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A48058	A letter from General Ludlow to Dr. Hollingworth ... defending his former letter to Sir E.S. [i.e. Edward Seymour] which compared the tyranny of the first four years of King Charles the Martyr, with the tyranny of the four years of the late abdicated king, and vindicating the Parliament which began in Novemb. 1640 : occasioned by the lies and scandals of many bad men of this age.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.; Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing L1469; ESTC R13691	65,416	108

though they retracted their Opinions both Houses of Parliament voted and his Majesty at length acknowledged it to be an illegal and unjust Exaction Yet that Guilt soon were off and we never heard that thereby or by any other of the almost innumerable Oppressions of his People no nor by his destroying the poor Protestants of Rochel the Quiet of his Mind was any way disturbed Now in the Case we are upon here was a fair and most solemn Trial The Lords and Commons voted the Crimes Treason The King's Counsel and Judges avowed the same The Bishops MARK THAT DOCTOR pick'd the Thorn out of his Conscience Nevertheless his passing this Bill violated the Peace of his Mind all the days of his Life To offer something towards the enlightning you in this Matter allow me to remind you what you have before read When the Duke of Buckingham was impeached for Treason this same King told the Parliament THAT BVCKINGHAM HAD NOT INTERMEDLED NOR DONE ANY THING CONCERNING THE PURBLICK BUT BY HIS SPECIAL DIRECTIONS Now I have a strong fancy that the unhappy Earl of Strafford ' s Case was the same with the Duke's 'T is a mischievous Conscience with whom one good Deed is so hard to pass down as to endanger almost a choaking and bad Deeds without number tho as big and as bulky as the Buin of three Kingdoms go down currently without straining and that it disturbed the Quiet of the King's Mind that he could not preserve this as he had done his other Servant in the execution of his own Commands And no marvel it stung his Conscience to adjudg to death those Misdeeds whereof himself had been the chief Author In the next place good Doctor you inform us That the King signed a Bill for a Triennial Parliament which certainly was as great a condescention as was ever made by a Prince I Why now 't is very unlucky Doctor that when you think your self certainly in the right you are most undoubtedly in the wrong for this Act for a TRIENNIAL PARLIAMENT did not extend to so much as by Law the Parliament ought to have required there being at that time two Statutes of Edward 3d in force for a Parliament to be holden once a Year But now you bring me to an Act of superabundant Grace Pag. 6. you say That he passed an Act for the Parliament to sit during pleasure This was something indeed we must therefore examine what Reasons the Parliament had to insist upon this Bill and what the Motives were that brought the King to comply herein It appeared most evidently to both Houses by the Examinations and Confessions of several of the Criminals that sometime before the passing of the Bill for the continuance of the Parliament which was upon the 10th of May 1641. The KING had been tampering with the Army which he had raised against the Scots and which lay undisbanded in the North to bring them up to curb the Parliament and subdue them to his Will Many great Men were found to be engaged in this Conspiracy viz. Mr. Piercy Brother to the Earl of Northumberland Mr. Henry Jermin the Queen's Favourite afterwards Earl of St. Albans Mr. Goring eldest Son to the Lord Goring Mr. Wilmot the Lord Wilmot's eldest Son Sir John Suckling Colonel Ashburnham Pollard Oneal an Irish Papist and many others these had taken an Oath of Secrecy among themselves To joyn with this Army and strengthen the Plot a French Army was to be landed at Portsmouth which Town for that purpose was to be put into Mr. Jermyn's hands and the * The Parliament had addressed the King to disband this Army but he answer'd That he would not allow of the disbanding the Irish Army for divers Reasons best known to himself Irish Army consisting of 8000 almost all Papists was to be brought over Upon the Discovery of this horrid Plot Piercy † Jermin after this Discovery went off with a Pass under the King 's own Hand which commanded the Governour of Portsmouth to provide with all speed a Ship to carry him to any Port of France Jermin and Suckling fled into France Goring being taken made an ingenuous Confession and so was discharged Oneal Wilmot Ashburnham and others were committed to the Tower from whence Oneal was permitted to make