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A27541	Ludlow no lyar, or, A detection of Dr. Hollingworth's disingenuity in his Second defence of King Charles I and a further vindication of the Parliament of the 3d of Novemb. 1640 : with exact copies of the Pope's letter to King Charles the first, and of his answer to the Pope : in a letter from General Ludlow, to Dr. Hollingworth : together with a reply to the false and malicious assertions in the Doctor's lewd pamphlet, entituled, His defence of the King's holy and divine book, against the rude and undutiful assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.; Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. Reply to the pope's letter [of 20 April 1623]; Gregory XV, Pope, 1554-1623.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2068; ESTC R12493	70,085	85

a Secret Whether I then had or not you bring one into my Remembrance by your enquiry whether the King had been to blame if he had chop'd off some of the Scotch Commissioners Heads and you shall have it I have heard and do believe that the King having against all Justice imprisoned the Earl of Lowdon one of the Commissioners from the Scotch Parliament in the Tower he about three of the Clock in the Afternoon sent his own Letter to Sir William Balfour Lieutenant of the Tower commanding him to see my Lord of Lowdon 's Head struck off within the Tower before nine the next Morning Upon the Receipt of this Command the Lieutenant of the Tower that his Lordship might prepare for Death gave him notice of it He being surprized as well he might prevailed with Sir William to find out the Marquess of Hamilton then in great favour with the King and Master of the Horse and to tell him that he esteemed him to be engaged in Honour to interpose in this matter The Letter being thereupon carried and shewn to the Marquess it struck him with Astonishment and with no small difficulty he made his way to the King being then in Bed and humbly enquired whether his Majesty had given such a Command for beheading the Earl of Lowdon the King answered Yes and I will be obeyed therein he shall die The Marquess finding him inexorable told his Majesty that he would kiss his Hand and instantly take his Horse and be gone for he would not stay to see his Majesty massacred as most certainly he would for before the next Night the whole City would come upon him Hereby the King was wrought upon to hold his Hand and countermand the fatal Warrant This is so incredible a piece of Tyranny that I cannot expect you should believe it upon my bare Assertion I shall therefore shew you that it seems to be pointed at in Bishop Burne●'s Memoirs Page 161. in these words There were some ill Instruments about the King Bishops no doubt on'● who advised him to proceed capitally against Lowdon which is believed went very far But the Marquess of Hamilton opposed this vigorous●y assuring the King that if that were done Scotland was for ever lost Now if Curiosity shall lead you to enquire further into this matter you may do well to learn what is meant by the obscure Expression which is believed went very far and if that do not open the whole business to you you will not fail of Satisfaction if you can by any Friend make way to the Original Papers from which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury took his Memoirs and which now are in the Hands of his Grace my Lord Duke of Hamilton A word or two more about Scotland and we will cast an Eye on your Impeachment against our own Nation you very often term the Actions of that Kingdom factious seditious rebellious traiterous Now let me shew you how the Scotch Parliament defined Treason We entreat our Adversaries say they to shew us in good earnest and not by way of Railing in what sense we have incurred the Censure of Rebellion and Treason We cannot be moved to think but the Mitre of a usurping Prelate by the Authority of a National Council may be thrown to the ground without the Violation or smallest Touch of the Crown or Scepter of Imperial Majesty To dethrone a Prelate and to overturn Prelacy we judg it no Treason against the King Traitors to God and their Country must be Traitors to the King and such as are faithful to God and their Country must be the King 's best Subjects The Right of his Majesty's Crown and the Acts of Parliament command all the Subjects to rise with the King and to assist him when he riseth for God and the Country but no Law nor Act of Parliament forbiddeth to stand for God and the Country in the case of publick Invasion Take now from Bp. Burnet's Memoirs a true Account of these Scotch Troubles which have now been so troublesome to you and me and I 'll return to Old England The Lord 's of the Council saith he Page 31 not 782. laid the greatest blame upon Bishops which appears from the Earl of Traquaire's Letter to the Marquess of Hamilton date 27. Aug. 1631. viz. At the meeting of the Council 23 d Instant we found so much appearance of Trouble and Stir like to be amongst People of all Qualities and Degrees upon the urging