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A88202	Ionahs cry out of the whales belly: or, Certaine epistles writ by Lieu. Coll. Iohn Lilburne, unto Lieu. Generall Cromwell, and Mr. John Goodwin: complaining of the tyranny of the Houses of Lords and Commons at Westminster; and the unworthy dealing of divers (of those with him that are called) his friends. To the man whom God hath honoured, and will further honour, if he continue honouring him, Lieu. Generall Cromwell at his house in Drury Lane, neare the red-Lion this present.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2122; Thomason E400_5; ESTC R201740	21,051	15

were raised by an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster for the defence of the King and Parliament the true Protestant Religion not the Scotch Iewish Antichristian inslaving Presbytery and the Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdome not the Arbitrary wills of the Houses as appeares by the Ordinance of the 15. Feb. 1644. 2. part book Declar. fol. 599. which positively commands Sir Thomas Fairfax from time to time to submit to and obey all such orders and directions as he shall receive from both Houses of Parliament or from the Committee of both Kingdomes Yet now he and his Army apprehending and beleeving that the wicked and swaying Faction in both Houses would destroy them and inslave the whole Kingdome doe not onely dispute the two Houses orders and commands but also positively disobey them as unjust tyrannicall and unrighteous And being now thereby dissolved into the originall law of Nature hold their swords in their hands for their own preservation and safety which both Nature and the two Houses practices and * See the ● part bo declar p. 44. 93 94 150 202 205 307 382 277 269 279 446 496 637 690 700 7●7 722 723 726 728 Declarations teaches them to doe and justifies them in and now act according to the principles of Saifety flowing from Nature Reason and Justice agreed on by common consent and mutuall agreement amongst themselves in which every individuall private Souldier whether Horse or Foot ought freely to have their vote to chuse the transactors of their affaires or else in the fight of God and all rationall men are discharged from obeying stooping or submitting to what is done by them And that they doe now act upon the foresaid Principles is cleare by their printed ingagement of the 5. of July 1647. called A solemne engagement of the Army under the command of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax read assented unto and subscribed by all Officers and Souldiers of the severall Regiments at the generall Randezvouz neer Newmarket In which agreement or solemn engagement they say That the Souldiers of this Army finding themselves so stopt as before they there declare in their due regular way of making known their just grievances and desires to and by their Officers were inforced to an unusual but in that case necessary way of correspondencie and agreement amongst themselves to chuse out of the severall Troops Companies severall men and those out of their whole number to chuse two or more for each Regiment to act in the name and behalfe of the whole Souldery of the respective Regiments Troops and Companies And a little fu●ther they expresse themselves thus We the Officers and Souldiers of several Regiments hereafter named are now met at a general Rendezvouz have subsubscribed vnto the said solemne engagement and doe hereby declare agree and promise to and with each other and to and with the Parliament and Kingdome as followeth First that we shall cheerfully and readily disband c. having first such satisfaction and security in these things as shall be agreed unto BY A COVNCELL TO CONSIST OF THOSE GENERALL OFFIGERS OF THE ARMY who have concurred with the Army in the premises WITH TWO COMMISSION OFFICERS AND TWO SOVLDIERS TO BE CHOSEN FOR EACH REGIMENT who have concurred and shall concurre with us in the premises and in this agreement And by the Major part of such of them who shall meet in Councell for that purpose when they shall bee thereunto called by the Generall Secondly that without such satisfaction and security as aforesaid we shall not willingly disband nor divide nor suffer our selves to be disbanded or divided So that by these words in their agreement you see the foresaid position proved that they act by mutuall consent or agreement Now to have this agreement or solemne ingagement invaded or broken either by the subtilty fraud or power of the Officers and a power assumed by themselves to act all their chiefe businesse contrary to this Agreement is an action that merits a kicking if not worse out of the Army to all those Officers be they what they will be that were chiefe actors and contrivers of it For the most Divellish subtile undermining and destroying way that can bee taken by the greatest haters of the Army Stapleton Hollis or the Assembly to destroy and overthrow them and to have their wills not onely of them but also of all that wish them well is by their pecuniary charmes flateries gifts bribes promises or delusions to put the officers by their agents upon the invading and infringing the essentiall and common rights of the Army before expressed which within a little while will beget such pride scorne and contempt in the Officers against the Souldiers who to their eternall praises be it spoken did the work to their hands and acted at the beginning