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A88210	L. Colonel John Lilburne revived. Shewing the cause of his late long silence, and cessation from hostility against alchemy St. Oliver, and his rotten secretary; as also of the report of his death. With an answer in part, to the pestilent calumniation of Cap: Wendy Oxford (Cromvvels spie upon the Dutch, and upon the English royallists, sojonrning [sic] in the United Provinces) closely couched in a late delusive pamphlet of the said Oxfords, called The unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England All vvhich, vvith many historicall passages, giveing light into the unvvorthy practises of the English grandees, is contained in three letters (The first to a friend in the United Provinces, The second to a friend in Scotland. And the third, to the honourable, Colonel Henry Martin, in England VVritten by L. Colonel John Lilburne.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.; Oxford, Wendy. Unexpected life, & wished for death, of the thing called parliament in England.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2128; Thomason E689_32; ESTC R206981	43,475	37

meanes whatsoever secret or open prosecute to the death the said Judge or Justice and all their principall abettors and I doe hereby invite and exhort all generous free-borne Englishmen to the like resolutions and to enter into League defensive and off nsive and Sacramentall associations seaven or eight in a company or as many as can well confide in one another to defend and revenge mutually one anothers persons lives limbs and liberties as a foresaid against this and all other illegall and tyrannous usurpations And in his third part of his said history of independency he sufficiently shows his enmitie against them by arraigneing the high Court of Iustice or Cromwels new Slaughter house in Engeland as he calls it with the authoritie that constituted it ordained it and by law convicting and condemning them both of usurpation treason tyrannie theft and murder in which third part of his said historie are the notablest things against the illegallitie and being of a high Court of Iustitie that ever I redd in my life all which three parts bound up together are openly and avowedly to be sold at the Hague and of which the said false Knave Oxford in the 15. page of his said booke declares he is not ignorant of for there speaking of the late Earle of Essex he setts downe his Character compleatly transcribing it out of the first part of the said historie of independencie pag. 25. And the Apostle Paul declares Act. 17.28 Titus 1.12 13. that there is no better testimonie in the world to witnes against a man then the testimonie of one of his owne party and that the considerations aforesaid towards my person and not a designe to make the Parlement rationally odious as he would seem by his booke to doe to Forraigne Nations is Oxford designe is to me very evident by the simplicitie and Falshood of Oxfords said booke which upon my life I dare aver and easilye undertake to proove undeniably that it hath above halfe a dozen if not above halfe a score lyes and falshoods in only one lease and therefore when any peece of a rationall and pertinent answer is published against it its effects in that particuler cease But if by books it had been his designe indeed to have don the Parlement a mischeife with a witnes he then should either have gotten the said most notable three parts of that most mischeiuous booke to them that ever was pend in the world against them and which was done by a learned man in the knowledge of the lawes of England and one commonly reputed one of their owne members and therby immediately furnished with the true and certaine knowledge of abundance of matter of fact contained in it which one without doores could have but by heare say translated and published in Severall languages or else have got divers thousands of them disperst in England where 3. yeares agoe to my knowledge one single booke of one single part of them hath been sold for 10. sh 20 apiece and tenn or twenty thousand of the last part against the high court of Iustice which in it selfe is but a short booke well dispersed in England its territories by the operation of it in a very few moneths after would pussell Cromwel and his grandees there more I am confident of it then van Tromp and all his fleet at Sea which yet many letters out of Engeland say is not a little My deare faithfull friend I have been the more large and plaine in unbowelling my Soul in my present condition to you who in tymes by past I have found so much truth faithfullnes and simpathizeing in and so much willignes readines activitie to be a fellow Soliciter and helper to my wife in her former greatest straites especially in my Guildhall busines in 1649. on purpose if it be possible and savour not of toe much unreasonablenes to create in you a serious apprehension of that extraordinary steed you may stand me and my poor wife and babes in in reference to our estate onely by as speedie repaireing to London to helpe her me and where yet I have something of instructions about it more to say unto you when you come thether then is fitt to be put in this hazardable to miscarry paper as possible the parting with your own delightfull injoyments will permitt you and the season of the weather will rationally afford you safetie to travell in which will be the greatest obligation that ever you put upon me in your life and probably of the greatest