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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

kindness to the Dissenters that you received a constant Contribution from such of them as you preserved from Doctors Commons and I know it may be made out that at your own entreaty a Collection was made amongst them by Mr. Ogden and Mr. H●bster to raise the Money for to defray your Charges of Commencing Doctor and is it not an Act of foolish Prodigality in you to throw off such generous Benefactors as these Having thus Examined your Second Defence I shall now Sir recount the Heads of some things which you asserted in your First and which being answered by me you pass over in silence You affirmed page 7th of your first Defence that the Parliament in their Remonstrance Dec. 1641. made Reflections upon the King 's former Government unmanner's and false and that the King answered it and vindicated himself from those horrid aspersions wherewith they Loaded him Now pa. 35. I denied the falsehood thereof and said that the King only answer'd it in saying We shall in few words pass over that part of the Narrative wherein the misfortunes of this Kingdom from our first entring to the Crown to the beginning of this Parliament are remembred in so sensible expressions You asserted pa 12. that the King could by good Evidence prove the Lord Mandevile Mr. Holles Sir Arthur Hasterig Mr. Hambden Mr. Pym and Mr. Strode Members of the House of Commons Guilty of Treason Page 37 c. I gave you the full History of that matter and shew'd that the King retracted that rash accusation which I see is more than you will do tho good manners one would think should oblige you thereto and to beg pardon especially of the right Honourable the present Earl of Manchester as he is a Peer of the Realm and of the right Honourable and most eminently deserving Patriot Mr. Hambden as he is Chancellour of the their Majesties Exchequer and one of their most Honourable Privy-Council for such a horrid slander brought upon their highly deserving Families but you find it a grievous thing to forgo a falsehood that is serviceable to your great undertaking You affirm pa. 26. first defence that the Scots sold the King to the English Parliament I denied it pa. 67. and shew'd that the Scots might with the consent of the Parliament have taken him home to his Native Country but that they refused it fearing he might raise new Commotions there and you have not thought fit to contradict me in this neither You amongst other gracious concessions of the King 's wherein you glory speak pa. 11. 1st Defence of his consenting to a Treaty at Vxbridge I page 61 mentioned many things relating to that Treaty and to shew the King's insincerity in his pretensions of Peace gave a Relation how that at the very instant of that Treaty he used all imaginable means to bring not only 10000 Lorrainers but the Irish Cut-Throats against the Parliament That he declared himself resolved to adhere not only to the Bishops but also to the Papists c. These are Reproaches which you ought to wipe off if you would defend this King to any purpose but you touch them not View now I beseech you the Heads of many of the Articles of misgovernment which I recounted and which you have overlookt only saying in relation to them that some Birds are not to be catcht with such Chasse and I have done I. King Charles I. favoured Popery by his Marriage Articles he agreed that Papists should not be molested he put above a hundred Popish Lords and Gentlemen into great Trusts II. His Bishops were unsound in their principles in particular Land allowed Books which favoured Popery but refused to License Books written against it His Chaplains endeavoured to reconcile England to Rome and got preferment by it III. He Lent Ships to the French King to destroy the Protestants of Rochel which as the French boasted mowed the Hereticks down like Grass IV. He Raised an Army and required the Country to furnish Coat and Conduct Mony and Levied Mony by way of Loane and the Refusers of the meaner Rank Men of Quality being imprisoned were compelled to go for Souldiers or to serve at Sea V. He Suspended and Confined the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury not Land but Dr. Abbot because he refused to make that good by Divinity which the King had done against the Laws He imprisoned Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln for speaking against the Loane and not prosecuting Puritans VI. He turned out the Lord Chief Iustice Crew for opposing the Loane VII He remitted 30000l to Holland for the Levying Horse and Men there to serve his Arbitrary purposes VIII He violated the Petition of Right so soon as it was passed into a Law IX He confined the Earl of Bristol near two years without any Accusation and he Imprisoned the Earl of Arundel in the time of Parliament without expressing any Cause of his Commitment X. He shelter'd the Duke of Buckingham when he was Prosecuted in Parliament