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A91211	The lyar confounded, or A briefe refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-case, mistaken-law; seditious calumnies, and most malicious lyes against the High Court of Parliament, the Honourable Committee of Examinations, Mr Speaker, with other members of the Commons House; and Mr William Prynne; wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant overcredulous people. Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary clemency towards him, their justice in their commitment of, and proceedings against him; for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them, with tyranny and injustice / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P4002; Thomason E267_1; ESTC R212413	54,867	55

THE LYAR CONFOUNDED OR A Briefe Refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-Case mistaken-Law Seditious Calumnies and most malicious Lyes against the High Court of PARLIAMENT the Honourable Committee of Examinations Mr Speaker with other Members of the Commons House and Mr William Prynne wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant over-credulous People Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary Clemency towards him their Justice in their Commitment of and proceedings against him for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them with Tyranny and Injustice By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Lincolns Inne Esquire John 8. 44. Yee are of your Father the Devill and the lusts of your Father will yee do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is NO TRVTH IN HIM when he speaketh a Lye he speaketh of his owne for he is a LYAR and the FATHER OF IT Eph. 4. 25. Wherefore puting away Lying speake every man TRVTH to his Neighbour for wee are members one of another Prov. 12. 19. The lip of truth shall be established for ever but a LYING TONGVE is but for a moment LONDON Printed by John Macock for Michael Spark senior 1645. TO The Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS and Master of the ROLES Sir I Here present you with a Briefe Relation and Refutation of John Lilburnes Notorious Lyes and forged Calumnies against the Parliament and whole House of Commons in Generall the Committee of Examination Your selfe some other Members of both Houses your Brother Sir John Lenthall and My selfe in speciall Whereby the whole Kingdome may discerne his and his confederates Impudent Falsities Forgeries Lyes groundlesse Slanders and Your Vntainted Innocencies triumphing gloriously over them The truth of his Case misreported by him rightly stated the Legality of Your Proceedings against commitment of him demonstrated his mistaken Law refuted and the seeds of Mutiny of Sedition sowen among the Ignorant Vulgar in his seditious Printed Papers scattered abroad by one Leaner and others among the Kentish Malignants and the Male-contents in other parts extirpated to prevent all Popular Insurrections against the Parliaments Soveraign Authority Your speciall Interest in the Subject matter of this Relation hath among other motives induced me to select You for its Patron in the Dedication to whose Protection I commend it and Your selfe to Gods desiring really to expresse my selfe upon all just Occasions Your most Affectionate Friend to serve You William Prynne To the Jmpartiall Reader Christian Reader IT is S. James his Observation c. 3. 5. Behold how great a matter a litle fire kindleth And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity and setteth on fire the course of nature and is seton fire of hell which I may truely apply to John Lilburns tongue and much more to his pen imployed only in compiling Libellous Letters and Papers Behold how great combustions and tumults have they kindled among the Ignorant Vulgar who adore him as the onely Oracle of Truth when as he is a meere Legend of Lyes Had not his Papers kindled a publike dangerous flame dis-affected divers of his Seditious Faction and set their tongues nay hearts against the Parliament against whom they are brewing mischiefe in sundry private Conventicles and ripening publike Mutinies I had sate still in silence and onely answered this Rayler as the Arch-Angell Michael did the Devil when he strove with him about the body of Moyses Jude 9. The Lord rebuke thee or have spread his Letter onely in private before the Lord as Hezekiah spread Sennacharibs blasphemous Letter 2 Kings 19. 