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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94165	An anatomy of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn's spirit and pamphlets. Or, A vindication of these two honorable patriots Oliver Cromwel, Ld Governor of Ireland, and Sir Arthur Haslerig, Knight baronet, from the unworthy and false aspersions by him cast on them in two libels; the one intituled, An impeachment of high treason against Oliver Cromwel, &c. The other, A preparative to a hue and cry against Sir Arthur Haslerig: wherein the said Lilburn is demonstratively proved to be a common lyar, and unworthy of civil converse.	Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654.; T. M.	1649 (1649)	Wing S6290; Thomason E575_21; ESTC R204578	18,441	24

will have the Parliament both now and formerly to follow the form of every common Statute in making an Order for his imprisonment it is as much as to say that the Parliament hath not power to repeal or as they see occasion to suspend the execution or alter the form of any Statute or that their Orders in the time of their Session though but occasionally made and pro tempore according as they see necessity or conveniency are not as legal and just and to be obeyed as these Statutes which other Parliaments made on the sight of the same convenience or reason But there is no doubt but they have Laws enough to prove John Lilburn a Traytor and a man which deserves the last punishment But if there should be a defect of any express President or Law whereby he may be punished it 's because he hath gone beyond the common strain of former offendors and is without president and example in his miscarriages and no Parliament could ever imagine there would any man be so quite destitute of the Law of Nature as to abuse himself and affront Authority so impudently as he hath done But new sins must have new punishments Some must be made examples now as well as others formerly It was the Earl of Straffords plea there was no Law and president for his censure who acted it better then John Lilburn and yet Iohn was one of the Apprentices that cried out for Justice which was legally executed then And the King denyed the Authority of the High Court of Iustice and yet justly lost his Head Let Iohn Lilburn take heed next The Parliament hath made a Law and it 's published That who ever shall speak against the present Government or for the title of Prince Charls to the Crown shall be punished as a Traytor How far the Gentleman hath sin'd against this known Law he may shortly know I have now done with his terrible and hyperbolical Charges though it seems he means never to have done for he stiles his last Pamphlet but A Preparative to a Hue and Cry and in the latter end of his Preparative calls for more fuel to the fire commanding his Uncle as if he were the god of this world to send up to him intelligence what Sir Arthur Haslerig doth and Let me know saith he if he do not this and that professing he will not abate him an ace be it true or false which he can but scrape out of any Malignant Letters concerning him But I hope by this time all sober and honest men know what use to put his Pamphlets unto hereafter And to those that have a minde to buy a shillingworth of lyes to carry in their pockets against they shall finde use of them or would learn the art of railing and slandering most exactly I shall commend the buying of Lievt Col. John Lilburns Pamphlets and reading of them with the most care and diligence that they can afford For my part my stomack is full I shall onely desire these two Gentlemen that are thus the objects of his revenge That though your Names and Honors are untainted and shine clear through the cloud of his Calumnies yet you would make this advantage of it and so honestly cheat him of his hopes to spur you on to more gallant and brave actions and to improve your Interest for the advancing Religion and the Power of Godliness in this Nation as well as Civil Freedom and Liberty then shall your names be written in Brass or Marble to posterity as they are and will be in the hearts of godly and consciencious men when John Lilburns shall be written in the dust I expect another Hue and Cry after me shortly But I intend to foul my hands no more with him but leave the discreet Reader to judg and bestow what Faith and Charity he hath to spare upon his former and ensuing Pamphlets FINIS

and are not subject to fall into the same distempers unto the perusing of them But shall view him in his last works which should be his best and most solemn manifestations of himself especially seeing he thinks he is so nigh his death I have read of late two Pamphlets under his name and authority and by them you may probably guess of the rest The Title of the first being An Impeachment of High Treason against Mr OLIVER CROMWEL and his Son in Law HENRY IRETON for so he is pleased to stile them and the last A Preparative to a Hue and Cry against Sir ARTHVR HASLERIG At the reading of the Titles I was much amazed the accusations being so high and affirmations so positive and the language so terrible that I began to reflect on the Gentlemen with strange apprehensions and to wonder that such men should live and be so much in the eyes of honest men and yet be guilty of such Crimes that all the Villains and Traytors in this Nation never equalled them and was impatient to be in the midst of his Pamphlets to hear their Charge