of this New-Service-Book that we durst no longer forbear to acquaint his Majesty therewith Some of the leading Men of the Clergy are so violent and many times without ground or true judgment that their want of right Understanding how to compass business of this nature and weight doth often breed as many Difficulties and their rash and foolish Expressions and Attempts have bred such a Fear and Jealousy in the Hearts of many that if his Majesty were rightly informed thereof he would blame them and justly think that from them arises the ground of many Mistakes amongst us This Business in good Faith is by the Folly and Misgovernment of some of our Clergy come to that height that the like has not been seen in this Kingdom of a long time No more of Scotland Let 's see what 's next You declare your Resolution to apply your self to the Defence of what you had formerly said in behalf of King Charles and proceed thus Page 26. You say That those Gracious Acts which I mention were bought of him and what then What hath been more usual ever since Parliaments had a being in England Pray look into the Statute-Book and tell me what Gracious Favours can you find bestowed by the several Kings of this Realm upon their People that those People have not made their acknowledgments for them by presenting their Soveraigns with great Sums of Money What ridiculous Stuff is this Gracious Acts Gracious Favours c. It hath been heretofore well observed that some who call themselves Church-men have left their Station to become ignorant and unhappy States-men who have made the Church and the Tenets thereof an Instrument of Bondage to the Subject These Men tell us that Parliaments are not assembled to ease the Grievances of the Subject but to fill the Coffers of the Prince These Men teach Princes that all the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and the maintenance of them are Doals of Grace and Gifts of meer Favour proceeding from the Prince and not the true Birth-right of the Subject which they may truly challenge which are to be continued or changed as Princes shall think fit But pray let us see what these Gracious Acts these Gracious Favours were which we bought as in your Opinion we ought They were Acts to declare the levying Money by way of forced Loan Ship-Money Coat and Conduct-Money to be illegal and against the undoubted Liberty of the Subject to suppress the most accursed and tyrannical Courts called the Star-Chamber and High-Commission

to bring a Traytor to Justice to secure us of the sitting of a Parliament once in three Years when the antient Laws gave us a right to Annual Parliaments and when he had to the high violation of those Laws kept us without a Parliament for about eleven Years These Acts say you their Majesties Malapert Chaplain at Aldgate are such Gracious Favours that if we will have them we ought in all Conscience to buy them But our English Parliaments have always been of another Mind and Sir Robert Cotton tells us in the Life of King Henry the Third That that King was told in full Parliament that they would not pay his Debts nor give him a Groat postquam coepit esse dilapidator Regni so long as he continued to destroy the Kingdom And pray now turn to your Bible and tell me what Text there doth warrant this your wild Opinion Where are we now But buy these Acts did they Pray who had the disposal of the Money how was it laid out was it given to the King to do what he listed withal No you know a great part of it was bestowed on the Scots for the good Service they did in rebelling against their King and putting two Kingdoms into a Flame I did observe in my Letter to you that the King had out of the Subjects Purse in the first Year of the Parliament Nov. 1640. one Million and an half of Money I also remember that the King upon the Conclusion of the Treaty at Rippon agreed to allow the Scots 850 l. per diem and in answer to your question I say the King had the disposal of the Money and as to what part of it the Scots received the King paid it to them for his having done against all Law and Reason what he listed And I will shew you from the Demand of that Nation who ought to have paid the Reckoning They say We were constrained to take Arms for our Defe●ce The War on our part was Defensive and all Men do acknowledg that in common Equity the Defendant should not be suffered to perish in his just and necessary Defence but that the Pursuer ought to bear the Charges of the Defendant The prevalent Faction of Prelates and Papists have moved every Stone against us and used all sorts of Means not only their Counsels Subsidies and Forces but their Church-Canons and Prayers for our utter Ruine which make them obnoxious to our just Accusations and guilty of all the Losses and Wrongs which we have sustained And therefore we may now with the greater Reason and Confidence press our Demand that the Parliament the Kingdom and the King himself may see us repaired in our Losses at the Cost of that Faction by whose Means we have sustained so much damage We will never doubt but the Parliament