his Escape Mr. Piercy by a Letter from beyond the Seas to his Brother the Earl of Northumberland dated the 14th of June confessed much of this Conspiracy in particular the taking the Oath of Secrecy And that they had agreed to engage the Army to stand by the King against the Parliament in The preserving the Bishops Functions and Votes The not disbanding the Irish Army till the Scots were disbanded The endeavouring to settle his Revenue to that proportion it was formerly That he imparted all this to the King and perceived that he had been treated with by others concerning something of the Army which did not agree with those Proposals BUT INCLINED A WAY MORE HIGH AND SHARP NOT HAVING LIMITS EITHER OF HONOUR OR LAW That Goring and Jermin were acquainted with the other Proceedings and that the King pressed Mr. Piercy to admit them to consultation To which he having yielded and sworn them to Secrecy acquainted them what he had proposed but HE FOVND THEIR PROPOSALS DIFFERED FROM HIS IN VIOLENCE AND HEIGHT Colonel Goring confessed upon his Examination that Jermin carried him to the King who asked him If he was engaged in any CABAL concerning the Army To which Goring answering That he was not The King said I command you then to join your self with Piercy and some others whom you will find with him at his Lodgings That he thereupon went and found with Mr. Piercy Wilmot Oneal and others That he and Jermin having first taken the Oath of Secrecy which the others had taken before Mr. Piercy made his Propositions viz. That the Army should presently be put into a posture to serve the King and then should send up a Declaration to the Parliament of these Particulars That nothing should be done in Parliament contrary to any former Act of Parliament and the King's Revenne be establish'd That Jermin propounded that the Army should be immediately brought to London and they SHOVLD MAKE SVRE OF THE TOWER and he confessed that he himself urged these things to shew the Vanity and Danger of the other Propositions without undertaking these Lieutenant Colonel Ballard and Capt. Chudleigh confessed that the French that were about London were to be mounted and would join with the Army and that the Clergy would raise 1000 Horse to assist them And Chudleigh added that the Queen had sent down Money to fortify PORTSMOUTH Further that Mr. Jermin ask'd him if he thought the Army would stick to their Officers in case the King and Parliament should not agree It further appeared by the Confessions of Sir Jacob Ashley Sir John Conniers and Capt. Legg eminent Commanders in the King's Army that Oneal the Papist was a

of Grievances as you inconsiderately suggested To proceed Sir you say Pag. 5. That THE STAR-CHAMBER had been complain'd of as a Grievance and therefore he signs the Bills to take it away The HIGH-COMMISSION was a Court that most Mens Moths were opened against and he consents to take that away two Very good We have settled the Fact these Courts were taken away I have told you in what manner and for what Consideration I will now take leave to inform you what great Reasons there were to put them down Archbishop Land and divers of his Brethren had cast off all Humanity and were metamorphos'd into ravenous Wolves and these Courts were under their management The Star-Chamber had abounded in extravagant Censures whereby the Subjects were oppressed by grievous Fines Imprisonments Stigmatizings Mutilations Whippings Pillories Gags Banishments c. And the High-Commission was grown to such excess of Sharpness and Severity as was not much less than the Spanish Inquisition To repeat two or three of the many Instances of the horrid Oppression and barbarous Cruelty exercised in these Tyrannical Courts Upon the 17th of February 1629 Dr. LEIGHTON coming out of Black-friars Church it seems then he was no Conventicler was seized by a Warrant from the HIGH-COMMISSION-COURT and drag'd to Bp LAVD's HOUSE from thence without any Examination he was carried to Newgate and there clap'd into Irons and thrust into a nasty Hole where he continued from Tuesday night till Thursday noon without Meat or Drink They kept him in that loathsom place where Snow and Rain beat in upon him fifteen Weeks not permitting his Wife or any Friend to come near him and denied to give him a Copy of his Commitment then they brought him into the STAR-CHAMBER-COURT where an Information was exhibited against him for publishing a Book called SION'S PLEA AGAINST THE PRELATES By his Answer he confessed that when the Parliament was sitting in the Year 1628 he drew up the Heads of that Book and having the Approbation of five hundred Persons inter their Hands whereof some were Members