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A88210	L. Colonel John Lilburne revived. Shewing the cause of his late long silence, and cessation from hostility against alchemy St. Oliver, and his rotten secretary; as also of the report of his death. With an answer in part, to the pestilent calumniation of Cap: Wendy Oxford (Cromvvels spie upon the Dutch, and upon the English royallists, sojonrning [sic] in the United Provinces) closely couched in a late delusive pamphlet of the said Oxfords, called The unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England All vvhich, vvith many historicall passages, giveing light into the unvvorthy practises of the English grandees, is contained in three letters (The first to a friend in the United Provinces, The second to a friend in Scotland. And the third, to the honourable, Colonel Henry Martin, in England VVritten by L. Colonel John Lilburne.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Oxford, Wendy. Unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2128; Thomason E689_32; ESTC R206981	43,475	37

the world but they were cause allso of encreaseing their dominion and Empire over all Nations and that the world afterwards had great Affiance and trust in them and that most justly So that the People and Citties did not only receive the Captaines and Governouis the Romans sent them but they allso went unto Rome and procured them to come and did putt themselves into their hands And not only the Citties and Commonalties but Kings and Ptinces also that were oppressed by others more mighty then themselves had no other refuge but to put themselves under their protection by reason whereof in a very short time with the favour and helpe of the Gods as my Author is persuaded all the world came to submit themselves to their obedience and to bee under the protection of thir Empire Titus himselfe also did glorie more that he had restored Grece againe unto libertie then in any other service or exploit he ever had done and having besides all this done many more famous things he went to Rome with a world of riches and treasure and triumphed And this year being out longer then which no Roman Generall did ordinarilie hold his place especiallie in the puritie and glorie of their common-wealth and mischeife in his absence being a brewing amongst the poore Grecians by the forementioned Antiochus a potent king who went out of Asia into Greece with a potent fleet of Shipps and a very puissant Armie to stir up the Citties of Greece to forsake their league and alliance with the Romans Thereupon the Romans fearing the riseing of the People in Greece and the fame of the power of that great king Antiochus they chose and sent out for the next yeare Manius Acilius for a Generall and Titus was content without scruple to goe under him as one as his Lieutenants Whose behaviour in that Journey was as full of wisedome and humanitie as in the former in saveing severall Citties by his sweet and overcomeing perswasions from the furie of the present Generalls Rage who in battell haveing overthrowne the said great king sought and prosequted revenge on those that had any way sided with him Which made the poore People of Grece when beseiged to looke over the walls to spie Titus and to call unto him by his name holding up their hands unto him and praying him to take pitty upon them But he answered never a word to them at that time but turned his back and fell a weepeing Yet was he their sure Intercessor to prevaile with the Generall for their pardon Which made one of the Citties being preserved by his meanes to consecrate unto him all the remembrances that that heathen Age could devise to honour a Man with And in the Temple that they dedicated to him they had a Preist chosen by the voyce of the People to doe sacrifice unto him After which the People sing a song of triumph made in praise of him the latter end of which runns thus The cleare unspotted Faith Of Romans we adore And vow to be their faithfull friends Both now and evermore Sing out ye Muses nine To Ioves eternall fame Sing out the honour due to Rome And Titus worthy name Sing out I say the praise Of Titus and his faith By whom ye have preserved bin From Ruine Doole and Death And after his return from the warrs with Antiochus he was chosen Censor at Rome which office is of great dignitie and as a man may say the crown of all the honours that a Cittizen of Rome can have in that Common-wealth And he and his fellow Censor by their office having power to put all such as they judged unworthy persons out of the Senate did put out onely foure They did receive also into the number of Cittyzens of Rome all such as would present themselves to be enrowled in their common Register with a proviso that they were born free by Father and Mother unto which last they were compelled by Tenentius Culio Tribune or protector of the peoples liberties who to despite the Nobilitie perswaded the people of Rome by their Supreme authority to command it should be so After all which high dignities and honours and brave