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A76083	A just defence of John Bastwick. Doctor in Phisicke, against the calumnies of John Lilburne Leiutenant [sic] Colonell and his false accusations, vvritten in way of a reply to a letter of Master Vicars: in which he desires to be satisfied concerning that reproch. In which reply, there is not onely the vindication of the honour of the Parliament, but also that which is of publike concernment, and behooves all well affected subjects to looke into. Printed and published with license according to order.	Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1065; Thomason E265_2; ESTC R212430	39,689	39

A IVST DEFENCE OF JOHN BASTWICK Doctor in PHISICKE Against the Calumnies of John Lilburne Leiutenant Colonell and his false accusations VVritten in way of Reply to a Letter OF Master VICARS In which he desires to be satisfied concerning that Reproch In which Reply there is not onely the Vindication of the Honour of the Parliament but also that which is of publike Concernment and behooves all well affected SUBJECTS to looke into Printed and published with License according to Order Printed at London by F. Leech for Michaell Sparke Junior and are to be sold at the Blue-Bible in Green-Arbor 1645 Mr. Vicars Letter to Dr. Bastwicke concerning Leiutenant Colonell Lilburne MVch honoured Doctor and my most worthy friend being abroad this Saturday I heard that Mr. Iohn Lilburne hath again printed another lavish Letter which I have not yet seen or read wherein together with others he hath sorely and I am perswaded most unjustly taxed you to have done him a great deale of wrong in his late miscarried businesse about the Parliament whereas I have ever observed that you have alwayes since you were first acquainted with him shewne your selfe his singular good friend ready to do him all good in word and deed yea and in these later times of his uncomely miscarriages have spoken very tenderly and friendly of him and therefore I cannot I say be persawded that you have given him any just cause so to complaine or exclaime of you I therfore humbly desire you most honoured Sir to vouchsafe to satisfie and certifie me in a word or two whither any such thing be betweene you or not at this time though I say for mine own part I am confident of the contrary but then I shall be the more groundedly able upon occasion to vindicate your integrity and innocency therin and the more fully to stop the mouths of any other traducers of you herein Thus most noble Sir whom from my Soule for your faithfulnesse to God and his Truth I can never sufficiently prize and honour praying pardon for this my boldnesse emboldned therunto by your own Christian Candor and even genuine ingenuity with the humble tender of my best services to your most worthy selfe and vertuous Consort I ever rest Yours in his best poore Services in the Lord to be commanded Aug. this 9th 1645. John Vicars A Iust defence of John Bastwicke Doctor In Physieke Against the Calumnies of Iohn Lilburne Leiutenant Colonell and his false Accusations Mr. VICARS AS I have ever found you a truly loving friend to mee and mine heather to and that in my greatest adversity and hottest conflicts which with all thankfulnesse I doe acknowledg and have with reciprocall affection answered your love So I hope there shall never on my part any just occasion bee given of violating this our mutuall affection for to the uttermost of my abilities I shall endeavour to keepe peace with all men especially my Christian acquaintance And so confident I am of your good opinion that there is not any calumny how high so ever it fly and how loud soever it speake and by what multitudes soever it be spread obroad and divulged that can in the least alienate your charity from me before you have heard my just defence And truly at this time though I should not returne an answer to your Letter in way of justification of my owne integritie so assured I am of your Love that al● those foule aspersions that are now causlesly published concerning me by reason of a Letter printed by Leiu Col. Lilburne should not in the least stagger your good esteeme of me or estrange you from me much lesse would they extort a censure from you before you had heard what I had to reply in my owne behalfe But seeing you have desired for the satisfaction of others to heare from me concerning the busines between me and the Leiut. Colonell I thought fit to gratifie you in a few lines not that I am sollicitous about that matter or that it doth in the least trouble my minde or disquiet my thoughts for such is my innocency in this cause that besides the testimony of my owne Conscience I have the witnesse of the whole Parliament the great Councell of the Kingdome to acquit and free me from the Colonells crimination so that all men may see that it was malitiously laid upon me onely to make mee hatefull to all good people You know that Calumny who is quicker then Martiall Law doth ordinarily arraigne accuse and condemne men before they have beene heard speake for themselves and men are usually put to death and murdered in their reputation and their fame taken from them before they know of it and thus at this time it hath hapned to me who am made as odious and infamous as the tongues of Revilers can make me and that upon no just grounds as you shall see by and by It is a sinne that many in this Nation are highly gui●ty of who deale not with others as they would be dealt with and