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A44224	Dr. Hollingworth's defence of K. Charles the First's holy and divine book, called Eikon basilikē against the rude and undutiful assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex proving by living and unquestionable evidences, the aforesaid book to be that royal martyr's, and not Dr. Gauden's.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2503; ESTC R13677	14,190	32

the Suspicions of the Truth of his Book he frankly told me and assured me the Truth of this Story That in the year 47 the King having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book and having writ in some loose Papers at different times desired Bishop Juxon to get some Friend of his whom he could commend to him as a trusty person to look it over and put it into an exact method The Bishop pitched upon Sir John's Father whom he had been acquainted withal for many years who undertaking the Task was assisted by this his Son who declared he sate up some Nights with his Father to assist him in methodizing these Papers all writ with the King 's own Hand Which Story upon the coming out of my Book did so nettle the Enemies of King Charles that Sir John was presently pestered with Penny-Post Letters the usual way of that Party when any thing crosses their Designs and gave him such a disturbance that presently they raised a Story about Town that Sir John had denied the thing and consequently I had abused the World with a Tale of my own inventing upon hearing of which I went the next morning to Sir John's House in the Tower and not finding him at home by good Providence in my return met him under Aldgate and walking with him down towards Crouched Fryers I told him what I had heard and desired to know whether he had said any such thing Sir John presently without haesitation told me that all I had printed was true but was troubled at my printing of it because of the Trouble he had with these Penny-Post Letters at which I was not so much concerned because I thought it an Honour to Sir John to have any hand in vindicating his old Master and did think the Cause I was engaged in would defend me from any Imputation of Undecency in not asking his Leave to print a Story which he told without any Obligation to silence and in company of another person a worthy Citizen as well as my self but to do Sir John Justice I must acknowledge that what he said to me as to the truth of what I writ in his Name he hath said to all my Friends ever since that have had the opportunity of conversing with him and talking about this Affair And now let us see what Dr. Walker says to this why truly he does as good as tell me that I have contradicted my self when I assert the Book was delivered by the King to Bishop Juxon and the same Book sent by the King to Mr. Simmons He says They cannot both be true if that not this if this not that they are so contrary pag. 2. Good God! how fast will some men shut their Eyes when seeing the Light would make them write and speak Truth A man of very ordinary Parts and of an honest Mind might at first sight fee no manner of inconsistency in these two Stories for in plain terms I tell you Bishop Juxon received the most considerable part of the Book to methodize by his Friend Dab as he in familiarity called Sir John's Father in 47 and the King sent it to Mr. Simmonds in 48 so that here is a full Years difference betwixt the one and the other But poor Dr. Walker knew very well what sort of mens Cause he was carrying on and that a bare telling of them I had contradicted my self would be enough for they presently run away with a Scandal though never so gross and groundless without any further examination Further he questions Sir John's Memory and talks of his Youth to invalidate the Story but that is so great an Affront to all the young Gentlemen and Apprentices in London who at the age of Nineteen are so very much employed and trusted in their Masters Books and Accounts that I leave them to vindicate Sir John upon the score of helping his Father in a thing of such a Nature as this was at such an Age. And as for his doubting whether Bishop Juxon ever saw the King from the beginning of the War till his Murther pray who can believe that a person who had been so obliged by his Master as Bishop Juxon was would not take a days Journey to visit his Royal Master at Hampton-Court when the Army caressed him at that great rate and suffered access to him by all forts of Persons even the Marquess of Ormond himself who had so stoutly appear'd against them And this is all I have to say as to Sir John Brattle and that he told me this I will depose upon Oath whenever I am lawfully recalled The next thing I shall discourse upon is the Story of Mr. Simmonds I say in my Postscript That King Charles sent his Book to Mr. Simmonds to peruse and correct he having writ so excellent a Vindication of him as indeed it is the best I ever saw and which I wish were reprinted and that Mr. Simmonds upon the reading of it sent for Dr. Gauden shewed it him and who was so taken with it that he borrowed it transcribed it and so returned it back to his loving Neighbour again which Story I had from the Reverend and my Worthy Friend Dr. Meriton who does not use to tell Stories of this high nature without very good Grounds but that which confirmed me in the belief of this Account was this namely That Dr. Meriton dining the latter end of the last year with the late Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Pilkington happened to meet with Dr. Walker at the same Table where Dr. Walker was pleased with his usual Confidence to assert Dr. Gauden the Author of the King's Book upon which Dr. Meriton turned upon him with this Story of Mr. Simmonds communicating the whole thing to Dr. Gauden upon which he was so confounded that he had nothing to say for himself and though if none but Dr. Meriton himself had declared to me the issue of their Debate it would have satisfied me Yet the further satisfaction I had from my Worthy Friend Mr. Marriot then Chaplain to the Lord Mayor and Minister of the Parish Church in Rood Lane who stood by and heard the whole Discourse and withal the Silence he put Dr. Walker to which he professed to my self gave me so full a satisfaction that upon that account I ventured to give the World an account of it in Print After this in January last a Reverend Friend Mr. Jonas Warley Vicar of Witham in Essex coming to Town was pleased to let me know by a Paper of Directions where Mrs. Simmonds the Widow of the aforesaid Loyal Sufferer lived whom according to the Directions I found at the same place where after telling her that I heard she was such a man's Widow once and she acknowledging it I asked her whether she knew any thing of the King's Book and how far her Husband was concerned in it she presently answer'd me that going into her Husband's Study she saw upon the Table a Book in writing which she knew

