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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

the Church of England without controul and under the publick Licence and Protection and 't is not only inconvenient to print at Amsterdam but in regard there are so many Tories and Iacobites employed in the Custom-House 't is no small Risque that every Man runs who would bring over any thing which is wrote for the Service of Old-England I mean the Government of England by King William and Queen Mary with Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and that you agree to be Old-England indeed But I have too long digress'd You were telling me that I have so much lost my Credit with you that you will believe nothing of my bare Assertion Upon this you must allow me to say that you are laid so flat by the Reverend and pious Dr. Walker in relation to the idle Story of Sir Iohn Brattle about Dr. Gauden's Book commonly called King's and which they say Sir Iohn doth deny and you have put down so many things in your Defence of the Martyr which are incredible that your Credit is so much impaired with me that I cannot believe every thing you assert I therefore desire that for the future you would give your Authorities as I shall for what you write so that our Readers may know how to make a true Judgment of Things And I must tell you that you being deficient in this Point in your First Defence of King Charles I rather play'd than argued with you in my former Letter But I will now tell you that I had the King's Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Pope's Letter to him from Cabala Mysteries of State pag. 214. where you may read it in these words I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland Ireland and the whole World his Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he hath done Now Sir Cabala is a Book of clear Credit and not to be gain-say'd by you for you unluckily quote the same Book in the very same Paragraph wherein you raise your Huy and Cry after my Authentick Author And now for the further illustration of the Matters which I have too long dwelt upon I shall here transcribe not only that Letter we have been talking of but that of the Pope's to the King which he answered in so highly obliging terms and for your better Satisfaction you may compare them with Cabala p. 212 c. Pope Gregory the 15th's Letter to the Prince of Wales afterwards K. Charles the First Most Noble Prince Health and Light of Divine Grace c. GReat Britain abounding with worthy Men and fertile Virtues so that the whole Earth is full of the Glory of her Renown induceth many times the Thoughts of the great Shepherd to the consideration of her Praises In regard that presently in the Infancy of his Church the King of Kings vouchsased to choose her with so great Affection for his Inheritance that almost it seems there entred into her at the same time the Eagles of the Roman Standard and the Ensigns of the Cross. And not few of her Kings indoctrinated in the true Knowledg of Salvation gave example of Christian Piety to other Nations and after-Ages preferring the Cross to the Scepter and the Defence of Religion to the Desire of Command So that meriting Heaven thereby the Crown of eternal Bliss they obtained likewise upon Earth the Lustre and glorious Ornaments of Sanctity But in this time of the Britanick Church how much is the case altered yet we see that to this day the English Court is fenced and guarded with moral Virtues which were sufficient Motives to induce us to love this Nation it being some Ornament to the Christian Name if it were likewise a Defence and Sanctuary of Catholick Virtues Wherefore the more the Glory of your most Serene Father and the Property of your natural Disposition delighteth us the more ardently we desire that the Gates of Heaven should be opened unto you and that you should purchase the universal Love of the Church For whereas that Bishop Gregory the Great of most pious Memory introduced amongst the English People and taught their Kings the Gospel and a Reverence to the Apostolical Authority We much inferiour to him in Virtue and Sanctity as equal in Name and height of Dignity it is reason we should follow his most holy Steps and procure the Salvation of those Kingdoms especially most Serene Prince there being great hopes offered to us at this time of some successful Issue of your Determination Wherefore you having come to Spain and the Court of the Catholick King with desire to match with the House of Austria it seemed good to us most affectionately to commend this your Intent and to give clear testimony that at this time your Person is the most principal Care that our Church hath For seeing you pretend to match with a Catholick Damosel it may easily be presumed that the antient Seed of Christian Piety which so