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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

but they were but the King had other Designs than those of Peace in his Head I told you of his Majesty's fortifying Whitehal and that armed Men sallied out thence reviling menacing and wounding many Citizens passing by with Petitions to the Parliament and that when the Parliament and People complained of those Assaults the King justified the Authors thereof so that I must needs conclude as I did before that the Tumults were made at Whitehal by the King 's own People that all his fear of Tumults was but a meer Pretence and Occasion taken of his resolved Absence from the Parliament that he might turn his flashing at the Court-Gate to slaughtering in the Field Pag. 44. you tell me that another Calumny wherewith I reproach the Memory of King Charles is his unwillingness to issue out his Proclamations against the Irish Rebels and when he did commanded but 40 to be printed You then say The truth of it is was this Story true it ' ●would be an inexcusable Fault in the King but to Rufute me you transcribe his Majesties own Vindication of himself which saith that he was in Scotland when the Rebellion broke forth that he immediately recommended the care of that business to the Parliament here That if no Proclamation issued sooner of which for the present he was not certain but thinks that others were issued out before it was because the Lords Iustices of Ireland desired them no sooner and when they did the number they desired was but twenty Now in Truth Sir this doth little mend the matter 't is most strange that the King should publish to all the World in Print that he thinks other Proclamations were issued before he might without doubt have easily been at a certainty in this point for had there been any such thing his Council Books his Secretary of State his Clerks of the Council would have remembred him thereof but to this day no such thing hath appeared nor ever will And 't is a poor excuse to say that the Proclamation was no sooner issued because not sooner desired We of this Age do remember in what manner our Late Princes Fathers ' nown Sons have pursued the least suspition of Rebellion You know that King Charles the Second upon the pretence of a Plot in the year 1683 was so far from deferring by the space of three Months to issue a Proclamation against his own Son the Duke of Monmouth that we had it in three days and I do think there were rather forty Thousand than forty Printed for after we had it by it self for the better spreading thereof it was published in the Gazette the like course you well know was taken by the Late King Iames First in the case of the Duke of Monmouth and then in that of the Prince of Orange But I will shew you what the Parliament said in this case of the Irish Rebels in a Declaration in 1642. That when the Lords and Commons had upon the first breaking out of the Irish Rebellion immediately sent over 20000 l. and engaged themselves for the reduceing of the Rebels yet the King after his Return from Scotland was not pleased to take notice of it until after some in the House of Commons had truly observed how forward his mischievous Counsellors were to incite him against his Protestant Subjects of Scotland and how slow to resent the proceedings of his Papist Traytors in Ireland That altho the Rebels had most impudently stiled themselves The Queen's Army and profest that the Cause of their Rising was to maintain the King's prerogative and the Queen's Religion against the Puritan Parliament of England and that thereupon the Parliament advised his Majesty to wipe away this dangerous scandal by proclaiming them Rebels which then would have weakned the Conspirators in the beginning and have encouraged both the Parliament here and good people there the more vigorously to have opposed their proceedings yet no Proclamation was set forth to that purpose till almost three Months after the breaking out of this Rebellion and then Command given that but forty should be Printed nor they published till further directions should be given by his Majesty That the Parliament and Adventurers had long since designed 5000 Foot and 500 Horse for the Relief of Munster to be sent under the Command of the Lord Wharton but no Commission for his Lordship could be obtained from his Majesty whereby Lymerick was wholly lost That when divers well affected persons had prepared twelve Ships and Six Pinnaces with more than 1000 Land Forces at their own charge for the service of Ireland and desired nothing but a Commission from his Majesty to enable them thereunto That Commission after twice sending to York for the same was likewise denied That altho the Lords Justices of Ireland have three Months since earnestly desired to have two pieces of Battery sent over for that Service yet such Commands are given to the Officers of the Tower that none of his Majesties Ordnance must be sent to save his Majesties Kingdom That the Kings Souldiers took away at one time Six hundred Suits of Cloaths and at another time Three hundred Suits which were sent by the Parliament for the poor Souldiers in Ireland That the Rebels did lately send a Petition to his Majesty Institu●ing themselves his Majesties Catholick Subjects of Ireland complaining of the Puritan Parliament of England and desiring that since his Majesty comes not thither according to their expectation that they may ●●me into England to his Majesty You come page 46 to Examine who were the first Beginners of the War and say The Parliament did really and indeed first draw the Sword and found the Trumpet to Battle Whereas the King set up his Standard at Nottingham in August did not the Lords and Commons in June before make an Order for bringing in of Mony or Plate to maintain Horses Horse-men and Arms And did not the King long before in the beginning of the year 1642. when all things were in perfect Peace send over the Crown Iewels to buy Arms and Ammunition in Holland did not he at that time write to the King of Denmark complaining of the Parliament and asking Supplies from him ad propulsandos Hostes to subdue h●s Enemies You were told of these things before but you will not touch them I shall not therefore trifle away more time with you upon this point of the first beginning of the War only I will mind you that the King upon the 4 th of July 1642. Rendezvoused an Army at Beverly in York-shire tho the Parliament did not Vote the Raising of an Army till the 12th And which is more I will give you the Name of the first Martyr who fell in that War in defence of the Laws and Liberties of his Country 't was one Percival of Kirkman Shalme in Lancashire he was Murdered the 15th of Iuly 1642. near Manchester by the Kings Forces under the Command of the Lord Strange Son to the Earl of

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-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.

