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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44226	A second defence of King Charles I by way of reply to an infamous libel called Ludlow's letter to Dr. Hollingworth ...	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2504; ESTC R19193	31,943	63

Thousands flock at their Call and beset the Parliament and White-Hall it self not only to the Prejudice of that Freedom which is necessary to Great Councils and Judicatories but possibly to some Personal Danger of your Majesty and the Peers The vast Consequence of these Persons Malignity and of the Licentiousness of those Multitudes which follow them considered in most deep Care and zealous Affection for the Safety of your Sacred Majesty and the Parliament Our humble Petion is That in your Wisdoms you would be pleased to removed such Dangers by punishing the Ringleaders of these Tumults that your Majesty and the Parliament may be secured from such Insolencies hereafter For the suppressing of which in all Humility we offer our selves to wait upon You if You please hoping we shall appear as considerable in the way of Defence to our Gracious Sovereign the Parliament our Religion and the Establish'd Laws of the Kingdom as what Number soever shall audaciously presume to violate them So shall we by the Wisdom of your Majesty and the Parliament not only be vindicated from precedent Innovations but be secured from the future that are threatned and likely to produce more dangerous Effects than the former And we shall ever Pray c. And this I hope is enough to satisfie the World what a Calumniator our Author is as to this particular Another thing you offer to impose upon the World withall and to vilifie this great Prince is as if he was under no necessity by reason of the Tumults to leave White-Hall for you tell us they passed in a peaceable way armed with no other Weapons than Petitions and therefore they could not justly be called Tumults Certainly you are the most partial Man in the World but I do not wonder at it 't is your passionate Affection for the Good Old Cause that makes you at every Turn leap over Hedge and Ditch and stick at nothing tho never so false if it serve but to recommend your Cause to the heedless and unthinking Vulgar What did they pass peaceably when they with Clubs and Staffs in their Hands cryed out they would have no Groom-Porters Lodge at White-Hall but would speak with the King himself when they pleased When they beset the House of Lords Door and cryed out in a riotous manner Iustice Iustice when they entred the Abby at Westminster and broke the Organ and tore in pieces the Vestments of the Church when they threw stones at the Bishops as they were coming to do their Duties at the House of Lords when they beset the Bishop of Durhams Coach and in all probability if a Lord of their Party had not interposed between them and their fury they had murdered him he telling them he was a good Bishop and they answering him But hang him he is a Bishop for all that These were peaceable Men with a witness as innocent as wild Boars and as harmless as Tygers The truth of it is Sir you have been so bold in this assertion that you have given the Lye to almost all the Historians that have writ the Transactions of those Times even to your Friend Mr. Whitlook who in his Memorials gives quite another Account of these things as the Reader may inform himself if he pleases to consult him And Sir to let the World know how false your Relation as to this matter is I refer them to the Votes of the then Common-Council Decemb. 31. 1641. wherein after they had cleared themselves that neither the Court nor any particular Member had any hand in those tumultuous and riotous Proceedings and that they and every of them did disavow and disclaim the same they resolve That this Court as the Representative Body of the whole City do promise from henceforth their best endeavours to prevent and suppress in time to come as far as in them lies all such or the like tumultuous Assemblies and all mutinous and rebellious Persons Now Sir had these Men been such peaceable Men certainly the whole Representative Body of the City would never have dishonoured their Judgments by laying that to their Fellow-Citizens charge they were no ways guilty of But Sir some body owes you a shame and therefore helps you to vent such Lies as this is namely that the Citizens went in a peaceable manner armed with nothing but Petitions And truly from such apparent Falshoods as these are the Reader may better know how to rely upon any thing you assert Another Calumny with which you endeavour to reproach the Honour and Memory of this pious Prince is his unwillingness to issue out his Proclamations against the Irish Rebels and when he did commanding but forty to be Printed for which you produce an Order of Secretary Nicholas to the Printer The truth of it is was this Story true as you represent it and was it designed as you would fain make the World believe it was it would be an unexcusable fault in the King and strengthen the suspicion of too many bad Man as to his consenting to or at least conniving at that horrid Rebellion and therefore Good and Great Prince thou that didst so often bewail this Rebellion and didst offer to go in Person to suppress it thou whose Righteous Soul was vexed and grieved with the thoughts of thy Protestant Subjects Hardships and Sufferings by the hands of those notorious and Blood-thirsty Villains thou shalt here speak for thy self and by thy own Pen confute such a Diabolical Reflection as this Husbands Exact Coll. p. 247. TO countenance those unhandsome Expressions whereby usually they have implied our connivance at or want of Zeal against the Rebellion of Ireland so odious to all good Men they have found a new way of Exprobration That the Proclamation against those bloody Traytors came not out till the beginning of Ianuary tho' that Rebellion broke out in October and then by Special Command from us but forty Copies were appointed to be printed It 's well known where we were at that time when that Rebellion brake forth viz. in Scotland that we immediately from thence recommended the Care of that Business to both Houses of Parliament here after we had provided for all fitting Supplies from our Kingdom of Scotland That after our Return hither we observ'd all those Forms for that Service which we were advised to by our Council of Ireland or both Houses of Parliament here And if no Proclamation issued out sooner of which for the present we are not certain but think that others were issued out before that time by our Directions it was because the Lords Justices of the Kingdom desired them no sooner and when they did the Number they desired was but twenty which they advised might be sign'd by us Which we for Expedition of the Service commanded to be printed a Circumstance not required by them thereupon we signed more of them than our Justices desired all which was very well known to some Members of One or Both Houses of Parliament who have

