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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94165	An anatomy of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn's spirit and pamphlets. Or, A vindication of these two honorable patriots Oliver Cromwel, Ld Governor of Ireland, and Sir Arthur Haslerig, Knight baronet, from the unworthy and false aspersions by him cast on them in two libels; the one intituled, An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, &c. The other, A preparative to a hue and cry against Sir Arthur Haslerig: wherein the said Lilburn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar, and unworthy of civil converse.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.; T. M.	1649 (1649)	Wing S6290; Thomason E575_21; ESTC R204578	18,441	24

more to be credited And Horace observing the same Law and Sentence Intestabilis dixit pro detestabili a man detestible and to be abominated by all men of any honesty or integrity and that the world may further see the hainousness of this Crime the Graecians as Budeus observes in his Commentaries were wont to call the same men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 velut fortunis omnibus aversi civilia jura non retinebant men forsaken of all fortunes that keep to no civil Rule or Law as banished and dissolute men that enjoy nothing and care to live by no rule but their lust presidii legum exortes out of protection of Law and Justice and yet he gives a further description in the same place of those men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicti fuerunt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 men of dishonour that act wickedly and talk wickedly to whom no respect nor esteem is to be given on any terms You see how libelling was resented among the wisest and best governed States and Kingdoms and doubtless the Laws of England are not defective as to this offence Murther and slander seem of a like hainous nature yea slander to an ingenious and raised spirit seems the greater misery many would rather choose to dye then to live basely Murther to an honest man is rather the sin of the murtherer then the hurt of the person he being better provided for but slander kills the man while he lives and without any hope of reparation the death it self of the libeller cannot make up the loss for when he is gone the man that lives under that reproach suffers a dayly Martyrdom and lives as a forlorn and dead man without love or respect telluris inutile pondus as the burthen and misery of the earth What a sentence then of Condemnation would be past on this man if he had his due How will his name rot to posterity who hath so unchristianlike and unworthily slandered these two Gentlemen As I dare say never any were by the most horrid and wretched tongue in the world yea the very language of Bedlam and Billingsgate is smooth and comely to his expressions But I cannot wonder that his rage is so much against them seeing the very Churches of Christ those sacred Bodies and Pillars of Glory are the butt of his fury calling Mr John Goodwins Congregation A knavish Conspiracy and in other Pamphlets doing the like to other Churches What will this man come unto Where will his malice centre Will it not at last end in trampling on the Gospel and the Name of Iesus Christ who doubtless stands in diametrical opposition to his spirit and actions And that he may prove himself to be a perfect Ishmaelite to have his hand against every man and satisfie his envy at once he slanders the whole Parliament Councel of State Army calling them Col Prides Iunto a mock Parliament a company of Theeves Robbers with a thousand such like Monsters and which is intolerable glories in this his shame never was any State so publikely affronted by such a pedantique Pamphleter and yet so patient and indulgent to him yet though he denies their Authority and professeth contempt against them as no Parliament this Gentleman upon an Agreement of the People that grant Idol of the Levellers though it were but of the thousand part of them and consisting only of a few Apprentices and Bankrupts and men of inconsiderable interest in the Commonwealth could be contented not only to purge but dissolve this Parliament and choose whom they pleased and have put the stamp of the Supream Authority of this Nation on it It 's well known that there are far more of all sorts that have heartily and freely consented to this present Authority then ever would have done on such an Agreement of the People according to his model in which there was such Popular Principles such a loose and licentious Liberty to be given to all sorts of wicked Blasphemies and Opinions that all godly and consciencious men abominate if the Army would have agreed with him and two or three more Mechanick Levellers though neither Presbyterian nor Independent neither one party nor other but themselves had consented to it they would have if they had power subjected all mens judgments and consciences to it and have cry'd it up for the first Parliament of Freedom Liberty that ever England enjoyed And had that party prevailed against the Army