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A62841	Amyntor, or, A defence of Milton's life containing I. a general apology for all writings of that kind, II. a catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles and other eminent persons ..., III. a complete history of the book entitul'd Icon basilike, proving Dr. Gauden and not King Charles the First to be the author of it, with an answer to all the facts alledg'd by Mr. Wagstaf to the contrary, and to the exceptions made against my Lord Anglesey's Memorandum, Dr. Walker's book or Mrs. Gauden's narrative, which last piece is now the first time publish'd at large.	Toland, John, 1670-1722.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712. Vindication of King Charles the martyr.; Gauden, John, 1605-1662. Eikon basilike, the pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in his solitude and sufferings.; Walker, Anthony, d. 1692. True account of the author of a book entituled Eikon basilike.	1699 (1699)	Wing T1760; ESTC R22638	52,206	178

King's Bed Chamber never saw him write a Syllable of this Book his Majesty he says being always in privat when he wrote and his Servants never coming into his Bed-Chamber till he call'd yet Mr. LEVET a Page of the Back Stairs often saw him write knew what he wrote and could read the Book when he pleas'd Then that the King who is said to value this Book more than all his Jewels should so carelesly leave it in his Bed-chamber when he was abroad and where Mr. HERBERT and others nay the very Soldiers might see it as well as Mr. LEVET is not very likely And lastly that the King should have so much leisure to mind this Book during a Treaty with his Subjects or would lose any time in writing of it when the Business in agitation concern'd no less than his re-establishment or Abdication is not credible besides that there is nothing particularly written concerning the Insolence of the Soldiers in all Icon Basilike And I have talk'd with Persons of Quality and good Reputation now alive who had much more of his Majesty's Company and Confidence in the Isle of Wight than Mr. LEVET either shar'd or could reasonably expect but yet they neither dreamt of this Business then nor believ'd a jot of it afterwards as well knowing how the King spent his time in that place But now supposing Mr. LEVET's Relation to be all true yet it is very from amounting to a Proof that King CHARLES the First was was the real Author of Icon Basilike which is the Point in question and not whether he interlin'd or transcrib'd it which he ought to have don if he had a mind it should pass for his own besides that Dr. GAUDEN sent it to him for that very purpose to be corrected allow'd or laid aside as his Majesty should think fit But tho' the King in all reason might and I really believe did correct or interline a part and perhaps transcribe the whole Book yet I can by no means be persuaded that he could find Leisure enough to write so many Copies of it in his Solitudes and Sufferings in the midst of Treaties in the Hurry of Removals while he meditated his Escape and was strictly observ'd by his Guards But these Gentlemen tell us of as many Copies as the Papists shew Heads of St. JOHN BAPTIST or Quarts of the Virgin MARY's Milk Mr. HERBERT had one left him by the King for a Legacy CHARLES the Second as Dr. CANARIFS writes to Mr. WAGSTAF shew'd another to Mr. WOOD a Commishoner from the Scotish Kirk at Breda and who knows which of these or whether it was either of them that Mr. LEVET deliver'd to the King at Hurst-Castle But why in the Name of God is none of these ever since produc'd How came this Prince's Autographs to be thus neglected when his Day is so strictly observ'd This is a Piece of Respect that 's usually paid to less considerable Persons and I believe either of the Universities would readily give Five Hundred Pounds to have such a Copy plac'd in their Library tho' if they had the Manuscript it would make nothing at all for their Purpose NOW let us consider the the Force of all those Testimonies join'd together which is that one saw the King write he knew not what but believ'd it might be this Book another observ'd him writing his Resentments against the rude Behavior of the Soldiers and so was ready to depose of his certain Knowledge that Icon Basilike was his own a third presumes the King might write it because he read a great many Books and they unanimously conclude that he was the genuin Author because the Book was written with his own Hand all which Testimonies considering the Promises prove no more nor less than that the King could write and read which was never deny'd by any that I know IT is further urg'd by the Admirers of this famous Book that Mr. ROYSTON had it to print as from the King in which all sides are agreed and signifies nothing to the Merits of the Cause for be sure the Bookseller was not made privy to the Secret And as for the Anonymous Authors of two Books which are alledg'd by Mr. WAGSTAF we shall hear and examin them when they 'll please to tell us their Names tho' all they have to say is answer'd already When Dr. HOLLINGWORTH tells us who are his sufficient Witnesses we shall likewise consider their Evidence for such Affirmations must go for nothing in proving a Fact of this Nature and may well serve for a Flourish but not for an Argument no more than several more Assertions of his concerning this Ma●ter which were exploded by other Hands and not defended by Mr. WAGSTAF MR. LE PLA Minister of Finchingfield writes to Dr. GOODAL that one WILLIAM ALLEN who collected his Tythes for two Years and was formerly a Servant to Dr. GAUDEN affirm'd to him That the Doctor told him he had borrow'd the Book and was oblig'd to return it by such a time that besides what other time he might imploy in it he sat up one whole Night to transcribe it that he sat up in the Chamber with him to wait upon him to make his Fires and snuff his Candles and Mr. LE PLA thinks for he 's not positive it was from Mr. SYMMONDS of Rayne that he said the Doctor had borrow'd the Book Dr. HOLLINGWORTH has formerly affirm'd this Story of SYMMONDS's who indeed assisted afterwards in printing the Book at London but was so far at this time from living at Rayne in the Neighborhood of Bocking where Dr. GAUDEN dwelt that as Dr. WALKER shews Mr. SYMMONDS was long before sequestred for his Loyalty fled to the King's Quarters and one Mr. ATKINS plac'd in his room by the Parliament Nor is it credible that Dr. GAUDEN whether he meant a a Fraud or not should give an Account of his Studies much less discover the Secret of this Book for no Reason in the World to never so trusty a Servant especially to one that was to look after his Fire and snuff his Candles NOW we com to the late King JAMES's Letters Patents to Mr. CHISWEL for Liberty to print his Father 's Works for they are urg'd as an Argument that he thought Icon Basilike genuin tho' this Book be not specially mention'd in these Letters which are general and refer not to those of his Brother in 60. But here I must beg Leave to relate a Story that will give som Light to this Matter In the Year 1677 the House of Commons having voted two Months Tax for the more dccent Interment of CHARLES I. and to raise a Monument for him Mr. CHISWEL being Mr. ROYSION's Son in law thought of a Project that would answer the End of the Parliament and not be unserviceable to his Father with whom he was concern'd in Trade and it was that a Part of that Sum might be appropriated towards bearing the Charge of an Impression of the King's Works

