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A82113	A declaration of some proceedings of Lt. Col. Iohn Lilburn, and his associates: with some examination, and animadversion upon papers lately printed, and scattered abroad. One called The earnest petition of many free-born people of this Kingdome : another, The mournfull cries of many thousand poor tradesmen, who are ready to famish for want of bread, or The warning tears of the oppressed. Also a letter sent to Kent. Likewise a true relation of Mr. Masterson's minister of Shoreditch, signed with his owne hand. Published by authority, for the undeceiving of those that are misled by these deceivers, in many places of this Kingdom.	Masterson, Geo. (George)	1648 (1648)	Wing D625; Thomason E427_6; ESTC R204593	42,707	64

Commons He was never appointed or authorised Treasurer or Collector of any publique moneys either by the Parliament or any Committee or any others nor ever received one penny of the publique moneys Mr. Richard Darley was indeed appointed to receive some moneys in the East riding of Yorkeshier But he never received more himselfe than sixty three pound or therabouts which was upon occasion of calling the Sequestrators of Beverly to account At which time his Deputy receiver Mr. Richard Thornton being not there he received it himselfe and put it to account All other moneys were received by his said Deputy who hath from time to time paid out the same according to such Orders as he received for that purpose Mr. Darley knowes not particularly what is at present in his Deputies hand in regard he is here at London attending his service in the House of Commons and his Deputy is in Yorkeshier neither yet can he tell whether he may not have already accounted with the Committee of the County how ever he knowes it cannot be any great summe and the account for the whole is ready when it shall be called for And so is also the money remaining when Order shall be given for it But your famous mistake is that of your margent concerning Mr. Speaker The truth of which story upon through inquiry instead of what you have Printed is clearly thus That Mr. William Lenthall Speaker of the House of Commons never purchased Land either in his own or any other mans name since these troubles neither did Mr. Cole purchase any for him Mr. Cole died not suddenly but of a Fever and that after ten or twelve days sicknes his wife is still a widdow and not married either to Lawyer or any other there is no sute against her by Mr. Speaker nor cause of any You say an hundred such discoveries might be made as this latter and indeed its true they may be done with great ease it is but to sit down and write an hundred particulars what comes upermost taking only care there be never a true word in them which the suggestor of this will easily enable you to do and then there will be an hundred such discoveries made but indeed he that would take paines to examine both your Petition and this Paper and had so little to do with precious time as so to imploy it might finde among your Complaints Suggestions Calculations some convenient number of truths of the same Complexion with these But as you may know the Lion by his claw so you may know the Devill by his tongue he is a liar and the Father of lies and certainly this your mistaken confidence may be sufficient to command belief from such as are content to be deceived in all your Generals for information in which it is not credible you would take more care then in these particulars which both concerned the reputation of particular Gentlemen and whereof the truth might be inquired out But now how will you do these Gentlemen right in this and give them reparations perhaps your scandalous Paper by the great diligence of your selves and Emissaries to spread them may come to many hands where their just defence may not follow and perhaps they may escape more proper uses so as to remain when the Gentlemen shall be at rest and be a black Epitaph upon their innocency and an unjust and unworthy Blot upon their fair reputation If any man shall after this be misled by these guides it will not be an easie matter to undeceive him but he is to be Pitied as one of those who being fallen out with truth is given up to strong delusions to beleeve a lye Be yet advised not to feign a necessity and hold out that as a Vail to your Resolution to dissolve all Laws of Government it may confound propriety and levell Estates the thing perhaps that some aime at But it may cause a promiscuous mingling of blood too and in such a confusion as you seek to introduce it is not impossible you may lose your own in the Croud Call not up therefore more spirits then you know how to conjure down yo●● Spels may fail you there may be some have Pistols and Daggers that neither care for your Spels nor you nor your Petition neither While you plot tragedies and indeavor thus to bring them upon the Stage take heed there enter not some who will neither take their Cu from your Prompter nor Act according to your Poets design We shall adde noe further trouble to the Reader and indeed very much of this might have been spared as to those who have their parts exercised to discern good and evill The evill of this is so written that they that run might read it if prejudice did not blinde them if perhaps there be not also some that do not see because they will not see but because there are some who in the simplicity of their hearts have followed those Impostors let them suffer themselves to make halt in this furious march and a little to consider their leader and then think whither they are going let them take a measure of Lilburn by his books filled with falshoods and bitternesse by his ingratitude to those who have obliged him by that behaviour in the House of Lords that wants a name by the Pistoll and Dagger he speaks of by which murder was designed which he cals a noble resolution by his company the most desperate Malignants by their opinion of him as being wholly the Kings by all these Actions which tend to stir up the people to force the power which your Petition acknowledgeth supream and thereby to dissolve all Government and mingle all with ruine then judge impartially if this be the Character of a Christian or a Banditto of a man acted and guided by the Spirit of God or moved and driven by the Devill And think if it be becoming men professing Religion to be found in these wayes To be Religious is no more in despising forms then in adoring them The power of it is in Conforming the will of man to the will of God and in all the goings out of that will either into affection or action with an unreserved resignation to give up the man to be guided still by the eternall rule of truth and gooddesse of which there is sufficient and cleerely enough laid down in the word of truth for direction in all things to him that humbly seeks it of which You should have made more use in sincerity and humility to direct your selves and lesse in prevaricating and misapplying it with a spirit of bitternesse to make it serve for the language in which you would falsly accuse not your brethren but your confessed Superiours Be perswaded to study to be quiet and doe your owne businesse to live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you and leave the publique affaires to those to whom God and the Kingdome hath committed them abuse not lenity but make use of thus much for your faire retreat and charge no more nor undertake any further to prastise till you be a great deale better studied in and have more universall comprehension of that very important and yet very little known art of Statizing FINIS

