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A51104	A Modest vindication of Oliver Cromwell from the unjust accusations of Lieutenant-General Ludlow in his Memoirs together with some observations on the Memoirs in general.		1698 (1698)	Wing M2374; ESTC R36921	33,034	82

Henry Coles with a world of p 141 other minute Stories of the same nature a plain demonstration of the Narrowness of his Soul and the Lowness of his Genius But the main thing remarkable in his First Volume is That because he would make the World believe him to be a Man of Parts and one that was able to balance a Party he takes great Care to display his Intimacy with Lieutenant p 185 General Cromwell One Morning says he as I was walking with L. G. Cromwell in Sir Robert Cotton's Garden he inveigh'd bitterly against those that accompani'd the Earl of Essex to his Grave saying in a familiar way to me If thy Father were alive he would let some of 'em hear what they deserve adding farther That it was a miserable thing to serve a Parlament to whom let a Man be never so faithful if one Pragmatical Fellow rise up and asperse him he shall never wipe it off Whereas said he when one serves under a General he may do as much Service and yet be free from all Blame and Envy From these words Ludlow it seems persuaded himself that Cromwell had at that time conceiv'd the Design of destroying the Civil Authority and setting up himself and that he took that Opportunity to feel his Pulse whether he were a fit Instrument to be employ'd to those Ends. We shall not dispute the Truth of this Discourse nor will we deny but that the Author of the Memoirs Conjecture might be as true That Cromwell might speak the Words to take the Dimensions of Ludlow's Capacity But seeing there is not the least Ground for the drawing of any such Inference as he makes from the Words we must rather believe that the Lieutenant-General in Ireland's Surmise was of a later date like those who pretend to have prophesi'd of things after they are come to pass Nevertheless that Cromwell upon his Canting Answer had enough of him we look upon as a thing beyond all Controversy For Cromwell was a Person who never sounded the Breast of any Man but he soon reach'd the Depth of it However soon after this the Author of p 189 the Memoirs tells yee of another great piece of Familiarity between him and Cromwell For he says That the Parliament being displeas'd with the Carriage of the Army some menacing Expressions fell from some of the Members upon which Cromwell took an Occasion to whisper the following Words in his Ear These Men will never leave till the Army pull 'em out by the Ears But here I am afraid the Lieutenant-General in Ireland a little forgets himself For after he had told us but two Pages before That Cromwell not finding him fit for his purpose He never heard from him any more upon that Point meaning the Point of Destroying the Civil Authority and setting up for himself Here he introduces Cromwell altering his Mind and whispering to him a Secret of far greater Importance and a much clearer Demonstration of the Evil Design which the Lieutenant General suspected him to be meditating against the Civil Authority then any he could gather from his former Discourse I must confess this does not hang well together Cromwell did but feel the Lieutenant General 's Pulse before now he begins to be downright and to open his Heart And yet Cromwell was never taken to be a Blab of his Tongue Neither is it probable that Cromwell a Person so reserv'd as he was would have utter'd such a dangerous Expression in the midst of his Enemies to a Man whose Imbecilities and Bigottry he had so lately try'd Why did not the Lieutenant-General in Ireland immediately charge him with it It would have been the best piece of Service he could have done for those who as he says himself were at the same time for securing Cromwell and who from hence might p 190 have taken a just Occasion to prosecute their Design which would have been the best day's Work that e're they did in their Lives for their own Security But Ludlow believing that this would be objected against him tells yee That he would have resented it if the p 189 state of his Parties Affairs would have permitted A very lame excuse and which lays the total Overthrow of his Party at his own door For if this be true That Cromwell should be so inadvertent to whisper those words into his Ear 't is plain that Fortune put an Opportunity into Ludlow's hands to have preserv'd his Party but he was so simple that he knew not how to make use of it And now I appeal to all