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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

sooner did but the Master ranne after it tooke it up and eare it all up It seems Mr. Lilburn had a minde to the Lawyers Figg in being so angry with them to have them cast it away and afterward to take it up and eate it himselfe Lawyers that hee would have pleaded gratis for his Clyents or taken little of them but when they had made tryall they soone perceived that from the Cup-board hee was cr●pt into their purses and sought as to devour the Mice so the Cheese the Lawyers their money and estates too Now howsoever for a while hee made this his Trade to get what he could by pleading at the Committees Neverthelesse having been so long vers'd in nationall Tumults and Disturbances he was here as a Fish out of the water untill he had his hand again in some publick commotions About this time there was a dangerous Insurrection horrible Riots committed in the North with such as malum malo he closeth it being a business most proper to his Genius z Maxima est vis vetustatis consuetudinis former practice and experience And howsoever he is not the first in the mutinies yet being once in who but he as to head the Faction for the effectual carrying on of that desperate designe As wee have not hitherto set down any thing of his miscarriages but with care still to the a Mulia suavius est vera dicere quam audere Go●dis auris mentis singuae rationis oraetionis harmonia suavissima truth so we shall here make a true relation as the whole businesse hath been given in to the Parliament and Councell of State under Oath by many faithfull and eye-witnesses The sum as we have taken it from the Originall is thus At the expence of b In former time men have been greatly honored encouraged for being instruments of bettering improving the earth and no doubt had this been his own case he would have thought so to 175046 l. or therabouts there was drained or laid dry 160000 Acres of Land lying contiguous within the Counties of Yorke Lincoln and Nottingham not worth before 3 s. 4 d. an Acre one with another the which was made worth some ten other twelve yea some twenty shillings an Acre In the Mannor of Epworth the a Note that we call them so here in regard this narrative with a Petition was presented to the State Petitioners had been in quiet possession of 7400 Acres for the space of ten years untill the year 1642. Now in June 1642. many persons whose names are in the Originall in a tumultuous manner came into the Levell within the Mannor of Epworth and there b The Levellers will have no man to call any thing his for its tyrannie that a man should have any proper land particular propriety is devillish the mysterie of Aegyptian bondage a destroyer of the Creation a lifter up of the proud covetous flesh a bringer in of the curse again a mortall enemy to the spirit that which hath brought in all miserie to the Creature New light of righteousness pa. 65. 58. broke down the Fences and destroyed about 160 Acres of growing Corn and Rape and others joyning with those continued rioting together from day to day till they had laid wast about 4000 acres of the drained land and pulled down severall houses standing thereon Others afterward severall dayes during the flowing of the Spring-tide violently forced open a Sewer called Snow-Sewer planted upon the River of Trent purposely to let in the waters the which course they continued till they had c This is according to the principles of the right Levellers We declare and protest say they against all Inclosures of Fenns Forrests Fields Moores Heaths Parkes Chases which have beene taken from the poore of the Land wee are resolved to do our utmost to restore them againe for the good and benefit of the poore A declaration of the Commoners of England drowned 8000. Acres of d Here the Levellers went beside their Doctrine they say When a man hath need of any Corn he is to take the same from the next Store-house he meets with New light of Righteousnesie p. 47. But we do not remember there is any thing sayd for drowning or burning of Corne this probably is Mr. Lilburns doctrine alone Corn and Rape then growing and and the Corn-stacks generally halfe way with the greatest part of mens houses and habitations by the space of ten weekes Now upon complaint to the Committee of Lincoln order was given to open the Sluce and let out the water but divers people with Musquets and Pikes defended the doors and peremptorily refused to yield any obedience thereto Again in the yeare 1647. upon a Bill depending in the Exchequer by the Petitioners severall Orders were made for re-establishing the possession with the Petitioners and order given to the Sheriff to assist them But Daniel Noddel an Attorney with others came upon the place armed with swords and muskets to resist whereby those Orders were altother fruitlesse The Petitioners being kept thus still out of their possessions bring their Bill at length to a further hearing At which time the said Daniel Noddell the Solicitor had gotten to his assistance Mr. Lilburn and Major John Wildman But whilst the Case was in hearing the Inhabitants began to riot on * It is a question among the Papists whether a Priest may dispense with the traditions of the church give dispēsations as the Pope doth It is resolved in the negative notwithstanding he may interpret any Order or Canon as to bee the Popes mind which is as effectuall This liberty wee must grāt Mr. Lilburne