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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

Walker can be supposed to be that Dr. Gauden after he was Bishop of Exeter did justify it to be the King's Book Page 18. this celebrated Witness is produced and our Doctor tells us 'T is Mr. Long Prebendary as he takes it of Exeter And page 20. he thus characterizes him I must tell the Reader that he is an ancient grave Reverend Divine well known for his Truth and Honesty one who as he is a professed Member of the Church of England so he hath always been true to the Doctrine and Discipline of it in his Preaching and Practice and not like my Adversary who I know for I was personally acquainted with him was an Encourager of and Comrade principally with those who had no kindness for the Church at all I must with your leave Sir a little remark upon this most extraordinary and remarkable Man Dr. Hollingworth is no doubt sure of the truth of what he saies we are bound to believe him though he is not at a certainty what this Long is for he tells us that he is Prebendary of Exeter as he takes it He hath alwaies been true to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England That 's indeed something and makes the Prebendary a much more valuable Man than our Chaplain for he once upon a time declared that be thanked God he had vomited up all his Calvinistical Principles Whereupon a Person of true Worth and of high Desert replied thus to him Then the Doctrine of the Church of England and St. Paul 's Epistles have spew'd you out for an Apostate and so farewell to you for a Knave But I may not let the Prebendary thus slide out of my hands I have found there 's something more than ordinary in the Man which recommends him to the Doctor 's Favour and I will not withhold it from you There 's a kind of Sympathy in the natures of these two might● Church man our Doctor proposed page 50. of his second Defence That every Parish of England famous●icon ●icon Basilice with the other Works of King Charles and chain it up to inform the Minds of all good Men and the Prebendary hath a Cr●chet of reading some Portions out of it in the Church for the further enlightning our ●nderstanding Behold how they pis● in a Qui●● and for ought I know the next proposal from these Men may be to read the Arca●●an Prayer in the same Book for the furthering of our Devotion I proceed to give you something more of Long's●ust ●ust Character and leave it to you to judg how much you find of Hollingworth therein He hath an aking Tooth at Lectures and Sermons too and a mighty Spleen at Free-Prayer he would ha●e all the publick Ministrations to consist in reading Liturgies and Homilies But his virulent Book called Vox Cleri or the Sense of the Clergy concerning the making of Alterations in the establish'd Liturgy published in the Year 1690 doth most truly speak the Man's Principles and discover what sort of Men are in our Doctor 's esteem the True Church of England Men and upon what s●ore he terms the pious Dr. Walker an Adversary to the Church This Book is Libel upon that great and excellent Person his Grace my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury that now is and several others of the highly deserving Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England who were found inclinable to the much long'd-for Vnion of Protestants in the late Convocation He glories that the Clergy opposed and overthr●w a Bill for Comprehension contrived by Bishop Wilkins Sir Orlando 〈◊〉 and Judg Hales because they thought 〈…〉 the Church would prove more hur●ful than a Schism without it c. He rejoice●punc that Dr. Iane was chosen Pro●●cutor of the Conv●c●tion in opposition to Dr. 〈◊〉 and saies that 't is look'd upon as a good Omen of success in their Proceedings for the good of the Church and throughout the whole Book he puts a● high value upon Dr. Iane for opposing any alteration in the liturgy or Ceremonies with a Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare and at the same time casts leering Reflections upon the Friends of Union and Peace under the name of Latitudinarians He oft extols and magnifies the Non-swearing Bishops and calls their deserved Deprivation for their Obstinacy a dealing with them as the Bishops were dealt with in 1642 by the Scotish and Dissenters Malice He expresly declares himself against parting with any thing for the Dissenters satisfaction and perswades to the inforcing them to Uniformity by strict Discipline But I may not dwell upon his envenom'd Invective in short both Hollingworth and Long appear to be Fiery Zealots Violent Bigots who stand at an irreconcilable distance with dissenting Protestants and will run bot●●ut of the Church and their Wits too if the Parliament should think sit to let the Dissenters in upon an honourable Accommodation of our Differences And 't would be strange indeed if a Man of Dr. Walker's healing Spirit should have any Credit with such Men as these but 't is his Honour to be traduced by them But