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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88918	Match me these two: or The conviciton [sic] and arraignment of Britannicus and Lilburne. With an answer to a pamphlet, entituled, The parliament of ladies.		1647 (1647)	Wing M1077; Thomason E400_9; ESTC R201743	8,685	16

you who hath made the Natives of great Britaine a mockery and a word of reproach to all Nations who hath dared to flie in the face of his Maker to contemn accuse and vilify his Soveraigne with such invective taunts and reproachfull termes that not all the Histories in the world report of one in any age so desperately inclin'd and impudently incorrigible he hath hitherto escaped the hand of justice and hath nourished himself no doubt with vain hopes that he should never render an account for his insolencies but now the time is arrived that he must suffer for his sinnes and be made an example of justice to posterity Britanicus having heard his charge read with Philos speech most lively characterizing him was licenced to answer for himself who no lesse bold of speech then impudent in writing said My worthy and learned Judges it doth not the least affright me to render an account to you whom I know to have drank deep of the Pierian fount to be conversant with the Muses knowing my Annals compriz'd in poetick prose have been indeed but dissolved verse And that I bare away the palm from the whole crowd of Pamphleters the Diurnal the Weekly account Rusticus Hybernicus Civicus and the London post they were but silly empty Chroniclers I Lord predominant sententious as well as narrative O Chaucer and thy Genius help on my tale I confesse I was bold and invective he that undertakes to encounter Majesty must not be shaken with Pannick fear I esteem it my chief glory that I shall be the sole wonder of the next Age and be stiled THE PRINCE OF LIBELLERS His Majesty hath ample cause to applaud my veine for if he consider rightly my lines not so Eclipsed his glory as they advanced his cause so that forraign Nations were it for my sake onely will tearm his war just Soranzo answered You see the fellow 's bold confidence to be impudent in an errour is unsufferable mix your votes and Doom the Libeller according to his merits The Court then commanded him to withdraw and resolve upon the question that forasmuch as Britanicus persisted in his errour and confirmed the same with pride his own mouth had judged him and therefore they gave Sentence that he should be drawn on an hurdle from Newgate to Tyburne by a Lyon and an Asse with a paper on his brest bearing this inscription THE BLASPHEMER OF GOD AND HIS ANOINTED And being arrived at the triple tree to be fastned by the neck with an iron coller and so hanging between Heaven and earth as unworthy of both a soft fire kindled beneath him to scorch and puffe up his skin and one in the shape of a furie to prick his imposthumated flesh with a sharp bodkin till the expired that he might despaire and be sensible of the paines of hell he was to suffer eternally He being dismissed and signed with the Character of death Lilburne was brought to the bar who being commanded to kneel refused to do it having had formerly denyed to yeeld homage to an higher Judicature therefore to them he would not bend the knee on which occasion of his unwarrantable obstinacy Philoparthen answered WORTHY SIRS You see the perversnesse of this man now Englands chief and prime Incendiary who hath hitherto occasioned a prolix multitude of sorrowes to scourge our Nation one who hath made it his chief imployment to revile and caluminate this is the man that hath railed against the Government of the Church of England terming it Antichristian and Diabolicall this is the man that hath sold the Englishmans Birth-right for a mess of pottage when he wrote Englands Birth-right pretending to Vindicate their Rights whose very breath is contagious and whose papers sent from so unsetled a person have fired the brests of the Commons of this Kingdome with an Epidemick heat whose insolencies should I relate the naration thereof would be sufficient to pervert your senses and to shake in sunder the supporters of this square roof he hath a long time been mew'd up and hath triumph'd hoping that his own faction in despight of justice would guerdon him and render him guiltless the fates have suffered him to persist till he hath filled up his measure of sinne brim-full and running over and now have given up to suffer condigne punishment Sozimus answered Although his actions merit not that he should have admittance to reply but to be seized on by the rough hand of justice yet it will not be an errour if we suffer him to speak for himself and hear from his own mouth Lilburne nothing daunted custome having imboldned him not to be affrighted at the stern looks of his Judges began to say as followeth God the absolute Soveraigne Lord of all having created one man even Adam invested him with Power and Authority to regulate command subject all beasts of the field creeping things and fishes c. But he made not the least mention that any should esteem another man to be Inferiour to himself or that his successive posterity should be distinguished by verball Titles and Lordly Commands neither hath any power neither can they execute any but meerly by institution or Donation and it is unnaturall irrationall sinful wicked and unjust for any man or men whatsoever to part with so much of their power as shall enable any of their equals to question doom and inflict punishment upon them and it is also unnaturall unjust sinfull wicked and devilish for any man whatsoever Spirituall Temporall Clergy-man or Lay-man to appropriate and assume to himself Power Authority and Jurisdiction to rule govern or reign over any sort of men in the world and whosoever doth it whether Cleargy-man or Lay-man endeavours to appropriate assume to himself the office and Soveraignty of God which was the sinne of the devils therefore I appeal from you as not being Idonci competentes Judices and I stand at the Judgement feat of God unto whom onely I ought to render an account Soranzo retorted Gentlemen you see the man still retaineth the same Soul that he harboured when he appealed from the sentence of the House of Lords assembled in Parliament but now he may not escape with so mild a censure as onely to be amerced and confined he is the onely disturber of mankind that is now visible Britanicus being taken away proceed we according to his Crimes Then Lilburne being commanded to withdraw the Court entred into serious consultation to determine what punishment wa● most meet to inflict on so notorious a Libeller and after some expence of time gave the result thus That forasmuch as Lilburne had both abused Mars and vilified Mercurie the one by his temeritie when fighting the other by his debility when writing they ordered that during his abode on earth he should be confined to an high Turret so to penetrate his mind with an hate of his ambition that he should be girt with a wooden sword sheathed in an earthen scabberd his