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<P>THE Selfe Afflicter. Lively de&s;cribed in the whole cour&s;e of the Life of Mr. <HI>John Lilburn,</HI> &s;ometimes Lieut. Colonel in the Army of the PARLIAMENT.</P>
<P>His being Whipped, Gagged, and committed Pri&s;oner to the Fleet by the &s;entence of the Bi&s;hops, and the Star-Chamber.</P>
<P>His Arraignment for his life by the Expre&s;&s;e command of the late King before the hou&s;e of Lords.</P>
<P>The arraignment of him for his life at Oxford bein<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> taken Pri&s;oner at Brainford.</P>
<P>His commitment to the Tower by the Hou&s;e of Lords, and his long impri&s;onment there.</P>
<P>His arraignment before the Commi&s;&s;ioners at Guild Hall for Trea&s;on.</P>
<P>His bani&s;hment beyond the Seas. His arraignment af|terwards at the Se&s;&s;ions in the Old-Baily, and his confinment againe beyond the Seas. With his natural death at la&s;t by &s;ickne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Together, With the Notable Difference betwixt the Levellers and Quakers about the black cloth to be laid over his Coffin when he was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">o be interred.</P>
<P>Pri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ted purpo&s;ely to vindicate the truth again&s;t a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ate Fooli&s;h Pamhlet lately pub<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;hed called an Exact and true Narra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ion.</P>
<P>Printed for Tho. Vere and VV. Gil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t&s;on 1657.</P>
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<HEAD>A True Account of the mo&s;t Memorable Pa&s;&s;ages on the Life and Death of Mr. JOHN LIL|BURN: &s;ometimes Lievetenant Col|onell in the Victorious Army of the PARLIAMENT, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_TO give you a view of his whole Life, and how much at all times he op|po&s;ed with al his power this pre&s;ent Govern|ment. is to &s;well that up into a volum, which is meant for a &s;ingle &s;h&eacute;et: we &s;hall propor|tion our di&s;cour&s;e according to the Emer|gency of the Advantages, in which we &s;hall be carefull, not to be injurious to y^e <HI>Reader,</HI> nor unprofitable to our &s;elves.</P>
<P>Some are of Opinion that this man of extraordinary Spirit and under&s;tanding did not &s;o much &s;trike at the pre&s;ent Govern|ment, as at the Enormities which he con|ceived to be too rank, or gnawing in that Government: Let them think what they plea&s;e, we &s;hall repre&s;ent unto you the mo&s;t Materiall pa&s;&s;ages that concerned him, And
<PB N="2" REF="3">that without flattery, or affection, the cau&s;es whereof are far a&s;under from us.</P>
<P><HI>John Lilburn</HI> the famous &s;ubject of this pre&s;ent di&s;cour&s;e, was born in the Yeare <HI>1618.</HI> At <HI>Thickley</HI> in the County of <HI>Dur|ham;</HI> He was Di&s;cended of Ancient and wor&s;hipfull parentage, and being very yong he was brought up to <HI>London,</HI> and bound an Apprentice to a Packer of Cloth in St. <HI>Swithens Lane:</HI> he was from his Cradle of a high and undanted Spirit, of a quick and pregnant Apprehen&s;ion, of an excellent memory, but al wayes extreamly addicted to contention, a lover of novelties an oppo&s;er of Government, un&s;etled in his judgement, and violent and bitter in his ex|pre&s;&s;ions.</P>
<P>About the year <HI>1632.</HI> he di&s;liking his trade, had a mind to the Law, and became a &s;ervant to Mr. <HI>William Prin</HI> of <HI>Lincolns-Inne,</HI> who for wrighting &s;ome Bookes and among&s;t others that called <HI>Hi&s;trio|ma&s;tix,</HI> in which the State as the Players were whipped, was impri&s;&s;oned with tho&s;e that vended the Book, and cen&s;ured by the Bi&s;hops.</P>