now he falls with a Witness upon poor Dr. Walker saying page 22. I have a Commission from the present Bishop of Gloucester Dr. Fowler to present the World with this Narrative attested by himself which has a great deal in it considering the former Testimonies The former Testimonies indeed considered which have nothing in them but Falshood and empty or angry Words I must allow that there is something in this though not to the Doctor 's Purpose We have here a Certificate attested by my Lord Bishop of Gloucester which fills almost three Pages with most undoubted Truth and this must be esteemed something and 't is a rare thing too for this Relation excepted a Man may aver that there is scarce a Paragraph in their Majesties Chaplain's seven and twenty Pages without a Falshood It behoves then that we look into this Narrative The Sum of it is this About 28 Years since Mrs. ●eighly a very Religious and Pious Gentlewoman told Dr. Fowler that a Captain of the Parliament Army told her that being appointed to stand every Morning at his Majesty's Bed-Chamber Door when he was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight he observed for several days that he went into his Closet and there staid a considerable time and then went into the Garden And the Captain perceiving that he still left the Key in the Closet Door he went in and found that the King had been penning most Devout and Pious Meditations and Prayers which the Captain read for several Mornings together And Mrs. ●eighley said That he gave such an Account of these Meditations and Prayers that she was confident they were printed in Eicon Basilice after she came to read the same And I am very inclinable to be of good Mrs. Keighley's Mind and yet this Relation doth more serve Dr. Walker than Dr. Hollingworth It must be remembred that the Essex Doctor asserts that Dr.

much as he ought in this Case forbear him p. 4 he doubts nay scorns to believe that Dr. Gauden made the Book called the King 's and told Dr. Walker so and the more because he Asserts it who was he not dead the Chaplain would give Reasons sufficient to satisfie any Man why he doth not believe it upon his Authority Dr. Walker's Book saith he is an unseasonable false and undutiful Book which gratifies none but the great Enemies of Monarchy and Episcopacy 'T is a Forgery and to D● Hollingworth's knowledge has Amazed and Grieved a great part of the Subjects of the Kingdom The Sum total of the thing is to serve the Lusts of a party of Men against Monarchy and Episcopacy That Good that Pious Man Dr. Walker does Assert that Dr. Gauden said he Composed the Book and his words weigh more with us say the Common-wealths men than a Thousand Witnesses to the Contrary The Essex Dr. is a bold man an audacious Slanderer True Church of England men scorn to carry on their designs by Lyes and Forgeries by Tricks and Devises I was personally Acquainted with Dr. Walker and know he was an Encourager of and Comrade with those who had no kindness for the Church at all Well done Dr. Walker if thou hadst a man alone with thee undoubtedly he was always on thy side and tho● wert always in the right and when the Man was dead wouldest 〈◊〉 the Confidence to Print it The Common wealths-men say it look very hard upon the Memory of such a Man as famous Dr. Walker t● give him the Lye The Essex Doctor 's talk is vain and rash false and undutiful His Book is vain shuffling proud an● inconsistent I hope I have made good what I Ass●rted and prov'● Dr. Walker's Say soes but meer Fictions of his own I wis● he had resisted Temptations to Revenge and Vain glory Revenge against a Church to which he was never true so he was an Enemy within our Gates and then I am sure the Worl● would not have been pester'd with a Book stuft with so many noto●rious falshoods Thus Sir hath your Host at Aldgate whose Mouth wants scowring unloaded his Lay-stall and how justly these vile Calumnies might be retorted upon him who utters them let the World judg But I shall not rake further in this Dunghil 't is most certain that an ill Man cannot by praising confer Honour nor by reproaching fix an Ignominy The late Dr. Walker had such a Stock of solid and deserving Reputation that it is more than a wild rambling Slanderer can spoil or deface by all his Revilings he was such a judicious conscientious learned and sincere Protestant so true a Son of the Church of England that had this hot-headed Turn-coat had any Modesty he would have blush'd to reproach and load him with Contempt Malice and Obloquy but vile and insolent Language costs him nothing and therefore he has laid it on so prodigally I am now to look a little farther into the Aldgate Doctor 's Defence of that which he will call the King's Book against the Essex Doctor 's Assaults that I may shew you how he hath left Matters standing between him and his Adversary He saith pag. 2. It was for his Holy and Divine Book that that great King was so highly venerated so deservedly applauded and indeed upon the score of which the