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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	chief_a	lord_n	plea_n	5,523	5	9.8646	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86094	Lieut. Colonel John Lilb. tryed and cast: or, his case and craft discovered. Wherein is shewed the grounds and reasons of the Parliaments proceeding, in passing the act of banishment against him, and wherefore since his coming over hee hath been committed to the Tower by the Parliament. Here likewise, is laid open the partiall, corrupt, and illegal verdicts of his juries, both the former and the later. Being to satisfie all those in the nation that are truly godly, and wel-affected to the peace of the Common-wealth: and to stop the mouths of others; proving, what is done in order to his present imprisonment, is according to the rules of justice and equity contained in the morall law of God, and nature, or sound naturall reason. Published by authority.	Hesilrige, Arthur, Sir, d. 1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing H1125; Thomason E720_2; ESTC R40953	178,723	190

was between the house of Lords him he then denied their power and cryed up the house of Commons as to have more power But now they being remov'd and so not likely any more to send for him Hee seems to be of opinion that some such power was with them yet this he speaks somewhat darkly and closely lest too much of his hypocrisie should appeare at once any Judicatory in Parliament it was the Lords House not the Commons It is well we have it at last and in plain English without any Equivocation He will prove it he saith that it was no lawfull Parliament The which saying is proofe enough by Cokes Institutes to prove him a Traytor The Wolfe though he often dissemble and closely hides his nature yet he cannot doe so still but will shew himselfe what he is one time or other So it is with devouring spirits they may sometimes walk in the dark and use such artificiall sleights as their designes are not discerned yet this they cannot alwayes do but now and then casting off the sheeps-skins will appeare what they are even Wolves indeed But doth he not in the mean time very much satisfie the consciences of the Jurie as to move them not to find him guilty considering being arraigned for Treason he should thus openly before them declare himselfe to be guilty Who can but thinke a Querie whether it did not argue if not impudēce yet great indiscretion in the 12 men being known to be disaffected to the present Governmēt that such as they should durst give check to Authority knowing what the men were but by this speech of his they were much induced the sooner to acquit him 6. As for all Parliaments in generall he said Parliaments were a deligated power and b And because it is so Nodell told his friēds that Lilburn when he came up to London would call the Parliament to account ought to give a reason of all they doe and that it was not in their power as he had proved in his Plea at large before the Lord chief Justice Rolls and Mr. Justice Bacon May 18. 1647. nor had they the least Jurisdiction to sentence him or any of the least Free born English men unlesse it be their own Members That c We see children will look in a mans face when he is speaking but not minde or remember any thing that he saith The like Simplitians were these twelve Jurie men for had they observed the ignorance and folly of his words they would have better considered what they had to do in the businesse before them as knowing what he said was false And all Parliaments before had constantly practised the contrary all Crimes whatsoever were to be heard determined and judged at the Common Law and no where else Acts of Attainder were not Lawfull There is an Oyntment which if the heads of men be anoynted therewith they will seem to be most dreadfull and terrible Surely this man made account to fright them all away What hath a Parliament no power to send for him Really then either their power is very little or his power is above a Parliament What no Jurisdiction no not the least Alas what a poore and low thing is this Parliament No marvaile he hath taken the boldnesse to abuse it and call'd it a Juncto a Tyranny a Foolery Note he hath stript it stark naked not left so much as a reed or rush in their hands whereby to defend themselves Souldiers when they have unarm'd the Enemy forbear afterwards to abuse and beat the naked Prisoners But he will not shew a Parliament so much civility for he is not contented to take away their weapons whereby to keep off the strokes of his Treason but when he hath not left with them any power or the d We read of Julius Caesar when he had overcōe Pompeys Army he spared the Citizens And those whom he had vanquished by Arms he prefer'd gave much wealth to But he hath no such Romane spirit for though he hath laid the Parliament at his feet yet he cannot forbear to trample upon it least Jurisdiction he most inhumanely scourgeth them with his railing tongue Domitian is condemned for killing of Flies not but they might be killed but it was no fit work for an Emperour For some men to have heard him deliver such absurdities and non-sense it might have been tolerable but for a Jury who are to maintaine the power and priviledges of Parliaments to hearken to such roving and wild discourse was no way justifiable If a Parliament be the Supream Authority of the Nation then there is no Judicatory power or jurisdiction in any Court but what primarily and originally as to order and Government is in the Parliament and whatsoever may be done any where as to Government and Jurisdiction the same may be done by a Parliament viz. to send for Delinquents to Imprison Banish c. And this stands with pure reason if the man had e The reason wherefore this man shews so much follie is his ignorance as not capable to understand what power jurisdiction government order such things are If a people be free Power essentially is in them yet so as to action there must be first order which is to establish a Government Now it hath been the antient practice of this Nation to have a Parliament which is the alone Nationall Government Neither is there any Judiciary or Government in the Nation as properly arising and derived from the people but what is in a Parliament because other Courts and Jurisdictions may be said to have their rise rather from the Parl. then the people sense to understand it for to grant a Parliament and to deny Government and Jurisdiction which he speakes of is such non-sense as none but an Ignoramus in pure reason would speak it It is one thing what is not convenient or fit for Parliaments ordinarily to doe and another thing what lawfully they may doe as in point of Power and Jurisdiction Neither thought he it enough to speak thus reproachfully of Parliaments but at the same time most unworthily abused the Court As for instance 1 Speaking to the Lord Maior This is the strangest thing saith he that ever I saw that a man must be cheated of his life Good my Lord Maior you have made your selfe a party in my case and taken a wrong John Lilburn and if you doe not make me hang you are afraid your selfe You make the Land groan under your burthens and oppressions I desire you will not deny me my right that I may not loose my life in the resolve of a Question That John Lilburn shall be hanged which in time may come to murder your posterity and the posterity of those that hear me this day To speak nothing how he f A man tells a lye so often as he thinks it at least to be a truth who knows how far he was gone in a lye this way