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turn honed and juft, which I confidently believe will 
never be.” 
So much was he now regarded by the people as a cham¬ 
pion of liberty, that a remonftrance, figned by many 
thoufand names, was prefented to the houfe of commons 
in his behalf. This failing of eft'eft, he continued to 
publilh pamphlets, in which he difplayed his grievances 
in fuch bold and virulent language, that he rendered the 
leading men of all parties his enemies. It fhould how¬ 
ever be obferved, that the leading men alluded to, were 
thofe who were either adherents to the king, or thofe 
who were attached to Cromwell ; but Lilburne, perceiv¬ 
ing that both parties were hollile to the liberties of the 
fubjeft, did not fcrupleto oppofe all their projects, which 
he l'ufpefted, and juftly too, would lead to the eftablifh- 
ment of a tyranny in iome fhape or other. He charged 
Cromwell with a defign of ufurping the fovereignty ; and 
accufed him and his relation Ireton of high treafon, for 
which he was ordered to be tried as a libeller. At this 
period he had fo many friends among the people, that the 
houfe of commons judged it proper to difcharge him from 
prifon, and make an order for remunerating him for his 
bufferings. 
At the time of the king’s death, Lilburne was bufy in 
plans for fettling a new model of government. Finding the 
leaders of the army relolved to keep the power in their own 
hands, he oppofed them with his ufual intrepidity, and 
maintained the right of the people to form a conftitution 
fpr themfelves. So dangerous now did he appear to 
Cromwell and his council, that he was again committed 
to the Tower, and was brought to his trial for high trea- 
fon before a fpecial commilTion. On this occafion he de¬ 
fended himfelf with great firmnefs, never once fhowing a 
difpofition to crouch to his profecutors or his judges : he 
felt that he Hood on firm ground, and was determined not 
to bend to the circumftances of the times. The trial lafted 
many hours ; when the jury retired for three quarters of 
an hour, and then brought in a verdift of Not Guilty: 
which, lays the reporter of the trial, was received with 
unanimous plaudits from within and without, that conti¬ 
nued without intermillion for more than half an hour. 
The judges, who feem to have ftrained hard fora verdift 
of guilty, were abalhed and confounded. A medal was 
ftruck of his head, with the following infcription : “ John 
Lilburne, faved by the power of the Lord and the inte¬ 
grity of his jury, who are judges of law as well as of fadl." 
A new offence which he gave to parliament caufed that 
body to pafs a fentence of heavy fine and punilhment 
againff him; upon which he retired to Holland. Here he 
remained till the diffolution of the long parliament, when 
he ufed all his intereft to obtain a paffport for his return 
to England ; and, not fucceeding, he ventured, in June 
1655, to come back without one. He was very foon ap¬ 
prehended, and committed to Newgate ; being brought 
once more to trial, he defended himfelf on the plea of il¬ 
legality in his fentence of banilhment, and was accord¬ 
ingly acquitted by his jury. The government, however, 
ordered him to be immediately fent out of the kingdom ; 
but, giving fecurity for his future quiet behaviour, he 
was fuft’ered to remain. He fettled at Eltham, in Kent; 
joined the fociety of quakers, and even preached at their 
meetings in Woolwich, and other adjacent places, till bis 
death in 1657, at the early age of thirty-nine. He had a 
wife, who poflefled the fame undaunted fpirit with that of 
her hufband, and was his faithful and afteftionate help¬ 
mate in all his fufferings. By Anthony Wood, Lilburne 
is ftyled, “ a great trouble-world in all the variety of go¬ 
vernment:” by other hiftorians and biographers he has 
been reprefented to have been of fo factious and quarrel- 
fome a temper, that, “ if there were none living but him, 
John would be againff Lilburne, and Lilburneagainft John.” 
Such charges were brought againff him by his contempo¬ 
raries ; and, in his “ Legal and Fundamental Liberties of 
the People of England,” he has taken pains to rebut the 
salurnnies of his adverfaries, and to Ihow that his hand 
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was never lifted up but againff tyranny and tyrants; and 
at the clofe of that work he fubfcribes himfelf, “ An ho- 
neft and true-bred free Englifhman, that never in his life 
feared a tyrant, nor loved an opprefior.” 