which mutinied of late and gathered a Head at Burford and Oxford we should have soon seen what a Parliament and Councel of State we should have been blessed with And this very Parliament in its illegal estate yea the Councel of State it self if it had but Iohn Lilburns hands layd on it should be the Supream Authority in a moment But what need all this spending of paper and words on him who is resolved to dy a royal death with the King and end his days like a Malignant denying the authority of these who found a just power of condemning him The Government is now happily changed both by the Principles of Reason Necessity and Conveniency If guilty persons hate the Authority by which they must be condemned I shall not wonder For Iohn Lilburn I know his nature is onely disposed to opposition and no Government whatever shall be appointed without that wherein he might be Supream but he would cry it down as illegal and tyrannical But if he thinks to dye a Martyr in opposing this present Government I shall not envy him the glory to be canoniz'd with King Charls in the Malignant and Popish Kalender I shall say no more as to this but leave him to the righteous execution of their Power whom he denies to have Authority And whereas he still pleads to be tryed by the known Laws of the Land you may see he is put to his shifts when he fought against the King he could finde a distinction between the sence of the Law and intent of it and the letter and now he is come to be tryed by the Parliament he flies to the letter of these Laws by which he could not without Treason fight against the King but any thing to scape the Gallows Had he stood to every Statute Law formerly where had John Lilburn been Nay did not John Lilburn justly deserve all those whips and scourges by the letter of some Laws then in force Particular Laws are made according to particular occasions conveniencies and bind not ad semper especially no occasional Statutes can binde up the hands of the Legislators the Parliament being the Representative of the People are the Supream Authority and what they enact or do in the time of their Session is to be accounted as absolute a Law at least as long as they shall think fit to continue it as any other Law made by former Parliaments and to tye the Supream Authority to former presidents is all one as to give Laws to the Legislators And whereas John Lilburn

and are not subject to fall into the same distempers unto the perusing of them But shall view him in his last works which should be his best and most solemn manifestations of himself especially seeing he thinks he is so nigh his death I have read of late two Pamphlets under his name and authority and by them you may probably guess of the rest The Title of the first being An Impeachment of High Treason against Mr OLIVER CROMWEL and his Son in Law HENRY IRETON for so he is pleased to stile them and the last A Preparative to a Hue and Cry against Sir ARTHVR HASLERIG At the reading of the Titles I was much amazed the accusations being so high and affirmations so positive and the language so terrible that I began to reflect on the Gentlemen with strange apprehensions and to wonder that such men should live and be so much in the eyes of honest men and yet be guilty of such Crimes that all the Villains and Traytors in this Nation never equalled them and was impatient to be in the midst of his Pamphlets to hear their Charge expecting the Titles to be but a shadow and a name onely to that substance of proof I should finde against them not dreaming that any man could be so impudent and carry such a face of brass and wickedness as to abuse not onely others but himself so demonstratively if he had not much against them and that by the evidence of noon day But contrary to all this when I looked for to have seen the horrible Crimes written with a Sun beam and terrifying my spirit at the first appearance I could finde little else but the Copies of Letters and Petitions empty and foolish gloryings in himself railing upon other men and the whole Parliament equal with them which made me much more to wonder what was become of the Religion Conscience Modesty and Sobriety of the man and to conclude that certainly he was either drunk or in a dream when he writ these sheets But that all honest men may know him for the future I shall take so much pains as to consider his Charge against these two Gentlemen viz. against Lievt Gen. Cromwel now Lord Governor of Ireland and Sir Arthur Haslerig now Governor of Newcastle on Tine men of such integrity and honor that John Lilburn could not pitch on two less capable of his malice and reproach then they and that though against his will his calumnies will be but foils to set off their honesty and innocency with greater grace to all ingenuous and sober men To his Impeachment of High Treason of Mr Oliver Cromwel as he calls him the first question by any man that reads the Charge wil be Where are the Articles I have looked over the Pamphlet with as much diligence and observance as his method would permit me and I finde not one distinct Article of any misdemeanors that hath the shadow of a