though hee cānot dispēse with the law yet the sence of it lies in his breast and hee can make it speak what he pleaseth 3400. acres which were kept up before When some certaine fish appear at Sea it is a symptome among Mariners of a storme suddenly to arise Mr. Lilburn being now among the Rioting Levellers there was nothing to be expected but Tumults and Insurrections one after another and no doubt all committed by his advice and instigation But to proceed Upon complaint to the Court of Exchequer there was sent to the Sheriff an Injunction and writ of assiststance to quiet the Possession till the hearing of the Cause but in his presence the Fences by multitudes were violently thrown down and the Rioters by force fetcht away the Cattle of the Tenants the which they impounded and refusing to admit any Replevins constrained them to redeem them upon their owne termes and at what rate they pleased In February 1650. upon full hearing in the Exchequer a Decree was made for full establishing the possession againe with the Petitioners which was published upon the place in presence of divers of the Inhabitants who having gotten Noddel Lilburn and Wildman on their side openly declared that e Here the Levellers are practicall to their

Tenent which is not to allow of any Sheriffs Judges ●ustices of Peace Mayors Bailiffs Aldermen throughout the Nation but all these as of Conquest Tyranny they wil have pluckt up by the roots Light shining in ●ucking 1 part p. 10 11. they would not give any obedience thereunto nor to any Order of the Exchequer or Parliament and said they could make as good a Parlament themselves Some said It is f You may see before who taught them this where they learnt to revile the Parl. Lilb being now King in the Levell that is fulfilled Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis a Parliament of clouts and that if they sent Forces they would raise Forces to resist them Moreover from words they proceeded to Action so that within tenn dayes time g They are not punishable for all this by the principles of Levellers They say No man is to he put to death for murder or any unrighteous Crime whatsoever nor to be imprisoned or punished any way only such are to worke and eate their owne bread And he or they that shall inflict any other punishment upon fellow Creatures is an unrighteous Actor in the Creation For it is a mighty dishonour to our Maker that one part of the Creation should destroy another New light of Righteousness p. 60 61. 69. Again he that will rule over imprison oppresse and kill his fellow Creatures under whatsoever pretence is a destroyer of the Creation and an actor of the curse and walkes contrary to the rule of Righteousnesse The true Levellers Standard pag. 9. they totally debolished the whole Town of Santoft and other houses thereabout to the number of 82 Habitations defaced the Church burnt Stables and out-houses broke in pieces a Wind-mill destroyed all the Corn and Rapes on the ground not lesse then 3400 acres so as the damage done at this time appears by good testimonie to be 80000 l. or more It is said of Sylla Richard 3. that they commanded others under great penalties to be just and vertuous whereas themselves walked clean contrary What a deal of talk had Lilb made of Honesty Law and Justice and yet none more injurious arbitrary tyrannicall then he where ever he could thrust in and have opportunity to exercise the same As by what follows will more appear The Land being thus laid wast the meeting place defaced the h This also is agreeable to the Levellers Doctrine for they will not have any buying or selling any Markets or Faires to be kept no civill trading at all for to do so is to take the marke of the Beast Light shining in Bucking 1 part pag 3. Now to destroy whole Towns at ōce is to put down buying selling and all Commerce whole Town with all the houses mill and out-houses depopulated and the precious Corn destroyed and all this through Lilburns means and his Confederates In the next place the former being a preparative as the needle goes before the threed There is i There was a peace concluded between Allyattes and Astiages by drinking each others blood this was no other agreemēt but bloody and cruell an agreement between Mr. Lilburn Cum socijs and severall men of the Mannor of Epworth That in consideration of k Dives qui fieri vult cito vult fieri sed quae reverentia legum quis meius aut pudor est unquam properantus amari unde habeat quaerit nemo sed oportet habere Juvenal 2000 Acres of land formerly wast to be given to Lilburn and Wildman and 200 Acres to Noddel they shall l There is all the reason in the world that he who causeth men to riot and rebel should defend them in it defend them from all those Riots Insurrections a thing easily done and maintaine them in possession of all the rest of the 7400 Acres before laid wast and keep them dry Here deeds and writings were drawn up and seal'd accordingly It seems by this that Mr. Lilburn was of opinion that m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 money makes a man and a poore man is neither excellent nor honourable This bargain being made Mr. Lilburn then with Noddel and others came to Stantoft Church on the Lords day where a French Congregation of Protestants were assembled together and most n Reader thou art to take notice that it is a Principle of the Levellers that men must leave off all TEACHING and instructing each other there is no use of Sermons Sacraments or Prayer