14 15 16. saying Lord bow downe thine eare and heare open Lord thine eyes and see heare the words of this Senacharib Lilburne which hath sent to reproach the Living God and the highest powers under him But the flame being now grown to such an height as endangers the firing of our whole State into a publike combustion I could doe no lesse then contribute my best endeavours after so long a silence and bring one bucket or two of water towards the extinguishing of his Prodigious firebrands which were certanely set on fire of hell which breathes forth in his seditious Papers fit for no other use then to make publike bonefires in the streets I shall desire the unprejudiced Reader whoever he be to read this short Relation and Refutation with an impartiall eye and then I dare say he will soone resolve There was never such an execrable Libell and Legion of Lyes published against the Parliaments the Committees Just proceedings and other well-deserving Members Persons Integrities as this of Lilburnes Letters who if we may lawfully judge of the Tree by the fruits is in Simon Magus his condition even drenched in The very gall of bitternesse and fettered in the bond of iniquity and he will more admire and perchance blame the Parliament for their overmuch Clemency and Mildnesse in proceeding with so much Patience and Moderation against such an obstinate Delinquent then he or any of his Confederates do or can maliciously exclaime against them for their pretended overmuch Oppression Tyranny and Injustice of which there is not the least shadow appearing in any of their proceedings So submitting all to thy censure and Gods blessing I shall cease to trouble thee with any further Prologue A Briefe Relation and Refutation of John Lilburnes notorious Lyes and Calumnies against the PARLJAMENT and others OF all the most Glorious Attributes of God in Scripture there is none more eminent then this a Deut. 32. 4. Psal 31. 5. Esay 65. 16. That he is a God of TRVTH in the affirmative A b Tit. 1. 2. God that CANNOT LYE yea that it is c Heb. 6. 18. Impossible for him to Lye in the Negative And of all the disgracefull Titles given to the Devill himselfe in Sacred Writ there is none more infamous then this d John 8. 44. That he is a LYAR and the Father of Lyes and aboade not in the TRVTH Whence it necessarily follows That of all persons in the world none are more desperately wicked and unlike to God or more Diabolically impious and like to the very Devill himselfe then LYARS and of all Lyars those especially who most maliciously forge and then scandalously Register Print and Publish to all the world most notorious Lyes and Untruths of others who least of all deserve such Devillish usage at their hands Hence it was that our Saviour told the Lying Jewes e John 8. 44. Ye are of your Father the Devill and the lusts of your father will ye do and that Peter used this expression to Ananias when he told but a kinde of officious not a meer malitious slanderous Lye f Acts 5. 3. Why hath SATAN FILLED THY HEART TO LYE to the Holy Ghost Intimating that Lyars hearts are filled up to the brim with Satan their Ghostly Father and that they have not the least dram of Gods Holy Spirit in them which is ever stiled g John 14.

17 c. 15 26. c. 16. 13. 1 John 4. 6. c. 5. 6. A Spirit of Truth which guides true Christians into all Truth Upon this ground Solomon rankes h Prov. 6. 16. 17. 19. A lying tongue and a false witnesse that speaketh Lyes among those things which the Lord especially hates and abhominates And Saint John registers i Rev. 21. 8. c. 22. 15. Lyars and he that loveth and maketh a lye in the black Catalogue of those damned ones who shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone and shall be excluded the Caelestiall Jerusalem to k Mat. 25. 4● accompany the Devill and his Angels for Eternity in hell fire Yet notwithstanding this undeniable verity there is a new Generation of fiery zealots sprung up in the world of late who deem themselves brimfull of the Spirit of Truth and most others no better than Reprobates or Devils in carnate who like Jobs deceitfull friends are l Job 13. 4. Forgers of Lyes or like the m Tit. 1. 12. Cretians alway Lyars if not like those wicked ones whom David describes Psal 58. 3 4. They go astray as soon as they be born yea new-born into their factious separation speaking Lyes their poyson is like the poyson of the Serpent n Psal 52. 2 3 4. Their tongue deviseth mischiefes like a sharp rasor working deceitfully They love lying more than to speake righteousnesse they love all devouring words Yea o Jer. 9. 3. 5. they bend their tongues like their bow for lyes but are not valiant for the Truth and they will deceive every man his Neighbour and will not speake the Truth they have taught their tongues to speak Lyes and weary themselves to commit Iniquity even in Print being the very generation of men in the latter times of whom the p 1 Tim. 4. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 3. 3. 