conse quence to me of any action that ever you did in your dayes and of which journey I am confident hereafter you will have no cause to repent So with my heartie and affectionate respects presented to your whole selfe with my true love to all the honest Sea-green blades that in your quarters shall aske for me I committ you to the protection of the most high and shall rest Your faithfull and very loveing Freind and Servant JOHN LILBVRNE Bridges in Flanders Saterday the 18 Ianuary 1653 new or the 8 Ianuary 1652 3. English stile POSTSCRIPTVM I hear by a letter from London there is likely to happen a strange thing viz a resurrection from the dead or a conjunction of severall honest blades of formerly disjointed interests once more vigourously to act againe for their known full and declared libertyes and I perceived this is occasioned by van Trumps late beating of Blake If such good effects follow such kind of actions I wish he would come and doe as much for you in Scotland provided it would make you rise againe from your dead condition in most unworthily and basely turneing your backs upon all your printed promises and solemne ingagements in reference to the peoples liberties thereby rendring your selves the scorne and contempt of all Europe and also therby haveing given too just occasion to the nations round about you to Iudge you lesse faithfull and your oathes and promisses lesse to be regarded then Turks Pagans and infidels with abundance of whom as History doth fully witnes their solemne Publique faith hath often times been more valued then their lives or all other earthly relations the so open palpable and not to be hid or covered over or pleaded for breach of it in you undoubtedly wil be the visible occasion of the hazard of a totall ruine of the English nation which must needs and unavoidebly fall upon you if speedily you doe not manifest your repentance by a speedy settleing the nation upon that just fundation or principles of rightiousnes you have so often before God and the World solemnely declared for as the only and alone Iustifiable ground and reason to warrant you either before God or man for breaking all the setled and legally established power and Magistracy in England as you have done and as the only and Iustifiable reason to acquit you before God and man of being reputed absolute and willfull murderers of all those persons

ever wrought by me or for me But to return from this digression I say my forementioned carriage or practise is not onely full of peace and tranquillitie of minde to me but also in my own apprehension and upon my most serious scrutinie and examination I never yet found my self a loser by it no more then the old and famous Common-wealths of the Acheëns or Romans did judge themselves to be loosers by the like of which Acheëns Polybius the Grecian in his wise and wel-pend Historie fol. 414. gives this worthie testimonie viz. That they were estranged from deceit towards their friends to advance their power by which they would not vanquish their enemies holding it neither noble norfirme if they did not vanquish by prowesse and in open fight Wherefore they ordained amongst themselves that no man should make use of hidden armes thinking that an open Combatt hand to hand was the true determining of warr Finally they declared themselves to their enemies and signified the warr when they were once resolved to undergoe the danger of the battle The like they did of the places where they would decide it And in the fame page he goes on and saith there is yet in his time which was in the life of Hannibal the great that cut his way in the depth of Winter through the mountanous Alps of Italy to get his armies as nigh Rome as their swords would inable them remaining in the Romans some reliques of their antient humour in such affaires they signifie their warr before and they seldome use any ambushes fighting readilie hand to hand Let these words saith he be spoken against the affection which is much more readie then is needfull in malicious practises policies and ambushes amongst Princes as well in affairs of warr as policies And Plutarch in his Historie fol. 139. relateing how that the old renowned Romans by their Generall Consull Camillus made warr and besieged the strong citties Falerians which being a very strong place in all parts made the people within very secure which their General Schoolmaster to their Children perceiving he for his own treacherous ambitious ends led the Children day by day out of the walls to play and at last presented himself and them before the Roman Generall in hopes of great matters from him for so doeing but the vertuous gallant old heathen Roman although he brought him the chief mens Children of the cittie said to those that were about him Warr of it self surely is an evill thing because in it many injuries and mischiefs are done neverthelesse amongst good men there is a law and discipline which doth forbid them to seeke victorie by wicked traiterous meanes and that a noble and worthie General should make warr and procure victorie by trusting to his own valiantnesse and not by anothers vilenesse and villanie Therefore he commanded his Sergeants to teare the cloathes off the back of this vile Schoolmaster and to binde his hands behinde him and that they should give the children rods and whips in their hands to whip the Traitor back again into the cittie naked that had betraied them and grieved their parents which when the Falerians heard that the