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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88241	Rash oaths unwarrantable: and the breaking of them as inexcusable. Or, A discourse, shewing, that the two Houses of Parliament had little ground to make those oaths they have made, or lesse ground to take, or presse the taking of them, being it is easie to be apprehended, they never intended to keep them, but onely made them for snares, and cloaks for knavery, as it is clearly evinced by their constant arbitrary and tyranicall practices, no justice nor right being to be found amongst them; by meanes of which they have declaratorily, and visibly lost the very soule and essence of true magistracy, (which is, the doing of justice, judgement, equity ... In which is also a true and just declaration of the unspeakable evill of the delay of justice, and the extraordinary sufferings of Lievtenant Colonell John Lilburne, very much occasioned by M. Henry Martins unfriendly and unjust dealing with him, in not making his report to the House. All which with divers other things of very high concernment, are declared in the following discourse, being an epistle, / written by Lievtenant-Colonell John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, to Colonell Henry Marten, a member of the House of Commons of England ... May 1647.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2167; Thomason E393_39; ESTC R201615	53,968	58

portion if 〈◊〉 everlasting woe and indignation in the world to come But that I may not be sentenced for rashnes in saying this which is not in your Oath● and Covenants I will site your owne words and leave them to your judgement to passe sentence upon them First in your Protestation of the 5 of May 1641 I find you sweare in these words To maintaine and defend the lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall doe in the lawfull pursuance of the same And secondly in your Vow and Covenant which you commanded to be taken througho●t the whole Kingdome You vow in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts that you doe in your Conscience beleeve that the forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament are raised and continue for their just defence and for the defence of the true Protestant Religion which what that is I thinke never a one of your selves knowes And Lawes and Liberties of the Subject against the Forces raised by the King and a little below you all that tooke that Oath declare vow and covenant to assi●t all persons that shall take this Oath in what they shall doe in pursuance thereof and if so then ●aver it for a truth that all the men of England that have taken this Oath are bound to assist me or any other whatsoever that shall oppose the Lords and Commons sitting at VVestminster for their apparant indeavoring the distruction of the Liberties of the Subject And in the third place in the preamble to the League and Covenant fram'd in Scotland and most basely illegally and unjustly obtruded upon England and the Freemen thereof with an unsupportable penalty I find that amongst the things the Fraimers of it had before their eyes this is one viz. The true publique Liberty safety and Peace of the Kingdome wherein every ones private condition is included And in the third Article of the Covenant you and all those that took it sweare sencerely really and constantly in your severall e●ditions to endeavour with your estates and lives mutually to preserue the Rights and Privileges of the Parliament and the leiberties of the Kingdome and I am sure the Parliament hath often declared though in action they have visablely denied it that they have no Privileges for the destruction of the Kingdome but for the preservation of it nor no Privileges for the over-throwing of good and wholsome Lawes but for the defending and preseruing of them nor no Privileges for the trampling under their feet the Liberties of the Kingdome but to maintaine them in their luster and glory and what they are you may in part read before and in your owne Declaration First part booke Decl. page 6. 7. 38. 39. 77. 123. 201. 202. 209. 277. 278. 458. 459. 548. 660. 720. 845. see the second edition of the out-cryes of oppressed Commons page 8. I shall give you but one notable instance of the most rememberable Vengence of God upon the Hungarians for breaking and violating their Faith and Covenant made with the Turke and it is in the Turkish History made of the Life of Amurath the second the sixt King of the Turkes In which History the fourth edition printed by Adam Islip 1631 I read that the Hungarians were much distressed by inrods and spoyles made by the said Amurath whereupon the States and great men of Hungary chused Vladislaus King of Polonia for their King and Captaine Generall and he made that famous man Huniades his Generall in Transliluania who obtained severall most notable Victories against the Turkes as you may read in the foresaid History folio 267. 269. 273. 277. one of which is extraordinary remarkable that Huniades with 15000. ●ought a pitcht-field with about 80000. Turkes and after five houres there fe●… a feirce and bloody fight totally overthrew the Turkes by ●…aine dint of sword and just about that time Scanderbeg that ●amous Wa●rie● and wonder of his age for gallant achevements revolted from the Turke which with his great losses be the valiant Hungarians so te●…fied old Amurath that in a very great feare of himselfe and his Kingdom● he made a peace to his owne particuler great losse for ten yeares with t●… H●…gar●an● the capulations whereof were First that Amurath withdraw all his forces and garrisons should clearely depart out of Seruia and restore the same unto the p●ssession of George the late Dispot the right Lord and Owner thereof then in armes and confideracy with the Hungarians Delivering also freely unto him his two sonnes Stephen and George who was bereft of their sight he had long time keept in straite prison Also that from henceforth he should make no claime unto the Kingdome of Moldavia nor to that part of Bulgaria which he had in the late Warres lost And finally that he should not invate nor molest the Hungarians nor any part of the kingdome during the whole time of that peace and to paie 40000. Duckats for the Ransome of Carambey one of his Generalls which conditions by solome Oath were confirmed Ki●g Vlad●…aus taking his Oath upon the Holy Evangle●…s and Amurath by his Ambassoders upon their Turkish Alcoron inviolable to observe the ten yeares peace and Amurath forthwith faith fully performed those things that he was presently to doe follo 292. but by the perswadtion of divers Princes but especially of Iulian the Cardinall the Popes Legat who in his large and set speech in a full convention urged that against a perfidious enemie as the Turke was it is lawfull for a man to use all cunning force and deceit deluding craft with craft and fraud with fraud and saith he by craft the Turke first passed into Europe and by little and little he crept into that Kingdome and never kept faith with any It is sometimes lawfull for the common-weale sake neither to stand to our Leauges neither to keepe our faith with them that be themselves faithlesse lawfull saith he it is to breake unlawfull Oaths especially such as are thought to be against right reason and equitie therefore saith he make no conscince of the League you made with the Infidell upon which the King Vladislaus condescended to be absolved by the Cardinall from his Oath and Covenant and prepaires for wars against the Turkes and the Turke with his army met him and pitched battle within Arvarna that fatall place to the Hungarians and when the battle came close to be joyned it was cleare of the Christians sides who had put to flight both the wings of the Turkish armie insomuch that Am●…th dismayed with the flight of his Souldiers was about to have fled himselfe cut of the maine battle had he not bin stayed by a common souldier who laying hands upon the raines of his bridle stayed him by force and sharply reproved him for cowardize And Amurath seeing the great slaughter of his men and all brought into extreame danger beholding the picture of the crucifix in the