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A48058	A letter from General Ludlow to Dr. Hollingworth ... defending his former letter to Sir E.S. [i.e. Edward Seymour] which compared the tyranny of the first four years of King Charles the Martyr, with the tyranny of the four years of the late abdicated king, and vindicating the Parliament which began in Novemb. 1640 : occasioned by the lies and scandals of many bad men of this age.	Ludlow, Edmund, fl. 1691-1692.; Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing L1469; ESTC R13691	65,416	108

bless and sanctify by thy Word and Spirit these Creatures of Bread and Wine that they may be to us THE BODY AND BLOOD of thy beloved Son In a word the Scots affirmed that all the material Parts of the Mass-Book were seminally in this and they could not relish it that Laud and his Set of English Bishops should urge them to a Liturgy more Popish than their own and observed that for Vnity they were content to meet Rome rather than Scotland The Book being read by a Bishop in the City of Edinburgh the People expressed great detestation thereof and the Bishop who read it had probably been slain coming out of the Church had not a Noble-man rescued him The Nobility Gentry and Ministers petitioned against it The King threatned to prosecute them as Rebels and commanded the Council to receive no more Petitions Thereupon several of the Nobility in the Name of the Petitioners made a Protestation that the Service-Book was full of Superstition and Idolatry and ought not to be obtruded upon them without consent of a National Synod which in such Cases should judg That it was unjust to deny them Liberty to accuse the Bishops being guilty of High Crimes of which till they were cleared they did reject them as Judges or Governours of them They justified their own Meetings and subscribing to Petitions as being to defend the Glory of God the King's Honour and Liberties of the Realm The Scots concluded to renew the COVENANT which had been made and sealed under King James 's Hand in the Year 1580 afterwards confirmed by all the Estates of the Kingdom and Decree of the National Synod in 1581 THIS COVENANT was for the Defence of the PVRITY OF RELIGION and the King's Person and Rights against the Church of Rome This was begun in February 1638 and was so fast subscribed throughout the Kingdom that before the end of April he was scarce accounted one of the Reformed Religion that had not subscribed the Covenant The Non Covenanters were Papists not exceeding 600 in number throughout the Kingdom Statesmen in Office and Favour at that time and some few Protestants who were affected to the Ceremonies of England and Book of Common Prayer The King sent the Marquess of Hamilton to deal with the Scots to renounce their Covenant but they affirmed It could not be done without manifest Perjury and Profanation of God's Name and insisted to have the Service-Book utterly abolished it being obtruded against all Law upon them That their Meetings were lawful and such as they would not forsake until the Purity of Religion and Peace might be fully settled by a free and National Synod And they declared THAT THE POWER OF CALLING A SYNOD IN CASE THE PRINCE BE AN ENEMY TO THE TRVTH OR NEGLIGENT IN PROMOTING THE CHVRCHES GOOD IS IN THE CHVRCH IT SELF And that the State of the Church at that time necessitated such a course The King at length fearing lest the Covenanters if he delayed would do it themselves called a National Synod to begin at Glasgow the 21st of November 1638 but within seven days it was dissolved by the Marquess of Hamilton in the King's Name and they commanded to sit no more But they protested against that Dissolution and continued the Synod when the Marquess of Hamilton was gone and deposed all the Bishops condemned the Liturgy took away the High-Commission Court and whatsoever had crept into the Church since the Year 1580 when the NATIONAL COVENANT was first established When they themselves broke up the Synod they wrote a Letter of Thanks to the King and published a Declaration Feb. 4. 1638 directed to all the sincere and good Christians in England to vindicate their Actions and Intentions from those Aspersions which Enemies might throw upon them This Declaration was welcome to the People of England in general and especially to those who stood best affected to the Reformed Religion and the Laws and Liberties of their Country In fine the Scots are declared Rebels and the King in Person with an English Army resolved to chastise them But The generality of the Nation detested the War knowing that the Scots were innocent and wronged by the same Hand that they were oppressed and they concluded that the same Sword which subdued the Scots must destroy their own Liberties Yet glad they seem'd to be that such an Occasion happen'd which might in reason necessitate the King to call an English Parliament but whilst he could make any other shift how low and dishonourable soever he would not endure to think of a Parliament He borrowed great Sums of Money of the Nobility and required Loans of others