greatest part of his Actions were vindicated and therefore this Book must be considered and weighted in a just and proper Ballanse indeed so it ought Page 5. he tells us and who may question it that what Dr. Walker asserts of Dr. Gauden's writing the Book is all Sham and that if he had dared to have told such a Falshood he must have sat down contented with his Living at Barking without any Expectation from the Court without either being Bishop of Exeter or living in hopes of the Bishoprick of Winchester Now who will doubt Dr. Gauden's having possessed the fat Living of Barking But 't is all Sham he was no more Incumbent there than Dr. Hollingworth was in the See of Canterbury in the Reign of Charles the First How then should it happen that he talks of Barking I was thinking that he pitch'd upon it in regard of its near resemblance to Railing which has sometimes proved a good Living to an Ecclesiastical Wrangler But upon second Thoughts I consider that the Town of Barking is but seven Miles from London and contiguous to the small Vicarage of West-Ham which the Aldgate Doctor once possessed and learning there that Barking was a plump Parsonage of four or five hundred Pounds a Year his Ambition might lead him to set his Heart upon it and his Brain being now crack'd at the Disappoinment he talks of it at the rate which we have seen a distracted Lover in Bedlam speaking of his hard-hearted Mistress But it seems one Falshood would have dash'd all Dr. Gauden's Hopes of Preferment I say then Alas poor Dr. Hollingworth you must sit down contented with your Chaplainship at Aldgate of 8 l. per Annum without any expectation of Barking though it is in their Majesties Gift or of any other Promotion from the Court for before I have done I shall demonstrate that your whole Book is but one huge Lie 27 Pages long Page 6. the Doctor repeats his old Story of a worthy Person Sir Brattle's informing him That in the Year 1647 the King having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book in loose Papers desired Bishop Iuxon to get some trusty Friend to look it over and put it into exact Method And the Bishop pitch'd upon Sir Iohn's Father who undertaking the Task was assisted by this his Son who sat up some Nights with his Father to assist him in methodizing these Papers all writ with the King 's own Hand You shall see what Dr. Walker said in this Point I make no Judgment saith he pag. 19. prejudicial or of disadvantage to the Character here given of Sir Iohn Brattle but with due respect to him I would ask the Doctor of few Questions 1. May it not be possible without any diminution of Sir Iohn's Veracity that in more than 40 Years there may be some mistake of other Papers for these or some other lapse of Memory about a Matter in which he was concerned but once or twice and that but transiently and on the bye Or was Sir Iohn who must be then a young Man and 't is likely but in a private Capacity so well acquainted with the King's Hand which 't is probable he had seldom or never seen I believe few Country Youths or young Gentlemen are so very well used to their Sovereign's Hand-writing as to make a critical Judgment of it and to be able with assurance to distinguish it from the Writing of all other Men. Further supposing but by no means granting that the King desired Bishop Iuxon as is said to desire a trusty Friend to do it Why another rather than the Bishop

pag. 9. Many weak Persons who by the Heat of their Tempers are inclined to entertain Prejudices hold that Addressing to God in Prayer and the being gaided by the inward Motions of Grace and God's Holy Spirit are but illusions of Fancy if not the Contrivances of designing Men. Pag. 10. Earnestness in Prayer and depending on the inward Assistances of God's Holy Spirit How have Men who know or value these things little themselves taken occasion to disparage them with much Impudence and Scorn Now Sir upon the whole Matter I do think it might tend to the Publick Peace if my Lord Bishop of London would please to suspend such a dry and insipid Doctor as you are from publishing even ex-tempore and unpremeditated Defences and to injoin you a well-framed Form of Defending so that it may be performed with Order and Decency and not be exposed to Contempt and Scorn by reason of any rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications to their most Sacred Majesties the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. For I perswade my self that the Ex-tempore Rhimes of some Antick Iack-Pudding may deserve Printing better than your empty and nonsensical Pamphlets and that it had been better to have set some Ballad-Singer to have bewailed the King's Misfortunes than so ridiculous an Orator as you are found to be who are so insipid that there 's not the least Spirit in any thing you say Where are you now Sir I but this Bold face says This Liturgy for Scotland was not only composed by Bishop Laud but sent by him to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation and this