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A48068	A letter from Major General Ludlow to Sir E.S. [i.e. Sir Edward Seymour] comparing the tyranny of the first four years of King Charles the martyr, with the tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated King : occasioned by the reading Doctor Pelling's lewd harangues upon the 30th of January, being the anniversary or General Madding-day.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.	1691 (1691)	Wing L1489; ESTC R3060	20,681	33

remind you That both the Tyrants went 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Dealing with Westminster 〈◊〉 It is before remembred That Yours modelled the Courts of Justice till he got Judges to 〈◊〉 his Right to the Dispensing Power but Mine set him the Example for he resolving to subject the Liberties and Estates of the Subject to his Will and Pleasure and finding that the Grave and Learned Judge Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench had declared himself against the 〈◊〉 and would not serve the Turn in that Day to give a Judgment That the King might imprison 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 leave the Subject in the Goal and Remediless turned him 〈◊〉 and substituted Sir Nicholas 〈◊〉 in his Room and 〈◊〉 gained his Point For Sir Thomas 〈◊〉 Sir John 〈◊〉 Sir Walter Earl Sir John 〈◊〉 and Sir Edward 〈◊〉 Five of the Gentlemen imprisoned for refusing the Loan brought their Writs of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Third Year of this King The Warden of the 〈◊〉 made Return That they were detained in his Custody by the Special Command of the King We had then an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir Robert Heath little short of your late 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the Knack of enslaving the People he 〈◊〉 and justified this 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no Special Cause was assigned and the Lord Chief 〈◊〉 Hide who was 〈◊〉 on purpose for it did singly as the Practice has also been of late give Judgment for Remanding the 〈◊〉 to Perpetual Imprisonment for that Judgment did in effect declare upon Record That by the King's Command a Subject might be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for ever To the Imposition of the Loan and the many other Grievous Sufferings and Violent Oppressions under which we groaned This King added the Burthen of Billeting Soldiers of whom many were 〈◊〉 they brake out into great 〈◊〉 mastered the People disturbed the 〈◊〉 of Families and the Civil Government To some Places they were 〈◊〉 for a Punishment and where-ever they came there was a General Outcry the 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and the Markets unfrequented they 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 to all and 〈◊〉 to many of the People He also towards the End of the Year 1627 issued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 under the great Seal to several 〈◊〉 Lords with 〈◊〉 and Loud Bishops of 〈◊〉 and Bath and Wells and others to raise Money by an Excise 〈◊〉 to enforce the Payment and which is very probable to 〈◊〉 the Parliament which was to assemble the seventeenth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ☞ Upon the Thirtieth Day of January 1627 sent a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Lord Treasurer to this effect We command you forthwith to pay to Philip 〈◊〉 Merchant Thirty thousand Pounds to be paid by him over by Bill of Exchange into the Low 〈◊〉 and Germany unto Sir William Balfoure and John 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Levying and Providing certain numbers of 〈◊〉 with Arms for Horse and Foot to be brought over into this Kingdom for our Service c. Burlemark being afterwards called into the House of Commons and examined about this Matter declared That he received the Thirty thousand Pounds That One thousand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 levyed and those Horses and their Riders 〈◊〉 to come over and Arms were provided for them in Holland but he heard a 〈◊〉 was gone to stay them In this 〈◊〉 third Parliament to which the Extremity of his Affairs brought him much against his Will The 〈◊〉 with sad hearts taking notice of the high Oppressions of the People by heavy and illegal Exactions by false and arbitrary Imprisonments 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 upon the strange and dangerous Purpose of bringing in German Horse and Riders to change the Frame both of Religion and Government They found it as necessary as just to vindicate our Ancient Vital Liberties and in order thereto They drew up a Petition of Right thereby 〈◊〉 of the levying of Moneys without Authority of 〈◊〉 Of the Imprisoning the Subject without any Cause shewed and not being delivered by 〈◊〉 Corpus as by 〈◊〉 they ought Of the Subjects being 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Soldiers into their Houses