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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48473	Plaine truth without feare or flattery, or, A true discovery of the unlawfulnesse of the Presbyterian government it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties, and contrary both to the protestation and covenant : the end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance, the betraying votes and destructive practices of a traiterous party in the House of Commons concerning certain petions for liberty and justice : also, a vindication of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, concerning certaine scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction : with the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtaine reliefe against the said cyrannous usurpers, and for reducing the parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes laws and liberties / written by I.L.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2156; ESTC R12537	30,822	22

and therefore endeavour by all meanes to bring the Land into a confusion and so to make our latter end worse then our beginning This Stapletoas Speech veresies who lately said I●●s now come to this that either we must sinke them meaning the Army and their friends or they sink us unto this end it seems they have so highly provoked the Army For prevention of which calamity and to procure our selves ●ase and remedy we must take them away charge them home and demand their persons to be delivered up to justice why feare we what power hath any Parliament man that he hath not received from them that chose him And it a King so soon as he ceaseth to rule by the known Law doth degenerate into a Tyrant and is worthy to be ejected what are those Parliament men Manchester Hollis Stapleton and others of this Faction who have so probably contrary to their Oaths Trusts and Duties left all rule of Law and Justice and by their power and prevalency have dealt with us and disposed of our estates and liberties after their owne wicked crooked wils and what are these men worthy of according to law and reason expulsion is too little and beheading is too honourable But happily some of them may say by mee because I declare that which they no wayes colour that I am mad I am sure they are their madnesse doth appear to all men otherwise some of them would not have so basely reproached his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax who came to London only because of his disease staid there a while for his infirmity and weaknes in saying it was fitter for him to be with his Army which is in a distemper then to be in Hide Park courting of Ladies If the Army be distempered hath not Manchester Stapleton Hollis and that turbulent faction distempered them by their im-parliamentary Declaration against them and ingratefull abuse of them Nay do they not distemper and trouble the Parliament and whole Kingdom are not they the only obstructers of our settlement in England and of the reliefe of distressed Ireland are not these I say the cause of all our distraction and disturbance I wish they were not and as for Sir Thomas his courting of Ladies I would Sir Peter Temple Sir John M●r●●ck Sir John Hipsly M. M●y●e Moore Bell Brwyer and too many more among them did not more court Harlots visit Whores and exercise drunkennesse * Foth what a stinke is here Oh sweet Reformers and other baseness then honourable Sir Thomas worthy man doth delight in courting 〈◊〉 Ladies I do remember when the Earle of Essex and his chie●e Commanders M●rrick one of the trayterous crew and the rest came to London to laze smoake Tobacco and drinke sa●k court complement vaunt and vapour of that they never did and a potent enemy at hand in the field who came up to Brainford to the hazzard of the whole Army and City before they were discovered and no Chief Officer there either to command or deliver forth * Thanks false Merrick thou didst the like and worse at Edge-hill Ammunition and when not only the Generall but all the chief Officers while there was a destroying enemy in power abroad came and staid their own time in London to revell ramble and rore drink domineer and whore while the souldier was left without restriction or order to range raven and plunder spoile and make waste at St. Albans and in the Country thereabouts and no complaint made of distemper or disorder either by the House or any of their Members but the Proverb is that some may better steale a Horse then others look over the hedge If Sir Thomas his Officers or souldiers were like wicked Col. Graves then this evill Faction might say they were distempered indeed yet this lewd shamelesse man is Stapletons onely Minion and the principall Instrument as truely most fit for their wicked purpose in the Army for this malicious malevolent party but these men like Toads are so big swoln with pride and despite that they are ready to burst and their poyson will never be purged out nor we freed from the diffused venome of it till some of them be highly exalted and made an example Take away the wicked from the King saith Solomon and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse take away the wicked and trayterous out of both Houses of Parliament and the Parliament shall be upright and prosper and we poore Commons be soon established in peace and happinesse In the Book of Declarations pag. 207. they seem to cleare themselves of a charge laid upon them by the King saying That there was no colour that they went about to introduce a new Law much lesse to exercise * Marke an arbitrary power but to prevent it How true this taxe or charge hath since proved let the whole Land judge and their own actions witnesse for if they have not brought in a new Law I am sure they have made no use of the old unlesse it hath been for evill And whether they have exercised an Arbitrary power I need not aske the question for it is past doubt or scruple But they say in the same Declaration That this Law is as old as the Kingdome to wit That the Kingdome must not be without a meanes to preserve it selfe It is well yet truely granted By their own principle you see the naturall or reall body politique in case the Representative or virtuall faile and deceive their trust * Mark and make u●e of it hath power to preserve it selfe Marke yee free Commons of England here is a sure ground for yee to stand on yee are not yet past hope nor destitute of meanes of helpe therefore cheere up your spirits and quit your selves like men imploy and improve your just powers for the preservation of your selves against all those selfe-seeking ambitious trayterous tyrannicall spirits in both Houses who have forsworn themselves betrayd their trust and imployed all their power and interest wherewith yee intrusted them for your good and safety to your woe and misery And yee faithfull in the House of Commons whose hearts have ever been upright although yee have been awed and overpowered to God your King and Countrey beware of these seducers who would involve you in the same treasonable workes with them that so they like Pick-pockets may the better scape in a crowd unseen rather protest against them and their proceedings and declare them to the Kingdome serve them as they have served others thus yee will acquit your selves of jealousies and guilt discharge your trust and duties and endeare your selves to your Countries otherwise you must expect to suffer as partakers and to undergoe the consure of confederates and compactours Sure and stable is this principle Salus populi est suprema L●x The welfare and safety of the People is the supream Law and therefore where this end is by Trustees perverted or neglected the People by the Law of