shew you from Mr. Whitlock how this was growing up from being the Bishop's to be a Popish War he relates Page 31. That the Queen employed Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague who at that very time as we have it in Gage's Survey of the West-Indies p. 209 stood Candidates at Rome for a Cardinal's-Cap to labour the Papists for a liberal Contribution which they gained and Sir Basil Brooks a Person afterwards very active in the Irish Rebellion was appointed Treasurer for the Monies thus raised by the Queen's Solicitation for this War against the Scots hereupon some stiled the Forces raised against the Scots in the beginning of the year 1640 THE POPISH ARMY But to return to what I intended I will shew you the Heads of the Scotch Declaration which Mr. Whitlock puts down upon the Page you mention and that I may not be accused of Partiality take first the King's Declaration His Majesty saith he sets it forth to inform his Subjects of the seditious Practices of some in Scotland seeking the overthrow of Regal Power under false pretext of Religion c. He takes God to witness he is constrained by their Treasons to take Arms for the safety of that and this Kingdom He resolves to maintain Episcopacy there c. The Scots answer That though the Secrets of God's Ways cannot be sounded yet considering his Providence in their personal Affairs the Lord is about some great Work on Earth for the Cup of Affliction propined to other Reformed Kirks is now presented to them That instead of a gracious return to their humble Petitions from time to time the return is a late Declaration libell'd against them though the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against their Cause and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ now in question Which Declaration proceeds from the Unchristian Prelates and their Party They conclude setting forth their long suffering of the Prelates Insolency c. and fearing Popery to be introduced And they say for doing any harm to England cursed be their Breasts if they harbour any such Thought c. Your next Accusation Doctor against the Scots is Page 23. The King consents to a Treaty Commissioners were appointed on both sides and they came to a Conclusion agreeing upon seven Articles The King justly performed the Articles on his side notwithstanding the first Article agreed upon was to disband the Forces of Scotland within 24 hours yet these perfidious Persons kept part of their Forces in a body and all their Officers in pay and kept up their Fortisications at Leith And now let the Reader judg by this how deserving these Men are of such Commendations as this pestilent and bold Letter-Writer gives them Take a full Answer to this Slander from the Representation of the Proceedings of the Kingdom of Scotland since the late Pacification by the Estates of the Kingdom pag. 35. We within the space of forty eight hours the time appointed by his Majesty dissolved our Army Concerning the Officers we were careful both to observe that Article of the Pacification to his Majesty and also to keep promise to them which did bind us not to hold them in Military Pay but to vouchsafe them Entertainment till they should be restored to their own or called to other Service which ought not to be taken for any Breach Contempt or Disobedience but for an observation of the Law of Nature and common Equity they being our own Natives and having forsaken their Places and Means for Defence of Us and their Native Country less than this neither could they expect nor we perform although the Peace had been most firmly settled All Forts and Castles were speedily restored although they be now used for a Terror and Invasion against us Some part of the Fortifications at Leith was demolished for his Majesty's Satisfaction and the whole remitted by his Majesty to the Town of Edinburgh as having right to the same See further what they say in Refutation of this vile Calumny in their Remonstrance concerning the present Troubles pag. 7. We delivered all Places into his Majesty's Hands which were desired in testimony of our Obedience and although they might have been in our Hands Pledges of Assurance for performance of those Articles that were agreed to be granted in the following Assembly and Parliament and now contrary to our Expectation are turned for Engines of Terror and Fetters of Slavery to frustrate us from obtaining the benefit of that Capitulation Now to put you Doctor to eternal silence I shall subjoin an unconquerable Evidence against your bold Assertion The Pacification was made upon the 18 th of June 1639. And upon the 24 th the Marquess of Hamilton received possession of the Castle of Edinburgh for the King This is in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs of the two Hamiltons pag. 144. 