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<HEAD><HI>A PEARLE IN A DOVNGHILL. OR Lieu. Col.</HI> JOHN LILB&V;RNE <HI>in New-gate:</HI> Committed illegally by the <HI>Hou&s;e of Lords,</HI> fir&s;t for refu&s;ing (accor|ding to his Liberty) to an&s;wer Interrogatories, but prote&s;ting again&s;t them as not being competent Judges, and appea|ling to the Hou&s;e of Commons. Next, committed clo&s;e pri&s;oner for his ju&s;t refu&s;ing to kneel at the <HI>Hou&s;e of Lords Barre</HI></HEAD>
<P>_ALthough mo&s;t of States and States men be of late turned up&s;ide down like a wheele, yet this worthy valiant and publique &s;pirited Gen|tleman (unto whom his Nation is as much bound to, at lea&s;t as to any one, all things con&s;idered) is the very &s;ame man (both in princi|ples and practi&s;e) whom the Bi&s;hops &s;o long impri&s;oned in the Eleet by a mo&s;t cruell and barbarous &s;entence, which they procured in the <HI>Star-chamber</HI> again&s;t him, and &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">as whipt, gag'd and pilloried, yea and in his clo&s;e impri&s;onment almo&s;t fami&s;hed and murthered,</P>
<P>And all becau&s;e he would not &s;ubmit to be examined again&s;t him&s;elfe, betray his friends, accu&s;e his brethen, nor &s;ell the lawfull rights and ju&s;t liberties of England, for a me&s;&s;e or mor&s;ell of ba&s;e preferment, who&s;e fidelity, con&s;tancy and integrity the Parliament ju&s;tified, and condemned that &s;entence as illegall, bloody, and tyranicall, delivered him out of pri&s;on, adjudged him worthy of reparation, aboli&s;hed <HI>Epi&s;co|pacy,</HI> the <HI>Star-chamber, High Commi&s;&s;ion, Councell-table,</HI> and many &s;uch arbitrary proceedings,</P>
<P>All which being duely and &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;idered, may it not &s;eeme very &s;trange, that this &s;o famous a man &s;till holding forth the &s;ame tenets and practi&s;e now in time of Parliament and <HI>Reformation,</HI> &s;hould be now againe in <HI>Newgate</HI> as he was once before, by an Order from the Hou&s;e of Commons, both in le&s;&s;e then a twelve moneth? Is it not becau&s;e there is a <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Epi&s;copall party</HI> under other pretences as bu&s;ie working in the Kingdome now as ever? And as he was a &s;peciall in&s;trument of the Bi&s;hops overthrow, &s;o tho&s;e their agents are the prime cau&s;ers and workers
<PB N="2" REF="2">both of his ruine, and all that will take his part, if po&s;ibly they could once get that <HI>Decree</HI> &s;ealed and un altered, <HI>&s;o that their &s;hould not be Separate or Sectary any more mentioned.</HI></P>
<P>And though his malicious adver&s;aries will not be warned of their <HI>Downfall,</HI> and are as mad again&s;t him, becau&s;e he will not bow before them, as ever <HI>Hamon was a|gain&s;t Mordecay;</HI> yea and more &s;hamele&s;&s;e and bloody, then ever his former adver&s;aries in &s;ending him to <HI>Newgate, the ba&s;e&s;t of pri&s;ons,</HI> and &s;hewing plainly they thir&s;t much more after his pretious life, then ever <HI>Kain did after Abels,</HI> his apparently proceeding of a pre&s;ent di&s;content, and theirs of a long forged malicious intent and therefore if God permit the&s;e wicked men thus to prevaile over the Godly, it is to crowne the &s;ufferings of the one with glory, and to reward the per&s;ecutions of the other with mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>But to take a view of his actions, wee find by &s;uch credible proofe, that his very adver&s;aries &s;hall not be able to contradict (yea and them&s;elves did never the like) pa&s;&s;ing by both what he did, and &s;uffered under the <HI>Epi&s;copall</HI> tyranny, becau&s;e large volumnes thereof are extant, and beginning, &s;ince his deliverance out of the <HI>Fleet</HI> pri&s;on at the beginning of the Parliament:</P>
