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A88228	The opressed mans opressions declared: or, An epistle written by Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, prerogative prisoner (by the illegall and arbitrary authority of the House of Lords) in the Tower of London, to Col. Francis West, Lieutenant thereof: in which the opressing cruelty of all the gaolers of England is declared, and particularly the Lieutenant of the Tower. As also, there is thrown unto Tho. Edwards, the author of the 3 vlcerous Gangrænes, a bone or two to pick: in which also, divers other things are handled, of speciall concernment to the present times.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2149A; Thomason E373_1; ESTC R201322	33,049	40

but he that is ordained that is to say unlesse they be depending on the Bishops by Ordination or else on the Presbyters who are no Presbyters unlesse they depend on the Bishops for their Ordination for they have no other and what is this else but to punish every one that shal truly endeavour the true and reall performance of the Covenant Truly we have lived to a fine forsworn age that men must be punished and made uncapable to bear any office in the Kingdome if they will not take the Covenant And then if they do take it it shall be as bad if they will not forswear themselves every moment of time that the Assembly shal judg it convenient and the house of Commons vote it And truly there is in my judgment a good stalking-horse for this practise in the Assembly of Dry-vines alias Divines Deut. 32.32 33. Esa 44.52 Exhortation to take the Covenant in these words and if yet there should any oath be found into which any Ministers or others have entred not warranted by the Lawes of God and the Land in this case they must teach themselves and others that such Oaths call for rapentance not particularly in them that is to say that neither the Covenant nor any other Oath whatsoever that they have before or hereafter shall take binds them any longer then the time that they please to say it is not warrantable by the Lawes of God the Land and so by this Synodian Doctrine a man may take a hundred Oaths in a day and not be bound by any of them if he please Besides I would fain know if by the Parliaments so eager pressing of the Covenant they do not presse the hastening of many of their own destructions For by the Covenant every man that takes it is bound thereby to maintain and preserve the fundamental lawes of the Kingdome with us every day troden under foot by some of the members of both Houses arbitrary practices not onely towards Cavaliers for which they have some colour by pleading necessity but also towards those of their own party that have as freely and uprightly adventured their lives to preserve the lawes and liberties of the Kingdome as any of themselves for justice and right effectually they have scarce done to any man that is a suiter to them And therefore I here chalenge all the Members of both Houses from the first day of their sitting to this present houre to instance me that man in England that is none of themselves nor dependance upon themselves that they have done effectuall justice to though they have had thousands of Petitioners and Complainants for grand grievances before the Parliament some of which have to my knowledge even spent themselves with prosecuting their businesse before them and run themselves many hundred pounds thick into debt to manage their businesse before them and yet to this houre not one peny the better and yet they can finde time enough since I came prisoner to the Tower to share about 200000. l of the Common-wealths mony amongst themselves as may clearly be particularized by their owne newes bookes licenced by one of their own Clerkes O horrible and tyrannicall wickednesse Was a Parliament in England ever called for that end as to rob and poll the poore common people and to force those that have scarce bread to put in their mouthes to pay excise and other taxations or else to rob and plunder them of all they have and then share it amongst the members of both houses as 10000. l to one man 6000. l to another 5000. l c. to another and this many times to those that never hazarded their lives for the Weal-publique no nor some of thē never intended I am cōfident of it good to the generality of the people but that they should be as absolutely their vassals slaves if not more as ever they were the Kings O thou righteus and powerfull Judge of Heaven and Earth that of all the base things in the world hatest abhorrest dissemblers hypocrites Jer. 7.9 10 11 12. to 16. Matth. 23 deal with these the greatest of Dissemblers thy self who like so many bloudy and cruell men have ingaged this poor Kingdom in a bloudy and cruell war pretendedly for the preservation of their lawes and liberties when as God knowes by a constant series of actions they declare they never truly and really intended any such thing but meerly by the bloud and treasure of the people to make themselves tyrannicall Lords and Masters over them So that for my part if I should take the Covenant I protest it before the God of Heaven and Earth without fear or dread of any man breathing I should judge it my duty and that I were bound unto it in duty in conscience by vertue of my oath to do my utmost to prosecute even to the death with my sword in my hand every member of both houses that should visibly ingage in the destruction of the fundamentall Lawes Liberties of England and prosecute them with as much zeal as ever any of them prosecuted the King for tyrannie is tyrannie exercised by whom soever yea though it be by members of Parliament as well as by the King and they themselves have taught us by their Declarations and practises that