happily flourished in the Minds of British Kings may by God's Grace reverberate in your Breast For it is not probable that he that desires such a Wife should abhor the Catholick Religion and rejoice at the overthrow of the holy Roman Church To which purpose we have caused continual Prayers to be made and most vigilant Orisons to the Father of Lights for you fair Flower of the Christian World and only Hope of Great Britain that he would bring you to the Possession of that most noble Inheritance which your Ancestors got you by the Defence of the Apostolick Authority and Destruction of Monsters of Heresies Call to memory the times of old ask your Fore-fathers and they will shew you what way leads to Heaven and perceiving what Path mortal Princes pass to the heavenly Kingdom behold the Gates of Heaven open Those most holy Kings of England which parting from Rome accompanied with Angels most piously reverenced the Lord of Lords and the Prince of the Apostles in his Chair Their Works and Examples are Mouths wherewith God speaks and warneth you that you should imitate their Customs in whose Kingdoms you succeed Can you suffer that they be called Hereticks and condemned for wicked Men when the Faith of the Church testifieth that they reign with Christ in Heaven and are exalted above all the Princes of the Earth and that they at this time reached you their hands from that most blessed Country and brought you safely to the Court of the Catholick King and desire to turn you to the Womb of the Roman Church wherein praying most humbly with most unspeakable Groans to the God of Mercy for your Salvation to reach you the Arms of Apostolical Charity to embrace most lovingly

hard Trot and fretted her alas The Independent Amble easier was I taught her that and out of that to fall To the 〈◊〉 of Prelatical Now with a Snaffle or a twined Thread To any Government she 'l turn her head I have so broke her She will never slaet And that 's the meaning of my Broken heart Cambridge I left with grief and great disgrace To seek my Fortune in some other place And that I might the better save my stake I took an Order and did Orders take Amongst Conformists I my self did list A Son o' th Church as good as ever pist But tho I bow'd and cring'd and crost and all I only got a Vicaridge very small Oh! I am almost mad 't would make one so To see which way Preferment's-game doth go I ever thought I had her in the Wind And yet I 'm cast above three years behind Three times already I have turn'd my Coat Three times already I have chang'd my Note I 'le make it Four and four and Twenty more And turn the Compass round e're I 'le give o're Ambition my great Goddess and my Muse Inspire thy Prophets all such Arts to use As may exalt betwixt this and my Grave A Mitre or a Halter I must have Tell me Ambition prithee tell me why So many Dunces Doctors and not I A Scarlet Gown I must and will obtain I cannot else Commence a Priest in Grain If this Poets Ecclesiastical Pencil has not drawn you to the Life you shall see that Lay Prose comes pritty nea● you Mr. Marvel whom I choose always to ply you with above all other Authors describes you thus He was sent to Cambridge to be bred up to the Ministry There in a short time he entered himself into the Company of some young Students who were used to Fast and Pray weekly together he pick'd Acquaintance with the Brotherhood and train'd himself up in attending upon their Sermons and Prayers till he had gained such Proficience that he too began to Exercise in the Meetings and by Preaching Mr. Baxter's Sermons he got the Reputation of one of the Preciousest young Men in the Vniversity But when thus after se●●ral years Approbation he was even ready to have taken the Charge not of an Admiring Drove or Herd as he now calls them but of a F●ock upon him by great misfortune to him the King came in nevertheless he broke not off yet from his former habitudes he persisted as far as in him was that is by Praying Caballing and 〈◊〉 to obstruct the Restoring of the Episcopal Government Revenues and Authority insomuch that being discountenanced he went away from the University without his Degree scrupling forsooth the Subscription then required From thence he came to London where he spent a considerable time in creeping into all Corners and Companies horoscoping up and down concerning the duration of the Government not considering any thing as best but as most lasting and profitable and after having many times cast a Figure he at last satisfyed himself that the Episcopal Government would endure as long as he lived and from thence forward cast about how to be admitted into the Church of England and find the High-way to her Preferments In order to this he daily inlarged not only his Conversation but his Conscience and was made free of some of the Town-Vices imagining like