like prudent and resolved men when all or most of the Officers sate still like so many Drones and Snekes as will breed unquenchable heart-burnings in the Souldiers against them which will speedily draw them into discontents and factions against them which of necessity will speedily break out into civil broyls amongst them so undoubtedly destroy them for what occasions all the warres in the world but invading of rights And what occasioned all the late broyles betwixt the King and the two Houses but the invasion of rights And what hath occasioned the present difference betwixt the two Houses and the Army but the two Houses invading their rights and endeavouring to make them slaves by arbitrary Lording over them by proclaiming them traytors for endevouring to acquaint them with their grievances and invasion of the common and agreed of rights before mentioned of the privat Souldiers of the Army by the Councell of Warre c. will evedently and apparantly occasion the same betwixt the Officers and Souldiers of the Army And therefore accursed be he that is the causer or contriver of it For if it be treason in a Kingdome as Str●fford and Canterbury found it to be to endevour the subversion of the fundamentall Lawes and Rights of the Kingdome can it bee lesse then treason in the Army for any of their Officers to endeavour the subversion of their essentiall fundamentall Lawes Rights and agreements expressed in their foresaid solemne Engagements And truly being more then jealous that it was the study labour and practice of some Officers in the Army to invade the foresaid rights of the privat Souldiers of the Army which if continued in will destroy them and so by consequence the whole Kingdome and my selfe For if they doe not deliver us from vassalage wee are perfect slaves and so made by the treachery of our Servants our Trustees in Parliament And therefore out of love and affection to my native countrey and my owne Being I could doe no lesse then by my writing c. endevour the prevention of it and also give a hint of those that my often intelligence told me againe and again

you complained before me and my wife to Rich his face in your owne chamber at Dillinghams house and called him before us base Rascall and cowardly and perfidious fellow with much more I very well remember You cannot but know that all my present sorrowes are come upon me by Manchesters meanes and his creatures for my zeale to truth and justice against him and all his treacherous confederates who had as I conceive eare now got the gallowes if you had followed him with as much vigour and strength as you should and I was made beleeve you would But you pluckt your head out of the * Accursed bee the vote of the House of Commons which voted you 2500 l per annum which vote and nothing else hath kept Manchesters head upon his shoulders coller and I was catched in the bryers and have been exposed to a thousand deaths by my imprisonment c. most illegally barbarously and tyrannically and the House of Commons would do me no justice though I turned I think as many stones to procure it as any man whatsoever in England could But was betrayed and unworthily disserted both by your selfe Henry Martin † Reade my late Epistle to him page 1 2 3. 4 5 6 c. now in Print Dated 31. of May. 1647 and all my friends there whose actions to me are nothing else but declara●ions of your selfe seekings without purely eyeing either Trust or Justice for which God undoubtedly will lash and scurge you And when I saw that they wou●d not heare regard or receive but burnt or sleighted all those just Petitions I set underhand on foot for Justice and my liberty I applyed my selfe vagarously unto the honest blades the private Souldiers I meane of the Army though I have nothing to speake of your gallant Generall to me in a manner a stranger but prayses And when by much indust●y with much of position from your selfe and others of your fellow Grandees in the Army I had been instrumentall with the expence of a great deale of money and with all the interest and industry I had in the world acted both night and day to settle the Souldiers in a compleat and just posture by their faithfull agitators chosen out by common consent from amongst themselves as resolute s●● and just instruments to effect my Liberty to give a checke to tyranny and settle the peace and justice of the Kingdome not looking for any good at all from your selfe and the rest of your fellow great ones that truly in my apprehension are transendently degenerated have bought and sold and intend visibly more fully to do it the Lawes Liberties and Justice of the Kingdom for your owne ends and greatnesses which opinion is every day confirmed and strengthned in me in that you have not only done it alreadie but goe on still and intend more fully to do it in that in a manner you have rob'd by your unjust subtiltie and shifting trickes the honest and gallant agitators of all their power and authority and solely placed 〈◊〉 in a thing called a Counsell of Warre or rather a Cabenet Junio of seven or eight proud selfe ended fellowes that so you may without controule make up your owne ends for I know your practises of old which I am credibly informed is lately renued and the chiefest of them before mentioned whom I c. have experience sufficiently of are as base as base can be And will sell Christ their Country friends relations and a good conscience for a little money or worldly honour