Charge much less of High Treason and the Highest Treason but onely a Letter to Mr Holland and a Challenge and a Prayer wherein he abuseth the blessed Name of the most High God and invocates him to destroy and root out the name of Cromwel and his posterity with such hideous imprecations that any Christian tongue would fail and stammer but to repeat much less to urge to God as a Prayer and some loose expressions about Cromwels complying with the King and his shedding the blood of War in the time of Peace but it may be this he intended as the Charge for which he calls him a Murtherer and a Traytor and says He deserves to dye rather then the late King or then all the Judges and Villains that have been condemned ever since the Conquest And if his meaning be so for there is nothing else that looks like it let the World be judg of the Treason For the first His compliance with the late King I shall say no more to it but this First If there were any such compliance or engagement doubtless the King would have made advantage enough of it especially would have manifested something of it to the world or given some hint of it that might have reflected on Cromwel while he lived and most especially when he saw what was like to be done with him by the Power of the Parliament and Army But the King neither by word nor in that Book which goes under his name doth give an intimation of any such compliance And secondly He hath manifested the contrary by his practise and constant opposition to him and his party ever since and of late by his strenuous endeavors to bring him to Justice by which all honest men may well be satisfied that it was but a slander and a whelp of John Lilburns malice Were John Lilburns compliance with Malignants in the Tower and other where printed we should soon have cause to sequester him from his 3000 l. in the Bishoprick of Durham It 's well known besides his trading in Cooks Institutes what Malignant converse he Judg Jenkins have had together some fruits of it we see in his Pamphlets but I will not impeach him you see Reader what his first Article amounts unto His second Charge whereby he calls him a wilful murtherer is For that he about the 15 of Novemb. 1647. near Ware in Hartford-shire wilfully and of set malice murthered Rich. Arnell and so shed the blood of War in the time of Peace That you may see the malice of this man and his unexpressible rage he taxeth Cromwel with that which was done by the whole Councel of War and by the General rather then by him who was but a Member and had only a single vote and he might rather say that the General and Councel of War murthered him then of Lieutenant General Cromwel yea he may as well say That it's murther to shoot a Souldier to death for any Mutiny or enormious crime whatever as for that and whereas he thinks to make up his Treason by this expression That it was the blood of War in the time of Peace Can he call it a time of Peace when an Enemy is but newly subdued and an Army kept up and an Enemy feared However that he may have his desire grant it to be a time of Peace that is that no visible Enemy appears yet doth not he deserve to dye that shall begin a new War in a time of Peace And shall when there is no common Enemy raise a Mutiny among the Souldiers which is the first principle of a War Nay is not he rather to be adjudged to death that when an Army hath conquered a common Enemy will begin a new War among themselves This is Richard Arnels cause who was a Ring-leader in that first Mutiny which was the first discovery of the levelling Agitators and their wicked intentions and had John Lilburn his due who was then coming to the Army but durst not appear among them he had not had the opportunity to have burthened

the world with his scandalous Libels as now he hath Thus you have John Lilburns Impeachment and these his horrid crimes of Treason for which Lieut. Gen. Cromwel deserves to dye so many thousand deaths according to his Law Can any man believe this man ever consulted so much as with his sensus communis much less either with God or Nature when he writ this Pamphlet Or that ever he reviewed his expressions after they dropt from the fury of his spirit Or can any man imagine that this man is not more fit for Bedlam then for the drawing up fundamental Principles of Government But I pity him for certainly he never thought any man of understanding or seriousness would ever read his Pamphlets It hath been a just judgment of God on him since he left off conversing with the Principles of Religion to let an unclean spirit possess him wherby that he might follow the devils art exactly he hath ever opposed those delighted to cast dirt in the faces of those that have been most publique Instruments and God from heaven hath most honoured to do service to his people But I have done with his Impeachment and only add this The Gentleman who he thus slanders hath that character of respect in the hearts of all that love the good of this Nation that no such Momus can deface by the blackest slanders he can lay on him For me to make encomiums of his vertues and deserts from this Nation were but to set paint