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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 are not subject to fall into the same distempers unto the perusing of them But shall view him in his last works which should be his best and most solemn manifestations of himself especially seeing he thinks he is so nigh his death I have read of late two Pamphlets under his name and authority and by them you may probably guess of the rest The Title of the first being An Impeachment of High Treason against Mr OLIVER CROMWEL and his Son in Law HENRY IRETON for so he is pleased to stile them and the last A Preparative to a Hue and Cry against Sir ARTHVR HASLERIG At the reading of the Titles I was much amazed the accusations being so high and affirmations so positive and the language so terrible that I began to reflect on the Gentlemen with strange apprehensions and to wonder that such men should live and be so much in the eyes of honest men and yet be guilty of such Crimes that all the Villains and Traytors in this Nation never equalled them and was impatient to be in the midst of his Pamphlets to hear their Charge expecting the Titles to be but a shadow and a name onely to that substance of proof I should finde against them not dreaming that any man could be so impudent and carry such a face of brass and wickedness as to abuse not onely others but himself so demonstratively if he had not much against them and that by the evidence of noon day But contrary to all this when I looked for to have seen the horrible Crimes written with a Sun beam and terrifying my spirit at the first appearance I could finde little else but the Copies of Letters and Petitions empty and foolish gloryings in himself railing upon other men and the whole Parliament equal with them which made me much more to wonder what was become of the Religion Conscience Modesty and Sobriety of the man and to conclude that certainly he was either drunk or in a dream when he writ these sheets But that all honest men may know him for the future I shall take so much pains as to consider his Charge against these two Gentlemen viz. against Lievt Gen. Cromwel now Lord Governor of Ireland and Sir Arthur Haslerig now Governor of Newcastle on Tine men of such integrity and honor that John Lilburn could not pitch on two less capable of his malice and reproach then they and that though against his will his calumnies will be but foils to set off their honesty and innocency with greater grace to all ingenuous and sober men To his Impeachment of High Treason of Mr Oliver Cromwel as he calls him the first question by any man that reads the Charge wil be Where are the Articles I have looked over the Pamphlet with as much diligence and observance as his method would permit me and I finde not one distinct Article of any misdemeanors that hath the shadow of a Charge much less of High Treason and the Highest Treason but onely a Letter to Mr Holland and a Challenge and a Prayer wherein he abuseth the blessed Name of the most High God and invocates him to destroy and root out the name of Cromwel and his posterity with such hideous imprecations that any Christian tongue would fail and stammer but to repeat much less to urge to God as a Prayer and some loose expressions about Cromwels complying with the King and his shedding the blood of War in the time of Peace but it may be this he intended as the Charge for which he calls him a Murtherer and a Traytor and says He deserves to dye rather then the late King or then all the Judges and Villains that have been condemned ever since the Conquest And if his meaning be so for there is nothing else that looks like it let the World be judg of the Treason For the first His compliance with the late King I shall say no more to it but this First If there were any such compliance or engagement doubtless the King would have made advantage enough of it especially would have manifested something of it to the world or given some hint of it that might have reflected on Cromwel while he lived and most especially when he saw what was like to be done with him by the Power of the Parliament and Army But the King neither by word nor in that Book which goes under his name doth give an intimation of any such compliance And secondly He hath manifested the contrary by his practise and constant opposition to him and his party ever since and of late by his strenuous endeavors to bring him to Justice by which all honest men may well be satisfied that it was but a slander and a whelp of John Lilburns malice Were John Lilburns compliance with Malignants in the Tower and other where printed we should soon have cause to sequester him from his 3000 l. in the Bishoprick of Durham It 's well known besides his trading in Cooks Institutes what Malignant converse he Judg Jenkins have had together some fruits of it we see in his Pamphlets but I will not impeach him you see Reader what his first Article amounts unto His second Charge whereby he calls him a wilful murtherer is For that he about the 15 of Novemb. 1647. near Ware in Hartford-shire wilfully and of set malice murthered Rich. Arnell and so shed the blood of War in the time of Peace That you may see the malice of this man and his unexpressible rage he taxeth Cromwel with that which was done by the whole Councel of War and by the General rather then by him who was but a Member and had only a single vote and he might rather say that the General and Councel of War murthered him then of Lieutenant General Cromwel yea he may as well say That it's murther to shoot a Souldier to death for any Mutiny or enormious crime whatever as for that and whereas he thinks to make up his Treason by this expression That it was the blood of War in the time of Peace Can he call it a time of Peace when an Enemy is but newly subdued and an Army kept up and an Enemy feared However that he may have his desire grant it to be a time of Peace that is that no visible Enemy appears yet doth not he deserve to dye that shall begin a new War in a time of Peace And shall when there is no common Enemy raise a Mutiny among the Souldiers which is the first principle of a War Nay is not he rather to be adjudged to death that when an Army hath conquered a common Enemy will begin a new War among themselves This is Richard Arnels cause who was a Ring-leader in that first Mutiny which was the first discovery of the levelling Agitators and their wicked intentions and had John Lilburn his due who was then coming to the Army but durst not appear among them he had not had the opportunity to have burthened