as the Patron of a Popish Faction and he Dissolved Parliaments when they were intent upon the Duke's Prosecution and charged him in effect with the Murder of King Iames In Relation whereunto Sir Edward Peyton who was a Member of Parliament in that time doth thus express himself in a Treatise called the Divine Catastrophe The Duke of Buckingham rewarded King Iames by Poyson as appeared plainly in Parliament by the Evidence of divers Physitians especially Dr. Ramsey and King Charles to save the Duke dissolved the Parliament when he was Impeached for it and never after had the Truth Tryed to clear himself from Confederacy or the Duke from so heinous a scandal XI He imprisoned Members of Parliament in the time of Parliament for refusing to Answer out of the Parliament what was said and done there c. XII He threatned the House of Commons that if they did not give him Supplies he would betake himself to New Counsels he asserted that Parliaments were altogether in his Power and therefore as they humour'd him were to continue or not to be You may here see Sir to your shame had you any what a small advance you have made in the defence of that Cause which you so briskly engaged in and how much of your Work you have devolved upon your better Pens Before I take my leave of you I shall observe how little you the mighty defender of Princes are to be relyed upon for tho you tell their Majesties in the Dedication of your first Defence that you wrote it to secure them from Danger and the most Reverend Right Reverend c. had your word for it in your Dedication of this Second Pamphlet that you had nothing more in your aim in putting it out than to preserve the present Government in Church and State A most commendable and highly meriting Undertaking upon my word yet which is a melancholy consideration you their Majesties great Preserver who so bravely engaged never to drop the Cause as long as you could hold a Pen do now flinch and give ground and as vanquished by a grey-headed Man with one foot in the Grave as you Confess me to be you say page 13. that you will not give your self the trouble of Answering me a decrepit crazy Adversary but will spare your self the labour because you understand it is recommended to a better hand It is astonishingly strange that you this vaunting Goliah who came out strutting in a gigantick garb of Pace and Language and with a terrible look to Act a piece of Ecclesiastical Knight Errantry That you who in an unpresidented manner huff'd and threatned the World with that vast magazine of stuff which you had amass'd to annoy the Man that should be found in your way that you whom nothing must atone but a pray Master forgive me and I 'le do so no more That such a Doctor such a Champion as you should on the sudden be crying out for the aid of better Hands of better Pens than your own and that in a quarrel of your own picking upon the success whereof you vainly conceit the Being and Well-being of their Majesties and of every thing that is worth the preserving depends But I see you Inferiour Clergy-men do oft stand in need of Guides and let who will come to your assistance tho I am decrepit this good old Cause I rest assured will abide firm and unshaken against all the attempts of such Assailants as you can list and draw up against it I mean the true Government of old England by King Lords and Commons No more at present dear Doctor only I acquaint you at parting that I am sensible I have not paid you the Tithe of what I owe you but it lies ready for you when you shall draw a Bill upon Your Debtor Edmund Ludlow Geneva May 29. 1692. ALLatres licet usque nos usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas Ignotus pereas Miser Necesse est Non deerunt tamen hac in Urbe forsan Unus vel duo tresve quatuorve Pellem rodere qui velint Caninam Nos hac a scabie tenemus ungues Rail on poor feeble Scribler speak of me In as base Terms as the World speaks of thee Sit swelling in thy Hole like a vex'd Toad And full of Malice spit thy spleen abroad Thou canst blast no man's Fame with thy ill word Thy Pen is just as harmless as thy Sword FINIS Puritans These Desires of the Pope were seconded with continual Endeavours of Swarms of Jesuits and Priests permitted to reside amongst us The Pope well knew that his Design of destroying the Northern Heresy had been considerably advanced in K. James 's time * The Roman Strumpet is very industrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 19.2 * The I●terests of Popery and Tyranny were always found 〈◊〉 well to agree and this Prince was lastly persuaded that his Crown and the Pope's Chair had common Friends and common Enemies * The Pope prepared a strange Wife for him which according to Scripture-truth is a dangerous Preparative for a strange God surely they will turn away your Heart after their Gods 1 King 11.2 * The Doctor saith P. 51. of 2 d Defence I tooke time to Consider the Nature and Terms of Conformity which by my former Education I was wholly a Stranger to * The Vicaridge of Westhom in Essex

