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A67359	A letter from Sir Hardress Waller and several other gentlemen at Dublin, to Lieutenant General Ludlowe: with his answer to the same.	Waller, Hardress, Sir, 1604?-1666?; Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing W537; ESTC R207292	11,891	16

A LETTER FROM Sir HARDRESS WALLER and several other GENTLEMEN AT DUBLIN TO Lieutenant General Ludlowe With His ANSWER to the same LONDON Printed for Iohn Allen at the Rising Sun in Pauls Church-yard 1660. A Letter from Sr. Hardress Waller and several other Gentlemen at Dublin to Lieutenant General Ludlowe Sir VVE have received a Letter from Lt Collonel Puckle Governour of Ross and in it one from you to him Dated at Duncannon wherein you require him to preserve his Garrison for the Parliament He had done that before he had any Orders from you to do it We wish you had rather sent Orders of that nature to your Substitute Collonel Iones when he so long and so openly acted against the Parliaments Authority than to Lieutenant Collonel Puckle who you could not but know had together with us declared for it When you were in this Bay you received an Assurance under all our hands that we had declared as in duty bound for the Parliament whose Commands both concerning you and our selves we would chearfully and punctually obey But you write to Lieutenant Collonel Puckle That we had set up for our selves We will not say that you have set up for your self though your staying if not acting amongst those who had set up for themselves at London you never declaring for the Parliament when most of the Army here had declared against them your posting from the Parliment when you your self write they were to sit within a day or two and your now casting your self into the only place in this Nation which hath not together with us declared for the Parliament might we say give us a juster rise to believe you had set up for your self than our Actings or Letters have given you cause so untruly to report of us if you have assumed that Belief concerning us because of our not admitting you here we hope whatever you your self are pleased to believe all unbyassed persons will with us judge it was not consistent with our Duty to admit to the Command of the Parliaments Army here till their pleasure was signified a person that had ever since their Interruption resided among and we more then doubt acted with their enemies that would not stay two or three dayes for their sitting to bring their Commands with him and who stands now accused before them with several Articles of High Treason Truly Sir your Actings have made our Suspitions but too strong You went declaredly from hence with an Address from this Army to the Parliament and to settle according to their Commands the Forces in this Nation But though you met a Conway the News of their being by Force kept from sitting whereby the end you proposed by your journey was cut off even in the beginning of it yet you went on to those who had offered that sinful violence 'T is true you say that by a Letter your received from that Factious Party which had been guilty thereof they intimated unto you that a stop for the present was only put upon their Sitting and consequently a door of hope was opened unto you to bring them to their Duty But let all rational men judge whether it had not been a much more probable way conducing to that end for you to have returned to this Army and accompanied your Perswasions with a Declaration That if those were not listned unto the Forces of this Nation should be employed by you to bring them to that obedience which fair means could not effect We doubt you had too good an opinion of such men or of the force of your own reasons to believe that those who would not listen to the Authority and Commands of a Parliament would be brought to their Duties by the prevalency of your particular Arguings or Desires Had worthy General Monke been possest with the like thoughts and employed only his Arguments and Entreaties to reduce them putting his Person also at the same time in their power 't is to be feared we had received our Laws from Wallingford House and not from the Parliament who only can make and repeal them But allow you could be so much mistaken in them and in your self why did you not forthwith return to your duty here when you found experimentally the unsuccessefulness of your endeavours there it being then too manifest that the Council of Officers at Wallingford House were so far from restoring the Parliament that they voted the calling a new one with a Senate and one and twenty Conservators with power in several Particulars above both Senate and Parliament And when also Col. Iones who you intrusted with the Army here did openly send out Orders for the Election of two out of each Regiment to compose that Meeting at London which was to introduce this new Government and vigorously contributed what in him lay to promote Subscriptions to an Agreement as opposite and destructive to the Restoration of the Parliament as even those fore-mentioned Elections were designed to be For which Elections we hope you have not forgotten how by particular Letters to several Officers here ready to be produced you did appear but too active and encouraging But left you might not remember the Contents of Letters to private persons and of an ancienter Date we shall mind you of one written to a publick Person viz. Col. Iohn Iones and of a fresher Date viz. the 17th of December last wherein you use these very words We seem to be necessitated to look towards the Long Parliament 't is to be feared they will be very high in case they should be trough in without Conditions Let all that hear this judge how fit that person is to command an Army of the Parliaments that includes himself amongst those who not out of willingness but necessity seem to be looking towards the Restoration of the Parliament and who expresses a fear they would be very high if not bound up by Conditions before their admittance Your Duty had been the contrary to what your fears are and we would gladly know who you judged fit to put Conditions upon the Parliament But since you fear the Actings of the Parliament unless brought in by Conditions you teach us thereby to keep you from the Head of one of the Parliaments Armies left you should make use of their Forces to secure you and those like-minded with you from your fears For our parts we desire no earthly thing more than their Restoration and bless God both our duties and innocency makes us not fear but desire they should sit as a PARLIAMENT that is without any previous Conditions put upon them You that could fear the Parliament would be very high in case they should be admitted without Conditions and have associated your self of late with those the moderatest of which were guilty of that apprehension may be suspected to have been pleased with if not consenting to the interruption of that Authority whose high Actings are confessedly feared by you We shall not much dwell upon the

