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The character of King Charles I from the declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson ... upon his death-bed : with a further defence of the King's holy book : to which is annex'd some short remarks upon a vile book, call'd Ludlow no lyar : with a defence of the King from the Irish Rebellion / by Rich. Hollingworth.
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Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.
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and Influence that they found it had amongst and upon all the wise and considering men of the Kingdom and therefore I expect to hear no more of this base Story for the time to come or if they will take the boldness to raise it again I hope Reader I have furnished thee with a sufficient Answer to it Some short Remarks upon a Lewd Book called Ludlow no Lyar. Reader AFter a certain bold Libeller had sent into the World a Second Arraignment of King Charles the First by way of Letter to my self I being touch'd with the Sence of the ill Effects that Book might have upon the credulous and unthinking part of the Nation did think it convenient to let the world know the false Imputations he had laid at the King's door and therefore in order to it did consult and make use of such Authorities as I thought unquestionable and I am sure are for the most part so except one which I have been but lately Convinced of and which is one of their own and which they make no little use of but let the Authorities be what they will this Wicked Man is resolved to be in the right as long as there is any rude Vote or scandalous Libel Remonstrance or false Story to be found in print and to be communicated to this present Age and neither Friend nor Enemy if they write any thing in behalf of the great King ought to be believed if he may have his Will and let what Acts of Parliament be quoted for the Justification of that Prince yet he still was a Tyrant and a Man neither of Honour nor Religion But to my main design in which I promise to be very short First Reader I must desire thee to take Notice That I have Dedicated my Second Defence to the Arch Bishops Bishops Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commons of the Nation in which I tell them of the Books that have been Printed since this last Revolution against the Constitution both of Church and State which did sufficiently shew the Design on Foot to which not one Word of Answer is this Libel I further tell them what Destruction this Spirit once backed with power will make of them and all they have of which no Notice taken for which indeed I do not blame him for he knows in his Conscience all I say is true and I hope the Body of the Nation for the time to come will be so wise and provident as not to let things run so far as to make a Second Tryal of that Spirit by which they have suffered and that so smartly already In the beginning of my Defence I do honestly upbraid him for taking upon him the Name of that Traytor Ludlow and tell him that he ought to suffer in his stead being so forward to Represent him and Vindicate those Actions for which he stands Condemned and this he is pleased to pass by too no doubt being convinced if he had his due he would quickly be put out of Capacity of poysoning the Nation with such Infamous Pamphlets The next thing I shall make a few Remarks upon is the Letter of the Prince of Wales to the Pope I tell him in my Defence that as the Letter is in Rushworth his Accusations of that Great Prince from that Letter are false and made up of Lyes upon which he grows great in his own eyes and triumphs over me as if he had got a compleat Victory leaving me dead upon the spot for he produces another Letter in which is contained all he Charges upon the Prince The Truth is I had heard a little before his Libel came out from a Reverend Neighbour of mine that Mr. Rushworth in his First Edition Dedicated to Rich. Cromewel then called Protector had put in this Letter of his but afterwards in those Editions after the Restoration not being able to justifie the Letter put this in the room of it both which I have good Reason to believe are alike true that is they are both of them spurious and I Challenge this bold Writer or any of his Party to name a man that ever saw or took either of these Letters out of any Archive or Publick Record at Rome Madrid or London that there was a Letter sent to the Pope I grant but that it was pleasing to the Pope I deny and that for this very Reason because the Pope did so greatly delay the Dispensation for the Marriage which I dare say he would not have done if he had had such hopes of making England Catholick as they call it again as such a Letter as this from such a Person that was next to the Crown did give him The Pope of Rome knew England so well and the Advantages of it to the Papal Chair that I am sure he would have granted an hundred Dispensations at first asking for such an opportunity as this But good Reader I must entreat thee to observe that this Libeller though he makes such a Noise about a Letter which could not all Circumstances considered be avoided yet he takes no Notice of what I assert as to the Princes answering the Spanish Favourite that he came for a Wife and not for a Religion nor of Mr. Rushworths Attestation of his steadiness to his Religion nor of Mr. Johnsons Account of his fixedness to his Principles notwithstanding all the Applications of the Priests to him No no these things do not answer the ends of this man and his Party which in short are to destroy Church and State and therefore not one Word of them or any other Vertues of this Prince I will warrant you and therefore the Old Cry of one of his Judges is still among them Blacken him blacken him as this man has done to purpose with his Lyes and false Accusations As for the Story of Prynne Bastwicke and Burton with whose Sufferings he endeavours to bespatter the Reign and Spirit of King Charles I. I will onely answer him over and above what I said in my Answer to his lewd Libel with this true Account which I promise to make good when ever called to it by my Superiours Namely That Mr. Prynne being in discourse with a Friend of mine after the Happy Restoration told him to this purpose That the Crimes of himself and his Fellow Sufferers were so great that if the Justice of the Nation had cut off their Heads instead of their Ears they had had nothing but what was due to them by which Mr. Prynne who knew his and their Deserts better than this Defender of them either does or will shewed himself a true Penitent and one that would have scorned as well as grieved for such an Advocate as this wicked man is The next thing he falls foul upon me is for speaking favourably of Arch-bishop Laud whom he treats with all the scurrility imaginable now I must confess though I believe that great and learned Man was mistaken in the temper of the Nation and did somethings with too great an
