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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94165	An anatomy of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn's spirit and pamphlets. Or, A vindication of these two honorable patriots Oliver Cromwel, Ld Governor of Ireland, and Sir Arthur Haslerig, Knight baronet, from the unworthy and false aspersions by him cast on them in two libels; the one intituled, An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, &c. The other, A preparative to a hue and cry against Sir Arthur Haslerig: wherein the said Lilburn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar, and unworthy of civil converse.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.; T. M.	1649 (1649)	Wing S6290; Thomason E575_21; ESTC R204578	18,441	24

and that he had never seen them at any such Meetings The Gentlemen having seen the Reason why they were sent for and saying that Blank was a very naughty young fellow and they knew both him and his Father returned to their houses and the Commissary General and Colonel Pride kept Blank and the said Eddington which Blank said was Sir Peter Rockets Servant for a further discovery of the truth Then it being between two or three in the morning Sir Arthur Haslerig went from S. James's to his Lodging and never since that time ever saw Blank or heard from him neither did he at any time give him any money or promise of money But about two or three days after speaking with the Commissary General he told Sir Arthur that what ever Blank had said or written were lyes and that Blank was adjudged to run the Gantlope and surely if he were not well whipt the Souldiers deserve to be blamed and whereas Lilburn says he was no Souldier it will be affirmed on Oath that Blank confest to an Officer of the Army that he was of Col. Hortons Regiment of Horse and that of the Colonels own Troop and that his horse stood at Sawpots the Kings-head in Grays-in-lane and desired a Certificate to Col Horton to excuse his absence from the Troop Then Sir Arthur hearing that after he had run the Gantlope he went to the Tower to Iohn Lilburn and thereupon Lilburn began to blazon these false reports that he hath since printed Sir Arthur being to go into the North delivered all Blanks Informations with his own hand and signed with his own name to Mr Iohn Price at the Exchange entreating him to publish the truth of that story if need required And thus you see how guilty Sir Arthur is of murther in conspiring to take away his life but the man hath got Cains spirit and is afraid that every man that sees him will destroy him see what it is to have a guilty conscience But his fear yet encreases and page 9. relates a long story of one Thomas Varney which Sir Arthur imployed to entrap him and so to take away his life As for this Varney Sir Arthur verily thinks he never saw him unless it should be one Varney that was son to the Marshal that was killed at Edg-hill that was a Trooper under him and ran to the Enemy when he was in the West if that be the man he hath not seen him nor spoke with him nor heard from him this five or six years if it be not the man he knows neither first nor last any thing of him nor the design before he saw it in Lilburns Pamphlet Parturiunt montes What is become of all these high and great expressions Do not you think Readers that Sir Arthur Haslerig is a man not fit for humane society that he deserves death more then the Earl of Strafford and may be knocked in the head like a Polecat c. I need make no Application There is one additional Charge yet which I will but name that is That Sir Arthur was none of the Committee and his Uncle George thinks the same whereas Sir Arthur Haslerig was authorized by the Parliament to sit in all Commissions and Committees in the four Northern Counties and it 's happy for the Bishoprick he is one else his Uncle would play as mad pranks there as Iohn doth above You now see Reader the picture of Iohn Lilburn what a fair and lovely aspect he casts upon honest men what a precious savour flows from his Pen how worthy this man is to live among humane society or to model States and Governments that makes no conscience of traducing scandalizing lying what desperate and dangerous principles he acts upon holding private murther in revenge to be lawful esteeming the life of an honest man if but dissenting from him or doing him any particular wrong to be no more then the life of a beast of prey and if these be his serious thoughts in cold blood if you can imagine him to be at any time in a cool sober temper what may he not attempt to do in his raging raptures It maybe very probably expected that he which hath given such a licence to his Pen to vent his malice may let loose his hands to do some such horrible act as private and wilful murther that he may confirm by his practise what he entertains as his principle and it 's just with God that these which make lyes their refuge should make destruction their end But to come more specially to a review of the great Charge and consider the damages between Sir Arthur and Iohn Lilburn he chargeth him with robbing of him of 24 or 2500 l. which you see is every word of it false with endeavouring to take away his life which you see is a lye But what recompence may Sir Arthur Haslerig demand nay what recompence can Iohn Lilburn give to him and the other Gentleman considering the disproportion of the persons who hath endeavoured to stretch the utmost limits of malice to blast their reputations and take their good names from them which Solomon professeth in Prov. 22.1 is better and rather to be chosen then great riches What is rob'd and stoln from me may be made up again seven-fold but my name that is like a glass that holds some precious liquor once broken can hardly ever be made up again in that beauty and firmness as it was before A good name it 's the perfume of noble spirits and actions without which men stink as they walk in the world and is the only reward in this world of vertue and prowess by this men live when they dye and are famous to eternity What a Cannibal is this Lilburn then And what a ravenous spirit hath he that nothing but the ruine of the honour and good names of the most deserving men can content his malice What is Lilburns 24 or 2500 l. to make up such a breach But the man is sensible of no dishonour himself his person or fortunes being never yet capable of any The Romans were so sensible of the names of the Citizens or Freemen of Rome that they made special Laws with most severe punishments against Libellers or any that should write Pamphlets to defame any Free-man or take away his good report Cicero lib. 4. de repub flagitium capital esto Let it be a capital offence that is as he expounds it quod capitis poena luitur which shall endanger a mans head but publikely to defame any man without legal conviction And in paudectis ex ulpiano he that shall write to defame and scandalize a Citizen whether without name or in the name of another or by his own name Intestabilis ex lege esse jubetur that was the character the Law gave him that is qui nec testamentum facere potest nec ad testimonium adheberi testis was never to be beleeved more in whatever he said nor his testimony ever