Preachers are the curse and the spreaders of the curse standing ponds of stinking water yea the zealous Preachers are no other then Scribes Pharisees Judases Traytors Witches Sorcerers Deceivers They the People joyning together in publick worship is an abhomination Gathering Congregations Church fellowship all outward formes this say the Levellers is to betray Christ into the hands of Flesh a deceit of the Devill the government of the Beast Antichristian captivity and 't is to be under the tyrant flesh a new bondage a wrapping men in confusion the mysterie of iniquity only to hinder Christ the great Prophet from rising New light of Righteousness prophanely forced them from thence and told them they should not come thither any more unless they were stronger then they Having dispatch'd this Lords dayes worke he and Noddle goe then to another Mannor called Crowle and there they agree with some of that Mannor o Note how this man boasting of himself as it is usually his manner in capitall letters writes thus I am one that hath the principles of Freedom and Justice ingrafted in me and of an Englishman that loves my Countrey above all the Countries in the world and in a great measure hath the sense of my duty in acting towards its freedom and welfare ingraven upon my very heart In his letter to Mr. Kiffiin p. 6. compare his actions and words together In the Olympick Gāes he that was Conquerour did not put the Garlad on his own head but stayed till another did it for him But Mr. Lilburn is alwayes forward to commend himself It seems he dwels by bad neighbours to assist them as they had done the people of Epworth to get the Commons into their possession In order whereunto they advise them that they should impound the Tenants Cattell and if they repleev'd them to impound them againe and to breake downe all their Fences and to eate up all their Crops and so to tyre them out unlesse they became Tenants to them This mutinous counsel of theirs was immediately put in practice whereupon the poore Tenants being terrified and seeing their condition was like to be no other then their Neighbours through necessity and seeing otherwise they were undone tooke leases from Jasper Margrave and George Storin who gave bonds to save them harmless Thus were the Petitioners p Lucrum improbis justitia fit praestantius outed possession of both these Mannors When Dyonisius in the story had

rob'd an idoll Temple and at his return by Sea had a faire gale and pleasant weather to waft him home with his spoyls See saith he how the Heavens smile upon us and how the gods are pleased with what we have done It 's likely enough all things going thus prosperously forward Mr. Lilburn might say in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it but a Heathen could have taught him otherwise q 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cernit deus omnia judex But to proceed with our discourse At the making of those Leases Nodell openly declared in the presence of twenty persons that he would lay twenty shillings with any man that AS SOON as Lilburn came to London there should be r And reason too For what Truant would not rather have the rod burnt then to be whipt with it a new Parliament no doubt but the other had told him so and Lilburn would ſ But where then is the people liberty and freedom if M. Lilburn may doe all this call this Parliament to an account so said Jacke Stra● and Wat●yler ●urther adding that seeing they had now t Post dulcia a mara sweet meat will have sowre sauce finished this of Lincolnshire meaning by riots and fraud gotten the lands from the Petitioners they u Not stay till they are sent for But note here how to go from Towne to Towne and cast down I●clo●u●es this the law mak's levying warre and so Treason how will Noddel answer this would goe over into York shire to the rest of the Levells and doe the like there and so would g●ve x So doe Thiev's make worke for the Hang man but they had been better to hav● sate still worke enough to the Attorney Generall One thing more at another time was delivered by the said Nodell Having now stated their Case they would print it and naile it the Parliament doore and if they would not do them Justice they would come up and make an out-cry and y And why not destroy them too as so many Weasels and Poulcats It seems the man is but a learner yet pull them out by the eares Neither is it to be forgotten that the aforesaid agreement being made viz. the 2200. acres of land to be divided between Lilburn Wildman and Noddel this they caused immediately to be measured out and took the same into their possession according to the proportions mentioned And agreed with severall persons to let out some considerable part thereof whereupon Mr. Lilburn he repairs the house built for the Minister partly pul'd downe by the Rioters before and puts his servant therein to keep possession and having driven away both the Shepheard and the Flock hee employes the place in which they publiquely met to the use of a Stable Cow house Slaughter-house and to lay his hay and straw therein This being so nomen mutatum Instead of Sir Arthur Haslerig Lilburns name being read whether the Petitioners may not truly say in a A just reproof to Haberdashers Hall p. 37. Again as in another place Mr. Lilburn hath most maliciously premeditately and in a despight contempt of the Law of England and most treacherously in subversion thereof hath exercised a tyrannical arbitrary power over and above the Law