Letter to Dr. Hollingsworth 'T IS common Sir to such despicable and malicious Brawlers as you are to rail at those things most that are most praise-worthy I should therefore esteem it scandalous to the Glorious Cause and Noble Performances of the most worthy Parliament of November 1640 which I have endeavoured to vi●dicate to be commended and account it a praise to be evil spoken of by you And it would provoke a Man to laughter to behold you betaking your self to Slanders and Calumnies to see nothing but Dirt and Filth issuing from your Mouth when you find your Arguments will little avail I should not give my self the trouble to animadvert upon your Follies and Frenzies but that I hear you are swollen with Pride and Conceit to an incredible degree I shall therefore shew that with a great deal of toil you have done just nothing at all and that you are fallen under a most prodigious degree of Stupidity and Madness to take so much pains to make your Folly visible to the World which till now you in some measure have concealed to be so industrious to heap Disgrace upon your self What Offence does Heaven punish you for in making you undertake the Defence of so forlorn and desperate a Cause as that of K. Charles the First and that with so much confidence and indiscretion and instead of defending it to betray it by your Ignorance It was as truly as ingenuously observed by the Learned Bishop Burnet in his Sermon before the House of Commons Jan. 31. 1688. That if one were to make a Panegyrick on Tyranny he ought to turn over all the common Places of Wit all the Stores of Invention and the liveliest Figures with which his Fancy would furnish him to make so odious a thing look but tolerably and by sacrificing Truth to Interest and varnishing it over with Wit and Eloquence he might shew how gracefully he could plead a very ill Cause And 't is certain that most Writers used some endeavour to carry on their Discourses by a Stream of Sense and Reason but you Sir have done it by a Course of Reviling and Railing and it may be truly said That if the dirty and Tinker-like Names the scurrilous and foul-mouth'd Expressions the spiteful and false Accusations I gather these Expressions from your Book were taken out of your Pamphlet it would appear but a poor and shrunken thing unpleasing to your self when you look upon it and of small power to work upon others that read it You seem rather to bawl and hoot at than to answer my Letter and your Book is the best Common-Place for Billingsgate that I have lately seen But it is well known that a Mountebank can neither draw nor keep a Croud about his Stage without the help of a witty or foul-mouth'd Buffoon And the gay Fancy the cutting Sarcasms wherewith your Tract is all-bespatter'd do adorn and render it highly entertaining to some Persons And I must confess that I find some subtilty in your first setting out for you begin cunningly and like an old Cavalier you place the Right Reverend and pious Bishop Kidder in the Front of the Battel just as King Charles the First did the Round-heads whom he had taken Prisoners at the Battel of Edghil these as we find the Relation in Husband 's Exact Collections pag. 758. he set pinion'd in the Front of his Men when he engaged the Parliament-Forces at Braintford to be a Breast-work to receive the Bullets that came from the Brownists and Anabaptists of such the King affirmed the Parliament Army to consist that the Cavaliers might escape them However the good Bishop I plainly foresee will come off as every of them did he may be shot through the Clothes but no way hurt For your Quotations out of the Sermons of this good Man and of that great and well-studied Divine Dr. Sherlock do only endeavour to aggravate the Iniquity of this Martyr's Murder whereas there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters relating to it I only endeavoured to evince That the King intended to bow or break us to perswade or force us to Slavery and that the Parliament when he was enflamed to take Arms against them and to put all into a common Combustion did in one hand present their humble Supplications most earnestly begging to enjoy the English Liberties in Peace and held in the other hand the Sword of just and innocent Defence against the Oppression and Violence of the Enemies of the King 's true Honour and of the Kingdom 's Peace And I am yet to learn that by any Law of God or Nations this could be judged to be Rebellion And I cannot see but Dr. Sherlock is of my Opinion for in his Sermon upon this last 30 th of Ianuary 1691 pag. 6. he saith He shall not dispute the lawfulness of resisting the King's Authority whether it were lawful for the Parliament to take Arms against the King to defend the Laws and Liberties of their Country He supposes that in a limited Monarchy the Estates of the Realm have Authority to maintain the Laws and Liberties of their Country against the illegal Encroachments and Usurpations of their King Now I go no greater length and I think this comes up to the great Lord Russel's Position which you had in my Letter pag. 20. That a free Nation like this may defend their Religion and Liberties when invaded and taken from them tho under pretence and colour of Law Your next step Sir is pag. 6. to my Quotation out of a Sermon of Bishop Burnet's Ian. 30. 