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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

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