't is a Book you have heard of though I doubt never seen you shall presently see why I say so If this Treatise be partial it must incline to the King against the Scots because the Marquess was deeply engaged in the Royal Cause This was not only wrote by the Bishop when he was a Chaplain to King Charles the Second from the Marquesses own Memoirs but is dedicated to the King and was published with his Royal Testimonial that he had seen and approved it And is there room now for any Man to believe that if the Scots had not acted with the highest Simplicity and Integrity in this Treaty they would have instantly and voluntarily quitted the best Strength in that Kingdom to his Majesty And now let the Reader judg by this whether one word that such a paltry Doctor as you utter out of your Pulpit ●e to be credited Well what comes next e'ne what lies uppermost pag. 23. And whereas this scandalizing Person has the confidence to assert that the King when he came home burnt by the common Hangman the Pacification he had made I must tell him he talks as he has done all along throughout his Letter falsly and against his own Reading and Knowledg and for this I appeal to Bishop Burnet in his Memoirs of the two Hamiltons where pag. 782. he acquaints us That the Scots published a false and scandalous Paper entituled Some of his Majesties Treaties with his Subjects of Scotland so Vntrue and Seditious that it was burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman And are not you a base Person then to oberude such a Lie upon the World as you have done But it is no wonder the Father whose Cause you have served in this rude and seditions Libel is the Father of Lies Why now most unhappy Doctor you are catch'd again and whereas you say that I talk falsly against my reading it will be found that you talk at random for want of reading I told you that I suspected you had never seen Bishop Burnet's Alemoirs you shall now see my reason for it You quote pag. 782. and there are but 436 Pages in that Book and 47 in the

Letter to Dr. Hollingsworth 'T IS common Sir to such despicable and malicious Brawlers as you are to rail at those things most that are most praise-worthy I should therefore esteem it scandalous to the Glorious Cause and Noble Performances of the most worthy Parliament of November 1640 which I have endeavoured to vi●dicate to be commended and account it a praise to be evil spoken of by you And it would provoke a Man to laughter to behold you betaking your self to Slanders and Calumnies to see nothing but Dirt and Filth issuing from your Mouth when you find your Arguments will little avail I should not give my self the trouble to animadvert upon your Follies and Frenzies but that I hear you are swollen with Pride and Conceit to an incredible degree I shall therefore shew that with a great deal of toil you have done just nothing at all and that you are fallen under a most prodigious degree of Stupidity and Madness to take so much pains to make your Folly visible to the World which till now you in some measure have concealed to be so industrious to heap Disgrace upon your self What Offence does Heaven punish you for in making you undertake the Defence of so forlorn and desperate a Cause as that of K. Charles the First and that with so much confidence and indiscretion and instead of defending it to betray it by your Ignorance It was as truly as ingenuously observed by the Learned Bishop Burnet in his Sermon before the House of Commons Jan. 31. 1688. That if one were to make a Panegyrick on Tyranny he ought to turn over all the common Places of Wit all the Stores of Invention and the liveliest Figures with which his Fancy would furnish him to make so odious a thing look but tolerably and by sacrificing Truth to Interest and varnishing it over with Wit and Eloquence he might shew how gracefully he could plead a very ill Cause And 't is certain that most Writers used some endeavour to carry on their Discourses by a Stream of Sense and Reason but you Sir have done it by a Course of Reviling and Railing and it may be truly said That if the dirty and Tinker-like Names the scurrilous and foul-mouth'd Expressions the spiteful and false Accusations I gather these Expressions from your Book were taken out of your Pamphlet it would appear but a poor and shrunken thing unpleasing to your self when you look upon it and of small power to work upon others that read it You seem rather to bawl and hoot at than to answer my Letter and your Book is the best Common-Place for Billingsgate that I have lately seen But it is well known that a Mountebank can neither draw nor keep a Croud about his Stage without the help of a witty or foul-mouth'd Buffoon And the gay Fancy the cutting Sarcasms wherewith your Tract is all-bespatter'd do adorn and render it highly entertaining to some Persons And I must confess that I find some subtilty in your first setting out for you begin cunningly and like an old Cavalier you place the Right Reverend and pious Bishop Kidder in the Front of the Battel just as King Charles the First did the Round-heads whom he had taken Prisoners at the Battel of Edghil these as we find the Relation in Husband 's Exact Collections pag. 758. he set pinion'd in the Front of his Men when he engaged the Parliament-Forces at Braintford to be a Breast-work to receive the Bullets that came from the Brownists and Anabaptists of such the King affirmed the Parliament Army to consist that the Cavaliers might escape them However the good Bishop I plainly foresee will come off as every of them did he may be shot through the Clothes but no way hurt For your Quotations