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A44222	The death of King Charles I proved a down-right murder, with the aggravations of it in a sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3 : to which are added, some just reflections upon some late papers, concerning that King's book / by Rich. Hollingworth.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing H2501; ESTC R13678	16,735	43

to do it No no they could not perpetrate this Act before they had broke in upon the whole Frame and Constitution of the Government and they made their way to it by the most undutiful rude and barbarous Acts that History almost can parallel For at that very time when the good King had made such Concessions as the House of Commons Voted a ground for Peace and when the tired and harrassed Nation expected their Swords to be turned into Plow-shares and the Spears into pruning books at that time did an insolent Army through Pride Covetousness and Perjury violently assault their Masters who had set them on Work and all along paid them their Wages and stop'd and laid hold of many of the Members as they were going into the House and put them under a restraint even to such a number that very few considering of what number the House ought to consist did remain behind which Few notwithstanding took upon them the Name of the People of England and in a short time after some Votes which rooted up and destroyed the very Fundamentals of our Government Voted the Tryal of the King as a Traytor and named Commissioners to sit upon him and when they sent the Bill to the Lords for their concurrence who nobly rejected it for so doing they Voted away all the Authority of the House of Lords tho' it be by our Constitution the Highest Court of Judicature in the Kingdom By such unheard of and Barbarous Ways they made way for the King's Tryal and at last for his inhumane Death And now I appeal to any Man of Sense Reason or Religion whither this was not a real Murder and I ask with what Brow any Man that pretends a Love for his Countreys Constitution can advocate and plead for such an illegal Act an Act of a few Men who took upon them an Authority our Law knows nothing of But to put the thing out of doubt and to satisfie you to the full that this was a real Murder I will give you an Abstract of the Act made by the Parliament upon the Restoration of King Charles the Second many of the Members of which were persons excluded by the Army in order to the violent cutting off King Charles the First They declare in that Act That The horrid and execrable Murder of our late most gracious Soveraign King Charles the First of ever-blessed and glorious Memory hath been committed by a party of wretched Men desperately wicked and hardned in their impiety who-having first plotted and contrived the ruine and destruction of our excellent Monarchy and with it the True Reformed Protestant Religion which had been long protected by it and flourished under it to carry on their pernicious and traiterous designs threw down all the Fences and Bulworks of Law subverted the very Being and Constitution of Parliaments that they might have a way opened for any further attempt upon the Sacred Person of his Majesty Further they declare That by many odious Acts they had fully strengthened themselves in Power and Faction seiz'd upon his Royal Person erected a prodigious and unheard of Tribunal which they called an High Court of Justice for Tryal of his Majesty and at last with force and cruelty they brought his Sacred Majesty to the Scaffold and there publickly Murdered him before the Gates of his own Royal Palace And because by this horrid Action the Protestant Religion hath received the greatest Wound and reproach and the People of England the most unsupportable Shame and Infamy that it was possible for the enemies of God and the King to bring upon us Further it says The Fanatick rage of a few miscreants who were as far from being True Protestants as they were from being True Subjects Therefore we the Parliament do hereby renounce abominate and protest against that impious Fact that execrable Murther and unparallel'd Treason committed against the Sacred Person and Life of our said late Sovereign and all proceedings thereunto And be it hereby declared that by the undoubted and fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Peers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the People collectively nor representatively nor any other Person whatsoever ever had have or ought to have a coercive Power over the persons of the Kings of this Realm And for the vindicating our selves and as a lasting Monument to Posterity of our inexpressible detestation and abhorrence of this Villanous and Abominable Fact Be it Enacted that every 30th of January shall be for over hereafter set a part to be kept and observed in all Churches and Chappels in his Majesties Dominions as an Anniversary day of Fasting and Humiliation to implore the Mercy of God that neither the Guilt of the Sacred and Innocent Bloud may at any time hereafter be visited upon Vs and our Posterity Then it goes on to Attaint as Traitors and Regicides Oliver Cromwel Edmund Ludlow c. as notorious Wicked and Active Instruments in prosecuting and compassing that Trayterous Murder And now my Beloved I hope when the Wisdom of the Nation in Parliament has declared it self so fully and freely I say I hope there is none in this Congregation will deny this Fact to be a real and down-right Murder in the sense of my Text. Give me leave in the next place to show you the Aggravations of this Murder that so you may be affected with it and thereby answer the Reason of the Day and the design of those that appointed it and consequently help to the keeping of that Divine Vengeance which other mens justifying and abetting of it may justly pull down upon our heads And the truth of it is the Aggravations are great and many and surmount all my little Rhetorick to make a just description of but however as far as I am able I will give you them I. Consider the Aggravation from the Persons that contrived and accomplished this horrid Murder they were Men that had sworn true Faith to him again and again who had taken the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance who took the Protestation by which they promised to defend and secure the King 's Rights who took the Covenant by which they engaged at the same rate and to the same purposes Men that had consented to Messages upon Messages Petitions upon Petitions under the Name and Notion of His Majesty's most humble and dutiful Subjects who aimed at nothing and called God to witness they had nothing more in their eyes than the safety honour and welfare of His Majesty's Person and Government and yet these Men embrue their hands in His Bloud and break through all the Ties and Obligations these Oaths laid upon them in order to kill and take possession of what he had Now certainly my Beloved this thing ought mightily to be bewailed upon this account and God must needs be angry with that People who magnifie and vindicate not only the shedding of Righteous Bloud but the working their way to it

