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A48453	As you were, or, The Lord General Cromwel and the grand officers of the armie their remembrancer wherein as in a glass they may see the faces of their soules spotted with apostacy, ambitious breach of promise, and hocus-pocus-juggleing with the honest soldiers and the rest of the free-people of England : to the end that haveing seene their deformed and fearfull visage, they may be returning to doe their first pretended workes, wipe of their spots, mend their deformities & regaine their lost credit : in a word, save themselves and the gaspeing libertyes of the surprized and enslaved English nation : least enlargement and deliverance arise to the English from another place, but they and their fathers house shall be destroyed : Ester 4. and 14. : all which is contained in a letter directed to the Lord Generall Cromwel, to be communicated to the grandees of his army / written by L. Colonel John Libvrne May 1652 ...	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing L2084; ESTC R1524	49,801	36

further goeing on saith the Spirit of the Lord spake by me and his word was in my tongue the God of Israel said the rock of Israel spake to me „ He that ruleth over men must be just ruleing in the feare of God „ And also I further answer with those sayings of the Spirit of God in the 2d of Isay the 11 12 13 14 15 the 3d of Isay the 11 13 14 15 where it is said The lofty lookes of man shall be humbled and the haughtynes of man shall be lowed downe „ and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty upon every one that is lifted up he shall be brought low and upon all the Cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the oakes of Bashan and upon all the high mountaines and upon all the Hills that are lifted up upon every high-tower and upon every fenced wall Woe unto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him for the Lord standeth up to plead and standeth to judge the people the Lord will enter into judgement with the Ancients of his people and the Princes thereof for yee have eaten up the vineyard the Spoile of the poore is in your houses What meane you that you beat my people to peices and grind the faces of the poore saith the Lord God of Hosts chap 5 15 16 And the mighty man shall bee humbled and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled but the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgement and God that is holy shall be Sanctified in righteousnes And chap 13 6 11. Houle yee for the day of the Lord is at hand it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty and I will saith God punnish the World for their evill and the wicked for their iniquity and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease will lay low the haughtynes of the terrible and chap 23 9. The Lord of Hosts hath purpos'd it to staine the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the Earth and chapter 24 5 6 20 21. the Earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the Lawes changed the ordinance broken the everlasting covenant therfore hath the carse devoured the Earth and they that dwell therein are desolate the Earth shall reele to and fro like a drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall sall and not arise againe And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall punnish the Hosts of the high ones that are on high and the Kings of the Earth upon the Earth and Chap 26. 4 5 6 7 10 11. trust ye in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength for he bringeth downe them that dwell on high the loftie Citty he layeth it low he layeth it low even to the ground he bringeth it even to the dust the foote shall tread it downe even the feet of the poore and the stepps of the needy the way of the just is uprightnes thou most upright dost weigh the paths of the just But let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learne righteousnes In the Land of uprightnes will he deale unjustly will not behold the Majestie of the Lord. and chap 28 2 3. Behold the Lord hath a mightie and strong one which as a tempest of haile and a destroying storme as a flood of mighty waters overflowing shall cast downe to the earth with the hand the Crowne of pride And Chap 29 20 21. For the the terrible one is brought to naught and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut of that make a man an offender for a word lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate that turne aside the just for a thing of naught And Chap. 40 23 29 30 31. Where it is said of God that the bringeth Princes to nothing and maketh the judges of the earth as vanity and giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might hee increaseth strength Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall but they that waite upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Aegles they shall run and not be weary they shall walke and not faint Fourthly I answer when God will have athing brought to pass the sounding of Ramms-hornes shall be sufficient to blow downe the walls of Jericho Joshua the 6. For when God will worke who shall let him Isay 33.13 And when the Allmighty will have a man to act in desperate visibly improbable designes for him he will compass him about with such necessityes to goe on with his worke that there is no evadeing