1680. which you say you will transcribe to let the World see what a Cheat I am Well seeing you did so I will also transcribe it that the World may judg whether you or I be the Knave in this Matter the words are these I acknowledg it were better if we could have Iob's Wish that this Day should perish and the shadow of Death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the Day nor should the Light shine upon it it were better to strike it out of the Kalendar and make our Ianuary terminate at the 29 th and add these remaining days to February These words say you are wrested by Ludlow and they appear at first sight only a Rhetorical Flight whereby that Right Reverend Person would express the detestableness and horridness of the Fact which he bewailed that day Now because I ever was against judging any thing upon the first sight I have twice read the Sermon of this Learned wise and highly meriting Bishop and must tell you that I did not wrest his words but that he was of Opinion that the observation of that Day had been too long continued and that in regard of the great abuse thereof by some hot-headed Ecclesiastical Make-bates 't was time to leave it off and I cannot but think that every Man will conclude as I do even upon the reading of his Text Zech. 8.19 Thus saith the

Gauden sent a Copy of the Book by the Marquess of H●rtford to the King when a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight and that he believes it was corrected by his Majesty The Design of the Book was ad Captandum Populum and this King was no Fool I assure you He spent some time every Morning in perusing and making such Alterations and Emendations as he thought fit in the Papers and then took his walk leaving the Key in his Closet-Door and the Devout Papers upon the Table as a Bait to catch the Captain for though as the Aldgate Chaplain most wittily express'd himself Some Birds are not to be catch'd with Chaff yet some may And so I think the Mystery is unriddled And now that I may take a full revenge upon the Doctor I fall upon him with the But-end of another Bishop 't is Dr. Nicholson who was Bishop of Gloucester at the time when the Widow of Dr. Gauden after her Husband's Death resided in that City This Bishop understanding that Mrs. Gauden did declare that her Husband wrote the King's Book and desiring to be fully satisfied in that Point did put the Question to her upon her receiving the Sacrament and she then affirmed that it was wrote by her Husband For the Truth of this I can appeal to Persons of undoubted Credit now living in Gloucester and I am under no doubt but my Lord Bishop of Gloucester that now is will acknowledg that those Persons have related this Matter to him as I have now told it And I do as certainly know that there is a Person of Quality and clear Reputation who was Mrs. Gauden's Brother now living that will affirm that his Sister did constantly in her Conversation with him declare that her Husband was the Author of that Book And the same thing is well known to several of her Relations now in being I shall now hasten to an end when I have related a Story which agrees with the Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum and with Dr. Gauden's telling Dr. Walker as he asserts that the Duke of York knew that he was the Author of that Book and own'd it as a seasonable and acceptable Service There is now in being a Person of Quality in whose hearing the late King Iames was highly commending the excellent Language of the present Bishop of Rochester's Book called The Rye-House Conspiracy Whereupon this Person took occasion to say That his Majesties Father's Book was wrote in an excellent Stile To which the King replied My Father did not write that Book it was wrote by Bishop Gauden 'T is very indecent to publish Names without Permission but I will adventure to say that the Person I mean either is at present or lately was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty I observe that Dr. Hollingworth never writes a Pamphlet without a Postscript in that against Dr. Walker he tells an idle Story That Mrs. Simmonds acquainted him that being at Dinner some Years since at a Citizens House he like one of the Faction and greedy to lessen Monarchy by aspersing King Charles told her if she would confess the Truth that her Husband made the Book called the King 's there were some hundreds of Pounds at her Service which she scorned and told him She was not to be bribed by never so much to so great a Lie 'T would be a very seasonable and good Work to set some body to bribe this prevaricating