Louis, running after Charles 

 Calls, stay, O King, do slay. 



If you'll stop running after peace 

 I've lots of gold lo pay, 



And pow'r to trample Holland down 

 Until in ruins she lay. 



But King if you desert me 



My nerve and plan will fail. 



De Ruyter on my open coast 

 His wooden horse will sail. 



.\nd thebrassof the Fearsome Tromp 

 Will descend in a deadly hail. 



Figure 8. — Cartoon depicting Charles II, Louis XIV, and the states of 

 Holland on the matter of peace or war (1677?). From Catalogue of Prints and 

 Drawings in the British Museum, Division I (1870), no. 1055. Printed at right 

 is the poem as translated by Mrs. Juliette .S. Bevis. Photo courtesy of the 

 Trustees of the British Museum. 



Governor by saying that he was perjured and had 

 broke several Laws." When Liidwell admitted the 

 scandalous nature of his charges but pleaded their 

 truth as a defense and asked for a jury to decide 

 whether in fact JefTreys had broken the laws of the 

 colony, the Governor became enraged. Ludwell's 

 defense was so far ahead of its time that it could not be 

 accepted by the other members of the Council, who 

 were sitting as a general court. However, the court, 

 in accordance with "the Laws and Constant known 

 proceeding of this Colony," did allow Ludwell to 

 appeal from its decision to the Assembly.*' This 

 concession caused Jeffreys, who wanted the case re- 

 ferred to the King, to denounce the councilors for 

 showing themselves to "Valine the Power and lawes 

 of A few Ignorant Planters mett in An Assembly for 

 this Government to be of greater Authority, then his 

 most Sacred Majesty and his Council!." ■" 



" Washburn, op. eit. (footnote 19), pp. 134, 233-234. 

 P.A.PER 17: THE EFFECT OF B.A.CON's REBELLION 



In another case Jeffreys found himself opjiosed by 

 James Bray, one of four councilors whom the Governor 

 had highhandedly dismissed without formal charges. 

 Bray, in a written statement presented to the Council 

 on September 26, 1677, stated: 



Cheifly in defence of the Rights Priviledges and Honor 

 of the Kings Councill of State in this Country I have 

 Thought it Necessary to make my Addresse to This Honor- 

 able Court and without Arrogancie Ambition or Other 111 

 meaning to Demand iny Place and Priviledgc in This Seat 

 of Judicature being a Court Appoynted b\- Law where the 

 Councellors of State are Injoyned to give their .\uendance 

 without LawfuU Occasion Preventing them, not but that 

 I most Redily Comply and submit to be Ousted Degraded 

 and Rejected being Lawfully Convicted by this Honorable 

 Court of Crimes merriting such Indignities and Dishonor. 



" Herbert JefTreys to Henry Coventry [?], -Vpril 2, 

 Longlcat, vol. 78, folios 216-217, quoted in Washburn, 

 (footnote 19), p. 134. 



1678, 

 op. cit. 



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