of Parliament he went into Holland to get is printed That he printed but between five and six hundred only for the use of the Parliament but they being dissolved he returned home not bringing any of them into the Land but made it his special Cate to suppress them The Doctor being charged by the Information with these words in the said Book We do not read of greater Persecution of God's People in any Nation professing the Gospel than in this our Island especially SINCE THE DEATH OF QVEEN ELIZABETH He confessed the words and answer'd That the thing was too too true as appeared by the Prelates taking away Life and Livelihood from many Ministers and private Mens of whom many were pined to death in Prison and many wandred up and down their Families being left desolate and helpless That besides this the Blood of Souls had been endanger'd by the remoul of the faithful Shepherds from the Flock This was a cutting Truth And LAVD being enraged desired the Court to put the highest Censure that could be put upon him That they did to his Content condemning him to have his Ears cut his Nose slit to be branded in the Face whipp'd at a Post to stand on the Pillory to pay 10000 l. Fine tho they knew he was not worth so much and to be perpetually imprison'd The grateful Sentence being past Laud pull'd of his Cap and holding up his Hands gave Thanks to God who had given him Victory over his Enemies A Knight moved one of the Lords about the dreadfulness of the Censure intimating that it open'd a Gap to the PRELATES to inflict such disgraceful Punishments and Tortures upon Men of Quality That Lord replied That it was but in terrorem and that he would not have any one think that the Sentence should ever he executed Nevertheless Laud had his design for upon the 26th of November 1630 the Censure was executed in a most cruel mamner his Ears were out his Nose slit his Face branded with burning Irons he was tied to a Post and whipp'd with a treble Cord to that cruel degree that he himself writing the History thereof ten Years after affirmed that every Lash brought away the Flesh and that he should feel it to his dying day He 〈◊〉 lastly put in the Pillory and kept there near two 〈◊〉 in Frost and Snow And then after this most barbarous Usage not permitted to return to his Quarters in the 〈◊〉 in a Couch provided to carry him but compelled In that sad Condition and severe Season to go by Water After this was kept ten weeks in Dirt and Mire not being sheltered from Rain and Snow They shut him up most closely 22 Months and he remained a Prisoner ten or eleven Years not suffered to breath in the open Air until the Parliament of November 1640 most happily delivered him When he came abroad to prosecute his Petition in that Parliament he could neither go see nor hear Now surely Dr. Hollingworth for I do not forget to whom I and writing this dismal Story had flip'd your Memory when you said Vindication of their Majesties Wisdom p. 9. The Bishop Laud was a very good Man save in the Matter of the Book of Sports and some other as you fancy for you say you are tender of judging unnecessary Innovations But you must put on Patience to hear something more of this bloody Villain 's Barbarity Upon the 1st of February 1632 Laud procured Mr. Pryn to be sent close Prisoner to the Tower There he lay till the 21st of June 1633 when an Information was exhibited against him in the Star-Chamber for publishing a Book concerning Interludes intituled * Note that no particular Passages in the Book were mentioned in the Information Histriomastix WHICH WAS LICENSED BY A Chaplain of Dr. Abbot's Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Upon the 17th of Feb. 1633. he had this heavy Sentence pass'd upon him To be imprison'd for Life pay 5000 l. Fine be expelled Lincolns-Inn disabled to exercise the Profession of a Barrister degraded by the Vniversity of Oxford of his Degree there taken and that done to be set in the Pillory at Westminister and have one of h●s Ears there cut off and at another time to be set in the Pillory in Cheap●ide and there have his other Ear cut off Tho many of the Lords never dreamt of the Execution of this horrid Judgment Nay tho Queen Henrietta Maria which deserves an honourable mention and she shall have it for fire was their present Majesties Royal Grandmother earnestly interceded with the bigotted cruel and merciless King he shall have that too with your leave Doctor for he was a Tyrant to remit its execution yet on the 7th and 10th of May it was fully executed with great rigour Mr. Pryn remained sundry Years in the Tower upon this Censure and in that time Dr. Bastmick in the Year 1635 was brought into the High-Commission