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A93094	The famers fam'd or An answer, to two seditious pamphlets, the one intituled The just man in bonds, the other A pearle in a dunghill, written in the behalfe of that notorious lyar, and libeller John Lilburne. Also a full reply, with a confutation of certaine objections devised by the trayterous author of a seditious and unparraled [sic] libell, intituled A remonstrance of many thousand citizens, and other free borne people of England, to their owne House of Commons, &c. Wherein the wickednesse of the authors, and their abettors, the destructive courses of the sectaries, and their adherors is amply discovered. So that all (not wilfully blind) may cleerely see, that they are men stirred up by mans enemie, the Devill, as to ruine themselves, so this poore nation, that yet lies bedrid of her wounds lately received. And ought to be avoided as serpents, to be contemned as abjects, and to be delivered over to Satan, as blasphemers and reprobates. / Written by S. Shepheard.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel)	1646 (1646)	Wing S3163; Thomason E349_5; ESTC R201022	25,285	34

that if any be already infected they may by reading my lines God willing receive present and perfect cure and it will be a preservative also to prevent the further spreading and encrease thereof Heare the Libeller We are well assured and ye cannot forget that our chusing you to be● Parliament Men was to deliver us from all kind of bondage and to preserve the Common-wealth in Peace and Happinesse for effecting whereof we possessed you with the same power that was in our selves to have done the same for we might have done it our selves without you if we bad thought so convenient chusing you as persons whom we thought fitly qualified and faithfull for avoiding some inconveniences What hath bereft you of your former confidence the wickednesse of your owne spirits will not suffer you to participate of that good which is providing the men ye have chosen have not failed to performe their duty in a Parliamentary way and God hath so aided them that they have outdone example the bondage were it a bondage you so sorely exclaim against is taken off and the peace and happinesse you seeme to desire there is great hopes to injoy had it not beene for your owne cursed Proceedings Lyings and Slandering the Authors of your Good you might have now beene in better state then you are and yee have shewed your selves unworthy of that Good got and gaining for you by your continuall Debates and Dangerous speeches and as if you were weary of mercies by threatning That if you have not all even to a tittle that your erring Fancies desire you will by your owne strength procure it Now whereas you Boast that had you thought it convenient yee your selves could have accomplisht your wish Vaine men though it be possible you may be of Abilitie sufficent to measu●e Cloth and to keepe a Booke your summes being vast and unknowne yet with BAKERS Ayde you can substract and multiply and give the Summa totalis yet to manage the Affairs of a Kingdome is too high for you and had not the HIGH-COMMISSION COURT beene suppressed till by you we might still have beene cited before a Judge bearing both Swords as before it hath alwayes beene the custom of wicked and ungratefull men such as your selves the good once attained to slight the procurers thereof did you want that you now have O how acceptable would the least of those mercies be of which yee now surfeit and yee ought to know that mercies abused are often by the Almightie turn'd into scourges for the smart of the wicked and ungratefull But how yee have dealt with us we shall now let you know and * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the Righteous GOD Judge betmixt you and us the continuall oppressors of this Nation have been Kings which 〈◊〉 so evident that you cannot deny it Did you as you ought you would let them know how they had dealt with you by presenting your selves to them in all Humility and acknowledge with all Thankfulnesse that They have under God beene the preserve●● both of your lives and states but yee are an unstable wavering-minded people never contented in one state selfe-conceited you are and lea●e so much upon that broken staffe of Reed your wit that it will be a meanes at length even to pierce you through Rash you are and your Ignorance sputting you on yee affect Things Inconvenient and DESTRUCTIVE TO yours SELVES And whereas you say the continuall oppresso●●s of this Nation have beene KINGS I answer you commit a grievous sinne to averre ought contrary to your knowledge if yee have Read the Chronicles of this Kingdom you will find that the * 〈◊〉 Kings of this Isle and that for the major part have beene nursing Fathers and Mothers under whose peaceable and happy Government the people of this Land have sate each man under his figge tree praysing God and praying for their King If yee