<P><HI>John Lilburn</HI> did then begin the quarel, and full of his Ma&s;ters Cau&s;e did write a Book again&s;t the Bi&s;hops, for which he was
<PB N="3" REF="3">committed pri&s;oner to the <HI>Fleet,</HI> and whip|ped at a Carts taile from the pri&s;on of the <HI>Fleet,</HI> to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>The Indignity whereof &s;ate &s;o heavy up|on his Spirits, that even when the puni&s;h|ment was inflicting on him he cea&s;ed nort<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">|ratle again&s;t his per&s;ecutors, in&s;omuch that they cau&s;ed him to be gagged.</P>
<P>In the year <HI>1640</HI> he was relea&s;ed by the Parliament, and took upon him the place of a Captain in their &s;ervice, and in the year <HI>1642.</HI> not long after the battle at <HI>Edge Hill</HI> he was taken pri&s;oner at <HI>Brainford,</HI> And carried to <HI>Oxford,</HI> where he was Arraign|ed not long Afterwards as a Traytor, for levying war again&s;t the per&s;on of the King, but his life was never in &s;o much jeopardy as when he was arraigned at <HI>Guild-hall</HI> for indeavoring to di&s;turb the peace and &s;ubvert the Government of this Nation, e&s;tabli&s;hed without a King.</P>
<P>Several books to this purpo&s;e were laid to his charge, as a traytorous and &s;canda|lous book intituled a <HI>Salva Libertate:</HI> Al&s;o a trayterous and a &s;candalous book intitu|led An <HI>Impeachment of High Trea&s;on again&s;t Oliver Cromwell, and his Son in Law Henry Ireton E&s;quire.</HI> Al&s;o a &s;canda|lous
<PB N="4" REF="4">and a trayterous book intituled, <HI>The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">-cry of the young-men, and the Apren|tices of London, or an inqui&s;ition after the lo&s;t fundamentall laws and liberties of England, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HI> Al&s;o another &s;candalous and trayterous book intituled <HI>The legall funda|mentall liberties of the people of England revived.</HI> Al&s;o another &s;candalous book inti|tuled, <HI>A <HI>preparation to a hue and cry after &s;ir Arthur H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;elrigge,</HI></HI> In which Bookes it was laid to his charge, that he did publi&s;h that the Government then in pre&s;ent was tyrannicall u&s;urped, And unlawfull, And that the Commons then in Parliament A&s;|&s;embled were not the &s;upream Authority of the Nation.</P>
<P>He &s;tood al&s;o further indicted, that he as a fal&s; traitor did maliciou&s;ly plot and contrive to rai&s;e forces again&s;t the pre&s;ent Govern|ment for the &s;ubver&s;ion and Alteration of it, And did al&s;o maliciou&s;ly indeavor to with-draw certain Souldiers of the Lord <HI>Fai fax</HI> his Army, from their obedience to their &s;uperiour offices. It was al&s;o laid to his h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rge that trayterou&s;ly and contume|lioue&s;ly he had &s;poken very reproachfull words again&s;t the Lord Generall, &s;ir <HI>Tho|mas Fai fax,</HI> as al&s;o again&s;t the high Court
<PB N="5" REF="4">of Iu&s;tice.</P>
<P>The Indictment held a long time. being read, Mr. <HI>Atturney</HI> did pre&s;ent unto the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">u|ry</HI> of what Dangerous Con&s;equence were the&s;e trayterous books, and how much De|rogating from the honor of the Parliament And the Coun&s;ell of &s;tate, And of the chief Captain and Generall of the Army. And o|ther Officers Included in the Indictment who&s;e fame doth ring through the world, Never Army (&s;aid Mr. <HI>Atturney</HI>) hath done greater things, &amp; yet they have not e&s;caped from being Slandered by Mr. <HI>Lilburns</HI> tongue and pen, And not long after upon con&s;ideration of the evidence and witne&s;&s;es he told the <HI>Jury</HI> that if they did re&s;pect the Government of the Parliament the honor of the Coun&s;ell of State, And the honor of the Nation, or of the Army, or the per&s;ecu|tions of the Laws of the Nation, they could not &s;ay but the pri&s;oner was guilty of tho&s;e crimes and trea&s;ons of which he was Accu|&s;ed And that they were oblieged according|ly &s;o to find him, And then Addre&s;&s;ing his &s;p&eacute;ech to Mr. <HI>Keeble,</HI> who was Lord chief Commi&s;&s;ioner And to the Iudges and Bar|rons. He declares unto them how the In|dictment was proved by witne&s;&s;e And evi|dences,