and noble actions he abased himself to become a Colonell of a thousand foote being obtained of and by his own seeking of purpose to goe into the warrs to fight for the glory of his Countrie which action in my opinion is to be commended in him For I beleeve none of the great Generals of our age but would scorne after their being Generals to goe into the warrs again as private Colonells And so much for famous and renowned Titus Quintius Flaminius All which you may reade more at large in Plutarchs Lives Fol. 381.382 to 395. Makeing Sir no farther Application of these things at present I onely beg your pardon for my tediousnes to you especially to whom I know large Epistles are no way pleasant intreating you likewise to steale a little spare time from your many great occasions to read these lines seriously which I very strongly imagine may prove of some use to you And oblige me yet so farr unto you as to present my heartie service to my old true-hearted plain and blunt friend Mr. Moyle of your house and tell him from me that he often used to clap me on the back call me Noble Cato which before I came to Flanders did not fully understand what he meant by it But haveing red so much of famous Plutarchs Lives lately with so much delight and seriousnes as I have done reading for many daies together fiftie of his large Folios in a day and also largely takeing notes as I reade my common practise in reading any book that pleaseth me I hope shortly in a few lines which I intend to present him with to let him know I now fully understand his meaning So with my heartie and true love and service presented to you I take leave to subscribe my self SIR Your most affectionate Friend heartily to serve you being yet as much an English man as ever I was JOHN LILBURN Semperidem From my delightfull dwelling in Bruges Saturday Novemb. the 9. 1652. New stile The End

of what kinde or sort soever you have slayne with your Swords Sterved or adjudged to death in the 3. nations and which is the only Iustifiable reason that can acquit you in the thoughts of any rationall man in the world from rendring by your most reproachfull and perjured actions religion and the power of godlines more reproachfull and contemptible in the Eyes of the Sonnes of men then ever the foolish ridiculous actions Fathred upon and said to be conmitted at Munster in Germanie by Iohon of Leyden Knipperdolling whom in folly murder madnes ridiculousnes you have visibily in the face of all the world outstripped and already made good the truth of the worst of the Kings sayings against you or the sharpest bitterest of his penns against your and who in History to future ages must leaue behinde you the blackest name that ever the sonns of men did and for whom noe defence or excuse or a shadow of a bare figg-leafe covering can be made for you without the speedy doeing the thing aforesaid to the full performing all your promises made for good unto the English people therefore woe woe woe unto you if speedily and effectually you doe it not before once againe you have made England an Aceldama or feild of Blood as by the breach of your solemne faith publique oathes and promises you have 3 or 4 severall times already done since it was in your power as clearly it was in 1647 rationally to have made it the freest and happiest nation in the world and thereby Iustifie your fore Fathers in all their wickednes yea and by many degrees farr out strip the worst of those you have destroyed for the Capitallest offences that so upon your heads as Christ saith Math 23.29 to 36. might come all the righteous Bloud shed upon the Earth from the Blood of righteous Abel even unto this very day Farewell JOHN LILBVRN To the Honourable and his very good Friend Colonel HENERY MARTIN a Member of the Parliament and Counsell of State of the Common-wealth of England At his house in Cheynel-Row in Westminster These present Honoured Sir HAving found you by many years experience to be one of those amongst that great Assembly and Counsell in which you sit that principally minde the real good of their Countrie and of the generalitie of the inhabitants thereof I am thereby encouraged now and then in my banished condition to trouble you with some of my scribleing lines and sometimes to give you an hint of something concerning publique good which at this time I shall make the subject of my penn It is not long since I wrote a letter to you by two masters of Shipps at their earnest intreaty and therein gave you some reasons why it was requisite that a speedy convoy should be appointed and sent for the convoying in safety that rich laden fleet of small English Vessells at Ostende to London And the Masters to your commendation at their return hither told me you were active to get and did procure for them an Order for a speedy Convoy often good Ships sorthwith to be sent for that end Which Order being as yet unaccomplished give me leave without offence to put you in mind of it again and to use now but two reasons unto you the first whereof shall be drawn from the utilitie and