Dr. HOLLINGWORTH'S DEFENCE OF K. CHARLES the First 's Holy and Divine Book called ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ Against the Rude and Undutiful Assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex PROVING By Living and Unquestionable Evidences the aforesaid Book to be that Royal Martyr's and not Dr. Gauden's Imprimatur Maii 2. 1692. Carolus Alston R. P. D. Hen. Episc Lond. à Sacris London Printed for Samuel Eddowes under the Piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1692. To the READER Reader IT is a thing of very sad consideration to all wise and good men in the Nation to think that at this time of the day when we have a noble Prince brandishing his Sword abroad and as noble a Princess indefatigably attending the publick Affairs at home in order to preserve the Religion and Laws of their Country that there should be a Generation of Men at the same time rendring them their Thanks for all Their Care and Pains by villifying their Grandfather and extolling every scurrilous Pamphlet that lessens the deserved Honour and Reputation of that great and good man What this means and what it is designed for every man that hath but half an Eye in his Head may easily see And tho' many of their pretences of Love and Duty to Their present Majesties are very great yet it is plain these Attempts upon the Name and Memory of K. Charles I. are in order to a Common-wealth or else to bring the Monarchy to the Standard of Venice or Genoua and therefore I think no man is to be blamed at this time for standing up for the ancient Constitution of the Kingdom and in order to it for defending that Prince who notwithstanding all unjust Reflections did grant as much nay more for preserving it than any King that had reigned before him which he that reads over his History impartially must needs confess or else I am sure he must wilfully shut his Eyes against the clearest Light for I am certain there was nothing offered him that could make the Kingdom truly happy but he was willing to hearken to it and comply with it By what means all his Condescentions proved in vain it is the easiest thing to understand a few proud and ambitious persons had got the Power in their Hands by their Interest in a corrupt and enthusiastical Army and rather than return to their old stations again they chose to break through all the Guards and Fences of Law all the Oaths they had taken and against the Sence the Petitions and earnest Desires of the Nation in general to imbrew their Hands in their Prince's Blood an action for which the Honour of the Kingdom has been stained ever since But that after all this and the Ruines that one Act has brought upon us we of this Age should be so mad and intoxicated as to vindicate it and appland every thing that justifies that horrid Murder is a thing I may say without a parallel and causes great thoughts of heart amongst all disereet and thinking men and withal that such a Book as Dr. Walker's late Book against King Charles's incomparable Writings should be so magnified and applanded has to my own knowledge as much amazed as well as grieved a great part of the Subjects of this Kingdom and therefore I thought it necessary for the casing the minds of those good men to let the World see what a Forgery that Book of Dr. Walker's was and if honest plain and living Testimonies will convince his Admirers I am sure I shall now do it I have omitted in this Answer many Inconsistencies in the Dr's Book because I was resolved to dwell upon matter of Fact and withal I have forborn returning those Scurrilities and Scorns he has loaded me withal upon himself for I consider'd him as dead and therefore have been as civil to him as the nature of my Undertaking would allow me and I wish with all my Heart he had survived the publishing his Book that he might have had time to have repented of such an unseasonable false and undutiful a Book as this of his is whereby he has gratified none but the great Enemies of Monarchy and Episcopacy Reader I have but one thing more to add and that is if any man question the Truth of those living Evidences I have quoted if he pleases to come to me I will wait upon him to them and he shall have satisfaction from themselves of the Truth of what I have writ The God of Heaven and Earth restore all the People of this Nation to sound Minds to impartial Considerations of Persons and Things especially of the Person and Cause of King Charles the First that so we may not be disappointed of our hopes and expectations of Success this Summer by Sea and Land by provoking God by vindicating the barbarons dealings of a base Faction with him for he that vindicates them repeats and as far as he is able commits them over again which I am sure is a great Sin and without great Mercy will have a suitable Punishment one time or other from Heaven Farewel King CHARLES the First 's ἘΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ OR THE Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitude and Sufferings VINDICATED THERE is a Book lately publish'd that hath made a great noise in the City and Country and hath occasion'd a great many false and spiteful Reflections upon my self which I must tell the World I am so far from being really burthen'd with the Thoughts of that I look upon them as the greatest Honour done to me and to my Memory when I am dead and gone considering it is for an honest and seasonable Zeal for the Honour and Reputation of King Charles the First whose Name notwithstanding all villanous and designing Reflections will smell sweet to all Ages and Generations to come How this Book hath been bought up and carried up and down in Triumph all men of any Observation know and all good men are grieved at it And now the Point is gained and that for which that Great King was so highly venerated so deservedly applauded and indeed upon the score of which the greatest part of his Actions were vindicated is now proved a Cheat and a Forgery and therefore he truly is guilty of what by the then Parliament was laid to his Charge and made the reason of their War against him and at last of the Murther of him This is sad News in deed if it can be unquestionably made out and those many of us that have defended the Interest and Innocence of this King have great cause to lay our Hands upon our Breasts and say What have we done But stay a little bare Assertions and Accusations were never yet amongst Wise and Good Men admitted as satisfactory Proofs and therefore this Book must be consider'd and examined and weighed in a just and proper Ballance before we down upon our Knees and acknowledge our Faults for defending and standing up for this good and admirable Person And therefore I so far