shall Aske what were the names of those KINGS so good and Gracious I answer before the Conquest many as EDMUND EDGAR ATHELSTANE c. Since the Conquest Henry the third Henry the fifth Henry the seaventh and his Son Henry the eighth Edward the sixth gracious * Queene Elizabeth King JAMES with divers others whom ●egina inarum for brevities sake I omit some of Them having augmented the Bounds of their Kingdome striving to make Their Nation glorious and great others have strove to maintaine what your forefathers have got executing Justice and Judgement and in truth never no Nation had more cause to boast of the Valour Pietie and good Government of their Kings then the English Nation nor hath our DREAD SOVERAIGN LORD KING CHARLES beene Inferiour to His Pious Predeceslours in the least respect who for the space of 17 yeares ere seduced by some pernicious and vile A Spencers Governed His People in Peace and under Him They ●lluding ●he Father the Son ●t Edward second so ●dly affect●● that he ●ooke the ●insell of Counsel●ts and was ●lly Ruled ●heir gid●ancies to unspeak● trouble ● vexation ●he whole ●lme Injoyed much Felicitie and so may againe this Prodigious and terrible storme o're-blown but let us returne to the Libeller And yet yee cannot fight for our Liberties but it must be in the name of KING and PARLIAMENT and He that speakes of His cruelties must be thrust out of your House your Preachers must pray for him as He had not deserved to be Excōmunicated all Christian societie or as if you or They thought that GOD were a Respecter of Persons in Judgement The Honourable Hcuses of Parliament esteeme it not a poynt of Libertie to Fight the Kings Battels and except His name the Royall Partie having perswaded the King to Destructive courses he ruled by them fought against His PARLIAMENT His Parliament to maintain the Libertie of the Subject their own Rights Priviledges and to Restore His Majestie to that honour and state He was in are seduced fight against those their opposers and is it not convenient for Them then He being the Head they the Members to have His name mentioned for whose honour They fight as for Their owne Rights Kings are but men and have Their passions and failings as well as others and moreover a great and weightie Burthen lyes on Their shoulders which Subjects doe not conceive and according to the Poet Crownes are but hives where stinging cares doe swarms Pompes but the whites where at fell envy shoots Which are as Trees whence grow their owners harme Harmes are the fruit Crownes Flowers Kingdoms Root The Arme of flesh is but a feeble Arme And in such strong extremes it little Boots He knowes not yet the Nature of a Crowne That knowes not Kings may be by strength o'ret hrowne And forasmuch as we are perswaded that those evill Counsellours were the onely cause and Fountaine whence our sorrowes have slowed and that we know and have cause to believe considering His Majesties frequent and pithy expressions His heartie desire of Compliance

THE FAMERS FAM'D OR AN ANSWER To two Seditious Pamphlets the one Intituled THE JUST MAN IN BONDS the other A PEARLE IN A DUNGHILL written in the behalfe of that notorious Lyar and Libeller JOHN LILBURNE Also a full reply with a confutation of certaine objections devised by the Trayterous Author of a Seditious and unparraled libell Intituled A REMONSTRANCE of many Thousand citizens and other free borne people of England to their own House of COMMONS c. Wherein the wickednesse of the Authors and their Abettors the destructive courses of the Sectaries and their Adherors is amply discovered So that all not wilfully blind may cleerely see that they are men stirred up by mans Enemie the Devill as to ruine themselves so this poore Nation that yet lies Bedrid of her wounds lately received And ought to be avoided as Serpents to be contemned as Abjects and to be delivered over to Satan as Blasphemers and Reprobates Likewise also these filthy Dreamers defile the flesh despise Dominion and speake evill of Dignities Jude ver 8. But these speake evill of these things which they know not but what they know naturally as bruit beasts in those things they corrupt themselves ver 10. Omnium malorum Stultitia est Mater Cicero Quid tam impium est quod mortalium Vulgus non admittat Demosthenes Written by S. SHEPHEARD London Printed for Iohn Hardesty at the Signe of the black-spread Eagle in Duke-Lane 1646. To The Right Honourable the house of Peers Assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honourable YOu whose names are graven so deeply on the Bedrole of Fame that the rust of all devouring time shall never be able to eat or diminists a Letter Adulation and my nature are ods and I have the least to answer for that of all my Crimes yet it becomes the just to be thankfull and those that will not honour the Instruments of Gods Glory detract from their Maker First therefore all thankes be rendred to your honours for your constant fidelity