easily receive a reproach against their Neighbour both which notwithstanding are against the Royall Law of love Neither is there any man that would not complaine if one should either spread an evill report of him or imbrace one against him yet that they condemne in others is the practise of too too many in these our dayes and they that sit at the Sterne of Government canno● keepe themselves from the Obliques of such as owe their lives unto them for their care and watchfulnes for their good and therefore we that are of the low degree may not thinke our condition miserable when we see our Rulers and the chiefe Magistrates of the Kingdome and that not onely in tongue and word but in every scurrilous Pamphlet hour●●● traduced But now to the matter in hand You tell me you heard That Master John Lilburne hath againe printed another Letter where in together with others 〈◊〉 hath sorely taxed me to have done him agreat deale of wrong c. What he hath published concerning others I leave them to an●wer to that but what hee hath printed concerning my selfe it is most false and no way beseeming him a brother so to deale with one that had loved and honoured him more than he did himselfe and so farre I have ever beene from wronging him in the least measure as all that know me or ever heard me speake of him when he was accused of pride rashnesse malversation factiousnesse of spirit c. I say when I have heard many bla●● him as well friends as en●mies they can all witnesse for mee hee had ever my good word either wholly to excuse him and vindicate his reputation or at least to extenuate his offence so that I am not in the lest thing guilty of disaffection to him much lesse of that hee layeth to my chrge yea had it beene true that hee chargeth mee with yet it had beene no more a cryme in me then it was in himselfe

many dangers and did as faithfully discharge his place and the trust committed to him as any man yet this man because he opposed the Independent party and would not whiles he was in Come mand suffer them in a disorderly manner to leave the publike Assemblies where the word was faithfully and Orthodoxly preached and vent their own novelties to the seducing and misleading of the poore people and making a faction in Church and State For no other ground I say that ever I heard of saving that he being a man not only of integrity but wisdome also and courage and could not indure to see his Country-men made a pray of to pur●oyners and such as aymed more at their owne honour and private emolument then at the publique good and dignity of the Parliament for these very causes and no other that ever I could learne what I say with that party hating him and the Independents joyning with them by their false informations and clamorus against him and their malitious suggestions as that he was of a troublesome and contentious spirit they have made him as odious as any man in the Kingdome excepting my selfe and my learned and honoured Brother Mr. William Prynne And Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne not satisfied to raile of this gallant Gentleman wheresoever he came but printed a most notorious lying Libell against him and such an one as all the truly Godly and honest men of that County doe affirme they never saw more prodigious untruthes published against any man and such of his Country men as are acquainted with him and his abilities know very well that if hee had but faire play hee is able for wit and worth to deale with a whole Army of Indepents and all his enemies and for valour and skill in Armes he is inseriour to none of them and whiles hee was in their good esteeme and before hee opposed their faction they neither thought nor spake otherwise of him but as of a brave and diserving Gentleman as can be prov'd by a cloud of witnesses and under the hands of the best of them but now because he is adverse to theer way as with all good reason hee and all good men such as love the peace of Sion and the welfare of the Kingdome ought to bee to their whimsy of Independency therefore that party and their abbettors do most horridly abuse him with all manner of reproaches and my Brother Lilburne by name as I said before hath published such beastly lies of him as scarse the Sunne ever saw greater and in the same tracke and path do all the Independent faction walke in blasting all those they hate with vilifying language and for this very end and for no other purpose I perswaded my selfe he published that lye against me that he might make me despicable and of no reputation amongst honest men for in his accusation hee chargeth me with two crimes Lying and Ingratitude either of which were enough to make mee infamous through the World much more they being both joyned together and that with aggravation for there is nothing that all ingenious men hate abhorre more then alyat and an ungratefull fellow and that deservedly neither can any honest man keepe such men company with safety as are guilty of those crimes And truly if I were such a man the world might justly distaste and abjure mee Now to prove me a lyer he thus argueth The Doctor saith hee sent in a paper to inform the Speaker that I had accused him for sending threescore thousand pound to Oxford though with the said Doctor Bastiwck I had no discourse at all about any such businesse And therefore he is a notorious ly●t to affirme that I accused Master Speaker when I had no discourse with him about any such businesse And to prove me an ungratefull