unbias'd Men whether this manifest slip be not sufficient to invalidate the whole Testimony of the Irish Lieutenant-General and to render suspected what he shall henceforward advance in the Derogation of Cromwell's Proceedings as being only the Murmurs of Self-interest But this great Familiarity between the English and the Irish Lieutenant-Generals broke off on the part of the Author of the Memoirs upon Cromwell's and the Armies Treating with p 223 the King which Ludlow calls A driving on a Bargain for the People's Liberty by Oliver alone For it was the Opinion of the Author of the Memoirs that which way soever the King had bin Restor'd he might easily have gratified his Friends and reveng'd himself upon his Enemies So that the Lieutenant-General in Ireland was clearly for a Republick and he knew that so long as there was a King there could be no Republick in Israel But in regard that Cromwell's Treating with the King was imputed to him as a Crime by none but Ludlow's Republicans while the Presbyterians and Scots did the same and if Cromwell made any Bargains with his Royal Pris'ner for his own Advantage it was no more then what General Monk did afterwards we shall pass from our Author 's Memento's upon those Transactions which bring a far more general Odium upon himself then upon Cromwell while he was one of those who under the Name of Commonwealths-men declar'd That Monarchy was neither p 238 239 good in it self nor for the Nation that the King had broken his Oath and thereby dissolv'd our Allegiance and that the King having appeal'd to the Sword for the decision of the Dispute and thereby caus'd the Effusion of a deludge of the People's Blood it seem'd to be a Duty incumbent upon the Representatives of the People to call him to an account and then proceed to the Establishment of an Equal Commonwealth founded upon the Consent of the People as being most just and in all respects most conducing to the Happiness and Prosperity thereof Now that Ludlow was one of this Cabal is plain by the same token as he says himself that Cromwell after he had learnt what he could of the Principles and Inclinations of those present at the p 240 Conference he took up a Cushion and flung it at the Irish Lieutenant-General's Head and then ran down Stairs But the undaunted Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland soon overtook him with another

A MODEST VINDICATION OF Oliver Cromwell From the Unjust ACCUSATIONS OF Lieutenant-General LVDLOW IN HIS MEMOIRS Together with some Observations on the MEMOIRS in general LONDON Printed in the Year 1698. The PREFACE WHere the Policy of the Republicans lay to expose as they have done their Embitterment against Monarchy at such a time as this for it is to be suppos'd that Ludlow is now Spokesman for 'em all is a thing so unaccountable that none but a Saffold can unfold it Nor is it less difficult to understand why Oliver's Manes should be disturb'd after a deep Sleep of so many Years for no End that generally men propose to themselves upon such Occasions For if 't were to revive the Embers of their Faction what signifi'd the rekindling a Fire that wanted Fuel to maintain it If it were to defame the Memory of the Dead it was a Mean and Unworthy Act. We will therefore judge more favourably of 'em and believe it was only to get Money For it was imagin'd the World would believe that such a Man as Ludlow would have brought to light strange Mysteries and hidden Secrets never known before But 't is pleasant to think how they were cheated the Purchasers had nothing for their Money but the Rags and Tatters of Old Stories worn as Threadbare as a Usurers Cloak As for Ludlow he had not a Genius nor an Elocution to do Oliver any great harm especially considering the Method he took Oliver was a Great Man let his Detractors say what they please We read but of Two in the Roman Story that rais'd themselves by Intestine Wars Sylla and Caesar and I look upon Cromwell to have bin as great as either He fought with Caesar's Fortune vanquish'd Pompey in England subdu'd Petreius and Afranius at Dunbar and Preston the Sons of Pompey at Worcester and Scipio and Cato in Ireland Caesar once fought for his Life which Cromwell never did he never was in danger of a Foil And if he ascended by the Steps that others built for him t is no more then what many others who had they had the same Temptations would have done Lastly Caesar by usurping the Roman Common-wealth was in many things beneficial to the Publick so is Cromwell allow'd to have done as many things for the Good of the English Commonwealth I