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

Title that you give Col. Iones of Dear Friend in the said Letter though in it we cannot but observe that 't is not probable you would call him by that Name if you thought he had falsified the Trust you had reposed in him and yet that he has publickly acted against the Authority of Parliament and their Laws could not be unknown unto you were it only in reference to that particular Subscription promoted of owning the Lord Fleetwood Commander in Chief of the Armies of this Common-wealth contrary to an express Act in that behalf whereby from your Substitute he became my Lord Fleetwoods and you from Lieutenant General under the Parliament become Lieutenant General under their enemies If you approv'd of this Action why should we receive you If you disapprov'd it why do you give the chief promoter of it the Title of your dear Friend In the same Letter also you have these words viz. I hope ere this the Commissions for the setting of Civil Iustice on the wheels in Ireland is come unto your hands Which Commissions being sent by the power of those who had violated the Parliaments Authority we might expect would rather have had your discountenance than your hope that they would come safely unto his hands And though we love to have the wheels of Civil Justice moving yet we as much desire to have those wheels receive their motion from that Authority only which legally can give it to them and we heartily wish you had the like principle That you could have come from London hither when your mentioned hopes failed you and when your Substitute Col. Iones had so egregiously acted against the Parliament and with their enemies is evident by your being now able to come into Ireland and therefore your declining thereof so long proves the fault ' lay more in your want of inclination than in your want of power and if you had appeared active at London for the Restoration of the Parliament or earnest against those here which had neglected their duty therein it is not over probable you would have been permitted to have come for Ireland which as your own Letter imports was well known at London before your departure thence to have declared for the Parliament unless those that permitted you to come for this Country had believed your actings here if received would prove more advantagious to them than to the Parliaments Service You went to London to represent things to the Parliament and staid there all the while that by force they were kept from sitting and assoon as ever through providence they were restored to sit you hasten away hither without any application to them This being the matter of Fact we leave it to all sober men to make the Inference We cannot indeed but admire that having assured you under all out hands whatever the Parliaments Commands were concerning you when your case was heard by them they should be chearfully and readily obeyed that you would rather elect to put things into extreams as much as in you lay than patiently waiting a little time to have them receive a Legal and quiet issue If your Actings have not incapacitated you to sit in the Parliament doubtless it had been more proportionate to you to have gone to London and there have acted what you went over for than to have put your self up into Duncannon the only place that has not together with us declared for the Authority of the Parliament Some possibly from thence may infer that you think it a more hopeful and more expeditious way to obtain the Command of this Army from so small a beginning thereunto as Duncannon than to acquire that end by any hopes you have of reviving the Parliaments Commission for it We have upon all these considerations thought it our duty to the Parliament to send Forces for the blocking up Duncannon Of all which we thought fit to send you notice and remain Your humble Servants Io. Sale Sol. Cambie Rod Mansel Barry Foulk Io. Harrison Gen. Pepper Io. Jeonar Io. King Max. Fenton E. Temple W. Caulfield Ri. Stephens Dan. Lisle Theo. Iones Tho. Hopkins Har. Waller Broghill Cha. Coote Chidly Coote Rich. Lehiunt Eliah Greene Hen. Owen Ben. Lucas Io. Frend Hen. Morton R. Fitz. Gerald Samp. Towgood Io. Maunsell Will. Candler Dated at Dublin Ian. 10 1659. Lieutenant General Ludlow his Answer to a Letter sent unto him from Sr Hardress Waller and several other Gentlemen at Dublin bearing date the 10th of Ianuary 1659. Gentlemen I Yesterday received yours of the tenth instant whereof I had a view in Print sometime before which makes me of a belief that it was rather intended for the informing of others then the satisfying of me in the grounds of what you resolv'd upon touching the blocking up of this place though I want the help of the Press and the like Rhetorical Pen for the publishing and illustrating what I have to answer yet doubt not through the clearness of the truth I have to offer but I shall in the judgement of any unbyassed person make out my own sincerity and the selfishness of this your undertaking After your refusal to admit me to the Command of this Army upon general Suppositions of I know not what till the pleasure of the Parliament were made known concerning me I looked upon it as my duty not to hearken to your advice for my return into England you not being that Councel the Parliament commanded me to consult with in things of that Nature nor principled for their Interest which I am ingaged to carry on most of you though now declaring for the Parliament having formerly with much zeal and industrie promoted a single persons Interest and by your present proceedings expressed an utter enmity and aversation to all whom this Parliament thought fit to intrust either in Civil or Military Imploiment And therefore least I should acknowledge my self guilty of what you accuse me which my Conscience clears me of and by withdrawing my shoulder from the work the Parliament hath call'd me to betray their Interest and those who are its hearty Well-wishers I made my repair unto this place where I found the Governour and the rest of the Officers declaring though not with you yet with all freedome and cheerfulness for this Parliament expressing the great grief which they conceived at both their interruptions their joy for their Restitutions and their prosperous proceedings since they met and their hearty desire they may go on to lay the Top-stone all which scaarce any of you which subscribe this Letter are able to affirm of your selves and therefore was it they were unfree to joyn with you and come under your conduct whose design they had and have still much cause to suspect was rather to take advantage against those the Parliament had preferred and thereby get into their places then out of the least affection to this present Parliament This was the cause I sent to Ross Waterford and other places to