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lord_n	heart_n	speak_v	word_n	18,801	5	4.3019	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88221	Malice detected, in printing certain informations and examinations concerning Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, the morning of his tryal; and which were not at all brought into his indictment.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2141; Thomason E705_19; ESTC R202788	1,843	7

Malice detected In Printing certain INFORMATIONS And EXAMINATIONS CONCERNING Lieut. Col. JOHN LILBURN The morning of his TRYAL AND Which were not at all brought into his INDICTMENT Printed at LONDON 1653. Good men of England YOu cannot but take notice with what bitterness of spirit and malice altogether unbecoming the profession of Christianity my life is prosecuted no stone hath been left unturned no stratagem unattempted to render me odious and fit for death in the esteem of my friends my Jury and the Parliament My weaknesses and infirmities which God knows are many whose wisdom I have often implored by his divine assistance to lessen not only these I say are by Agents of the basest of men purposely sent abroad aggravated to the highest extremity but they do also lay to my charge things that I know not and that my soul abhors This very morning of my Tryal they have printed a Book full of the most abominable falsities that ever proceeded from the wicked heart of the falsest man They know how I am on every hand beset with subtil crafty and bloody-minded Prosecutors whom at my Tryal I have to deal withal how I have been wearied and spent in my spirits since my coming over having had hardly any leasure to sleep or eat how I am at this time straitned my Tryal being upon me and it being therefore almost impossible that I should give any answer to that malicious Paper They have confidently dispersed it supposing that its poison will insinuate it self into the understandings of men without any possibility of an Antidote I do therefore desire all good men who love Truth above Fiction and whose hearts are not tainted with the desire of Blood to consider these Particulars offered to shew the falsity and malice of these informations being yet not the hundredth part of what I could say were I not so oppressed with multitude of cogitations First be pleased to take notice that before and about the time of my Tryal at Guild-hall there were in the same manner many Rumours dispersed of my correspondencie with the King and the mouths of many of my friends stopt by telling them that they had matters of that nature so notorious against me evidently shewing my tampering with the King the which they would produce under my own hand at my Tryal that when they should see them they would be ashamed to own me yet when my Tryal came not the least sillable of that nature was produced so that then it appeared all was feigning and falsitie to byass the People and my Jury and make me fit for slaughter Secondly the particular of greatest weight in these informations is That I should offer the Duke of Buckingham Sir Ralph Hopton and other Cavaliers abroad upon the procurement of ten thousand pounds to destroy the Lord General the Parliament and Councel of State and that as Captain Titus informs in half an hour To this I answer That never any words of this nature passed from my mouth or any such thoughts ever entred into my heart the Lord the Almightie God is my witness and those persons to whom these words are pretended to be spoken will I am well assured attest as much though besides I do judge the folly of the speeches above-named and the ridiculous impossibilitie therein contained will sufficiently manifest that they are the officious coynage of Spies and Intelligencers some whereof are no better then Knights of the Post who to gain repute with their Masters have basely forged those suggestions knowing well how great a means it is likely to prove to bring them into favour Thirdly as to that acquaintance I have had with the Duke I have spoken thereunto largely in my Declaration printed since my coming over wherein I manifest that it was onely in order to his coming into England upon such terms as should be acceptable to the General and Parliament Fourthly and lastly it is a stratagem of a new nature and far unsutable to the way of true Christians to print against the prisoner under Tryal such particulars as are altogether forraign and nothing relating to the way of his Indictment I believe it is a malice that can scarcely be parallel'd I am sure I finde no such course taken by the blood-thirsty prosecutors of our blessed Saviour and his Apostles Doubtless if there were any thing of truth material in these informations which they could have proved they would have brought them into my Indictment and have given me liberty fairly and in open Court to have made my defence But it was sufficient to their end that they should the morning of my Tryal against which time they were particularly provided work their effect in corrupting the understanding of those into whose hands my life is intrusted little expecting that I should have this opportunitie to speak this little in my own defence leaving the further clearing of these particulars to a time of better leasure if it shall please God to afford it unto me though I am not over-sollicitous for the matter if at least my death may be of greater advantage to the undeceiving of the People and recovery of their Liberties then my preservation Into the hands of God I commit my self Death or Life as shall seem good to him shall be alike welcome John Lilburne FINIS