A preparative to a Huc Cry pag. 36. his own words Lieut. Coll John Lilburn and his associates have destroyed and levelled our proprieties and in our Case subverted the Laws and Liberties of England and exercised an arbitrary and tyrannicall power over us without any shadow or colour from Order Ordinances or Act of Parliament to the unsufferable and unspeakable indignity and dishonour of the Parl. We shall adde no more but close with this It is witnessed upon oath that Mr. Wildman was present when Mr. Lilburn made the bargain That they two in consideration of * Nec venit in mentem quorum consideris armis 2000 Acres and 200 to Noddel of the land so laid waste should defend the Inhabitants from all b Sueonius writeth that a Physiognomer being demanded what he thought concerning the naturall inclination of Tiberius the Emperour Answered I see in him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dirt mingled with blood Thereby intimating that he would prove a covetous and cruell Emperour the dirt in his complexion representing filthy lucre and blood cruelty Riots both past and to come and at their charge maintaine them in the possession of the 52000 Acres And likewise was present when the Deeds were sealed to Mr. Lilburn and himself of the 2000 acres according to the conditions aforesaid so that the truth of the c Accipias nunc O anium insidias crimine ab uno disce omnes Virg. Aene. lib. 2. Narrative is not any way questionable Because this business is depending in Parliament who no doubt are very sensible of the high Insolencies and abuses committed and will doe Justice therein accordingly we shall say the lesse to it only will give the Reader some Observations upon the whole 1. Howsoever Mr. Lilburn seemes sometimes to be so tender of the Law as if none like himself were so conformable to the practicall part thereof d It remains upon record to the lasting infamy of the Cardinal of Cremona that standing and pleading against Priests marriages was himselfe taken the night following in bed with a whore No lesse is it a sin and shame to this man to plead so much as somtime he will do for Law Justice and at other times when it is to satisfie his owne lust and pleasure not a greater trāsgressor of law and justice then he Neverthelesse where he hath seene profit and advantage there hee hath made it but as a Spiders webb blown it easily away and broken thtough it Coke sometimes is his great Master but in this business of Hatfield Chase he will allow of no such Cook to dress his meat In the third part of his Institutes concerning high Treason hee hath these words e Ch 1 p. 9 10 There is a diversity saith hee between levying of Warre and committing of a great riot a Rout or an unlawfull Assembly f See Rot. Parl. in Cro. Epipham 20. Edw. 1. Rot. 23 Humfrey de Bobuns Case 4 Eliz. 210. b. Dier See the Stat. of 2 Mar. Cap. 2. By which grand Riots in some Cases are made Felonie Pasch 39 Eliz. by all the Judges of England he being Attorney Gen and present For exampl as if three or four or more do rise to burn or put downe any Inclosure in Dale which the Lord of the Mannor of Dale hath made there in that particular place this or the like is a Riot a Rout or an unlawfull Assembly and no Treason But if they had risen of purpose to alter Religion established within the Realm or Lawes or to g The very Case which Lilburn undertakes to defend thē in both in respect of what they had done or

should do GOE FROM TOWNE TO TOWNE GENERALLY AND TO CAST DOWNE INCLOSVRES this is a levying of Warre though there be no great number of the Conspirators within the purvene of this Statute because the pretence is publique and generall and not private in particular And so it was resolved in Case of Richard Bradshaw Miller Robert Burton Mason and others of Oxfordshire whose Case was That they h Observe how the like was practised by the persons formerly mentioned and a resolution taken up to goe forward and to cast down Inclosures and Towns one after another conspired and agreed to assemble themselves with so many as they could procure at Enslow-Hill in the said County and there to rise and from thence to goe from Gentlemans house to Gentlemans house to cast downe Inclosures as well for inlargement of i Here we may see what fair pretences can be made for foul offences It was for Enlargement that Mr. Lilb had a chief stand in those Riots but not to enlarge high wayes but to ēlarge himself with 1000 acres Space way enough for one time high ways as of arrable lands And they agreed to get Armour and Artillerie at the Lord Norris his house and to weare them in going from Gentlemans house to Gentlemans house for the purpose aforesaid and to that purpose perswaded divers others and all this was confessed by the offenders And it was resolued That this was a compassing and intention to levie Warr against the Queen because the pretence was publick within the Statute of 13 Eliz. Cap. and the Offenders were attainted and executed at Enslow-hill How Mr. Lilburn here can k Here wee suppose Mr. Lilb wil need some Logick with his Law either in Actu signato and quo ad speciem or in actu exercito and quo ad invidium how speciated by its object individuated by is circumstāces quit himselfe from Treason or Fellonie according to Coke unlesse by a Jurie of his owne choosing who will not finde him guilty for any Insurrection or Conspiracy against the State be the thing never so clearly prov'd we leave it as a Querie to men better skil'd in the Law