as ours and your Arms will be hard dyet O heark heark at our doors how our children cry Bread Bread Bread and we now with bleeding hearts cry once more to you pity pity an oppressed inslaved People carry our cries in the large Petition to the Parliament and tell them if they be still deaf the Teares of the oppressed will wash away the foundations of their houses Amen Amen so be it It seemes to be written by some of the Professors of Rhetorick in Newgate or Ludgate whose long practice of that kind of Oratory had made him as great a stranger to truth as to blushing The whole matter of it composed of so grosse an hypocrisie that it scarce deserves that name mixed with impudency and lyes of the same Genius with the Petition boldly affirming in generals and brins gnot forth one particular with proofe Where are those famishing babes and where are those pining carkasses Why are they not brought forth to the view of some pitifull eye You cry for pitie why shew you not the object Where are those faces black with sorrow and famine Spend no longer your breath in vaine Let the famishing pined Carkasses those black faces be seen the view gives a deeper impression then heare-say If you be not of those that have said in their hrarts There is no God though your paper abuse the repetition of that sacred Name Remember that the al-seeing God beholds your hearts and knowes your distempers murmurings and black designations as well as your wants And sees with what a frontlesse boldnesse you affirme any thing be the untruth never so notorious The language looks more like the ebullition of wine than the cries of want You complaine of the rising of the Exchange abroad that Merchants will not trust their goods hither and our Merchants convey their Estates And what is the reason thinke you they doe so if the matter of fact be true Why an Army is brought into the bowels of the City Doth one Regiment of Horse and one of Foot make an Army in your account And is White-hall and the Mewes in the bowels of the City The Parliament hath had a guard these five yares when it was furnished from the City and places within the lines it was held a great grievance And what security the Parliament had by it was evident on Monday the 26. of Iuly last when either by the Cowardise or Complyance of the then guard so horrid and dishonourable a violence was put upon the Houses by an inconsiderable Rabble of people And what a danger to trade these Regiments are like to be You might be able to judge if you would but make an Estimate of the Millions the City suffered in when the whole Army whereof these Regiments are a part marched in Armes through the City upon the sixt of August after they had been sufficiently irritated by some of the City Yet you are not able to bring so much as a loaf of bread to the account of losse to the City by all their march though the shops were open and the market furnished But you would faine use any pretence to remove these faithfull forces because you see as long as they are here you will hardly be able to make use of your pistolls and daggers or to dissolve all Lawes and Government or to have recourse to the prime Lawes of Nature But indeed t were worth the enquirie what it is that causes this great exporting of Estates and that hinders all importation 't is certainly a disease that must needs destroy though not in a moment There hath been a good while a rumour of a pestilence that walketh in darknesse and hath been known to have infected some that frequent your meetings and are accounted as your own and this rumour is not a whispering it hath spoken almost as loud as some of your Cries for bread And 't is the Doctrine of Parity or levelling bringing all mens Estates to an Equallity A notion that Merchants and men of great Trade are as little edified with as either the Lords are with being devested of their Honours and part in the Legislative power or other Gentlemen to part with their Lands and therefore having so good meanes to put them out of your reach which other men have not may perhaps transport them not willing their large personall Estates should come under your Distribution from which there an be no recovery And if you thinke that Merchandize be good for the Kingdome and if you have any care of that good you must consider how to satisfie Merchants that you intend not to levell for their Trade runs such an hazzard and must be managed with such a diligence and industry as will hardly receive incouragement from your Vtopian parity And however the Croud of those that follow you intend no such thing but thinke these are wayes to secure their own property yet just suspition is upon many of you And t is not your bare deniall will serve good words will not satisfie You know who said Hayle Master when the salutation was a watchword It might be thought there would be nothing of greater deferency and respect than the addresse of your Petition in the superlative inscription yet Lilburn told you at the meeting in VVell-yard that when you had once raised the spirits of the peaple you would then force the House to grant what you ask Confide not in your present intentions remember Hazael There is not the most clear and Candid soule amongst you that knowes to what now abhorred actions he may be driven by the violence of the people if that Sea shall once break over his bankes and t will not be then in their power to stop but only is his that calmeth the Sea and rebuketh the raging of the people who can say to both hitherto shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy proud waves be stayed But to passe by all the rest be perswaded to examine the truth of fact with a little more care when you compose your next seditious Harangue You may take notice how ill your intelligence hath been in this It 's possible indeed much of the publique money may be in Collectors Receivers and sequestrators hands and it were a meritorious service to the Common-wealth to discover it and would no doubt be of universall acceptance but be sure you be rightly inform'd accuse no man falsly specially in print 't is against Charity to which Grace no Christian should be a stranger Bring the particulars and proofes to the House that a course may be taken to bring that money in to supply the necessities of the Common-wealth which are great some paines taken to the purpose in this service will be more worth than all your Petitioning But for these particulars here produced they are so farre from truth as makes your whole paper suspected to proceed from the Father of lyes You say there is 25000. l. in Mr. Thorps hands a Member of the House of