LI'LEN, a town of South America, in the province of 
Popayan ; fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Cali. 
LILESWA'RA, in Hindoo mythology, a name of 
Siva, the regenerative power of the deity. It means “ If- 
wara. (or the Lord) who gives delight;” and was affumed 
with manhood in one of the numerous metamorpholes 
detailed in the Puranas, by this deity, who in this form 
became re-united to his fpoufe Parvati, giving delight 
to her in her terreftrial manifeftation, under the name of 
Lilefwari. The Puranas abound in this defcription of in¬ 
carnation of their male and female deities, which, thus 
veiled in allegory, are fuppofed to conceal hiftorical and 
philofophical fafts. Mr. Wilford, in feveral of the vo¬ 
lumes of the Afiatic Refearches, has purfued this allego¬ 
rical maze with great induftry. See more particularly 
vol. iii. vi. and viii. 
LIL'IA,yi in botany, a natural order of plants, fo called 
from Lilium, the lily, which is one of them. Tournefort, 
who underftood this order in a wider fenfe than more recent 
authors, denominated the plants which lie referred to it, 
Liliacei ; Linnaeus, and molt others, call them Liliacex. 
Lilia conftitutes the fourteenth order in Juffieu’s fyftem, 
and the fourth of his third clafs. It belongs to the tenth 
order (Coronariae) in Linnaeus’s Fragments of a Natural 
Method. See Botany, vol. iii. p. 295. They are divided 
among feveral (9-11) orders in the Ordines Naturales, at 
the end of the Genera Plantarum ; and are to be found 
in the clafs Hexandria of the Artificial Syftem. Linnaeus 
calls his Lilia the patrician order, or nobility of the vege¬ 
table kingdom, in his fanciful diftribution of plants at the 
head of his Syftema Vegetabilium. We may fuppofe that 
he had in view, in this in fiance, not only the analogies 
of the other orders, but efpecially the text fo often quoted, 
Confider the lilies of the field ; Solomon , in all his glory, was not 
arrayed like one of thefe: in which thefe.gorgeous plants 
feem more particularly indicated. The fpecies, which 
our Saviour had then perhaps before his eyes, is thought 
to have been the fplendid Amaryllis lutea, with which 
the fields of Paleftine are over-run at the end of autumn. 
The learned Olaus Celfius feems not to have adverted to 
this text as alluding to any particular plant. Some have, 
without any reafon, taken for granted that the garden-tu¬ 
lip was meant; but that plant is not a native of Paleftine. 
Others have fuppofed the Fritillaria imperialis to be meant; 
fora reafon given under the word Flower, vol.vii. p. 468. 
The order of liliaceous plants is now receiving molt 
magnificent illuftration at Paris, in a work exprefsly def- 
tined to that purpofe, by M. Redoute, of which five vo¬ 
lumes in folio have reached this country. The figures are 
printed in colours, in the modern French manner; and 
the delcriptions are in French. Many plants, not properly 
belonging to the fame family, are admitted into this pub¬ 
lication, as a few of the Orchidere and Scitaminere, which, 
though they interfere with its oftenfible defignation, cer¬ 
tainly do not leffen its value, either as to beauty or utility. 
LILIA'CEOUS, adj. Belonging to the lily, refembling 
the lily. 
LILIA'GO and LILIAS'TRUM. See Anthericum. 
LIL'IED, adj. Embelliflied with lilies: 
Nymphs and fhepherds dance no more 
By fandy Ladon’s lilted banks. Milton. 
LIL'IENDAL, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Nyland: fifteen miles north-eaft of Borga. Lat. 60. 23. 
N. Ion. 26. 3. E. 
LIL'IENSTEIN, a huge rock on the fide of the Elbe, 
in the marggravate of Meiffen: one mile north-eaft of 
Konigftein. 
LIL'IENTHAL, a town of the duchy of Bremen, 
fituated on the Worp river: ten miles north-north-eaft of 
Bremen, and twenty north-north-weft of Verden. 
LX'LINj. 
