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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48454	The Christian mans triall, or, A trve relation of the first apprehension and severall examinations of Iohn Lilbvrne with his censure in Star-chamber, and the manner of his cruell whipping through the streets : whereunto is annexed his speech in the pillory, and their gagging of him : also the severe	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Kiffin, William, 1616-1701.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657. Work of the beast.	1641 (1641)	Wing L2089; ESTC R1513	44,603	44

of Londons Chaplaines meanes Also Smith is not ignorant but doth very well know that promise that Iohn made to Mr. Baker about twelve moneths agoe to doe him speciall service about such things which promise I doe verily beleeve he hath faithfully kept for he hath confessed to his Master since the beginning of my trouble that he hath used to carry to Baker all new bookes he could get as soone as they came out and how for the which he gave him money but how much he best knowes Also what free and samiliar accesse Iohn hath had to him and he and Iohn to Baker and for those secrets which Iohn from time to time hath revealed to him and Baker what they are I name not but appeale to their owne consciences for it is too manifest that hee is a darling both to Smith and Baker in regard they stand so stoutly for him as they doe for Mr. Wharton being not long since with Baker he told him hee heard he was about to put away his Man Iohn Yea said he what should I do with him else Well said he if you doe it and put him away the Chamberlaine will make you take him againe Will he so said he he can not doe it for he is a Iudas and a Theefe for he hath stolne money from me and I can prove it said the Old Man and therefore he can not make me take him againe Baker could not well tell what to say to it but yet did perswade him to keepe him This the Old man told me himselfe it seemes they have kept him at his Masters as a private and secret servant for their owne turnes above this fourteene Moneths and they would still if they could keepe him there But what secret mischiefe hee hath done by his so frequent resorting to Baker and Smith is not yet fully knowne but I hope it will come out by degrees Therefore let all that heares of it take notice of it and let some of those that were in the information with the three Worthies cast back their eyes and see if they can finde and spie out who was their Originall Accuser and Betrayer These things may be worth the making knowne though I may incurre hatred and spite from them for it yet I weigh not that for I have not declared these things out of any revenge for I commit that unto God And for that wrong they have done unto mee I freely forgive them and if any of them belong to God I pray him to call them home unto him But these things I have set downe being forced thereunto for vindicating my good name from their bitter reproaches and calumniations and all you that read this judge and censure what I have said But now after my Digression I will returne againe to our former matter And being at the Gatehouse I was removed by sixe of your Honours to the Fleete at which time the said Chillington was removed from Bridewell to Newgate and being kept * close there then he by their threats and perswasions and the procuring of his owne liberty goes and accuses me for printing ten or twelve thousand Bookes in Holland And at my Examination before Sir Iohn Bankes I cleared my selfe of that and upon Fryday last he made an Affidavit against me in which hee hath most falsly forsworne himselfe and to day he hath made another which is also a most false untruth And withall my Lords he is knowne to be a notorious lying fellow and hath accused mee for the purchasing of his owne liberty which he hath got And therefore I beseech your Honours to take into your serious consideration and see whether I am to be censured upon such a fellowes Affidavits or no Then said the Lord Keeper thou art a mad fellow seeing things are thus that thou wilt not take thine Oath and answer truely My Honourable Lord I have declared unto you the reall Truth but for the Oath it is an Oath of Inquiry and of the same nature of the High-Commission-Oath Which Oath I know to be unlawfull and withall I finde no warrant in the Word of God for an Oath of Inquiry and it ought to be the director of mee in all things that I doe and therefore my Lords at no hand I dare not take the Oath when I named the Word of God the Court began to laugh as though they had had nothing to doe with it my Lords said Mr. Goad he told me yesterday he durst not take the Oath though he suffered death for the refusall of it And with that my Lord Privy Seal spoke Will you said he take your Oath that that which you have said is true My Lord said I I am but a young Man and doe not well know what belongs to the nature of an Oath but that which I have said is a reall truth but thus much by Gods appointment I know an Oath ought to be the end of all controversie and strife Heb. 6. 16. And if it might be so in this my present cause I would safely take my Oath that what I have said is true So they spoke to the Old man my fellow partner and asked him whether he would take the Oath So he desired them to give him leave to speake and he begun to thunder it out against the Bishops and told them they required three Oathes of the Kings Subjects namely the Oath of Churchwardenship and the Oath of Canonicall Obedience and the Oath Ex Officio Which said he are all against the Law of the Land and by which they deceive and perjure thousands of the Kings Subjects in a yeare And withall my Lords said he there is a Maxime in Divinity that we should prefer the glory of God the good of our King and Country before our owne lives but the Lords wondering to heare the Old Man begin to talke after this manner commanded him to hold his peace and to answer them whether he would take the Oath or no To which he replied and desired them to let him talke a little and he would tell them by and by At which all the Court burst out of a laughing but they would not let him goe on but commanded silence which if they would have let him proceed he would so have peppered the Bishops as they were never in their lives in an open Court of Iudicature So they asked us againe whether we would take the Oath which we both againe refused and withall I told them that for the reasons before I durst not take it Then they said they would proceed to Censure I bid them doe as they pleased for I knew my selfe innocent of the thing for which I was imprisoned and accused but yet notwithstanding did submit my body to their Honours pleasure So they censured us 500. pound a peece and then stood up Judge Ioans and said It was fit that I being a young man for example sake should have some-corporall * punishment inflicted upon me So my Censure was to