in their Wisdom and Justice will provide that a proportionable part of the Cost and Charges be born by the Delinquents We wish the Justice of the Parliament may be declared in making the Burden more sensible to the Prelates and Papists than to others who never have wronged us which will conduce much to the Honour of the King and Parliament Page 27. You take notice of my Charge that the King demurred to pass the Bills for taking away the S●ar-Chamber and High-Commission Courts at the time when he passed the Poll-Bill though presented together to him for the Royal Assent and demand whether he ought to have passed them without a Why or a Wherefore No by no means you talk now like a Rational Creature We are then to look for the Why 's and Wherefore's You acknowledg in your first Defence that these Courts were Grievances to the Nation and I said and by many sad Instances proved that they were Arbitrary and Tyrannical Courts Forges of Misery Oppression and Violence There 's then a Why for you Doctor The Parliament agreed with the King to give him the Poll-Bill to remove these accursed Courts of Oppression and Tyranny There 's also a Wherefore Nevertheless though the Parliament voted that he should pass all the three Bills or none at all he snatching up their Money runs away and delays to pass the Bills for abrogating the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Courts and yet you affirmed That HE READILY passed whats●ever Bills the Parliament offered to him for redress of the Nations Grievances And whether he did or not was the point in Controversy between you and me The next thing in course is Page 28. the unhappy Earl of Strafford's Case in relation whereunto you most learned Doctor whose Head is swell'd like any Bladder with Wind and Vapour do ●hus impeach the Lords and Commons Do not you know they were so little satisfied with the Legality of their Proceedings that they in the very Bill for his Attainder inserted a Clause that this should not be made use of as a Precedent for the time to come This is well enough urged for a D. D. and is passable the Man who utters it being considered But I must tell you Sir what I have heard as wife a Man as you say about this Clause of not bringing it into Precedent that in such Cases it could not be otherwise without leaving the same Power to the Judges in Westminster-Hall which by the Statute of Edward the Third is intrusted only with the Parliament for that Statute ennumerating all Treason cognizable by the Judges reserves to the Parliament declarative Treason as that which they might be safely intrusted with though it could not be so in the Hands of any other Jurisdiction And that this is the reason of that Clause I am told no Lawyer though never so much a Tory will deny Allow me now Sir seeing we are talking of Strafford to lay before you a pleasant Dialogue which I find in Whitlock's Memoirs pag. 41. between your three Martyrs the King the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Earl of Strafford together with the Lord Cottington a Papist and that upon the 5th of May 1640. the very Day upon which the Parliament was dissolved for their refusing to furnish Money to carry on the wicked War then resolved upon against Scotland the Paper is entituled No Danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. Charles How can we undertake Offensive War if we have no Money E. of Strafford Borrow of the City 100000 l. go on vigorously to levy Ship-Money your Majesty having tryed the Affection of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rule of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty having tried all ways and being refused shall be acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may imploy to reduce this Kingdom to Obedience For I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five Months Arch-bishop You have tried all ways and have always been denied IT IS NOW LAWFVL TO TAKE IT BY FORCE Lord Cottington Leagues abroad there may be made for the Defence of the

Shrubs of the Laity to soar so high as you presume and I took mine to be a modest and inoffensive Dedication and do yet think it ought to be esteemed such though you snarl and in your gay or angry Humour make Distinctions if not a Schism and that in your own Parish and very prodigally throw out to Ludlow a good number of your old Benefactors because they do not believe that they were the only good Men who took part with the King against the Parliament who you say only did their Duties in standing by their Prince according to the Laws of the Land and the Oaths they had taken Now if this be not an inconsiderate and weak Way of arguing why did not you and your Brethren do your Duty and as the Iacobites query stand by King Iames to whom you were sworn And as to your Old Englishmen whom you cull out and set by for your self under the Notion of Lovers of the Government by King Lords and Commons I doubt not but there are of your Acquaintance a great many Pretenders thereto and yet if a Man could stand behind the Hangings at your