Muleasses King of Tu●●s that by hiding himself among the Onions he should escape being traced by his perfumes Ignorant and mistaken Man that thought it necessary to part with any Vertue to get a Living or that the Church of England did not require and encourage more sobriety than he could ever be guilty of But neither was this yet in his opinion sufficient and therefore he resolved to try a shorter Path which some few men have trode not unsuccessfully that is to Print a Book if that would not do a Second if not that a Third and so forward to give Experience of a keen stile and a ductile Judgment After this he was ready to leap over the Moone No scruple of Conscience could stand in his way and no Preferment seemed too high for his Ambition In the next place D●ctor you spit your Venome and that even against their Majesties page 51 you say Since the late Persecution in Scotland by that Party of Men the Presbyterians it is a greater scandal to be called a Presbyterian than it was before I here observe with what Reverence and Duty you speak of your Superiours and their Actions when they are not so happy as to please you this last thing is uttered most scandalously and with a leering reflection upon the Government and t is a dangerous thing I perceive for their Majesties to lose your favour When you talke page 15. of the Accursed Court of Star-Chamber you do it with great Modesty and Manners saying If it be lawful for a private Person as I am to pass a Iudgment upon the publick Actions of a then Legal Court But here the King and Queen seeming to be fallen into disgrace with you you assume the impudence to call their establishing Presbytery by Act of Parliament A Persecution So that what the Scots said in the year 1640 they may well repeat at this day All means said they are used to disgrace this Kirk Books Pasquils honouring of our Cursed Bishops advancing of our deposed Ministers c. 'T was it should seem scandalous in some measure to be a persecuted Presbyterian in the two By-past Reigns but in your Opinion Doctor 't is so in a much higher degree to be a Presbyterian now that Presbytery has the Royal Favour and is settled by Act of Parliament and yet you Sr did heretofore esteem it no longer scandalous to be of the Church of England than till she obtain'd a legal Establishment and I can tell you the exact day when it became a scandal to you to be called a Presbyterian 't was Bartholomew day 1662. the day when the Act of Vniformity took place and would a man take the liberty which you do I should say when the Bishops Persecution was revived in England Well 'T is a Scandal to be a Presbyterian and it will puzzle a man to find out what you are for you seem to esteem it a Persecution that you may not compell all men to be of the Church of England and yet you say p. 52. It is true Sr. I have always been kind to Dissenters and when the great Storm in plain English Persecution Eight and Nine years ago fell upon the Dissenters I preserved my own Parish from Charge and Trouble to the great endangering of my self Alas good Man did you so and yet do they abuse you pray was all this kindness for naught did not you interlope with Dr. Pinf●●● I have been told that you ought to have said that what you did in that day was to the great enriching of your self and that you had your Why 's and your Wherefore's for your

your Children so often desired and to point out as it were with a Finger the blessed Hopes of Heaven And truly you could do no Act of greater Comfort to all Nations of Christendom than to return the Possession of those most noble Isles to the Prince of the Apostles whose Authority for so many Ages was held in England for the defence of the Kingdom and divine Oracle which will not be uneasy to do if you open your Breast upon which depends the Prosperity of those Kingdoms to God who is knocking And we have so great desire of the Honour and Exaltation of your Royal Name that we wish that you should be called through the whole World together with your most Serene Father the Freer of Great Britain and Restorer of her antient Religion Whereof we will not lose all hopes putting them in mind in whose hands the Hearts of Kings lie and he that rules all Nations of the World by whose Grace we will with all possible Diligence labour to effect it And you cannot choose but acknowledg in these Letters the Care of our Apostolical Charity to procure your Happiness which it will never repent us to have written if the Reading thereof shall at leastwise stir some Sparks of Catholick Religion in the Heart of so great a Prince who we desire may enjoy Eternal Comforts and flourish with the Glory of all Virtues Given in Rome in the Palace of St. Peter the 20 th of April 1623. In the third of our Pontificado The Prince of Wales his Reply to the Pope's Letter Most Holy Father I Received