4. Spirit speaketh expresly that they should depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits speaking Lyes in hypocrisie having their conscience seared with a hot Iron false accusers sierce heady high-minded c. having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Among the whole rabble of this lying slandring Generation there is none more peceant then John Lilburn of late years a poor obscure Apprentice in London but now a Lieutenant Colonel and Ringleader of an Anti-Parliamentary Anabaptistical Faction who forgetting all the Laws of Christianity common Civility hath abused his best Benefactors yea the very high Court of Parliament who as himself confessed saved him from the Gallows and most grosly belyed traduced his ancient Christian friends in such a scurrilous virulent unchristian maner without any provocation as no age can parallel in sundry Printed Libels which he intitles Letters wherewith he hath poysoned the minds of many poor Ignorant people of his Sect and others with prejudices against the Parliaments proceedings and filled their mouths with bitter invectives calumnies and reports against those they formerly honoured most of any Mortall● and the very Raisers of John Lilburne to all the reputation he ever gained in the world to wit Master William Prynne whose Servant he was generally reputed to be and was contented to own that Title for his own emoliment though never capable of such an Honour and Dr. John Bastwick the Printing of whose Letany which he freely bestowed on him at his request was the best stock he had and that which first made him notorious to the Prelates their opposites and the present Parliament whereas otherwise he had lyen buried in obscurity among the rubbish of the meanest vulgar scarce known to any but him selfe For my own particular I so much undervalue all his scurrilous lyes and rayling invectives against my selfe that I deeme them more worthy scorn than answer and his Libellous seditious Letter to a Friend with that unto my selfe fitter to be refuted by the hangman hand than any others But because I am certainly informed by divers That this last Letter with other seditious Printed papers of his which he hath privatly scatred among his friends have done extraordinary hurt much incensed his ignorant mis-informed Brethren of the Separation and opened the mouthes of them yea of many Royalists and Malignants against the Parliaments proceedings in his and other cases as tyrannicall illegall arbitrary unjust and diametrally contrary to Magna Charta which this grand Ignoramus had never law enough to understand in the Language wherein it was first written nor in his mother tongue as appears by his very transcribing of it wherein he writes DISEASED for DISSEISED the meaning of which Law term I am certain he understands not and that his mistaken Law embraced by his disciples as infallible Oracles hath deceived many poor silly souls and is conceived to have been learned from my selfe whose servant heretofore and now he is generally cryed up to have been when as I blesse God I never entertained him in my service nor any such turbulent factious crosse-graind peece as he shews himself I have at the motion of some friends undertaken to passe a briefe censure on this his most seditious Letter so far as it trencheth upon the Parliaments and Committees most just Proceedings and my own personall reputation both which I shall clearly vindicate from his Malicious Lyes and intollerable Libellous slanders Wherein I shall pursue this method First truely State the Parliaments most just and favourable Proceedings against him which he most wilfully falsly and ungratefully mis-relates to alinate the peoples affections from and draw down an odium upon them without the least just occasion Secondly Rectify his grosse mistaken Law his mis-interpretation of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right and manifest the Parliaments and Committees proceedings against him to be warranted by both not contrary to either much lesse to be utterly Illegall Tyrannicall Unjust and destructive to the Subjects Liberties as he scandalously reports them Thirdly Recite and answer this whole Jury of most grosse Lyes and Slaunders summoned from the very Vicinage of Hell and brought by him to the Bar to give in a Verdict intentionally against my Reputation but really against his own 1 To begin with the first of these Upon the publication of my Truth triumphing over Falshood Antiquitie over Novelty in defence of the Parliaments undoubted Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction against Papists Prelats Anabaptists Independents Royalists who oppugned the same Iohn Lilburne for whom I had done sundry Courtesies but never injured in thought word or deed I know not out of what malicious schismaticall or unchristian humour before ever he had read over my book a great part whereof he understood not Writ and sent me a most rayling virulent Letter dated the 7. of January 1645. wherein he scurrilously Libels not onely against my selfe but likewise against the Synod assembled by Parliament against the Ordinances of Parliament prohibiting the Printing of Libellous and Seditious Pamphlets Bookes without speciall License as contrary to the Libertie and

