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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

door at the very nick of time he delivered it and principally because Cromwels hands were full with others with whom in the originall I was not in the least joyned with against him And the next day after I writt Cromwell then in straits enough a letter and sent it by an express the copie of which letter as it is recorded in the 32 Page of that notable book called The Legall fundamental liberties of the People of England revived asserted and vindicated for pretended makeing of which I was also arraigned for a Traitor at Guildhall the foresaid October 1649. thus followeth Sir What my Camerade hath written by our trustie bearer might be sufficient for us both but to demonstrate to you that I am no staggerer from my first principles that I ingaged my self upon nor from you if you are what you ought to be and what you are strongly reported to be although if I prosecuted or desired revenge for an hard and almost starving imprisonment I could have had of late the chief of twenty opportunities to have paid you to the purpose But I scorne it especially when you are low And this assure your self that if ever my hand be upon you it shall be when you are in your full glory if then you shall decline from the Righteous wayes of Truth and Justice which if you will speedily and impartially prosecute I am Yours to the last drop of my heart blood for all your late severe hand to me JOHN LILBVRN From Westminster this 3 of August 1648. Being the second day of my freedome ANd besides this particular I could instance severall others of the like nature with this very CROMWELL at other times and with severall other persons of severall other intrests both Caviliers Presbyterians and Independantes but they would all put together be too longe for the intended brevitie of this Epistle onely one more I will take the boldnesse to insert and that is this There is one Captain Edmond Chillington a Captain of Horse now in Commissary Generall Whaleys Regiment one of the fals-hearted Independents who to purchase his own Libertie in the Bishops time in 1637. in the Starr-Chamber as their Agent swore two false and wicked affidavitts there against mee by vertue of which principally I suffered al those unexpressable miseries I underwent in the Bishops time which are partly expressed in my late Apologie to the People of the Netherlands which Chillington when I was a prisoner under the King in the yeares 1642. and 1643. at Oxford Castle was also brought in thither as another Prisoner where he was brought to those straits that he was ready to starve and where wanting money to buy him bread he could not of any there borrow Six-pence to buy him food to keep him alive from Starving but what he had of my self who freely out of meere humane compassion upon his own bare intreatie lent him both Silver and Gold in the day of his very great Calamitie to supply his necessities and keep him alive and afterwards upon his earnest intreatie when at libertie I improved my interest in An 1643. in the Earle of Manchesters Army to make him an officer of horse in that very Regiment which as I beleeve he hath remained ever since in and therby is growne now a rich and great man But the ungratefull knave like a false hearted Independent indeed in my late imprisonment in the tower of London and my contests with Cromwel then was one of my principallest reproachfullest maliciousest and most mischievous Enemys I confesse this constant practice of mine is not according to the Policie the great men of the world walk by yet I must averr I finde a great deal of peace and tranquilitie of minde in the practising of it And must averr and that in truth I am never so much an Heroick and dareing man nor so much carried out with Divine supportation strength assistance counsell and presence of the Lord God Almighty as when by my wicked base cowerdly and cruell adversaries I am most dealt with in the quite contrarie and thereby and by their Barbarisme robb'd and stript as it were many times of all humane power meanes earthly support and advise even then and at such time as this and never before am I in my delight-some Eliment beinge then accompanied with Divine strength and power through the Lord Almighty to grapple and and incounter with a Legion of wicked men and deuills and then with ease at least in my own minde to over-come all the difficulties that it is possible for the wickednesse and greatnesse of my adversaryes to inviron me withall which was clearly and evidently manifested to an observant spectator at my carriage at my bloodie and intended murdering triall in October 1646 and which in a great part may easily be discerned by a judicious and serious reader of the first and second parts of the said printed triall which containes betwixt 20 and 30 sheets of paper of which triall I can truely say thus much to the praise of the Almightie that I had not a friend in the world neither male nor female but to their cleare apprehensions their spirits all failed them and gave me over for a dead man and indeavoured with me as Peter did