then our selves But 2. by this it doth appear that he remembred not the proverb A burnt child dreads the fire For who but m Hanniball used to say of Marcellus that hee was such an Enemy as would not be quiet whether Conquerour or conquered Mr. Lilb thanking his honorable Jurie came off Conquerour yet he could not for his life sit still but there being a Cōmotion and Insurrection in the Countrey yea though but one yet whosoever is out he will be sure to have his hand in it himself having a little before so narrowly escaped punishment for sedition would have thrown himselfe again head long into the danger Theseus is said to cut off his golden locks least his enemies should take advantage by taking hold of them It is possible he may think that to make tumults and commotions in the Nation is an n As Ishmael might have gloried when it was said of him He will be a wild man his hand will be against every man and every mans hand against him ornament and credit to him Notwithstanding seeing hee gives his Enemies hereby so much advantage as to take hold of him it were better hee did cut off those golden locks in giving over such contentious courses which will prove his ruine fall at last 3. Should such a president as this be left without due execution of Justice in what o The Law saith paena unius est multorum metus Praes I●u In Cod. lib. 3. c. 27. ad leg Jul. Again Qui punit injustos in caeteris prohibet fieri injuriam danger were the whole Common-wealth For if men shall be secured and protected from the Law for all their riots past what after they shall commit what should hinder the multitude from raising continual Insurrections every where and to make Lilburns plea Propriety Libertie Free-Commoners c. In the dayes of Ptolomeus Philopater when the huge and great Anchor of the ship Thalmegos was laid out upon the shore the children of Alexandria did ride upon the stalke and crept through the ring of the Anchor as if it had been made for pastime of Children But wise ship-men knew it was appointed for better use namely to stable and make sure the great Vessel in great tempestuous storms Just so do some men serve the Law if the p Foolish birds frighted a little at first with the Husbandmans scar-crow and after a while observing that it stirs not are bold to sit upon it desire it So Rioters Mutiners when they see the law is not put in execution against them become the more bold proceed from evill to evill execution thereof be neglected they are ready to ride on it and runn thorow it as if it were made only for sport But wise States-men know it was appointed for better use namely when Turbulent spirits cause Riots and Commotions in the Land to preserve then in such a storm the great Vessell of the Common-wealth by a due and careful proceeding against them especially to make the q Pectora magnis obsessa malis non sunt ict● ferienda levi Authors and Ring-leaders Exemplary Thus wee have shewed what Mr. Lilburns carriage and deportment was before his Banishment and have fully prov'd the Assertion or Charge to wit That no man more deservedly hath been banished out of the Common-wealth of England for grand misdemeanors against the Reipublick then he And therefore it is not true as wee said before that the reason and cause of his banishment should be of some difference or particular Quarrell between Sir Arthur Haslerig and him Neither is it true which he writes to the Generall r In a printed letter p. 2. That Primats businesse and nothing else was the cause of his Banishment For howsoever that businesse occasioned his banishment yet originally and chiefly it was not the cause but the ſ Our State here follow'd that saying Cuncta prius tentanda sed immedicabile vulnus ense recidendum ne pars sincera trahatur Ovid. whole series of his former Treasons practiced against the State he having made it his t For not only before his banishment but whilst he was beyond Sea and since his return he hath sought the ruine of this Nation And therfore wee may well say a continual constant work continuall and constant study and worke to destroy the welfare and peace of the Nation Now to the end that neither he himselfe nor any other may think we have taken this work in hand either without cause or not called thereunto we desire it may be noted how we are in a manner dar'd and challenged to it If the u Should hee not be well employd to reply to his slanders and falshood Regium est male audire bene facere

now troubles them viz. that in the absence of their Land Army the true lovers of the Liberties and Freedoms of England should have had an opportunity thereby to imbodie together and so force the establishing of their long promised and long contended for Rights and Freedoms And then k We know he looks for such a night in which England may have cause to say venit summa dies meluctabile tempus Britaniae c. good-night Oliver and all his hypocriticall Cheats It is an opinion among the Turks that untill men come to be of their Religion they are Meshumadim sinners and lost but turning Turkes Musulmamim servati as if then they were saved and not before Whosoever will looke over this mans Books shall find that so long as people are sober peaceable well-affected to the Government established they are with him no lovers of the Liberties and Freedoms of England But if they turn Rebels and Traytors against the State which hee calls imbodying together l As Saul held them all for his enemies that would not joyn with him to destroy David