were brought to his Father by the King's Order by Bishop Juxon for that purpose or weigh down the credit of that holy honest and couragious Sufferer Mr. Simmonds All which Characters will appear in a few Weeks to be true of him by his Book called The Vindication of King Charles the First which was Printed in 48. and now Re-printed again by my self who all along in his Sickness and to his last Breath declared it to be the King 's own Book and none others whose only fault was in the trust reposed in him by the King to Print and Correct this Book that he showed it to Dr. Gauden and let him too much into the knowledge of it who thereupon Mr. Simmonds being dead and the Marquess of Worcester too who if living could have disproved to his shame all his Pretences in order to serve his ambitious ends sets up for the Author of the Book Or lastly weigh down the Evidence of the Reverend Mr. Long who so sacredly has declared that he heard Dr. Gauden declare and often affirm that he was fully convinced that the Book was entirely that King's Work I now my good Friends appeal to you all to judge betwixt these so much cryed-up Papers and the Evidence against them for that great and good King and I leave my self in your hands and the hands of all the dis-interested and unprejudiced part of the Kingdom to judge whether I am guilty of Forgery that great sin a late Barbarous Libeller lays to my charge I shall detain you no longer than to tell you That the reason of my Zeal and Labour in the Vindication of this King next to my satisfaction in his Personal Vertues it that the Principles by which this King was Murdered and by which his Murder is now justified will if they prevail once more destroy our English Ancient Monarchy and tear up by the Roots again the best constituted Church in the World and by the Grace of God as I will never contribute to such a Design so according to my small Ability I will in my place endeavour to prevent it let what will come of Me and Mine My good Neighbours praying for your Health and Happiness and thanking of you for your continued kindness to me I am your hearty loving Friend and Minister RICH. HOLLINGWORTH TO THE Counterfeit LUDLOW SIR WHereas you challenge me as to the Truth of the Story concerning Mrs. Gauden to a Lady if you please to come or send to me I will direct you to that Reverend Person who will satisfie you that a Lady told him above sixteen years ago that Mrs. Gauden told her That she questioned the Eternal State of her Husband because he pretended to be the Author of a Book which to her knowledge he never wrote And when you know him you will say I am not out when I say He is as considerable a Person as most that wears a Gown Imprimatur Guil. Lancaster Good Reader YEsterday being the 15th of February a very Worthy and particular Friend of mine was pleased to come to my house and to inform me That one Captain Rhodes together with his Mother could give me a farther account of King Charles the First 's Book upon which I gave the said Captain a meeting the last Night who was pleased to invite me to his House this afternoon being the 16th instant where and when the Mother a grave serious Gentlewoman did declare to me that her Husband Dr. Rhodes Minister of Haughton and Thorpe near Newark did live in Newark in the time it was a Garison while the King was there and that the King came often to her House to discourse with her Husband and that her Husband did conduct the King in a disguise from Newark to Oxford and was with him often from that time till his being a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight where he attended him also in all which places he saw those parts of the King's Book which he then drew up Written with his own hand being so intimate with the King and so intirely beloved by him as to be admitted into his Closets and secret Communications all which her Husband often told her as great Truths and the said Captain her Son did declare to me which he will when lawfully called restifie upon Oath that he was in company with Sir Francis Leake and one Major Millington a Sectary and his Father when a discourse arising about this Book his Father solemnly laid his Hand upon his Breast and said upon the Word of an Honest Man I have at several times and in several places seen and read these Papers Writ with the King 's own hand This Captain Rhodes and his Mother live in Mansel-street in Goodman's Fields within two doors of the Green Man and will justifie the Truth of what I have said to any that have the curiosity to ask them And now Mr. Ben. Hatley who against Faith and Promise exposed these false and ridiculous Papers to publick View at the Rummer in Queen-street and suffered a silly abstract to be taken by the Counterfeit Ludlow much good may your Design do you though I assure you Dr. Gauden's Relations have no reason to thank you MATTHEW XIX 18. Jesus said Thou shalt do no Murder WHEN God Created Man He designed that his Issue and Posterity should live in Love and Peace with one another mutually Helping and Assisting each other according to their several Necessities and Straits and therefore when Cain rose up against his Brother Abel and embrued his Hands in his Bloud the great God to shew his abhorrence and detestation of the Sin tells him that the Voice of his Brother's Bloud was come to Him from the ground and in Judgment makes him a Vagabond and a Wanderer and afterwards makes a standing Law in order to deterr Men from a Sin that did so break in upon the Reason of his Creation and the Laws of Society That whosoever did shed Man's Bloud by Man should his Bloud be shed And when He gave the Ten Commandments by the hands of Moses to the Children of Israel He inserted this for one Exod. 20. That he should not kill And our Saviour who came to fulfil all Righteousness and as He tells us himself Matth. 