expecting the Titles to be but a shadow and a name onely to that substance of proof I should finde against them not dreaming that any man could be so impudent and carry such a face of brass and wickedness as to abuse not onely others but himself so demonstratively if he had not much against them and that by the evidence of noon day But contrary to all this when I looked for to have seen the horrible Crimes written with a Sun beam and terrifying my spirit at the first appearance I could finde little else but the Copies of Letters and Petitions empty and foolish gloryings in himself railing upon other men and the whole Parliament equal with them which made me much more to wonder what was become of the Religion Conscience Modesty and Sobriety of the man and to conclude that certainly he was either drunk or in a dream when he writ these sheets But that all honest men may know him for the future I shall take so much pains as to consider his Charge against these two Gentlemen viz. against Lievt Gen. Cromwel now Lord Governor of Ireland and Sir Arthur Haslerig now Governor of Newcastle on Tine men of such integrity and honor that John Lilburn could not pitch on two less capable of his malice and reproach then they and that though against his will his calumnies will be but foils to set off their honesty and innocency with greater grace to all ingenuous and sober men To his Impeachment of High Treason of Mr Oliver Cromwel as he calls him the first question by any man that reads the Charge wil be Where are the Articles I have looked over the Pamphlet with as much diligence and observance as his method would permit me and I finde not one distinct Article of any misdemeanors that hath the shadow of a Charge much less of High Treason and the Highest Treason but onely a Letter to Mr Holland and a Challenge and a Prayer wherein he abuseth the blessed Name of the most High God and invocates him to destroy and root out the name of Cromwel and his posterity with such hideous imprecations that any Christian tongue would fail and stammer but to repeat much less to urge to God as a Prayer and some loose expressions about Cromwels complying with the King and his shedding the blood of War in the time of Peace but it may be this he intended as the Charge for which he calls him a Murtherer and a Traytor and says He deserves to dye rather then the late King or then all the Judges and Villains that have been condemned ever since the Conquest And if his meaning be so for there is nothing else that looks like it let the World be judg of the Treason For the first His compliance with the late King I shall say no more to it but this First If there were any such compliance or engagement doubtless the King would have made advantage enough of it especially would have manifested something of it to the world or given some hint of it that might have reflected on Cromwel while he lived and most especially when he saw what was like to be done with him by the Power of the Parliament and Army But the King neither by word nor in that Book which goes under his name doth give an intimation of any such compliance And secondly He hath manifested the contrary by his practise and constant opposition to him and his party ever since and of late by his strenuous endeavors to bring him to Justice by which all honest men may well be satisfied that it was but a slander and a whelp of John Lilburns malice Were John Lilburns compliance with Malignants in the Tower and other where printed we should soon have cause to sequester him from his 3000 l. in the Bishoprick of Durham It 's well known besides his trading in Cooks Institutes what Malignant converse he Judg Jenkins have had together some fruits of it we see in his Pamphlets but I will not impeach him you see Reader what his first Article amounts unto His second Charge whereby he calls him a wilful murtherer is For that he about the 15 of Novemb. 1647. near Ware in Hartford-shire wilfully and of set malice murthered Rich. Arnell and so shed the blood of War in the time of Peace That you may see the malice of this man and his unexpressible rage he taxeth Cromwel with that which was done by the whole Councel of War and by the General rather then by him who was but a Member and had only a single vote and he might rather say that the General and Councel of War murthered him then of Lieutenant General Cromwel yea he may as well say That it's murther to shoot a Souldier to death for any Mutiny or enormious crime whatever as for that and whereas he thinks to make up his Treason by this expression That it was the blood of War in the time of Peace Can he call it a time of Peace when an Enemy is but newly subdued and an Army kept up and an Enemy feared However that he may have his desire grant it to be a time of Peace that is that no visible Enemy appears yet doth not he deserve to dye that shall begin a new War in a time of Peace And shall when there is no common Enemy raise a Mutiny among the Souldiers which is the first principle of a War Nay is not he rather to be adjudged to death that when an Army hath conquered a common Enemy will begin a new War among themselves This is Richard Arnels cause who was a Ring-leader in that first Mutiny which was the first discovery of the levelling Agitators and their wicked intentions and had John Lilburn his due who was then coming to the Army but durst not appear among them he had not had the opportunity to have burthened