ought not to write his Life at all For what I pray is the principal Part of a Learned Man's Life but the exact History of his Books and Opinions to inform the World about the Occasion of his writing what it contain'd how he perform'd it and with what Consequences or Success I have no Reason from my own second Thoughts the Opinion of better Judges or the Fortune of the ●●ok to be dissatisfi'd with my Conduct on this Occasion And had this Method as I said before been strictly observ'd we might have more Knowledg and fewer Critics AY but say these Gentlemen you have made an Inroad on our Persuasion and directly attack'd the sacred Majesty of Kings the venerable Order of Bishops the best constituted Church in the World our holy Liturgy and decent Ceremonies the Authority of Councils the Testimony of the Fathers and a hundred other things which we profoundly respect and admire nor are we the only Sufferers for almost all other Sects and Parties have equal Reasons of Complaint against you Well be it so then but good Sirs betake your selves for Reparation to JOHN MILTON or if he is not to be brought to easie Terms defend your Castles and Territories against him with all the Vigor you can For I assure you I am no further concern'd in the Quarrel than to shew you the Enemy and to give a true Account of his Forces And all this if you were of a peaceable Disposition you might learn from these plain Words in the Conclusion of the Life 'T is probable that you as well as I or any other may disapprove of MILTON's Sentiments in several Cases but I 'm sure you are far from being displeas'd to find 'em particulariz'd in the History of his Life For we should have no true Account of Things if Authors related nothing but what they lik'd themselves One Party would never suffer the Lives of TARQUIN or PHALARIS or SYLLA or CAESAR to appear while another would be as ready to suppress those of CICERO of CATO of TRAJAN or BRUTUS But a Historian ought to conceal or disguise nothing and the Reader is to be left to judg of the V●tues he should imitat or the Vices he ought to detest and avoid THIS might serve for a sufficient Answer to all that has bin yet objected to MILTON's Life if any Reply were thought necessary For the trivial and scurrilous Libels of mercenary Fellows I shall never regard they being already sufficiently neglected by the World and making themselves as little by this Practice as any of a more vindictive Temper could desire Besides that to answer 'em in their own Dialect I must first learn to speak it which is absolutely contrary to my Genius and below the Dignity of Human Nature since no body openly approves it even at Billingsgate I shall as little consider the censorious Tongues of certain more Zealous than Religious People who judge of others by their own narrow Schemes and despise all Knowledge in comparison of their privat Imaginations wherein they exceedingly please themselves a Happiness no body envies them Nor should I if that were all think my self concern'd in making any Return to the obliging Complements of those Gentlemen who as Father PAUL formerly said of himself remember me oftner in their Sermons than in their Prayers tho' som of them are apt to say that when they mention Turks Iews In●idels and Heretics they do not forget me But when I am openly accus'd before the greatest Assembly in the World the Representative Body of the People of England let the Charge be never so frivolous in it self or to be slighted on any other Occasion yet such a Respect is due to the Dignity of those to whom it was exhibited that I hold my self oblig'd to convince 'em of my Innocence and to remove all Suspicion far from me of what in its own Nature is acknowledg'd to be Criminal or by them might be reputed Indecent THE Matter of Fact is this On the Thirtieth of Ianuary Mr. OFSPRING BLACKHALL who stiles himself Chaplain in Ordinanary to His Majesty Preacht a Sermon before the Honorable House of Commons wherein after exclaiming against the Author of MILTON's Life for denying Icon Basilike to be the Production of King CHARLES the First he pursues his Accusation in these Terms We may cease to wonder says he that he should have the Boldness without Proof and against Proof to deny the Authority of this Book who is such an Infidel as to doubt and is shameless and impudent enough even in Print and in a Christian Country publicly to affront our Holy Religion by declaring his Doubt that several Pieces under the Name of Christ and his Apostles he must mean those now receiv'd by the whole Christian Church for I know of no other are supposititious tho' thro' the remoteness of those Ages the Death of the Persons concern'd and the decay of other Monuments which might give us true Information the Spuriousness thereof is yet undiscover'd Here is indeed a Charge of a very high Nature I will not say in his own mean Language an impudent and a shameless one tho' if it be not better prov'd I cannot hinder others from calling it what they please or the thing deserves But before I proceed to make Observations on it I shall insert the intire Passage of my Book which he has taken the liberty of abridging and so joining the Words of two widely different Assertions as if they were but one About this little Artifice however I shall make no difference with him for I can easily determin our Controversie without using all the Advantages I might otherwise take AFTER stating the Proofs therefore that Dr. GAUDEN and not King CHARLES was the true Author of Icon Basilike I added a very natural Observation in the following Words When I seriously consider how all this happen'd among our selves within the Compass of Forty Years in a time of great Learning and Politeness when both Parties so narrowly watch'd over one anothers Actions and what a great Revolution in Civil and Religious Affairs was partly occasion'd by the Credit of that Book I cease to wonder any longer how so many supposititious Pieces under the Name of CHRIST his Apostles and other great Persons should be publish'd and approv'd in those Primitive times when it was of so much Importance to have 'em believ'd when the Cheats were too many on all sides for them to reproach one another which yet they often did when Commerce was not near so general as now and the whole Earth entirely over-spread with the Darkness of Superstition I doubt rather the spuriousness of several more such Books is yet undiscover'd thro the remoteness of those Ages the death of the Persons concern'd and the decay of other Monuments which might give us true Information Here then in the first place it is plain that I say a great many spurious Books were early father'd on CHRIST his Apostles and other great Names

he has seiz'd the Customs without any Act to impower him He never promis'd as King CHARLES did in a Letter to his Queen that he would take away all the Penal Laws against Roman Catholicks as soon as he should be able nor any thing else of this nature For these are only a few Instances not to blacken that Prince but to shew how little som sort of People seem to value his present Majesty for generously restoring the Constitution and for so willingly passing many excellent Laws for enlarging or securing the Liberty of his Subjects as well as for always paying such a Deference to Parliaments which he not only assembles willingly but likewise according to ancient Custom annually In short if King CHARLES the First was the best of Kings the late King JAMES is not half so bad as I think him Nor is there any Doubt if a second Restoration which God and all Freemen forbid should ever happen but that the Abdication-Day would be appointed as a perpetual Fast. What Mr. BLACKHALL thinks of dispensing with the Laws and acting without or contrary to them we may guess when he says That King CHARLES's greatest Enemies could not charge him with any Vice or Immorality as if only Whoring Drinking or Swearing were immoral Practices SINCE this King who truly was not the worst must needs be counted the best of Men I do not much wonder that Mr. LONG of Exeter was for having som Portions of his pretended Book read in the Church for the further enlightning of our Understanding Nor that Dr. PERINCHIFF should tell us in his Life how som purchas'd Chips of the Block on which he was beheaded and Parcels of the Sands discolor'd with his Blood as also som of his Hair Hoping continues he they would be a means of Cure for that Disease which our English Kings through the Indulgence of kind Heaven by their Touch did usually heal And it was reported that these Reliques experienc'd fail'd not of the Effect Now who can laugh at the Popish Legends and be serious when he reads this Passage Wheras if there was ●ver any Power in England of curing the King 's Evil it was plainly lodg'd in the People BEFORE I conclude I must remark that tho his pretended Friends were so ready to father such Books on CHARLES the First wherein he had no Hand yet they industriously left out of his Works a Letter to Pope GREGORY XV whereof I can prove him as evidently to be the Author as CICERO or VIRGIL may be entitul'd to the Philippicks and the Aeneids There is an interpolated Copy of it in the first Volum of RUSHWORTH's Collections It is rightly inserted in the Quarto Edition of a Book call'd Cabala or Mysteries of State It is also in the Italian Mercury of VITTORIO SIRI in Du CHESNE's French History of England Scotland and Ireland and in several Spanish and Italian Authors Pope URBAN VIII mentions it in the Letter which he likewise sent this Prince with another to his Father King JAMES both which may be read in RUSHWORTH's Collections Now was not the omitting of this Letter a notorious Fraud since that it alone with those Letters which the Parliament publish'd to disgrace him and a few Pieces besides make up all his genuin Writings For as to those Messages Propositions Declarations Treaties and other public Papers which fill that bulky Folio they call his Works whoever takes them to be his is likewise capable of believing he was the true Author of Icon Basilike THIS is all I had to write concerning this famous Book not to reflect on the Memory of CHARLES the First but in my own Vindication being a Liberty not deny'd me by Equity or Law and which if I neglected to improve I should be more unjust to my self than my Adversaries whose Malice I shall readily forget and heartily pray God to forgive FINIS Joh. 8. 