you who had overturned the Government and violated all the Laws of the Land and I wish he had seen them before that he might have escaped those Punishments which made such a noise and turned to so bad an Account in the Kingdom and therefore I shall say no more upon this matter but this That the great mistake the Nation was then in and many are to this very day is that these three Men suffered for pure Religion for being severe Christians in their Lives and Conversations and standing up for the Cause of Christ whereas it appears throughout the whole Story it was for Libelling the Government and putting Indignities and Affronts upon the then Legal Administrators such as no Government that values itsself and its Honour upon the face of the Earth would bear without just Resentments and sutable Punishments Christian Religion teaches Men to be modest and peaceable and with all patience to suffer for well doing and to acknowledge God's Justice when his Rod is laid upon their Backs for evil doing And so much by way of Answer to that part of your Book by which you have endeavoured to blacken the good King's Reign and to run down the Reputation of Bishop Laud and to express your Indignation against me for saying other ways he was a good Man which I still say and have a very good Man to back me namely Judge Whitlock a Man of a clear Credit and sound Judgment who as his Son tells us in his Mem. said of him That he had too much fire but was a just and good Man And truly Sir I think it is more like a Christian to speak well of a Christian Bishop than to call him by such spiteful and reproachful Names as you have done in your scurrilous Book I come now to make some Reflections upon your Scotch Story which you have told with so much Venome and Partiality that you have every ways acted like your malicious and ungodly self and shewn you are a Man so resolved for a Party that rather than not serve it to purpose you will call Darkness Light and Light Darkness You begin with a Relation of Bishop Laud's composing a Common-Prayer-Book for them and tell us how the Mutinies and Disturbances in Scotland sprung from thence which truly I am very sorry for for I am sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion professed amongst them if they had submitted to the Usage of the Book and continued it ever since The Worship of God would have been performed with Order and Decency and in a way suitable to his Divine Nature and Perfections and consequently could not have been exposed to the Contempt and Scorn of Men wickedly and atheistically inclined nor yet 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 extempore 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 I but this bold-face says This Liturgy 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 good leave Mr. Modesty I will venture upon the piece of Confidence as to tell you I do not believe it and that because you assert it you whom I have proved already to falsifie and misrepresent every thing that you pretend written Authority for What! Bishop Laud send to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation of a Liturgy almost the same with our own Sure Sir you have forgot the hatred the Popes of Rome as well as the Dissenters have to our Church Common-Prayer-Book You have forgot the Bull of the Pope in the Tenth of Queen Elizabeth which commands all his pretended Catholick Children not to attend upon the Publick Liturgical Devotions of our Church and that under the severest Censure of the Apostolical Chair and you have also forgot but you have always a bad Memory for any thing that makes either for Monarchy or Episcopacy that the Papists upon that Account and by Virtue of the Authority of that Bull have declined our Publick Service ever since And therefore 't is very likely Bishop Laud should send a Liturgy to Rome for its approbation which hath so long stood condemned by the highest Authority that presides there In short Sir I cannot but conclude from this Story that you have got a Secret or else you would have blushed to have vented such an altogether improbable and yet so designedly a malicious Tale as this is and therefore notwithstanding your Marginal Caution I will say Leave your fooling and think not to abuse the good People of England with such Insinuations as will gain a belief from none but those who are resolved to believe all you boldly assert as Oracle against the clearest and brightest Reasons to the contrary Well Sir you say it was sent into Scotland pray let me ask you one Question In whose Name and by whole Authority was it sent Was it put upon them by a Rump Parliament an usurping Protector or by their lawful and undoubted Soveraign If by their Soveraign pray then Sir 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 What must nothing serve these pure and refined Reformers but Fire presently called from Heaven must Clubs and Staffs and Old Womens Joynt-stools decide the Controversie betwixt their Soveraign and them Must they presently assault one of the Bishops the Earl of Traquaire the Lord Provost and Council of the City and threw down the Lord Treasurer going to the Council taking from him his Hat Cloak and White Staffe by violent Hands Good God! what dutiful what harmless and peaceable Subjects are these How much do they deserve such an Advocate as our Letter-Writer And what worst of things will not a Seditious Commonwealth's-man plead for when he will vindicate such Barbarities as these are But to go further with you Sir Must these Men of their own heads without any Warrant from the Legal Authority of the Nation enter into a Covenant without the King nay against his Will and Pleasure As they could not but know and that because they had entered into one with King Iames's Consent in 1580 to defend the Purity of Religion and the King's Person and Rights against the Church of Rome What are these two Covenants of one and the same Nature entred into by one and the same Authority a Covenant entred into by King Iames's Consent under his Hand and Seal and a Covenant entred