<PB N="6" REF="5">and that the trayterous book intitu|led the Legall <HI>fundamentall liberties</HI> was owned by Mr. <HI>Lilburn</HI> him&s;elf in his Im|peachment of high Trea&s;on again&s;t Liev|tenant Generall <HI>Cromwell.</HI> And his Son in Law <HI>Commi&s;&s;ary Jreton,</HI> my Lords &s;aid he, you have heard the &s;everall charges wherewith he &s;tands accu&s;ed, you have heard a great deal of foul matter and durt, that is fit for nothing but to be ca&s;t upon the ground, and returns to Mr. <HI>Lilburn</HI> again: the pri&s;oner hath ca&s;t tho&s;e Accu|&s;ations and blemi&s;hes upon others but they return to his own face. Certainly the Par|liament of <HI>England,</HI> the Army, And all the Officers of it (who&s;e fame both as Parli|ment and Army are known in an extraor|dinary manner) Are now put in a ballance again&s;t Mr. Lilburn. And as for the Army and the Officers of it, no man can &s;ay but that they have b&eacute;en faithfull and true in their tru&s;t. valiant, couragious, And Suc|ce&s;full to Admiration, even to the Peace and the Happine&s;&s;e of this Nation, And God is plea&s;ed at this in&s;tant to owne them and ble&s;&s;e them in a miraculous man|ner.</P>
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<P>This and much more excellently &s;poken by Mr. Atturney, was to lay open to the Lord Iudges, And to the Iury, the crimes of the offender, And the Lord <HI>Keeble,</HI> who was Lord Commi&s;&s;ioner, having &s;ugge&s;ted unto the Iury what their duty was, And the Relligion of an oath did repre&s;ent unto them, that they &s;hould con&s;ider the &s;trength of the Accu&s;ation, which did con&s;i&s;t in tho&s;e &s;candalous and trayterous Books, which did con&s;i&s;t of three heads.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t was to vilifie the Parliament and State, as it was then e&s;tabli&s;hed in <HI>England:</HI> the &s;econd to take into their con|&s;iderations, his coun&s;ells and Invitations therein for the &s;tiring up of tumults, wars, And Commotions in the Nation.</P>
<P>And the third, was the thing cited in the book to divide the Army, that the other might take effect. The&s;e (&s;aid he) are the thr&eacute;e main charges, And the&s;e the Bookes that do come from him do plainly te&s;tifie. Then directing his &s;p&eacute;ech to Mr. Lilburn, at y^e bar. In this Act &s;aith he, of yours thus declared (if your intentions had taken effect the plot was the greate&s;t that ever <HI>England</HI> &s;aw: For it &s;truck at no le&s;&s;e then at the Subvertion of the Common Wealth;
<PB N="8" REF="6">of this &s;tate to have laid &amp; put us al in blood: Your plot was &s;uch as never was &s;&eacute;en in the world before to proc&eacute;ed from a private man as you are, And it mu&s;t n&eacute;eds &s;it heavy upon your con&s;cience. Therefore (turning again to the Iury) he &s;aid you my Ma&s;ters of the Iury, look into your con&s;ciences, And &s;&eacute;e what that &s;aith unto you. That which the pri&s;oner &s;tands too much upon. <HI>Viz.</HI> the witne&s;&s;es is made plain and good in Law. I do not know in one particular that there is a &s;ingle Te&s;timony but it is Agravated with many circum&s;tances therefore let not that trouble you, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ou are the proper Iudges of the matter of Fact, being of the Coun|try, And if you have fully Apprehended the dangerous things plotted in the&s;e books of Mr. <HI>Lilburn,</HI> you &s;hall find that the like crea&s;on was never hatched in <HI>England,</HI> and &s;o in Gods name As the pri&s;oner doth lead to your con&s;ciences, &s;o go and do</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Lilburn</HI> in the mean time who had much wa&s;ted his Spirits, And had with great earne&s;tne&s;&s;e b&eacute;en pleading for his life two dayes before at the Barre, did omit nothing to in&s;inuate into the Iury an Ap|prehen&s;ion of his innocency, He prote&s;ted that he never owned nor &s;igned any Booke
