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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

wheresoever or in whomsoever I find it but a traytor or felon by the Law looseth not any of his franchizes possessions and estate before he be convict let Cesar have his due and us the free Commons ours if not I doubt not but you will in due time have yours If the King be King let him raigne if he have otherwise deserved why proceed ye not legally against him that the World may see and judge and ye be cleared of all calumny and aspersion But as you d ee and deale with us so ye deale with him Us ye doe unjustly imprison and oppresse rob and spoyle destroy our Liberties take away our estates and undoe our Families and shew us no Law Cause or Reason but a tyrannicall unjust illegall or treasonable Vote Order or Ordinance Sic vultis sic jubet's stat pro ratione voluntas Your Arbitrary wills are become Englands Lawes And would yee know yee Commons of England why the King is not in all this time b ought home nor any thing resolved nor determined of him I will tell you deare friends what I conceive I see The Earle of Manchester M. Hollis Stapleton and others who are absolutely the chiefe instrumentall causes of all the evils wee have lately suffered and doe still sustaine and some of which have received vast summes of monies whereof they know themselves unable to give any good account are in danger to be punished as traytors and deceivers and be sacrificed to justice and therefore through their power prevalency and policy a settlement between King and Parliament is deferred because by reason of the Army whose integrity and zeale for justice they feare and therefore onely would disband them they cannot impose such particular peculiar conditions upon the King as will fully secure them and conduce to their Presbyterian designe this I doe beleeve is the summe of all But must the King and his People be st●ll divided the breach lye open and the difference uncomposed the Kingdome unsetled the peoples p●ace and happ●nesse still delayed and our miseries still prolonged and continued to satisfie the unjust desires of a company of matchlesse Machiavilian traytors who to save themselves have endeavoured by all meanes to destroy us Must wee languish in our sufferings and sorrowes to waite their opportunities It is neither meet nor right it should be so nor prudence nor wisedome to permit it so let us therefore have an end of our troubles and distractions or else apply our selves to put an end to their tyranny treason and Lordlinesse that they may no● wholly and utterly lay us waste and ruine us And if in case of the Kings failing of his trust and denyall to settle the Militia or strength of the Kingdome in such hands and in such a way as the people may be thereby safe and secured the Parliament the representative body may for the safety of his Majesty and Kingdomes take the dispose and ordering of it into their hands then by the same rule forsomuch as the Parliament have failed of their trust and put the Militia and strength of the Kingdome into such hands and in such a way as wee cannot confide or be safe in Wee the free Commons of England the reall and essentiall body politicke or any part of us may order and dispose of our owne Armes and strength for our owne preservation and safety and the Army in particular without question may lawfully retaine order and dispose of their armes and strength to and for the preservation and safety of the King and Kingdome the principall end for which they were raised This is the Parliaments owne doctrine as you may read in Booke Declarations page 93. and 150. and therefore I hope neither heresie nor schisme blasphemy nor treason I have done and a rush for him that is angry and as much for him who is fearefull in a just cause Let such weigh well that saying of the holy Spirit Prov. 29.25 and then happily they may looke up and take courage The feare of man bringeth a snare but whosoever trusteth in the Lord shall be safe Timida probl●as nunquam Reipublicae est utilis Cowardly honesty is never profitable to the Common-wealth FINIS

Plaine Truth without FEARE OR FLATTERY OR A TRVE 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 Ordidinance The betraying Votes and destructive practices of a Traiterous Party in the House of Commons concerning certain Petitions 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 tyrannous Usurpers and for reducing the Parliament to its due Rights Power and Priviledges in the preservation of the Kingdomes Lawes and Liberties Written by I. L. Isaiah 3.12 13 14. Children are extortioners of my People and women have rule over them O my People they that lead thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy paths The Lord shall enter into judgement with the Ancients of his People and the Princes thereof for ye have eaten up the Vineyard the spoile of the poore is in your Houses What have ye to doe that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poore saith the Lord even the Lord of Hosts Woe be to the wicked it shall be evill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Printed and Published for the information advice and benefit of the poore oppressed betrayed and almost destroyed Commons of England 1647. PLAINE TRVTH Without Feare or Flattery IN the 28 Psalm Verse 6. The Spirit of God speaking there of Iudges and Rulers saith they are Gods and all of them children of the most high but he telleth them they shall die like men and fall as one of the Princes We unhappy men of England have at this time a generation of ambitious imperious men some of both Houses of Parliament whose Names ye may elsewhere find who