thing for which I am imprisoned and more I am not bound to answer and for my liberty I must waite Gods time You had better answer for I have two examinations where in you are accused Of what am I accused Chillington hath accused you for printing ten or twelve thousands of Books in Holland and that they stand you in about eighty pound and that you had a Chamber at Mr. Iohn ●oot●s at Delst where he thinks the Bookes were kept and that you would have printed the Vnmasking of the Mystery of Iniquity if you could have got a true Copy of it I doe not beleeve that Chillington said any such things and if he did I know and am sure that they are all of them lies You received money of Mr. Wharton since you came to Towne did you not What if I did It was for Bookes I doe not say so For what sorts of bookes was it I doe not say it was for any and I have already answered you all that for the present I have to answer and if that will give you content well and good if not doe what you please If you will not answer no more here I told him if I had thought you would have insisted upon such impertinent questions I would not have given him so many answers wee have power to send you to the place from whence you came You may doe your pleasure said I So hee called in anger for my Keeper and gave him astrict charge to looke well to me I said they should not feare my running away And so I was sent down to Sir Iohn Bankes himself And after that he had read over what his man had writ he called me in and said I conceive you are unwilling to confesse the Truth No Sir I have spoken the Truth This is your Examination is it not What your man hath writ I doe not know Come neare and see that I read it right Sir I doe not owne it for my Examination for your man hath writ what it pleased him and hath not writ my answer for my answer was to him and so is to you that for the thing for which I am imprisoned which is for sending over bookes I am cleare for I did not send any and for any other matter that is laid to my charge I know it is warrantable by the Law of God and I thinke by the Law of the Land for me to stand upon my just defence and that my accusers ought to be brought face to face to justifie what they accuse me of And this is all that I have to say for the present You must set your hand to this your Examination I beseech you Sir pardon me I will set my hand to nothing but what I have now said So he tooke the Pen and writ the examined is unwilling to answer to any thing but that for which hee is imprisoned Now you will set your hand to it I am not willing in regard I doe not owne that which your man hath writ but if it please you to lend me the Pen I will write my Answer and set my hand to it So he gave mee the Pen and I begun to write thus The Answer of me Iohn Lilburne is And here hee tooke the Pen from me and said he could not stay that was sufficient Then one of my Keepers asked him if they might have me backe againe And he said yea for he had no Order for my inlargement and so I tooke my leave of him and desired the Lord to blesse and keepe him and came away And then about ten or twelve dayes after I was had forth to Grayes Inne againe but when I went I did not know what they would doe with me there And when I came there I was had to the Starre-Chamber Office and being there as the Order is I must enter my appearance they told me I said to what for I was never served with any Subpoena neither was there any Bill preferred against me * that I did heare of One of the Clarkes told me I must first be examined and then Sir Iohn would make the Bill it seemes they had no grounded matter against me for to write a Bill and therefore they went about to make me betray my owne innocency that so they might ground the Bill upon my owne words but my God shewed his goodnesse to me inkeeping me a poore weake worme that they could not in the least intangle mee though I was altogether ignorant of the manner of their proceedings And at the entrance of my appearance the Clarke and I had a deale of pritty discourse the particulars whereof for brevity sake I now pretermit but in the conclusion he demanded mony of me for entring of my appearance and I told him I was but a young man and a prisoner and money was not very plentifull with me and therefore I would not part with any money upon such termes At which answer the man began to wonder that I should speake so to him and with that the whole company of the Clarkes in the Office began to looke and gaze at me Well said he if you will not pay your see I will dash out your name againe Doe what you please said I I care not if you doe So he made a complaint to Mr. Goad the Master of the Office that I refused to enter my appearance And then I was brought before him and he demanded of me what my businesse was I told him I had no businesse with him but I was a prisoner in the Fleete and was sent for but to whom and to what end I doe not know and therefore if he had nothing to say to me I had no businesse with him And then one of the Clarks said I was to be examined Then Mr. Goad said tender him the booke So I looked another way as though I did not give eare to what he said and then he bid me pull off my glove and lay my hand upon the booke What to doe Sir said I. You must sweare said he To what That you * shall make true answer to all things that is asked you Must I so Sir But before I sweare I will know to what I must sweare As soone as you have sworne you shall but not before To that I answered Sir I am but a young man and doe not well know what belongs to the nature of an Oath and therefore before I sweare I will be better advised Saith he how old are you About twenty yeares old I told him You have received the Sacrament have you not Yes that I have And you have heard the Mininisters deliver Gods Word have you not Yes I have heard Sermons Well then you know the holy Evangelist Yes that I doe But Sir though I have received the Sacrament and have heard Sermons yet it doth not therefore follow that I am bound to take an Oath which I doubt of the lawfulnesse of Looke you here said he and with that