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A82113	A declaration of some proceedings of Lt. Col. Iohn Lilburn, and his associates: with some examination, and animadversion upon papers lately printed, and scattered abroad. One called The earnest petition of many free-born people of this Kingdome : another, The mournfull cries of many thousand poor tradesmen, who are ready to famish for want of bread, or The warning tears of the oppressed. Also a letter sent to Kent. Likewise a true relation of Mr. Masterson's minister of Shoreditch, signed with his owne hand. Published by authority, for the undeceiving of those that are misled by these deceivers, in many places of this Kingdom.	Masterson, Geo. (George)	1648 (1648)	Wing D625; Thomason E427_6; ESTC R204593	42,707	64

the Houses and among the people to hinder the advancing or levie of moneys to satisfie them And what workings there hath been both toward and in the Army under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairfax to breed faction and division there to irritate it or to break it by whom it was done and whose interest those men carried on all men know And how incredible soever it seem yet even the Cries for liberty endeavors of levellin● perfectly play the Kings Game his Tyranny can with greater ease overflow a levell then where it meets with the opposition of the power of the Kingdom in the Parliament The Instruments of those designes know that it is impossible for Tyranny ever to grow again upon Us till that power be taken away or disabled by which it hath been broken and our right recovered and that so long as the people acknowledge their Protectors and own their Protection they will be safe under it The Woolves perswade the Sheep if the Dogs were away there would be a happy peace between them The difficulty now is to make the Sheep believe they are Woolves that make the overture The truth is t is the greatest pity in the world that plain and simple integrity and well-meaning innocency should be deceived But their unhappinesse is there is nothing easier it is necessary the Serpent the Dove should go together else he that only consults his own Candor and Integrity will never believe that another mans Propositions or Designs have any worse principle When Absolon went about to dethrone his father there followed him three hundred men from Jerusalem that went in the simplicity of their hearts knowing nothing the man pretended only a Religious Vow and these poor believed him And every age produceth sufficient numbers of as little foresight and there is no doubt but if many among those that promote the dividing destructive Agreement of the people and indeavor an Anarchicall levelling had had but as much light to have judged the designs of their leaders and to have foreseen the end of their motions as they have good meaning their Musters had never swelled to the numbers they account them though in that there is very little credit to be given to their own Roll. It hath not been the least part of the Art of those that drive on these designs to imploy such to serve their turns whose former merit might seem to priviledge a mistake in their duty and that it must be ingratitude at least if not cruelty in the Parliament to proceed to any severe animadversion against men of so much merit as the Leaders or so large and good affection as their followers In which Stratagem they have not failed for by the Parliaments lenity and forbearance toward such men in hope they would see their mistakes and return to the wayes of their duty and safety they are grown to that height both by making Combinations Printing and dispersing all manner of false and scandalous Pamphlets and Papers against the Parliament to debauch the rest of the people gathering monyes and making Treasurers and Representons of themselves as it is necessary to obviate by present and effectuall means And the Parliament can no longer suffer them in these seditious wayes without deserting their trust in preserving the Peace of the Kingdom and the freedome and property of peaceable men Among all the Instruments they have out-witted to carry on their designs with this sort of people there are none have visibly done them more service then Lieutenant Col. Iohn Lilburn a man who hath made himselfe sufficiently known to the world by those heaps of scandalous Books and Papers that he hath either written or owned against the House of Peers and such as have done him greatest courtesies filled with falshoods bitternesse and ingratitude whereby he hath given himself a Character sufficient to distinguish him with the Judicious from a man walking according to the rules of sobriety and the just deportment of a Christian 'T is true he suffered much from the Bishops in the time of their exorbitancies and he was one of the first the Parliament took into their care for liberty and redresse But the present temper of his spirit gives some ground to beleeve that he added much to the weight of his pressures by his want of meeknesse to bear what Providence had laid him under 'T is also true that he hath done good service for the Parliament and adventured his life and lost of his blood in the Common Cause But some that know him well observe that he brought not the same affections from Oxford that he was carried prisoner thither withall though indeed he hath also done service since that time And the Parliament hath not been unmindfull either of his sufferings or of his services but hath given him severall sums of money notwithstanding the Committee of Accounts reported to the House that in their judgements there was nothing due to him But let his services be as great as himself or his friends will have them yet 't is possible for a man to reflect too much upon his own desert and mens overvaluing their services have oftentimes produced such subsequent Actions as have buried their first merit in a punishment It is very probable many of those that he misleads into these dangerous Actions look upon him as a Martyr in the Cause against the Bishops and believe that all his zeal is only for the promotion of Righteousnesse and just things and for the Vindicating and Asserting the peoples liberty against Oppression and Violence and that only by Petition and indubitably just and allowed way for all men to seek their grievances by and by which they may without offence addresse to any authority or greatnesse whatsoever To take off this disguise and disabuse well meaning men who cannot judge him by his Character drawn of himself by himself in his severall books It will be necessary to give the world a Narrative of what his deportment and carriage was toward the House of Peers upon which he was imprisoned it having yet been spread to the World only as he and his friends have pleased to dresse it all which is taken out of the Records of that House and is as followeth UPon the publishing of a Book by him written called The just mans Iustification and complaint thereof made to the House It was Ordered the 10. of Iune 1646. That Lieutenant Colonel Iohn Lilborne shall appeare and answer such things as he stands charged with concerning a Book entituled The just mans Iustification The 11. of Iune he appeared and there delivered at the Barre a paper entituled The Protestation Plea and Defence of Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilborn given to the Lords at their Barre the 11. of Iune 1646. with his Appeal to his proper and legall Tryers and Judges the Commons of England assembled in Parliament In which Protestation after he hath acknowledged an Obligation to the House for dealing justly and honourably with him