And yet some of them must be the chiefe and only men to place and displace all Officers in the Armie And the aforesaid two general Officers were as I am confidently informed from a good hand moved for by your selfe at a Councell of Warre to be the mannagers of the charge against the eleven Members although your selfe I dare aver it believes That put them both together they have not so much courage as to encounter with a Wesell or a Poulecat much lesse with such sons of Anak as the eleven Members are and I am sure both of them put together hath not so much honestie as will fill a Tailors thimble much lesse so much as will make them deny their lives liberties and interests which of necessitie they must have that resolutely and faithfully undertake that imployment yet as I am tould they had been the men if your wise son Ireton had not been apprehensive that the Councell of warre had lost all their braines at their departure Sir in short what I heare not once twise thrise nor a dozen times from you hath so perplexed my spirit and fil'd me with amazement that thereby I must as a faithfull plaine dealer tel you that I am necessitated wholly to withdraw my present good thoughts from you and others with you and must and will print my conceptions to the view of the world that so you may delude and destroy honest simple hearted plain dealing men no longer cost it what it will I valew it not being necessitively compelled either to remove every stone that lyes in my way that hinders me from obtaining my just ends Justice and my just liberty or else to power out my bowels upon them with lifting them and I sufficiently heare of the Jeeres plottings and contrivings of your favourites against me and all such as I am Therefore doe you and they looke to your selves as well as you can for the uttermost of my strength and interest shall speedily be amongst you publiquely unlesse you speedily and effectually without complement take some speedy course that I face to face may speake my mind to your selfe of which I desire a positive and satisfactory answer within foure dayes at the farthest I desire no favour from Lords or Commons c. but if I have transgressed the Law let me fully be punished by the Law * And by the Law of this Kingdom which by all your oathes you your selfe have sworn to maintaine there ought to bee Gaole deliveries three times a yeare and more oftner if need required 4. Ed. 3. 2. see the oppressed mans expressions declared pag. 3. 4. part Iustit cap. 30. pag. 168. 169. And all this is for that end that the prisoner may have according to the 29. chap. of Magna Charta the Kings Coronation oath speedy Justice not be destroy'd by a long lingring imprisonment which the Law abhorres and therefore the late impeached members in their own case lately in their petition to the House tells them That delayes of Iustice is equally forbidden with the deniall of Iustice and yet I have above a whole yeare been imprisoned by the Lords and can come to no triall though I have with earnestnesse sought it neither have I any accusation or crime layd unto my charge or so much as any witnesse or informer to appeare against me to the transcendent violation of all the lawes of the land and contrary to all Rules

to say unto you in the wards of Iob chap 32.21 22. Let me not pray you accept any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I know not to give flatering titles in so doing my maker would soon take me away Now deer Sir knowing that you cannot but know that it is a saying of the Spirit of God That faithfull are the wounds of a Friend but deceitfull are the k●sses of an Enemy I come now downright to unbowell my mind unto you and truly to tell you that in my thoughts I look upon the redeemed ones of Iesus Christ in England in as low and sad a condition almost as the Iews were in the third of Esther when Haman upon this false suggestion to K Hashuerosh That there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed amongst the people in all the provinces of the Kingdome and their lawes are divers from all people neither keep they the Kings lawes therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them had obtained a Decree to destroy them all and therefore as poore Mordicai in the bitternesse of his spirit in the fourth chapter sayd unto Queen Esther so say I to thee thou great man Cromwell Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the Parliament House more then all the rest of the Lambs poore despised redeemed ones and therefore O Cromwell if thou altogether holdest thy peace or stoppest or underminest as thou dost our and the Armies petitions at this time then shall enlargement and deliverance arise to us poore afflicted ones that have hithertoo doted too much upon thee O Cromwell from another place then from you silken Independents the broken reeds of Egypt in the House and Army but thou and thy Fathers House shall be destroyed but who knoweth whether thou art come out of thy sicknesse and to such a height in the kingdome for such a time as this And therefore if thou wilt pluck up thy resolutions like a man that will persevere to be a man for God and goe on bravely in the feare and name of God and say with Esther If I perish I perish but if thou would not know that here before God I arraigne thee at his dreadfull Barre and there accuse thee of delusions and faire words deceitfully for betraying us our wives and children into the Haman-like tyrannicall clutches of Ho●●is and Stapleton both now impeached and the rest of that bloody and devouring faction that hath designed us to utter ruine and destruction and this land and kingdome to vassalage and slavery against whom we are sufficiently able to persevere our selves if it were nor for thee O Cromwell that art led by the nose by two unworthy covetous earth-wormes Vaine and St. Iohn I mean young Sir Henry Vaine and Sollicitor St. Iohn whose basenesse I sufficiently anatomized unto thee in thy bed above a yeare agoe in Colonel Mountagues house in the Pears as thou canst not but very well remember and which I am resolved to the purpose shortly to print * See the last page of the Outcries of the oppressed Commons and the Resolved mans Resolution p. 6. 