and forging Doctor to speak Truth For Mrs. Simmonds who is a conscientious Woman denies that she told the Doctor that any Body attempted to bribe her to a Lie or said to her that there were some hundred Pounds or any Sum at her Service but she declares she told him That quickly after the King 's Murder one Mr. Robinson who lived about Thredneedle-street invited her to Dinner and talk'd with her about her Husband 's writing the King's Book and said it might be some hundred Pounds in her way if she would acknowledg the Truth and that if she would not she might come into great trouble and she saith that she never saw him after And now after all this wrangling for Peace sake and half a Crown to be spent at the Pye-Tavern at Aldgate I will so far as I am interessed in the Matter give that diminutive and inconsiderable thing the Aldgate Chaplain his saying The Book was without further debate about it wrote by King Charles and he Lies that gain-says i●● But then I must be allowed to observe that it begins with Falshood and 〈…〉 So that as Dr. Holling●●orth told him 1 st 〈◊〉 p. 37. If the Essex 〈…〉 Friend Dr. Gauden 〈…〉 for he was a learn●d and grive Divine and would 〈…〉 Colou●● by 〈…〉 ●la●le Tyranny with the 〈…〉 ●eauty of 〈…〉 The King begin● 〈…〉 saying That 〈…〉 all knowing Men so apparently not true that a more 〈…〉 have come into his Mind He never lov'd never fulfilled never 〈…〉 End of Parliaments But having first tried in vain all und●e Way 〈…〉 his Army beaten by the Scots the Lords Petitioning and the general 〈◊〉 the People almost hissing him and his ill-acted Regality off the 〈◊〉 compelled at length both by his own Wants and Fears upon meer Extremity he summon'd this last Parliament And as to what we find in the end of this Book his 〈…〉 of Captivity Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the All-seeing Deity so little care of Truth in his Words or Honour to himself or to his Friends or sense of his Afflictions as immediately before his Death to pop into the Hands of that grave Bishop Doctor Iaxon who attended him as a special Relick of his Saint-like Exercises a Prayer stollen word for word from the Mouth of a Heathen Woman praying to a Heathen God and that not in a serious but a vain Ama●orious Book Sir Sidney's Arcadia a Book how full so ever of Wit not worthy to be ●amed among Religious Thoughts and Duties Not to be re●d at any time without good Caution much less in time of Trou●le and Affliction to be a Christian's Prayer-Book 'T is worthy of rem●rk that he who had acted over us so Tragically should leave the World at last with such a ridiculous Exit as to bequeath among his deifying Friends such a piece of Mockery to be publish'd by them as must needs cover both his and their Heads with shame and confusion And sure it was the Hand of God that let them fall and be taken in such a foolish Trap as hath exposed them to all Derition is for nothing else to throw Contempt and Disgrace in the sight of all Men upon this his idoliz'd Book and the whole Rosary of his Prayers To conclude if any Man censures me for using too much 〈◊〉 in any of my Expression let him take notice that Dr. Walker told your 〈…〉 That 〈…〉 I am yours IOS WILSON 〈◊〉 Iune 10. 1692. I●●●nis Veritas 〈…〉 Doctoribus 〈…〉 LUDLOW no Liar c. In a

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

Kingdom the Lower House are weary of the King and Church The Enemies of Popery were even in that Day Commonwealths-men All Ways shall be just to raise Money by in this inevitable Necessity and are to be used being lawful Arch-bishop For an Offensive not a Defensive War Strafford The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on Foot and if any of them stir We will make 'em smart Now you will readily agree that this is no Sham in regard it comes from Mr. Whitlock whom you quote four or five times Besides I assure you that it was given in Evidence upon Oath at the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and which further evinces the Truth thereof the King instantly required the Loan of the City of London as here advised and for refusal to comply therein Ludlow tells you pag. 17. he imprisoned Sir Stephen Soame Sir Nicholas Rainton and other eminent Citizens And were not these Halcion Days were not these a rare Set of blessed Saints Pag. 32. You lash me for my Relation of the King 's tampering with the Army to ●urb the Parliament and subdue them to his Will and say that I tell a Story of Piercy and Goring c. such a one as the Faction was wont to make use of upon all occasions to amuse and heat the People but the best of it is there are so many incredible Things you say in the Account that I must tell you it hath not gained upon my belief at all amongst the rest you tell us that two of the Parties concerned confess that all the French that were about the Town were to be mounted but that which is the Nicker is that the Clergy would raise 1000 Horse to assist them and yet this Conspiracy was under an Oath of