Edmund, son of Sir Henry Ludlow, was born at Maidenhead, and educated in Trinity College, Oxford. His father being opposed to the king's interest, Mr Ludlow joined 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 the judges of Charles I. and after his death was sent by parliament into Ireland, in quality of lieutenant-general of the horse, an employment which he discharged with diligence and success until the death of the lord-deputy Tyrone, 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 found out some pretext to evade conferring that office upon him. The last stroke would have been given by Ludlow to the Irish rebellion, if the usurpation of Cromwell had prevented it. Under his power he never acted; and though Cromwell used his utmost efforts to gain him, he remained inflexible. After Cromwell's death, he endeavored to restore the commonwealth; but Charles II. being recalled, he thought proper to conceal himself, and escaped into Switzerland, where he settled. After the revolution, he came over to England, in order to be employed in Ireland against King James; but having appeared publicly in London, it gave great offence, and an address was presented by Sir Edward Seymour to King William II praying for a proclamation in order to apprehend Colonel Ludlow, attainted for the murder of King Charles I. On this he returned to Switzerland, where he died. During his retirement in that country he wrote his Memoirs.

a borough and market town of the county of Salop, in the hundred of Munslow, 142 miles from London. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Teme and Cleddau, well built, paved, and lighted, and has a spacious town-hall, a neat hospital, and school-house. The ancient castle, now in a state of dilapidation, was formerly used by the president of the court of the marches of Wales, and has been immortalized as the theatre of the first display of the poetic powers of Milton. The corporation consists of high bailiff, two justices, twelve aldermen, and twenty-four common-council men. It is represented by two members in the House of Commons. The quarter-sessions for the county are held here, as well as a court of record for the borough. There are annual races, which are much attended. Ludlow is a cheap place, and has good markets on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 3897, in 1811 to 4150, in 1821 to 480, and in 1831 to 5253.

UDOLPH, Jon, a learned writer of the seventeenth century, was born at Erfurt, in Thuringia. He travelled much, was master of twenty-six languages, visited libraries searched everywhere after natural curiosities and antiquities, and conversed with learned men of all nations. He published a History of Ethiopia, and other curious books.

UDOLPH, Henry William, nephew of Job above mentioned, was born at Erfurt in 1655. He came to England as secretary to M. Lenthe, envoy from the court of Copenhagen to that of London; and being recommended to Prince George of Denmark, he was received by that prince 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 had recovered, he travelled into Muscovy, where he was well received by the czar, and where his knowledge led the ignorant Muscovite priests to believe him 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 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, in order to present it 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 in the following year. His collected works were published in 1712.