gaine and the second from the honour security that will arise from so doeing Now for the first I cannot imagine but your great publique expenses drive you sometimes to a little straites for money so that all wayes for supplying you cannot but in reason be very acceptable to you especially those that are just and honest Now here are divers rich laden Vessels at Ostend whose cargo or loadeing is worth several hundreds of thousands of pounds which as divers of the Masters averre to mee they are confident will bring the Parliament in more Custome and Excise then either your late East-India Fleet did for whose Convoy you judged it requisite as I have been informed to send Sr. George Askew his whole Fleet to Plimmouth or then your Turkey or Straits Fleet will bring you in for whom your Shipps or men of warr in those parts have runn so many hazards to preserve and convoy them For some of the Masters have informed me that some of those little English vessels besides great store of Threads and Linnings both rich commodities have 40 Bailes of Silke every Baile of which paies custome in England 35. poundes besides the Excise Which will amount in the whole in Custome and excise to no inconsiderable summe of money Secondly As for the point of honour and safety I judge the reputation pf a Nation especially in forreigne parts to be no small part of its honour and by consequence of its safety Now what a dishonour is it for those that lay claime to the Sovereigntie of the Narrow Seas not to be able or not to dare to venture to fetch home so rich a Fleet of Shipps that are but 6 or seven houres good sailing from their owne doores in five or six moneths time for so long some of them to my knowledge have bin ladden and waited for a Convoy For shame rather then they should lie 20 daies longer send the whole Fleet for them who if they should all come hither for that end would be in the rode-way to daunt and offend their adversaries as much as for any thing I know they are in any part of the Seas which they can sail in The second point of honour and safety lies in this that you shall by doeing thus very much encourage the Sea-men who must now under God be your walls and bulworks and make the trade for these parts English And in the not doeing hereof you cause the traffick of these parts to be in a manner wholly in Flemish bottoms which I am sure of it is neither for your profit nor for your honour And again by the neglect hereof you cause the poore Sea-men to hang downe their heades which I am sure of it at the present at least is not for your safetie And besides by the neglect hereof you give just cause to all rationall men in these parts that are lookers upon you to account you a weake-witted people not able to mannage your busynes as you should or else a careless regardles People that will not doe it as you ought might which allso I am sure of it is neither for your honour nor safety Wherefore as you love the honour safetie of your countrie let me as your true freind advise you to strive effectually to get a speedy convoy sent for them though it be of your whole Fleet if a lesser number dare not come to fetch them I have prevailed with the bearer my very good freind present neighbour to promise me with my wife to deliver this unto your owne hands in a few words besides to set it home to you if it be needfull

highly esteemed for valerous and good soldiers by reason of the famous and wonderfull acts that Alexander the great not long before had done with them betwixt whose Armies there was a most feirce fight the Battle of the Macedonians being usually joyned target target to target so close together that before it bee broken it seemeth as it were the body of a beast of a force invincible Yet notwithstanding the valiant and wise Consul was not long in overcomeing them and forc't them to fly leaveing eight thousand dead upon the place besides five thousand taken prisoners and when he had done thereby had the whole Country at his mercy who were miserably divided with abundance of civill warres oppressions of Tyrans yet he tooke not the avantage against them which he might have done But he sent his herald forthwith into their public meeteings or plaies where in great abundance they were assembled together by sound of trumpet with a loud voyce to proclaine in their Assemblies that the Senate of Rome Titus Quintius Flaminius Consull of the People of Rome now that they had overthrowne King Philip the Macedonians in battle did thenceforth discharge them from all Garrisons and set them at libertie from all rapes subsidies and impositions for ever to live after their owne ancient Lawes and in full liberty which privileges should extend to the Corinthians the Lochians to those of Phocide those of the Isles of Euboea the Achaians the Phthiotes the Magnesians the Thessalians and the Peirobeians And the second time after silence made the Herald proclaimed it farr lowder that so the People might heare it distinctly At which there a rose such a loud shout and cry of exceeding joy throughout the whole