Vincit qui patitur OR LIUTENANT COLONEL JOHN LYLBORNE Deciphered, in a short answer of Captain WENDY OXFORD To a most notoriously false pamphlet of the said Lylborns entitled john Lylborne Revived printed at Bruges in Flanders.  
With a short letter, which was sent to him in july last to give him satisfaction then, why I printed not what I had then finished for the Press, in answer to his scandalous pamphlet printed at Viana in May last.  JEREMY 28. vers. 15.16. 
Then said the Prophet Jeremiah unto the Prophet Hananiah, Hear now Hananiah, the Lord had not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.  
Therefore thus sayeth the Lord, Behold, I will cast thee from off the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast spoken rebelliously against the Lord.  
With some allegations against the said Mr. Lylborne which the world knows to be truth, of his writings, actions, plottings, and contryving, against the late murdered King, his Royal Queen, Posterity, Nobilitity Spiritual and Temporal, and all others of the learned Orthodox Divines, quite contrary to the advice of Solomon Prov. the 29. vers. 18. Amos the 8. Psalm 19 Saint Matthew the 11. the 10. Corinthians the first, the 6. and the 6. Galath. the 6 and the 6. Acts the 10. Heb. 13. and 17. vers. and in a word contrary to the whole rules of Scripture, so that few or none (saying of His own wicked and perverse party) will believe his reports.  
Printed the first of April in the year of God 1653.   

The Present answer of Cap: WENDY OXFORD To a scandalous Paper of Mr. JOHN LYLBORNE  
I Need not to insist much upon my discourse, all people so well knowing the nature of the object, to answer whom is now my task in this only sheet of paper: more monies I have not to spend so much in vain (notwithstanding Mr. Lilbornes' great reports of Salleryes receiving from England) which is well known to the contrary, neither have I such collections, beggings, and continual recruits which Mr. Lilborne weekly recives from his Brother hood and faction in England, by reasson I give not such advice in my letters to those of England as he doth weekly, which He takes the impudence to justify the same in part of his pamphlets, by a little you may judge of the rest, He is so much an Englishman as ever He was, not to have King nor States to do harm to his Brother rebels and traitors in England, to that end he writs to some in England his opinions concerning sea and Land service which may fall out cross to the designs of the rebels enemies of England. The Proverb often times proves truth, That a Standerby sees better than he that plays, to that end he remains amongst the Parliaments friends to give aim against both our King, and the States of these united Provinces, being between both. But had I such sums of moneys as he reports, he should have heard undoubtedly from me ere this; having had 24. sheets of Paper ready for the press these 9 months in two volumes, the one Entitled. 
 The Banished-mans' Complaint, the other john Lylbornes' Portaicture with A Hue and Cry after Him.  
Nay had I such sums as he reports, I would not have suffered my book entitled.  
The Prospective Glass for King and subjects to have lain Printed 9 months in the Printers hands and not sent them into the World immediately after their birth, where in Mr. Lylborne is more at large discovered, his cruelty and barbarism laid open to all readers.  