it and put him into Jeremies condition as many times I my selfe have bin when he forced him to cry out O Lord thou hast deceived me I was deceived thou art stronger then I thou hast prevailed I am in derision daily every one mocketh me For since I spake I cryed out I cryed Violence and spoile because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me and derision daily then said I I will not make mention of him nor speake any more in his name BUT HIS WORD WAS WITHIN ME AS A BURNING FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES AND I WAS WEARY WITH FORBEAREING AND I COULD NOT STAY For I heard the defameing of many ●eare on every side Report say they and wee will report it all my familiars watched for my halting saying peradventure he will be intised and wee shall prevaile against him and we shall take our revenge on him But the Lord is with me as a MIGHTY TERRIBLE ONE therfore my persecutors shall stumble and they shall not prevaile they shall be greatly ashamed for they shall not prosper their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten But O Lord of Hosts that tryest the righteous and seest the reynes and the heart let me see thy vengeance on them for unto thee have I opened my cause bee not a terrour unto me thou art my hope in the day of evill LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED THAT PERSECUTE ME but let not me be confounded let them be dismayed but let not me be dismayed BRING UPON THEM THE DAY OF EVILL AND DESTROY THEM WITH DOUBLE DESTRUCTION Jeremy 20 7 8 9 10 11 12. and chap. 17. 17 18. And give me leave without offence to say to my Lord Generall Cromwell as God in something the like case said in the 22 Jeremy 13 14 15 16 17. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousnes and his chambers by wrong that useth his neighbours service without wages and giveth him not for his work that ●aith I will

knave to be a spy at Middelborow who now is forced to fly to Westminster for Shelter and render him uncapable to receive any more bills of exchange from Mr. Thomas Scot for the paying him his sallery to inable him to drinke drunke night and day to feast whore it swear rant it and domineer rather like a bedlam then a man or to send one of his sluts over to give Mr. Scot if he want it a tast of hir which kind of flesh is notoriously at Westminster knowne he loves as well as Oxford doth as well as to convey his intelligence over and to solicet him if he ly not in sicke of the French Pox to procure him a passe to come over and to meet him at Graves-end or Dover c. and to discourse with him for setling all his affairs And yet my Lord this is not all but that which is the highest of aggrevations is that all this that is done unto me and principally by your selfe is inflicted upon me without I doe avow it and upon my life dare ingage to make it good all shaddow of ground cause provocation or cullour of law or Justice For alas my Lord I was at most upon your owne principles but an accessarie and not principal And to inflict a higher and greater punishment upon me then upon Mr. Primat the principall and now to set him at liberty from his imprisonment and to keepe me still in my banishment and under the lash of my foresaid extraordinary great fine where is in England either the Law equity or justice to avow and warrant it And my LORD admit Mr. Primates Petition about which I am banished had bin all false and not proved which yet I avow to the contrary and admit it conteines in it so high things against Sr. ARTHVR HASELRIGE as if proved would have occasioned as great a sentence to him as you have given to me and therefore per legem talionis you have done by me as you have done Truly MY LORD I will joyne yssue with you there if that be your ground as by some of your members while I was in England I understood it was one of your principallest Yet remember you say in your Declarations that the Law of England is the Inheritance and birth-right of the MEANEST MAN therof as well as of the GREATEST and that you are bound in duty and conscience both to God and Man to dispense it EQUALLY to all WITHOUT FAVOUR OR AFFECTION and therfore be but just to me my Lord and I have done with you For your Attorney Generall PRIDEAUX that unbrac't Drum that makes a great sound noyse without any tune or harmony accused INDICTED me of high-treason and had 〈◊〉 tryed before about 40 judges at Guildhall London in October 1649 for my life therefore and if he had proved it against me I must have died therfore as a traytor and have forfeited all my estate And therfore by your owne rule and your owne Law of proceedings with me in my present case because he accused me could not prove it „ he ought to be hanged therefore and to forfeit 4 parts of 7 of his estate to me „ which when I was at London by common repute he was judged by his Land Postmaster-Generall-ship attorney Generall-ship and the most vast fees that he being a Parliament man OF AN UNACCOUNTABLE PARLIAMENT and thereby so great takes to plead all manner of base Causes to the threatening OUT FACEING overaweing both JUDGES Iurors and Lawyers to have incomeing thereby annually about twenty thousand pounds Although a few yeares agoe since this eternall Parliaments first sitting I could never heare he was judged to be worth two hundred Pounds per annum Now I say my Lord performe this