5. * Dicit Augustinus de Consensu Evangel l. 1. c. 7. quod ipse Dominus ni●il scripserit ut aliis de illo scribentibus necesse sit credere † Salvator nullum volumen doctrinae s●ae proproprium dereliquit quod in plerisque Apochryphorum deliramenta confingunt Hieronym in Commentar ad Ezechielis cap. 44. * Origen contr Cels. l. 5. * Stromat l. 2. 5. Contra Cel● l. 1. de Princip l. 3. * Advers Haeres l. 4. c. 3 Stromat l. 1. 2. 4. 6. princip l. 1. c. 3. l. 2. c. 1. Homil. 10. in Hos. 〈◊〉 pa●sim † L. 1. contr Haeres Euseb. Hist. Eccles. l 4. c. 14. Phot. 〈◊〉 126. * Contra Haeres l 3. c. 3. Stromat l 1 4 5 6. De Princip l. 2. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 16 36. l. 4. c. 22 23. † Contra Haeres l. 5. c. 28. Hist. Eccles. l. 2. c. 26. * Hom●l 6. in Luc. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ep. ad Ephes. Luc. 1. 1 2 3. * 〈…〉 personas Evangel●i 〈◊〉 Haeres l. 3. 11. Ezek. 6 6 10. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 3. † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 25. * Let the third and twenty first Chapters of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius be consulted with what St. Ierome has written on the same Subject 〈…〉 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Origen l. 2 contra Ce●● † Solius hilii p●tatis testamentum non potuisse corrumpi solum non habere aliqu●d quod in se debea● imp obari p●aesertim q●o● n●c ab ipso scriptum constat nec ab ejus apostolis sed lonpo post tem●●●e à quib●idam ince●ti nominis viris qui ne 〈◊〉 non 〈…〉 scribent●bus qu●● 〈…〉 Apos●olo●um nomina partim eo●●m qu● 〈…〉 Scriptorum suorum 〈…〉 a●●eve●anies ●ecundum ●os se scripsisse quae sc ipserint Quo magis mihi videntur injuria gravi affe●●sse discipulos Christi quia quae dissona iidem repugnantia sibi scriberen● ea referrent ad ipsos secundum eos hae● scribere se promitterentur Evangelia quae tantis ●int reserta erro●ibus tantis contrarietatibus narrationum simul a●●●ntentiarum ut nec sibi pro●sas necinter se conveniant Quid ergo aliud est quam calumnia●i bonos Christi Discipulorum conco●dem c●tum in crimen devocare discordi●● Augustin contra Faust. l. 32. c. 2. * Multa à majoribus vestris eloquiis Domini nostri in●erta verba sunt quae 〈◊〉 signata ipsius cum ●jus f●de non congr●unt 〈◊〉 sertim quia ut jam saepe pr●batum à nobis 〈◊〉 nec ab ipso haec sunt 〈…〉 sed mu●●a post 〈…〉 quibus ipsis inter 〈…〉 judaeis per sama● 〈…〉 Qui tamen omnia eadem in Apostolo●um Domini conserentes nomina vel ●orum qui secu●i Apostolos viderentur errores ac mendacia sua secundum eos ●escripsisse mentiti sunt Augustin ibid. l. 33. c. 3. * Latitabant usque ad recentiora illa seu Traj●ni seu e●iam fortasse ●●driani tempora in

AMYNTOR OR A DEFENCE OF Milton's Life CONTAINING I. A general Apology for all Writings of that kind II. A Catalogue of Books attributed in the Primitive Times to JESUS CHRIST his Apostles and other eminent Persons With several important Remarks and Observations relating to the Canon of Scripture III. A Complete History of the Book Entitul'd Icon Basilike proving Dr. GAUDEN and not King CHARLES the First to be the Author of it With an Answer to all the Facts alledg'd by Mr. WAGSTAF to the contrary and to the Exceptions made against my Lord ANGLESEY's Memorandum Dr. WALKER's Book or Mrs. GAUDEN's Narrative which last Piece is now the first Time publish'd at large DI quibus imperium est animarum umbraeque Silentes Et Chaos Phlegethon Loca N●cle tacentia late Sit mihi fas audit a loqui Sit numine vestro Pandere res alta terra caligine mersa● Virg. Aen. 6. London Printed and are to be Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster M. DC.XC.IX     Errors Amendments Page 5. line 1● hose those 20. 5. Christ his Christ his 21. 4. Ceretum Ceretium 37. 19. Cophtic Coptic ●8 3. of of the 53. 15. Mat●hies Matthias 57. 15. Ex mple ●xample 65. 15. may be be any 66. 17. ●ittgius ●●itigius 101. 23. hop'd o hop'd to 105. 5. Consciences Conscience 113. 20. somtime Som time 131. 16. this his 137. 8. Mediations Meditations * In the Margin of Pag. 57 after Eus●bius 〈◊〉 lib. 3. and 〈◊〉 of first read fifth THE AUTHOR TO A FRIEND THE Public is so seldom interested in the Debates of privat Men and I am so little concern'd at the Malice or Mistakes of my Adversaries that without som better Motive I would never presume to trouble the World with any thing merely personal But if the Subject in question be of extraordinary Weight and Consequence and that on the certain Decision of it should depend the Tranquillity of a considerable number of People then I think a Man is indispensably oblig'd to appear for the Truth and so while he 's endeavoring to serve others no body will say he ought to neglect his own Defence Whether the Treatise I now send you be of this Nature is submitted to your equal Iudgment And unless I really design'd a Nobler End by it than the Iustification of one Person neither you nor any body else should lose your time in reading no more than I my self would be at the Pains of writing it which yet I 'll count the highest Pleasure if I understand it has never so little contributed to the Satisfaction of a Gentleman of such undisputed Learning and Merit March 30. 1699. J. T. AMYNTOR OR A DEFENCE OF Milton's Life WHEN I undertook to write the Life of the most celebrated MILTON I was far from imagining that I should ever much less so soon be oblig'd to make an Apology in justification of such a Work both harmless in it self and greatly desir'd by the World There was no positive Law or Custom against publishing the particular History of this extraordinary Person consider'd in any respect whatsoever for the Lives of Good Princes and Tyrants of Orthodox and Heretical Divines of Virtuous and Wicked of Public and Privat Men are indifferently perus'd by every body of which it would be superfluous to alledg Examples the thing being so commonly known by all that have learnt to read Nor without such a Liberty could we possibly form a true Taste or have any certain Knowledg of Affairs since the Excellence or Imperfection of all Matters best appears by opposing 'em to one another And I was sure which I find was no Mistake that the Learning and Sentiments of JOHN MILTON were too considerable not to deserve the highest Commendation or Dislike according to the Judgment or Affection of the Readers SINCE therefore it was equally lawful for me to write whose Life I pleas'd when my Hand was in the first Charge against me one would think should have bin that I had not fairly represented my Hero But very far from that the great Crime whereof I am arraign'd consists in telling more than som People would have me or discovering Truths not fit to be known and the Manner of my Relation is to them altogether as offensive and displeasing as the Matter of it 'T is strange that Men should be found of a Judgment weak enough to make a Crime of such Proceedings in a Writer who labors to keep himself wholly independent from the Fears or Eng●●●ments of any Party and who ●●ofess'd in the very beginning of his Book that being neither provok'd by Malice nor brib'd by Favor he