But why do I hold thee in the porch (Courteious reader) when the house is so little. Therefore welcome to the rest, and in brief, who so hath, or shall please to read the 8 page of Mr Lilbornes' letter directed to Mr D.D. in the united Provinces, may find the term he gives me. of Spy of Cromwell's and Scots, and sayeth my book entitled The unexpected Life, (given by Lilborne and his faction) and the long wished for death of the thing called Parliament in England, is false and on purposs, to have his throat cut, so that no man must write or speak what he hath done for that cause. But let me tell Mr Lilborne, that what I writ in that book against him, and ten times more than I shall here insert, that those he terms Cavaliers here, and else where, knows to be too great a truth, therefore the more he goes about to veil his former, and still villainy, He will but give himself the lie. For hath not many told him to his face the same; and doth not all know that John Lylborne (when he was but an aprentise boy in London) was one of the very first (if not the first) that ever endeavoured to make a separation between the late murdered King and his People: The Dutch also can not be ignorant thereof, for, for that very cause did he fly in to these Lands, and his residence was here in Delft, and my printer was his in those days, & he made a Burgur here of Delft at the same time. O yes you (Mr Lylborne) are very well known to be the insurecter in chief, and him who brought great tumults to white Hall that had not Capt: Endymion Porter immediately with his train band, the Nobility and Stouthearted gentery in Court assisted each other, the sense murdered King, his Queen and Royal progeny had undoubtedly been then murdered, so that you had saved the murtherurs at Westminster a great deal of Honour, and costly trouble to the 3 Kingdoms: It is likewise known to all at home and a broad of your own nation, that after that insurrection against the King etc. in the rebellious city of London and Southwark you did raise the same rabble, and (had not the train bands likewise prevented) violently fell on Lambeth House and have killed his Grace of Canterbury, though sense butchered by your brothers. And doth not the three nations ring of you (Mr Lylborne) for caussing libels to be throun in his Majesty's coach, as he passed the streets of London, and do not all know you were one of the first Actors in the late bloody war, and death of the late murdered King, ever posting betwixt the Devils in the Army, and the Turks in London, but of this more at large else where; And for the pressent I reffer the reader to your own works (jack) of 44. books by you printed, or at least owned (in your apology) and sense: in all of which, if there be not Treason, Conspiricie False Doctrine and Herisy, this is not truth, especially by reason my memory is fresh with your pampehlet from Viana in May last, wherein if any please to view the 12 pag they may find your aspersions on the present King, and your fix Resolutions against the Scots King (as you term him) to be irrevocable; and you (jacke) take presumption upon you there to set down the reasons, and in the same page say that you will not lose your party, to set his Interest on foot; in a word all your pamphlets are compossed of nought else but seditious names, of Tyranny and oppression in monarchy, and you cloak all your rebellion under honest magna Charta, which had those valiant old Britanes thought it should have been so much abused by such evile Spirits as thou art, they would have made a bonfire of it, although it cost so dear as it did. Now let me further tell thee (reader) view but that pamphlet, and this last of his at Bruges, and you shall see, that he labours covertly to destroy this King's interest in all States, under covert of the freedom of the people of England, crying it up, which the world knows cannot be with out their King, as well as a King consists in the safety of his people, but not a word of a crown, or King, (except in detraction and derission thereof) in all his works, O that is contrary to the motions of his Spirit: which now he would fayn veil over to cheat true hearts out of their understandings, and if you please impartialy to view Mr Lylborns designs in the last page of his letter to Mr. D D, wherein he confesseth, the Dutch may be angry with him &c: (a guilty conscience needs no accusser) but sayeth Mr. Lylborne there he is no hearty enemy of the Dutch, but a true borne Englishman, and truly if all Englishmen really observe that only page of his, they would have small cause to think well on Jack Lylborne, for, he shows what he would be at, neither for Dutch, King, nor any else but himself and his crew, for saith he therein, that he desires with all his heart, an honest peace may be concluded, and sound settled between the two States, to the rational securing distinctly, the rights and Privileges of each nation with out encroachments of either side by stripping the great— on both sides (here in is old Jack Lylborne revived in ill Language) and Levelling one with an other, (that being his professed game) from their arbitrary and Tyrannical power saith he, (there's an other chipp of the old block) and so goes on protesting that if his schattered power and interest, could contribute any thing to the accomplishing of such a peace and a greement, he would hearty venture his Life &c: with more large expressions. Now you may imagine the reasson hereof, and the good which will arise thereon That if a peace etc. the King may seek his fortune, and consequently all loyal and true hearted Englishmen of great estates, high birth (and too good breeding) to be kept from their old and rightful possessions: but in deed (Jack) neither English or Dutch must ever look to see peace and quietness in the 3 Kingdoms of England etc. nor in deed these Netherlands 2 years together with out the Crown be settled on the rightful Heir, for it will be a pressident and high way to destruction, of all Monarchy in the world, and set up oppressive Anarchy in steed thereof which the Lord of Hosts but no doubt will, open the eyes of all Princes (in Christendom especially) for the prevention thereof, and break the cords of all such unlawful precedents: besides it will be such a moat, in the eyes of the Netherlands, that it will not be soon picked out) for all he claws the Dutch in the said Letter, whose wisdom is too great for his delusive ways. View what he writes to his Intelligencer Mr. D D. (whom I do avow if so, to be the son of perdition and not of an honest woman) for, the time is yet to come, that ever I thought, or spoke of the Death of John Lylborne, I have other things to talk of on, than such a perverse disposition; but as I said mark well how he would claw &c: for saith he in the last lines of that letter, what he would do, if the Dutch would but give Oliver a box on the ear, he would give one on the other in his way, if not, account him a knave▪ (many thinks that no news, any time his 18 or 20 years) but observe the box on the ear, would be both to the English and Dutch, for should they agree, they ●ust look to be in war with all neighbouring nations, taking part with such a people whose thirst for blood, is not to be quenched, until they be served as. Alexander was, or the 30 Tyrants of Athens, for that the Treasury of these lands will not only be exhausted, but for ever remain empty enough: Now where as Mr. John falsely calumniateth me again in the 4 and 5 pag of his book, by the name Spy of the English and Dutch, and that He routed me from Amsterdam, many at the Hague, Amsterdam and else where knows to the contrary, for the Landlord, Landlady, and other lodgers in the House wherein our abode was there, and Capt▪ Rawlins told Lylborne that to be a cruel Lie to his face (as I am Informed by some of themselves) for I long before resolved to departed that City, as, 〈◊〉 being too dear a place, and not s● … lthfull as where I am, which City I designed for my a bode, at my ve●● first landing: and where as ●e wickedly and in deed diabolically … erses me wi●● the contriving his murder at Bruges and Amsterdam, I have more largely cleared that point else where, only give me leave, to let you know his bloody conscience is so guilty, that he fears more than ordinary, for if I had, had such an intent, and was to have, or had a salary, for the contriving his murder, I could have dispatched him long sense, as we travelled together in ships, in our journey from England, or as we lay together often times in Amsterdam, in his or my own chamber: and as for hiering at the first coming over, or sense, any of the Duke of Lorraignes' men, or any else, I neither could then, or can I well yet, either speak, or understand the languages of foreign nations, or had I, or have I yet any such acquaintance in the Lorraignes' army, or any such murdering, bloodthirsty, and bloodminded people, as any those he pretends, and as himself hath, and still is to be feared yet remains, otherwise he could never symphatyze so much with the disposistion of the Devil, the father of all mischief, wherefore at present I shall only make this protestation, against all his particulars and Generals; That I desire all my other sins may be forgiven me at the last day, saving thoses he charges me with, of murder in a most ample way, of him in particular, and many in the general of both Nations, as also that detestable on of Lasciviousness, (no Jack) I am none of your adimantical romancers neither am I one of your faction, that hold it no sin to do with a sister when the Spirit moves, neither am I so cowerdly as you term it, to plot, or contrive any man's murder, in a base ignoble way, especially yours, at that time, when I had not occasion for it, you never deserving from me any unkindness (as to my own self) until your pamphlet from Viana came forth, yet I scorn to think of such heatheniss practices, or Italian lascivious engagements. Wherefore John Lylborne on what grounds these jealice ariseth I can not conciev of your thus raving, and when you writ again, I pray in your next scurilous paper name them outright in your superscriptious, and also in your inward parts of your pamphlets nominate your intelligencers, who are not only the blow coals between you and me but else where, than I doubt not but it will appear to the world, thou hast been as erroneously perverse to me, as thou hast been generally against all goodness, honesty and sound judgement from thy childhood; nay against all people (saving of thy own faction,) again where as Mr. Lylborne in the 4 and 5th. pages charges me with the name Spy on Dutch and English I leave all to my former books of satisfaction, Espicialie my book called 
 The Hue and Cry, after john Lylborne, Or, O jacke art thou found.  
