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A74791	A whip for the present House of Lords, or the Levellers levelled. in an epistle writ to Mr. Frost, secretary to the Committee of State, that sits at Darby House, in answer to a lying book said to be his called A declaration, &c. / By L.C. Io. Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, Feb. 27, 1647.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Frost, Walter, fl. 1619-1652.	1648 (1648)	Thomason E431_1	47,524	30

the proof of it I desire you to read the first part book of Decl. pag. 44 95 150. 201. 202. 207 209. 382. 4●2 5●9 532 533. 548. 557. 637 690. 720. And for the Parliaments lenitie or gentlenesse which you talke of I for my part crave none at their hands but for any thing that any particular man or any faction of men amongst them hath to say to me the same defiance I bid to Levt Gen. Cromwell in the 57 58 pages of my last published book I bid to them And as for their disserting their trust if they doe not punish us I answer the generallity of them hath doth it so often that they have now forgot to be sensible of the dishonour of doing it againe and I doe not think that ever any generation of men breathed in the world that ever disserted their trust more then they have done or else they would never have given so many 10000. l. amongst themselves But in the sam● sixt pag. you goe on and name me to be the chiefe of all those men that have under specious pretences served the Kings ends and designes And in the 7. pag. you carrectarise me to be a man known to the world by those Heaps of Scandalous books and papers that I have either written or owned against the House of Peers and ●uch as have done him greatest courtesies filled with fashood bitternesse and ingratitude whereby he hath distinguished himself say you from a man walking after the rules of sobrietie and the iust department of a Christian and also in the same 7. pag. to make me as odious for an Apostate as your grand master Lievt Gen. Cromwell too justly deserves to be you brand me to be a Cavialeer for you say that some that know me have well observed that I brought not the same affections from Oxford that J was carried thither prisoner withall To the last of which I answer first and challenge thee Frost and all thy associats in England grounddedly perticularly to instance the least particular for this 11. years together when I have in the least apostatised from my declared principles though I have had as many thundring shakings pearceing trials as I do confidently believe would have shaken the very foundation of the tallest stoutest cedars among your grandees I am confident in Oxford I behaved my self with more resolution in my imprisonment there then all the Gentlemen prisoners that there were officers did and run more hazards and underwent more tormenting cruelties then any of them and maintained openly and publickly more discourses with the Kings party to justifie the Parliaments authority and the justice of their proceedings insomuch that it was grown to common saying with the Mashal and his officers when they had got a fat and timerous Prisoner of whom they intended to make a prey of keepe him out of the Castle from Lilburne for if he come to discourse with him he will seduce him from all his allegience from taking the Kings Covenant or forsaking the Parliaments principles and when the King by foure Lords complemented with me and profered me no small things I deliberately and resolvedly bid them ●ell the King from me I scorned his pardon and maintained the Parliaments proceedings with them by dint of argument and reason for above an houre together and told them I would part with my heart blood befo●e I would resede from my present engagement or principals and when I was arraigned for high treason therefore I told the Iudge in the open Guildhall at Oxford when he prest me to save my self that I was seduced by no flesh alive to take up armes against the King and his party to defend my liberties and that ● girded my sword to my thigh in judgement and conscience to fight for my liberties with a resolution to spend the last drop of the blood in my vains therfore and pressed the Iudge to goe o● with his tyall telling him a scorned to beg or crave longer time at his hand protesting unto him ●hat I was as ready and willing that day to loose my life by a halter as ever J was by a sword or a bullet ●elling I feared not death in the least having by the assistance of God for above seaven yeares before always ●arried my life in my hand ready every moment to lay it downe and besides my purse and paines to re●ieve and helpe the poore sick starving prisoners was as free and as ready as any mans in the House and 〈◊〉 doe verily believe in the two last particulars I was as serviceable to the Prisoners as the richest in ●he house and some of them had about 1000. l. land per annum and I had never a farthing per annum nay I defie a or any of the Prisoners that ever were there face to face to lay to my charge the least ●emonstration of fraging or denying my p●inciples from the first day of my going in to the last houre of ●●y staying there And I am sure when I come home I was not a litle praysed and made much of by those that are ●ow my professed adversaries and profered the choise of divers places all of which I absolutly re●ised and expresly told my wife when I was pressed by her to stay at home that J sconrd to be so base ●s to fit down in a whole skin to make my selfe rich while the liberties and freedomes of the Kingdome was in danger by the sword to be destroyed and rather then I would take a place at present of ●00 l. per annum to lay down my sword I would fight for a groat a day and my zeale carried me to Manchester and Cromwell after upon my enlargement I had severall wayes been more really obliged ●y the Earle of Essex then ever I was before or since by all the great men of England put them all in ●ne chusing them meerly for their honesty I then judged then to be in them and there I fought ●nd behaved my self in all my engagements like a man of resolutions till I had spent some hundreds ●f pounds of my owne money and lost all my principles of fighting by reason of Manchesters vis●ble ●alpable treachery which went unpunished after he had apparently bought Sold betrayed us al to the King being impeached as a Traytor therefore by Cromwell himselfe and for prosecuting of him c. ●or his treasons al my present miseries and sufferings are come upon me and your Idol Cromwel who set ●e a worke is now joyned hand in hand with him like a base unworthy fellow to destroy me therefore and because I will not turne a wethercock an Apostate and an enemy to the liberties of England as ●e hath done But it is very strange that you in your book should Carracterise me for a Cavilere when but the other day the Grandees that I beleive now set you at worke at the head quarters indeavoured to destroy me for secretly designing basly and unworthily