and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against their Wills And of the Excuting Martial Law contrary to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm Whereupon they prayed as 〈◊〉 Rights and Liberties that none should 〈◊〉 be compelled to yield any Gift Loan 〈◊〉 Tax or such like Charge without common Consent by Act of Parliament And that no Freeman should be imprisoned without Cause shewed And that the People might not be burdened with Soldiers in time to come And that no Commission for procceding by Martial Law 〈◊〉 hereafter issue q They further prayed as their Right that the King would declare that the proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the Premises should not hereafter be drawn into Example And that in all the things aforesaid All his Officers and Ministers should serve him according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm This highly necessary and seasonable Petition met with great Interruption and violent Opposition The King urged that it trench'd upon his 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 Authority 〈◊〉 Power Sovereign Power c. which imported no less than 〈◊〉 King's being loose and 〈◊〉 from all Ties and Restraints either by 〈◊〉 Stipulations or superadded Laws The great Sir Edward Coke said in answer thereunto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is such 〈◊〉 Fellow that he will have no 〈◊〉 Let us not yield a Sovereign Power above all 〈◊〉 Power in Law as the 〈◊〉 Posse Comitatus is taken for a Power with force The King strugled long to shift it off and to avoid the answering this 〈◊〉 in a Parliamentary way pressing them again and again by Messages to rest and rely upon his Royal Word The Commons persisting pursued their Petition and to have it pass into a Law and Sir Edward Coke said Was ever a Verbal Declaration of the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The King must speak by Record and in particulars not in generals All succeeding Kings 〈◊〉 say ye must trust me as well as ye did my Predecessors Let us put up our Petition of Right Not that I distrust the King but that I cannot take his Trust but in a Parliamentary way At length this Petition being unanimously agreed unto by the Lords 〈◊〉 was presented to the King who at first gave a lame and uncertain Answer to it and being press'd to give a direct and plain Answer he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word to the House that he would not alter his Answer but he was afterwards brought to do it by the Importunity of the Lords and Commons and gave a clear and satisfactory Answer and so that Excellent Law pass'd But He had no sooner granted this Petition but We found it notoriously violated by his 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and levying the Subsidies of 〈◊〉 and Poundage which determined by his Father's Death and were never payable to any of his Ancestors but only by special Act of Parliament Hereupon the Commons shewed by Remonstrance that Tonnage and Poundage were always the free Gift of the Subject for guarding the Seas and that the taking

A LETTER FROM Major General LUDLOW TO Sir E. S. Comparing the Tyranny of the first four Years of King Charles the Martyr with the Tyranny of the the four Years Reign of the Late Abdicated King Occasioned by the reading Doctor Pelling's Lewd Harangues upon the 30th of JANUARY being the Anniversary Or General Madding-Day Neque enim satis amarint Bonos Principes Qui Malos non Oderint Plin. Panegyr They can never love Good Princes as they ought who do not perfectly abhor wicked Tyrants Amsterdam printed Anno Domini 1691 A LETTER FROM Maj. Gen. LUDLOW To Sir E. S. SIR MY Love to Old England is such as can never be shaken no not by an Eternal Banishment but I must ever wish and heartily pray for its Prosperity And though 't is not permitted to me to breath my Native Air yet that it is now in a great measure freed from those Pestilential Vapours which poysoned it in the late Reigns and that my dear Country is at length delivered from that intolerable Oppression and Tyranny under which it has long groaned is to me a matter of great rejoycing 'T is with me beyond doubt that the late happy Settlement of the Kingdom is well-pleasing to God and consonant to the Laws of the Land for as Sir Robert Philips affirmed in his Speech in Parliament in the year 1628 it is undoubtedly true that the People of England are under no other Subjection than what they did voluntarily consent unto by the Original Contract between the King and the People And King James the first was greatly in the right when he told the Lords and Commons in the year 1609 That he is no King but a Tyrant that governs not by Law which by the way being true the late King James ceased to be King even before his Abdication And Now Sir you and I being agreed that the late King having broken the Original Stipulation and Contract and becoming a Tyrant by 〈◊〉 and annulling the established Laws the Crown is most