folved very well, fince the place lay fo convenient for his winter exercife, and that he would by it not be compelled to make fo long journeys as he used to do, in that feafon of the year, for his fport, and that nobody ought to diffuade him from it."

The archbishop inftead of finding a concur rence from him, as he expected, feeing himfelf reproached upon the matter for his opi nion, grew into much paffion, telling

him,

Such men as he would ruin the king, and make him lofe the affections of his fubjects; that for his own part, as he had begun, fo he would go on to diffuade the king from proceeding in fo ill a counfel, and that he hoped it would appear who had been his counsellor" Cottington, glad to see him fo foon hot, and refolved to inflame him more, very calmly replied to him," that he thought a man could not, with a good confcience, hinder the king from purfuing his refolutions, and that it could not but proceed from want of affection to his person, and he was not sure that it might not be high-treafon." The other, upon the wildness of his difcourfe, in great an-ger asked him, " Why? from whence he had. received that doctrine?" He faid, with the fame temper, "They who did not wish the king's health, could not love him; and they who went about to hinder his taking recrea tion, which preserved his health, might be thought, for ought he knew, guilty of the highest crimes." Upon which the archbishop,

in great rage, and with many reproaches, left him, and either prefently, or upon the next opportunity, told the king, "that he now knew who was his great counsellor for making his park, and that he did not wonder that men durft not represent any arguments to the contrary, or let his majefty know how much he fuffered in it, when fuch principles in divinity and law were laid down to terrify them;" and fo recounted to him the conference he had with the lord Cottington, bitterly inveighing against him, and his doctrine, mentioning him with all the fharp reproaches imaginable, and befeeching his majefty, that his counfel might not prevail with him, taking fome pains to make his conclufions appear very false, and ridiculous

The king faid no more, but," My lord, you are deceived, Cottington is too hard for you; upon my word he hath not only dif fuaded me more, and given more reasons against this bufinefs, than all the men in England have done, but hath really obstructed the work by not doing his duty, as I commanded him, for which I have been very much displeased with him: you fee how unjustly your paffion hath tranfported you." By which reprehenfon he found how much he had been abused, and refented it accordingly.

Whatsoever was the caufe of it, this excellens man, who ftood not upon the advantage ground before, from the time of his promoMion to the archbishopric, or rather from that

of

of his being commiffioner of the treasury, exceedingly provoked, or underwent the envy, and reproach, and malice of men of all qualities and conditions; who agreed in nothing elfe all which, though well enough known to him, were not enough confidered by him, who believed, as moft men did, the government to be fo firmly fettled, that it could neither be fhaken from within, nor without, and that lefs than a general confufion of law and gofpel, could not hurt him; which was true but he did not foresee how eafily that confufion might be brought to pafs, as it proved hortly to be, as we have already related.

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THE LIFE OF

EDMUND LUDLOW.

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DMUND LUDLOW, a ringleader of the republican-party, in the civil wars of the last century, was defcended from a family of confiderable rank, originally feated in Shropshire; but removing thence, it afterwards fettled in Wiltshire: and he was born at Maiden-Bradley in that county, about the year 1620.

His parents, refolving to give him an education faitable to his birth, fent him from fchool to Trinity-college in Oxford; where, having gone through the ufual academical ftudies, he took the degree of batchelor of arts, November 14, 1636. After which he was removed to the Temple, in order to acquire a competent knowledge in the laws and conflitution of his country, fo as to recommend him to a feat in parliament, where his anceftors had frequently reprefented the county,

His behaviour was anfwerable to the hopes and expectations of his father, Sir Henry Ludlow, knight, who being chofen for the county in the long parliament, which met the third of November 1640, and entering with great zeal into the party against the court, his con

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