would as well dare to say all that was true as scorn to write any Falshood But the rude Opposition with which I have met notwithstanding such plain Declarations convinces me more than ever how much I was in the Right by following the peculiar Method I propos'd to my self in compiling MILTON's Life and which I partly declar'd in these Terms In the Characters of Sects and Parties Books or Opinions I shall produce his own Words as I find 'em in his Works that those who approve his Reasons may owe all the Obligation to himself and that I may escape the Blame of such as may dislike what he says Now what could be more impartial than this or more likely to secure me from all Imputations whatever should be the Reception of MILTON from the Public Yet if by adhering religiously to this Rule so loud a Clamor was raised against me it is apparent how much worse I might expect to be treated had I trod in the common Road. For if like most Historians I had in my own Words tho' with never so much Candor related the Actions or Sentiments of my Author my Adversaries would presently have told the World that this was not the true MILTON but one of my own Creation whom I promted to speak what I durst not own and by whose Mouth I had publish'd all hose Opinions which I would recommend to other People Well knowing therefore the ordinary Temper and Artifices of these Men I did partly on that Account produce his own Words to obviat their Sophistry and Calumnies their two principal offensive Weapons and also to spare my self the Pains of Quotations afterwards to prove I had neither injur'd him nor abus'd my Readers Besides this particular Regard to them I am also of opinion that this is the best and only good way of writing the History of such a Man And had the Ancients always follow'd it our Modern Critics would have been less exercis'd to discern their real Sentiments nor wou'd they be so often oblig'd to examin whether they understood or mis-represented their Authors BUT instead of any Objections like these I am expresly told that I ought not to meddle with MILTON's Books nor to revive his Sentiments or the Memory of those Quarrel 's wherein he was engag'd which is only in other Words that I

part whereof are still acknowledg'd to be genuin and the rest to be forg'd in neither of which Assertions I could be justly suppos'd to mean any Books of the N. Testament as I shall presently evince But Mr. BLACKHALL affirms That I must intend those now receiv'd by the whole Christian Church for he knows of no other A cogent Argument truly and clearly proves his Logic to be just of a Piece with his Reading I admire what this Gentleman has bin doing so long at the University that he should be such a great Stranger to these things But now I find a Man may be a very good Divine without knowing any thing of the Fathers tho' a Layman is always referr'd to 'em when he starts any Difficulties which makes him sooner acquiesce and swallow what he cannot chew than get Information at so dear a rate But had Mr. BLACKHALL been dispos'd to deal ingenuously 〈◊〉 me he might see without the help of the Fathers that I did not mean the Books of the New Testament when I mention'd Supposititious Pi●ces under the Name of CHRIST since there is none ascrib'd to him in the whole Bible nor do we read there that ever he wrote any thing except once with his Finger on the Ground when he acquitted the Woman taken in Adultery And for ought appears to the contrary Mr. BLACKHALL may deny that to be any Writing because he knows not what it was yet som German Divines as well read as himself have presum'd to tell us the Contents of it and came almost to excommunicating one another in their solemn Disputes about this weighty Affair To this Negative Argument from the Silence of the New Testament we may add the Positive Testimony of St. AUGUSTIN and St. JEROM whereof the former affirms That the Lord himself wrote nothing which makes it necessary we should believe those who have written of him And the latter says That our Saviour left no Volum of his own Doctrin behind him as is extravagantly feign'd in most of the Apochryphal Pieces NOW to convince all the World that I did not intend by those Pieces the Books of the New Testament as well as to shew the Rashness and Uncharitableness of Mr. BLACKHALL's Assertion I shall here insert a large Catalogue of Books anciently ascrib'd to JESUS CHRIST his Apostles their Acquaintance Companions and Contemporaries Of these som remain still entirely extant which I shall mark in their Places We have several Fragments of others preserv'd by the Fathers and all that is left us of the rest are only their bare Titles I constantly refer to the Books wherein they are quoted that every body may inform himself of the Fact And after the Catalogue is ended I shall distinguish the Books which the Ancicients alledg'd as the genuin Works of the Apostles or Apostolic Men from those that they rejected as the Forgeries of Heretics which is a good Argument however that they were receiv'd by som Party of Christians to countenance their Opinions Next I design to name those Pieces of whose Spuriousness I doubted tho' their Authority is still receiv'd and so conclude this Point with som material Observations A Catalogue of Books mentioned by the Fathers and other Ancient Writers as truly or falsely ascrib'd to JESUS CHRIST his Apostles and other eminent Persons I. Of Books reported to be written by CHRIST himself or that particularly concern him 1. HIS Letter in answer to that of Abgarus King of Edessa Euseb. Hist. Eccles. l. 1. c. 13. You may also consult Cedrenus Nicephorus Constantinus Porphyrogennetus in the Manipulus of Combesisius p. 79 c. extant 2. The Epistle of Christ to Peter and Paul Augustin contra Faustum l. 28. c. 13. 3. The Parables and Sermons of Christ. Euseb. Hist. Eccl. l. 3. c. 39. 4. A Hymn which Christ secretly taught his Apostles and Disciples Augustin Epist. 253. ad Ceretum Episcopum 5. A Book of the Magic of Christ Augustin de consensu evangelico l. 1. c. 9 10. If it be not the same with the Epistle to Peter and Paul 6. A Book of the Nativity of our Savior of the Holy Virgin his Mother and her Midwife Gelasius apud Gratianum Decret 1. part Dist. 15. c. 3. But I believe this is the same with the Gospel of Iames whereof in its due Order II. MARY 1. An Epistle to Ignatius Which is now extant among his Works 2. Another Epistle to the Inhabitants of Messina To be read among the same Ignatius's Works 3. A Book of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Usually publish●d with St. Ierome's Works 4. Another Book about the Death of Mary is said by Lambecius to ly unpublish'd in the Emperor's Library T. 4. p. 131. 5. We shall not insist on the Book of Mary concerning the Miracles of Christ and the Ring of King Solomon III. PETER 1. The Gospel of Peter Origen T. 11. Comment in Mat. Hieron in Catalog Scriptor Eccles. c. 1. Euseb. Hist. Eccl●s l. 3. c. 3 25. Idem l. 6. c. 12. 2. The Acts of Peter Euscb. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 3. Hieronym in Catalogo Origen Tom. 21. Comment in Joan. Isidorus Pelusiota l. 2. Epist. 99. 3. The Revelation of Peter Clem. Alex. in Epitom Theodot Euseb Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 25. l. 6. c. 14. Idem l. 3. c. 3. Hieron in Catalago c. 1. Zozomen Hist. Eccles. l. 7. c. 19. 4. The Epistle of Peter to Clemens is still shewn in the Aethiopic Language by the Eastern Christians Tilmont Hist. Eccles. Tom. 1. part 2. pag. 497. And he has it from Cotelerius The Epistle of Clemens to James is publish'd in the Clementines 5. The Doctrine of Peter Origen in praefat ad libros principiorum Gregor Nazian epist. 16. Elias Levita in notis ad Nazianzeni Orationem ad cives trepidantes 6. The preaching of Peter if it be not the same with his Doctrin Origen Tom. 14. in Joan. Idem in praefat ad Libros principiorum Clem. Alex. Stromat l. 1. l. 6 c. Lactant. l. 4. c. 21. Autor libri de baptismo Haereticorum inter opera Cypriani Joan. Damascen l. 2. parallel c. 16. 7. The Liturgy of Peter publish'd by Lindanus at Antwerp in the Year 1588 and at Paris Anno 1595. 8. The Itinerary or Iournys of Peter mention'd by Epiphanius Haeres 30. n. 15. and by Athanasius in his Synopsis of the Scriptures I believe to be the same with the Recognitions of St. Clement still extant wherein we have a very particular Account of Peter's Voyages and Performances 9. The Iudgment of Peter Hieronym in Catalogo c. 1. IV. ANDREW 1. The Gospel of St. Andrew Gelasius in Decreto c. 2. The Acts of St. Andrew Euscb. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 25. Epiphan Haeres 47. n. 1. Item 61 63 47. Philastrius in Haeres 8. Gelasius in decreto Turribius Asturicensis apud Paschasium Quesnerum inter epistolas Leonis magni p. 459. V. IAMES 1. The Gospel of