Story I must not dare to deny But with your leave Mr. Modesty I will venture upon that piece of Confidence as to tell you I do not believe it and that because you assert it Now I do agree that I did say so and I am indeed a Bold-face if I have not good Authority for what ● thus charge upon Arch-Bishop Laud for no Man's bare Assertion may pass in such a Case as this But there is more in this Matter than the Short-sighted Chaplain at Aldgate is aware of You may find the Story of Laud's sending the Scots Common-Prayer to be approved by the Pope and Cardinals as I told it in a Book of good Credit entituled A new Survey of the West-Indies wrote by a Reverend Divine of the Church of England Mr. Thomas Gage Minister of Deal in Kent 't is in Page 280 in the Folio Impression He there tells you That being a Friar he went to Rome with Letters of Recommendation to Cardinal Barbarini the Pope's Nephew intituled The Protector of England That coming acquainted with Father Fitz-Herbert Rector of the English Colledg of jesuits he highly praised Arch-Bishop Laud and said That he not long since sent a Common-Prayer Book which he had composed for the Church of Scotland to be first viewed and approved by the Pope and Cardinals and that they liked it very well for Protestants to be trained up in a Form of Prayer and Service yet the Cardinals first giving him Thanks for his Respect sent him word that they thought it was not fitting for Scotland That Father Fitz-Herbert told him he was Witness of all this being sent for by the Cardinal to give them his Opinion about it and of the Temper of the Scots And that Laud hearing the Censure of the Cardinals concerning his Intention and Form of Prayer to ingratiate himself the more in their Favour corrected some things in it and made it more harsh and unreasonable for that Nation This good Man Mr. Gage after he had there related the Matter as above expresses himself thus This most true Relation of Arch-Bishop Laud I have oft spoke of in private Discourse and publickly in Preaching and I could not in Conscience omit it here both to vindicate the just Censure of Death which the Parliament gave against him and to reprove the ungrounded Opinion and Error of some ignorant Spirits who have since his Death highly exalted and cried him up for a Martyr You may also find something like this of Mr. Gage in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs pag. 83. he relates That in the Year 1638 one Abernethy who from a Jesuit turned a zealous Presbyterian spread a Story in Scotland which took wonderfully of the Liturgy of that Kingdom being sent to Rome to some Cardinals to be revised by them and that Signior Con the Popes Nuncio to the Court of England had shewed it to Abernethy at Rome Indeed the Bishop adds ' That the Marquess of Hamilton wrote to Con about it but he protested seriously he never so much as had heard of a Liturgy designed for Scotland till he came last to England that he had never seen Abernethy at Rome but once and finding him light-headed had never again taken notice of him Now it takes not much from the Credit of Abernethy's Relation that Con denied it for it must be noted that he was a Jesuit and according to the Tenets of the Romish Church 't was lawful if not his Duty to lie for Holy Church You come next with a most convincing Argument to shew the Falshood of my last Assertion What! say you pag. 19. Bishop Laud send to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation of a Liturgy almost the same with ours I think this vexatious Ghost will never be laid I thought we had done with Laud but here he appears again What! Laud send to the Pope to approve a Liturgy almost the same with ours Ay Laud the most likely Bishop in England to do it You say That his Heart was set upon Designs of Vniformity And was not this the most probable Course to accomplish them Mr. Whitlock whom you will credit shews as I but now told you that Laud declared That the Protestant Religion and Romish Religion were all one and if the one was false so was the other That he brought the Romish and English Churches I think I must say Steeple-houses to be rightly understood to such a Vniformity that the Popish Priests knew no difference between theirs and ours Why then may we not believe that in pursuit of that Plot of Vniformity his Heart was so much set upon he sought the Pope's Approbation of the Liturgy whom as Mr. Whitlock himself declares he held to be the Metropolitan Bishop of the World so that Laud was to him as that Traitor Turner late Bishop of Ely to Sancrost but a younger Brother Proceeding to argue the Point you say Sure Sir you have forgot the Bull of the Pope in the 10 th of Queen Elizabeth which commands all his pretended Catholick Children not to attend upon the publick Liturgical Devotions of our Church and you have forgot that the Papists upon that account and by virtue of the Authority of that Bull have declined our Publick Service ever since and therefore it is very likely Bishop Laud should send a Liturgy to Rome for its Approbation