Only Doeg is his true friend then servati gallant blades true Burford friends worthy Souldiers c. 3. Neither is it without ground to believe that such words were spoken by him considering what is here said as to the meanes and way how he would destroy the Parl. and Councell of State it is the same which else-where he declares publiquely to the world viz. by m There have been so many of these Agents whipt and sent to Bridewell being the rascality of the Nation as few desire to follow the Trade any longer Agents which should spread his papers abroad to instigate the people against the Parl. What these Papers are and the issue and effect which he expects by them he tels us thus I have a long time in my imagination laid downe a n Cau●e si non Caste method to myself which I would not o That which is bred in the flesh will hardly come out of the bones willingly go from by me to be used in appearing in print againe to the world rationally and p Of this we have spoken viz. the severall wiles and ways which hee hath used to destroy the Parl. Army methodically to prepare and make way for my former Appeale to the q Here wee must understand his Agents for to others his writings have bin a trouble and a burden but qualis herus talis servus body of the People of England Now to know his meaning here This writing is intended against his cruell Judges who meerely for the accomplishing their owne ends tooke away the Kings life that so when they had slain him they might take possession of his Power and Estate and at their pleasure r Who tooke away 2000 acres of land divided it divide it among themselves and their slaves and by the strentgh and power of it ſ The fruit of a tree in the West Indies called Yogma will fatten swine but it 's naught for men We see how this man fills his belly with reproaches and rayling which to others is most hatefull domineer arbitrarily and ●yrannically over the lives liberties and Estates of the anciently free people of England c. Therefore to destroy these Tyrants I will saith he do the best I can in my Appeal to discover the cheats of Alchymie Saint Oliver and his gracelesse Tribe in that Vote Also I will t Here some things are left out viz. with Machiavels principles and Jesuiticall doctrine instruct the people of England in the best way method or form that I can to set themselves in to obtaine the reall exercise of their declared rightfull supream power And also produce them severall u Namely from John of Leyden Wat Tyler Cades Kets such like having gotten the quintesence of them all Presidents from the practice of the people in the Ancient and most famous Common-wealths of Rome and the Ancient Graecian Common-wealths of Athens Corinth Thebes c. y If he have read such Stories he can tell us something how the Supreame Authority of these Common-wealths dealt with Incendiaries and can tell us of hundreds some that have been banished others put to death for less Treason then he hath commited against our State How they practiced their Supream power upon many occasions even upon the greatest Generals Noble-men x If he had not told us this himself we should not have thought he had read much more then Magna Charta and our owne English Law-books Senators or Parliament-men they had And there is abundantly more Reason and Ground for the people of England NOW TO CONTEST EVEN TO THE DEATH for the Election from among themselves of Tribunes or Keepers or Defenders against the annihilating incroachments that their present tyrannicall Riders have already made upon them then ever in the dayes of old c. Whilst there was a contest among the birds about a Rose found in the way a mischievous Owl came in the night and carried the flower away It is probable enough could he but occasion the a This contest which he speaks of is like the Herb Cohobba w ch being snuffed up into a mans nostrils makes him mad such a powder he gives to his Agents contest he speaks of viz. make a dissention and breach between Parliament and people hee would cunningly deceive all parties and get the Rose to himselfe But let us heare what he saith further And also I will b His shewes are like those fires which by night appeare burning on hills which if a man follow they will insensibly lead him into terrible downfalls the truth of which he hath experienced himself and many more by his occasion shew them Grounds and Reasons to demonstrate clearly to them that there is in manner a great necessity for them to contest for the establishing by a law as to contest for the fafety of their lives those two essentiall Maxims without which England in a Common-wealth can never be free viz. First that the Chief Commander of their Militia or the Generall of their Forces by Sea or Land be often removed at least once every two years upon pain of c The Romans in great perils created a Dictator by whose command all things were done It is much seeing Mr. Lilburn is so skill'd in history specially the Roman that he acquaints not the people with this office it 's likely he thinks they would not choose him and therefore it 's conceal'd immediate death upon the least refusall to surrender his Command 2. That they make strict sure provision for the keeping out at one and the same time divers of one familie or kindred in their chief places Seeing Mr. Lilburn pretends to have some knowledg in the history of Common-wealths wee shall tell him what was practised in the Common-wealth of the Lycians There it was ordained that all those that propounded