Secrecy And VERY LIKELY INDEED WHEN SO MANY CLERGY-MEN MVST BE ACQVAINTED WITH IT Surely Sir you have a mighty Opinion of your self Surely Sir you have a very bad Opinion of your Brethren of the Cassock or else a most weak way of arguing and the more you say the more you discover your Rashness and want of Judgment The Clergy will not con you Thanks for representing them to the World as Blabs of their Tongues to the pr●judice of the Cause of Mother-Church as an Order of Men who may not be trusted with a Secret committed to them under a strict Oath But this Story you say has not gained upon your Belief who can help it Our Saviour converted many of divers States and Conditions to the Faith but we do not find that ever he converted a Priest That the King did tamper with the Army to bring them against the Parliament as I relate it appears most evidently in Whitlock's Memoirs Pag. 44. and also by the several Informations Examinations and Confessions upon Oath before a Committee of the House of Lords of the Parties engaged in it most of them Men of Quality and highly in Favour with the King You may read them at large in Husband 's exact Collections a Book in esteem with you beginning at Pag. 220. I there find that the two Parties who confessed that the French about the Town were to be mounted and that the Clergy were to find 1000 Horse were Lieutenant Colonel Ballard and Captain Chudleigh But in regard you have taken the Pains to relate what his Majesty's Declaration said to this Point I shall for the setting the matter in its true Light transcribe a brief Account thereof from the Declaration of the Parliament which you most rudely call the Faction as you will find it in Husband's Collections Pag. 200. There speaking of the intended Force upon the Parliament they declare themselves thus Certainly we have been more tender of his Majesty's Honour in this point than he whosoever he was that did write his Majesty's Declaration where he calls God to witness he never had any such Thought or knew of any such Resolution of bringing up the Army which truly will seem strange to those who shall read the Depositions of Mr. Goring Information of Mr. Piercy the Examination of Mr. Wilmot Mr. Pollard and others with the other Examination of Capt. Legg Sir Iacob Ashley and Sir Iohn Conyers and consider the Condition and Nature of the Petition which was sent unto Sir Iacob Ashley under the Approbation of C. R. which his Majesty doth now acknowledg to be his own Hand and being full of Scandal to the Parliament might have proved dangerous to the whole Kingdom if the Army should have interposed betwixt the King and them as was desired You tell me pag. 43. That I have been so bold in my Assertion about the Tumults that I give the Lie to almost all the Historians that have writ the Transactions of those Times and you refer me to the Votes of the Common Council Dec. 31. 1641. Now because you are short in the Relation of that Matter I shall give you it as it is in Husband's Collection pag. 30. The Lord Newburgh upon Dec. 31. 1641 delivered a Message from his Majesty to the Common Council to this effect There having been of late many tumultuary Assemblies about Whitehal and Westminster the King recommended to their Care the preventing the like Tumults and declared That he was so well assured of the good Affections of the City that he could in no wise understand it to have any share in the Fault of these Tumults but that they proceed meerly from the mean and unruly People of the Suburbs c. Hereupon the Common Council returned Answer That they had no hand in these tumultuous Proceedings and disavowed the same and promised their best Endeavours to prevent and suppress in time to come all such tumultuous Assemblies and all mutinous rebellious Persons And they humbly desired that all the Delinquents and Causers of Tumults being apprehended may receive condign Punishment And They ordered every Member of the Common Council to make it known That if any Person should neglect his Duty of Watch and Ward c. and not do his best Endeavour to suppress or prevent Tumults he shall receive condign Punishment Now Sir I appeal to all Mankind whether this doth any way serve your Purpose You refer to the Votes of the Common Council and would thence argue that the King was necessitated by reason of the Tumults to leave Whitehal But the contrary is most evident from the King's Message and the Answer and Resolutions of the City The King declares That he was well assured of the good Affections of the City and that they had not any share in the Fault of the Tumults but that they proceeded meerly from the mean and unruly People of the Suburbs The Common Council promises to prevent and suppress all Tumults and command strict Watch and Ward to be kept to that purpose And might not the King have been hereby perswaded that he was in no danger from Tumults Were not these Votes a full Security against Fear from such Disorders for the future No doubt