and the CLERGY contributed liberally to this VVar which was called BELLVM EPISCOPALE THE BISHOPS WAR The King being animated to the War by the Bishops both of England and Scotland the last perswading him that the COVENANTERS were in no sort able to resist him that scarce any English Army at all would be needful to fight but only to appear and his MAJESTY would find a Party great enough in SCOTLAND to do the VVork He thereupon raised a gallant Army which rendezvouzed at York The Scots likewise to render the King unwilling or unable to be a Tyrant levied a brave Army which advanced forward under the Command of General Lesley They nevertheless continued their first course of Petitioning the King which being favoured by almost all the Nobility of England at last by the happy Mediation of those Wife and Noble Counsellors a PACIFICATION to the great Joy of all good Men was solemnly concluded on the 18th of June 1639 and the King granted them a free National Synod to be holden August 6 and a Parliament to begin the 20th to ratify what the Synod should decree Hereupon the English and Scots returned home praising God who without any effusion of Blood had compounded this Difference and prevented a War so wickedly design'd But Shortly after the King's return to London his Heart was again estranged from the Scots and thoughts of Peace and he commanded the PACIFICATION to be burnt by the Hands of the common Hangman An Act than which nothing could more blemish his Reputation as rendring him not to be believed for any thing For what Tie would hold him when the Engagement of his Word his Royal VVord given in sight of God and Man could not bind And having upon the 18th of December broke up the Scotch Parliament he began to prepare for a new VVar. The Scots complained that it was a Breach of their Liberties not heard of before in twenty Ages That a Parliament should be dissolved without their Consent whilst Business of Moment was depending That whatsoever Kings in other Kingdoms might do it concerned not them to enquire but it was absolutely against their Laws They hereupon sent four Earls as their Commissioners to the King to complain that nothing was performed which he had promised at the PACIFICATION and to intreat redress of those Injuries which had

that I am as much to seek as ever for the Vertues of the Martyr which deserve their Majesties imitation But methinks I hear you reply to me So you will eternally be if you read such lewd Pamphlets as Ludlow converses with you must apply your self to the impartial learned and infallibly convincing Works of the most candid Dr. Holling worth if you will be enlightned in this great Point He good Man jogs steadily on in the way of Truth sparing no Party you may take his Word for it May I so He 's then the Man for my Money and casting off my Strumpet of a Pamphlet I will READ TRY and JUDG according as another Doctor advises the Lewd Folks And I proceed Sir to the Examination of your Defence of King Charles the First You tell us that in looking into and considering his Life you found your self equally affected with Joy and Grief Now I shall attempt to asswage your Grief but in doing is shall abate so much of your conceived Joy that with the late Eloquent Recorder I doubt I shall bring you to a handful of Grief and a handful of Sorrow You ground your Joy upon your meeting with a Person so admirably tempered so greatly condescending so ready to comply with whatever was presented to him for the good of his Subjects of so great Constancy to the Religious Perswasions of his own Mind that he would not forsake them To begin with the last because you will have the Church to take place of the State Are not we made happy at this day by the Hereditary Stubbornness of your Martyr's Son he was so constant to the Religious Perswasions of his own Mind that rather than forsake them he very fairly abdicated the Throne He sacrificed his Crown to FATHER PETRE'S IDOLATRY his Father to FATHER LAUD'S SVPERSTITION HIS TEMPER will be seen hereafter I shall therefore in this place only enquire whether it appeared so admirably good as you insinuate when he struck the Noble Earl of Denbigh A BOX ON THE EAR for only walking in the Privy Gallery at Whitehal We are anon to examine his Condescention and Compliance for the Good of the People and in doing it shall evince how little you understand the History of his Life and what reason there is to mortify a Chaplain of their present Majesties for recommending this KING as a Pattern to future Princes I come now Sir to your Melancholy Part which you thus express Pag. 2. I have been often overwhelmed AS IT WERE with Sorrow and a lodding Grief That AS IT WERE secures some hope in your case for which there had been no room had you been in earnest overwhelm'd But pray what brings you Doctor into this unhappy case Why this Prince so every ways great and good is libell'd by every sawcy Scribler A factions number of Men never speak of him but as a TYRANT Pag. 3. A ROGVE A RASCAL They call the Day on which he was murther'd and which is appointed by the Supream Power of