<P>In the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t place, hath he been ingratefull to his <HI>Deliverers,</HI> or perfidious to his Country? No his ingagements was with the fir&s;t in this pre&s;ent warre: to defend his Country, and for f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">king a comfortable and profitable way of living; his actions at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter-ball, Keinton-field,</HI> and <HI>Brainford,</HI> his cariage at <HI>Oxford</HI> in <HI>Iron Chaines,</HI> again&s;t &s;trong temtations, and upon tryall for his life their, will witne&s;&s;e his fidelity, magnanimity, and undaunted re&s;olution to the Parliament and Common wealth, and that in &s;uch mea&s;ure that not many, if any of this age can &s;hew the like, te&s;timony.</P>
<P>And for &s;uch as would recapitulate his actions &amp; &s;ufferings &s;ince, let them trace him in his &s;ervice to the Sate, under the Earle of <HI>Manche&s;ter,</HI> and defending the publique freedomes &s;ince, &amp; they will find that with the lo&s;&s;e both of his blood, e&s;tate &amp; many hazards of his life, he hath performed <HI>Noble &s;ervices,</HI> as the taking of <HI>Tickle</HI> Ca&s;ts, Sir <HI>John Wortleys bou&s;e,</HI> and the like, in all which, malice it &s;elfe cannot accu&s;e him, either of <HI>Cowardice</HI> or <HI>Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>No nor yet of carele&s;ne&s;&s;e, not deeming it &s;ufficie<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to be faithfull him&s;elfe, but al|waies held a watchfull eye over the actions of others, and as bold in di&s;covery of the <HI>Fraud, Treachery, Cowardice, Cruelties,</HI> plundring, and <HI>Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</HI> of fal&s;e hear|ted friends, as valiant in fight again&s;t the enemies:</P>
<P>And now if you will begin to think why a man &s;o faithfull in all his waies &s;hould be &s;o lyable to trouble as he hath been <HI>[for be hath been divers times in Pur&s;evants bands and &s;o committed by Committees]</HI> if you &s;hall con&s;ider how this <HI>Pearle</HI> comes to be ca&s;t upon this <HI>Doung bill,</HI> you will find, the faithfulne&s;&s;e of his heart towards God and all good People, and the freene&s;&s;e of his tongue again&s;t all kinde of inju&s;tice or unworthine&s;&s;e, <HI>in whom &s;oever, is the only cau&s;e and no other.</HI></P>
<P>And if you &s;eriou&s;ly weigh things, you will confe&s;&s;e it would grieve any good mans heart, that <HI>Treachery, Coward<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ce, Cruelty, plundring &amp; Covetou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> have bin too too &s;lenderly puni&s;hed, &amp; faithfullne&s;&s;e &s;o many waies di&s;couraged, and that it is a very &s;ad thing in a time &s;o zealou&s;ly pretending to reformation: That any quiet people &s;hould be puni&s;hed &amp; reproached, for wor&s;hiping and &s;erving of God according to their con|&s;cience, and <HI>[that trouble hou&s;e] Con&s;ormity as much Cried up as in the Bi&s;hops times.</HI></P>
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<P> That the Pre&s;&s;e &s;hould be &s;topt in time of Parliament, as barring all free informati|ons, &amp; admitting only what <HI>appointed</HI> Lycencers &s;hall allow; doth it not even breake the hearts of all knowing good People, to &s;ee the dores kept &s;hut in <HI>Committees,</HI> and men examined again&s;t them&s;elves, and for refu&s;ing to accu&s;e them&s;elves, &s;ent to Pri&s;on; and that <HI>free Commoners,</HI> who by the Lawes of the Land, are not to be <HI>adjudged of life, limb, liberty or e&s;tate,</HI> but by <HI>Commoners:</HI> &s;hould at the plea&s;ure of the Lords, be lyable to their &s;ummons, and <HI>attachment</HI> by <HI>Pur&s;evants,</HI> to their Oath <HI>ex officio,</HI> to their exami|nation in <HI>criminall cau&s;es</HI> to <HI>&s;elfe-accu&s;eing,</HI> and to impri&s;onment <HI>during their plea&s;ures,</HI> the <HI>cho&s;en Commons of England,</HI> the SUPREAME POWER, &s;tanding by like a <HI>Cypher,</HI> as unconcerned, <HI>mcer loukers on;</HI> this is that which puts wi&s;e men pa&s;t all pati|ence, asking, for what it is that this Nation hath ingaged in &s;uch, in &s;o deadly a war? For what it is &s;o much precious blood hath been &s;pilt, &s;o many Families wa&s;ted, &s;o much trea&s;ure con&s;umed, &s;o many Widowes and father le&s;&s;e children made mi&s;erable? Is all this <HI>to take down the High Commi&s;&s;ion, Starchamber, and Councell-Board:</HI> and to &s;et up <HI>the Lords</HI> with the like power, <HI>to oppre&s;&s;e the Commons?</HI> It had been well &s;ay they, <HI>this had been declared,</HI> when our <HI>Money, Plate, Hor&s;e, and voluntary Contributions,</HI> were fir&s;t de&s;ired; But then other things were mentioned, though now neglected.</P>