Treason and misdeameanors but also argumented and exceeded them in many things I could but at present for speciall reasons will not particularize in the mean time my friends make use of your owne observations call your memories to account and compare things with things advise well make your selves strong and feare not Why should the old English proverb for our love and faithfulnesse be made true upon us Save a traytor or theefe from the gallowes and he shall be the first that shall hang you indeed we are neer it if we doe not bestir our selves and prevent it But it is better that a few presumptuous men whos 's Lucifer like pride and ambition hath lifted them up to Heaven should be cast down into oblivion and darknesse then the whole Nation perish And therefore yee free Commoners of England up quickly and looke about you consider seriously the snare prepared for you and compare the vehement endeavours of these trayterous persons to disband the Army which hath tought and is resolved to stand for your liberties with this their patterne and first piece of thraldome in setling the Militia thus at this time in such mens hands in London and their putting power into the hands of such as are enemies to the publicke in the Country and see if these men intend any thing to you and yours but bondage and slavery and this is part of that ye are told in the * Both worth your notice books called the Warnings for all the Counties of England and the New found Stratagem upon the Petition of Essex Be vigilant therefore and assistant to keep the Army on foot for your owne defence and preservation of your selves your estates and liberties Country and posterities from inextricable vassalage and irrecoverable ruine for that once downe this ambitious party who aime at Soveraignty to make the King their scorne and us their slaves will presently not only turne the Militia in every place upon the Country as they have already designed in the City but raise horse also after the manner of Germany in all Counties of the Kingdome for the better securing themselves and this their forme of tyranny and if such bee no traytors who be Where shall we find any and if this be to imploy their publicke trust for the * Book Decla page 700. publicke good and whether their † Page 172. onely aime bee herein the Kingdomes safety and the peoples peace as they have declared and spoken let all England judge And thus yee see they falsify their words and Declarations as well as break their Oaths Protestations but in their Booke of Declarations page 207. they say That in case of extreme danger and his Majesties refusall to settle the Militia of the Kingdom the Ordinance that is the Ordinance which was then made in that time of such extreme danger agreed upon by both Houses for the Militia doth oblige the people and ought to be obeyed by the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome but now blessed be God here is no such case of extreme danger neither hath the King been so much as petitioned or sought unto for this Ordinance of the Militia of London and therefore it doth not bind the People nor can they by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land be compelled to obey it besides they ordering the Militia to the publique hurt and not to the publique good contrary to the intent and equity of the Law and the end o● their trust the people are ipso facto discharged of their obedience to their Ordinance for we are not bound to obey to our own dammage and destruction see this proved by their owne destruction and argument in Book of Decl. page 150. But to make a farther discovery of the truth by discovering more of this evill parties falshood breach of trust and traitorous practices against us take notice that in the Book of Declarations pa. 720. the Parliament declare That it is the liberty and priviledge of the people to petition unto them for the ease and redres●e of their grievances and oppressions and that they are marke bound in duty to receive their Petition here is a fair acknowledgement but I pray you marke their actions many tho●sand honest and really affected to the publick liberty in the City had prepared a petition to have been presented to the House of Commons for redress of some grievances and oppressions and restoration of some liberties and priviledges comprehending nothing but things legall and just what they ought to grant this Petition contrary to all course of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject was by the power and subtilty of the aforesaid faction or party who have their setting dogs and ●●agles to discry and h●nt for them intercepted as thus they anticipated the Armies Petition before it was perfected and made ready to be presented the copy of it was read in the House and re●erred to a Committee whereof fierce-siery M. Lee was Chair-man to examine and report it they did not so by the factions Petition and Remonstrance framed by the pretended Lord Maior and Common-Coucnell-men against which they then not finding any just cause of exception held the vowchers thereof with faire words in hopes of an answer untill they had mounted their late new Ordinance of the militia for London and then they declared thir distaste and displeasure against it the which in j●st dealing violation of our native liberty and priviledge the petitioners not brooking presented a Petition to the House of Commons for justice and redress and desire that their former Petition might not be censured before it was in due order presented hereupon Hollis Stapleton and the rest of that faction traitours to their Country according to their usuall course through their malignant influence prevalency procured this latter Petition to be voted seditious and that both it and the former should be burnt by the hands of the hang-man was there ever such a thing done before by a Parliament in England sure not and that to question any act done in the House was a breach of the priviledges of Parliament but by cunning to intercept the former Petition and tyrannically to suppress and reject it and illegally to imprison some of the Petitioners for it as they have done M. Tue and M. Browne was no breach of the priviledge of the subject No deare friends and fellow Commoners unless ye have like fooles resolved with your selves after so sharp and Hoody a contestation for your Law and your liberties to relinquish your claime by Magna Charta and the good old Law and to hold your lives and liberties and all you have by the Arbitrary Votes of the House of Commons and to become Tenants at will unto a company of Traitors and Tyrants up in Gods name up demand redresse and vindicate your selves and native rights against Votes and Votesr hodie mihi cras 〈◊〉 what these men doe to this or that part or place of the Kingdome and people to