fellow and one that had done him evill for good which is yet a degree of Sin above ungratitude Hee thus dispureth Doctor Bostwicke a man that stands obliged unto mee with as many tyes of friendship and respect as J am confident he doth to any man in the world for whom I have both in England and Holland adventured my selfe and all that was 〈◊〉 and for whose sake and cause as an earthly instrument I under went all the sorrowes and miseries that I suffered from the Bishops for divers yeares together And for this man to make an information against me and thus to reward mee rendring me evill for Good he proclaimes himselfe to the whole world to be an unworthy and ungratefull man and therefore ought deservedly to be abhorred and abominated of all good people as a lyer an unthankfull fellow and this is the scope of this gallant sword-mans disputation to wound and distroy his Brothers reputation and this effect it hath allready produced that amongst all those of that fraternity for they take all pro confesse that he either speaketh or Printeth they talke no otherwise of mee then of a base fellow calling me knave and paultry fellow at every word and this dialect they have learned of Lieutenant Colonell Iohn Lilburne who when hee speaketh of me giveth me no other name although it is well knowne untill I had declared my selfe against Independency there were no praises though great enough both for me and my Brother Prynne such is the ficklenesse and vanity of the poore creature one day crying Hosanna and another day crucifie him if in the least ye displease his humour and so hee dealeth with the Parliament who but the Parliament not long since with Iohn Lilburne and now they are a company of Tyrants and the supreame Court of Judicature is with him as bad as the High Commission and the Star-chamber and worse and all the Judges in the great Councell as bad as Strafford and the Prelates trampling downe Magna Charta and the liberty of the Subjects under there feet so that if their dealings towards the Subjects be just he professeth he hath lost his judgment and must beginne to learne A. B. C. againe c. But to wave his dispising of Government and rayling of dignities a Sin which God so much abhorrs 2 Pet. 2. Iude and which belongs to those in authority to redresse and whom it most concernes I come to his particular charge against mee and first where hee accuseth mee that I put up a paper against him to the Speaker hee beginnes his crimination with calling for I never put up a paper against him neither did I ever in my life inform against him unto any Parliament man or ever open my mouth to any of the House in his least prejudice to this present day but have ever spoken well of him to the Parliament and for this I now say all the Parliament can witnesse for mee and so farre I was from making an Information against him about this businesse that I knew not at that time that hee had ever heard that Mr. Speaker was accused of any such thing nor had not knowne it had not

I see no cause why he should make so loud a complaint for if there should now in the City of London a conspiracy be discovered and some of the Conspirators should be appprehended under reformation I conceive it will not stand with the wisdome of the City Office●s and with the discretion of those that are in authority to set down the cause of their apprehension and sending them to prison for if their complices should have intelligence of this that their plot was discovered they would all either escape away or attempt some desperate thing that might be destructive to the whole City and that that might endanger the whole Kingdome therefore in such a case as this it is for the wisdome of the Officers to conceale the conspiracy till they have apprehended all the Delinquents and in such a case as this is and many more the Magistrate may as I conceive send any man to prison without signifying the cause why unto the prisoner For I read in many places of the Scripture that prisoners have been committed and there was no cause given either to him that was committed or to the Goaler wherefore he was committed and yet they are not condemned of unjustice for so doing But when men have been condemned without hearing or by false witnesses this hath made it a crime Neither hitherto have I ever read that it was counted a crime in a Magistrate or an unjust thing or a thing against the Law of God nature or Nations to ask any man that is apprehended a question or to demand of him whether he either spake any such words or heard any such or did such a thing or did it not for none of both these proceedings were counted a crime in either Ioseph or Ioshua or any other of the Rulers in Israel for Ioseph cast his brother into prison upon suspition and questioned all his other brethren upon a pretended jealousie and yet they accused not the Governour of Aegypt of unjustice to their good old Father Neither was it a crime in Ioseph to question his brethren if the businesse had been reall or in Ioshua to aske Achan whether or no he had taken the wedge of gold And if either Iosephs brethen or Achan had refused to have answered to the question propounded unto them til either Ioseph or Ioshua had told them the cause of their apprehension or commitment I beleeve they might have laine in prison till Dooms-day in the afternoone the time that Iohn Lilburne thinks the Parliement will pay him what they owe him and no wise man would have condemned the Governour of Aegypt for