with Christ when he said Master save thy selfe at all of which and whom through the assisting strength of the Lord God I laught being absolutelie confident that there was that unresistable strength and fortitude in naked truth and reason alone that if I singlelie and throughlie cast my self upon it it would with a witnesse carrie me through with a merrie countenance and a cheerfull heart which I was as visiblie and sensiblie possessor of without one minutes wavering from the very first beginning to the latter end of all till the jurie cleared me and then I confesse my countenance fell and changed as being rapt up with Spirituall singing praises unto God even at the very Barr for that infinite faithfulnesse wisedome and truth that he had clearlie evidently and sensiblie manifested unto me his unworthy servant even in that verie triall and great deliverance about my methode of mannageing of which I neither did nor durst tell any man or woman in the world what was my intentions til I came to the Barr least my adversaries should get a hint of it who I beleeve never expected but I would have dealt with them upon a ranting high-flown score in totally denying their jurisdiction and the authoritie of those that constituted them but through the strength of the Almightie I went beyond their expectations and gave them such a cuff under their other eare as I beleeve they wil never throughlie shake of the smart and paine of it whilest Cromwels beastlie most grosselie abominable Tirannie lasteth And yet through the goodnesse of God I kept my principles to the breadth of an haire in the whole mannagement of my defence that Master-piece of all the earthly workes in my thoughts that God

ever wrought by me or for me But to return from this digression I say my forementioned carriage or practise is not onely full of peace and tranquillitie of minde to me but also in my own apprehension and upon my most serious scrutinie and examination I never yet found my self a loser by it no more then the old and famous Common-wealths of the Acheëns or Romans did judge themselves to be loosers by the like of which Acheëns Polybius the Grecian in his wise and wel-pend Historie fol. 414. gives this worthie testimonie viz. That they were estranged from deceit towards their friends to advance their power by which they would not vanquish their enemies holding it neither noble norfirme if they did not vanquish by prowesse and in open fight Wherefore they ordained amongst themselves that no man should make use of hidden armes thinking that an open Combatt hand to hand was the true determining of warr Finally they declared themselves to their enemies and signified the warr when they were once resolved to undergoe the danger of the battle The like they did of the places where they would decide it And in the fame page he goes on and saith there is yet in his time which was in the life of Hannibal the great that cut his way in the depth of Winter through the mountanous Alps of Italy to get his armies as nigh Rome as their swords would inable them remaining in the Romans some reliques of their antient humour in such affaires they signifie their warr before and they seldome use any ambushes fighting readilie hand to hand Let these words saith he be spoken against the affection which is much more readie then is needfull in malicious practises policies and ambushes amongst Princes as well in affairs of warr as policies And Plutarch in his Historie fol. 139. relateing how that the old renowned Romans by their Generall Consull Camillus made warr and besieged the strong citties Falerians which being a very strong place in all parts made the people within very secure which their General Schoolmaster to their Children perceiving he for his own treacherous ambitious ends led the Children day by day out of the walls to play and at last presented himself and them before the Roman Generall in hopes of great matters from him for so doeing but the vertuous gallant old heathen Roman although he brought him the chief mens Children of the cittie said to those that were about him Warr of it self surely is an evill thing because in it many injuries and mischiefs are done neverthelesse amongst good men there is a law and discipline which doth forbid them to seeke victorie by wicked traiterous meanes and that a noble and worthie General should make warr and procure victorie by trusting to his own valiantnesse and not by anothers vilenesse and villanie Therefore he commanded his Sergeants to teare the cloathes off the back of this vile Schoolmaster and to binde his hands behinde him and that they should give the children rods and whips in their hands to whip the Traitor back again into the cittie naked that had betraied them and grieved their parents which when the Falerians heard that the Schoolmaster had thus betraied them all the cittie saith Plutarch fell a weeping and men and women ran together in one anothers necks to the town walles and gates of the cittie like people out of their witts they were so exceedingly troubled at the losse of their children but when they see their children bringing back the traiterous