7 8 9 10. O Cromwell I am informed this day by an Officer out of the Army and by another knowing man yesterday that came a purpose to me out of the Army That you and your Agents are likely to dash in peeces the hopes of our outward preservation Their petition to the House and will not suffer them to petition till they have laid down their Armes because forsooth you have engaged to the House they shall lay down their Armes whensoever they shall command them although I say no credit can be given to the Houses Oathes and engagements to make good what they have promised And if this be true as I am too much afraid it is then I say Accursed be the day that ever you had that influence among them and accursed be the day that ever the House of Commons bribed you with a vote of 2500. l. per annum to betray and destroy us Sir I am jealous over you with the hight of godly jealousie that you like Ephesus have forsaken your first love and zeale * Which is very probable for Peter to save himselfe forswore and denyed his Master Matth. 26.72.73 yea and for feare playd also the hypocrite and dissembler for which Paul reproved and blamed him to his face Galat. 2. for which I am most heartily sorry and should be very glad I were mistaken and upon manifestation of which from you I should very gladly cry you peccavi for my present heat But Sir if these Army newes be true I must bid you for ever Farewell and must hereby declare my selfe an avowed enemy to your selfe-pecuniary interest and all your copartners and shall with more zeale bend all my abilities against you all and unmask you to my friends then my adversaries the tyrannicall and arbitrary Lords doe the worst you can to my throat which you used jestingly to say you would cut so soon as ever I fell out with you Sir I have but a life to lose and know that to die to me is gaine being now crucifi●d to the world and it to me and being now sufficiently able to trust God with my Wife and Children but by the strength of God I am resolved Sampson like to sell my life at as deare a rate as I can to my Philistine Adversaries that shall either by force without law endevour to destroy me or by treachery to undoe me And if the Army doe disband before they petition I and all such as I am must truly lay the whole blame upon you and truly declare the House of Commons bribe Cromwel to betray the liberties of England into their tyrannicall fingers Sir is it not the Generals Commission to preserve the lawes and liberties of England And how can he those with him without being esteemed by all men that are not bribed or preferre their own base interest before the common safety the basest of men to lay down their Armes upon any conditions in the world before they see the lawes and universall well known liberties of England firmly setled especially seeing as I will undertake publickly and I hope shortly to prove the Parliament tyrannizeth ten times more over us then ever the King did * See my printed Epistle to Colonel Martin of the 31. of May 1647. page 6 7 8 36 37 38 48 49 to 56. And see the first part of the justification of the Kings Government against the Parliament page 3 4 5 to the end And Mr. Richard Overtons Appeale dated Iuly 1647. and I will maintain it that by the law of this Kingdome it is ten times easier to prove it lawfull for us to take up Armes against them in the wayes they now go then it was for them to take up Arms when they did against the King And I professe I would doe it if I were rationably able to doe

it to morrow For if as they have often said That tyranny be resistable then it is resistable in a Parliament as well as a King Sir I am not mad nor out of my wits but full of apprehensions of slavish consequences reason and zeale and should bee glad it could speedily and iustly be cooled by you before it flame too high which you will further understand I have grounded cause to make it if you seriously read and ponder this inclosed Letter sent to Mr. Iohn Goodwin which with this I have sent by the gravest wisest and fittest messenger I could think of and though a Feminine yet of a gallant and true masculine Spirit And so I commit you to the wisest disposing of our wise God and shall rest till I heare from you From my soule-contented captivity in the Tower of London for the Lawes and liberties of England against the tyranny of the house of Lords and their associates Lords would be this 25 March 16●7 Yours in much iealousie of you Iohn Lilburne To his much honoured and much respected friend Mr. John Goodwin at his House in Swan-Alley in Colemanstreet these Honoured and worthy Sir I Am necessitated to write a few lines unto you about a businesse that doth