so doing and therefore he most shamefully abuseth the Parliament for their proceedings against him which stand very well with the Lawes of God and all well governed Nations and the Scripture that he citeth concerning Paul was nothing to the purpose for Paul stood committed and that upon suspition But the Judge thought it unjustice to proceed to sentence before that they had heard what Paul could say for himselfe in his owne defence and so the Parliament will doe to him and I am most assured he shall have all the faire hearing in the world but all this is nothing to Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne's cause who might have been released as Hawkins was and without any dishonour unto him if he had not disobediently behaved himselfe to the honourable Committee For they demanding of him a question which by all the lawes of God and nature and Nations they might doe and to which without offending he might well have answered he contemptuously not onely refuseth to answer but asperseth them with unjustice which was the cause of the conti●uation of his commitment and then his publishing of a libellous and a most dangerous Letter was a cause of his new commitment to New-gate And in all this that the Parliament hath done I am confident when the people shall have a full hearing of the same and be rightly informed they will be abundantly satisfied of the justice of the Honourable House Much I confesse I could say for the justifying of the Parliaments proceedings not onely in this businesse about John Lilburne but all their other grave and weighty imployments to free that great Councell from those aspersions that not onely John Lilburne layeth upon it but all his complices but I shall leave this worke to those that it concerneth onely by the way let me say thus much both to John Lilburn his confederates that they ought alwai● to have speciall care that whiles they study and labour to offend their enemies they doe not destroy their preservers and abuse those men causelesly as wish them as much good as they doe themselves though they tell them of their faults and errours and amongst others all the Independents have most injuriously in word and deed abused my ever honoured brother M. Prynne and John Lilburne in this his Letter in speciall to my knowledge hath most basely and falsly belyed him for it is well knowne he was never a favourer of Malignants and such as betrayed strong Holds as the businesse of Bristow can well witnesse for the prosecuting of that so cordially inraged many of the Independents against him and there be many that can witnesse for my brother Prynne that he was not the cause of the loosing of Gernsey for had his counsell beene followed both those Ilands at this day had bin under the command of the Parliament and what he published concerning the two Captaines it hath been proved by sufficient witnesse whatsoever they say to the contrary and Sir Samuel Luke a man of honour and approved integrity would never have questioned them without sufficient witnesse for what he chageth them with and as I have bin credibly informed every thing he accuseth them of is abundantly proved by two or three witnesses But this is the practice daily of the Independents that they will owne nothing of that they have said or done but put men upon the proofe and then asperse all those that justly question them for lyers and persecutors as at this time that confounded taylor Paul Hobson and Richard Beawmon a sucking Apothecary doe who snip and dose out their Sermons by weight and measure to the infecting misleading and seducing of the poor people and the making a disturbance in Church and State and these seducers notwithstanding would perswade the world they are sent from heaven when as it is most apparent they are meere juglers and imposters and onely make a pray of the people and lead them captive to liberty and licenciousnesse such Teachers as these are so farre from a just call from heaven as they runne before they were ever sent so that a man may truly say of such Teachers and Ministers Diabolus caccavit illos and therefore my reverend brother Master Prynne hath writ nothing but the truth concerning them and is most maliciously and causelesly abused by Lievetenant Colonell Lilburne and therefore this that he speaketh concerning him it not

Nation a sinne so great and crying so loud in the eares of Almighty God that were this Kingdome guilty of no other it were enough to bring downe the plagues of God upon us And howsoever their Ministeus enjoy all our Pulpits and have such priviledges and immunities without all controle as was never by any State granted to any sect yet they cry out of persecution and ill usage whiles they themselves abuse the whole world and persecute in tongue and print every living thing that in the least doth not please their humour And for such as have done incomparable favours and curtesies to many of them and who have entertained them in their houses by the six monethes together gratis with their Wives and Children and shewne them surperlative humanity yet in their greatest extremities when they have been plundered of all stript naked and some of them have fled to London with scarce a rag of their backs and have applyed themselves to some of these Ministers thinking that they would have retained a memory of former curtesies they would not own them or scarce look on them and when poore Gentlewomen that lived in time of their prosperity in reputation and honour