pounds In answer to that the Order of Parliament commanded That all Delinquents Rents not excepted from Pardon and Papists should be stayed in the Tenants hands till the first of September last and this Letter of Lilburns bears date the 18. of August So that then both Bellinghams Bowes and Gibbs Rents were all stayd by Authority of Parliament and not by Sir Arthurs arbitrary tyrannical will and power But to obey Orders of Parliament is Felony in John Lilburns Law And for Lilburns estate seized by Sir Arthur in the hands of Sir Henry Bellingham and Thomas Bowes they have both made their Compositions the Moyety of Bowes Fine came to Two hundred pounds which was payd into the Treasury the Moyety of Sir Henry Bellinghams Composition for his Lands in Bishoprick which did onely concern John Lilburn was about One pound and his chief Estate being in Westmerland Mr Richard Lilburn Father to John and one of the Committee gave his free consent and was very well contented that the Committee of Westmerland should receive that first Moyety due to his Son John and that Sir Henry Bellingham should pay the Moyety of his whole Fine to the Committee of Westmerland for the speedy disbanding of their Horse So that there was but onely Thomas Bowes Two hundred pounds either of Rent or Composition-money due to John Lilburn that came into the Treasury and Mr Richard Lilburn complaining to the Committee of his Sons great wants and necessities and desiring maintenance for him being in prison and relating his sad affliction by the sickness of his Wife and death of some of his Children and infection amongst the rest the Committee gave an Order to his Father for the receiving of that Two hundred pounds which accordingly was payd him and no doubt John Lilburn received it long since the Order being granted before his Letter bears date And thus you see not one penny either of Rents or Composition-moneys belonging to John Lilburn was before the 18. of August remaining in the Treasury neither is there as yet one penny of his money payd in Let all honest men therefore judg whether Sir Arthur Haslerig has robbed John Lilburn of between Twenty four and Twenty five hundred pounds and whether Sir Arthur Haslerig deserves or as John Lilburn prints may or ought to be knocked in the head as a Polecat Fox Wolf What humor and desperate fury possest the man that he thus foams out his own shame You see he hath perfectly learnt Machiavils great Principle of wickedness Calumniare audacter aliquid haerebit Slander to purpose something will stick But enough of that For the proofs of Lilburns second Charge of Sir Arthur bribing false witnesses to take away his life and to murther him it is in pag. 7. because he was one of his unjust Judges that for nothing committed him This needs no large Answer It is notoriously known the Parliament committed him for High Treason and his Pamphlets do sufficiently declare their grounds and surely such stuff was never written and published against any State or Supream Authority of any Nation and the Author most audaciously to justifie it For his second proof he prints a story of one William Blank this William Blank about the 13. of April last came to the door where the Councel of State then sate and delivered a Paper to Mr Frost the Secretary wherein he informed That one Sir Peter Rocket a Frenchman was in London and contriving a most dangerous Design against the Publique and that the said Sir Peter Rocket had been in London the year before stirring up the Citizens to rise in arms about the time of the siege at Colchester and that divers Citizens and Apprentices were combined with him After the Information was read the Councel of State appointed Lievt General Cromwel and Sir Arthur Haslerig to speak with Blank from time to time for discovery of that design and before that day Sir Arthur never saw him nor heard of him Blank thereupon went to the Lievt Generals house and finding his employments so great that he could not often speak with him went to Sir Arthur Haslerig and told him that two of Mr Rushworths the Lord Generals Secretaries servants were in the Plot against the State and named divers Merchants of quality in the City and told of their Meetings Debates and Resolutions in several places both in City and Country and that himself was present at their Meetings and heard their Debates and saw such such men at those Meetings and at last that the Resolution was the surprizing the General the taking of the President of the Councel of State the Speaker of the Parliament L. Gen. Cromwel divers of the chief Officers of the Army and to destroy them and others And that this way was carryed on by a Committee half of John Lilburns party and half of the Kings party and that they were all under an engagement by oath and named some members of one Mr Lambs Church and then told the appointed day when it should be put in execution which was about the 24 of April Blank spoke not a word to Sir Arthur but he made him to set it down with his own hand and put his name to it and kept a Diary of all his Informations from the time he came first to the Councel of State to the 24. of April the time when the Plot should have been acted and Blank gave the reason why that 24. day should be the day because that then such Officers were to be both at the Lord Generals house and upon the Guards as were privy to the Designs Then Sir Arthur with the advice of the Lievt General acquainted Commissary General Ireton with it the day growing very neer when the Plot should be effected and that very night as Blank informed the Malignants should rise upon the winding of a Horn. Sir Arthur carryed Blank to Commissary General Ireton at S. James's and He and Colonel Pride and some other Officers marvelling at Blanks confident speeches concerning the Design and examining him in all his Papers he affirming that these things were true they presently apprehended two of Mr Rushworths Servants and they were brought to S. James's face to face before Blank they denyed their ever seeing him or being at any such place as he mentioned and he affirmed and they denyed Commissary General Ireton and Colonel Pride then took care of the chief Officers of the Guard and sent some Officers with Blank to apprehend some of the Citizens viz. George Almoner William Seubal John Arrowsmith James Eddington whom they found in their houses and in bed and they brought them about one a clock in the night to S. Iames's when they came it appeared they were the Parliaments very good friends and all the Informations that Blank had given were all false and had not the least colour or shadow of truth in them and Blank did before their faces acknowledg that what he had set under his hand was false