very much concerne mee but in the first place I desire to make my engaged acknowledgement unto you and your congregation for your large kindesses manifested unto me in this my present imprisonment in supplying my necessities in which particular I must ingeniously confesse I am more obliged to you singly then to all the Congregations in and about London and yet notwithstanding have in some other things just cause to think my selfe more injured by some of your congregation then by all the avowed and professed adversaries I have in England for against them I have a defence but against a secret adversary being a pretended friend I have none but am thereby subject to an unapprehended destruction That which I have to lay to the charge of some of your members is That they have improved all their power interest and ability to hinder all effectuall meanes whatsoever that tended to procure my deliverance from a tyrannicall captivity and not only mine but all the rest of my afflicted fellow-Commoners that are in the same affliction with me as Mr Richard Overton his wife and brother Mr. Iohn Musgrave Mr. Larners servant c. for besides what they have done in London to crush all Petitions that tended to my just deliverance they have improved their interest to destroy the Petition of Buckingham shire and Hartford Shire which was principally intended for the good of the prerogative Prisoners my selfe Mr. Overton c. for upon Munday last Lieut. Collonell Sadler came to the Randevous at Saint Albones and therein the name of diverse knowing men of Mr. John Goodwines Congregation improved all his interest utterly to destroy the Petitioner so that what he did then and Mr. Fe●ke an Independant Minister who lives at or about Hartford who being lately at London brought downe such discouraging newes that some of eminent quality of the Petitioners told me in these words That if it had not been for the base unworthy undermining dealing of some of Mr. John Goodwins Congregation they had had a thousand subscriptions for an hundred they have now and a thousand to have come in person with the Petitioner for every hundred they had Sir I cannot but stand amazed to thinke with my selfe what should be the ground and reason of these mens preposterous actings point blanke destructive to the welfare of every honest man in the Kingdom and particularly the destruction of * Who hath never beene out of the clutches of tyrants this ten years who have severall times made me spend my selfe to my very shirt me and my poor distressed Family and truly in my own thoughts I think I could easily fix upon those worldly wise prudentiall men in the Parliament * The chief of which I conceived to be you Sir Hen. Van● and Soliciter St. John whose aims I conceived are to be Lord Treasurer Lord Keeper or if they misse of the titles yet to enjoy the power and profit thereof or else to be as neare it as may be that set them at work on purpose to keepe the people from seeking for their owne liberties and freedomes that so they may not be disturbed in the enjoyment of their great and rich places which I am afraid they prise above the welfare of all the godly men in England and the Lawes liberties and freedomes thereof for all their great and g●lded professions and truly as much cause have I administred to me particularly and publiquely to fall foule upon them and their proud imperious unjust and selfe interests as they under-hand have fallen upon me my liberty and welfare but by reason of those many engagements by which I stand obliged to your selfe for your so stout deep engagement for the publick welfare of all those that thirst after either morrall or religious righteousnesse I could do no lesse but write these lines unto you before I put my necessitated resolution unto reall action and earnestly to entreat you to spare so much time from your weighty emploiments as to do mee the favour to let me speake a few words with you and if you please to bring Mr. Price along with you So with my truest respect presented to you I commit you to the protection of the most High and rest Your true and reall friend to serve you JO. LILBVRNE From the Tower this 13. of Feb. 1646. A second letter to Leiu Generall Cromwel to presse home the former Honored Sir I writ a large letter to you of late and by the bearer of it I received a verball answer from you by an other freind of Bristow at a distance I understood a litle from you but neither of them satisfactory to me nor any thing else that I have lately heard from you or any of your over wise friends that are not able to trust God with three halfe pen●e so that my spirit is as high as it was when I last writ to you and altogether unsatisfied But in regard my soul earnes towards you I cannot but once again by this true friend write two lines unto you to tell you that I cānot sit still though I dy for it and see you that are reputed honest conscientious men be the betrayers and destroyers of your poore native Countrey and the lawes and liberties thereof * For while you sit in the House in silence and publish nothing to the publike view of your dislike of the base things that are continually Acted in the House you are in the sight of men approvers of them all yea and treacherous betrayers of your Friends and Country Who think all is well because that you are reputed honest men sit there and they see nothing of your dislike of any thing done there and therefore are subject to