Schoolmaster as is aforesaid and calling the Roman Generall Camillus their father their God and their Saviour not onely the fathers and mothers of the children but generally all the other Cittizens did conceive in themselves a wonderfull admiration and great love of the wisdom justice and goodnesse of Camillus so that notwithstanding the great strength of their cittie they presentlie called a Counsell and there concluded to send Embassadors forthwith unto him to put their lives and goods to his mercie and favour who sent their Ambassadours unto Rome where having audience before the Senate the Amstassadors said because the Romans preferred justice before victorie they taught them to be better contented to submit themselves unto them then to be their owne men at libertie confessing their vertue did more overcome them then any force or power could doe where upon the Senate left all to their Generall Camillus to doe in it what he pleased and he used them so as became a man of a truly noble minde that rather desired to overcome their mindes with love then their bodies with feare terror and thereby choosed to have their subjection out of the lasting principles of love rather then to have it by the cobweb ties of feare And as full of noblenesse and justice was that act of Fabricius another of the Roman Generals towards Pyrrus King of Epirus a dangerous and formidable adversarie to the Roman Common-wealth and who forced their Generals and Armies in divers pitcht Battles against whom his own Physitian for the hopes of filthie lucre conspired to take away his life for the accomplishing of which he writes a letter with his own hand into the Roman Camp in which he profered to poyson the King his master in case the Roman Generall would promise him a large reward for his paines and for ending their desperate warrs without further danger But Fabritius detesting the wickednes of the Physitian and having made Quintus Aemylius his collegue and fellow Consul also to abhorre the same wrote a letter unto King Pyrrus and bad him take heed for there were that ment to poison him the contents of the letter were these Caius Fabricius Quintus Aemylius Consulls of Rome unto King Pyrrus greeting You have ô King made unfortunate choise both of your friends and of your enemys as shall appeare unto you by reading of this letter which one of yours hath writt unto us for you make warrs with just and honest men and doe your selfe trust altogether the wicked and unfaithfull hereof therefore we have thought good to advertize you not in respect to pleasure you but for feare the misfortune of your death might make us unjustly to be accused imagining that by Treachery or treason we have sought to end this warr as though by valiantnes we could not otherways atchieve it which letter procured the execution of this physitian for his treachery and a high admiration in King Pyrrus of the Romans worth and noble gallantry Plutarch Fol 409. O Renowned and worthy heathens far surpassing in honestie and farr surmounting in Iustice and rightiousnes our great pretended Christians the governors in England that Judge noe meanes nor wayes though never so abominable in themselves too vile for them to undertake for the accomplishing of their owne ends whether it be treacherie murder prejurie breach of faith or what ever it be and who have cheated all manner of Interests that ever yet in their lives they delt with and

either prevaile with you to write me your answer or with them to doe it For my part Sir my End is no other then English in it it being in no manner of respect a farthing advantage unto mee either in possession or expectation Onely it is one of the greatest ambitions I have in this world to be really and substantially a true lover of my Countrie and its real libertie And the rather because of late in readeing some store of Historie I find that many gallant and worthy heathens made it their worke study and hazard to make the sonns of men liveing in this world happy in their lives yea and to march with Armies valiantly to venter their lives to set at libertie and freedome their neighbours that they might enjoy their owne lawes and customes which they themselves had according to reason and the light and law of nature that supreme and original guide that God mans alone absolute Soveraigne had placed in every mans soule by common consent chosen and established or hereafter should choose and establish the actings according to which principally if not onely makes Man to differ from a brute Beast and bee delivered in good earnest from the bondage and slavery of Tyrants and Opressours or rather salvage brute Beasts in Mans shape not in words only but in deeds allso Of which without being judged tedious suffer me I beseech you to give you a few remarkeable instances The first is of the Citty of the Acheëns who by their good and just government and common liberty became as saith that old and rational historian Polybius fol 28.83 c a certaine president of a true Common-wealth and reconciled thereby all Morea And one of their chiefest and most virtuous Cittyzens called A rate made it his cheife worke to study by all meanes