Schoolmaster had thus betraied them all the cittie saith Plutarch fell a weeping and men and women ran together in one anothers necks to the town walles and gates of the cittie like people out of their witts they were so exceedingly troubled at the losse of their children but when they see their children bringing back the traiterous Schoolmaster as is aforesaid and calling the Roman Generall Camillus their father their God and their Saviour not onely the fathers and mothers of the children but generally all the other Cittizens did conceive in themselves a wonderfull admiration and great love of the wisdom justice and goodnesse of Camillus so that notwithstanding the great strength of their cittie they presentlie called a Counsell and there concluded to send Embassadors forthwith unto him to put their lives and goods to his mercie and favour who sent their Ambassadours unto Rome where having audience before the Senate the Amstassadors said because the Romans preferred justice before victorie they taught them to be better contented to submit themselves unto them then to be their owne men at libertie confessing their vertue did more overcome them then any force or power could doe where upon the Senate left all to their Generall Camillus to doe in it what he pleased and he used them so as became a man of a truly noble minde that rather desired to overcome their mindes with love then their bodies with feare terror and thereby choosed to have their subjection out of the lasting principles of love rather then to have it by the cobweb ties of feare And as full of noblenesse and justice was that act of Fabricius another of the Roman Generals towards Pyrrus King of Epirus a dangerous and formidable adversarie to the Roman Common-wealth and who forced their Generals and Armies in divers pitcht Battles against whom his own Physitian for the hopes of filthie lucre conspired to take away his life for the accomplishing of which he writes a letter with his own hand into the Roman Camp in which he profered to poyson the King his master in case the Roman Generall would promise him a large reward for his paines and for ending their desperate warrs without further danger But Fabritius detesting the wickednes of the Physitian and having made Quintus Aemylius his collegue and fellow Consul also to abhorre the same wrote a letter unto King Pyrrus and bad him take heed for there were that ment to poison him the contents of the letter were these Caius Fabricius Quintus Aemylius Consulls of Rome unto King Pyrrus greeting You have ô King made unfortunate choise both of your friends and of your enemys as shall appeare unto you by reading of this letter which one of yours hath writt unto us for you make warrs with just and honest men and doe your selfe trust altogether the wicked and unfaithfull hereof therefore we have thought good to advertize you not in respect to pleasure you but for feare the misfortune of your death might make us unjustly to be accused imagining that by Treachery or treason we have sought to end this warr as though by valiantnes we could not otherways atchieve it which letter procured the execution of this physitian for his treachery and a high admiration in King Pyrrus of the Romans worth and noble gallantry Plutarch Fol 409. O Renowned and worthy heathens far surpassing in honestie and farr surmounting in Iustice and rightiousnes our great pretended Christians the governors in England that Judge noe meanes nor wayes though never so abominable in themselves too vile for them to undertake for the accomplishing of their owne ends whether it be treacherie murder prejurie breach of faith or what ever it be and who have cheated all manner of Interests that ever yet in their lives they delt with and

either prevaile with you to write me your answer or with them to doe it For my part Sir my End is no other then English in it it being in no manner of respect a farthing advantage unto mee either in possession or expectation Onely it is one of the greatest ambitions I have in this world to be really and substantially a true lover of my Countrie and its real libertie And the rather because of late in readeing some store of Historie I find that many gallant and worthy heathens made it their worke study and hazard to make the sonns of men liveing in this world happy in their lives yea and to march with Armies valiantly to venter their lives to set at libertie and freedome their neighbours that they might enjoy their owne lawes and customes which they themselves had according to reason and the light and law of nature that supreme and original guide that God mans alone absolute Soveraigne had placed in every mans soule by common consent chosen and established or hereafter should choose and establish the actings according to which principally if not onely makes Man to differ from a brute Beast and bee delivered in good earnest from the bondage and slavery of Tyrants and Opressours or rather salvage brute Beasts in Mans shape not in words only but in deeds allso Of which without being judged tedious suffer me I beseech you to give you a few remarkeable instances The first is of the Citty of the Acheëns who by their good and just government and common liberty became as saith that old and rational historian Polybius fol 28.83 c a certaine president of a true Common-wealth and reconciled thereby all Morea And one of their chiefest and most virtuous Cittyzens called A rate made it his cheife worke to study by all meanes to chase