on burnisht marble he is now gone to do more work in another Nation and may he do as faithful and gallant service there as he hath done in England while John Lilburn swells up himself in rage and malice vomits nothing but Treason and Murther against him and other true-hearted Englishmen I am now come to his preparative to a Hue and Cry after Sir Arthur Hasterig for the Gentleman you see is big with more wrath and because Cromwel is gone and he cannot follow him to Ireland that he may not be out of action Sir Arthur must be the next subject of his envy and wrath as if railing and lying were his element he is so endeared to it that he is resolved to hazard his very life in the acting of it I dare not repeat his Title with all the expressions of it lest I trouble the Reader again with the ill savour of them he that reads them would think Sir Arthur had been a monster and no man that he was not fit to breathe in a common air But that now at last the world may see what a man of discontent and unhappiness this Iohn Lilburn is before the end of the story you shall find him a perfect Lyar one that cares not what he says so he may say something to disgrace I confess I have had but little personal acquaintance with Sir Arthur Haslerig or with the other Gentleman and know not what invisible and particular infirmities common to mankind he may labour under I am not of that opinion but that the best of men have their Errata's as well as Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn But for his publique transactions in the North I have followed this Hue and Cry throughout the four Northern Counties the publique stage of his actions and find his name exceeding precious among honest men and I can say with the vote of all but Malignants unto whom he hath been a just terror that they bless God that ever he came to the North and do think it was as seasonable and prudential an act to send him to be Governor of Newcastle as any act of a like nature done by the Parliament and could heartily wish every Garison had such a Governor and every Regiment such a Colonel But Iohn Lilburn as if he were the Epitome of all Freedom and Liberty the Centre of all Oppressions the publique and great person against whom onely Treason and Murther can be committed Presidium dulce decus the safeguard and glory of the Nation complains and cries out on Sir Arthur for but a common an ordinary act which yet is most falsly reported as a Felon a Murtherer c. though all the North rejoyce and bless God for his presence and honesty But his diligence and industry his vigilance and interest the last year when the Scots came in may well be printed as one great cause of the Preservation of the North notwithstanding his brother Henry Lilburn at the same time betrayed Tinmouth Castle His fair and equal carriage and respect to all honest men though of several judgments his discountenancing Malignants his severe and careful improvement of Sequestrations for the use of the State make his name more precious to honest men then all or any or a thousand like expressions can to render it unsavory But let us follow the Hue and Cry and see more particularly what the man storms so much for The Reader may see that the ground of this Hue and Cry is a Letter written from George Lilburn whom he calls Esquire that the World may beleeve he hath a Gentleman to his Uncle though it 's well known before these times he never had the birth breeding nor estate of a Gentleman his carriage in the Parliament service will be shortly discovered that if you consider but the Letter à quo and the Letter ad quem you will be pretty well satisfied of the ground of the Pamphlet a suspected and guilty Uncle writes to a discontented and malicious Nephew and between them both they bring forth a Monster called A Hue and Cry The Uncle is under examination and like to have strange things proved against him viz. That he hath been a Malignant formerly and since he hath profest to be a Parliamenteer hath cheated the State And hath now no way left him to make the world beleeve he is honest but by defaming Sir Arthur before whom most of his Knaveries are already and are to be heard And no fitter Instrument for to do it but John Lilburn a man of a desperate and lost fortune Two things he lays to Sir Arthurs Charge as heinous and unpardonable Crimes First That he hath Feloniously robbed him of between twenty four and twenty five hundred pounds Secondly That he hath brib'd false witnesses to take away his life For proof of the first page 3. he saith He cannot but wonder upon what pretence Sir Arthur Haslerig and Colonel George Fenwick and the rest of the Committee at Newcastle can seize upon his Estate in the hands of Sir Henry Bellingham and Thomas Bowes and stop his Rents due from Sir Henry Gibb his hands to the full value of betwixt twenty four and twenty five hundred pounds So that it is most apparent by his own exprrssion That if any thing was done it was not by Sir Arthur alone but by the whole Committee He saith That they have stopped Rents due to him from Sir Hen Gibb his hands to the value of about twenty four or twenty five hundred