In an age of perfidy and levity, he had, amidst manifold temptations and dangers, adhered firmly to the principles of his youth.

His enemies could not deny that his life had been consistent, and that with the same spirit with which he had stood up against the Stuarts he had stood up against the Cromwells.
There was but a single blemish on his fame: but that blemish, in the opinion of the great majority of his countrymen, was one for which no merit could compensate and which no time could efface.

His name and seal were on the death warrant of Charles the First.
After the Restoration, Ludlow found a refuge on the shores of the Lake of Geneva.

He was accompanied thither by another member of the High Court of Justice, John Lisle, the husband of that Alice Lisle whose death has left a lasting stain on the memory of James the Second.

But even in Switzerland the regicides were not safe.