Most likely for this very reason and one who did not well know you to be a Hare-brain'd Blunderbuss would be ready to conclude with that ingenious Iacobite of the Lacedemonian Society who inveighing against my Letter told a Friend of mine it must be answered by a better Pen for the Doctor writes said he as though he play'd booty I appeal to any Man of common Understanding whether a better Reason can be invented to persuade the World of the Probability of Laud's sending the Common-Prayer-Book to be approved at Rome than you here assigned The Point is already settled that his Head was set upon Designs of Vniformity the Pope was his elder Brother the Papists came to the Common-Prayers of our Church for the first 10 years of Q. Elizabeth and by consequence might have so done to this day had not Pope Pius the 5 th prohibited them Let any Man shew me a more probable way to obtain a Repeal of that Bull which hath made the Papists ever since decline our Liturgical Church-Devotions and to bring them to Church again or rather to bring us to go to Church with them than by introducing a Liturgy allowed and approved by his Holiness a Liturgy in which as I said and you do not deny all the material Parts of the Mass-Book seminally were and wherein Transubstantiation was rather allowed than denied But that empty Head of yours is carried round that you do not know what is fit to be said What have we next Page 20. Well Sir you say If the Common-Prayer-Book was sent into Scotland pray let me ask you one Question In whose Name and by whose Authority was it sent The Answer is as obvious as short and you needed not to have sent to Switzerland to have a Resolution in the point 't was sent in the name of one who had not Authority to impose it upon the Scots according to their Laws You go on saying Why if they did not like it did they not first submissively petition their lawful King and let him know how disgustful the Liturgy was to many of his Subjects in that Kingdom Why 't is most evident from all the Historians of that time that they did in the very beginning petition in the most submissive manner against the imposing this Liturgy and that thereupon after the first reading it in the great Church of Edinburgh upon the 23 d of Iuly 1637 the Council of Scotland yielded that it should not be further urged by the Bishops till his Majesty's Pleasure were known Upon which the Petitioners returned satisfied to their Habitations But upon the 18 th of October there being a great conflux of People at Edinburgh to hear the King's Determinations a Proclamation was published commanding them upon pain of Rebellion to depart the City and shortly after the King commanded the Privy Council to receive no more Petitions against the Common-Prayer-Book Nevertheless you confidently demand Why if they did not like it did they not first submissively petition But the Scots shall here answer for themselves take their own words in their Charge exhibited in Parliament against Laud Our Supplications say they were many against this Book but Canterbury procured them to be answer'd with terrible Proclamations we were constrained to use the remedy of Protestation but for our Protestations Canterbury procured us to be declared Rebels and Traitors in all the Parish-Kirks of England When we were seeking to possess our Religion in Peace against these Devices and Novations Canterbury kindled War against us Our Scotish Prelates petitioned that something might be abated of the English Ceremonies as the Cross in Baptism c. but he would not only have these kept but others super-added which was nothing else but the adding Fewel to the Fire Read also their Expostulation in their Remonstrance 1639 Pag. 4. Certainly Posterity will hardly believe as we who have seen it cannot but wonder how it hath come to pass that we should have so long petitioned our Native Prince to do us Justice whereof he is Debtor to his People and to hear our just Complaints against the Usurpation of a few Men who were undermining the professed Religion and the Government of the State and to suffer us to live according to our Laws and yet could never be heard nor answer'd in the point of our just Desires far less will they guess what hath been the ground of that merit and trust of one domineering Prelate in the Affection of the King that it should be more forcible to diswade than all the Supplications and Intercessions of so ancient and faithful a Nation should have power to move Well what say you next Mr. Tittle-tattle The Scots took a Covenant against Compliance with the Church of England Against Compliance with the Church of England Ay now 't is out there 's the ground of the Quarrel the Scots traiterously refused to comply with Bp. Laud But they shall speak for themselves they answer you thus Doctor We are free of the heavy Censures of Rebellion and Treason which are so ordinarily thunder'd out that they are become the less formidable to us We are supported with this