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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90251	Vox plebis, or, The peoples out-cry against oppression, injustice, and tyranny. Wherein the liberty of the subject is asserted, Magna Charta briefly but pithily expounded. Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne's sentence published and refuted. Committees arraigned, goalers condemned, and remedies provided.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing O636A; Thomason E362_20; ESTC R201218	54,600	73

by him contrived and caused to be printed and published intituled The just Mans justification Or A Lettnr by way of Plea in Bar hath falsly and scandalously in certain Passages of the said Book affirmed and published concerning the said Earle of Manchester and his demeanour in his said Office and Imployment And touching the complaint by the said Lilburn alledged to be made by him and others to the said Earle relating to the said Earle as followeth Pa. 2. I complained to the Earle of Manchester thereof being both his Generall and mine And at the same time divers Gentlemen of the Committee of Lincoln as Mr Archer c. having Articles of a very high nature against him pressed my Lord meaning the said Earl to a triall of him at a Councell of warre And at the very same time the Major Aldermen and Town-Clerk of Boston came to Lincoln to my Lord meaning the said Earle with Articles of a superlative nature against King their Governor but could not get my Lord meaning the said Earle to let us enjoy justice at a Councel of War according to all our expectations as of right we ought to have had which at present saved his head upon his shoulders And page 8. and 9. of that Book did affirm these words viz We could not at all prevaile the reason of which I am not able to render unlesse it were that his two Chaplaines Lee and Garter prevailed with the Earle meaning the said Earle of Manchesters two Chaplains Ash and Goode to cast a Clergie-mist over their Lords meaning the said Earles eyes that he should not bee able to see any deformity in Colonell King II. THe said Iohn Lilbure within three moneths last past in a certaine book by him contrived and caused to be printed and published hereunto annexed intituled The Free-mans Freedom vindicated or A true Relation of the cause and manner of Lieu. Colonell Iohn Lilburns present imprisonment in Newgate being thereunto arbitrarily and illegally committed by the House of Peeres June 11. 1646. for his delivering in at their open Barre under his hand and seal his Protestation against their incroaching upon the common liberties of all the Commons of England in endeavouring to try him a Commoner of England in a criminall cause contrary to the expresse tenor and form of the 29 chapter of the great Charter of England And for making his legall and just appeale to his competent proper and legall Tryers and Judges the Commons of England in Parliament assembled did falsly and scandalously in the eighth page of that Book publish and affirm concerning the said Earle of Manchester these false and scandalous words I clearly perceive the hand of Ioab to be in this namely my old back-friend the Earle of Manchester the fountain as I conceive of all my present troubles who would have hanged me for taking a Castle from the Cavaliers in Yorkeshire but is so closely glu'd in in interest to that party that hee protected from justice Colonel King one of his own Officers for his good service in treacherously delivering or betraying Crowland to the Cavaliers and never called nor that I could heare desired to call to account his Officer or Officers that basely cowardly and treacherously betrayed and delivered Lincoln last up to the enemy without striking one stroke or staying till so much as a Troop of Horse or a Trumpetter came to demand it His Lordships head hath stood it seems too long upon his shoulders that makes him he cannot be quiet till Lieu. Generall Cromwels charge against him fully proved in the House of Commons be revived which is of as high a nature I beleeve as ever any charge given in there The Epitomy of which I have by me and his Lordship may live shortly to see it in print by my meanes And the said Iohn Lilburne in the Book and page last mentioned in scandall and dishonour to Henry Earle of Stamford a Peere of this Kingdome and late a Commander of Forces of the Parliament maketh this scandalous expression concerning the said Earle of Stamford viz. And for my Lord of Stamford at present I desire him to remember but one Article made at the delivery of Exceter which it may be may in time coole his furious endeavour to inflame the free people of England III. VVHereas the said Iohn Lilburne upon the 10. day of Iune last past by vertue of the Order of the Peeres assembled in this present Parliament was brought to the Barre of the House of Peeres then sitting in Parliament to answer concerning the said Book in the said first Article mentioned the said Iohn Lilburne falsly and maliciously intending to scandalize and dishonour the Peeres assembled in Parliament and their just rights and authorities did then and there in contempt of the said House of Peeres at the open Barre of the said House the Peeres then sitting in the said House in Parliament openly deliver a certain paper hereunto annexed under his hand and seale intituled The Protestation Plea and Defence of Lieu. Colonell John Lilburne given to the Lords at their Barre the 11. of June 1646. with his appeale to his competent proper and legall Tryers and Judges the Commons of England assembled in Parliament which paper is hereunto annexed and since caused the same to be printed and published In which paper among other scandals therein contained he published and affirmed concerning the Lords in Parliament these words following Viz. Therefore my Lords you being as you are called Peeres meerly made by prerogative and never intrusted of improved by the Commons of England And in another place thereof concerning their Lordships and their proceedings in Parliament did protest and publish these words following I doe here at your open Barre protest against all your present proceedings with me in this pretended criminall cause as unjust and against the tenor and form of the great Charter which all you have sworn inviolably to observe and caused the Commons of England to doe the same And therefore my Lords I doe hereby declare and am resolved as in duty bound to God my selfe countrey and posterity to maintain my legall liberties to the last drop of my blood against all opposers whatsoever having so often in the field c. adventured my life there-for and doe from you and your Barre as incroachers and usurping Judges appeale to the Barre and Tribunall of my competent proper and legall Tryers and Judges the Commons of England assembled in Parliament And in pursuance of his said malicious and illegall practice did afterwards contrive and publish a scandalous and libellous letter hereunto likewise annexed directed to Mr. Wollaston Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy wherein among other things he hath caused to be inserted and published these words concerning the Peeres in Parliament viz. Their Lordships sitting by vertue of Prerogative-patents and not by election or consent of the people have as Magna Charta and other good lawes of the Land tell me nothing to doe to