Club at the Pye Tavern he might hear many of 'em keck at the Healths of King William and Queen Mary and yet be the first who will propose and urge the drinking the King's Health which every Boy understands is in their meaning Iames's To proceed Page 9. you tell me that I begin my Epistle with a prophane piece of Wit namely THE CHVRCH THE CLERGY but the best of it is but borrowed Now I hope we of the Laity may without committing the Sin of Sacrilege borrow and lend this Commodity amongst our selves and were all Clergy-Men as dull as your self Doctor 't would be as great a Sin to borrow of them as to rob a Spittle The piece of Wit which you here term prophane was only a seasonable Exhortation to you to shew a little regard to Sense Truth and Christianity in your future Writings and this your last Book demonstrates that of all the Scriblers of the Age you ought to have attended to this Caution But this was prophane Wit ay no doubt of it there 's no Salvation can there be any Wit out of the Church Wit is ever prophan'd say these Borderers upon it if any Man touches it but themselves However I will adventure to borrow again from my Old Lay-Friend the most ingenious Mr. Andrew Marvell Albeit saith he Wit be not inconsistent and incompatible with a Clergy-Man yet neither is it inseparable from them So that it is of concernment to my Lords the Bishops henceforward to repress those of 'em who have no Wit from Writing and to take care that even those that have it do husband it better as not knowing to what Exigency they may be reduced You say Pag. 10. I shall betake my self with all the brevity I can to consider your various Charges you so impudently draw up against the King and Queen's Grand-Father both in your Epistle and in your Book it self And Pag. 11. you fall thus to work In your Epistle you tell us of a Letter which the Prince wrote to the Pope which from the beginning to the end savours of Popery and you mention your Particulars to prove it First You tell us that he professes nothing could affect him so much as an Alliance with a Prince that had the same apprehensions of true Religion with himself You are in the right I did say so and if I cannot make it out you deservedly stile me a foul-mouth'd scandalous and le●d Miscreant And a Man would think that you should not doubt your having caught me when you bespeak me in these confident Words For God's sake Sir read over the Letter again and tell 〈◊〉 where there is such a word or any thing like it I have the Letter now before me as it is in Rushworth and I assure you upon reading it again and again I find nothing like it and I hope I am not so dull but I understand common Sense and if it was not for the unmannerliness of the Expression I would I am justly provoked to say leave your L I must confess Sir this your Expostulation struck me with no small astonishment and your bold and confident Assertion would if possible have made me ready to suspect my self as you represent me for one of the vilest Impostors that ever appeared in the World for I never doubted but your Mother instructed you in the reading of English and he who hath attain●d thereto should not mistake in such a case as this But Upon my second reading you I observed that you say I have the Letter now before me AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH this raised a Suspicion in me that you were conscious that it was elsewhere to be found why else should you say AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH Turning to Rushworth which you were poring upon when you wrote your Defence I was confirmed in my Opinion for in the Margin to that Letter in Pag. 82. I read and you will see when you put on Impartial Specta●les this honest Intimation There is another Copy of the Prince's Letter to the Pope published by several Hands somewhat different from this Well though you affirm that you find nothing like what I charge I can see as you presently shall even in Rushworth several Things as like it as I have found a Doctor to be like a Dunce Indeed this Letter to the Pope is not found in Dr. Gauden's Famous Book called Eicon Basilice nor in the Works of King Charles neither is it in Pembrook's Arcadia in Heylin or in Nalson But you good Doctor may see it in a Book which you have in your Library for you quote it in your 13th Page 't is entituled Cabala Mysteries of State in Quarto Pag. 214. The Royal Words there which you could not or rather would not find are these I shall never be so extreamly affectionate to any thing in the World as to endeavour Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the true Religion with my self The same thing is expressed by Mr. Rushworth in these Words Your Holiness's Conjecture of our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joined in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any Mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated You proceed in the Examination or rather as you affirm Derection of Ludlow's Lying in the Particulars excerpted from the King's Letter to the Pope 2 dly Quoth you What Sir you say That he calls Popery the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion all others Novelty and Faction In what part of the Letter find you this Sir I tell you 't is false there is not one Syllable of this nature throughout the whole and I challenge the whole World of Malice to shew me any thing like it in the Letter And now again Sir