from the Committee for Examination for refusing to answer to such Questions as were propounded unto him by this Committee by Order of the House of Commons and for the reasons that he gave for the same And not to permit him to goe out of the same without further Order of the House or Committee Dat. 9o. Augusti 1645. Examinat per Radm. Briscoe Cler. de Newgate On Munday the 11th of August this comtemptuous obstinate deportment of his and refusall to be examined was reported to the House together with his commitment for it to Newgate whereupon the House unanimously made and entred these two Votes Die Lunae 11o. Augusti 1645. Ordered upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament that they doe approve of what the Committe hath done concerning Lievtenant Collonel Lilbourne Ordered upon the Question That Lievtenant Colonell Lilburne be tried at the next Quarter Sessions to be held for the City of London concerning the contriving making devulging and spreading DIVERS NOTORIOVS SCANDALS set forth in his name in a Printed Pamphlet under the Title of a Letter to a Friend AGAINST THE PARLIAMENT AND SEVERALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMONS HOVSE and the care hereof is especially referred to Master Recorder And by other subsequent Orders a Sollicitor and Councell were specially assigned in the behalfe of the Parliament to prosecute this businesse against him Yet notwithstanding this incorrigible Lib●ller and unparalleld affronter of the Higher Powers persevering in his villany and seditious practises since his commitment to Newgate hath compiled printed and privily dispersed another most pestilent mutinous Libell against the Parliaments power and proceedings to incense and muteny the people against them Printed in halfe a sheet as Libellous and seditious as his Letter and much of the same stra●ne for all which unparallel'd insolencies he shall no doubt be brought to a faire Legall triall and receive condigne punishment in due season This is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth of his Case and of the Parliaments and Committees proceedings against him every Tittle whereof will be justified and made good by a clowd of Witnesses being persons of Honour quality Piety Fidelity by the Parliaments and Committees Journalls Lilburnes owne Pamphlets and himselfe if he be not past all shame grace dares not gaine-say it in any particular Now this being the true state of his Libellous Seditious Incorrigible Contemptuous carriages toward the Parliament successively from time to time and of the Parliaments leasurely milde indulgent proceedings towards him I appeale to all the world yea to his best and most partiall friends and Confederates First Whether any mortall be he Papist Prelate Malignant Royalist or Cavalliere much lesse any profest Votary to the Parliaments service did ever demeane himselfe so Libellously Slanderously Seditiously Contemptuously Peremptorily Presumptuously and ungratefully to the Parliament the Committee of Examinations the Members proceedings of the House as this proud upstart Iacke hath done both in words writing deedes without the least shaddow of remorse or penitence Or whether any History records his Parallel Secondly Whether ever any Parliament Committee or other Court of Justice did with so much lenity patience and long-suffering endure so many reiterated multiplied Libels and publike affronts against their Jurisdiction Proceedings Justice Members without any just occasion or ground at all as this Parliament and Committee hath received from this Seditious Lying Libeller before they did commit him after so many preceedent questionings and admonitions Or whether any such patterne of Clemency Patience as they have used toward this incorrigible wretch can be produced out of any Parliament Rolles or Journals in preceeding Ages If not as I am confident none can then how desperately ingratefull and malicious is this Lilburne for taxing them with Tyranny Cruelty and injustice in their proceedings against him Thirdly Whether ever any proceedings were more Legall just and regular in every punctilio of Law or more consonant to Magna Charta the Petition of Right or Lawes of the Land then these against him And whether ever any man committed by Parliament had lesse cause to complaine of Injustice and Infringement of the Subjects Liberty then he Yet never did any man both in discourse and Printed Libels so raile