<P>We had (&s;ay they) as many <HI>Lords</HI> before the Parliament as &s;ince, and it was often boa&s;ted they &s;hould remove our grievances, as well as a Parliament, but it was done by addition, and increa&s;e of more, not by <HI>Sub&s;traction; God forbid a Parliament &s;hould doe &s;o</HI> But why then (&s;ay they) are we now &s;ubjected to the <HI>Lords?</HI> Is it not &s;ufficient that they are Lords over their <HI>Tennants,</HI> but they mu&s;t be Lords over the People; that every one mu&s;t be at their &s;ummons, at their command, at their impri&s;onment, <HI>yea to Newgate;</HI> why not <HI>whipping, gagging, banging?</HI> Oh, <HI>they are but green in their power,</HI> and do not know what the People will beare, nor what the Peoples friend <HI>(that &s;hould be)</HI> the HOUSE OF COMMONS <HI>will &s;uffer;</HI> hereafter may be time enough, they are yet the Peoples mo&s;t gracious Lords, intending to the mo&s;t knowing, faithfull and religious, <HI>no wor&s;e then Newgate for the pre&s;ent.</HI></P>
<P>And why pre&s;ume ye thus Oh ye Lords? Set forth your merit before the People, and &s;ay, <HI>for this good it is, that we Will raign over yee.</HI> Remember your &s;elves, or &s;hall wee remember yee? Which of ye before this Parliament, minded my thing &s;o much as your plea&s;ures? <HI>Playes, Ma&s;ques, Fea&s;tings, Huntings, Gamings, Dawncings, with the appurtenances.</HI> If you owed any man money, or abu&s;ed any man, <HI>what law was to be find again&s;t you?</HI> What <HI>Pattents</HI> and <HI>Project;</HI> did you &s;uppre&s;&s;e, or &s;o much as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> (nay had not a hand in?) What fearefull enemies you were to <HI>Ship money, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> to the</HI> proceedings of the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion; Star-chamber,</HI> and <HI>Councell-board, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> goodnes was unexpre&s;&s;ible, and undi&s;cernable, before this <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word">.</P>
<P>But though you cannot excu&s;e all, you will &s;ay, you that are the good <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> then over topt with the evill, will you then be tryed by what good you have done &s;ince this Parliament, and &s;ince the expul&s;ion of the Popi&s;h Lords and Bi&s;hops; where will you begin? What thinke you of the <HI>&s;tay</HI> at <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> till the Enemy was provided at <HI>Shrew&s;bury, a &s;hrewd begining for poor England?</HI> Or what thinke you of the Earle of <HI>Bedfords</HI> bu&s;ines at <HI>Sherbarn Ca&s;tle,</HI> or of the enemies e&s;cape at <HI>Brainford,</HI> or at <HI>Ox|ford</HI> or at <HI>Dennington,</HI> and to clo&s;e all with that memorable but &s;hamefull defeat in the <HI>We&s;t;</HI> It mu&s;t needs be remembred how the warre thrived, while&s;t any Lord was im|ployed: and how powerfull the enemy is grown, &s;ince the <HI>Now Medill,</HI> wherein there is not one <HI>Lord.</HI></P>
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<P> It was wont to be &s;aid when a thing was &s;poil'd, <HI>that the Bi&s;hops Foot had been in it,</HI> and if the LORDS MEND NOT, it will be &s;aid &s;o of them, and ju&s;tly too.</P>