inward Testimony that we fear God and still honour the King although our Adversaries will not be pleased except we will follow their Rules which are not unlike those of the Jesuits sound at Padua when they were expelled the Territory of Venice One of them was that Men should take heed that they press or inculcate not too much the Grace of God Another was that Men must believe the Hierarchical Church although it tells us that that is black which our Eye judgeth to be white Unto which we may add the third invented by Ignatius Loyola of blind Obedience which we have no mind to practise To move forward Page 22. We find say you their Seditious Remonstrances Declarations and Pamphlets were dispersed Now I cannot find that Mr. Whitlock whom you quote informs you that their Remonstrances c. were seditious this is maliciously foisted in by you and if you were in Scotland you would as you deserve be severely punished which you would call Persecution upon the Statute against Leising-makers Mr. Whitlock in Pag. 28. which you cite gives this Relation About the year 1560 the Earl of Murray with Knox Buchanan and others gave such a shock to Popery as made every thing and by consequence Episcopacy which stood near it to reel He then shews how Episcopacy and Presbytery took their turns of Government and giving an Account of the King's Resolution to inforce the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book and by an Army to bring the Scots to obedience or as you phrase it to compliance with the Church of England he saith That because this was the Bishop's War it was held fit that they should contribute largely towards the Preservation of their own Hierarchy and accordingly the Clergy were assembled by the Bishops in their Diocesses and invited to a liberal Aid I shall now Sir in a short Digression

himself Had the King any Friend more trusty than Bishop Iuxon Or was he too good or above doing such Service for his Master who had not a Servant who loved or honoured him more Or was he too busy to attend it when he was wholly out of all Employment and enjoy'd the most undisturbed Privacy and Quiet of any Man that had serv'd the King in any eminent Degree Or was Bishop Iuxon less sit and able than a private Man when the Book consists of Policy and Piety And who a sitter Judg of what concerned the first than one who had so long been a Privy-Counsellor and Lord-High-Treasurer of England And for the second he was one on whom the King relied as much or more than on any Man for the conduct of his Conscience as appeared by his singling him out to be with him in his preparations for Death And why must Bishop Iuxon desire another Man to do that Work for which had there been any such Work to be done he was the fittest Man alive for Fidelity for Ability for Inclination to his Master's Service and for vacancy and leisure Let 's soe now what Answers their Majesty's Chaplain at Aldgate makes to these plain Questions for we find him vaunting pag. 22. That he hath made out Matter of Fact against Dr. Walker 's Assertions in his vain shuffling proud and inconsistent Book Why all that the Aldgate Doctor saith hereunto is pag. 9. He Dr. Walker questions Sir Iohn's Memory and talks of his Youth to invalidate the Story but that is so great an Affront to all the young Gentlemen and Apprentices in London who at the Age of Nineteen are so very much imployed and trusted in their Master's Books and Accounts that I leave them to vindicate Sir Iohn upon the score of helping his Father in a thing of such a Nature as this was at such an Age. What ridiculous Stuff is this 'T is such an inexcusable Affront to the London Apprentices to say That though they understand their Master's Account-Books they have not at Nineteen the necessary qualifications of States-men and Divines that they must be instigated to draw up an Abhorrence against it and it may be this Doctor who would cokes them to fall upon Dr. Walker as their common Enemy designs them a Venison Feast this Season but should he do it I advise you as his Friend to caution him to appoint it at some other place than Merchant-Taylors Hall in regard Dr. Meriton lives opposite to it and it may be some diminution to his Credit if that Reverend Divine should take the opportunity to cross the Street and tell him in the midst of his Jollity with the Lads that he hath twice belied him in his malicious Scriblings against Dr. Walker The Aldgate Doctor pag. 9. dismisses Sir Iohn Brattle saying And this is all I have to say as to Sir John Brattle and that he told me this I will depose upon Oath whenever I am lawfully RECALLED I have heard of Re-ordaining Recanting and Re-recanting and it is more than probable that this Learned Gentleman understands the meaning of these words but 't is beyond my Capacity to make sense of Recalling in this place and he will oblige me in telling me his meaning therein And to requite the Courtesy you may tell him that I will produce good Evidence upon Oath when REquired there 's a Re for his Re