THE CHARACTER OF King Charles I. From the Declaration of M R. ALEXANDER HENDERSON Principal Minister of the Word of God at Edenburgh and Chief Commissioner from the Kirk of Scotland to the Parliament and Synod of England Upon his DEATH-BED WITH A Further DEFENCE of the KING 's Holy Book To which is Annex'd Some Short Remarks upon a Vile Book call'd Ludlow no Lyan With A Defence of the KING from the Irish Rebellion By Rich. Hollingworth D. D. London Printed and are to be Sold by R. Tayler by Amen-Corner 1692. LICENSED July 28th 1692. Rob. Midgley To the Right Honourable THE MARCHIONESS of Carmarthen Madam THE Defence of Good and Innocent Men and the Vindicating of their Memories from those base and barbarous Aspersions they are many times loaden withal by men under whose tongues is the poyson of Asps are Employments every way becoming those who are Disciples of the HOLY JESUS and have solemnly promised to follow His Example and which I am certain will speak Peace and Comfort to them when others who give themselves the liberty to detract and defame to scandalize and ill-report the Best of Men will sink at last under the Load of their own Guilt and the Terrours of their angry and discontented Minds The sense of which has been a very great support to my self ever since I have undertaken the Vindication of the Name and Memory of King CHARLES I. and has enabled me in some good sort to scorn and live above all those Reproaches that by a certain Faction have been without Truth or Modesty so freely fastned upon me and I am so far from being weary of the Task I have engaged in that I thank God every fresh Provocation gives me the Pleasure as well as Advantage of knowing and understanding the incomparable Merits of that Great Man better and the Courage to communicate them to others And amongst many other things that have come to my hand since I began the Defence of this Great PRINCE This for the sake of which I make bold to give Your Ladyship this Trouble at present is one of the greatest and fullest that I ever saw and no doubt will be satisfactory to all sorts of Men because of the Person who was the Author of it Namely The chief Person of the Presbyterian Party in Scotland and the most employed by them for setting up and Vindicating their Kirk-Discipline I have shewn it since I had it to several Persons of great Names and at great Posts in our Church who were all as mightily taken with it so desirous it should be Reprinted that the World might see how unjustly this Great Persons Name is dealt withal by too great a Number of many Bad Men of this Age which as soon as I resolved to Reprint I at the same time resolved it should with Your Ladyships Leave come out under Your Honours Umbrage and Protection which You have a Right to not onely upon the score of Your own Zeal for that Great Prince 's Memory and Vertues but also upon the Account of the Faithfulness and Integrity the Loyalty and Steadiness of Your Ancestors to the CROWN and Dignity thereof for it is well known That Your Noble Grandfather lost his Life as General of His Majesties Forces at the first Fight against the Rebels at Edgelvill for his Great Master's Just and Righteous Cause and that Your as Noble Father was at the same time imprison'd for his steady Adherence to the Royal Interest and that both of them as they ventured their Lives so they greatly impaired a vast Estate But however that in the mean time they Acted becoming Good Men Good Christians and True Lavers of the Religion and Laws of their Country which includes their being Good Subjects and consequently took the better and more Justifiable Part this ensuing Narrative I am sure will make good and clear to all Men who are not resolved let what will be said to continue their base and ill designed Prejudices The Declaration is this The Character of King CHARLES I. VVHereas the greatest part of the distempered People of these miserable distracted Kingdoms have been and are wofully abused and misled with malicious misinformations against his sacred Majesty especially in point of Religion and moral-Wisdom whereof I confess with great grief of heart my self to have been amongst many moe of my coat none of the least who out of Imaginary fears and jealousies were made real Instruments to advance this un-natural War wherein so much Innocent Protestant Blood hath been shed and so much downright Robbery committed without fear or shame of sin to the scandal of the true Reformed Religion as cannot but draw down heavy Judgements from Heaven upon these infatuated Nations and more particularly upon Us who should have instructed them in the way of Truth Peace and Obedience I conceived it the duty of a good Christian especially one of my profession and in the condition that I lie expecting God Almighty's Call not only to acknowledge to the All-merciful God with a humble sincere remorse of Conscience the greatness of this offence which being done in simplicity of Spirit I hope with the Apostle Paul to obtain Mercy because I did it through Ignorance But also for the better satisfaction of all others to publish this Declaration to the view of the World to the intent that all those especially of the Ministery who have been deluded with me may by God's Grace and my example though a weak and mean Instrument not only be undeceived themselves but also stirred up to undeceive others with more alacritie and facilitie that the scandal may be removed from our Religion and Profession and the good King restored to his just Rights and truly honoured and obeyed as God's Anointed and Vicegerent upon Earth and the poor distressed Subjects freed from those intollerable Burdens and Oppressions which they lye groaning under piercing Heaven with their Tears and Cries and a solid Peace settled both in Kirk and Common-wealth throughout all His Majesties Dominions to the Glory of God and of our blessed Mediator and Saviour the Lord Christ I do therefore Declare before God and the World That since I had the Honour and Happiness to Converse and Confer with His Majesty with all sort of freedom especially in Matters of Religion whether in relation to the Kirk or State which like Hypocrates Twins are lynked together that I found him the most intelligent Man that ever I spoke with as far beyond my Epression as Expectation grounded upon the Information that was given me before I knew him by such as I thought should have known him I profess that I was oft-times astonish'd with the solidity and quickness of his Reasons and Replies wondred how he spending his Time so much in Sports and Recreations could have attained to so great Knowledge and must confess ingenuously that I was convinc'd in Conscience and knew not how to give him any reasonable Satisfaction yet the sweetness of his Disposition