out of the Sermons of this good Man and of that great and well-studied Divine Dr. Sherlock do only endeavour to aggravate the Iniquity of this Martyr's Murder whereas there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters relating to it I only endeavoured to evince That the King intended to bow or break us to perswade or force us to Slavery and that the Parliament when he was enflamed to take Arms against them and to put all into a common Combustion did in one hand present their humble Supplications most earnestly begging to enjoy the English Liberties in Peace and held in the other hand the Sword of just and innocent Defence against the Oppression and Violence of the Enemies of the King 's true Honour and of the Kingdom 's Peace And I am yet to learn that by any Law of God or Nations this could be judged to be Rebellion And I cannot see but Dr. Sherlock is of my Opinion for in his Sermon upon this last 30 th of Ianuary 1691 pag. 6. he saith He shall not dispute the lawfulness of resisting the King's Authority whether it were lawful for the Parliament to take Arms against the King to defend the Laws and Liberties of their Country He supposes that in a limited Monarchy the Estates of the Realm have Authority to maintain the Laws and Liberties of their Country against the illegal Encroachments and Usurpations of their King Now I go no greater length and I think this comes up to the great Lord Russel's Position which you had in my Letter pag. 20. That a free Nation like this may defend their Religion and Liberties when invaded and taken from them tho under pretence and colour of Law Your next step Sir is pag. 6. to my Quotation out of a Sermon of Bishop Burnet's Ian. 30. 1680. which you say you will transcribe to let the World see what a Cheat I am Well seeing you did so I will also transcribe it that the World may judg whether you or I be the Knave in this Matter the words are these I acknowledg it were better if we could have Iob's Wish that this Day should perish and the shadow of Death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the Day nor should the Light shine upon it it were better to strike it out of the Kalendar and make our Ianuary terminate at the 29 th and add these remaining days to February These words say you are wrested by Ludlow and they appear at first sight only a Rhetorical Flight whereby that Right Reverend Person would express the detestableness and horridness of the Fact which he bewailed that day Now because I ever was against judging any thing upon the first sight I have twice read the Sermon of this Learned wise and highly meriting Bishop and must tell you that I did not wrest his words but that he was of Opinion that the observation of that Day had been too long continued and that in regard of the great abuse thereof by some hot-headed Ecclesiastical Make-bates 't was time to leave it off and I cannot but think that every Man will conclude as I do even upon the reading of his Text Zech. 8.19 Thus saith the

Shrubs of the Laity to soar so high as you presume and I took mine to be a modest and inoffensive Dedication and do yet think it ought to be esteemed such though you snarl and in your gay or angry Humour make Distinctions if not a Schism and that in your own Parish and very prodigally throw out to Ludlow a good number of your old Benefactors because they do not believe that they were the only good Men who took part with the King against the Parliament who you say only did their Duties in standing by their Prince according to the Laws of the Land and the Oaths they had taken Now if this be not an inconsiderate and weak Way of arguing why did not you and your Brethren do your Duty and as the Iacobites query stand by King Iames to whom you were sworn And as to your Old Englishmen whom you cull out and set by for your self under the Notion of Lovers of the Government by King Lords and Commons I doubt not but there are of your Acquaintance a great many Pretenders thereto and yet if a Man could stand behind the Hangings at your Club at the Pye Tavern he might hear many of 'em keck at the Healths of King William and Queen Mary and yet be the first who will propose and urge the drinking the King's Health which every Boy understands is in their meaning Iames's To proceed Page 9. you tell me that I begin my Epistle with a prophane piece of Wit namely THE CHVRCH THE CLERGY but the best of it is but borrowed Now I hope we of the Laity may without committing the Sin of Sacrilege borrow and lend this Commodity amongst our selves and were all Clergy-Men as dull as your self Doctor 't would be as great a Sin to borrow of them as to rob a Spittle The piece of Wit which you here term prophane was only a seasonable Exhortation to you to shew a little regard to Sense Truth and Christianity in your future Writings and this your last Book demonstrates that of all the Scriblers of the Age you ought to have attended to this Caution But this was prophane Wit ay no doubt of it there 's no Salvation can there be any Wit out of the Church Wit is ever prophan'd say these Borderers upon it if any Man touches it but themselves However I will adventure to borrow again from my Old Lay-Friend the most