away the kings or tyrants as they are there called and to preserve the common libertie of the Countrie of Morea and prevailed with Lysidas Aristomachus Xenon and Cleomenes to lay downe their crownes and renounce their royall principalities and to joine themselves to the league of the Acheëens of whose virtuousnes faithfullnes and noblenes of mind the said author gives a most commendable character in fol 414. in which Plutarch fully concurrs with him in his famous Historie of the lives of the noble Graecians and Romans fol 371. yea the said Author Polybius declares that when Antigonus a Governour and Generall under a king and Tutor to his Sonn had overcome the Lacedemonians by force of Armes and thereby had made himselfe Lord of them if he had pleased so to be yet he forbare to use any outrage or crueltie towards them and carryed him selfe not onely like a moderator and temperate man but was allso gracious unto his very Enemies and returned into his Countrie leaveing them in their full libertie doeing them many favours both in Generall and particular So as they not only termed him at that time their benefactour but after his death they called him their Saviour folio 86.100.229.353 Yea Plutarch in his foresaid history declares that Lycurgus when he had the power of the kingdome of Sparta in his owne hands and might easiely have kept it yet so sincere just and full of virtue was hee that he voluntarily laid it downe and betooke himselfe to a weareing and toilesome life to study and find out a governement that might make that Citty its territories a free happy and pleasant Commonwealth which he accordingly did And as that judicipos Author saith made it one of the famousest that was in the world and filld it full of valour virtue and love for many yeares together Their very children being trayned up in it from their cradles that so it might be as it were incorporated into their very natures and there being in it no coveteousnes nor poverty nor lack but a fullnes of abundance with a quiet and sober life Haveing allso two singular good properties besides viz that it had no Lawyers nor yet any suites in Law And 2dly whilest these Lawes of Lycurgus were observed and kept their life and vigour which for many yeares they did Sparta seemed not to be a policy or a Commow wealth but rather a certaine holy place and order of religion and of that respect and honour amongst their neighbours that with a little scrowle of parchment and a poore cap the Spartans commanded and gave Lawes to all the rest of Greece even with their owne good likenig and consent yea and expulsed and chased away the tyrants which usurped tyrannical power over any of their neighbours Citties and did decide all controversies and often times pacified their seditions without sending out one soldier but only a simple poore Embassadour So great reverence had their neighbours of the good government and justice of the Spartans Plutarch fol 42.44.49.56.57.60.78 It would be too tedious unto you for me to bee any thing large upon too many instances And therefore I shall but only name the hazards that love to just libertie and freedome that rationall image of God amongst men who only as absolute soveraigne Lord of Man commands him by his will led Clisthenes to run into to set Athens free from their tyrants and tyrannie wherewith they were oppressed in his time and that Pericles under tooke to deliver Samos from its tyrants and tyrannie or small aristo-craticall or olig-archical governement of a few nobles to establish a popular Governement or Soveraigne Authoritie or Majestie of the People as the aforesaid Author calls it or that Alcibiades and his associates underwent againe to recover the Libertie of Athens from new upstart tyrants or that Pelopidas Ismenias Androclidas and Pherenicus with their associates hazarded to deliver the Cittie and Commonwealth of Thebes from the usurpation and tyrannie of Archias Leontidas and Philip with their associates and mercenary soldiers Which story especially is extraordinarily well worth the readeing All which are by Plutarch touch 't upon in his foresaid history in fol 158.171.212.288.289.290 And in fol 300.302.305 he shewes that Pelopidas being by his Citty sent Embassadour to Artaxerxes king of Persia who very much honoured him for his valiantnes and Wisedome procured of him that all the People of Greece should be free againe And his Citty and hee being sollicited by the Thessalians to helpe to deliver them from the most unsupportable and beastly uglie tyrannie of their grand Tyrant Alexander they made it their worke to deliver all such as were oppressed by tyrants yea and sought to roote out tyrannicall governement throughout whole Greece For the obtaineing of which in a pitcht battaile with the forementioned tyrant Alexander that valiant and worthy Captaine Pelopidas lost his life which the Thebans immediately after sufficiently revenged and compelled the Tyrant to withdraw his garrisons and set those Citties free which he kept in bondage Yea when the ancient and most famous commonwealth of Rome came to have power in Macedonia after the Consul Paulus Aemylius had