tyrannie is resistable and therefore their Arguments against the King may very well serve against themselves if speedily they turn not over a new leaf for what is tyrannie but to admit no rule to govern by but their own wils 1 part col declar pag. 284 694. But Tho Gangrana one word more to you your threatning to write a book against liberty of Conscience and toleration of Religion I pray let me ask you this question if the Magistrate quatenus as Magistrate be Judge of the Conscience and thereby is indowed with a power to punish all men that he judgeth conceiveth or confidently believeth are erroneous and hereticall or because in Religion he differeth from the magisterial Religion in the place where he lives Then I pray tell me whether all Magistrates quatenus as Magistrates have not the very same power And if so then doth it not undeniably follow that Queen Mary and her Parliament did just in her dayes in making a law to burn those Heretiques that dissented from her established Religion who were as grose in their tenents in the then present Magistrates eyes as any of your Sectaries tenents are now in the present Magistrates eyes and if you and your bloody-brethren of the Clergy-Presbytery shal ingage the present Parliament and Magistracie to prosecute the Saints and people of God under pretence of heretical Opinions I wil upon the hazzard of my life justifie and prove it against you and the present Parliament that you and they thereby justifie Q. Mary in murdering and burning the Saints in her dayes yea and all the bloudy-persecuting Roman Emperors that caused to be murdered thousands of the Saints for bearing witnesse to the

the aforesaid Simon was aiding and counselling the said Roger in all the treasons felonies and wickednesses abovesaid the which things are an usurpation of Royall power Murther of the Liege Lord and destruction of Blood-Royall and that he was also guilty of divers other felonies and robberies and a principall maintainer of robbers and felons the said Earles Barons and Peeres did award and judge as Judges of Parliament by the assent of the KING the same Parliament that the said Simon as a traitor and enemy of the Realm be drawn and hanged And thereupon it was commanded to the Martiall to doe execution of the said judgement The which execution was done and performed the Munday next after the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle In the same Roll. And it is assented and agreed by our Lord the King Agreement not to bee drawn into example and all the Grandees in a full Parliament that albeit the said Peeres as Judges of Parliament took upon them in the presence of our Lord the King to make and give the said judgement by the assent of the King upon some of them which were not their Peeres and that by reason of the murder of the Liege Lord and destruction of him which was so new of the Blood-Royall and sonne of the King that therefore the said Peeres which now are or the Peeres which shall be for the time to come be not bound or charged to give judgement upon others then upon their Peeres nor shall doe it But let the Peeres of the Land have power but of that for ever they be discharged and acquit and that the aforesaid judgement now given be not drawn into example or consequent for the time to come by which the said Peeres may be charged hereafter to judge others then their Peeres against the Law of the Land if any such case happen which God defend Agreeth with the Record WILLIAM COLET It is the saying of the spirit of God Eccle. 4.9.12 two are better than one and a threefold cord is not easily broken so that to prove my position true for all the Rabshaca Language of Gangrena I have first the fundamentall Law point blank on my side and 2. the Judgment of one of the ablest Lawyers that ever writ in England and his Judgment authorised as good and sound by the present House of Commons to be published to the view of the whole Kingdome and 3. the Lords own confession for if you marke well the 2. last lines of the forecited record you shall finde they ingeniously confesse and declare that it it against the Law of the Land for them to judge a Commoner and for further confirmation of this reade Vox Plebis pag. 18. 19. 36 37 38 39 40 41 42. 44. 45. But if the Vlcerous Gangrena please to read a late printed booke called Regall Tyranny discovered he shall finde that the author of that Book in his 43 44 45 46 47 86. pages lays down many strong arguments to prove That the House of Lords have no Legislative power at all And in his 94 95 96 97. pages he declares proves That before Will the Conqueror subdued the rights and priviledges of Parliaments the King and the Commons held and kept Parliaments without temporall Lords Bishops or Abbots The two last of which he proves had as true and as good a right to sit in Parliament as any of the present Lords now sitting at Westminster either now have or ever had For the second thing which is Whether or no there be not in the present Parliaments Declarations and in the Assemblies exhortation to take the Covenant and in Mr. Prynnes Soveraigne power of Parliaments and other Presbyterian books publickly licenced and others sold without controll as much if not more said to set up or maintain that which Gangrena calls Vtopian Anarchy then in any Book what ever published by those he calls Sectaries And I averre it positively There is and shall joyn issue with Gangrena to prove it in every particular Therefore let him publish an exact Catalogue of any of our Positions when he pleaseth and I doubt not but to make it evident that it cannot justly by them be counted any vice in us to tread in their steps especially seeing they have accounted them so full of piety truth and honesty as they have done Now first for the Parliaments Declarations read but the Kings answers to them and you shall easily see he layes it as deeply to their charge of endevouring to set up Anarchy as Gangrena doth either to mine or Mr. Overtons yea and instances the particulars and tels them plainly The Arguments they use against him will very well in time serve the people to turn against themselves And as for Mr. Prynnes Soveraigne power of Parliaments I never read more of that Doctrine in any Book in all my life that Gangrena so much condemnes in me c. then in that very Book which is licenced by Mr. White a member of the House of Commons and in his dayes as stiffe a Presbyterian as Gangrena himselfe See his 1. part Sover pag. 5 7 8 9 19 26 29 34 35 36 37. But especially 42 43 44 47 57 92. And 2. part pag. 41 42 43 44 45 46. 