ingenious Mr. Andrew Marvell Albeit saith he Wit be not inconsistent and incompatible with a Clergy-Man yet neither is it inseparable from them So that it is of concernment to my Lords the Bishops henceforward to repress those of 'em who have no Wit from Writing and to take care that even those that have it do husband it better as not knowing to what Exigency they may be reduced You say Pag. 10. I shall betake my self with all the brevity I can to consider your various Charges you so impudently draw up against the King and Queen's Grand-Father both in your Epistle and in your Book it self And Pag. 11. you fall thus to work In your Epistle you tell us of a Letter which the Prince wrote to the Pope which from the beginning to the end savours of Popery and you mention your Particulars to prove it First You tell us that he professes nothing could affect him so much as an Alliance with a Prince that had the same apprehensions of true Religion with himself You are in the right I did say so and if I cannot make it out you deservedly stile me a foul-mouth'd scandalous and le●d Miscreant And a Man would think that you should not doubt your having caught me when you bespeak me in these confident Words For God's sake Sir read over the Letter again and tell 〈◊〉 where there is such a word or any thing like it I have the Letter now before me as it is in Rushworth and I assure you upon reading it again and again I find nothing like it and I hope I am not so dull but I understand common Sense and if it was not for the unmannerliness of the Expression I would I am justly provoked to say leave your L I must confess Sir this your Expostulation struck me with no small astonishment and your bold and confident Assertion would if possible have made me ready to suspect my self as you represent me for one of the vilest Impostors that ever appeared in the World for I never doubted but your Mother instructed you in the reading of English and he who hath attain●d thereto should not mistake in such a case as this But Upon my second reading you I observed that you say I have the Letter now before me AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH this raised a Suspicion in me that you were conscious that it was elsewhere to be found why else should you say AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH Turning to Rushworth which you were poring upon when you wrote your Defence I was confirmed in my Opinion for in the Margin to that Letter in Pag. 82. I read and you will see when you put on Impartial Specta●les this honest Intimation There is another Copy of the Prince's Letter to the Pope published by several Hands somewhat different from this Well though you affirm that you find nothing like what I charge I can see as you presently shall even in Rushworth several Things as like it as I have found a Doctor to be like a Dunce Indeed this Letter to the Pope is not found in Dr. Gauden's Famous Book called Eicon Basilice nor in the Works of King Charles neither is it in Pembrook's Arcadia in Heylin or in Nalson But you good Doctor may see it in a Book which you have in your Library for you quote it in your 13th Page 't is entituled Cabala Mysteries of State in Quarto Pag. 214. The Royal Words there which you could not or rather would not find are these 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 The same thing is expressed by Mr. Rushworth in these Words Your Holiness's Conjecture of our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joined in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any Mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated You proceed in the Examination or rather as you affirm Derection of Ludlow's Lying in the Particulars excerpted from the King's Letter to the Pope 2 dly Quoth you What Sir you say That he calls Popery the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion all others Novelty and Faction In what part of the Letter find you this Sir I tell you 't is false there is not one Syllable of this nature throughout the whole and I challenge the whole World of Malice to shew me any thing like it in the Letter And now again Sir

who ought to leave their L Why Sir to deal honestly with you I did say as you charge me but I must also tell you that I see 't is not false for towards the end of the Letter I find these Syllables I entreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from encouraging Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion And in answer to your Question Who ought to leave their L I say they should who are convicted thereof Now go on to act your part 3 dly You say That he protested he did not esteem it a matter of greater Honour to be descended from great Princes than to imitate them in the Zeal of their Piety who had so often exposed their Estates and Lives in the exaltation of the Holy Cross And pray where is the Fault in this I hope any Man that knows what the Holy Cross means in its proper sense which is nothing else but the Christian Religion purchased upon the Cross by the Blood of Iesus will say that this Protestation is so far from blackning this great Prince that it redounds to his Credit and Honour These are your Words are they not Doctor