Castle of Edinburgh Rendered except for the Trust we reposed in their Relation and Con●idence in his Majesty's Royal Word which we believe they did not forget which Paper was only written for that cause left his Majesty or his Subjects should aver that they spake any thing without Warrant But having fully shewn that this Paper suffered innocently I detain you no longer upon this Head In the next place pag. 24. you exhibit a most heinous Article not only against the Scots but the English also They sent you say NEW COMMISSIONERS to the King They did so but I question whether you understand the reason why they were called New Commissioners and therefore this may inform you that they sent Commissioners not long before to supplicate for Peace but they were denied access to the King's Presence and commanded to return Home You go on saying that Mr. Whitlock informs you pag. 31. they had great resort to them and many secret Counsels held with them by the discontented English especially those who favoured Presbytery and were no Friends to Bishops Having consulted Mr. Whitlock I find you are so far right but you break off in the middle of the Sentence and omit these words or had suffered in the late Censures in the Star-Chamber Exchequer High-Commission and other Iudicatories and I would fain know what you infer from this Tale and what harm you see in it Mr. Whitlock gave you the Names of some Honourable and never to be forgotten Patriots who resorted to these Comm●ssi●ners to whose Names you ought to pay more deference than to make a ma●i●ious R●presentation of their Visits and Conversation the Earls of ●ssex Bedford Holland the Lord Say Mr. Hambd●n Mr. Pym c. w●re Men who with sad Hearts beheld the Innovati●n in Religion and the infringing of Fundamental Laws and Libe●ties in both Kingdoms Surely then Doctor without your license such Men as these may lawfully consult what means are proper to support the ●abrick when they see Religion and Justice which are the Pillars of the Government to be undermined But say you The Scots implored Aid from the French King by a Letter under the Hands of many of their principal Actors You then put in an Appeal pag. 25. to your Reader Whether his Majesty had not just Reason after such Discoveries as these were to clap some of them in Prison and whether he had been to blame if for such traiterous Correspondencies with a Popish Prince he had chopt off some of their Heads I have a word or two which might be offer'd for stay of Execution of this hard Sentence and desire to be heard or rather that the whole Kingdom of Scotland may be p●rmitted to speak in this case This is that Letter●s●ith ●s●ith that Parliament so much insisted upon as to open a Gate to let in Foreign Power to rule over England and our selves which by what Consequence it can be inferred we would fain know When a People is sore distressed by Sea and Land i● it unlawful by the Law of God and Man to call for Help from God and Man Is th●re no Help nor Assistance by Intercession by Supply of Money c Is all Assistance by the Sword and by Men We love not Shrouds nor Disguisements we speak the plain Truth and fear nothing so much as that Truth be not known Great Forces by Sea and Land were coming upon us Informations went abroad in other Nations to the prejudice of Us and our Cause This made us resolve to write unto the French King apprehending that upon sinister Relation his Power might be used against Us. Aid and Assistance hath been given in former Times If we have called now upon Denmark Holland Sweden Poland or other Nations for Help are we therefore inviting them all to a Soveraignty over Us And when all is said or done the Letter was but an Embrio forsaken in the Birth as containing some unfit Expressions and not agreeable to our Instructions and therefore slighted by the Subscribers but catch'd by this treacherous and secret Accuser of the Kingdom Another Letter was formed consonant to the Instructions and signed by many Hands but neither was this sent from us because we conceived that Mediation from France would be but late to avert the Danger which was so near It is universally known that it was written in May 1639. and therefore ought to have been buried in the Pacification We love not to harp upon Subscribing or sending of Letters to other Princes and to the Pope himself from Ex●mples of Old and of Late which are not hid from the Eyes o● the World It is sufficient to us to have justified our selves and to shew how innocently the Lord Lowdon suffereth for putting his Hand to such a Letter the Guiltiness or Innocence not being personal or proper to the Lord London but national and common to us all And although it had been a