(Edmund), son of Sir Henry Ludlow, was born at Maidenhead, and educated in Trinity college, Oxford. His father opposing the king's interest, Mr Ludlow joined with the same party, and was present at the battle of Edgehill as a volunteer under the earl of Essex. Upon the death of his father, he was chosen knight of the shire for Wilts, and obtained the command of a regiment of horse for the defence of that county. He was one of king Charles I.'s judges; after whose death he was sent by the parliament into Ireland, in quality of lieutenant-general of the horse; which employment he discharged with diligence and success till the death of the lord-deputy Ireton, when he acted for some time as general, though without that title; Cromwell, who knew him to be sincerely in the interest of the commonwealth, always finding out some pretext to hinder the conferring of that character upon him. The last stroke had been given by Ludlow to the Irish rebellion, if the usurpation of Cromwell had not prevented it. Under his power he never acted; and though Cromwell used his utmost efforts, he remained inflexible. After Cromwell's death, he endeavoured to restore the commonwealth; Ludlow, wealth; but Charles II. being recalled, he thought proper to conceal himself, and escaped into Switzerland, where he settled. After the revolution, he came over into England, in order to be employed in Ireland against king James: but appearing publicly in London, it gave great offence; and an address was presented by Sir Edward Seymour to king William III. for a proclamation in order to apprehend colonel Ludlow, attainted for the murder of king Charles I. Upon this he returned to Switzerland, where he died. During his retirement in Switzerland, he wrote his Memoirs.

town of Shropshire in England, situated in W. Long. 2° 45'. N. Lat. 52° 28'. It stands at the conflux of the Teme and Corve; and had formerly a strong castle, inclosed by a wall a mile in compass. The president of the council of the marches, established by Henry VIII., generally kept his courts in it, by which the town was much benefited, these courts not having been abolished till the tit of William and Mary. Its neighbourhood to Wales makes it a great thoroughfare, and engages many of the Welch to send their children of both sexes to it for education. It was incorporated by Edward IV. and among other privileges has that of trying and executing criminals within itself. It is one of the neatest towns in England, with walls, and seven gates. From the castle on the top of the hill on which the town stands, is a most delightful prospect. In an apartment of the outer-gatehouse of the palace, Samuel Butler is said to have written the first part of Hudibras. Here Arthur, elder brother to Henry VIII. died, and was buried in the choir of the church. Without the town, on the north-side, stood anciently a rich priory; of which there are hardly any remains. The river Teme here has a good bridge over it, and dams or weirs across it. In the church are some old monuments of the lords preident, &c. The neighbouring country is exceeding pleasant, especially that part called Corve's-Dale, or the valley along the Corve.

Ludolph (Job), a very learned writer of the 17th century, was born at Erfurt in Thuringia. He travelled much, and was master of 25 languages; visited libraries, searched after natural curiosities and antiquities every where, and conversed with learned men of all nations. He published a history of Ethiopia, and other curious books.

Ludolph (Henry William), nephew of Job above-mentioned, was born at Erfurt in 1655. He came over to England as secretary to M. Leuth, envoy from the court of Copenhagen to that of London; and being recommended to prince George of Denmark, was received as his secretary. He enjoyed this office for some years, until he was incapacitated by a violent disorder; when he was discharged with a handsome pension: after he recovered, he travelled into Muscovy, where he was well received by the czar, and where his knowledge made the Muscovite priests suppose him to be a conjuror. On his return to London in 1694, he was cut for the stone; and as soon as his health would permit, in acknowledgment of the civilities he had received in Muscovy, he wrote a grammar of their language, that the natives might learn their own tongue in a regular method. He then travelled into the East, to inform himself of the state of the Christian church in the Levant; the deplorable condition of which induced him, after his return, with the aid of the bishop of Worcester, to print an edition of the New Testament in the vulgar Greek, to present to the Greek church. In 1709, when such numbers of Palatines came over to England, Mr Ludolph was appointed by queen Anne one of the commissioners to manage the charities raised for them; and he died early the following year. His collected works were published in 1712.

Lues, among physicians, is in general use for a disease of any kind; but in a more particular sense is restrained to contagious and pestilential diseases; thus the lues Gallicia or venerea, signifies the venereal disease. See (the Index to) Medicine.