A Letter from Major General Ludlow to Sir E. S. : comparing the tyranny of the first four years of King Charles the Martyr, with the tyranny of the four years reign of the late abdicated king : occasioned by the reading Doctor Pelling's lewd harangues upon the 30th of January, being the anniversary or general madding-day.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ludlow, Edmund, active 1691-1692.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pelling, Edward, -1718.

Pelling, Edward.

Great Britain--History--Charles I, 1625-1649--Pamphlets.

Great Britain.

History.

Great Britain--History--James II, 1685-1688--Pamphlets.

Genre:

Pamphlets.

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 30 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : [publisher not identified], printed Anno Domini 1691.

Notes:

Sir E. S. is Edward Seymour.

Signed Edmund Ludlow on p. 28.

"Postscript ... The prayer of King Charles, stiled, A prayer in time of captivity ... [and] The prayer of Pamela ... in Pembroke's Arcadia": p. 29-30, in parallel columns.

Ascription to Ludlow generally considered false.

Title page within woodcut borders.

Signatures: A-D⁴ (D4 blank).

With side- and shoulder-notes.

Local Notes:

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy with bookseller's description and a facsimile from the Dublin's Charter with a note about Ludlow laid in.

Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy: unbound; last blank leaf (D4) wanting.

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed.) L1489

OCLC:

19376276