your unhappy and ill advised Statizing will ruine your selves and hath a naturall tendency to the ruine of the Kingdome 14. You complaine of the heavie burthen of the Excise and there again you pretend to be the Advocates of the poore but in nothing are you more the Kings Atturneys That standing and constant Revenue being that which of all others with great est ease supplyed the Exigencies of the Warre when it was hottest and contributed most to the breaking of the Enemy Every thing must serve to heighten your discontent and to stirre up the ignorant people Otherwise t is obvious enough to every discerning eye that as t is least grievous of all other wayes because it passeth from a man unseen so it cannot but be most Equall because every man is in a sort his owne assessor it being in his owne power by his frugallity to reduce it to as small a summe as he please the greatest burthen of it lying upon things not necessary lesse necessary or if necessary yet there in such a proportion as those which are for the use of the richer sort have the greatest imposition there being nothing but only strong beer wherein the poore seeme to be touched which for the too much abuse of it and that even by the poore it may justly afford something toward the maintenance of the publick while it is so deeply accessary to the undoing of many private persons For that other that it is the decay of Trade and the discouragement of all ingenuity and industry You may if you will but send some of your Emissaries into the united Provinces be informed there That that people could never find a foundation of money for those vast charges they were forc'd to be at to defend themselves from those who tyrannized their Liberties and to settle the free State they have since managed till they had fallen upon the Excise And that notwithstanding it their Trade is so growne upon them since that they have in a great measure engrossed it from the rest of Europe and yet have little matter to raise it upon but their Industrie which is not so discouraged by the Excise but it produceth that effect and were worth our Imitation but there was but a word intended If t were necessary there is nothing more easie than to justifie this way of Levie by Excise before all other wayes whatsoever 15. You doe very magisterially appoint the House how to regulate their Members and especially those of the long robe who by no meanes may exercise their calling because they are called thither to serve the publique Other Gentlemen have their rents and profits come in without their owne particular care and they who have trades can drive them by their partners and servants only these whose employments must be personall must needs suffer losse in their Estates because they are Members And what reason is there why a just Judge who judgeth according to Law and proceeds according to the rules of the Court should be awed by or afraid of the person of any though a Member of the House for though that House be a Iudge of the Iudges yet the Judge in his Court is Superiour in that qualification to whosoever pleads at his Barre Your Epilogue might have been spared the first part of it in regard the Committee You desire hath been long appointed to whom any man hath Liberty to bring his grievances and there is doubt they will be received and their sense of the justnesse and necessity of them be reported to the House though t is probable 't will not please you concerning yours unlesse it be your own sense also Your second might be with more Justice retorted Poore deluded people When will yee begin to turne a deafe Eare to those who seduce you When will you remember your duty and come out of your dreame in which you have believed that you are all the people and therefore supreame and have arraigned all men in a suitable Style Act not a part dissemble not with Heaven remember you are in the light and view of Omniscience Complain not of Famine before you feele it lest you provoke him that can send it There is a difference between scarcity and Famine God is the God of order forbear to endeavour any further to dissolve all government into Confusion lest you compell the Parliament to prevent it in your just punishment Remember that God stands in your Clandestine Conciliables as well as in the Congregation of the Mighty and as he requires of Magistrates to defend the poore and needy so he hath also forbidden to countenance a poore man in his cause Together with this Petition there was at the same time brought to the House of Commons by Colonel Barlistead another scandalous printed paper of which two quires had been delivered to one Lazarus Tindall a private souldier of Captaine Groomes Company in the Regiment of the said Colonel the papers were delivered to him to spread among the souldiers of that Regiment and that same person that delivered them told him he should have one thousand of the large Petitions also to disperse in that Regiment so soon as they were reprinted which they were about to do in a smaller leter for the saving of charges By which it appears that paper also springs from the same root with the foresaid Petition of which it also takes notice and helps to promote the same ends with it and who ever shall put himselfe to the trouble to read them both will finde them speak the same Language and discern the same spirit in them both and is yet more evident by the latter clause of the first Marginall note which were Lilburns words to a syllable at the Barre of the House of Commons And by that paragraph of the paper which begins have you not upon such pretences c. which were Wildmans words at that meeting in Well-yard which is mentioned in Mr. Marstersons relation and at the Commons Barre and by the last clause of the next paragraph which were the words of Lilburn and Wildman or one of them at the Barre of the House of Commons and are also to be found in the Petition it selfe so as a very dim sight may discerne it to be a Whelp of the same litter ❧ The mournfull Cryes of many thousand poor Tradesmen who are ready to famish through decay of Trade Or The warning Tears of the Oppressed OH that the cravings of our Stomacks could be heard by the Parliament and City Oh that the Tears of our poor famishing Babes were botled Oh that their tender Mothers Cryes for bread to feed them were ingraven in Brasse Oh that our pined Carkasses were open to every pitifull Eye Oh that it were known that we sell our Beds and Cloaths for Bread Oh our Hearts faint and we are ready to swoon in the top of every Street O you Members of Parliament and rich men in the City that are at ease and drink Wine in Bowls