<PB N="9" REF="6">that was proved again&s;t him&punc; he diclaimed every Litle of them. He certified y^e Bench that no book in the eye of the Law could be accounted his, unle&s;&s;e it were Legally proved or voluntary confe&s;&s;ed to be his by him&s;elf.</P>
<P>To prove this he Alleaged by &s;everall&punc; Statutes, that it &s;hould be by two witne&s;&s;|es which he &s;aid they failed in, although Mr. <HI>Atturney.</HI> And the Lord <HI>Keeble</HI> did indea|vor to give the Iury all po&s;&s;ible &s;atisfacti|on therein.</P>
<P>He much in&s;i&s;ted to have Coun&s;ell to plead his Ca&s;e in Law, which would not then be granted, Although he urged Exam|ples as he &s;aid both by Law and pre&s;ident, which made him &s;ometimes to u&s;e exclai|mations more violent then became the con|dition of a pri&s;oner.</P>
<P>He repre&s;ented what a &s;erviceable In|&s;trument he had b&eacute;en in the common cau&s;e of the Nation in which to the hazard of his life one handred times over be had ingaged for them with his &s;word in his hand, with as much re&s;olution and faithfulne&s;&s;e as ever man on earth &s;erved a Generation of men, having never betrayed his tru&s;t, nor ever given any Su&s;pition in the lea&s;t that be
<PB N="10" REF="7">would, nor ever &s;o much as &s;tagered in his principles, nor never &s;o much as di&s;puted any Commands though never &s;o de&s;perate that were laid upon him.</P>
<P>Addre&s;&s;ing him&s;elf to the Iury, he &s;aid unto them, you Gentlemen of the Iury, my &s;ole Iudges, the K&eacute;epers of my life, At who&s;e hands the Lord will require my blood in ca&s;e you leave any part of my In|dictment to the&s;e &mdash; I de&s;ire you to know your power, And con&s;ider your duty both to God, and me, to your ow<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;elves; And to your Country, And the gracious A&s;&s;i&s;ting &s;pirit, And the pre&s;ence of the Lord God, Omnipotent, the Governor of Heaven and Earth, And all things there|in contained, go along with you guide, coun|&s;ell you, and direct you to that which is ju&s;t And for his glory.</P>
<P>The Iury having withdrawn them|&s;elves, And con&s;ulted about the pri&s;oner and his offences, for the &s;pace of thr&eacute;e quarters of an hour, Did come into the Court again, And did bring in their ver|dict of him as not Guilty, At which the multitude that Attended in the Hall, to ob&s;erve the event, did make &s;o loud an accla|mation for almo&s;t half an hour together,
<PB N="11" REF="7">that the like was &s;eldome heard. Mr. Lil|burn being that Night conveyed to the Tower, where at that time he had b&eacute;en pri&s;oner for the &s;pace of &s;even months, was about a fortnight afterwards relea&s;ed from thence by the order of the Coun&s;ell of &s;tate.</P>
<P>Being now at liberty he was much in|clined to the &s;tudy of the Law, which in his harde&s;t di&s;tre&s;&s;e he found &s;o &s;ucce&s;&s;eful unto him.</P>
<P>But it was not long before he again fell under the di&s;plea&s;ure of the Parliment, whereupon he was by an Act Fined, ban|i&s;hed the Common wealth of England, And if ever he returned again he was to die as a Traytor.</P>
<P>In obedience hereunto he want over in|to the Netherlands, And it was laid to his charge that there he came Acquainted with the Duke of Buckingham, the Lord Hopten, Captain Titus, Mr. Bartlet and others, &amp; y^t for y^e &s;um of ten thou&s;and pound he offered to &s;etle the Government of this