do not undertake to defend all Cromwell's Actions but only such as Ludlow's Book and Disgusts against him assume a Liberty to condemn And then I may justly hope the world will take it for a Piece of Generosity to undeceive Posterity and prevent their being misguided by the False Relations and Reflections of Passion and Prejudice A Modest Vindication of Oliver Cromwell from the Unjust Aspersions of Lieutenant-General Ludlow in his Memoirs c. COnsidering how Lieutenant-General Ludlow has stated the Grounds and Reasons of his Disgust against Oliver Cromwell the Question as to Ludlow's particular is not so much whether Oliver's Actions were just and laudable or no but whether the Lieutenant-General who as it plainly appears was a Person sway'd by a violent Bigotry to his own Party were a competent Judge of the Goodness or Badness of those Actions which he so vehemently reproaches in Cromwell As for his own Personal Parts he was never look'd upon to be a Man of such an Extraordinary Headpiece as to render him eminently distinguish'd in the Management of Civil Affairs Neither did his Military Employments ever rear him up those Monuments to his Glory which Others rais'd themselves by their Prowess and Conduct And then for these Memoirs of his They likewise were writ in the Decline of his Years when Age had riveted into his Mind those Sentiments of past Transactions which younger Discontents and Animosities had imprinted in his Thoughts and now had made the Objects of a half craz'd Judgment to make such Reflections on as are usually the effects of morose and sowre Misunderstandings For when Blood was in his Prime of Action and sent over to Geneva by a Party then meditating Disturbance of the Government as believing Ludlow the most proper Person to Head and Command 'em that Man of a quick and penetrating Judgment brought over but a very slender Account of that Great Lieutenant-General of Horse For Blood' s Report which he often upon other occasions signified to others was That he found him very unable for such an Employment only that he was writing a History as he call'd it which as he told the Collonel would be as True as the Gospel and which in all probability were these Two Volumes of Memoirs now lately printed Nor indeed did the Character which then he gave his little Embrio of a History shew him to be other then what the Collonel spoke him But perhaps the Lieutenant-General thought it necessary for him to believe himself Inspir'd when he was defending and writing the History of the Sacred R U M P. However as certain as these Memoirs are there is one Truth more which must be added to the rest That his Truths are of very little value such minute Stories the greatest part of 'em that concern himself of his Military Performances in Wardour-Castle and other parts of Wiltshire that all of 'em put together would never have procured him so much as a petty Ovation in Old Rome Nevertheless he seems to have crowded 'em together on purpose to make out his extraordinary Devotion to the Rump and his Sincerity to the Cause and from thence takes an occasion to insinuate his own high Deserts and Oliver's Contempt and Slight of those that were most zealous for the Public Good by which he means the Republican Interest the peculiar Darling of his most Ardent Affections Tho' all this while I can discover nothing so much through the whole Contexture of these Memoirs as a continu'd Prosecution of Envy and Revenge ripen'd into Invective by the Sullenness of his Age Yet such a sort of Envy that I could not have expected to have found in a Man of Lieutenant-General Ludlow's Principles that repines more at the Merits of Cromwell's Actions then the Glory of his Trophies As if the High Commands and Power which he was deem'd worthy of and for which he was cull'd out by those that knew not where else to supply their pressing Wants of such another had been the Acquisitions of his Ambitious Industry and over-reaching Politics rather then conferr'd upon him for the sensible Benefits of his continu'd Victories and Successes This seems to imply that L. G. Ludlow was willing enough that the Republiccan Party should have enjoy'd the Fruits of Cromwell's unweari'd Labours no less then Grandeur equal to Royal and Supreme Authority but in the height of his Gratitude the L. G. of the Horse would have had 'em kick'd down the Instrument of their Glorious Fruitions when they were out of Danger He complains that his petty Skirmishes at Wardour Castle and in other parts of Wiltshire where Fortune was as frequently unkind as gracious to him and suffer'd