and had servants then to wait on them and being now deprived of all and brought to beggery and did onely desire them to get them but a service in some friends house of theirs professing that they would willingly submit themselves to the lowest condition rather then be a burden to any so long as they had their health yet they could not by all their importunity extort a good word out of their heads in their behalf and when they desired but their wives to give them but one of their old petticoats to cover their nakednes for answer they were told that they were now going over into the Low-countries againe and that they had sent over all their cloathing so that they had nothind left to give away and this was two yeeres since and they are yet in England and have got very fat Congregations and of chiefe women not a few so that had not some Presbyterians and strangers too taken some compassion of them they might have starved for all the Independent Ministers and their Wives as can be proved notwithstanding they were obliged unto them with all the tyes of friendship when they were in their friends houses as they had all respectful usage so they looked for it and expected dayly to eat and drink of the best or else they might heare of it But as the ingratitude of the Independents is generally taken notice of so especially of their Ministers towards their Benefactors and their covetousnesse is very remarkable so that it may be proved that some of the Independent Ministers have got more in a yeere here in London then ten Presbyterian Ministers and yet they are as covetous as ever they were and as much as ever complaining of want and of the hardnesse of the times and for their pharisaicall pride it is incomparable and commonly they insinuate themselves into rich acquaintance and love ever to be where good cheere is stirring onely in this they differ from the Pharises for they fasted often twice or 〈◊〉 a we●ke and th●se feast and fare deliciously every day and if they spare a dinner under pretence of an humiliation they will be sure to sup exceeding well and of the best there is some of them gone downe to the Army I presume they may trayle them all through Cornwall and Devonshire with a White-pot and there is no childe shall leape so at the sight of a Baby as they will skip at the fruition of a Custard they will smell a Feast to the remotest parts of Ireland and the gravy of a chine of Beefe into the middest of Wales so sensible they are of good cheere I dare boldly say that let a Venison Pasty be the Text foure Independent Ministers shall open and devide it better and more acurately handle it then any eight Presbyters in the City of London so that if yee behold them sometimes at a Feast you would take them to be the Nephewes of Helliogabalus There is not any man that shall seriously thinke of them but will say they have very accute senses that can out of the Americans and out of the Low-Countries smell the good ●heere and plum-pottage into England which was indeed one of the chiefest causes that made these men leave their charges and flocks there and choose rather to live among Wolves Beares Lyons and Tygars for so they tearme us for certainly if it were not good cheere and their belly that made them dwell amongst us they would never have lived here but as long as that last we shall have their company but when that ceases their zeale will grow cold for they have sent over their treasuries into Holland and into New-England but as long I say as there is a carcase left they will stay by it for our Saviour saith where the carcase is thither the Eagles fly and therefore they are here yet fluttering about and when they have picked the bones of it well then they will take take their flight and be gone the Lord send us peace and faire weather after them But in in the meane time Master Vicars it concernes us all to take heed of them for they are a very dangerous people in all respects for besides their good conditions that I have now named they are terrible dissemblers and notorious lyars as their daily language and libels can witnesse and this Letter of Lieutenant-Colonell Lilburne testifies and you also know what a notorious lye one of their chiefe Pastors told not long since of my reverend brother Waker and he did not onely divulge it but stands in the justification of it and yet there are divers men and them of reputation can witnesse the contrary to what he affirmes so that no man of a contrary mind can with safety converse among them for they will lay any thing to his charge and then sweare to it yea they turne ordinary tale-bearers the worst of men and violate many times all the lawes of humanity to satisfie their spleen and will peccare contra jura jovis hostitatis and all civility to doe a Presbyterian a mischiefe and thus unchristianly dealt that independent Pastor with my reverend brother Master Waker to make him od●ous and I have taken notice that it is their practice to tell tales and lyes and therefore I shun them all saving my good Cozen I must confesse if at the recruting of the Parliament the Independent Country Courtiers creepe in there I doe verily beleeve that the Greeks 〈◊〉 never so pollute the Temple as they will defile the Honourable House and then downe also goes the Gentry and the Nobility and all Churches for they begin already to pisse in them and to scummer in the Pewes of Gentleman out of a hatred they beare to that name disdaining that any should be thought greater then