73 74 75 76 3. part 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. 61 62 63 64 65. 131 132 133. And 4. part pag. 10 11 15 16. See his Appendix there unto pag. 1 2 3 4 5 and 11 12. 13 c. Besides these see the first and second part of the Observations Maximes unfolded the case of Ship-money briefly discoursed A new Plea for the Parlement A fuller Answer to a Treatise written by Dr. Fern with divers others Now for the third thing which is the tryumph Gangrena makes in his 3 part Gangrena pag. 158. which is that in my book called Innocency and Truth justified which I published the last year 1645. I give that to the Lords which now I in 1646. in many wicked Pamplets would take away from them such new light saith he hath the successe of the new modell and the recruit of the house of Commons brought to the Sectaries Well I will the man stand to this if hee will then I desire the impartiall Reader to judge betwixt us and turn to the 11 12 36 37 74. pages of that book in which pages is contained all that any way makes to his purpose or else turn to the 157 pag. of his book and see if in all my words there quoted by him there is any thing that carryes the shadow of giving that to the Lords that now I would take from them for there I am a reasoning with Mr. Pryn or the house of Commons not upon my principles but their own And therefore I say a Committee of the house of Commons is not the whole Parliament no nor the whole house of Commons it self according to their own principles which is the only clause he can fix

Justice which the Law of England affords me which is all I crave or stand in need of no longer to wait upon the destructive seasons of prudentiall men but forthwith to make a formal Appeal to all the Commons of the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales and set my credit upon the tenters to get money to print 20000. of them and send them gratis to all the Counties thereof the ingredients of which shall be filled with the Parliaments own Declarations and Arguments against the King turned upon themselues and their present practise and with a little Narrative of my Star-chamber tyrannicall sufferings and those I haue there to complain of are first Dr. Lamb Guin and Aliot for committing me And 2. Lord-Keeper Coventry Lord Privie-Seal Manchester that corruptest of men whose unworthy Son is now and hath been for some years the chiefe Prosecutor of my ruine for no other cause but that I have been honest valiant and faithfull in discharging the trust reposed in me which he himself was not my L. Newburgh old Sir Henry Vane a man as full of guilt as any is in England whose basenesse unworthinesse I shall anatomize to the purpose the L. chiefe Justice Bramston Judg Jones who sentenced me to the Pillory and to be whipt c. And then 3. Canterbury Coventry Manchester Bishop of London E. of Arundel Earl of Salisbury Lord Cottington L. Newburgh Secretary Cook Windebanke who sentenced me to ly in irons and to be starved in the prison of the Fleet With a short Narrative of my usage by Lords and Commons this present Parliament and conclude with a Declaration of what is the end wherefore Parliaments by law ought should be called which is to redresse mischiefes grievances c. but not to increase them 4. E. 3. 14. 36. E. 3. 10. to provide for the peoples weal but not for their woe Book Declar. 1. part pag. 150. and yet notwithstanding all the trust reposed in them and all the Protestations they have in their publique Declarations made faithfully without any private aimes or ends of their own to discharge it And notwithstanding all the bloud and money that hath been shed and spent at their beck and commands I would fain have any of them to instance me any one Act or Ordinance since the wars begun that they have done or made that is for the universall good of the Commons of England who have born the burthen of the day Sure I am they have made several Ordinances to establish Monopolies against the Fundamental Lawes of the Kingdom and thereby haue robbed free-men of their trades and liveli-hoods that at their command have been abroad a fighting for maintaining the Law and in practise annihilated Magna Charta and the Petition of Right So that a man though of their own Party may perish if committed by a Parliament-man or Parliament men hefore he can get the Judges to grant an Habeas Corpus to bring him and his cause up to their Bar there to receive a tryal secùndum legem terrae that is according to the Law of the Land although the Judges be sworn by their oathes to doe it So Sir desiring you seriously to consider of the premises which I could not conveniently send you but in print I rest Your abused Prisoner who is resolved to turn all the stones in England that lye in his way but he wil have right and justice against you JOHN LILBURN semper idem From my illegall and chargeable captivity in Cole-harbour in the Tower of London this 30 Jan. 1646. FINIS