<PB N="12" REF="8">Nation in the &s;ame &s;tate as it was before the wars began, which whether true or fal&s;e I will not take upon me to di&s;pute: But how&s;oever it was, he had a great mind to return unto his Native Country, in&s;omuch that without any leave he returned againe into <HI>England,</HI> And thereupon being Appre|hended and brought to <HI>Newgate,</HI> he was tri|ed for his life at the Se&s;&s;ions hou&s;e in the <HI>Old Bayly,</HI> on <HI>Saturday</HI> the <HI>20.</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> in the year <HI>1653,</HI> where he found &s;uch fa|vor, that the Iury did again Acquit him.</P>
<P>Nor long afterwards he was conducted by a Troop of hor&s;e to <HI>Port&s;mouth,</HI> being once more bound for beyond y^e Seas, where making u&s;e of all his friends, and putting in &s;ecurity for the peaceablene&s;&s;e of his future deportment. he Landed at <HI>Dover.</HI> And fall|ing at fir&s;t into the Acquaintance of that Generation of men called <HI>Quakers,</HI> he was to taken with their H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">at of Zeale and their hatred of the world, y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> he never afterwards Abandoned them but preaching after their Garbe and methode, Sometimes on the Lords day at <HI>Eltham,</HI> And &s;ometimes at <HI>Woolidge</HI> he &s;urrendred his prepared &s;oul to him that gave it him.</P>
<P>One thing I cannot well omit that hap|ned
<PB N="13" REF="8">at his Buriall, which is that his wife, or &s;ome Levellers of his old Acquain|tance (as others &s;ay) had brought a Black Cloth to cover his hear&s;e, the Quakers would by no means admit of it, Alledging that the le&s;&s;e there was of pomp, there was the more of piety. And thus thorow many Contentions and variety of opinions, he at l &s;t wrangled him&s;elf into the grave, dying on <HI>Saturday</HI> the <HI>29.</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t, 1657.</HI> And was buried the <HI>Monday,</HI> following in the new Church yard n&eacute;er <HI>Bedlam.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="epitaph">
<HEAD>An Epitaph on Mr. JOHN LILBVRN,</HEAD>
<L>HE in his life who nere did cea&s;e,</L>
<L>To beat down Government &amp; <HI>peace</HI></L>
<L>who his own &s;word abhord to &s;e</L>
<L>The Iron with the Steele agree,</L>
<L>And &s;cornd the pen that did not drink</L>
<L>Far more of Copres then of Ink.</L>
<L>The &s;courge of <HI>peace,</HI> the &s;oule of <HI>Jars,</HI></L>
<L>The hur-burly of the Stars,</L>
<PB N="14" REF="9">
<L>Whom neither creatures force nor fame,</L>
<L>Nor Love, nor fear alive could tame,</L>
<L>But Orders would and Laws fore&s;tall,</L>
<L>And level Church, and &s;tate, and all,</L>
<L>Lyes now to have one Du&s;t expre&s;t,</L>
<L>What wonders Death can do at re&s;t.</L>
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<HEAD>Another Epitaph on John Lilburn,</HEAD>
<L>Here's John Lilburn in good time decea&s;t</L>
<L>After much wrangling now he's gone to re&s;t.</L>
<L>If Factious Spirits &s;til much coyl do keep.</L>
<L>Pray blame not him. he's fairly laid a&s;leep</L>
<L>whether i'th right or wrong he hath thus left us.</L>
<L>&s;tout death of this &s;tout champion hath bereft us</L>
<L>Who liking not the furious noi&s;e he made,</L>
<L>Threw du&s;t upon him. &s;o the &s;torm was laid.</L>
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<HEAD>Upon the late untimely death of <HI>JOHN LILBURN:</HI></HEAD>
<L>Untimely cau&s;e &s;o late. and late becau&s;e,</L>
<L>To &s;ave much. mi&s;chief: it no &s;ooner was,</L>
<L>Is John departed? and is Lilburn gone?</L>
<L>Farewel to both, to Lilburn and to John,</L>
<L>Yet being dead. take this advice from me</L>
<L>Let them not both in one grave buried be,</L>
<L>But lay John here. lay Lilburn hereabout.</L>
<L>For if they ever meet they wil fal out.</L>
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