<P>For what other have they been, but a meer Clog to the HOUSE OF COM|MONS in all their proceedings? How many nece&s;&s;ary things have they ob&s;tructed? How many evill things promoted? VVhat devices have they had of <HI>prudentials</HI> and <HI>ex|pedients,</HI> to delay and pervert what is good: and &s;ubtill policies to introduce things evill.</P>
<P>It is ea&s;ie to di&s;cerne who are their Creatures in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons,</HI> and how they were made theirs, con&s;tantly manife&s;ting them&s;elves, by their evill and perniti|ous partakings again&s;t the <HI>Freedome of the People,</HI> by who&s;e united endeavours, <HI>Mone|polies in Trades of Merchandize, Oppre&s;&s;ions in Committees, Corruptions in Courts, of lu&s;|tice, gro&s;&s;e abu&s;es in our Lawes and Lawyers are maintained, and the</HI> Reformation <HI>inten|ded in all things, performed by balves, nay, quite perverted,</HI> and a meer &s;hadow given for a &s;ub&s;tance, to the a&s;toni&s;hment of all knowing <HI>free born Engli&s;hmen,</HI> and to their per|petuall vexation and danger; Becau&s;e <HI>to know,</HI> or <HI>find fault,</HI> or <HI>di&s;cover</HI> the&s;e things, to <HI>pre&s;erve ju&s;t freedome,</HI> and to with&s;tand their <HI>exorbitances:</HI> is the mo&s;t hatefull thing to the&s;e Lords, of any thing in the world, <HI>Newgate (in their e&s;teem) is too good for all &s;uch.</HI></P>
<P>And this is the only crime for which this worthy man is made the &s;ubject of their malice, a man that hath di&s;covered more of the <HI>liberties of England,</HI> then any one man alive; a man that hath re&s;i&s;ted all kinds of <HI>Oppre&s;&s;ions,</HI> with the perpetuall hazard of his life, liberty, and e&s;tate.</P>
<P>And mu&s;t no place but <HI>Newgate</HI> be his habitation? Is this the reparation for his da|mages, and recompence for his faithfull &s;ervice? Mu&s;t he be here re&s;erved a &s;ucrifice to appea&s;e the di&s;plea&s;ure of the late reconciled enemies of the Common-wealth</P>
<P>Thou do'&s;t well O <HI>England,</HI> to give up this thy fir&s;t-born <HI>LILBVRNE,</HI> the SON of thy STRENGTH, and high RESOLUTION, for FREEDOME; If thou intende&s;t to become a <HI>Bond &s;lave</HI> again, to either <HI>King, Lords,</HI> or any others: for he will never &s;ubmit either body or mind to any kind of &s;lavery.</P>
<P>But certainly tho&s;e <HI>Worthyes</HI> in the Hou&s;e of <HI>Commons,</HI> that con&s;ider what the Peo|ple have done and &s;uffered for their libertyes will never &s;uffee &s;o foule a deed, it can|not be but they intend the utter mo&s;t of ju&s;t freedome to the People, and love tho&s;e be&s;t, that mo&s;t know and affect true liberty, and are greate&s;t oppo&s;ers of exorbitant power in whom&s;oever: and con&s;equently cannot but in&s;tantly deliver this ju&s;t man, and in him all <HI>Engli&s;h men,</HI> from the like oppre&s;&s;ion and h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">eforth <HI>reduce the Lords</HI> to a condicion <HI>&s;uteable to the freedome of the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> with the freedome of Parliaments.</HI></P>
<P>The People are become a <HI>Knowing</HI> and <HI>Judicious People, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> hath made them <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> now <HI>Opre&s;&s;ion</HI> maketh wi&s;e men mad, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> all one to them, who oppre&s;&s;eth them, <HI>oppre&s;&s;ion they cannot <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> and if <HI>Parliaments</HI> do in deed and in truth really deliver them, they will love Varliements, as performing the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them, and the end for which Parliaments were ordained, <HI>otherwi&s;e they will ebominate them,</HI> becau&s;e, for People <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>or intime of Par|liament,</HI> is like as for a man to be betrayed o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> father; <HI>which God of his mercy pre&s;erve both People and Parliament <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"> that for ever.</HI></P>
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