Only desiring all Dutch and English, Irish and scott's, to think of me as they have hither unto found both my behaviour and inquisitions in Company keep, and shall beg of them which knows me not (but by the pen of such a one, who never sense he could first hold it would write any thing else, but that which portented to sedition and conspiracy, against public or private persons) wherefore I desire all to cast their serious eyes, and make deep inquissitions both of my gestures, actions, and dispossitions past and to come, and then to a prove ad probatum. Which I doubt not (if I should be questioned in these lands, by the false suggestions of Lylborne, that there are many persons of Honour of the Nations of Dutch, English, scott's, Irish, and French, who would give a character of me as they have found, having made deep searches into my ways, for their own satisfactions, which I forbear at present, or in future to mention, as not being bound there unto by answer to any Scandalous pen (much less to thine Jack, who is so well known cannot touch paper but in letters of blood and maintenance of rebellion, malice, and extreordinary self conceit; thinking thereby, either to force, or fear those thou writs against to be of thy in solidity and factiously wicked, and perversely unparraleld nature.) and where as thou givest the term of whore to one (who were she not of so near a relation unto me as she is) I should then say more than I shall at present for that the whole world knows thee to have written against those and called them so in thy pamphletts, whose feet she is not worthy to wipe, but she is so well known in these parts, of her life and conversation, of her descent and breeding, that thy pen can not injure her, and for her journeys making into England it is so well known here to the better sort, that she goes not about any such matter alleged against her, or me in that nature, wherefore when thou writest unto me or any body else, show not the eye of misunderstanding, and sacrifice not they great man hood so much by thee blazed jacke, in this pamphlet against an innocent creature and on of the weaker vessels. A las Jack, I through thou hadst not forgotten the rule of schooleboys so much: but what shall I say more to all gentlemen, than what I have already at present, and to the Jack Lylborne, more than the copy of the letter under written, which I desire all to read, and judge accordingly. But Jack, to witness they falsity to the King, let all Gentlemen in quire if thou hast not bought his Palace of Thibalds which cost the but six thoussand pounds, of which thou hast already made before thy coming over, seven thoussand five hundred pounds of only the wanscote, chimney pieces, lead, Glass and Irone, and converted the rest into above a hundred Tenniments.  

A Copy of a Letter sent to Mr. Lylborne etc.  
Liut: Col: Lylborne  
By your uncivil pen and hair braned folly you have caused me (as much as in you lies) to stand charged and guilty of many ungentleman like actions, the burden whereof (was not your pearsson and faction: so well known that they Honour more than dishonour by railing &c. against those you writ) would be too heavy long to bear, but having the patrocing of john Lylborne, it is not felt at all, which were an other the author, I might then express a no less eassy, than I do now a safe issue and good success in the vindication of my own innocency, which I desire thoses that know us both, and such us know neither of us, but by our lines, that neither my rashness may plead my innocence, nor your brasseness my guilt, but that all true hearted gentlemen would conceive of my defences as they are of themselves with out reference to either (as I shall endeavore so to present them,) and I doubt not but when ever I shall resolve to go out of these countries, I shall go as clearly justified, as I am at present in the testimony of a good conscience concerning your allegations: and I doubt not with the blessing of God, but to pull out those poisonous arrows of base and unworthy actions which you endeavour to feather in the hearts of Gentlemen of all nations purpossly to make me odious in the nostrils of those heroic Spirits who hitherto abhor to hear your name or books spoken of. Sr you would make hogsheads and whole tunes of some one or two cups of wine, to the end, that some petty miss alleged errors of mine may be so intoxicated, that they are put in the elevation of the highest and damnable crimes of mankind: but really it hath not been in my genius to discern such monsters in my breast, as you by your sinisterous informations endeavour to stick to heart: but had I the least suspicion in myself of any thing you charge me withal, I would spare you further writing, confess all, and through the first stone at myself, nay pass sentence of condemnation also. Which if you writ more, I shall answer more at large. Then have at you in the name of the Lord, sit as fast as you can, I will dismount you from your saddles of refuges of Viana etc. out of these Lands: and when I have hunted you out hence, I shall send further hue and cries into those Lands where ever you are residing. So resolves  
Your forgiving Enemy upon repentance to God, and Wendy Oxford   

Gentlemen  
This letter made him forsake Viana as you see and go to Brugges, to the countries of his brothers friend the Spaniard, which no Prince in Christendom but refuseth to correspond with them and Lylborne, nay the heathenish Princes, only the Spansh, but it may come in time to his own palaces the same which hath happened by rebellion in my Land, if so no pity by my consent on him nor his.   
FINIS.