people that the sound of it was heard to the very sea and the people rose up full of joy from their seates and let the fenceing sword plaies and other games alone and went together with abundance of joy to salute to embrace to thanke Titus the recoverer protector and patron of all the libertie of famous Greece and then was seene saith Plutarch in strange and wonderfull manner the power of Mens voyces and the People were so violent in expressing their joy to Titus that if he had not got him away betimes he had hardly escaped from being stifled amongst the People they came so thick about him from all places who after they were weary with crying and singing about his Pavilion till night they went away and as they met any of their kindred friends or cittyzens they did kiss embrace one another forjoy and so supped and made merry together And yet in their Farther rejoycing at their tables they had no other talke but of the warrs of Greece discourseing amongst themselves what sundry great warrs they had made and what they had endured here to fore and all to defend recover their liberty and yet for all that could never so joyfully nor so assuredly obtain it then they did even at that present receiving the honourablest reward and that which justly deserved the greatest fame throughout the world that by the valiantnes of strangers who fought for the same without any bloodshed of their own in comparison or the loss of the life of any one man whose death they had cause to lament they were so restored to their ancient freedome and liberty And saith my judicious and wise another it is a very rare thing amongst men to find a Man very valiant wise withall but yet of all sorts of valiant Men he saith it is hardest to find a just valiant man yet did al these three most commendable perfections of valour wisdome and justice meet in rare perfection in this young heathen Roman The Grecians t is true had amongst them selves many famous valiant Captaines or Generalls who had very good skill to lead an Armie and to winn the Battle as well by sea as by Land but to turne their victories to any honourable benefit or true honour amongst men as he calls it to reconcile their homebred differences and cement themselves in union they none of them could ever of late especially well skill of it And excepting a few battells which the authour names all the other Battels and warrs of Greece that were made sell out against them selves and did ever bring them into bondage and all the tokens of triumph which were ever set up for the same was to their shame and losse So that in the end Greece was utterly destroyed and overthrowne and the captaines of the Citties one envying anothers doeings Whereas a strang nation the which had very little or no occasion at all to move them to doe it have notwithstanding with dangerous battles and infinite troubles delivered it from oppression servitude of violent Lords and Tyrants This and such like talke did at that time occupie the Grecians heads And moreover the deeds following did answer and performe the words of the proclamation For at one selfe same time Titus sent Lentulus into Asia to set the Bargilians at liberty and Tetillus into Thracia to remove the garrisons out of the Isles and Citties which Philip had kept there And Publius Julius was sent allso into Asia unto king Antiochus to speake unto him to set the Grecians at libertie which he kept in subjection And as for Titus he went himselfe unto the Cittie of Chalcyde where hee tooke sea and went into the Province of Magnesia out of the which hee tooke all the garrisons of the Citties and redelivered the government of the Common-wealth unto the Cittyzens of the same And after he had spent some time in mirth with the People in celebrateing some feasts and games he caused again solemne proclamation to be made openly for the Generall liberty of all Greece Furthermore visiting the Citties he did establish very good lawes reformed justice and did set the inhabitants and Cittyzens every one of them in good peace amity and concord one with another and did call home also all those that were outlawes and bannished men and pacified all old quarrells and dissentions amongst them The which did no lesse please and content him that by perswasions he could bring the Grecians to be reconciled one with another then if by force of armes hee had overcome the Macedonians In so much as the recovery of the liberty that Titus had restored to the Grecians seemed unto them the least part of the goodnes they had received at his hands O rare perfection of wisedome Righteousnes true Virtue Gentlenes Goodnes of an old heathen and pagan Roman not in the least to be found amongst our great seemeing saints and pretended Christians in England which in the glorious and transcendent rare Effects it produced reaped its full recompence of reward For saith my said Author the good deeds of the Romans and of Titus Quintius Flaminius done unto the Grecians did not only reape this benefit unto them in recompence that they were praised and honoured of all