This Passage is indeed a little diverting Ludlow I observe is no Lyar here You admit this Passage to be in the Letter and imagining you can justify it do not answer this with thou lyest for that in your Canonical way of Arguing appertains only to things unanswerable But now upon reading the Letter it will seem to some as though I had plaid the Wag in this Point and laid a Trap for you as some Body did for me who gave me to understand that you were once a Presbyterian with which you make your self very merry as I see pag. 50. For if you will please to look into the King's Letter 't is there HOLY CHAIR though indeed it is Holy Cross in mine and I am sure such a Protestation to expose Estate and Life in the exaltation of the Holy Chair doth not redound to the Honour of a Protestant King for we all know that the Holy Chair mean the Cross what it will in its plain proper sense means nothing but down-right Popery But you Doctor know a ready way to bring your self off with Honour and if I had not put a Trick upon you in writing Cross for Chair your Answer would have run thus For God's sake Sir read over the Letter again and tell me where there is any Protestation about imitating the Zeal of his Ancestor's Piety in exposing his Estate and Life in the Exaltation of the Holy Chair or any thing like it I am not so dull but I understand common Sense and this indeed had it been in the Letter savours of Popery and would have blackned this great Prince but you Bold-face are past all manner of Shame and a Man would think you are possessed for there is not one word like this in the Letter and I am justly provok'd to say Leave your L Your next Cavil runs thus pag. 12. You say that he solemnly engaged to the Pope to spare nothing in the World even to the hazarding his Life and Estate to settle a thing so pleasing to God as Vnity with Rome Surely Sir you are past all manner of shame and a Man would think you were possessed for there is not one word of this in the Letter and none but a Person who cares not what Falsities he obtrudes upon the World in order to deceive the silly and credulous part of Mankind THE LAITY would have so boldly printed such a notorious Falshood as this is and who ought to leave his L Sir Why now Doctor you are in the right again and put down my very Words and as sure as you do so so sure 't is that I charge nothing but the Truth And to shew you that the King's Letter hath many of the Words I do here transcribe them I will saith the King imploy my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith Having resolved in my self to spare nothing in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding of my Estate and Life for a Thing so pleasing to God And who now ought to leave his Lying let the World judg Having thus Sir offered what occurs for the right placing the before-charged Lies allow me to make a Parallel-observation upon you You insert into your Title Page this Expression Let the lying Lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the Righteous Psal. 31. Now at the rate of your talking I might well say For God's sake turn to your Bible again and tell me where you find these words The Text which I find in my Bible Psal. 31.18 runs thus Let the lying Lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the Righteous But then you will reply This is the wonted Custom of your Party these Presbyterians have their constant recourse to the Bible to oppose the Liturgy but we Laudean Church-men never cite the Bible when we can make the Common-Prayer to serve the turn and the pestilent Letter-writter must know that I took my Quotation out of the Psalter not Psalms and there in the 31 st and 20 th Verse tho it be the 18 th in the Bible are the very words which I put down 'T is true Sir I do find it thus but how had I been intrapp'd if I had never seen or had not had the Common-Prayer Book by me and found that you had an Authentick Author for what you put down What a Nest of Ecclesiastical Wasps should I have brought about my Ears had I said Leave your L 't is false 't is not so in my Bible And pray why may not I there being neither Statute nor Canon-Law prohibiting it take the liberty to quote the Bible and Cabala when I quarrel not you for reading the Common-Prayer Book and Rushworth To return to what you were upon the last thing you said was And who ought to leave his Lying You then say pag. 12. And as for his the King 's Reply to the Pope's Nuncio which you mention after these Falsehoods pray tell me in what Authentick Author I may find it for I assure you you have put so many false things together before that you have so much lost your Credit with me that I will believe nothing of your bare Assertion and I do not doubt but every body that reads both will be of my mind Your Conclusion here Sir looks something fair you seem content that every body should read both and speak as he finds I think they ought to do it and I address you in all humility to be so ingenuous as to get Allowance that the Press may be open to both Sides for what shall be hereafter published in this Controversy for 't is unreasonable that you should rail for what you idely call

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