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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

Flattery and Slavish Sycophancy at a most bold wild and impudent rate calls such a Man as this The best of Kings A Man according to God's own Heart therefore to vindicate my self in treating the Doctor as I have done I tell him in his own slovenly 〈◊〉 Language in his Sermon upon the thirtieth of January 1683 dedicated to that Viper Jeffryes That such a superlative Piece of Putid Imposture may well stir an honest Man's Choler and provoke him to spit some of it in the Villain 's Face And now Sir wiping my Mouth as good Manners require after this so foul Pollution I take my leave of you declaring that I will ever approve my self King William's and Queen Mary's and my most Dear Country's Most Affectionate Loyal Dutyful and Obedient Subject and Servant Edmund Ludlow Postscript THough King Charles the First hated nothing more than to Govern by Precedent yet he would not pray without it and none of the Liturgies suiting his Fancy he had recourse to a Romance as you may here see The Prayer of King Charles stiled A Prayer in Time of Captivity printed in a great Folio called The Works of K. Charles and also in his Eicon Basilice O Powerful O Eternal God to whom nothing is so great that it 〈◊〉 resist or so small that it is contemned look upon my Misery with thine Eye of Mercy and let thine infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Fault by thy Hand be corrected and make not my Unjust Enemies the Ministers of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Transgressions if this ungrateful Bondage be fittest for my over-high Desires if the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will cheerfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of Thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from Thee that by thy Goodness which is thy self thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty so to shine in my Mind that I who in my greatest Afflictions acknowledg it my noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend confidently on thee Let Calamity be the Exercise but not the Overthrow of my Virtue O let not their Prevailing Power be to my Destruction and if it be thy Will that they more and more vex me with Punishment yet O Lord never let their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may still carry a Pure mind and stedfast Resolution ever to serve Thee without Fear or Presumption yet with that humble Confidence which may best please Thee so that at the last I may come to thy Eternal Kingdom through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen The PRAYER of PAMELA to an Heathen Deity being under Imprisonment In Pembroke's Arcadia 〈◊〉 Edit 13. printed 1674. O All-seeing Light and Eternal Life of all things to whom nothing is either so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemned look upon my Misery with thine Eye of Mercy and let thine insinite Power vouchasafe to limit out some proportion of Deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Faults by thy Hand be corrected and make not mine unjust Enemy the Minister of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Folly if this low Bondage be fittest for my over-high Desires If the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will and joyfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of Thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of thee since even that proceeds from Thee let me crave even by the noblest Title which in my greatest Affliction I may give my self that I am thy Creature and by thy 〈◊〉 which is thy self that thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty to shine into my Mind that it may still depend confidently on thee let Calamity be the Exercise but not the overthrow of my Vertue let their Power prevail but prevail not to Destruction let my greatness be their Prey Let my Pain be the Sweetness of their Revenge Let them if so it seem good unto Thee vex me with more and more Punishment But O Lord let never their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may carry a pure Mind in a pure Body and pausing a while and O most gracious Lord said she whatever becomes of me preserve the Virtuous Musidorus FINIS 〈◊〉 's first Collections To publish a good was made then a Sin by this Bishop of London and an ill one a Vertue and while one came out with Authority the other could not have a Dispensation So that we seemed to have got in Expurgatory Press though not an Index and the most Religious Truth must be expunged and suppressed in order to the false and secular Interest of some of the Clergy He might indeed have a more early sight of the Cloud than any Man living because 't was of his own raising A Deo Rex à Rege Lex Title-page of Pelling's Sermon 30. Jan. 1683 dedicated to Jefferyes But we find different Doctrin in Bracton and Fleta they tell us That Rex Angliae habet Superiores viz. Legem per quam factus est Rex ac Comites Barones qui debent ei fraenum ponere The King of England hath for Superiors both the Law by which he is constituted King and which is the Measure of his Governing Power and the Parliament which is to restrain him if he do amiss Eraction lib. 2. cap. 16. Fleta lib. 1. cap. 17. Dolbier was a Papist March 17th 1627. This might be the first but 't was not the last time that the University hath made an Election in contempt of the Parliament We here have Dr. Edw. Pelling's MIRROUR OF PRINCES 〈◊〉 of Martyrs Wonder of Ages and the Honour of Men laying down his living Opinion of the Constitution of our Government and according to his then Judgment passing a Sentence of Death upon our Parliaments And seeing the 〈◊〉 told CAPTAIN SIMMONS of the WONDER TAVERN with his goodly Petitioners 〈◊〉 Sissan Owen and 〈◊〉 and the rest of his Parishoners upon the Thirtieth of January 1690. That his most Noble Martyr BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH I do put in an early request to him on behalf of the Commons of England that he would oblige them upon the next Madding day the twenty Ninth of May in letting them know what his Matchless Saint now speaks and in particular what he says about their Right to Annual Parliaments for 't is to be hoped that by this Time if he be kept 〈◊〉 from ARCHBISHOP LAUD he may be set right in this great Point of English Parliaments