great Persons or the suppos'd Writings of certain Apostolic Men as they call 'em which are at this present as well as in ancient times read with extraordinary Veneration And they are the Epistle of BARNABAS the Pastor of HERMAS the Epistle of POLYCARPUS to the Philippians the first Epistle of CLEMENS ROMANUS to the Corinthians and the seven Epistles of IGNATIUS These are generally receiv'd in the Church of Rome and also by most Protestants but those of the Church of England have particularly signaliz'd themselves in their Defence and by publishing the correctest Impressions of them The Ancients paid them the highest Respect and reckon'd the first four of 'em especially as good as any part of the New Testament The Epistle of BARNABAS is by CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS and ORIGEN not only reckon'd genuin but cited as Scripture tho' he says in express Terms That the Apostles before their Conversion were the greatest Sinners in Nature which if believ'd would rob us of an Argument we draw from their Integrity and Simplicity against Infidels to say nothing now of the many other ridiculous Passages in BARNABAS The Pastor or Visions Precepts and Similitudes of HERMAS who is suppos'd to be the Person mention'd by PAUL in his Epistle to the Romans is cited as Canonical Scripture by IRENAEUS CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS ORIGEN and others and was for such receiv'd by several Churches tho' I think it the sillyest Book in the World The Epistle of POLYCARPUS the suppos'd Disciple of St. JOHN was read in the Churches of Asia and is quoted by IRENAEUS EUSEBIUS and others The Epistle of CLEMENS ROMANUS whom they would have to be the same that 's mention'd by PAUL in his Epistle to the Philippians is cited by IRENAEUS CLEMENS ALEXANRINUS ORIGEN EUSEBIUS and others The Epistles of IGNATIUS are quoted by IRENAEUS EUSEBIUS with several more but particularly by ORIGEN who says that in one of 'em he found it very elegantly written That the Virginity of MARY was a Secret to the Devil which Virginity with her Delivery and the Death of our Lord IGNATIUS says were Three famous Mysteries wrought in the Silence of God These Words may be now read in the Epistle of IGNATIUS to the Ephesians Now these are the Books of whose Genuinness and Authority I took the Liberty to doubt notwithstanding the better Opinion which is entertain'd of 'em by others My present Business is not to insist on this Subject but to clear my self of an Imputation which I thought no body could infer from my Words Yet since many were less knowing than I imagin'd tho' Mr. BLACKHALL alone has the Candor of publishing his Weakness to the World I assure 'em all that I alluded to these Books and I hope they will be just enough in allowing me best to explain my own meaning and prove so tender of their own Reputation as to consider well of it before they censure me another time BUT tho' I will not as I said enter now into a particular Discussion of these Writings yet I shall offer one thing to the Consideration of their Defenders Either they really believe the Epistles of BARNABAS and CLEMENS for Example to be theirs or to be supposititious If not theirs there 's a speedy end of the Dispute and I have attain'd my End without more Argumentation But if they think 'em genuin why do they not receive 'em into the Canon of Scriptures since they were the Companions and Fellow laborers of the Apostles as well as St. MARK or St. LUKE If this Quality was sufficient to entitle the two last to Inspiration why should it not do as much for the two first And if this be not all the Reason pray let us know the true one having never heard of any other To say that tho' the Books are authentic yet they ought not to be receiv'd now into the Canon because the Ancients did not think fit to approve 'em is but a mere Evasion For 't is well known that till after EUSEBIUS'S time neither the second Epistle of PETER nor that of JAMES or JUDE with som others were approv'd as Canonical and yet they were afterwards receiv'd by the whole Church Wherefore then may not we as well at this time establish the Epistles of CLEMENS and BARNABAS if they be undoubtedly theirs which I shall be persuaded their Patrons believe when they quote 'em as Scripture and then I know where to have them and how to deal with ' em But of this enough I SAID above that by the spurious Pieces I meant only a great part of the Books which are recited in the Catalogue for others of 'em do not seem to deserve so mean a Rank and I am so far from rejecting all those Books of the New Testament which we now receive that I am rather solicitous lest as in the dark Ages of Popery those we commonly call Apochryphal Books were added to the Bible so at the same time and in as ignorant Ages before several others might be taken away for not suiting all the Opinions of the strongest Party Nor is it unworthy observation that most of these Books are condemn'd by the Decree of Pope GELASIUS How many true and spurious Gospels or Histories of C●RIST were extant in St. LUKE's time God knows but that there were s●veral may be evidently infer'd from his own Words who tells TH●OPH●LUS that many had undertaken the same Work before him and as if he alluded to som spurious Relations assures him that he 'll write nothing but what he receiv'd from such as had a perfect knowledg of th●se Matters from the beginning That there should be first and last but just the number of Four I never heard of any that w●nt about to demonstrat except 〈◊〉 the sam'd Successor of the Apostles and he positively affirms that there cannot be more nor fewer than Four Gospels Fo says he there be Four Regions o● this World wherein we live with Four principal Winds and the Church is spread over all the Earth But the Support and Foundation of the Church is the Gospel and the Spirit of Life Therefore it must follow that it has Four Pillars blowing Incorruptibility on all sides and giving Life to Men. Then he corroborats his Argument from the Four Cherubims and the Four Faces in EZE●I●L's Vision to wit of a Lyon an Ox a Man and an Eagle which is the Reason by the way why the Four Evangelists are painted with these Emblems in the Mass-Book and in our Common Pray●r-Book So he concludes at last That they are all vain unlearn'd and impudent who after this would assert that there were more or sewer than 4 Gospels Where we may observe that Mr. BLACKHALL has the Warrant of an ancient Father for giving hard Names to such as contemn precarious Reasoning And indeed it is but too manifest to be d●ny'd that no Order of Men have more violated the Rules of D●cency and Civility in their Writings

