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the likenefs of your grace; for, trouble being gone, com- 
fort fliould remain. S/iakefpcare. — It is fafer to hand upon 
our guard againft an enemy in tile likenefs of a friend, than 
to embrace any man for a friend in the likenefs of an enemy. 
VEJlrange. —One who refemblcs another ; a copy ; a coun¬ 
terpart : 
Poor Cupid, fobbing, fcarce could fpeak, 
Indeed, mamma, I did not know ye ; 
Alas! how eafy my miftake ! 
I took you for your likenefs Chloe. Prior. 
LIKENING, f. The aft of comparing, 
LI'KER,y. One that likes. 
LIKEWISE, adv. In like manner; alfo ; moreover; 
too.—Jefus laid unto them, I alfo will afk you one thing, 
which if ye tell me, I likcwife will tell you by what au¬ 
thority I do thefe things. Matt. xxi. 24.—So was it in the 
decay of the Roman empire, and likcwife in the empire of 
Almaigne after Charles the Great, every bird taking a 
feather. Bacon. —Spirit of vitriol poured to pure unmixed 
ferum, coagulates as if it had been boiled. Spirit of fea- 
falt makes a perfect coagulation of the ferum likcwife, but 
with forne different phasnomena. Arbutknot on Aliments. 
LIKEWISE, conj. Alfo; moreover; too. 
LI'KING, adj. [perhaps becaufe piumpnefs is agreea¬ 
ble to the light.] Plump ; in a Urate of piumpnefs.—I fear 
my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and 
your drink ; for why fhould he fee your faces worfe liking 
than the children which are of your fort ? Dan. i. 10. 
LI'KING, f. Good Hate of body ; piumpnefs.—I’ll re¬ 
pent, and that fuddenly, while I’m in forne liking ; I fhall 
be out of heart fhortly, and then I lhall have no ftrength 
to repent. Shakefpeare.— Their young ones are in good 
liking ; they grow up with corn. Job, xxxix. 4.—Cappa¬ 
docian Haves were famous for their lultinefs; and, being 
in good liking, were fet on a Hall, when expofed to fale, 
to fhow the good habit of their body. Dryden's Notes to 
Perfus. —State of trial: 
The royal foul, that, like the lab’ring moon. 
By charms of art was hurried down ; 
Forc’d with regret to leave her native fphere, 
Came but a while on Liking here. Dryden. 
Inclination : 
Why do you longer feed on loathed light, 
Or liking find to gaze on earthly mold ? Fairy Oueen. 
LI'KING, f. [from To like. ] Delight in ; pleafure in ; 
with to. —There are limits to be fet betwixt the boldnefs 
and ralhnefs of a poet; but he nuift underftand thofe li¬ 
mits who pretends to judge, as well as he who undertakes 
to write: and he who has no liking to the whole, ought in 
reafon to be excluded from cenfuringof the parts. Dryden. 
LIK'KI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
LI'LA, a town of Abyffinia, on the coaft of the Red 
Sea : forty-eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Arkiko. 
LIL'AC, f A tree. See Syringa. —The white thorn 
is in leaf, and the lilac tree. Bacon. 
LILAS'A, a town of Achaia near the Cephifus. Stat.Tkeb. 
