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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88759	The free mans plea for freedom, against the arbitrarie unwarrantable actions and proceedings of the apostate associates, commonly called by others, Levellers. VVherein is briefly discovered how unsutable they walke to common right and freedom, being more arbitrarie and tyrannicall then any they oppose, wanting only a power to exercise their crueltie. / By R.L. a member of the army.	R. L.	1648 (1648)	Wing L54; Thomason E443_10; ESTC R204716	10,769	15

to your principles it must last no longer then you of ●●y ten men of your minde judge it to be just which will be but a very little wh●●● if you change your principles twice a week as it is easy to prove many of you have done Quaerie 11 If according to your pretended principle there is no legeslative power inherent in any person or persons but what is derived from the people and that the peoples representative alone ought to be the sole judge of their Rights and Liberties and that all others are Tyrants and usurpers which do not exercise their power by vertue of a trust especially in making or repealing Lawes by what authoritie or from whom derived did you take upon you to give out Orders to the Army Rules to the Parliament and Lawes to the Kingdom as you have severall times done wanting only a power to inforce them which you likewise have indeavoured to obtain but by an Arbytrarie tyrannicall usurped power and have hereby manifested your selves to be worser Tyrants then any you oppose Usurpation attended with violence being the top of Tyrannie Nay again by your own pretended principles it is not lawfull just nor equall for any man to be judged by a Law which he never gave his consent unto in his lawfull representative duly chosen and elected and yet you your selves though you represent not the least Countie nor the least Corporation in the Kingdome take upon you to prescribe Rules to a Parliament now sitting to give Lawes to a Kingdome which is the highest piece of unequall and unjust presumption that ever was acted Object You mistake we do not intend to give Lawes to the Kingdome but only represent to them a paper wherein is contained the substance of the Peoples Rights and Liberties to which we desire agreement and accordingly have intituled it the Agreement of the People Answ You have given it a wrong name you might more properly have called it their disagreement or falling out But if it be an Agreement as you call it we hope you meane a voluntarie agreement by free consent which if you do what meanes all this indeavouring to ingage men in Armes to own it will Swords and Guns convince mens reasons and informe their judgements of the equitie and justice of the things or if it be an agreement that ye hold forth what meanes those resolutions among you that if you have but ten men on your side you will make your way through the blood of all the rest Will nothing serve to seale an ag●●ement but blood nay it is probable you will be as good as our word for those that are not tender of mens names and reputations will never be tender of their blood and I am sure you have indeavoured already to make your way thorow the honour and reputation of such men whom God hath chiefly owned and honoured in all those chiefe deliverances he hath wrought for this poore Kingdome in the late warre but considering they are men who are not desirous to be praised in Print who had rather have their owne actions demonstrate their innocencie then other mens Pens I shall desire them to consider there was a day when Shimei cursed David and he comforted his heart with this consideration It may be that the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day and his expectation was not in vaine and therefore for men to call that an Agreement of the People which they intend to make a Law to them by force pretends a Paradox for what doth this differ from that Agreement William the Conquerour made with the People which you call the Norman yoake for whatsoever men are forced and compelled to can no more be called an Agreement then Imprisonment can be called Libertie If this be Christian Libertie then the Spanish Inquisition is a Christian priviledge Againe if it be freedome and libertie you contend for why will you not give that to others which you so highly prize your selves if it be your libertie to devise prepare and propose things in the behalfe of your selves and others before any others besides your selves either heare or see what you propound Is it not as much the libertie of those others you speak of to reade consider and judge of what is proposed by you before they agree with you and if so then surely when a Paper intituled an Agreement or Petition is delivered to the Parliament by a small number of persons in a Kingdom in the name of themselves and the People it is the Parliaments libertie as they are free Commoners of England if you will not allow it their Priviledge as they are a Parliament to consider judge and determine what answer will become them to give to such a petition presented to them by such Petitioners and to deny as well as grant if their judgements leade them for it unlesse you intend to ingrosse the whole power of judging and determining the Peoples liberties to your selves and convert the concurrence of King Lords and Commons into one negative voice and lay them all aside together As we have little cause to judge you are so purely publique principled for common right and fredome as you pretend by you● actions so have we lesse cause to expect it from you when we observe your dispo●●●●ions and qualifications there being naturally an inveterate dislike and an abhorring of all things that are not of your own creating and of all men that are not of your own principle and opinion there being no more good nature in you then in Lyons Beares Tigers c. the worst of them being friends one to another of the same kinde which is all the ground of friendship or charitie that ever I could discover among the generalitie of you which is so farre from pure principles of common right and freedome that the worst of Tyrants I have heard or read of hath exceeded you they have out of a principle of policie commonly exercised a great deale of clemencie towards people whom they have known did not favour these actions thereby to delude them into subjection nay many of them have used much seeming indulgencie toward their open enemies if they would but acknowledge their courtesies to be acts of grace and favour towards them but you have been so farre from having any of these moderate humane naturall principles found in the worst of men ruling of you that you have degenerated from a great deale of that good nature and disposition which is found in many beasts the fiercest mastive dogge who weares a clogge and chaine to keepe him from biting strangers will know the people in the same family with him and especially those from whose hands he receives much of his food and will be so far from exercising his naturall crueltie towards them that he will run the greatest hazard in their defence nay it is observed in Beares after they have received acquaintance or have received