5. Not to destroy but to fulfil the Law namely To set things in a clearer Light to found the Practice of them upon Nobler Principles to carry them to Nobler Ends and to give Men greater Spiritual Aids and Assistances to perform them than the Jews had under the Paedagogy of Moses He repeats and justifies this particular Law making the observance of it one of the conditions of Eternal Life and tells the Man in the words of my Text Thou shalt do no Murder In the handling of which Words I will briefly fix the true Notion of Murder of Killing our fellow Creatures those of the same Rank and Order of Being with our selves and then see whether the Murder we are appointed by the Wisdom of the

Religion as professed in the Church of England and no doubt would have maintained its Interest and Honour both at home and abroad by Virtue of the Principles of their Education which must without all dispute have taught them to Love and Honour to Support and Strengthen the Protestant Interest over all these Western Parts of the World and therefore we must thank these Murderers of this Good King for the misfortunes of the last Reign and for the Fears that are upon us at present And now having proved the Murder and shewed you the Aggravations of it give me leave to ask you whither we ought not to be serious in the observation of this Day And whether they be not great Offenders and bad Men that ridicule the Day and call it in scorn the madding Day Whether they be not Men of mischievous and provoking Principles that still continue to assert and justifie this barbarous Act And whether we may not expect great Judgments to fall upon us upon this account Come therefore my Beloved let us all seriously bethink our selves and consider what great reason we have to do every thing that tends to pacifie Divine Wrath at this time and to procure His Prefence to go along with us You all know that we have at this time the greatest and dearest things that belong to us lye at stake to wit our Religion and our Laws we have a potent Enemy to encounter who yet scorns us and bids defiance to all the conjoyned Forces on this side Europe an Enemy who if he prevails will certainly bring us into the condition of his own Subjects both as to Religion Liberty and Property and therefore Oh! thou good God give us the Interposals and Watchfulness of Thy Providence lend us Thy mighty helping Hand in this our time of Trouble let us be under Thy Conduct and Guidance and preserve still our Noble Prince and let him be under the shadow of Thy Wings and make his Enemies to flee before him And blessed are as the Psalmist says the People that are in such a case and who thus have the Lord for their God I but my beloved tho God is ready to help us yet he hath proposed conditions on our part in order to an interest in his Power and Presence we must eschew Evil and do Good we must forsake the wickedness of our ways we must not speak evil of Dignities nor curse the King no not in our hearts we must not shed Innocent Bloud nor vindicate and justifie it when it is done If we are resolved upon such courses as these are we must expect to be dealt withal by the great God accordingly we must follow the example of David and cry Deli●●● us from Bloud guiltiness O God thou God 〈◊〉 Salvation And beg that we may be warned throughly from this sin and cleansed from this iniquity I this is the way to have success attend our Counsels and our Engagements both by Land and Sea Give me leave to speak plainly to you and I hope those if there be any such as I am satisfied there are that came with a design to make themselves merry here to day with our preaching and praying will go away with better and more serious Thoughts and that because the happiness of their Countrey is concerned in their holy and pious resentments of and indignation against this horrid Murder But if all this will not prevail with you give me leave to tell these sort of Men that are resolved to abuse this great Martyr and laugh at the observation of the Day that at the same time they abuse the King and the Queen who this Day solemnly observe it that they abuse the Two Houses of Parliament who have appointed Preachers to set out affect them with the sin of the Day And withal let me tell you notwithstanding all their professions of Honour to and kindness for King William and Queen Mary yet they are unmannerly and clownish ill bred and rude persons for if King Charles I had had no personal Vertues to recommend him to the World yet methinks they should be so civil and so far make good their pretensions of Honour and Affection to K. William and Q. Mary as at least to hold their Tongues and keep them from railing against him and that barely because he was the King and Queen's Grandfather And now tho' I have said so much as I am sure will convince all good men yet I am satisfied there are a Generation of Men will not cease to vent their rage against this great Prince and in order to it have very lately cryed up and triumphed in a discovery of some Papers which seem to rob him of the glory and honour of being Author of his excellent Book which Papers I have read and find them Romantick and vain-glorious making a simoniacal offer in order to obtain the best Bishoprick in England and withal so contradictory to plain evidence two years before they are pretended to be writ by the Author and so vastly different from the noble Air and Stile and Spirit of that excellent Book that I do here in the face of this Congregation challenge the Party to Print the Papers and do assure them they shall have a just Examination and Consideration in a due and convenient time and this great King's Memory will still be preserved by that great and excellent Book which indeed it is almost impossible to believe any man could write but he that was in his Circumstances and Condition and under such Thoughts as such a Condition when Sanctified is usually attended withal FINIS