the Dispatch from your Holiness with great Content and with that Respect which the Piety and Care wherewith your Holiness writes doth require It was an unspeakable Pleasure to me to read the generous Exploits of the Kings my Predecessors in whose Memory Posterity hath not given those Praises and Elogies of Honour as were due to them I do believe that your Holiness hath set their Examples before my Eyes to the end I might imitate them in all my Actions for in truth they have often exposed their Estates and Lives for the Exaltation of the Holy Chair and the Courage with which they have assaulted the Enemies of the Cross of Jesus Christ hath not been less than the Care and Thought which I have to the end that the Peace and Intelligence which hath hitherto been wanting in Christendom might be bound with a true and stronge Concord For as the common Enemy of the Peace watcheth always to put Hatred and Dissention amongst Christian Princes so I believe that the Glory of God requires that we should endeavour to unite them And I do not esteem it a greater Honour to be descended from so great Princes than to imitate them in the Zeal of their Piety In which it helps me very much to have known the Mind and Will of our thrice honoured Lord and Father and the holy Intentions of his Catholick Majesty to give a happy Concurrence to so laudable a Design for it grieves him exceedingly to see the great Evils that grow from the Division of Christian Princes which the Wisdom of your Holiness foresaw when it judged the Marriage which you pleased to design between the Infanta of Spain and my self to be necessary to procure so great a Good for 't is very certain that 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 Therefore I intreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion But on the contrary I have sought all Occasions to take away the Suspicion that might rest upon me and that I will imploy my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith seeing that we all believe in one Jesus Christ. Having resolved in my self to spare nothing that I have in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding of my Estate and Life for a thing so pleasing unto God It rests only that I thank your Holiness for the Permission you have been pleased to afford me and I pray God to give you a blessed Health and his Glory after so much pains which your Holiness takes in his Church This Letter to the Pope was presently printed in Spain in several Languages And I can shew it you in many Authors of Credit it is found recorded by Andrew de Chesne Chronographer to the French King in his History of England Scotland and Ireland Lib. 22. The French Mercury a never controlled Author hath it also as I here give it you in Tom. 9. p. 509 510. printed Anno 1623. Mr. Iames Howel an Attendant upon the King in the Spanish Expedition and who ever remained firm to him being imprison'd by the Parliament for a Malignant in the time of the War doth also point at it in his Dodonas Grove or Vocal Forest printed Anno 1640. he saith there pag. 128. That the Pope was a great Friend to the intended Alliance with Spain and wrote to the Prince This Letter is also printed in Pryn's Popish Royal Favorite p. 40. in French and likewise in English agreeing exactly with the Copy in Cabala And Mr. Pryn saith That he hath seen another Copy of this Letter long since in English being somewhat different from the French in some Expressions though not in Substance and perchance he wrote two of this Nature but it appears that such Letters really passed between the King and the Pope by divers ancient printed Copies of them in sundry Languages Thus speaks Mr. Pryn himself and you will credit him because you tell me he was a Convert and rectified many of his Errors yet he never retracted or acknowledged this to be one And now Sir to expostulate this Matter with you Is it credible that a Man of common Honesty nay a D. D. who stiles himself their Majesties Chaplain and dedicates to them that a pretender to Learning and good Manners who had notice from Rushworth that there was another Copy of the King's Letter to the Pope published by several Hands different from his that he who by his own Confession hath Cabala and uses it to serve his Purpose should treat a Person who writes Truth out of the same Author with the unbecoming Expression and that three times over in one Leaf of Leave your L that such a Man as you in such a Case as this should say 'T is false you are past all manner of shame and one would think that you are possessed But let us see what follows my honest Tell-troth Pag. 14. you fall upon Dr. Leighton's Case and calls the most barbarous and diabolical Sentence which Bishop Laud procured to be pronounced and most cruelly executed upon him his Punishment and say That you are something of the