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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

remind you That both the Tyrants went 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Dealing with Westminster 〈◊〉 It is before remembred That Yours modelled the Courts of Justice till he got Judges to 〈◊〉 his Right to the Dispensing Power but Mine set him the Example for he resolving to subject the Liberties and Estates of the Subject to his Will and Pleasure and finding that the Grave and Learned Judge Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench had declared himself against the 〈◊〉 and would not serve the Turn in that Day to give a Judgment That the King might imprison 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 leave the Subject in the Goal and Remediless turned him 〈◊〉 and substituted Sir Nicholas 〈◊〉 in his Room and 〈◊〉 gained his Point For Sir Thomas 〈◊〉 Sir John 〈◊〉 Sir Walter Earl Sir John 〈◊〉 and Sir Edward 〈◊〉 Five of the Gentlemen imprisoned for refusing the Loan brought their Writs of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Third Year of this King The Warden of the 〈◊〉 made Return That they were detained in his Custody by the Special Command of the King We had then an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir Robert Heath little short of your late 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at the Knack of enslaving the People he 〈◊〉 and justified this 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no Special Cause was assigned and the Lord Chief 〈◊〉 Hide who was 〈◊〉 on purpose for it did singly as the Practice has also been of late give Judgment for Remanding the 〈◊〉 to Perpetual Imprisonment for that Judgment did in effect declare upon Record That by the King's Command a Subject might be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for ever To the Imposition of the Loan and the many other Grievous Sufferings and Violent Oppressions under which we groaned This King added the Burthen of Billeting Soldiers of whom many were 〈◊〉 they brake out into great 〈◊〉 mastered the People disturbed the 〈◊〉 of Families and the Civil Government To some Places they were 〈◊〉 for a Punishment and where-ever they came there was a General Outcry the 〈◊〉 were 〈◊〉 and the Markets unfrequented they 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 to all and 〈◊〉 to many of the People He also towards the End of the Year 1627 issued 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 under the great Seal to several 〈◊〉 Lords with 〈◊〉 and Loud Bishops of 〈◊〉 and Bath and Wells and others to raise Money by an Excise 〈◊〉 to enforce the Payment and which is very probable to 〈◊〉 the Parliament which was to assemble the seventeenth of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ☞ Upon the Thirtieth Day of January 1627 sent a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Lord Treasurer to this effect We command you forthwith to pay to Philip 〈◊〉 Merchant Thirty thousand Pounds to be paid by him over by Bill of Exchange into the Low 〈◊〉 and Germany unto Sir William Balfoure and John 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Levying and Providing certain numbers of 〈◊〉 with Arms for Horse and Foot to be brought over into this Kingdom for our Service c. Burlemark being afterwards called into the House of Commons and examined about this Matter declared That he received the Thirty thousand Pounds That One thousand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 levyed and those Horses and their Riders 〈◊〉 to come over and Arms were provided for them in Holland but he heard a 〈◊〉 was gone to stay them In this 〈◊〉 third Parliament to which the Extremity of his Affairs brought him much against his Will The 〈◊〉 with sad hearts taking notice of the high Oppressions of the People by heavy and illegal Exactions by false and arbitrary Imprisonments 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 upon the strange and dangerous Purpose of bringing in German Horse and Riders to change the Frame both of Religion and Government They found it as necessary as just to vindicate our Ancient Vital Liberties and in order thereto They drew up a Petition of Right thereby 〈◊〉 of the levying of Moneys without Authority of 〈◊〉 Of the Imprisoning the Subject without any Cause shewed and not being delivered by 〈◊〉 Corpus as by 〈◊〉 they ought Of the Subjects being 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Soldiers into their Houses and to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against their Wills And of the Excuting Martial Law contrary to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm Whereupon they prayed as 〈◊〉 Rights and Liberties that none should 〈◊〉 be compelled to yield any Gift Loan 〈◊〉 Tax or such like Charge without common Consent by Act of Parliament And that no Freeman should be imprisoned without Cause shewed And that the People might not be burdened with Soldiers in time to come And that no Commission for procceding by Martial Law 〈◊〉 hereafter issue q They further prayed as their Right that the King would declare that the proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the Premises should not hereafter be drawn into Example And that in all the things aforesaid All his Officers and Ministers should serve him according to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm This highly necessary and seasonable Petition met with great Interruption and violent Opposition The King urged that it trench'd upon his 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 Authority 〈◊〉 Power Sovereign Power c. which imported no less than 〈◊〉 King's being loose and 〈◊〉 from all Ties and Restraints either by 〈◊〉 Stipulations or superadded Laws The great Sir Edward Coke said in answer thereunto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is such 〈◊〉 Fellow that he will have no 〈◊〉 Let us not yield a Sovereign Power above all 〈◊〉 Power in Law as the 〈◊〉 Posse Comitatus is taken for a Power with force The King strugled long to shift it off and to avoid the answering this 〈◊〉 in a Parliamentary way pressing them again and again by Messages to rest and rely upon his Royal Word The Commons persisting pursued their Petition and to have it pass into a Law and Sir Edward Coke said Was ever a Verbal Declaration of the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The King must speak by Record and in particulars not in generals All succeeding Kings 〈◊〉 say ye must trust me as well as ye did my Predecessors Let us put up our Petition of Right Not that I distrust the King but that I cannot take his Trust but in a Parliamentary way At length this Petition being unanimously agreed unto by the Lords 〈◊〉 was presented to the King who at first gave a lame and uncertain Answer to it and being press'd to give a direct and plain Answer he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word to the House that he would not alter his Answer but he was afterwards brought to do it by the Importunity of the Lords and Commons and gave a clear and satisfactory Answer and so that Excellent Law pass'd But He had no sooner granted this Petition but We found it notoriously violated by his 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and levying the Subsidies of 〈◊〉 and Poundage which determined by his Father's Death and were never payable to any of his Ancestors but only by special Act of Parliament Hereupon the Commons shewed by Remonstrance that Tonnage and Poundage were always the free Gift of the Subject for guarding the Seas and that the taking

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