Fault and his alone yet whatsoever it was it did in time and for a long time go before his C●mmission and Imployment and there●ore ought not to have been challenged till he had returned to his Country uncloathed himself of his Commission and turned again to be what he was a private Nobleman The Dignity and Safety of Nations Kingdoms Estates and Republicks are much interessed in their Commissioners and Legats whether they be sent from one Prince to another or from a Kingdom Province or Republick to their own Prince Their Dignity for what is done to the Legat is interpreted to be done to them that sent him Their Safety because if Legats be wronged there can be no more composing of Differences nor possibility of Reconciliation Moreover his Majesty 's own Royal and inviolable Warrant for the coming of our Commissioners to his Presence at this time is enough for their safe Conduct and Security If they have committed any thing at home against their King Country or any particular Subject the fundamental Liberties and Independency of the Kingdom do require that they be tried and judged at Home and in a legal way by the ordinary Judicatories of the Land We earnestly intreat for their Liberty and Safety who are to us as our selves Methinks now if the King according to the rash Advice of you their Majesties frantick Chaplain at Aldgate should have chop'd off the Head of my Lord of Lowdon one of the Scotch Commissioners it would have offered Violence to the Peace and Quiet of his Mind all the days of his Life But I must think again his Lordship was a Presbyterian a Heretick who would not comply with the Church of England that considered you could do it with the greatest Complacency and 't would I am satisfied be highly to your content that that People had but one Neck so that you might do their business at a blow I remember that you told me upon the occasion of my talking of Laud's sending the Scotch Common-Prayer-Book to be approved at Rome that you thought I had got

but they were but the King had other Designs than those of Peace in his Head I told you of his Majesty's fortifying Whitehal and that armed Men sallied out thence reviling menacing and wounding many Citizens passing by with Petitions to the Parliament and that when the Parliament and People complained of those Assaults the King justified the Authors thereof so that I must needs conclude as I did before that the Tumults were made at Whitehal by the King 's own People that all his fear of Tumults was but a meer Pretence and Occasion taken of his resolved Absence from the Parliament that he might turn his flashing at the Court-Gate to slaughtering in the Field Pag. 44. you tell me that another Calumny wherewith I reproach the Memory of King Charles is his unwillingness to issue out his Proclamations against the Irish Rebels and when he did commanded but 40 to be printed You then say The truth of it is was this Story true it ' ●would be an inexcusable Fault in the King but to Rufute me you transcribe his Majesties own Vindication of himself which saith that he was in Scotland when the Rebellion broke forth that he immediately recommended the care of that business to the Parliament here That if no Proclamation issued sooner of which for the present he was not certain but thinks that others were issued out before it was because the Lords Iustices of Ireland desired them no sooner and when they did the number they desired was but twenty Now in Truth Sir this doth little mend the matter 't is most strange that the King should publish to all the World in Print that he thinks other Proclamations were issued before he might without doubt have easily been at a certainty in this point for had there been any such thing his Council Books his Secretary of State his Clerks of the Council would have remembred him thereof but to this day no such thing hath appeared nor ever will And 't is a poor excuse to say that the Proclamation was no sooner issued because not sooner desired We of this Age do remember in what manner our Late Princes Fathers ' nown Sons have pursued the least suspition of Rebellion You know that King Charles the Second upon the pretence of a Plot in the year 1683 was so far from deferring by the space of three Months to issue a Proclamation against his own Son the Duke of Monmouth that we had it in three days and I do think there were rather forty Thousand than forty Printed for after we had it by it self for the better spreading thereof it was published in the Gazette the like course you well know was taken by the Late King Iames First in the case of the Duke of Monmouth and then in that of the Prince of Orange But I will shew you what the Parliament said in this case of the Irish Rebels in a Declaration in 1642. That when the Lords and Commons had upon the first breaking out of the Irish Rebellion immediately sent over 20000 l. and engaged themselves for the reduceing of the Rebels yet the King after his Return from Scotland was not pleased to take notice of it until after some in the House of Commons had truly