by their power and subtill practises doe frame and assume to themselves a supreame power over us and would faine be taken for Gods and Sons of the most High by us yet they neither rule us like Gods nor demean themselves amongst us as children of the most High but rule us like Tyrants a degenerate kind which God never made nor owned and demean themselves more like children of disobedience serving their own base lusts and pleasures then children of the most high for were they such they would seeke the will of their Father in heaven and good of his People But the Spirit saith they shall die like men the which it may be doubted these men beleeve not but rather with the Atheisticall Epicure thinke they shall dye like Beasts and that the soule as well as the body returnes to the primam materiam and so if they can but escape the hand of justice here they dreame not of hearing of their wicked deeds hereafter and therefore they have resolved it appeares for the accomplishment of their own unrighteous ends after the manner of all Atheisticall Statesmen who cast the feare of God and consideration of death and judgement behind them to assay all waies and meanes of wickednesse as to vow and not pay to promise and not performe swear and forsweare covenant and breake to feign flatter and play the hypocrite I had almost said the devill to betray destroy rob spoyle oppresse and violate all law and rule of government infringe all rights and liberties imprison persecute deceive their trust requite evill for good and doe all manner of mischiefe and injustice even whatsoever Sathan and their wicked hearts shall prompt them unto insomuch that whatsoever they say or make shew of their evill doings declare that they beleeve not an immortallity and judgement they professe themselves Christians but if ye observe and consider their actions you must say and if you were a stranger you would sweare they were heathens yea they doe worse then heathens for did ever heathens take the name of their insensible Gods of wood and stone so frequently and solemnly into their mouthes by way of oath and covenant as these men have done and had it so little in reverence and so little respect to what they have sworne as these men have had the name of the great and terrible God of heaven and of their oathes made unto him read all Stories and search all Centuries of Ages and if there be any such example of perjury and swearing falsely by their God equivalent to the example of these men of this generation I will freely offer my selfe for a sacrifice to explate my offence against their holines and yet they are ready with Agurs Harlot Pro. 30.20 to wipe their mouthes and say we have done no wickednes But that the truth may be made apparent and expiated let us heare their promises vowes and speeches and compare their deeds and promises First they doe in the Protestation promise vow and protest in the presence of Almighty God whom sure they think is like the God of Baals Priests that could neither hear nor see to maintaine and defend with their lives powers and estates the true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realme contrary to the same doctrine c. Yet they are now setting up and have set up so farre as in them lyeth a Religion never before heard of within this Realme and quite contrary to the professed doctrine of the Church of England it being wholly opposite unto Christ and a meer Popish innovation brought out of Scotland and violently imposed upon us And thus it comes to passe by the confederacy of a haughty trayterous Party in the house of Parliament of which are the Earles of Manchester and Stamford Sir Phillip Stapleton Mr. Hollis and others with the proud covetous Priests for the advancement of their designe of usurpation and Lordlines both over his Majesty and us vow and protest in like manner to maintaine and defend the Kings Royall Person honour and estate and the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every one that should make the said Protestation in pursuance of the same and that they will not for hope feare or other respect relinquish this promise vow and protestation And do they not accordingly maintain and defend the Kings Royall Person Honour and Estate His Person with a company of Commissioners of their own stamp and temper and with a Guard of able Horsemen and Souldiers debauched Gr●●●● his Regiment as if they were afraid to intrust any of the honest Commanders about him as if he were rather a Prince of Theeves then a Prince of three Kingdomes or of a free people and his honour and estate they defend with all the power and might they can taking the Supreame power upon themselves to grant Pardons sell the Lands purchased with the lives

not any longer to be consided in or sit to have the command of any power ●ho●soever they had a parcell of dry thanks from the House for their former fidelitie and paines it is better I confesse then a Prison as Lilburn Tuleday Robinson Nichols multitudes more have had for their good service Yet I must tell them it is but after the old manner of the Court who used to put a man off with an hypocriticall complement when they had no further occasion to use him or were desirous to be quit of him and it is observed that empty thanks is a sufficient reward from the House for any honest man though his service hath been never so good and superlative unlesse they have some other design or ingagement upon him but to Knaves and Fooles they have been very forward and free witnes the 10 l. given to the two Officers that brought up Ensigne Nichols and the arrears lately ordered to be paid two great ones for discovering two great lyes by which you may see they can