that Sir Iohn Brattle who I agree is a very worthy Person doth declare That he never told Dr. Hollingworth or any other Person that the Papers he spoke of were writ with the King 's own Hand Their Majesty's Chaplain may not take it ill or think that his Veracity is called into Question by enquiring of Sir Iohn about this Matter for we had his leave to do it when he asserted the thing and said Thanks be to God Sir John is yet alive and is ready to give the same Account to any Man that asks him The Aldgate Doctor affirms pag. 10. That the Reverend Dr. Meriton dining the latter end of the last Year with the Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Pilkington happened to meet with Dr. Walker at the same Table where Dr. Walker was pleased with his usual Confidence to assert Dr. Gauden the Author of the King's Book Upon which Dr. Meriton turned upon him with the Story of Mr. Simmonds communicating the whole thing to Dr. Gauden upon which he was so confounded that he had nothing to say for himself and though if none but Dr. Meriton himself had declared to me quoth he the Issue of their Debate it would have satisfied me yet the further satisfaction I had from my worthy Friend Mr. Marriot then Chaplain to the Lord-Mayor and Minister of the Parish Church in Rood-Lane who stood by and heard the whole Discourse and withal the silence he put Dr. Walker to which he professed to my self gave me so full a satisfaction that upon that account I ventured to give the World an Account of it in print Now it had been much better either to have let this Story quite alone or to have given a true Relation of it but our Author trusts to Falshoods more than to the Truth of the Cause he saith in his Preface If any Man questions the Truth of these Living Evidences I have quoted if he pleases to come to me I will wait upon him to them and he shall have satisfaction from themselves of the truth of what I have writ I should tell him now if I did not know him that he might be ashamed to prevaricate as he doth but he hath cast off all Shame he exclaims thus upon Dr. Walker page 20. Well done Dr. Walker if thou ever hadst a Man alone with thee undoubtedly he was alwaies on thy side and thou wert always in the right and when the Man was dead wouldst assume the confidence to print it In what words now shall I bespeak Dr. Hollingworth he offers to wait upon any Man who is doubtful in the Matter to the Persons he names and yet I am at a certainty that he hath assumed the confidence to put these reverend Divines Dr. Meriton and Mr. Marriot whom he terms his Worthy Friends in print whilst living without their Privity or Consent or consulting them of the truth of what he relates and I am as sure that they will not averr what he asserts they told him for without putting the Doctor to the trouble of waiting upon him I engaged a Friend to enquire of these Reverend Persons of the truth of what he writes relating to them and Dr. Meriton saith that Dr. Hollingworth hath committed two Mistakes to give it no harder Name in the Story for whereas he affirms that Dr. Walker with his usual Confidence began the Discourse at my Lord-Mayor's Table Dr. Meriton declares that there was no such Discourse at the Table but that after Dinner he himself began the Discourse taking Dr. Walker into a Corner of the Room and Mr. Marriot is

how the Mutinies and Disturbances in Scotland sprung from thence which truly I am very sorry for 'T is well we are agreed in this point that from the imposing this Liturgy the Scotish Troubles did arise so that hitherto there 's no Ungodliness in my Story But you proceed I am sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion profess'd amongst them if they had submitted to the Vsage of that Book and continued it ever since This in truth Sir is ungodly and malicious all over you are sure it had been better for the Christian Religion c. Why not Protestant Religion CHRISTIAN RELIGION is indeed in its true and genuine Sense so good an Expression that a better cannot be found for the only true Religion but these Laudean Church-men the Papists in disguise must be narrowly watch'd for 't is notoriously known that they hold the Roman-Church to be a true Church though we know 't is idolatrous We must hold them to the Shiboleth PROTESTANT when they pretend to tell us what is best for the Christian Religion Laud himself spoke at the rate which you crafty Turn-Goat here do his Letters expressed his fear of delay in bringing in the Common-Prayer-Book for the great good not of the Church of Scotland but of the Church My Lord Bishop of Salisbury may surely be allowed to be a more competent Judg in this matter than you He saith Pag. 30. of his Memoires The Liturgy had some Alterations from the English which made it more invidious and less satisfactory The imposing it really varied from their former Practices and Constitutions Pag. 33. The Lords petitioned complaining against the Liturgy and Book of Canons offering under the highest Penalties to prove they