observed how forward his mischievous Counsellors were to incite him against his Protestant Subjects of Scotland and how slow to resent the proceedings of his Papist Traytors in Ireland That altho the Rebels had most impudently stiled themselves The Queen's Army and profest that the Cause of their Rising was to maintain the King's prerogative and the Queen's Religion against the Puritan Parliament of England and that thereupon the Parliament advised his Majesty to wipe away this dangerous scandal by proclaiming them Rebels which then would have weakned the Conspirators in the beginning and have encouraged both the Parliament here and good people there the more vigorously to have opposed their proceedings yet no Proclamation was set forth to that purpose till almost three Months after the breaking out of this Rebellion and then Command given that but forty should be Printed nor they published till further directions should be given by his Majesty That the Parliament and Adventurers had long since designed 5000 Foot and 500 Horse for the Relief of Munster to be sent under the Command of the Lord Wharton but no Commission for his Lordship could be obtained from his Majesty whereby Lymerick was wholly lost That when divers well affected persons had prepared twelve Ships and Six Pinnaces with more than 1000 Land Forces at their own charge for the service of Ireland and desired nothing but a Commission from his Majesty to enable them thereunto That Commission after twice sending to York for the same was likewise denied That altho the Lords Justices of Ireland have three Months since earnestly desired to have two pieces of Battery sent over for that Service yet such Commands are given to the Officers of the Tower that none of his Majesties Ordnance must be sent to save his Majesties Kingdom That the Kings Souldiers took away at one time Six hundred Suits of Cloaths and at another time Three hundred Suits which were sent by the Parliament for the poor Souldiers in Ireland That the Rebels did lately send a Petition to his Majesty Institu●ing themselves his Majesties Catholick Subjects of Ireland complaining of the Puritan Parliament of England and desiring that since his Majesty comes not thither according to their expectation that they may ●●me into England to his Majesty You come page 46 to Examine who were the first Beginners of the War and say The Parliament did really and indeed first draw the Sword and found the Trumpet to Battle Whereas the King set up his Standard at Nottingham in August did not the Lords and Commons in June before make an Order for bringing in of Mony or Plate to maintain Horses Horse-men and Arms And did not the King long before in the beginning of the year 1642. when all things were in perfect Peace send over the Crown Iewels to buy Arms and Ammunition in Holland did not he at that time write to the King of Denmark complaining of the Parliament and asking Supplies from him ad propulsandos Hostes to subdue h●s Enemies You were told of these things before but you will not touch them I shall not therefore trifle away more time with you upon this point of the first beginning of the War only I will mind you that the King upon the 4 th of July 1642. Rendezvoused an Army at Beverly in York-shire tho the Parliament did not Vote the Raising of an Army till the 12th And which is more I will give you the Name of the first Martyr who fell in that War in defence of the Laws and Liberties of his Country 't was one Percival of Kirkman Shalme in Lancashire he was Murdered the 15th of Iuly 1642. near Manchester by the Kings Forces under the Command of the Lord Strange Son to the Earl of

Derby for which that Lord was impeached in Parliament you may see a particular Account of this in May's History of the War pa. 109. in Husbands Collections 611. and in Rushworth's Collections 3d. Part. Vol. 1st pa. 680. Well I see to my Comfort that we shall soon draw to a Conclusion you say p. 49. I have Answered your Grand Impeachments and Accusations of this great and Excellent Prince As for the other things with which you stuft your Libell I say alas Sr. you must not think to catch some Birds and there are thanks be to God great numbers of them in the Kingdom with such Chaffe as this There are indeed in England a great many kinds of Birds and of Beasts also and a great many of every kind and before we part we will a little recreate our selves with some of them you must not think to catch such Birds with Chaffe A witty Conceit upon my word and had your dull fancy chopt upon this other flight neither must Chicken think to feed Capons it would have made you as proud as a Peacock and you would have clapt your Wings crow'd like any fighting Cock at the wit of the Expression But begging pardon of your Gravity I will tell you that it hath been observed that of all Creatures in the Creation the Owle of Birds and the Ass of Beasts are the most grave and Sr. William Temple in his Memoires of what past in Christendom from 1672 to 1679 page 57 saith that Old Prince Maurice of Nassau when he was about 