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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Nunneries c. were erected in Dublin and most of the great Towns and filled with Men and Women of several Orders The Men whom he preferred to Bishopricks generally speaking were unsound in their Principles they set up for a New Church of England and corrupted our Religion in Doctrin Worship and Discipline These laid new Paintings on the old Face of the Whore of Babylon to make her shew lovely These were ready to open the Gates to Romish Idolatry and Spanish Tyranny which you well know did in that day threaten our Nation to as high a Degree as that of France hath done of late These particularly Neal Bishop of Winchester and Laud of Bath and Wells were complained of by Remonstrance in Parliament for countenancing and cherishing Papists and Persons Popishly affected and depressing and discountenancing Pious painful and Orthodox Preachers how conformable soever And Bishop Laud being advanced to London was charged by a Petition of the Printers and Booksellers to the House of Commons that the Licensing of Books being wholly restrained to him and his Chaplains he allowed Books which favoured Popery but denied to license Books that were written against it Mountague one of this King's Chaplains published a Book intituled An Appeal to Caesar and another Book intituled A Treatise of the Invocation of Saints In these Books he asserted many things contrary to the Articles of Religion This being taken into consideration by the House of Commons in the King' s first Year They voted that Mountague endeavoured to reconcile England to Rome and instanced that he maintained these Positions 1. That the Church of Rome is and ever was a True Church 2. That Images might be used for the Instruction of the Ignorant and for Excitation of Devotion 3. That Saints have not only a Memory but a more peculiar Charge of their Friends and that it may be admitted that some Saints have a peculiar Patronage Custody Protection and Power as Angels also have over certain Persons and Countries by special Deputation That he impiously and prophanely scoff'd at Preaching Lectures Bibles and all shew of Religion c. That his Scope and End in his Books was to encourage Popery and to draw the King's Subjects to the Roman Superstition and consequently to be reconciled to the See of Rome The Commons prayed that Mountague might be punished and his Books suppress'd and burnt The Pious Archbishop Abbot had disallowed and sought to suppress the Appeal to Caesar but it was approved by Laud and his Set of Bishops and printed and dedicated to the King Laud solicited the King to shelter Mountague from the Prosecution of the Commons and upon the occasion of that Prosecution said I seem to see a Cloud arising and threatning the Church of England God for his Mercy dissipate it The King appeared incensed at the Prosecution and sent a 〈◊〉 to the Commons that Mountague 〈◊〉 his Chaplain and he had taken the business into his own hands He afterwards granted him a Pardon of all 〈◊〉 and made him Bishop of Chichester It sufficed not to introduce an Innovation and Change of Religion at home This King to the Dishonour of our Nation formerly the Sanctuary of oppressed Protestants the Scandal of our Religion and the high disadvantage of the Protestant Interest throughout Christendom did at this time his sirst Year also Lend Eight Ships which he equipped with the Subsidies given for the relief of his distressed Protestant Sister the Electress Palatine and the poor oppressed Protestants of the Palatinate to the French King to fight against the miserable Protestants of Rochel Of this Squadron Captain Pennington in the Vantguard went Admiral The Commanders and Mariners protested against the service though tempted with Chains of Gold and other Rewards and returned with the Ships into the Downs declaring they would sink rather than fight against those of their own Religion The Duke of Rohan and the French Protestants solicited the King not to let the Ships go again and had good words and hopes from him Nevertheless he wrote a Letter to Pennington Dated the Twenty Eighth of July 1625. Strictly requiring him without delay to consign the Vantguard into the hands of the Marquess D' Essiat for the French King's Service and to require the seven other Ships in his Name to put themselves into the Service of the French 〈◊〉 to his promise And commanding Pennington in Case of backwardness or refusal to use all forcible means to compel them even to sinking Pennington hereupon went back and put his Ship into the Absolute Power of the French King and commanded the rest so to do but the Mariners refused declaring they would rather be hanged at home than surrender their Ships or be Slaves to the French and fight against their own Religion And they were making away but Pennington shot and forced them all in again the Neptune excepted which in Detestation of the Action Sir Ferdinando Gorges to his Eternal Honour brought away All the English Men and Boys except one Gunner who at his Return which is somewhat remarkable was slain in Charging a Piece of Ordnance not well sponged declined the Service and quitted the Ships refusing to serve against the 〈◊〉 In September following these Ships were actually employed against the Rochellers almost to their utter Ruin The 〈◊〉 boasted that the Uantguard mowed the Hereticks down like Grass By these Means were these good Good People wholly lost They indeed held the Town till the Year 1628 but were reduced to incredible Misery having lived long upon Horse-slesh Hides and Leather Dogs and Cats There were at length but about four thousand left alive of fifteen thousand Souls many dyed with Famine and they usually carried their Coffins into the Church-yard and therelaid themselves in and dyed A sad Story never to be forgotten in the History of our Blessed Martyr's Reign SIR Having thus shewed you how Rome was found to eat into our Religion and fret into the Banks of it the Laws and Statutes of the Realm I shall now lead you to the Remembrance of this King's Administration in Civil Matters and how it fared then with the Subject in the Points of Liberty and Property and shall evince That he took our Goods from us against our Wills and our Liberties against the Laws That he plucked up the Root of all Property We were almost grown like the Turks who send their Janizaries and place the Halbard at the Door and then are Masters of all But not to hold you in Generals This King in the very beginning of his Reign levyed twelve thousand Soldiers and contrary to Law required the Countries to furnish the Charge of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conduct Money He appointed Commissioners to Try Condemn and Execute Delinquents by Martial Law against the known Laws of the Land and some were executed thereby He struck directly at the Property of the Subjects Goods and having dissolved the Parliament he contrary to many Laws issued Commissions for raising Money by