contained things both contrary to Religion and the Laws of the Land Pag. 36. The Earls of Traquaire and Roxburgh by Letter to the King advised him to secure the People of that which they so much apprehended the fear of Innovation of Religion saying that they found few or none well satisfied Pag. 33. The Earl of Trequaire went to Court and gave account that all the Troubles were occasioned by the introducing the Liturgy with which scarce a Member of Council except Bishops was well satisfied neither were all these cordially for it for the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews from the beginning had withstood these Designs and the Arch-bishop of Glasgow was worse pleased See now what the Scotish Nation offered against this Liturgy which you Doctor are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had received and used it Their Commissioners in their Charge against Laud exhibited in our Parliament in 1641 say Pag. 11 c. This Book inverteth the Order of the Communion in the Book of England of the divers secret Reasons of this change we mention one only In joining the Spiritual Praise and Thanksgiving which is in the Book of England pertinently after the Communion with the Prayer of Consecration before the Communion and that under the Name of Memorial or Oblation for no other end but that the Memorial and Sacrifice of Praise mentioned in it may be understood according to the Popish Meaning Bellar. de Missâ lib. 2. cap. 21. Not of the Spiritual Sacrifice but of the Oblation of the Body of the Lord. The corporal Presence of Christ's Body is also to be found here for the words of the mass-Mass-Book serving to this purpose which are not to be found in the Book of England are taken in here Almighty God is incall'd that of his Almighty Goodness he may vouchsafe so to bless and sanctify with his Word and Spirit these Gifts of Bread and Wine that they be unto us the Body and Blood of Christ. On the other part the Expressions of the Book of England at the delivery of the Elements Of feeding on Christ by Faith and of eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly deleted Now one would think that if such a whissling Doctor as you are were not past all shame as you affirm me to be it would make you blush but we may sooner expect to see you burst that you who appeared but now very tender of passing a Judgment upon the Actions of the accused Star-Chamber should be found so pragmatical so arrogant as to censure King Charles the First who damn'd this very Book by Act of Parliament and the Kingdom and Church of Scotland in this Point and declare That you are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had submitted to the Vsage of this Babylonish Book and continued it ever since But you are so inflexible that there 's little hope of reconciling you to that Nation I had almost said to the King and Queen unless this well-approved Liturgy be sent down once more and entertained there For then you say pag. 18. the Worship of God would be performed with Order and Decency and in a way suitable to his Divine Nature and Perfections And consequently could not have been nauseous to the soberly wise and seriously devout part of that Kingdom as now it is by reason of those rude and undigested Addresses those ex-tempore and unpremeditated Expostulations with God those bold and saucy Applications that for want of a good Book or a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to memory are so commonly made use of in their Pulpits too many of the accounts of which we have lately since the great Turn in Scotland received from very good Hands and undeniable Testimonies This is I am sure a nauseating if not an ungodly and prophane way of Talking You poor weak Man as you are run away with a gross Mistake that because there were Bishops in Scotland till the great Turn as you term the legal Settlement of that Church by their present Majesties they had also a Common-Prayer Book but believe me or let it alone as you please they had no such thing it was detested even by many of their Episcopal Clergy I shall not pretend to remark upon your most unbecoming and malicious Representation of the praying of the present Ministers of that Kingdom but 't is well known that their Divines are of good Ability and every way well qualified for the discharge of the Ministerial Function And whereas you pretend to recommend a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to Memory for the prevention of rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications I would fain know of you what Canon allows a Minister of the Church of England to frame his own Prayer and to mutter out a good part of it so as no body can tell what he says And then to rise constantly in his Voice when he comes to the Ox and the Ass But to talk seriously of this most serious Matter pray see what the Devout and Learned Bishop of Salisbury says of such Doctors as your self in his Sermon Ian. 30. 1680.

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