they challenge but right and justice of their servants who are many of them become Traytors and this is apparent by their late declaring their high displeasure against that just petition the Petitioners for divers points of liberty and justice which was preferred by a multiude of well affected Citizens first it was intercepted and anticipated contrary to the course of Parliaments and the liberty of the Subject by the meanes of Recorder Glin who hath shewed more favour to Captain * Evans wilfully killed a man and being brought before the Recorder he basely reviled the poore widow and freed the murtherer Thomas Evans a notorious murderer then ever he did to poor Orphans for whom he should have been a just Advocate witness the Orphans of M. Bury against whom he tooke Fees if not bribes by which meanes notwithstanding many petitions and as many faire promises from the then temporizing Lord major Adams and others of that Orphan devouring Faction the said Orphans to this day can obtain no justice nor part of their fathers personal estate unless they will take fourscore for foure hundred pounds and thus are the poore Orphans miserably ruin'd having spent the greattest part of their annuall revennue for five yeares together to obtain justice but by the corruption of Brigandine who squares