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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44226	A second defence of King Charles I by way of reply to an infamous libel called Ludlow's letter to Dr. Hollingworth ...	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2504; ESTC R19193	31,943	63

A SECOND DEFENCE OF King Charles I. BY Way of Reply to an Infamous Libel CALLED LUDLOW'S LETTER to Dr. Hollingworth Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous Psal. 31. As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness 1 Pet. 2. LONDON Printed for S. Eddowes under the Piazza's of the Royal Exchange and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1692. TO THE Most Reverend and Right Reverend Fathers in GOD the Lords Archbishops and Bishops of the Provinces of Canterbury and York to the Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commons of England who have any Honour for the Pious Memory of King CHARES the First My Lords and Gentlemen c. THE Dutiful and Devoted Children of the Church of England having in the late Reign with so much Zeal and Courage as well as with such variety of Learning defended the Doctrines and Reasons of the Reformation against all the Accusations of her Romish Adversaries and some of them also exposing themselves to great Dangers rather than truckle to Will and Power against the Laws and Liberties of their Country did together with many others think when their Present Majesties came to the Throne that great Numbers of those who had sucked in Prejudices against the Church by reason of their Education would either have come into her Communion as now being convinced the Clamours against her were false or else at least would have treated her and her Members with a greater Civility and Respect then through their false Conceits of Things they did before but we quickly found ourselves mistaken and that the AEthiopian could not change his Skin nor the Leopard his Spots for presently hoping they had an opportunity to play over their Old Game again out comes two Books the one against Diocesan Episcopaty and the other against Liturgies two things they themselves knew the most moderate amongst us that are honest will not part withal these Books were carried up and down in Triumph and the poor Church of England had met with a Blow that not only stunn'd her but quite knocked her on the Head but in a convenient time they had their just Doom and were I may with great Truth say unanswerably answered the one by Dr. Comber the present Dean of Durham the other by the late Dr. Maurice Professor of the Chair at Oxford After this that the State might have a state of their Civility and Breeding as well as the Church a leud Pamphlet against King Charles the First was sent out into the World under the name of Ludlow whom an Act of Parliament calls one of the most detestable Traytors that ever was and this dedicated to Sir E. S. Kt. which Libel was spread abroad and cried up with all the Zeal imaginable and according as it was designed it had its effects and the Party who have left the Communion of our Church in all Places and Companies opened their wide Mouths against the Name and Memory of that excellent Prince upon hearing of which both in my own private and accidental Conversation and from many of my Friends whose Reports I durst credit I having by Reading the Actions and Sufferings of that King received other Impressions of him was resolved if no better Pen prevented me to vindicate that Great Man and accordingly the latter end of the last Year put out a little Book in the Defence of that Prince having nothing more in my eye then by so doing to preserve the Honour and Safety of the Present Government in Church and State which Book no sooner was spread but I was loaden with a thousand Reproaches which I thank God I was the less affected withal because of the Cause I was engaged in and withal because I had provided myself against them and within three Months after as if Hell had broke loose out comes a Letter under the same Name of the Traytor Ludlow directed to myself and as pretended occasioned by my honest Defence which Letter when I seriously read over I could not contain myself from wonder and amazements yea I found myself in various Passions to wit of Anger and Grief I of Ioy too not I assure you for the sin of the Book for that I abhor but that by the Book the Government might see the Spirit of the Party and how far to trust and when to suspect them Now My Lords and Gentlemen c. you would admire to hear how this Libel was brought up lent from one hand to another with the Character of a delicate and unanswerable Book and the well-meaning Author of King Charles's Defence was a Knave and a Fool and utterly lost as to his Credit and Interest in the New and True Friends of King William and Queen Mary and the Good Old Cause was now revived and upon its Legs again and glorious Days are coming and all by Virtue of the Influence of this Letter from Ludlow Well in a few days I set myself to a more close Consideration of the Book and presently found the Author an Imposer upon his Reader and that he had belyed King Charles in plain Matters of Fact upon which I was resolved to expose him and in a convenient time by a close application I drew up this Reply which I now present to you hoping thereby to have done something to prevent the spreading of this vile Man's Poyson And now my Lords and Gentlemen c. give me leave to be so plain as to tell you That if this Spirit be not discouraged but once again get within the Walls of St. Stephen's Chappel back'd and assisted with Power it will my Lords Spiritual Vote you presently out of the House of Peers and soon after out of your Bishopricks and afterwards will vindicate its barbarous usage of you by declaring you the Catterpillars of the Earth and the Locissts that ascend out of the bottomless Pit And for you my Lords Temporal Gentry Clergy and honest Commoners it will after it has branded you with the Names of Malignants Popish Counsellors and Adherents to the Interest of the Beast this Spirit I say when in the Chair will force you to Compositions Sequestrations Decimations Banishment Imprisonment and some of you to a Scaffold at Tower-hill or the Palace-yard and therefore I cannot but upon this Account open my whole Heart to you and tell you and I care not what Censures I undergo for it that next to the Eternal Laws of Nature and the Reasonableness and Excellency of the Christian Religion founded in and purchased by the Blood of Christ God Man I think we ought to be zealous in the Defence of this Great King upon whose Reputation or Dishonour and the Principles that maintain the one or those that propagate the other depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently of the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen together with all their Successors in the English Throne and