the Nation to be religiously observed THE MADDING DAY There 's no remedy Sir but Patience there will ever be found some sawcy Scribler or other upon this Subject whilst the World is troubled with any silly Defender of this TYRANT as such I shall continue to talk of him and that with Demonstration but I much suspect that you have learn'd the rude Terms of ROGUE AND RASCAL from your own factions Crew you know whom I mean when they are speaking of his present Majesty Now dear Doctor as to your MADDING-DAY allow me to present you with the Opinion of a Person tolerably wise and thoughtful I mean Dr. Burnet now Lord Bishop of Salisbury in his Sermon before the Aldermen of London the Lord Mayor being sick and therefore absent at St. Lawrence Church upon the 30th of January 1680 he did express himself in these words I acknowledg it were better if we could have Job 's Wish That that Day should perish that Darkness 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 our Kalendar and to make our January determine at the 29th and add these remaining days to February In hope Sir that I have here offered something to cool your red-hot Zeal for the Observation of this Day upon which you and many of your high-stown Brethren have too long spouted out most fulsome Flattery upon your Royal Martyr and been infusing Principles of Slavery into the free-born People of ENGLAND I now proceed upon your Defence You say that your Grief swells above its usual Bank and stirs your Indignation against a VILE BROOD Why in earnest Doctor 't is time to look out for Cure 't is not above two or three Minutes since you appeared only AS IT WERE overwhelm'd with Sorrow Now the overflowing of your Grief and raising your Choler speaks your case AS IT WERE desperate and I doubt you will run mad before your next MADDING-DAY But I have undertaken the drudgery of reading you through and must take what follows and so must you You go on telling me That from these two Passions of Grief and Anger you are resolved to vindicate this great Prince and IF POSSIBLE to shame those who do shew by what they vent that they have neither Knowledg Wisdom nor good Manners nor indeed any thing else that belongs to the Human as well as Christian Nature I found Sir by your staring and soaming at the Mouth what you would come to and 't is now with you as I foretold Would any Man in his Wits set himself not only to put a Herd of Wild Beasts to shame but also to teach them Letters and Breeding But an angry Doctor thinks himself fit for any thing when at the same time I esteem him capable of nothing for no Man that falls into a Passion can argue well and you Sir have undertaken a much more difficult Task than you are aware of For I have read in the fore-mentioned Sermon of the Learned Bishop of Salisbury an Expression to this effect That it might be expected that he should enlarge on the Vertues the Piety the Magnanimity and Constancy of Mind of this your Martyr but he confessed the performing this to be a Task above his strength But what will not an aspiring Chaplain essay I have now Sir reached to what you resolve upon You tell me Pag. 4. That you intend only to run through the last eight Years of his Reign Do you so Sir here 's a Snake in the Grass Doctor or else why do you skip his first sixteen Years I wish that instead of running through which argues you in haste I do not find you flying over the Years you pitch upon if you do I shall endeavour to lure you back again which that I may the more certainly do I determine to keep pace with or sight of you Proceeding you say

Sword in the other in which the Lords and Commons do IN THE PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD profess That if his Majesty will forthwith return to his Parliament c. they will receive him with all Honour yield him all due Subjection and Obedience and faithfully endeavour to secure his Person and Estate from all Danger and do the utmost of their Power to procure and establish to himself and his People all the Blessings of a glorious and happy Reign WE DID THEN VERILY BELIEVE AND YET DO that these were the sincere and cordial Intentions of the Lords and Commons and altho the King was so unhappy as to reject that Petition yet they persisted still in the same Loyalty of Intentions and Affections towards him as appears in their many Messages to himself and Declarations to the Kingdom Upon these Grounds we engaged in this CAVSE being called to it by a lawful Authority The TWO HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT BEING THE ORDINANCE OF GOD VNTO THIS NATION FOR THE PREVENTING OF TYRANNY AND THE REGVLATING OF THE EXORBITANCIES OF REGAL POWER and being convinced in our Judgments both of the Equity and Necessity of THE PARLIAMENT'S DEFENSIVE ARMS c. WE APPEAL TO GOD the Searcher of all Hearts to whom we must give an Account of all our Ways THAT THESE WERE THE GROVNDS OF OVR FIRST ENGAGEMENT Now Sir to look back to your Defence of the King I find you frequently glorying in his Majesty's oft-repeated Gracious Messages Offers Proposals and Condescentions for Peace and in