pay whom they list and whom they list they will not I could instance you some examples of late and their owne nests are generally so well feathered that many or most of them are almost smothered they can neither see hear nor speake Alas poore Commons of England your backs in the meane time are left bare and naked But to proceed marke what honest men are continued put in and intrusted with the Militia for the honest men that are put out and distrusted Aldermen Bunce Adams Langham every man of knowledge can read them Colonels West and Bellamy the one an oppressive Goaler the other an arrogant Mag-pye and Bromfield that ran away at Newberry the Lord Maior Sir John Geere who was plundered for his 20th and 5th part who maliciously cercumvents men that he may like the devill take them in a snare and then imprisons them contrary to law as he did Master Tew and then sent his Marshall to apprehend him without a Warrant a hopefull Magistrate and sit to be intrusted with the publique Sword for the execution of the Lawes and defence of the Subjects just Rights and Liberties and that Sir John Woolaston who by the Law is more worthy to be arraigned before a Bench of Assize for buying stoln * It is truth and when time serves will be proved Plate of the Kings then to sit upon the Bench of judgement to oppresse and doe justice as his common practice is or to be intrusted with the Militia for it is contrary to all principles of reason that a Magistrate or publique Minister who is unjust to the People in his place or practise will ever be faithfull to them in time of trouble or distresse or defend either them or their liberties whensoever they are aslayled the Hawke will as soone defend the Dove and the Kite the Chickens this is that Sir John Woolaston who right or wrong commits all to Newgate that come before him for the benefit of his brother the head Goaler there who is as diligent to starve and destroy them when he hath them under custody as he he did one Sparks lately and hath done many more as the other is to commit them As for Alderman Gibs of the Militia he hath a good stock of money in the name of his Sonne beyond the Seas he need not care which way the world goes good Sir John Woolaston and he had their fingers both in one Pye I hope they lick'd them cleane and themselves like Bullocks sat though they have lick't others leane their silver tongues acquit them well in Rylees businesse and they have you know been esteemed honest and trusty ever since I could read you a Character of most of them but to avoid prolixitie I will now forbeare till a more convenient time and will only tell you what I apprehend to be the end of this sudden and so happy settlement of the Militia of London the effect and what you may expect by it 1. By this meanes the Earl of Manchester M. Hollis Stapleton Earl Senior and the rest of this trayterous faction who have occasioned the violation of all our Lawes and Liberties betrayed their trust and are the chiefe obstructers of the course of Justice and redresse of grievances promoters of all evill councels and the cause of the continuance of all our troubles and distractions who among other things drive a design to save their own Stakes and secure their own lives for that they know they are for these things lyable to question and abnoxious to Justice doe conceive they have well secured themselves from all invasion by Petition or cry for justice against them from any partie within the City 2. That they shall by this meanes the more easily erect their new formed Monster of Presbytery for what they cannot perswade they will inforce and who thinke they now dare or can resist it 3. They conceive they shall easily suppresse the Independent partie as they terme them and div●rt them fróm petitioning for Law and Libertie to both which these vile men are altogether averse and that if they doe notwithstanding continue such their petitioning yet may they the more securely deny and distaste their petitions and punish their persons for is not the Militia in their hands And if they will not submit like slaves but begin to stirre and struggle then the Militia is ready to oppose them as Rebels and Traytors although they challenge but right and justice of their servants who are many of them become Traytors and this is apparent by their late declaring their high displeasure against that just petition the Petitioners for divers points of liberty justice which was preferred by a multitude of wel-affected Citizens first it was intercepted anticipated contrary to the course of Parliaments and the libertie of the Subject by the meanes of Recorder Glin who hath shewed more favour to Captaine * E●a●s wilfully killed a man and being brought before the Recorder he basely reviled the poore widow and freed the murtherer Thomas Evans a notorious murderer then ever he did to poore Orphans for whom he should have been a just Advocate witnesse the Orphans of M. Bury against whom he tooke Fees if not bribes by which meanes notwithstanding many petitions and as many faire promises from the then temporzing Lord Major Adams and others of that Orphan devouring Faction the said Orphans to this day can obtaine no justice nor part of their fathers personal estate unlesse they will take fourscore for four hundred pounds thus are the poote Orphans miserably ●uin'd having spent the greatest part of their annuall revenue for five yeares together to obtaine justice but by the corruption of Brigandine who squares his actions by his Masters Rule and power of the Recorder who is the Executers friend nothing can be done all passages are block't up honest men dare not speak and knaves will not and so the poor Orphans are