76 years of Age having ever passed for an honest and pious man informed him that when he was Governor of Brafil he heard of a Parrot that spoke and asked and answered common questions like a reasonable Creature and tho he believed nothing of it his curiosity lead him to send for it That when it came first into the Roome where the Prince was with a great many Dutch men about him it said presently What a Company of White Men are here they asked it what he thought that Man was pointing to the Prince it answered Some General or other the Prince asked it whence came you it answered from Marinnan the Prince to whom do you belong the Parrot to a Portugez Prince what do you do heere Parrot I look after the Chickens the Prince laughed and said you look after the Chickens the Parrot answered yes I and I know well enough how to do it and made the Chuck four or five times that People use to make to Chickens when they call them Now one would hope that this pritty Bird which discoursed so rationally might put a braying Beast to silence if any thing but pulling out the Asses Tongue could do it you see Doctor that this Understanding Parrot could distinguish White from Black knew its own Capacity and undertook no other Task than it could well perform crying Chuck Chuck Chuck to the Chickens very pertinently which is more than you do to your Birds that this ingenious fair dealing Parrot when it talked with the Prince not thinking it would pass for an answer to have told him you must not think to catch such Birds as me with Chaffe came close to the point and gave direct and sensible Answers to plain and honest Questions whereas you prevaricate in a most shameful manner and prate as tho you were only fit for the Conversation of a Flock of Magpies Iackdaws Wood-cocks Owles and Buz●ods T is evident that your itch of Vain glory and unparalleld Confidence makes you affirm that you have answered me and you would be thought to have said all that can be said when you hardly say any thing but bl●●e what you know nothing of you have heap'd up 〈…〉 many 〈◊〉 abundance of Rubbish and Trifles but treated of nothing with Solidity and Judgment nor so much as touched the Tenth part of the matters charged in my Letter but in your natural levity skipping them over would perswade the Birds of your Feather I gave you their names but now that as Chaffe you make them to vanish with a puff of your mouth But indeed when I consider how miserable a Wretch of an Answerer you do here render your self and yet how you persist still in your huffing and strutting and do more and more revile and rail I cannot especially seeing it relates to one of your own Birds but present you with another piece of Mr. Marvel's profane Wit as you will call it I have seen saith he with some pleasure the Hawking at the Magpye the poor Bird understands very well the terrible pounces of that Vulture but therefore she chatters amain most rufully and spreads and cocks her tail so that one that first saw and heard the sport would think that she insulted over the Hawk in that Chatter and huffed her Train in token of Courage and Victory when alas t is all from her fear and another way of crying the Hawke mercy and to the end that the Hawke finding nothing but Tail and Feather to strike at she may so perhaps shelter her Body I have been too long trifling at this Boyes Play of Bird-catching I return now to a more manly Recreation and having already dispatched the Wild Bear the 〈◊〉 Tygre dull Ass I pass by the Monkey the Ape the Baboon and that great Herd of the many other despicable Animals and will a little hunt the barking Woolf. Quoth you Doctor page 5● I am ready to take my leave of you but before we part I must needs reckon with you upon the 〈◊〉 of a Reflection you have made upon myself you are pleased to say you understand I was a Presbyterian Minister in Essex which words have almost forced me to a smile Now if I were mistaken as to your being a Presbyterian Minister in Essex you are not to make your self too merry with it nor may you deny your having changed your Opinion from what it formerly was for you know there are many of your Contemporaries in the University of Cambridge who knew you to be a Presbyterian there and I could name you an honest Gentleman now in being who you know hath reason to be acquainted with all the steps you have taken from your youth and by saith that you left the Univesity upon a 〈◊〉 of the Ceremonies and pers●sed in that dislike 〈…〉 Preferment to be got but by Conformity so that I may with truth say you are one of Dr. Wild's Changlings and that he gave us your exact Marks when he thus described you in his Poem called The Recantation of a Penitent Proteus or the Changling My Conscience first like Balaam's Ass was shy Boggl'd and Winc'd which when I did espy I cudgel'd her and spur'd her on each side Untill the Jade her Paces all could ride When first I mounted on her tender Back She would not leave the Protestant Dull Rack Till in her Mouth the Cov'nant Bit I got And made her learn the Presbyterian Trot. 'T was an