relation to the Deportment of the Parliament you thus express your poor Judgment I cannot but perswade my self Pag. 17. they were resolved to continue the War and engross all into their own hands let what would become of the King But yet that they might pacify the Minds of a great number of the Nation who groaned under the Miseries of the War and began to see too much of a private Spirit under publick Pretences they consent to a Treaty at Uxbridg they did so and you declare that two Heads were agreed to be there debated viz. 1. Of Religion and Church Government 2. Of the Militia Now in reading the History of that Treaty I find that a third great thing was agreed to be also debated viz. The business of Ireland but that being a Point which you care not to touch I must not allow you to hide it To discourse a little about this Treaty notwithstanding the King for his Credit-sake and to satisfy his own Party weary of War yielded to a Treaty I cannot perswade my self but he was resolved to continue the War and if you appear not a Man of resolved Prejudices or else of profound and stupid Ignorance I do half think that I may bring you over to my Opinion in this matter For to let you see what disposed him to hearken to this Treaty take his own words in his Letter to the Queen in December 1644. I shall shew thee upon what Grounds I came to a Treaty to the end thou mayst the better understand and APPROVE of my Ways Then know as A CERTAIN TRVTH that all EVEN MY PARTY are strongly impatient for Peace which obliged me so much the more at all occasions to shew my real Intentions to Peace NO DANGER OF DEATH SHALL MAKE ME DO ANY THING VNWORTHY OF THY LOVE At the very instant of this Treaty which was had in February 1644 the King used all imaginable means to bring not only FOREIGN FORCES but the Irish CUT-THROATS against the Parliament to clear up this Point and also to evince how insincere he was in his pretended Intentions of Peace I will briefly present to your view his under-hand Transactions as well with Foreign Princes as those Rebels and in the first place I shall mind you of some Passages between Him and the Queen in relation to this and other Treaties In a Letter to her of January 9 1644 he writes thus The Scots Commissioners have sent to me to send a Commission to their General Assembly WHICH I AM RESOLVED NOT TO DO but to the end of making some use of this occasion by sending an honest Man to London and that I may have the more time for the making A HANDSOME NEGATIVE I have demanded a Passport for Phil. Warwick by whom to return my Answer At another time in the same Month he tells her that as for my my calling those at London * He had agreed to treat with them as a Parliament the Queen upbraided him for so doing and he thus vindicates himself A PARLIAMENT IF THERE HAD BEEN BUT TWO OF MY OPINION I had not done it THE CALLING DID NO WAYS ACKNOWLEDG THEM TO BE A PARLIAMENT upon which Condition and Construction I did it and accordingly it is registred in the Council-Books Nothing is more evident than that the King was steered by the Queen's Counsel in the Management of this Uxbridg Treaty and that which you call the Church of England THE BISHOPS was greatly her Care By Letter in January 1644 before the beginning of that Treaty She instructs him not to abandon those who have served him lest they for sake him in his need that SHE hopes he will have a care of her and HER RELIGION That in her Majesty's Opinion RELIGION SHOULD BE THE LAST THING UPON WHICH HE SHOULD TREAT for if he do agree upon Strictness against the Catholicks it would discourage them to serve him and if afterwards there should be no Peace he could never expect Succours either FROM IRELAND or any other CATHOLICK PRINCE In another of her Letters we find her writing thus Jan. 17 1644. It comforts me much to see the Treaty shall be at Uxbridg I RECEIVED YESTERDAY LETTERS FROM THE DUKE OF LORRAIN WHO SENDS ME WORD IF HIS SERVICE BE AGREEABLE TO YOU HE WILL BRING YOU 10000 MEN ABOVE ALL have a care not to ABANDON those who have served you AS WELL THE BISHOPS AS THE POOR CATHOLICKS By the King's Letters to the Queen in February when the Treaty at Vxbridg was depending he stiles the Parliament UNREASONBLE STUBBORN PERFIDIOUS REBELS presses her to hasten all possible Assistance to him particularly that of the Duke of Lorrain He tells her that the limited days for treating are now almost expired without the least Agreement upon any one Article wherefore I have sent for enlargement of Days THAT THE WHOLE TREATY MAY BE LAID OPEN TO THE WORLD and I ASSURE THEE THOU NEEDEST NOT DOUBT THE ISSUE OF THIS TREATY for MY COMMISSIONERS ARE SO WELL CHOSEN tho I say it that they will neither be threatned nor disputed from the Grounds I have given them which upon my word IS ACCORDING TO THE LITTLE NOTE THOU SO WELL REMEMBERS Be confident that in making Peace I shall ever shew my CONSTANCY IN ADHERING TO BISHOPS AND ALL OUR FRIENDS and not forget to put a short Period to this perpetual Parliament We find him in another Letter dated the 5th of March expressing himself in these