against the Parliament for Tyranny Injustice breach of Magna Charta the Petition of Right the Subjects Hereditary freedome and liberty as he hath most causelesly and seditiously done of purpose to raise up tumults against and alienate the peoples affections from the Parliament his Emissaries scattering abroad these his seditious Libels among the Malignants in Kent and else where no doubt to excite them to a new Rebellion Having thus truely stated his case and the truth of the Parliaments proceedings I shall in the next place discover and refute his malicious Lyes and Forgeries against the Parliament and Committee of Examinations in his owne Printed Relation of his Case in his Letter to a Friend In this Lying Libell Pag. 3. he writes Yet notwithstanding since the first of May last I have by the Authority of the House of Commons BEEN THREE TIMES IMPRISONED before ever I knew mine Accuser or mine accusation or ever was suffered to speake one word in mine owne defence which I humbly conceive is contrary to Magna Charta And these Priviledges that I ought to enjoy by vertue of my having an interest therein The manner whereof he relates more largely Pag. 12. 13. 14 where he repeates the former words with this addition In againe I was called and told I must wait again to morrow I expressed my selfe againe and againe unto them to give mee leave to declare but one thing to them but heard I could not be till about two houres after waiting at the doore bemoaning and * Note here his seditious carriage crying out to those that stood by of the sad and deplorable condition that I and the rest of the Free people in England are fallen into to be so unjustly Imprisonned for the expence of our bloud for the just preservation of our just Freedomes that we should from Commitees of Parliaments themselves be Imprisoned we know not wherefore and when we come before them according to their owne command that we shal be * If the Committee hath businesse of great●● importance y●t John Lilburn must forthwith be heard and have p●ecedence of all others else Magna Charta the Subects Liberties are presently infringed remanded back again and not suffered to speake one word for our selves Heare ô Heavens and give eare ô Earth and thou righteous God that lovest justice and judgement and hatest and abh●orrest oppression and crueltie which makest wise men mad put forth thy hand and doe justice thy selfe upon the unjust and unrighteous Iudges of this age whom the people have set up for their good namely to preserve their Lives Liberties and Estates as their faithfull Stewards and Servants doe yet destroy what they would seeme to mainetaine

least contradiction proving much more against them then Mr Prynne relates of them And therfore Iohn Lilburn to use his own language here shews himselfe once more a Grand Lyar in giving such unseemly speeches to Mr Prynne for relating nought but truth and defaming traducing the witnesses produced by Sir Samuel whose persons conditions he knowes not in so grosse a manner upon the Delinquents own bare false reports 7. The seventh That Mr Prynne hath published to the world abundance of lyes and slanders not only against these Lay-preachers but also against Honourable Sir Thomas Fairfax and Honourable Cromwell and divers other chiefe Officers in the Army to whom the whole Kingdome owes so much honour and respect for all their faithfulnesse and good service done them which writes he is so insufferable unwarrantable unjust and abusive as I think was never done by any to the Parliament since they sate besides Mr Prynne And I am consident if I had done as much as he hath in that Book he meanes my Fresh Discovery and had beene such a firebrand as there he is I should hardly escape Tiburne O the intollerable Impudency of this Scribler whose lines are as full of lyes as a Dog of fleas In my Epistle to the Parliament before my Fresh Discovery I occasionally related That two Captain Pr●achers Hobson and Beamond apprehended by Sir Samuel Luke for bre●ch of an O●dina●ce of Parliament against Lay-Preachers did among other their lavash speeches MOST FALSLY AND SEDITIOUSLY AFFIRME That the Generall and all the Colonels in the Army were deeply engaged in their designe of preaching c. of purpose to vindicate the Honourable Victorious Generall and his Noble Colonels from this very notorious false slander most untruly cast upon them by these slanderers For doing them this right and honour I am thus most scandalously charged by Lilburne with publishing lyes and slanders against them with being a firebrand and deserving Tyburne who on the contrary justifies and pleades for these slanderous Delinquents in three whole pages and thereby slanders both the Generall and Officers in the highest degree whose Innocency I have vindicated