cause to doubt your heartiness therein which out of the mouths of those who I judged the moderatest of your party is now put out of doubt they publickly declaring for Sir George Booth's design of which this is a Second part and calling this Parliament a Limb of the Parliament Had I been upon the place of my Command as General Monk was of his when the Resolutions of the Army came to me your advice had been very wholsom and good but it pleased the Lord to order it otherwise I was in my Journey towards London when I was first surprized with the unwelcom News of the Parliaments Interruption And truly were I now in the same posture accompanied with the like Circumstances as then I cannot say but that I should take the same Resolution more relying upon the reasonableness of what was to be proposed for the effecting of what I had in design or rather the necessity that lay upon the Army of closing therewith than upon the good Opinion of my own parts or interest On this account I promised my self success had the persons I had to do withal been worse than they are The reason of my not returning when I found my endeavours fruitless I have before mentioned and likewise the witness I bare against those Subscriptions not so much as they were against me as against the Parliament and publick interest As to the general Meeting of two Officers of each Regiment throughout the Three Nations if it were designed to be in opposition to the restoring of this Parliament it was contrary to what I intended General Monk's Commissioners who had declared for this Parliament having agreed to it I was the more free to concur in it And the rather for that one part of the Army about London being only engaged in the interruption of the Parliament there was in my judgment no way more probable for their Restitution without the effusion of bloud than by the Vote of a general Council of the three Armies three parts of four of which at the least were not engaged in that unhappy undertaking And whereas 't is charged against me that I wrote to have such men chosen as were spirited for the work in Letters to Collonel Richards I interpreted that work to be the restoring of this Parliament My Witness against any thing of a new Parliament to be called whether with Conservators with a Senate or without is sufficiently known And truly you have given too much ground of belief by your appointing a kind of Parliament of the Irish Constitution to meet on the same 24th of Ian. of your readiness to close with that kind of Parliament Thus have I though confusedly yet I hope satisfactorily given answer to each particular in your Letter and to some Objections that I have heard made against me and made appear that your sending Forces for the blocking up this place hath proceeded from a selfish consideration because I who am appointed by this Parliament to command their Forces in this Nation according to my Principle have made it my Practice to give countenance to all who fear God and work righteousness and to promote an English Interest in Ireland will not receive Orders from you many of whom laid down your Commissions when this Parliament was first restored others were laid by long since some by this Parliament and others of you under consideration so to be for your adherence to a contrary Interest and your vitiousness in life and conversation and not for any thing of affection or duty to this Parliament whom most of you never till now pretended to wish well unto Did not you judge of me by your selves who have taken this opportunity without any call that I know of to put your selves into power and place you might conclude from all these Particulars that I should not have undertaken such a journey as this and run so many hazards and undergone so many affronts and difficulties as I have done did I not look upon it as my Duty to the Parliament as far as I had an opportunity to answer the Call I had from them in promoting their Interest and standing by and countenancing such as fear the Lord and have approved themselves Well-wishers to his service Which had I been wanting in I should not have had peace in my own Conscience in the condition the Lord hath appointed me for my portion which now through mercy whatever it be I hope upon good grounds I have cause to promise unto my self having though in much weakness yet in faithfulness discharged the Trust the Parliament reposed in me It was answer to their Call I first undertook this Imployment it s their service I have indeavoured to promote it s their pleasure I have waited for which by Letters from them of the seventh instant I understand to be that out of their tender respect to the peace and welfare of this Nation they have thought fit I should forthwith attend them that thereby they may the more fully understand the Affairs of this Nation In obedience whereunto I am making all possible speed and hope to set sail for England this day assuring my self that they will impartially judge of what is in difference between us and will certainly so provide for the security of their Interest here as that whatever difficulty they may encounter with this ensuing Summer from a broad or at home they may have this Nation to their Friend which truly in the hands things now are they cannot promise unto themselves and the rather if you continue your Hostility against this and other places and your restraint on such persons who your own Consciences tell you are more hearty to their service and more ready to obey their Commands then your selves The Lord divert that cloud which seems to hang over this poor Nation and direct you into ways that are of Truth and Peace that you may not be beating your Fellow-servants but that the presence of the Lord may be amongst you and you may see it your Interest to be subservient to his great design of exalting Justice and Righteousness which is all the hurt wished you By your humble Servant Edm. Ludlow Dated at Duncannon Fort this 21 of January 1659. FINIS