to me I will pay you my seven-thousand-pound fine without any more to doe But besides remember also were not you My Lord at Darby-house in Cheynel-row with the Councel of State upon the 28 of March 1649 the cheife man to mannage an accusation of high-treason against me and got me committed therefore The Narrative of which in breife is conteined in the 8 9 10 11 12 pages of the second edition of the Picture of the Councel of State printed at London 1649. and yet when it came to the yssue there could never one word of it be proved all though I lay prisoner in the Tower almost a yeare there upon and therfore by your owne rule and law of proceedings with me ought not you your selfe my Lord to be HANGED therefore and to forfeit 4 parts of seven of your great estate to me therefore For shame my LORD once in your life learne to be just and remember what you said against Mr. Herbert the Kings attorney Generall in the Case of the LORD KIMBOLTON and the 5 MEMBERS 1 part of the booke of the Parliaments Declarations page 52 53 101 123 201 203 208 210 278 459 660 and give me not too much cause to picture-draw you so that all the artificial or pensil-limners in the world SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPARE WITH IT You know I have a quick sharpe pen My Lord and therefore give me not cause to challenge you or any of your Champions to draw into a short Epitomy or into a larger charge all that evill that in your owne thoughts you can colourably imagine the Buyshops Starr-chamber Counsell-table High-commission or any persons therein were guilty of nay or any persons since their downe-fall by you executed for the highest of treasons tyrannyes oppressions were guilty of yet comparatis comparandis for me to aver that you outstrip them all and in particulars to undertake upon my life to make it good and that those sayings of God by the Prophet Ezekiel chap 16 48 51 52 mentioned on the Title-page may as truly and as justly be verified of you as they were of Iudah or Ierusalem that you have outstrip't comparatis comparandis all those whome you your selfe count the most wicked men that you have pulled downe „ and thereby have done in actions as much as in you lies to justifie all their wickednes „ that in words you have condemned And besides my Lord what faith what truth what honesty can be imagined to be in that man or that generation of men that by a constant series of his or their actions visiby and apparently declare he or they hold it lawfull to commit any manner of wickednes basenes whatsoever that can be named under the sunn for the accomplishment of his or their proposed end whether in it selfe it be wicked or righteous yea to cheat breake faith with and murther the nighest relations a man can converse with when they cross his ends Yea for that end onely to raise warrs upon warrs to the devastation of Kingdomes Nations The gulled cheated abused peoples lives really truly being of no more value with him or them then so many dead doggs serving him or them for no

now with comfort and rejoiceing tell you that I bless God that I have this testimony in mine owne Conscience that the Cause for mannageing of which I am bannished did at the first and all along to this very houre doth appeare to my understanding judgement upon the strictest scrutinie betwixt God and mine owne soule that I am able to make to be as righteous and as just a cause as ever was in the World and all so however Mr. HILL THE CHAIR-MAN reported it to the house yet Mr. PRIMATES PETITION was as fully proved before him and the Committee of Parliament in every circumstance of it so far as its capable of proofe saveing that single clause of SIR ARTHVR HASILRIGS holding private correspondence with some of the Commissioners as any puition in the world need to be proved but it was no wonder it went as it did when SIR ARTHVR HASILRIG WITH Mr. HIL THE CHAIRMAN WITHOVT A THIRD MAN DREW VP THE GREATEST PART OF THE REPORT IN THE SPEAKERS CHAMBER WHILE THE HOVSE WAS SITTING as one that tooke them at it told we with his owne tongue Which report we were never permitted to see nor none for us nor to heare red although we earnestly intreated for it and by importunity endeavoured it And besides I am confident of it there was not three men that judged the cause in the House that ever at the Committee were constant hearers of it from the beginning to the end And by what I have heard from Parliament men that were at the Committee severall daies Mr. HILL NEVER REPORTED TO THE HOVSE ONE TENTH PART OF OVR EVIDENCES AS WEE LAID THEM DOWNE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE AND THE SAID Mr. HILL WAS OPENLY IN THE HOVSE TAXED WITH SEVERALL MATERIALL OMISSIONS BY A PERSON OR PERSONS THAT HEARD NOT ONE HALFE OF IT AT THE COMMITTEE And besides when the GENERALL HIMSELFE set his shoulders to the worke with all the might he had in the World to have the sentence so pass and goe on it is unimaginable it could goe otherwise then it did for one THAT IS FAMILIAR WITH HIM AND THAT WISHETH ME WELL TOLD ME IT WAS IN THE GENERALLS HOVSE BY HIM AND A CABAL OF PARLIAMENT MEN AGREED OF TWO OR THREE DAIES BEFORE IT WAS VOTED OR DECLARED IN THE PARLIAMENT And some dayes after it was passed the GENERALL HIMSELFE IN THE OPEN HOVSE as one that heard him told me IN ASPEECH OF HIS DID AVERR AND DECLARE VPON HIS CONSCIENCE THAT THE SENTENCE IT SELFE PASSED AGAINST ME WAS AS HONEST AND AS JVST A SENTENCE AS WAS EVER PASSED BY THAT HOVSE But I doubt not through the assistance of God in a short time to make it clearly and evidently to appeare in every circumstance that it is the MOST VNJVST ILLEGAL AND VNRIGHTEOVS SENTENCE THAT EVER WAS passed by any authority or power in the World that ever professed to governe by Lawe As in abundance of their declarations they have professed before God and the World they ought and would doe But at the present I shall only trouble you with one instance and that in a short Declaration of theirs intitled a Declaration of the Parliament of England for maintainning the fundamental Lawes of this Nation dated Feb. 9. 