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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93104	Animadversions upon Iohn Lilburnes two last books, the one intituled Londons liberty in chaines discovered. the other An anatomy of the Lords cruelty. Published according to order.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel); Sheppard, Simon,	1646 (1646)	Wing S3173; Thomason E362_24; ESTC R201220	9,950	15

for your standing up for the rights and priviledges of the people I honor and esteem you but for your superbious and unwarrantable carriage to your superiors I contemn and despise you the subjects of this Kingdome have been a long time enslaved and like foolish prisoners played with their fetters it hath pleased God now to open a way to their infranchisement O! let it be done in a fair and regular manner let us not be so unmannerly to ca●ve to our selves since there are those appointed who are both able and willing to to distribute unto us and let us not while we go about to enjoy the immunities of Magna Charta break and infringe Gods Commandements And now Sir for all your great skil in the Law I must tell you that you are very grosly mistaken in one point which you recite page the 10. of your Anotomy of the Lords Tyranny Where you say To speak truly the Parliament are not nor ought not to medle with causes betwixt party and party that are decidable at the common law they being the supream Iudicature of the Kingdom and the last refuge to appeal to in case of injustice elsewhere and so may properly be called Iudge of Iudges rather then Iudge of particular causes and parties I pray Sir let me demand of you one thing what renowneth a King more although to speak truly he is appointed by God only to look after the good of the people in general to appoint over them prudent and faithful Governors and to see them execute Justice and Judgement yet I say what hath renowned them more then to bee so tenderly zealous over the welfare of their subjects as to deign to fill up the seat of Justice with their Persons and to hear the particular complaints of each peculiar subject and indeed Equity commandeth it should be their constant imployment but that the possibility thereof is taken away by reason if it were so they must with Moses sit each day from morning til night and yet the people depart unheard so is it with that great Counsel the Parlament of England it is for their everlasting Fame and Honor to decide pettie causes whereby they shaw their pious care of the Commons happiness now this sometimes they leave undone not because it doth not belong to them to hear private causes but because they are not able to decide affairs of State and private affairs between man and man also therefore is your Argument waved that it belongeth not to the Parliament to hear private causes Again I wonder you should cast such an Aspersion on the Lords as you do in the 14. page of you Book intituled An anotamy of the Lords Tyranny you say The Lords have been the principal instruments to engage this Kindome in a bloody Warr That they set us a fighting to unhorse and dismount our old Riders and Tyrants that so they might get up and ride themselves Where in saying so O how much do you mistake your selfe it is evident to the whole kingdome that the Lords have been the Composers and not the fomenters of the common troubles had they sided with the Malignant and Royall partee I fear it had not been with us as now it is but it fareth with you as with the Poet Homer who never writ well of any whose actions were never so meriting that disturbed his Country so you delight to say the worst you can and to Maligne any be they never so innocent that have taken part any way against you which is in you a very great over-sight Again I esteem you very incorrigible that you should desire as in the Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny pag. 19. That you hope the Honourable House when they have judged your cause will not onely cause the Lords to restore the charges you have been at during the time of your Imprisonment but will also grant you ample repairations for your hard and unjust sufferings Your sufferings your selfe occasioned by your sturdy and imperious carriage to the Lords who you not onely resisted but reviled and is it any reason that when a man shall wilfully set fire on his house and goods his neighbours should be constrained to make him reparation I trow not so is it in your case your own obstinacy perhaps hath impoverished your state and therefore the Lords must make up the breach and restore unto you the monies your folly hath caused you to expend for which there is no reason or the least colour but you seem to urge some reasons in page the 20. why it should be so where you say That the Kings constant custome was to provide lodging dyer and to pay the Fees of all those he committed to the Tower but the Lords for no cause at all having committed you thither put you to pay all the vast extravagances and Fees Alas sir the reason thereof might be this The Lords know what a numerous multitude of Sectaries were your Idolaters and they in not providing for your entertainment in the Tower would put them to the test and thereby would give you occasion to find your friends indeed from your friends in shew and all this was for your information in that point and you have found during your imprisonment in the Tower very much accommodation from those of your society have neither wanted as is credibly reported for either good cheer or wine a certain Symptome of their affection towards you and now it being fairely hoped by you as perhaps it may certainly happen that you shall be delivered out of bonds O that God would put it into your heart to do as you once protested to the Lieutenant of the Tower upon condition he would admit you the Society of your wife and friends to wit that you would not write a line in the way of controversie which would be for your exceeding great availe but I fear it will be with you as with those superstitious sea-men who being in an hideous and threatning storme in danger to loose their lives with their fraught make solemn protestation to some Saint that if they will appease the fury of the tempest and allot them safe harbour they will offer up to their shrine large gifts which notwithstanding when the waves are silent and they arive on shore they forget to do so it is to be feared that you when you are again at liberty and injoy those immunities you did ere your confinement will be the same man still and steer a course as irregular as ever before but I hope the Lord will guide your heart better and quiet your troublesome spirit and unite your heart to his Church and people that now at length we may have peace and union among our selves and not suffer us while we Tithe Mint and Cummin to leave undone the more necessary duties not suffer us while we are busied to finde fault and to urge needless disputations to forget those duties necessary for the saving of our souls that we may no longer be a scorn to our neighbouring Nations who clap their hands and rejoyce to behold our divisions and distractions hoping thereby to make themselves Lords over us but he that ruleth the heavens and the earth I hope will so Order the Councels and consultations of our happy Parliament that by them as his Instruments he will settle his true worship in this Kingdome and cause the Natives thereof to injoy peace truth and happinesse FINIS