LIL'BURNE (John), famous for his exertions in the 
caufe of liberty during the tyrannies of Charles I. and 
Cromwell, was born in the year 1618, of an ancient fa¬ 
mily, in the county of Durham. At an early age he was 
lent, with very little education, to London, and put ap¬ 
prentice to Mr. Thomas Hewfon, of London-done, a 
wholefale clothier. Having a bold and intrepid mind, he 
was, from this period, involved in that perpetual feries of 
contention and fuffering, of which we (hall proceed to 
give a brief account. The firlt difplay of his temper was 
exhibited in a complaint which he laid before the cham¬ 
berlain of London, againft his mafter for ill ufage. He 
carried his point, and obtained redrefs; and ever after¬ 
wards not only lived in peace with him, but he fays, in 
Ills “ Legal and Fundamental Liberties, &c.” that he had 
in Mr. Hewfon the trued friend that ever fervant had of 
a mafter in the day of his trial. While he was in his ap- 
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prenticelhip he had much leifure time, which he fpent in 
reading the Bible, the Book of Martyrs, and the works 
of Luther, Calvin, Beza, &c. From thefe he imbibed 
an entbufiaftic paftion for encountering all dangers and 
fufferings in the caufe of truth. In 1636 he was intro¬ 
duced to the acquaintance of Dr. Baitwick, at that time 
a prifoner in the Gatehoufe. He was foon engap-ed ac¬ 
tively in the popular caufe; and carried to Holland one 
of the doftor’s anti-epifcopal writings, in order to get it 
printed. Shortly after his return, he was apprehended, 
tried, and convicted, in the ftar-chamber court, of print¬ 
ing and publifliing libels and feditious books. He was 
fentenced on this occalion to receive five hundred ladies, 
and then to be fet in the pillory ; which fentence was exe¬ 
cuted with great feverity, the whipping being infliXed 
with knotted cords, as ordered by fir Henry Vane. His 
lpirit was not, however, lubdued ; for even on the pillory- 
lie uttered many inveXives againft the biftiops, and threw 
pamphlets from his pockets among the crowd. For this 
conduct he was remanded to prifon, and, according to his 
own account, endured a world of other unheard-of mi- 
feries and cruelties for three years together. Though 
double-ironed, and in one of the worft cells in the prifon, 
he contrived while there to get another libel printed and 
publiflied. Such was the opinion held refpeXing his def- 
perate refolution, that, a fire having taken place near the 
cell in which he was locked up, he was fufpeXed of being 
the occalion of- it, for the dike of obtaining his deliver¬ 
ance ; and the other prifoners and neighbours joined in 
an application to have him removed, by which he obtained 
a more airy iituation. On the meeting of the long par¬ 
liament in 1640, he was allowed the liberties of the Fleet, 
an indulgence that enabled him to appear as a ringleader 
of an armed mob which alfembled at Weftminfter, and 
cried out for juftice againft the earl of Strafford ; for which 
he was brought to the bar of the houfe of lords on a 
charge of treafon, but difmiffed. In the following year 
the houfe of commons voted “That the fentence of the 
flar-chamber againft Mr. Lilburne w>as illegal, barbarous, 
bloody, and tyrannical; and that reparations ought to be 
given him for his imprifonment, fufferings, and Ioffes 
lullained by that illegal fentence.” Neverthelefs, he tells 
us, that he never received any remuneration, though he 
had been put to the expenfe of from 1000 to 1500I. and 
had endured feven or eight imprifonments. When an 
army was raifed by parliament, Lilburne entered into it 
as a volunteer; and, at the battle of Edge-hill, he aXed 
as a captain of infantry. He behaved with diltinguilhed 
bravery at the battle of Brentford, where he was made 
prifoner, carried to Oxford, and arraigned on a charge of 
high-treafon, but was faved by a declaration of parliament, 
threatening reprifals; and was foon after exchanged, wa3 
received with triumph by his party, and rewarded with 300I. 
Cromwell and Fairfax would willingly have employed him 
after they had new-modelled the army in 1645, and given 
him a high command ; but his diflike to the prelbyterian- 
church-government would not permit him to ferve the 
party then in power; and he laid down his fword to re¬ 
lume his pen, which he employed againft Prynne, Lent- 
hall, and other perfons. He was in confequence com¬ 
mitted to Newgate on a charge of feditious praXices ; but, 
no bill being found againft him, he was releafed without 
trial. He next was brought before the houfe of lords for 
certain refleXions call on the earl of Manchefter, in a 
work entitled “The Juft Man’s Juftification.” Being ex¬ 
amined upon interrogatories refpedling the writing of that 
work, he not only refufed to anfwer queftions, but pro- 
tefted againft their jurifdiXion over him. He had Hated 
the argument on this point, in full, in his “ Legal and 
Fundamental Liberties of the People of England ;” which 
he had maintained in the houfe, -but which proved of no 
avail, as the houfe immediately made an order “ that he 
be committed a clofe prifoner in Newgate, and that none 
have accefs to him but his keeper, until this court doth 
take farther order j” that is, faid Lilburne, “ when they 
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