1648. made by them since they tooke of the Kings head declaredly for Tyrannie Oppression and and exerciseing an Arbitrary power in which they positively declare that they are fully resolved to maintaine shall will uphold preserve and keepe the fundamentale Lawes of this Nation for and concerning the preservation of the lives properties and Liberties of the people with all things incident thereunto with the alterations touching Kings and House of Lords allready resolved in this present Parliament for the good of the People Which short declaration of theirs is fully backed by them with a larger delaration made the 17 of March after And although there be an absolute necessity that lies upon me as speedily as I can to goe to the press with such a thing yet in what I write or print by the assistance of God all mighty I shall keepe within the bounds of a Christian THAT VALVES HIS PEACE WITH GOD ABOVE ALL EARTHLY TREASVRES IN THE WORLD and of a rationall man THAT HATH PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOME AND JVSTICE INGRAFTED IN HIM THAT HE WILL NOT BALKE OR CHANGE FOR ALL THE FEARES OF ALL THE DEATHS IN THE EARTH and of an English-man THAT LOVES HIS NATIVE COVNTRIE ABOVE ALL OTHER COVNTRIES IN THE WORLD and in a great measure hath the sense of his duty in acting towards its Freedome and wellfare INGRAVEN VPON HIS VERY HEART and as a discreet man THAT WILL NOT MEDDLE WITH THE NATIONS AFFAIRES OR GOVERNMENT WHERE HE SOIOURNES OR DOE ANY THING TO THE UTMOST OF HIS POWER THAT MAY GIVE THE LEAST DISCONTENT TO THOSE MAGISTRATES UNDER WHOSE PROTECTION IN HIS BANNISHMENT HE LIVES And besides I bless God I have both publicly and privately walked in all peace quietues and uprigtnes towards the General and Parliament since I owned their authority and neither directly nor indirestly medled with them to give them the least offence or to occasion in them the least cause of jealousy of me for undermineing or endeavouring to undermine their power and authority and therfore can I the more glorie and rejoyce under their harsh and cruell dealeing with me BUT THE LORD IS RIGHTOUS AND I AM CONFIDENT WILL SPEEDILY RETURNE IT SEVENFOLD INTO THE BOSOMES of those who were the principal causers of it Judges 1 6 7 and 2 Sam 21 1 2 5 6 14 and 2 Sam 12 31 compared with the 11 of Judges 17 18 19 20 23 27 Ester 7 9 10 and 8 11. and 9 2 3 4 5 15. Isaiah 10 12 13 18. Mat 7 2. Marke 4 24. Luke 6 37 38. Rom 2 3. James 2 12. Revelations 18 6 7 8. But to returne back by my wives Letters I perceive the LORD GENERALL gives a verie unworthy and strange kind of character of me which seemes to worke beleife upon the Spirits of some of my Freinds and further saith that I may thinke my sentence greater then my offence if they did not feare other things by me of which also it seemes some of my Freinds are satisfied In Answer to all which I say its true upon the 28 of March 1649 the present Lord Generall caused me to be fetched out of my bed by a multitude of armed horse and foote and got me sent to the tower for a traitor yet when I came to my triall for my life there was never any thing of that laid unto my charge for which at first I was imprisoned but only actions pretended to be done by me many moneths after my imprisonment when I lay under so many barbarous provocations put upon me by the Generall and his confederates AS HAD BIN SVFFICIENT according to Solomons saying TO MAKE A WISE MAN MAD. But how just it was to goe about to take away my life upon that score I leave you

build me a wide house and large chambers and cutteth him out windores and it is seeled with cedar and painted with vermilion Shalt thou reigne because thou clothest thy selfe in Cedar did not thy Father eat and drinke and doe judgment and justice and then it was well with him he judged the cause of the poore and the needie then it was well with him was not this to know me saith THE LORD But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy Coveteousnes and FOR TO SHED INNOCENT BLOOD and for oppression and for violence to doe it therfore saith the Lord thou shalt be buryed with the buryal of an Asse without lamentation saying AH MY BROTER or AH LORD or AH HIS GLORY Therfore let not the Generall for all his greatnes despise the day of small things For who would have beleived or immagined 10 yeares agoe that Oliver Cromwell a meane private inconsiderable man in comparison should by this day have had 3 Nations at his becke and command for I am sure of it when he I about 10 yeares agoe by the Parliaments authoritie were first made captains my particular Interest in England was soe far beyond