of the Page you will find something that truly concerns yourself and upon that score I have transcribed it There is a Spirit of Zeal and Faction the Principles of which if not restrained will ruin the best Princes and overturn the best Government in the World for they make little difference between Princes when they can find Pretence and Power Now Sir I say again have you not read or at least heard of these two Sermons And durst you then venture out into the World thus armed with hellish Revenge and black Malice to stab the Memory of and murther a-fresh a Prince for whom so great so wise a part of the Nation have so unspeakable and withal so just a Value and Veneration Good God! when Men are once hardned in Sin and by living long in it have contracted Habits and Customs what bold and impudent things will they not both say and do God Almighty open your Eyes and shew you the Evil of your ways before it be too late that so you may not perish in and by this your great Iniquity And now Sir I come to Examine your Letter it self The Title page is General Ludlow's Letter to Dr. Hollingworth Pray Sir how durst you assume this Name for we are not so ignorant who you are as it may be you think we are Pray Sir do not you know that Ludlow for the Name of General belongs not to him hath stood condemned for above Thirty Years as an execrable Traytor by Act of Parliament and that when he had the Confidence to come lately to London the Spirit of the Nation rose so up against him that the then Parliament addressed to the King to issue out his Proclamation in order to apprehend him that he might suffer that Death his Treason deserved and the Law had provided upon Notice of which you know he fled Now certainly Sir you are a very bold Man and 't is pity the Government does not take you at your Word and hang you up in his stead for there is a Debt due from Ludlow to the Justice of the Nation and I know no Man fitter to pay it than he that is so fond of the Traytor as to personate him and in his Name to vindicate those Actions for which he stands condemned There is one thing more I cannot but observe in your Title-page and that is your Quotation out of one of Bishop Burnet's Sermons and by which you would seem to justifie your calling the Thirtieth of Ianuary the Madding-day the Words are these which I transcribe on purpose to let the World see what a Cheat you are willing to put upon your Readers and thereby suppose them to be the most silly Persons in Nature I acknowledge it were better if we could have Iob's Wish That this Day should perish and the Shadow of Death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the Day nor should the Light shine upon it it were better to strike it out of the Calender and make our Ianuary terminate at the 29th and add these remaining Days to February Now I appeal to any Man of Common Sence and Ingenuity whether he can wrest these words to your malicious Design when they appear at first fight only a Rhetorical Flight whereby that Right Reverend Person would express the detestableness and horridness of the Fact which he bewailed that Day a way that all Orators have given themselves the liberty to declaim against any thing that was notoriously bad in its Nature and Consequences and yet so fond are you of these words in hopes by them to impose upon your credulous Reader that you repeat them again pag. 9. and sillily tell me you hope by them to have offered something to cool my red-hot Zeal for the Observation of that day Poor Man how much are you mistaken when these very Words carry so much in them of the Bishop's abhorrence of the Fact that if it was possible to raise my Opinion of the necessity of still keeping that Day they would contribute towards it The next thing that offers in your Book is an Epistle Dedicatory and pray let us see who are the Persons that are thought worthy to Patronize this modest and harmless Book that tells the Truth the Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth sure either the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council are only fit to have their Names prefixt to a Book that defends the Rights of the Nation their Laws and Liberties against the Encroachments and Usurpations of a proud Nimrod and hardened Pharaoh and in plain English a merciless Tyrant as you are pleased in your wonted mannerly way to stile King Charles the First pag. 68. No no Sir your Common-wealths-Men are always for encreasing their Party and courting the Populace and therefore this famous Tract must be dedicated To all sincere Lovers of Old England inhabiting in the Parish of St. Buttolphs Aldgate London tho' when we come to examine these Words well I believe you will find you have mistaken your Men and will miss of your Aim in this Dedication If indeed you mean Old England as I am sure you ought to do and which really I believe and that upon good grounds you do not namely the Government of England by King Lords and Commons I do then assure you we have and I thank God for it abundance of those in Aldgate Parish who scorn to suffer themselves to be put upon by such insinuations as these are they love their Country and its Laws and Liberties and desire no more to see the Day wherein Ordinances supersede Acts of Parliament and Kings forced by Tumults from their Palaces and Subjects with armed Force assaulting their Natural Prince and Armies turning their Masters out of Doors and the Faithful and Loyal Nobility and Gentry thrown by the Hands of Violence and against all Law out of House and Home and many of them seeking their Bread in strange Countries who desire no more to see the Day when worthy Persons are forced up to London to compound for their Estates at Goldsmiths and Haber-dashers-Halls only for doing their Duties and standing by their Prince according to the Laws of the Land and the Oaths they had taken no more to see the Day wherein their King is Imprisoned denyed the Comfort of his Servants and Chaplains and at last murthered by a vile Brood a Generation of Vipers who neither fear God nor Man Sir If these be the Men you address to you have lost your Aim and your Letter will find no Welcome to my knowledge in the Parish of Aldgate as for others in my Parish and I know but few of them that are Lovers of Old England in your Sence that is Lovers of Old England as it consists of a very few Lords and half a House of Commons in opposition to and in an actual War with their Lawful Soveraign or as it consists of a Rump made up of Forty eight Persons assuming the Confidence to