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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

most exorbitantly fined Thirty thousand Pound and imprisoned for a Trivial Matter And the Lord Lovelase was treated as a Criminal only for saying that the Subjects were not bound to obey the Orders of a Popish Justice of the Peace SIR I am the more brief in setting down the Matters charged upon the late King the same being yet fresh in the Memories of all Men but I shall be something more particular and large in representing the Father's Tyranny in regard Time has placed us at a greater Distance from it That King Charles the Second went off by Poisoned Chocolate to make way for his Brother when Matters were well prepared to set up the Romish Idolatry is a thing generally believed And so it was that King James the First was so dispatch'd as they may see who will turn to the Earl of Bristol's Speech in Parliament and his Articles against the Duke of Buckingham and to Sir Dudly Diggs his Speech at the Delivery of the Impeachment against the Duke at a Conference with the Lords and also to the thirteenth Article of that Impeachment which charged the Duke with a very suspicious Plaister and Potion administred to that King Well right or wrong King Charles ascended the Throne upon the twenty seventh of March 1625 and at the first gave the World a Prospect what was to be expected from him for he instantly took the Duke of Buckingham and Laud then Bishop of Bath and Wells into admired Intimacy and Dearness and made them the Chief Conductors of all Affairs in State and Church and that aspiring Prelate had the Guidance of his Conscience The Duke's Mother and many near about him were Papists and he advanced Men Popishly devoted to places of the Chief Command in the Court and Camp The Good Archbishop of Canterbury Doctor Abbot speaks thus of him He was talented but as a common Person yet got that Interest that in a sort all the Keys of England hung at his Girdle and it appeared that he had a Purpose to turn upside down the Laws and the whole Fundamental Liberties of the Subject and to leave us not under the Statutes and Customs which our Progenitors enjoyed but to the Pleasure of Princes Three Parliaments in the beginning of this Reign found and declared this Duke the Cause of all our Miseries and Disasters The Grievance of Grievances The Character of Laud by the same Great Man Archbishop Abbot was this He was the inward Counseller with Buckingham and fed his Humour with Malice and Spight His Life in Oxford was to pick quarrels in the Lectures of the Publick Readers and to fill the Ears of King James with Discontent against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that took pains in their places and 〈◊〉 the Truth which he called 〈◊〉 in their Auditors It was an Observation what a sweet Man this was like to be that the first observable Act he did was the Marrying the Earl of D. to the Lady K. when it was notoriously known that she had another Husband who had divers Children living by her The Bishop of 〈◊〉 Dr. Williams procured for him at the first the 〈◊〉 of St. 〈◊〉 which he had not long enjoyed but he began to undermine his Benefactor and verily such is his aspiring Nature that he will underwork any Man in the World so he may gain by it This Man after the Death of the Duke of B. was the sole Favourite and was preferr'd to the Bishoprick of London in his way to Canterbury But to return to our King He obliged himself as yours did by his 〈◊〉 Oath to observe keep and 〈◊〉 the Laws Customs and Franchises of the Realm Which had he 〈◊〉 says Archbishop Abbot all things had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 But he broke the Oath of Protection and Justice which he took to his People as the whole History of His Reigh shews To give you some few of the Innumerable Instances which may brought therein In the beginning of his Reign he married Henrietta Maria of France Besides the General 〈◊〉 upon that Marriage he agreed to Private Articles in favour of Papists viz. that those who had been imprisoned as well Ecclesiasticks as Temporal should be released That Papists should be no more molested for their Religion c. Hereby a Toleration little less was instantly granted to Papists who without fear of Laws fell to their Practice of Idolatry and scoffed at Parliaments at Law and all Their Numbers Power and Insolence daily increased in all parts of the Kingdom especially in the City of London which seem'd to be overflowed with Swarms of 〈◊〉 This King wrote to the Pope and by his Letter saluted Antichrist with the Title of 〈◊〉 Pater Most Holy Father He procured the Pope's Dispensation for his Marriage which was solemnized by Proxy according to the Ceremonies of the Romish Church Pursuant to his Private Articles with France he instantly granted a Special Pardon to twenty Popish Priests of all Offences against the Laws and he built a Chappel at Sommerset-House with Conveniencies for Friers who were permitted to walk abroad in their Habits The Lords and Commons percieving the Protestant Religion to be undermined and all things apparently tending to an Innovation and Change of Religion in the Kingdom They presented to the King a Petition for advancing true Religion and for suppressing Popery He by his Answer assured them of performance yet the very next day after that promise made He assumed to himself a Power to dispense with the Laws of the Twenty first and Twenty seventh of Queen Elizabeth and of the third of King James in granting Pardons to Baker a Jesuite and many other Papists which passed by immediate Warrant and were recommended by the Lord Conway Secretary of State without the Payment of the Ordinary Fees The Secretary being called to answer this in Parliament very boldly said that he never hated the Popish Religion That the King commanded the granting the Pardons and that no Fees should be taken This King as well as yours made Papists Lords Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants Justices of the Peace c. As you may see by the Petition of the House of Commons wherein they complained of the increase and countenancing of Papists and named about One hundred Popish Lords Baronets Knights Esquires c. who held Places of 〈◊〉 and Trust in England and Wales And I shall here remember you that as his Secretary of State did not hate Popery so Weston whom he made Lord Treasurer of England died a Papist He granted a Commission to certain Commissioners to compound with Papists for all Forfeitures for Recusancy from the Tenth Year of King James whereby they made their Compositions upon very easie Terms And he inhibited and restrained both Ecclesiastical and Temporal Courts and Officers to intermeddle with Papists which amounted to no less than a Toleration In Ireland the Popish Religion was openly 〈◊〉 without control and practised in every part thereof Popish Jurisdiction being there generally exercised and avowed Monasteries