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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

Lord of Hosts The Fast of the fourth Month and the Fast of the Fifth and the Fast of the Seventh and the Fast of the Tenth shall be to the House of Judah Ioy and Gladness and chearful Feasts therefore LOVE THE TRVTH AND PEACE And I must say that I am strengthen'd in this Belief when I remember that about that Time and indeed upon the very Day when this Sermon was preached viz. Ian. 30. 1680. some of the Clergy I know their Names but will spare them did in their Pulpits deliver up our Laws and Liberties to the King's Will and according to their Doctrine we were to hold all at his Pleasure and in the three or four succeeding Years upon that and such-like Occasions these Beautefeux did raise Despotick Power to that dangerous height that England became too hot for Dr. Burnet as well as for many other good Men and he and I might with equal safety have returned together But to put it beyond doubt what my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's meaning was in that Expression It were better if we could have Job 's Wish c. which you insinuate that I wrest I shall lay before you some Expressions in that Sermon you may read pag. 4. these words Upon their loving Truth and Peace those black and mournful Days should be converted to Days of Gladness Pag. 5. It might have been expected that our 29 th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary and now at the end of two and thirty Years it may be reasonably ask'd should we still continue to fast and mourn Pag. 28. If we come to love the Truth and Peace to live in Love and Peace one with another then our Days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts Then should our 29 th of May swallow up the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary Or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy Deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt to be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should outshine and darken the very 29 th of May If we come to love Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the 10 th Month according to the Jewish Account which according to Arch-Bishop Vsher is exactly our 30 th of Ianuary be to us Joy and Gladness I can now scarce with-hold my self from saying That 't is most evident the Doctor at Aldgate doth appear to be the Person who would wrest Bishop Burnet 's well-intended Words to his own malicious Design A Design to keep up Animosity Wrath and Feuds in the Kingdom a Person who shews himself estranged from Truth and Peace in contending to perpetuate the observation of this Day And seeing we have happily lived to behold the wonderful Deliverances which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury did not only hope for but seem to foretel Seeing we have our glorious 5 th of November rendered famous to all succeeding Ages by our late repeated happy and miraculous Deliverance from Popery and its inseparable Companion Tyranny Seeing we behold our thrice happy 30th of April and 4th of November the Birth-Days of those matchless Princes our most deservedly admired and beloved Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary out-shining and darkening even the 29th of May I would hope that I may live to see the time when his Lordship will make a Motion in Parliament for the annulling the Law which enjoins the Observation of the 30th of Ianuary and that I am sure would be highly acceptable to the sincere Lovers of Truth and Peace But I already see an Objection against it You Doctor say Pag. 2. An Act of State has appointed this Day to be FOREVER observed to bewail the Sin of the Murder of the King However I am sure my Lord Bishop of Salisbury doth well remember that in Times by-past other Days have been appointed to be observed by Acts of State upon such like Occasions and one in particular to declaim against Gowry's detestable Conspiracy which is now forgot His Lordship also knows that in Numb 21. when for the Peoples speaking against God and Moses the Lord sent Fiery Serpents which destroyed many of them Upon their Confession of their Sin Moses at their Entreaty prayed for them and as it is in the 8th and 9th Verses The Lord said unto Moses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it upon a Pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live And Moses made a Serpent of Brass and put it upon a Pole and it came to pass that if a Serpent had bitten any Man when he beheld the Serpent of Brass he lived You see Sir this was God's own Institution and that I hope was at least as good as your Act of State Let us see now what became of this brazen Serpent 2 Kings 18. The good King Hezekiah and there were very few good ones in those days who did that which was right in the Sight of the Lord broke in pieces the brazen Serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it and he called it Nehushtan And that God highly approved this Act of this glorious Reformer is evident from the very next Verse which records that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah nor any that were before him And now Sir to dismiss this black-Black-Day allow me to observe that there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters reflecting on the Act of State which ordained the Observation of the 30 th of Ianuary but I term it a madding-Madding-Day because our Parasitical Court-Priests would not keep the Peace but on that Day did set the Nation on Madding by infusing Principles of Slavery into her Free-born People Page 7. You pick a Quarrel with me about my Epistle Dedicatory and upbraid me for courting the Populace and Dedicating to old-Old-England in Aldgate Parish and say Sure the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council might have been made the Patrons of a Work that pretends to what Ludlow 's doth But whatever you think of your self or the World of you methinks 't was something sawcy even in you to prefix their Majesties Sacred Names to so silly a Book as was your first Defence and 't is as arrogant to entitle the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-bishops and Bishops the Nobility Gentry c. to this Second and to begin as if seated on the Throne MY LORDS and GENTLEMEN And it seems most impudent to tell them that upon the Reputation or Dishonour of King Charles the First and the Principles which maintain the one or those that propagate the other as much as if you had said upon my Scriblings depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen But whatever you may do 't is not for the mean

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-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

