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A82113	A declaration of some proceedings of Lt. Col. Iohn Lilburn, and his associates: with some examination, and animadversion upon papers lately printed, and scattered abroad. One called The earnest petition of many free-born people of this Kingdome : another, The mournfull cries of many thousand poor tradesmen, who are ready to famish for want of bread, or The warning tears of the oppressed. Also a letter sent to Kent. Likewise a true relation of Mr. Masterson's minister of Shoreditch, signed with his owne hand. Published by authority, for the undeceiving of those that are misled by these deceivers, in many places of this Kingdom.	Masterson, Geo. (George)	1648 (1648)	Wing D625; Thomason E427_6; ESTC R204593	42,707	64

the wrong of all the rest The whole Iudgment of the Kingdom is in the Iudgment of the Houses you can represent your own pressures but not those of all the Kingdom for you are not all the Kingdom You may account that your pressure which others and as many as you may judg their benefit and the Houses trusted by all must judg what is good for all To the Supream Authority of England the Commons Assembled in Parliament The earnest Petition of many Free-born People of this Nation SHEWETH THAT the devouring fire of the Lords wrath hath burnt in the bowels of this miserable Nation until it s almost consumed That upon a due search into the causes of Gods heavy Judgments we find a a A●ns 5.9 10 11 12. Micah 2 2.3 Micah 3.3 4 9.10.11.12 Habba 2.8.17 Joel 3.3 that in justice and oppression have been the common National sias for which the Lord hath threatned woes confusions and desolations unto any People or Nation Woe saith God to the oppressing City Zeph. 3.1 That when the King had opened the Flood-gates of injustice and oppression b b See the Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom Decem. 1641. p. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15. upon the people and yet peremptorily declared that the people who trusted him for their good could not in or by their Parliam nt require any account of the discharge of his trust and when by a pretended negative vo ce c c See the Kings Answer to the Parliaments Remonst of May 19 1642. 1 part book Decla page 254 284 285. See the Kings Answer to the Parl. Decla of May 26. 1642. page 298. to Laws he would not suffer the strength of the Kingdom the d d See the Ordinance for the Militia Feb. 1641 1 book Decla page 89 pa. 96 105 106. 114 126 175 176 182 243 289 292 Militi● to be so disposed of that oppression● might be safely remedied oppressors brought to condign punishment but raised a War e e See the Parliaments Votes May 20 1642 1 part Book Decla 259 see also page 5●9 576 577 580 584 617. to protect the subvertors of our Laws and Libe ties and maintain Himself to be subject to no accompt even for such oppressions and pursuing after an oppressive power the Judg of the Earth with whom the Throne of iniquity can have no fellowship hath brought him low and executed fierce wrath upon many of his ad●…r●nts That God expects Justice from those before whose eyes he hath destroyed an unjust generation Zeph. 3.6.7 and without doing justly and releeving the oppressed God abhors fastings and praye s and accounts himself mocked Esa 5 8.4 5 6 7. Mic. 6.6 7 8. That our eyes fail with looking to see the Foundations of our Freedoms and Peace secured by this Honorable House and yet we are made to depend upon the Will of the King and the Lords which were never chosen or betrusted by the People to redress their grievances And this Honorable House which formerly declared that they were the representative of al England betrusted with our Estates Liberties and Lives 1 part Book of Decla 264.382 do now declare by their practise that they will not redress our grievances or settle our Freedoms unless the King and the Lords will That in case you should thus proceed Parliaments wil be rendered wholly useless to the People and their happiness left to depend solely upon the Will of the King and such as he by his Patents creates Lords and so the invaluable price of all the precious English blood spilt in the defence of our freedoms against the King shal be imbezelled or lost and certainly God the avenger of blood wil require it of the obstructors of justice and freedom Iudges 9.24 That though our Petitions have been burned and our persons imprisoned reviled and abused only for petitioning yet we cannot despair absolutely of all bowels of compassion in this Honorable House to an inslaved perishing people We still nourish some hopes that you wil at last consider that our estates are expended the whole trade of the Nation decayed thousands of families impoverished and merciless Famine is entered into our Gates and therefore we cannot but once more assay to pierce your eares with our dolefull cries for Iustice and Freedom before your delays wholly consume the Nation In particular we earnestly intreat First That seeing we conceive this Honorable House is intrusted by the People with all power to redress our grievances and to provide security for our Freedoms by making or repealing Laws errecting or abolishing Courts displacing or plaecing Officers and the like And seeing upon this consideration we have often made our addresses to you and yet we are made to depend for all our expected good upon the wils of others who have brought all our misery f f See the Kings Decla of the 12 Aug. 1642. 1 part book Decla page 522 526 528 548 pa. 617. upon us That therefore in case this Honorable House wil not or cannot according to their trust relieve and help us that it be clearly declared That we may know to whom as the Supream power we may make our present addresses dresses before we perish or be inforced to flie to the prime Laws of nature g g See 1 part book decla pa. 44.150 382 466 637 699 or refuge 2. That as we conceive all Governors and Magistrates being the ordinance h h See Col. Nath. Fines his Speech against the Bishops Canons made in 164● in a book called Speeches and Passages of Parliament from 3 Nove. 1640. to June 1641 page 50.51 52. of m●n before they be the ordinance of God and no Authority being of God but what is erected by the mutuall consent of a People and seeing this Honorable House alone represents the People of this Nation that therefore no person whatsoever be permitted to exercise any power or Authority in this Nation who shal not clearly and confessedly receive his power from this House and be always accountable for the discharge of his trust to the People in their Representers in Parliament If otherwise that it be declared who they are which assume to themselves a power according to their own Wills and not received as a trust from the People that we may know to whose Wils we must be subiect and under whom we must suffer such oppressions as they please without a possibillity of having Iustice against them 3. That considering that all iust Power and Authority in this Nation which is not immediatly derived from the People can be derived only from this Honorable House and that the People are perpetually subiect to Tyranny when the Iurisdiction of Courts and the Power and Authority of Officers are not clearly described and their bounds and limits i i See your Remonstrance of the state of the kingdom book decla pag 6 8 See also the Acts made this Parliament that