of the Summer 1674. his Lordship went first to Farnham to the late Bishop of Winton the 14th of May and among several things he had in Charge from the Bishop to his Father he bad him tell him that the King had very ill People about him who turn'd all things into Ridicule that they endeavor'd to bring him to have a mean Opinion of the King his Father and to persuade him that he was not the Author of the Book which goes under his Name And when after his Lordship's Arrival in France the 30th of the same Month he had deliver'd his Father these Particulars among others to that concerning the Book his Father reply'd Good God! I thought the Marquiss of Hartford had satisfy'd the King in that Matter From hence Mr. WAGSTAF would infer that my Lord Chancellor did not believe any other besides CHARLES the First to be the Author of Icon Basilike and that he wondred any should go about to induce CHARLES the Second to question it But for my part I think it very plain on the contrary that he believ'd King CHARLES the First not to be the Author of that Book and wondred that King CHARLES the Second should not understand so much from the Marquiss of Hartford who as Dr. WALKER and Mrs. GAUDEN inform us was the Person that carry'd the Manuscript to the King in the Isle of Wight and so next to Dr. GAUDEN himself was best able to convince his Son of the Truth Moreover how could the Bishop of Winton imagin that the ill People about CHARLES the Second could bring him to doubt of his Father's being the Author of Icon Basilike if he really knew it to be written by him when upon this Supposition he was rather capable of satisfying all those who had any Scruples in this Affair AS for Dr. GAUDEN'S great Services and his saying in a Letter to the Chancellor That what was don like a King should have a Kinglike Retribution Mr. WAGSTAF says that those are Mystical Expressions and that by them he might probably mean a Book he wrote against the Covenant and a Protestation he publisht against the King's Death neither of which could be term'd such extraordinary Services when many others had don the same and more much less could it be said that either of these Books was don like a King or deserv'd a Kinglike Retribution whereas Mr. WAGSTAF and those who are of his Opinion maintain that the the Stile and Matter of Icon Basilike are so like a King 's that no Subject could possibly write it but a Multtiude of others agree with me that the Stile is infinitely liker that of a Doctor than a King LASTLY It is objected that Dr. WALKER's and Mrs. GAUDEN's Testimonies contradict one another But how Dr. WALKER says that Dr. GAUDEN told him he did not know if CHARLES the First had seen the Book but Mrs. GAUDEN affirms that the Marquiss of Hartford told her Husband the King had seen and approv'd it both which Assertions are consistent enough together For Dr. GAUDEN might be ignorant that the King had seen it when Dr. WALKER askt him that Question who perhaps never mention'd it to him again in their Discourses about this Matter or might easily forget it as he says he did several other Particulars little foreseeing he should ever be oblig'd to make this Discovery and besides we must upon all Accounts allow his Wife to know more Circumstances of th●s Business as of most others than his Friend The next suppos'd Contradiction is that Dr. WALKER says Dr. GAUDEN once told him after the Restoration that he did not positively and certainly know if King CHARLES the Second knew he wrote Icon Basilike tho' he believ●d he might because the Duke of York did who own'd it to have bin a seasonable and acceptable Service But Mrs. GAUDEN affirms that her Husband acquainted the King with it himself which is very true But pray let us examin at what time After his Discourse with Dr. WALKER most certainly For does she not in clear and direct Terms say that it was in his last Sickness which prov'd Mortal to him and that the Reason of it was because he saw som Persons who were privy to it desire nothing more than to have it conceal'd which he was not willing it should be in consideration of his numerous Family to whom it might somtime or other do seasonable Service NOW that no Mistakes may be occasion'd hereafter by imperfect Fragments of Mrs. GAUDEN's Narrative and that this Affair may be set in the clearest Light I shall before I proceed to the Examination of the positive Testimonies produc'd for the King insert the Narrative here at large as it was exactly copy'd from the Original to which the curious are refer'd Mrs. GAVDEN's NARRATIVE MY Husband understanding the great Value and Esteem the People had of CROMWELL and of others in the Army occasion'd by the high Opinion which they had of their Parts and Piety he being also well assur'd that one of the main Designs of those wicked Politicians was to Eclipse his Majesty that then was as much as might be and to give a false Misrepresentation of him to the World he that he might do his Majesty right did pen that Book which goes by the Name of the King's●Book The Title which he gave it then was Suspiria Regalia and the Design was to have it put forth as by som Person who had found the Papers in his Majesty's Chambers at Holmeby being by chance left or scatter'd there And to this purpose he had prefix'd an Epistle which might be suppos'd to be written by that Person who having found them by that Accident thought it not fit to conceal them His Design also in the Book was to give such a Character of her Majesty to the World as her great Worth extream Merits and admirarable Endowments deserv'd when my Husband had writ it he shew'd it to my Lord CAPEL who did very highly approve of it and though he thought it would do very well to have it printed yet he said it was not fit to do so without his Majesty's Approbation and to come to speak to his Majesty in private was then impossible in regard of the strict Guard which they kept about him Immediately after this there was a Treaty with his Majesty at the Isle of Wight whereupon my Husband went to my Lord Marquiss of Hartf●rd that then was and to him deliver'd the Manuscript and he deliver'd it to the King at the Isle of Wight and likewise told him who the Author was When my Lord Marquiss return'd my Husband went to him to whom my Lord said That his Majesty having had some of those Essays read to him by Bishop DUPPA did exc●edingly approve of them and asked whether they could not be put out in some other Name The Bishop reply'd that the Design was that the World should take them to be his Majesty's Whereupon his Majesty desir'd time to consider of it

and this says my Lord is all the Account I can give of it What is become of the Manuscript I know not and what will become of his Majesty God knows Upon this my Husband told my Lord Marquiss That in his Opinion there was no way so probable to save his Majesty's Life as by endeavouring to move the Hearts and Affections of the People as much as might be towards him and that he also thought that that Book would be very effectual for that purpose Then my Lord bad my Husband to do what he would in regard the Case was desperate Then immediately my Husband resolv'd to print it with all speed that might be he having a Copy of that which he sent to the King and that he printed was just the same only he then added the Essay upon their denying his Majesty the Attendance of his Chaplains and the Meditation of Death after the Votes of the Non-addresses and his Majesty's close Imprisonment at Carisbrook Castle Now the Instrument which my Husband employ'd to get it printed was one Mr. SIMMONDS a Divine and a great Sufferer for his Majesty and he got one Mr. ROYSTON to print it which ROYSTON never knew any thing but that it was of his Majesty's own penning my Husband did then alter the Title of it and call'd it Icon Basilike Now when it was about half printed they who were in power found the Press where it was printing and likewise a Letter of my Husbands which he sent up to the Press whereupon they destroy'd all that they then found printed but could not find out from whence the Letter came in regard it had no Name to it Notwithstanding all this my Husband attempted the printing of it again but could by no means get it finish'd till som few Days after his Majesty was destroyed When it was com out they who were then in Power were not only extremely displeas'd at it but also infinitely solicitous to find out the Author of it thinking it very improbable that his Majesty should write it in regard of the great Disturbances and Troubles which for many Years he had suffer'd or at least impossible that he should have writ it all for after the Attendance of his Chaplains was deny'd him and he a close Prisoner they well understood that he could not write any thing without their Discovery They also took that very Manuscript which my Husband had sent his Majesty and saw that it was none of his Majesty's Hand-writing Upon this they appointed a Committee to examin the Business of which my Husband having notice he went privatly in the Night away from his own House to Sir JOHN WENTWORTH'S who liv'd near Yarmouth and him he acquainted with the Business and the great Danger he was then in when Sir JOHN did not only promise to conceal him but also to convey him out of England it being in his Power to give Passes to go beyond Sea About this time Mr. SYMMONDS was taken in a Disguise but God in his Providence so order'd it that he sickned immediatly and dy'd before h● came to his Examination nor could the Committee find out any thing by any means whatever which alter'd my Husband's Resolutions of going out of