the world but they were cause allso of encreaseing their dominion and Empire over all Nations and that the world afterwards had great Affiance and trust in them and that most justly So that the People and Citties did not only receive the Captaines and Governouis the Romans sent them but they allso went unto Rome and procured them to come and did putt themselves into their hands And not only the Citties and Commonalties but Kings and Ptinces also that were oppressed by others more mighty then themselves had no other refuge but to put themselves under their protection by reason whereof in a very short time with the favour and helpe of the Gods as my Author is persuaded all the world came to submit themselves to their obedience and to bee under the protection of thir Empire Titus himselfe also did glorie more that he had restored Grece againe unto libertie then in any other service or exploit he ever had done and having besides all this done many more famous things he went to Rome with a world of riches and treasure and triumphed And this year being out longer then which no Roman Generall did ordinarilie hold his place especiallie in the puritie and glorie of their common-wealth and mischeife in his absence being a brewing amongst the poore Grecians by the forementioned Antiochus a potent king who went out of Asia into Greece with a potent fleet of Shipps and a very puissant Armie to stir up the Citties of Greece to forsake their league and alliance with the Romans Thereupon the Romans fearing the riseing of the People in Greece and the fame of the power of that great king Antiochus they chose and sent out for the next yeare Manius Acilius for a Generall and Titus was content without scruple to goe under him as one as his Lieutenants Whose behaviour in that Journey was as full of wisedome and humanitie as in the former in saveing severall Citties by his sweet and overcomeing perswasions from the furie of the present Generalls Rage who in battell haveing overthrowne the said great king sought and prosequted revenge on those that had any way sided with him Which made the poore People of Grece when beseiged to looke over the walls to spie Titus and to call unto him by his name holding up their hands unto him and praying him to take pitty upon them But he answered never a word to them at that time but turned his back and fell a weepeing Yet was he their sure Intercessor to prevaile with the Generall for their pardon Which made one of the Citties being preserved by his meanes to consecrate unto him all the remembrances that that heathen Age could devise to honour a Man with And in the Temple that they dedicated to him they had a Preist chosen by the voyce of the People to doe sacrifice unto him After which the People sing a song of triumph made in praise of him the latter end of which runns thus The cleare unspotted Faith Of Romans we adore And vow to be their faithfull friends Both now and evermore Sing out ye Muses nine To Ioves eternall fame Sing out the honour due to Rome And Titus worthy name Sing out I say the praise Of Titus and his faith By whom ye have preserved bin From Ruine Doole and Death And after his return from the warrs with Antiochus he was chosen Censor at Rome which office is of great dignitie and as a man may say the crown of all the honours that a Cittizen of Rome can have in that Common-wealth And he and his fellow Censor by their office having power to put all such as they judged unworthy persons out of the Senate did put out onely foure They did receive also into the number of Cittyzens of Rome all such as would present themselves to be enrowled in their common Register with a proviso that they were born free by Father and Mother unto which last they were compelled by Tenentius Culio Tribune or protector of the peoples liberties who to despite the Nobilitie perswaded the people of Rome by their Supreme authority to command it should be so After all which high dignities and honours and brave and noble actions he abased himself to become a Colonell of a thousand foote being obtained of and by his own seeking of purpose to goe into the warrs to fight for the glory of his Countrie which action in my opinion is to be commended in him For I beleeve none of the great Generals of our age but would scorne after their being Generals to goe into the warrs again as private Colonells And so much for famous and renowned Titus Quintius Flaminius All which you may reade more at large in Plutarchs Lives Fol. 381.382 to 395. Makeing Sir no farther Application of these things at present I onely beg your pardon for my tediousnes to you especially to whom I know large Epistles are no way pleasant intreating you likewise to steale a little spare time from your many great occasions to read these lines seriously which I very strongly imagine may prove of some use to you And oblige me yet so farr unto you as to present my heartie service to my old true-hearted plain and blunt friend Mr. Moyle of your house and tell him from me that he often used to clap me on the back call me Noble Cato which before I came to Flanders did not fully understand what he meant by it But haveing red so much of famous Plutarchs Lives lately with so much delight and seriousnes as I have done reading for many daies together fiftie of his large Folios in a day and also largely takeing notes as I reade my common practise in reading any book that pleaseth me I hope shortly in a few lines which I intend to present him with to let him know I now fully understand his meaning So with my heartie and true love and service presented to you I take leave to subscribe my self SIR Your most affectionate Friend heartily to serve you being yet as much an English man as ever I was JOHN LILBURN Semperidem From my delightfull dwelling in Bruges Saturday Novemb. the 9. 1652. New stile The End