the world with his scandalous Libels as now he hath Thus you have John Lilburns Impeachment and these his horrid crimes of Treason for which Lieut. Gen. Cromwel deserves to dye so many thousand deaths according to his Law Can any man believe this man ever consulted so much as with his sensus communis much less either with God or Nature when he writ this Pamphlet Or that ever he reviewed his expressions after they dropt from the fury of his spirit Or can any man imagine that this man is not more fit for Bedlam then for the drawing up fundamental Principles of Government But I pity him for certainly he never thought any man of understanding or seriousness would ever read his Pamphlets It hath been a just judgment of God on him since he left off conversing with the Principles of Religion to let an unclean spirit possess him wherby that he might follow the devils art exactly he hath ever opposed those delighted to cast dirt in the faces of those that have been most publique Instruments and God from heaven hath most honoured to do service to his people But I have done with his Impeachment and only add this The Gentleman who he thus slanders hath that character of respect in the hearts of all that love the good of this Nation that no such Momus can deface by the blackest slanders he can lay on him For me to make encomiums of his vertues and deserts from this Nation were but to set paint on burnisht marble he is now gone to do more work in another Nation and may he do as faithful and gallant service there as he hath done in England while John Lilburn swells up himself in rage and malice vomits nothing but Treason and Murther against him and other true-hearted Englishmen I am now come to his preparative to a Hue and Cry after Sir Arthur Hasterig for the Gentleman you see is big with more wrath and because Cromwel is gone and he cannot follow him to Ireland that he may not be out of action Sir Arthur must be the next subject of his envy and wrath as if railing and lying were his element he is so endeared to it that he is resolved to hazard his very life in the acting of it I dare not repeat his Title with all the expressions of it lest I trouble the Reader again with the ill savour of them he that reads them would think Sir Arthur had been a monster and no man that he was not fit to breathe in a common air But that now at last the world may see what a man of discontent and unhappiness this Iohn Lilburn is before the end of the story you shall find him a perfect Lyar one that cares not what he says so he may say something to disgrace I confess I have had but little personal acquaintance with Sir Arthur Haslerig or with the other Gentleman and know not what invisible and particular infirmities common to mankind he may labour under I am not of that opinion but that the best of men have their Errata's as well as Lieut. Col. Iohn Lilburn But for his publique transactions in the North I have followed this Hue and Cry throughout the four Northern Counties the publique stage of his actions and find his name exceeding precious among honest men and I can say with the vote of all but Malignants unto whom he hath been a just terror that they bless God that ever he came to the North and do think it was as seasonable and prudential an act to send him to be Governor of Newcastle as any act of a like nature done by the Parliament and could heartily wish every Garison had such a Governor and every Regiment such a Colonel But Iohn Lilburn as if he were the Epitome of all Freedom and Liberty the Centre of all Oppressions the publique and great person against whom onely Treason and Murther can be committed Presidium dulce decus the safeguard and glory of the Nation complains and cries out on Sir Arthur for but a common an ordinary act which yet is most falsly reported as a Felon a Murtherer c. though all the North rejoyce and bless God for his presence and honesty But his diligence and industry his vigilance and interest the last year when the Scots came in may well be printed as one great cause of the Preservation of the North notwithstanding his brother Henry Lilburn at the same time betrayed Tinmouth Castle His fair and equal carriage and respect to all honest men though of several judgments his discountenancing Malignants his severe and careful improvement of Sequestrations for the use of the State make his name more precious to honest men then all or any or a thousand like expressions can to render it unsavory But let us follow the Hue and Cry and see more particularly what the man storms so much for The Reader may see that the ground of this Hue and Cry is a Letter written from George Lilburn whom he calls Esquire that the World may beleeve he hath a Gentleman to his Uncle though it 's well known before these times he never had the birth breeding nor estate of a Gentleman his carriage in the Parliament service will be shortly discovered that if you consider but the Letter à quo and the Letter ad quem you will be pretty well satisfied of the ground of the Pamphlet a suspected and guilty Uncle writes to a discontented and malicious Nephew and between them both they bring forth a Monster called A Hue and Cry The Uncle is under examination and like to have strange things proved against him viz. That he hath been a Malignant formerly and since he hath profest to be a Parliamenteer hath cheated the State And hath now no way left him to make the world beleeve he is honest but by defaming Sir Arthur before whom most of his Knaveries are already and are to be heard And no fitter Instrument for to do it but John Lilburn a man of a desperate and lost fortune Two things he lays to Sir Arthurs Charge as heinous and unpardonable Crimes First That he hath Feloniously robbed him of between twenty four and twenty five hundred pounds Secondly That he hath brib'd false witnesses to take away his life For proof of the first page 3. he saith He cannot but wonder upon what pretence Sir Arthur Haslerig and Colonel George Fenwick and the rest of the Committee at Newcastle can seize upon his Estate in the hands of Sir Henry Bellingham and Thomas Bowes and stop his Rents due from Sir Henry Gibb his hands to the full value of betwixt twenty four and twenty five hundred pounds So that it is most apparent by his own exprrssion That if any thing was done it was not by Sir Arthur alone but by the whole Committee He saith That they have stopped Rents due to him from Sir Hen Gibb his hands to the value of about twenty four or twenty five hundred