to chase away the kings or tyrants as they are there called and to preserve the common libertie of the Countrie of Morea and prevailed with Lysidas Aristomachus Xenon and Cleomenes to lay downe their crownes and renounce their royall principalities and to joine themselves to the league of the Acheëens of whose virtuousnes faithfullnes and noblenes of mind the said author gives a most commendable character in fol 414. in which Plutarch fully concurrs with him in his famous Historie of the lives of the noble Graecians and Romans fol 371. yea the said Author Polybius declares that when Antigonus a Governour and Generall under a king and Tutor to his Sonn had overcome the Lacedemonians by force of Armes and thereby had made himselfe Lord of them if he had pleased so to be yet he forbare to use any outrage or crueltie towards them and carryed him selfe not onely like a moderator and temperate man but was allso gracious unto his very Enemies and returned into his Countrie leaveing them in their full libertie doeing them many favours both in Generall and particular So as they not only termed him at that time their benefactour but after his death they called him their Saviour folio 86.100.229.353 Yea Plutarch in his foresaid history declares that Lycurgus when he had the power of the kingdome of Sparta in his owne hands and might easiely have kept it yet so sincere just and full of virtue was hee that he voluntarily laid it downe and betooke himselfe to a weareing and toilesome life to study and find out a governement that might make that Citty its territories a free happy and pleasant Commonwealth which he accordingly did And as that judicipos Author saith made it one of the famousest that was in the world and filld it full of valour virtue and love for many yeares together Their very children being trayned up in it from their cradles that so it might be as it were incorporated into their very natures and there being in it no coveteousnes nor poverty nor lack but a fullnes of abundance with a quiet and sober life Haveing allso two singular good properties besides viz that it had no Lawyers nor yet any suites in Law And 2dly whilest these Lawes of Lycurgus were observed and kept their life and vigour which for many yeares they did Sparta seemed not to be a policy or a Commow wealth but rather a certaine holy place and order of religion and of that respect and honour amongst their neighbours that with a little scrowle of parchment and a poore cap the Spartans commanded and gave Lawes to all the rest of Greece even with their owne good likenig and consent yea and expulsed and chased away the tyrants which usurped tyrannical power over any of their neighbours Citties and did decide all controversies and often times pacified their seditions without sending out one soldier but only a simple poore Embassadour So great reverence had their neighbours of the good government and justice of the Spartans Plutarch fol 42.44.49.56.57.60.78 It would be too tedious unto you for me to bee any thing large upon too many instances And therefore I shall but only name the hazards that love to just libertie and freedome that rationall image of God amongst men who only as absolute soveraigne Lord of Man commands him by his will led Clisthenes to run into to set Athens free from their tyrants and tyrannie wherewith they were oppressed in his time and that Pericles under tooke to deliver Samos from its tyrants and tyrannie or small aristo-craticall or olig-archical governement of a few nobles to establish a popular Governement or Soveraigne Authoritie or Majestie of the People as the aforesaid Author calls it or that Alcibiades and his associates underwent againe to recover the Libertie of Athens from new upstart tyrants or that Pelopidas Ismenias Androclidas and Pherenicus with their associates hazarded to deliver the Cittie and Commonwealth of Thebes from the usurpation and tyrannie of Archias Leontidas and Philip with their associates and mercenary soldiers Which story especially is extraordinarily well worth the readeing All which are by Plutarch touch 't upon in his foresaid history in fol 158.171.212.288.289.290 And in fol 300.302.305 he shewes that Pelopidas being by his Citty sent Embassadour to Artaxerxes king of Persia who very much honoured him for his valiantnes and Wisedome procured of him that all the People of Greece should be free againe And his Citty and hee being sollicited by the Thessalians to helpe to deliver them from the most unsupportable and beastly uglie tyrannie of their grand Tyrant Alexander they made it their worke to deliver all such as were oppressed by tyrants yea and sought to roote out tyrannicall governement throughout whole Greece For the obtaineing of which in a pitcht battaile with the forementioned tyrant Alexander that valiant and worthy Captaine Pelopidas lost his life which the Thebans immediately after sufficiently revenged and compelled the Tyrant to withdraw his garrisons and set those Citties free which he kept in bondage Yea when the ancient and most famous commonwealth of Rome came to have power in Macedonia after the Consul Paulus Aemylius had