his that I could then have easily raised a hundred volenteers to have followed my banner for his one and injoy really a greater power in them then ever any of there most Absolute Kings this 500 yeares had Fiftly I answere that I have heard from travellers that the ELEPHANT which of all the beasts in the world is the most warlike one carrying a Castle able to secure many men upon it's backe and being in many places in the East-Indies soe expert in warr that if an Iron chaine be tyed to its trunke it will with it mowe downe whole rows of men and yet for all this of all the creatures in the world is the most affraid of the little silly contemptible pismire the which if it Creepe up it's trunke and git into it's brains as some tyms they doe the little creature will more mad that great furious strong beast then the shakings of multitudes of speares and the powring of shewers of warlike darts and arrows upon it I wish my LORD GENERALL for his owne sake haveing done soe great things in England as he hath done may seriously consider what he will git at my hands when he hath done the worst he can to me for if I fall I can as I have often through the goodnes of God rise againe but soe can not he for his fall if it come will bee soe great it will breake his necke and I looke upon him as my grand adversary and against great nor small must I now not fight nor contest with to the purpos saveing only himselfe And truly I am apt to thinke how contemptable soever he may Judge me to be that if he force me to it to the utmost nesessitie I shal be able through the strength of almighty God to trouble him as bad as the greatest Army of Cavileers that ever he fought with in his life did and to make his very hartstrings to ake for skin for skin yea all that a man hath will he give for his life But peace with him not only for my owne good but the good and benifit of the whole Nation is the thing I desire from my hart and soule Therefor I will heere presume to advice him as Joab advises David when he had like to have taken in the City of Rabbath and therefore advised him to gather his people together take it in himselfe least he tooke it and it should be called by his name even soe say I a New Parliament is the people of Englands right and the obtaineing of one for them is even at the very doore I am sure of it therfore let my Lord Generall arise and gather his Army about him and effectually and in good earnest revive his or our Agreement and speedily procure thereby a New Parliament for the people which I dare avow infalliby to demonstrate he may as easily freely and safely doe it if he will but say the word as kiss his owne hand I will maintaine it he hath no real dureable safety in the world but in the doeing of it but I thinke Politicus in his notable preambles to his thursday newes-bookes hath already sufficiently cleared that point I say therfore if he will in the hearts of the honest and understanding people of England be esteemed and bee really their darling let him arise and doe it with all his might quickly least I or some other contemptible or unthought of instrument or instruments doe it for the people in despight of him and so run away with the honour of it and have it called by our name For let him remember when the Scots first invaded England in the yeare 1639 by their declareing they came in for to procure the English people their liberties and that they might enjoy a Parliament which they had bin without ten or eleven yeares together they tied the Kings hands behind his back therby and won the Zealous stout English peoples hearts away from him and thereby procured for the English People a Parliament in spight of the teeth of all that opposed it Nay and thereby made the Kings owne Soldiers knock their commanders on the head that were leading them against the said Scots I say no more at present but bid himselfe make the farther application only adding that I am consident of it that hee will be the highlyest esteemed man to the people of England that is in the world that can or shall be an Instrument upon the principles aforesaid to procure a New Parliament for them thereby rationally probably to free deliver them from their unsupportable and un-imaginable oppression bondage and slavery which they are under worse and greater by a thousand degrees then ever it was in the worst of the late Kings times For now I will maintaine it there is no man in England that can rationally or upon any probable grounds call either his land his trade his Estate his life his wife or his children his owne or be sure to enjoy them free from violence one single day to an end And in the multitude of instances I need to give you no more then mine owne which is now upon me For have I done the Generall or the Nation or any particular man in it any wrong oppression or injustice if it be said I have I challenge the sight of my whole charge and a particular declaration that I shall enjoy the benefit of the Petition of right and the Parliaments and Generalls pass freely to come into England „ and there to stay for a time and returne back againe without let or molestation and I doe hereby engage with speed to meet by Gods assistance the greatest and stoutest adversary that I have in England there at the barr of iustice And I am sure if they can legally prove me guilty of any wickednes or oppression