rightfully placed upon the Heads of the most excellent Princes King William and Queen Mary I shall demonstrate to you That King Charles the First did equal I might justly say transcend his Son whom you have deservedly Abdicated in all his Acts of Tyranny to this Undertaking I am provoked by the reading the many Idle 〈◊〉 and Lewd Expressions and Extravagant Encomiums of the first in the Rants of one Edward Pelling who stiles himself Rector of S. Martins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Person 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Spight Falshood and Venome that the Cock being turned upon the thirtieth of January he spouts out a Sea of Calumnies Lyes and Poison He as you shall see paints forth King Charles the First more like a God than a Man talking of him at this rate viz. That great Monarch and Martyr of whom the World was not worthy and perhaps will hardly ever see the like of him again That Incomparable Prince That Mirrour of Princes the Noblest of Martyrs the Wonder of Ages and the Honour of Men That Innocent Vertuous Religious Matchless Prince The Lord 's anointed A Man according to God's own Heart No King could be ever better than this under the Shadow of his Wings we did rejoyce Peace and Plenty was our Portion Every Man was sure of his Right as long as this Religious Prince had his Just Authority every Man was easie in his Cottage as long as he sat at ease in the Throne our Liberties were secure our Laws had Life and Religion never flourished more in this Nation than under him He dyed a Martyr for Religion and a Victim for his People I am of Opinion that if the Blood of any Prince or Martyr could be so valuable as never to be atoned for in this World it would be that Royal that Sacred that Innocent Blood Now To shew the effronted Impudence of this little fawning lying Levite and to set your own with the Thoughts of the present Age right in reference to this Idolized 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I shall endeavour to place him in his true and just Light and not to forget my proposed Method of doing it by way of Parallel I shall first recount the Miscarriages wherewith the last Tyrant was most justly charged and when I have so done I shall proceed to convince you and all the World my Doctor excepted to whom I pretend not to speak in regard I find him telling his kind and Noble Friend the late Bloody Monster Jeffryes in an Epistle Dedicatory to one of his Raving Tracts upon the the thirtieth of Janury 1683 that his Ears are past all feeling how much his Father out-stript him even in the first four Years of his Reign for to that Time I purpose to confine my self in this Letter To begin The late King by his Coronation Oath promised and solemnly swore to maintain his Subjects in the free Enjoyment of their Religion Laws and Liberties Nevertheless he overturned the Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom and subjected all to a Despotick and Arbitrary Government and so broke his Oath to the Poople To come to particulars herein I. He assumed to himself a Power to suspend and Dispense with the execution of 〈◊〉 Laws enacted for the Security and Happiness of the Subjects and thereby rendred them of no effect And In order to the obtaining a Judgment in the Court of King's-Bench for declaring the Dispensing Power to be a Right belonging to the 〈◊〉 he turned out such Judges 〈◊〉 could not in Conscience 〈◊〉 in so Pernicious a Sentence and having pack'd Judges for his purpose he obtained the Judgment he required II. He against Express Laws to the contrary did set up 〈◊〉 Commission for Ecclesiastical Matters which was executed contrary to all Law III. None were raised to Ecclesiastical Dignities but such Persons that had no Zeal for the Protestant Religion He made Parker Bishop of Oxford and Cartwright Bishop of Chester and Watson Bishop of S. Davids who is most deservedly excepted in their Majesties Act of Indemnity IV. The Bishop of London was suspended only because he refused to obey an Order sent to him to suspend Dr. Sharp The President and Fellows of Magdalen College in Oxford were Arbitrarily and against Law turned out of their Freeholds and the College was put into the Hands of Papists V. Lords Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants 〈◊〉 of the Peace and others in Publick Employments who would not comply with the Design of Repealing the Test and the Penal Laws were turned out VI. The Privileges of some Corporations were invaded and their Charters 〈◊〉 And Surrenders of the Charters of other Corporations were procured to be made VII He put Papists into Civil and Military Employments and Trusts VIII The Archbishop of Canterbury and six other Bishops were sent to the Tower for setting forth in a Petition their Reasons why they could not obey an Order requiring them to appoint their Clergy to read the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience IX The Earl of Devonshire was