England Now besides these Circumstances to a●●ert the Truth of what I say I can produce som Letters which I am sure will put it out of all Dispute My Husband contin●●d at Bo●king till the return of his Majesty King CHARLES the Second and upon his Restoration knowing his Princely Disposition did not unjustly expect a suitable Reward for his Endeavors to serve his Majesty's Father and himself in that Book And meeting with Dr. MORLEY he fell into Discourse how sensible he was of the great Service which he had don his present Majesty and the Royal Family in composing and setting forth that excellent Piece call'd the King's Book and also assur'd him that it had bin very effectual not only at home but abroad to move the Hearts and Affections of People towards his Majesty instancing in several Persons who were most exceedingly affected with it and so advantageous he said it had bin to his Majesty that according to his great Merit he might have what Preferment he desir'd Dr. MORLEY also told him That he had acquainted Sir EDWARD HYDE with the Business and that he did very much commend and admire it but we have not said he acquainted his Majesty with it but did assure him that his Majesty did set a high Value upon the Book and had commanded Dr. EARL to translate into Latin som having taken the Pains to put it into other Languages before My Husband being encouraged by this Discourse of Dr. MORLEY'S and shortly after meeting with Dr. SHELDON who he knew was not ignorant that he was the only Author of the foremention'd Book he told Dr. SHELDON that since he had bin inform'd that his Majesty out of his Princely Disposition would without doubt when once acquainted with it reward that Service which he had endeavor'd to do his Father and himself he thought it most convenient for himself and also that he might be serviceable to his Majesty in the Diocess of London a Place where he was well known if it would please his Majesty to make him Bishop of that See Dr. SHELDON was pleas'd with a great deal of Gravity to tell him that was a great Leap at first Whereupon my Husband desisted and was resolv'd to leave his Preferment to God's dispose Soon after this the King being still ignorant of what he had done he was by the Mediation of a Person perfectly ignorant of his Merit as to this Matter made Bishop of Exeter all the considerable Bishopricks being otherwise dispos'd of Not long after this it pleas'd God to visit my Husband with an Infirmity which he had great cause to fear would as it did prove mortal to him This made him resolve to acquaint the King with the whole Matter and the rather because he saw som Persons who were privy to it desir'd nothing more than to have it conceal'd and bury'd in Oblivion but my Husband was not willing it should be so in regard he had at that time four Sons living and they he thought if he should die might be capable of his Majesty's Favour Besides the Duke of Somerset was dead and the Bishop of Winchester the Person who was best able to attest it was very ill These Considerations made him go to his Majesty and having the Opportunity of discoursing privatly with him he told him the whole Matter as I have related it and for the Truth of it appeal'd to Dr. DUPPA then Bishop of Winchester and formerly his Majesty's Tutor The King then was pleas'd to entertain som Discourse with my Husband about it and said that he did often wonder how his Father should have gotten Time and Privacy enough in his Troubles to compose so excellent a Piece and written with so much Learning BY the Extract that was publish'd of

a good deal of the Book was written afterwards be the Author who you please And they should have told us likewise how General FAIRFAX durst send one part of his Papers to the King when he sent the rest to the Parliament or since they would make us believe he was so kind to the King why he did not restore him all the Papers when 't is very evident that those which the Parliament order'd to be publish'd were infinitely of greater consequence and made him a world of Enemies which oblig'd the Author of Icon Basilike to write a Chapter on this very Subject whereas the Papers in question would probably mollify som of his Opposers But now when all is don tho' General FAIRFAX was afterwards against putting the King to death yet he was not at that time dispos'd to grant him any Favors and acted with as hearty Zeal against him as any in the Nation which appears by all the Histories of those times as well as by his own and the Memoirs of the Lord HOLLIS As for Major HUNTINGTON Dr. WALKER assures us That he told him when he heard such a Book was publish'd and confidently reported to be the Kings all he said was that he surely believ'd those were the Papers he saw him so usually take out of his Cabinet and that he never read one Line or Word of them This and Sir WILLIAM DUGDAIE'S Testimony are diverse from that of Mr. RICHARD DUKE of Otterton in Devon who writes the following Letter to Dr. GOODAL famous for his Zeal on the behalf of Icon Basilike Sir I confess that I heard Major HUNTINGTON to say more than once that whilst he guarded CHARLES the First at Holmby-House as I remember he saw several Chapters or Leaves of that great King's Meditations lying on the Table several Mornings with a Pen and Ink with which the King scratch'd out or blotted som Lines or Words of som of them Upon which I must also confess that I concluded they were originally from the King but others have drawn a contrary Argument from the King 's correcting the Papers Yet I put this under my Hand that the Major told me that he did suppose them originally from that learned Prince which is the Totum that can be intimated from Sir your humble Servant RICHARD DUKE Then one Mr. CAVE BECK writes to Dr. HOLLINGWORTH That Major HUNTINGTON at Ipswich assur'd him that so much of the sa'd Book as contain'd his Majesty's Mediations before Naseby-●ight was taken in the King's Cabinet and that Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX deliver'd the said Papers to him and order'd him to carry them to the King and also told him that when he deliver'd them to the King his Majesty appear'd very joyful and said he esteem'd 'em more than all the Jewels he had lost in the Cabinet This Major HUNTINGTON was a strange Man to vary so often in his Story and to tell so much more or less to every body that enq●●r'd of him but indeed 't is no great Wonder that these Gentlemen should so widely differ from one another both as to Time and Place as well as to Matters of Fact when Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE has printed under Major HUNTINGTON's Name quite another Story from the written Memorial out of which he had it In his short View he positively says as we read before that the Manuscript was written with the King 's own Hand But in his Warrant for this it is only said as Mr. WAGSTAF himself acknowledges that all the Chapters in it were written by the Hand of Sir EDWARD WALKER but much corrected with Interlineations of the King's Hand and that the Prayers were all so NOW to shew further how cautiously People should rely on Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE and Historians like him we shall produce another remarkable Instance In the Book before-quoted he expresly writes That Mr. HERBERT did often see the Icon Basilike while he waited on the King in the Isle of Wight wheras all that Sir THOMAS for he was Knighted after the Restoration has said in the Manuscript which Sir WILLIAM perus'd and wherof Mr. WAGSTAF has printed an Abstract is that he had there the Charge of the King's Books and that those he most read after the Sacred Scriptures were Bishop ANDREWS's Sermons HOOKER's Ecclesiastical Policy VILLALPANDUS on EZEKIEL SANDY's Paraphrase on the Psalms HERBERT's Poems the Translation of GODFREY of Bulloign by Mr. FAIRFAX of ORLANDO FURIOSO by Sir JOHN HARRINGTON and SPENCER's Fairy Queen to which he might have added PEMBROKE's Arcadia And at this time it was as is presum'd continues Sir THOMAS that he compos'd his Book call'd Suspiria Regalia publish'd soon after his Death and entitul'd The King's Portraiture in his Solitudes and Sufferings which Manuscript Mr. HERBERT found among those Books his Majesty was pleas'd to give him those excepted which he bequeath'd to his Children hereafter mention'd In regard Mr. HERBERT