and stretch your selves upon Beds of Down you that grind our faces and flay off our skins Will no man amonst you regard will no man behold our faces black with Sorrow and Famine Is there none to pity The Sea Monster drawes out the brest and gives suck to their young ones and are our Rulers become cruell like the Ostrich in the Wildernesse Lament 4.3 OH ye great men of England will not think you the righteous God behold our Affliction doth not he take notice that you devour us as if our Flesh were Bread are not most of you either Parliament-men Committee-men Customers Excise-men Treasurers Governors of Towns and Castles or Commanders in the Army Officers in those Dens of Robbery the Courts of Law and are not your Kinsmen and Allies Colectors of the Kings Revenue or the Bishops Rents or Sequestratours What then are your ruffling Silks and Velvets and your glittering Gold and Silver Laces are they not the sweat of our brows the wants of our backs bellies It s your Taxes Customs and Excize that compells the Countrey to raise the price of food and to buy nothing from us but meer absolute necessaries and then you of the City that buy our Work must have your Tables furnished and your Cups overflow and therefore will give us little or nothing for our Work even what you * * And since the late Lord Mayor Adam you have put in execution art illegall wicked docree of the Common Councel whereby you have taken our goods from us if we have gone to the Inns to sell them to country men and you have murdered some of our poor wives that have gone to Innes to sinde country men to buy them please because you know we must sell for moneys to set our Families on work or else we famish Thus our Flesh is that whereupon you Rich men live and wherewith you deck and adorn your selves Ye great men Is it not your plenty and abundance which begets you Pride and Riot And doth not your Pride beget Ambition and your Ambition Faction and your Faction these Civil broyles What else but your Ambition and Faction continue our Distractions and Oppressions Is not all the Controversie whose Slaves the poor shall be Whether they shall be the Kings Vassals or the Presbyterians or the Independent Factions And is not the Contention nourished that you whose Houses are full of the spoils of your Contrey might be secure from Accounts while there is nothing but Distraction and that by the tumultuousnesse of the people under prodigious oppression you might have fair pretences to keep up an Army and garrisons and that under pretence of necessity you may uphold your arbitrary Government by Committees c. Have you not upon such pretences brought an Army into the bowels of the City and now Exchange doth rise already beyond Sea and no Merchants beyond Sea will trust their Goods hither and our own Merchants conveigh their * * The Merchants have already kept back from the Tower many hundred thousand pounds and no bullion is brought into the Tower so that mony will be more scarce daily Estates from hence so there is likely to be no importing of Goods and then there will be no Exporting and then our Trade will be utterly lost and our Families perish as it were in a moment O ye Parliament-men hear our dying cry Settle a Peace settle a Peace strive not who shall be greatest untill you be all confounded You may if you will presently determine where the supream Power resides and settle the just common Freedomes of the Nation so that all Parties may equally receive Iustice and injoy their Right and every one may be as much concerned as other to defend those common Freedoms you may presently put down your Arbitrary Committees and let us be Governed by plain written Lawes in our own Tongue and pay your Ministers of Justice out of a common Treasury that every one may have Justice freely and impartially You have in your hands the Kings Queens and Princes Revenue and Papists Lands and Bishops and Deans and Chapters Lands and Sequestred Lands at least to the value of eighteen hundred thousand pounds by the year Which is at least five hundred thousand pounds a year more then will pay the Navy and all the Army and the Forces which need to be kept up in England and Ireland and out of that the Kingdoms debts would be paid yearly whereas now you run further into Debt daily and pay one thousand pounds by the day at least for use Money Besides you may if you will Proclaim Liberty for all to come and discover to a Committee of disingaged men chosen out of every County one for a County to discover to them what Monies and Treasure your own Members and your Sequestrators c. have in their hands and you may by that means find many Millions of Money to pay the publique Debts You may find 30000. li. in Mr. Richard Darley's hand 25000. li. in Mr. Thorpes hand * * M. William Lenthall Speaker of the House to cover his cozenage gave 22000 li. to his servant Mr. Cole to purchase land in his own name though for his use which he did and then died suddenly and the land fell to his son and the widdow having married a Lawyer keeps the land for the childes use and saith he knows not that his predecessor received any mony from the Speaker and now Mr. Speaker sueth in Chancery for the land A hundred such discoveries might be made a Member of Yours who first Proclaimed Sir Iohn Hotham Traytor And thus you may take off all Taxes presently and so secure Peace that Trading may revive and our pining hungry famishing Families be saved And O ye Souldiers who refused to disband because you would have Iustice and Freedom who cryed till the Earth ecchoed Iustice Iustice forget not that cry but cry speedily for Peace and Iustice louder then ever There is a large Petition of some pittifull men that is now abroad which contains all our desires and were that granted in all things we should have Trading again and should not need to beg our Bread though those men have so much mercy as they would have none to cry in the Streets for Bread Oh though you be Souldiers shew bowels of Mercy and Pity to a hunger-starved People Go down to the Parliament desire them to consume and trifle away no more time but offer your desires for Us in that large Petition and cry Justice Justice Save save save the perishing People O cry thus till your importunity make them hear you O Parliament men and Souldiers Necessity dissolves all Laws and Government and Hunger will break through stone Walls Tender Mothers will sooner devour You then the Fruit of their own womb and Hunger regards no Swords nor Canons It may be so great oppressours intend tumults that they may escape in a croud but your food may then be wanting as well