able to relieve them wishing them to provide for their own safety as we read Livy Decad. 1. l. 3. Therefore it never turnes to a States advantage to gaine the peoples hatred the way to avoid it is to lay no hands on the Subjects estates How many flourishing States have been ruined by the Avarice Pride Cruelty and non-observance of the lawes by the Governours The people of Athens being sore urged with a War by Darius from Persia in their great distresse chose Critias Theramenes 28. others to be their Governours They were elected first to compile a body of their Law and put in practise such antient Statutes as were fit to be put in practise to this charge was annexed the supream Authority either as a recompence of their labours or because the necessity of time required it These Governours in stead of making or observing the laws fell to spoyle the people of their lives and goods by new lawes and arbitrary proceedings this was hatefull to the people the end was Thrasibulus and 70. others conspired against them and cut them off and restored the people to their former libertie The Governour of the Eleans held a strict hand over their Subjects and oppressed them The Subjects being in despaire called in the Spartans to their reliefe who had no just cause of quarrell but only an old grudge and by their help freed all their Cities from the sharp bondage of their naturall Lords The Estate of Sparta was grown powerfull and opprest the Thebans The Thebans though but a weak State yet desperate of their suffering by the help of the Athenians found means to free themselves of their cruell yoke These examples and divers others we finde of the fall of the free Estates of Greece recorded by Sir Walter Rawleigh in his 3. book of the History of the world The forceable causes of the ruine of the State of Carthage in Africa which once contended with Rome for the Dominion and Soveraignty of the World were Avarice and Cruelty Their Avarice saith Regius was shewed both in exacting from their Subjects besides ordinary Tributes the one half of the profits of the earth and in conferring of Offices not upon Gentlemen and mercifull persons but upon those who could best tyrannize over the people to augment their treasures Their cruelty appeared in putting men to death without mercy or justice contrary to their Lawes Wee read in Guicciardine that Pisa revolted from and maintained 10. years sharp Wars against the State of Florence and would not submit to her yoke by reason of the hard impositions laid upon her by the Florentines but chose rather to put her self under protection of Lewis the 12. of France a forraign and an hard master We know that an imposition of the tenth penny upon the Inhabitants of Holland and the execution of arbitrary government by the Duke of Alva lost the Dominion of the Netherlands to Philip the second King of Spain Wee could tell of the often revolts of Genoa from the Kings of France of Siena Lacquis Modena Regia Vincensa Padua Crimona Millain and other Towns and Provinces of Italy from the States whereon they have depended even from Venice that only free State well governed in the world by reason of the avarice cruelty pride and injustice of their Governours We could tell you how the Duke Valentinois or Caesar Borgia lost his new Conquests in Italy by his pride and cruelty over the vanquisht people We could remember how Alphonso and Ferdinand Kings of Naples lost their dominions and lives by their extream tyranny over the Nobility Gentry and Subjects of their Realm We could tell you how the Syracusians Leontines and Messenians and other States of Sicillie were stripped of their Dominions and fell into the hands of their neighbours the Romanes by their great cruelty to their own Subjects Wee could find particular instances and examples in all Empires Kingdomes and free States that have been since the Creation of the World that the Princes and Governours for their tyrannie and not due observing the Lawes of their Countries have been banished expelled and put to death by their Subjects Ye know well enough that Rehoboam lost 10. Tribes for an harsh answer to a petioning people 1 King 12. 9. We could give you some Scriptual-examples of free-States but that we find none mentioned there but conclude that there was never any State more glorious more free more carefull of preserving it self then that of Rome and yet she fell too and never recovered her former libertie The Romanes out of a fore-sight that her ruine would come upon her by the oppression and avarice of her Governours made a Law de repetundis or of recovery against extorting Magistrates yet it served not to restrain their Provinciall Governours though it relieved the Citizens at home which was one of the two causes of Romes ruine for as Machiavel in his Discourses upon Livy l. 3. c. 34. observes that these two things were the causes of that Republiques dissolution the one was Contentions which grew upon the Agearian Law or partition of conquered Land among the Citizens the other was the prolonging of Governments viz. Dictatorships Consulships Generalships Tribuneships of the people and such like great Offices for by these meanes those great Officers had meanes and power to raise armes against the liberty of the people Sylla and Marius by this meanes could find Souldiers to take their part against the Publique and Iulius Caesar could find meanes hereby to make himself Lord of his native Country and Country-men These things we alleadge not as if we suspected any of you O ye noble Patriots to be guilty of any of these crimes that may either hazard the continuing of the present Government or destroy the publike liberty but to awake you and put you in mind to provide fit remedies against these growing evills whereby you may procure safety and peace to the Common-wealth and everlasting honour to your own Names and Posterities for they are to be thought worthy of honour not which begin but well end honourable Actions And we beseech you not to take it in ill part from us 〈◊〉 we offer our humble advices to you in these particulars ●●nce we the people conceive it our duty to shew unto our Governours that good which by reason of the malignity of the times and of fortune we have not been able to do our selves to the end that you our Senators being given to understand thereof some of you whom God shall more favour may put it in practise for the publike good Neither is our opinion to be despised For it is a sure Maxime that the people are of as clear judgment in all things that conceive the Publique as any and is wise and circumspect concerning their liberties and are as capable of the truth they heare We know that Common-wealths have never been much amplified neither in dominion nor riches unlesse only during their Liberties for it is no mans particular