tho' he did not see the King write that Book his Majesty being always privat when he writ and those his Servants never coming into the Bed Chamber when the King was privat til he call'd yet comparing it with his Hand-writing in other things he found it so very like as induces his Belief that it was his own having seen much of the King's Writings before Here Sir THOMAS only presumes the King might write the Book in the Isle of Wight and directly says he never saw the King write it nor the Book it self till after his Death but Sir WILLIAM affirms from these very Papers for they are said to be written at his Request by Sir THOMAS that he often saw it in the Isle of Wight when he waited on the King in his Bed-Chamber 'T is to be observ'd that the Title of Suspiria Regalia is as agreeable to Mrs. GAUDEN's Narrative as the rest of the Particulars are different from Sir WILLIAM's Relation BEFORE we examin the Force of Sir THOMAS's Testimony we must first consider what is said by Mr. LEVET who attended the King at the same Time and Place In short he says That of his own certain Knowledg he can depose the Book was truly the Kings having observ'd his Majesty oftentimes writing his Royal Resentments of the bold and insolent Behavior of his Soldiers when they had him in their Custody That being nominated by his Majesty to be one of his Servants during the Treaty in the Isle of Wight he had the Happiness to read the same oftentimes in Manuscript under his Majesty's own Hand being pleas'd to leave it in the Window of his Bed-Chamber And that when the King was remov'd to Hurst-Castle he had the Charge of this Book and a Cabinet of other Papers which at the said Castle he deliver'd again to his Majesty where by the way he does not inform us if the Book was distinctly given him from the Cabinet or that he only concluded it was in it Here are several very observable Circumstances As First that altho' Mr. HERBERT who was of the

wherof every Parish in England should be oblig'd to have a Copy and to chain it in the Church which in his Opinion would prove a more glorious and lasting Monument than any could be fram'd of Brass or Marble This Thought was very well lik'd by several great Men of the Church and State who shew'd themselves ready to promote it and he did not we may imagin spare any Cost or Labor to have it succeed tho' 't is well known how little CHARLES the Second himself encourag'd it But the Distrusts arising afterwards between the King and People the Heats in Parliament and particularly the Popish Plot broke this and all such Designs to Pieces So that there was no farther Mention of any Monument for his Father But when the Duke of York mounted the Throne and had given Assurances of his Favor to the Church of England Mr. CHISWEL thought again of rev●ving his Project and employ'd Sir ROGER L ESTRA●GE to procure him only King JAMES's recommendatory Letter for he did not expect any thing from Parliament as before only 〈◊〉 how agreeable this would seem to the King's Design if it were real of bege●●ing a Confidence of himself in the Church This Request the King Icon giving for his Reason that 〈◊〉 Basilik● was not his Father's Book and he could not therefore in Conscience recommend it as his Mr. CHISWEL being inform'd of this Resolution by Sir ROGER answer'd that he thought he could accommodat the Matter For since the publishing of the rest would signifie nothing without the Addition of Icon Basilike he would remove it from the Front where it stood in the former Edition and place it in the Rear after Finis as Books of uncertain Authority use to be printed To this the King consented on condition som Expressions which he thought injurious to the Monarchy should be left out with which Mr. CHISWEL said he could by no means comply as being a disingenuous Practice towards any Author and a great Abuse on the Public but propos'd as another Expedient that those Words should be put within Crotchets And thus Icon Basilike stands now printed after the End of the second Part of the King's Works of the Edition of 86 by Mr. CHISWEL who told me this Story himself not to gratifie or injure any side but as a Matter of Fact wherein he was personally concern'd and from whence he draws no manner of Inference The Royal Brothers said the same to several others besides my Lord ANGLESEY and particularly to som eminent Persons now living who told me so much themselves with a Liberty of mentioning their Names which after all that has bin offer'd I see no Necessity of doing THAT nothing may be wanting I shall in the last place consider what is objected to the Prayer us'd by the King as his own in the time of his Captivity but is with very small Variation the same that is said by PAMELA to a Heathen Deity in Sir PHILIP SYDNEY's Arcadia This Discovery as we said before was first made by MILTON in his Iconoclastes But Dr. GILL affirms That his Patient HENRY HILL the Printer said it was put in by a Contrivance of MILTON who catching his Friend Mr. Du GARD printing an Edition of Icon Basilike got his Pardon by BRADSHAW's Interest on Condition he would insert PAMELA's Prayer to bring Discredit on the Book and the Author of it I wonder at the Easiness of Dr. GILL and Dr. BERNARD to believe so gross a Fable when it does not appear that Du GARD who was Printer to the Parliament ever printed this Book and that the Prayer is in the second Edition publish'd by Mr. ROYSTON whose Evidence is alledg'd to prove the Genuinness of the Book And if the King's Friends thought it not his own what made them print it in the first Impression of his Works in Folio by ROYSTON in 62 when MILTON could not tamper with the Press Or why did they let it pass in the last Impression in Folio by Mr. CHISWEL in the Year 86 when all the World knew that it was long before expos'd in Iconoclastes After this I need not go about to shew that Dr. GILL had no Reason for the great Opinion he entertain'd of HENRY HILL and how little he consulted his own Reputation by asserting that no Man was better vers'd in the secret History of those times that he was intrusted with Intrigues by the great ones of that Government who as all the World knows manag'd their Affairs after another rate Nor will I insist upon his turning Papist in King JAMES's time to becom his Printer as he was OLIVER's before or any other Circumstance to lessen his Credit since it appears that what he averr'd is inconsistent with Matter of Fact Mr. ROYSTON and not Du GARD having publish'd the Celebrated Prayer which I add in this Place laid Parallel with the Original The Prayer of King CHARLES stil'd A Prayer in Time of Captivity Printed in pag. 94. of his Works 1686 and also in Icon Basilike O Powerful and Eternal God to whom nothing is so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemn'd look upon my Misery with thine Eye of Mercy and let thine infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out som proportion of deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Fault by thy Hand be corrected and make not my unjust Enemies the Ministers of thy Iustice. But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Transgressions if this ungrateful Bondage be sittest for my over-high Desires if the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will and cheerfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from thee that by thy Goodness which is thy self thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty so to shine in my Mind that I who in my greatest Afflictions acknowledg it my noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend considently on thee Let Calamity be the Exercise but not the Overthrow of my Virtue O let not their prevailing Power be to my Destruction and if it be thy Will that they more and more vex me with Punishment yet O Lord never let their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may still carry a pure Mind and sledfast Resolution ever to serve thee without Fear or Presumtion yet with that hum-Confidence which may best please thee so that at the last I may com to thy Eternal Kingdom through the Merits of thy Son our alone Savior JESUS CHRIST Amen The PRAYER of PAMELA to a Heathen Deity In Pembroke's Arcadia pag. 248 1674. O All-seeing Light and Eternal Life of all things to whom nothing is either so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemn'd look upon my