Castle of Edinburgh Rendered except for the Trust we reposed in their Relation and Con●idence in his Majesty's Royal Word which we believe they did not forget which Paper was only written for that cause left his Majesty or his Subjects should aver that they spake any thing without Warrant But having fully shewn that this Paper suffered innocently I detain you no longer upon this Head In the next place pag. 24. you exhibit a most heinous Article not only against the Scots but the English also They sent you say NEW COMMISSIONERS to the King They did so but I question whether you understand the reason why they were called New Commissioners and therefore this may inform you that they sent Commissioners not long before to supplicate for Peace but they were denied access to the King's Presence and commanded to return Home You go on saying that Mr. Whitlock informs you pag. 31. they had great resort to them and many secret Counsels held with them by the discontented English especially those who favoured Presbytery and were no Friends to Bishops Having consulted Mr. Whitlock I find you are so far right but you break off in the middle of the Sentence and omit these words or had suffered in the late Censures in the Star-Chamber Exchequer High-Commission and other Iudicatories and I would fain know what you infer from this Tale and what harm you see in it Mr. Whitlock gave you the Names of some Honourable and never to be forgotten Patriots who resorted to these Comm●ssi●ners to whose Names you ought to pay more deference than to make a ma●i●ious R●presentation of their Visits and Conversation the Earls of ●ssex Bedford Holland the Lord Say Mr. Hambd●n Mr. Pym c. w●re Men who with sad Hearts beheld the Innovati●n in Religion and the infringing of Fundamental Laws and Libe●ties in both Kingdoms Surely then Doctor without your license such Men as these may lawfully consult what means are proper to support the ●abrick when they see Religion and Justice which are the Pillars of the Government to be undermined But say you The Scots implored Aid from the French King by a Letter under the Hands of many of their principal Actors You then put in an Appeal pag. 25. to your Reader Whether his Majesty had not just Reason after such Discoveries as these were to clap some of them in Prison and whether he had been to blame if for such traiterous Correspondencies with a Popish Prince he had chopt off some of their Heads I have a word or two which might be offer'd for stay of Execution of this hard Sentence and desire to be heard or rather that the whole Kingdom of Scotland may be p●rmitted to speak in this case This is that Letter●s●ith ●s●ith that Parliament so much insisted upon as to open a Gate to let in Foreign Power to rule over England and our selves which by what Consequence it can be inferred we would fain know When a People is sore distressed by Sea and Land i● it unlawful by the Law of God and Man to call for Help from God and Man Is th●re no Help nor Assistance by Intercession by Supply of Money c Is all Assistance by the Sword and by Men We love not Shrouds nor Disguisements we speak the plain Truth and fear nothing so much as that Truth be not known Great Forces by Sea and Land were coming upon us Informations went abroad in other Nations to the prejudice of Us and our Cause This made us resolve to write unto the French King apprehending that upon sinister Relation his Power might be used against Us. Aid and Assistance hath been given in former Times If we have called now upon Denmark Holland Sweden Poland or other Nations for Help are we therefore inviting them all to a Soveraignty over Us And when all is said or done the Letter was but an Embrio forsaken in the Birth as containing some unfit Expressions and not agreeable to our Instructions and therefore slighted by the Subscribers but catch'd by this treacherous and secret Accuser of the Kingdom Another Letter was formed consonant to the Instructions and signed by many Hands but neither was this sent from us because we conceived that Mediation from France would be but late to avert the Danger which was so near It is universally known that it was written in May 1639. and therefore ought to have been buried in the Pacification We love not to harp upon Subscribing or sending of Letters to other Princes and to the Pope himself from Ex●mples of Old and of Late which are not hid from the Eyes o● the World It is sufficient to us to have justified our selves and to shew how innocently the Lord Lowdon suffereth for putting his Hand to such a Letter the Guiltiness or Innocence not being personal or proper to the Lord London but national and common to us all And although it had been a Fault and his alone yet whatsoever it was it did in time and for a long time go before his C●mmission and Imployment and there●ore ought not to have been challenged till he had returned to his Country uncloathed himself of his Commission and turned again to be what he was a private Nobleman The Dignity and Safety of Nations Kingdoms Estates and Republicks are much interessed in their Commissioners and Legats whether they be sent from one Prince to another or from a Kingdom Province or Republick to their own Prince Their Dignity for what is done to the Legat is interpreted to be done to them that sent him Their Safety because if Legats be wronged there can be no more composing of Differences nor possibility of Reconciliation Moreover his Majesty 's own Royal and inviolable Warrant for the coming of our Commissioners to his Presence at this time is enough for their safe Conduct and Security If they have committed any thing at home against their King Country or any particular Subject the fundamental Liberties and Independency of the Kingdom do require that they be tried and judged at Home and in a legal way by the ordinary Judicatories of the Land We earnestly intreat for their Liberty and Safety who are to us as our selves Methinks now if the King according to the rash Advice of you their Majesties frantick Chaplain at Aldgate should have chop'd off the Head of my Lord of Lowdon one of the Scotch Commissioners it would have offered Violence to the Peace and Quiet of his Mind all the days of his Life But I must think again his Lordship was a Presbyterian a Heretick who would not comply with the Church of England that considered you could do it with the greatest Complacency and 't would I am satisfied be highly to your content that that People had but one Neck so that you might do their business at a blow I remember that you told me upon the occasion of my talking of Laud's sending the Scotch Common-Prayer-Book to be approved at Rome that you thought I had got

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