to your Country that you would not degenerate but choose rather to be afflicted with Gods people then to injoy the pleasures of sinne for aseason that you would be pleased to under goe Callumnies and the * Traytors Brand of infamie the subjects of this Kingdome cannot chuse but mutually joyne with me as once the women in the dance andsay many Peeres have done worthy deeds for the good of the people but ye have exceeded them all undergoing the frowne of Majestie which who so lookes on sees a Basilisk and seldome escapeth Death venturing your Estates wherein some men place their Summum Bonum and many of you your lives to purchase Freedome for a people altogether ungratefull I say not so but some men furnisht with corrupted mindes whom satan hath filled with the spirit of Enmitie and Detraction to the griefe of my soule and of all the least vertuous with their pennes like so many sharpened Pikes as Saul once to David his Preserver they stab at their deliverers men that are as unconstant as the wind more foolish then Claudius more wicked then Stajus who place their felicity in that to be avoyded City-racer Mutabilitie some of whose seurrilous Emptie Pamphlets coming to my hands I conceived I was bound in honour to my Maker and in thankfulnesse to your Honours to Reply to the said Pamphlets for these ravenous Fowles the People are naturally inclined with greedinesse to swallow whole Gobbets of such carion though they surfet themselves thereby and are often forced for it to be let bloud Thus desiring that great God who hath greatly assisted your Honours hithereto to keepe you for ever untouched by your Enemies I cease and shall ever remaine Your Honours most humble Servant S. S. THE FAMERS FAM'D IF a Commander doe faithfull service for a space and afterward revolteth and fighteth against that cause which erst he maintained must the memory of his former Service hinder the course of Justice surely no if Lievtenant Colonell Lilburne sometime an obscure Apprentice in London have formerly done Acts for his Countrey worthy acceptance though it may be evidently proved the maine reason why he accepted of the Parliaments Service was not so much out of an affection he bare to the Parliament and their cause as to protect himselfe against his creditors Arrests I say is he therefore to be excused if he degenerate and become an open and profest Enemie to that state whose cause hee erst seemed so stiff●y to maintaine Was there ever Papist Malignant Royalist or Cavaleer did demeane himselfe so libellously slanderously contemptuously and ungratefully to the Parliament as this Lilburne hath done and indeed the man understandeth not what he speaketh nor whereof he affirmes he hath erred from the truth and is now turned unto vaine Ianglings not knowing the end of the Commandement is love 1 Tim. Chapter 1. Which commands him not to Raile on Dignities and speake evill of Governments this is the man and that the first that findeth fault and proclaimeth it a breach of Magna Charta which himself had yet never Law enough to understand because he was cited to come before Authority before he was acquainted with his Accuser or accusation whereas the meanest capacities know that there is nothing more usuall then for Judges Justices and all superior or inferior Offices or Courts of the Realme upon credible information not onely to Summon but to Attach men by Constables and other Officers to appeare before them to answer such matters as shall be objected against them and this none ever deemed Lilburne excepted to be illegall or contrary to Magna Charta or the Subjects Liberty and shall not the Parliament the Supreamest of all Courts claime and have the same Priviledge that under and inferior Courts enjoy this superbious most egregious malapert upstart Lilburne whom Satan so often as he listeth inciteth and prompteth to compile seditious Pamphlets destructive to the Peace of the Kingdome this man out of his private spleene to Colonell Edward King a man under whom once he served wrote a scandalous Pamphlet wherein he taxeth the said King for a betrayer of the trust reposed in him by the Parliament that through his default many Townes of worth became a prey to the Enemy with divers other which were notoriously knowne to be false and suborned in the same Pamphlet he Rayleth against the Lawes terming them Norman Innovations with many other strange and unparreleld speeches all which he sent to Judge Reeve who himselfe or some other for him made a complaint to the Lords who Immediately summoned the Libeller before them their warrant this Die Mercurii 10 Iune 16. 1646. It is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled that Leivtenant Colonell Lilburne shall forth with upon sight hereof appeare before the Lords in Parliament to answer such things as he stands charged with before their Lordships concerning a Pamphlet Intituled The just mans justification or a Letter by way of Plea in Barre and