from their misreports Certainly all Lilburnes friends who have any spark of Truth or Christianity in their breasts will for ever execrate and renounce such an abominable impudent slanderer as this who dares affirme such grosse untruthes even in print and I wish his publike penitence for all his premised slanders may be such as none may ever conclude in his owne termes that since he hath beene a farre greater Firebrand in his last printed libellous Letters then Mr Prynne appeares to be in his Fresh Discovery he will hardly escape Tiburn if justly prosecuted for and censured according to his misdemeanors 8. The eighth is That in page 22. hee promiseth hereafter at some other time to anatomize Will Prynnes lyes and fooleries and destructive practises to the Common-wealth in supporting Sir Phillip Cartwright the Malignant governour of Iersey who by his meanes alone hath been as great an instrument of the support of the King and of his unjust wars as any hath been in England It seemes this Libeller for want of present matter intends to forge and publish some new lies and forgeries of me for the future which I shall as easily wipe off as those already charged on me As for my supposed destructive practises to the Common-wealth in supporting Sir Philip Cartwright he should say Carteret a man he never knew I shall give a brief account thereof because it most concerns the State to be truly informed of it and of the losse of Jersey It is very well known to the world what extraordinary favours and respect I received from Sir Philip Carteret and his Lady during my three yeares close imprisonment and exile in Iersey when all my kindred and friends by speciall order from the Lords were debarred any accesse unto me and none of my friends in England durst publikely to own me and that my brother Burton then close prisoner in Garnsey Castle did by his interest in the Governour there at my request procure him more liberty respect and better Accommodations then all his other friends could obtain for him In respect of which obligations I should have manifested my self a Monster of ingratitude had I not contributed my best assistance to support Sir Philips innocency honour and reputation against the malicious and injurious Accusations Aspersions of his inveterate backbiting Enemies who endeavoured only to defame and out him of his Offices of trust that themselves might step into them Among these his Adversaries one Bandinell an Italian Dean of Iersey who first introduced Episcopall Government and Iurisdiction into that Island a man of a very lewd and wicked life and a crafty Machivilian was the chiefe who came purposely over into England to procure a Benefice in Iersey for a distracted son of his and to complain to the Archbishop of Canterbury against Sir Philip for his courtesies and kindenesse unto me as the readiest means to obtain his desires but instead thereof this Parliament being assembled before his arrivall here and the Archbishop questioned he met with Articles of complaint against himself for severall grosse misdemeanors and oppressions done by him in that Isle as Dean for which he was committed by the Commons House for two or three moneths to the Serjeants custody after which he confederating with one Monsieur Samyres of Iersey who was justly questioned by Sir Philip for an astront against him as Deputy Governour in laying down his Captains staffe and command in the open field because he could not have his will in disposing of the Lieutenants place in his band to a person altogether unfit whom the whole company disliked they first of all secretly contrived divers false and scandalous Articles against Sir Philip to the Parliament without any name subscribed to them and inclosed them in a Letter desiring any wel-affected person who should take them to present them to the house of Parliament left them upon the Stocks at London where being found by one who passed that way they were presented to some Members of the House who gave Sir Philip notice thereof Not long after this Deane and Samyres drew up a large paper of Articles the very same in substance and for the most part in words with the former and delivered some Copies of them to sundry Members of both Houses but were not forwards to presse them to be read that so they might slander Sir Philip in the opinion of those Members by this underhand dealing to stay his return to Iersey and he be disabled to clear his innocency which Sir Philip hearing of procured these Articles which they left in the Earl of Stamfords hands to be read in the Lords House and so mooved his adversaries to make them good if they could that so he might clear himself from their false Accusations ere his departure from hence and not be slandered in his absence Whereupon at Sir Philips