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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44223	A defence of King Charles I occasion'd by the lyes and scandals of many bad men of this age / by Richard Hollingworth ...	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2502; ESTC R13622	26,155	45

certain Essex Doctor of Divinity who has assisted this Objection to the utmost of his power with a false Story which I will presently refute and set the whole in a true and proper Light Ans I could never obtain Leave of my self to believe that any Man could write at that divinerate but he that felt the Miseries that suggest such Thoughts and Heavenly Meditations the various Conditions of men good men wonderfully help them in their Retirements and Solitudes to Divine Intercourses and Aspirations and he that could counterfeit such things and make such Appeals to God without being in such Conditions as those Appeals suppose must be rather next to an Atheist than a good Christian And if the Essex Doctor had any value for the Memory of his deceased Friend he would certainly have forborn telling it in all places with a more than usual Confidence as he hath done and that for this one reason The Story in short that he tells is this That Dr. Gauden then of Bocking in Essex made this Book and sent him then his Curate to the Press with it which command he obey'd and accordingly did so carry it in order to its printing Now the Truth of the Story is thus There was one Mr. Simmons a learned and pious Minister who lived near Dr. Gauden in Essex and who out of a true Affection to His then Majesty's Person and Cause writ a learned Defence of the King with which the King was so pleased that he presently resolved that this person should have the perusal and correction of his Book and accordingly sends it by a trusty Messenger The Book when looked over by him did so affect him and no wonder that he could not forbear sending for his Neighbour Gauden in order to make him happy with himself in the sight and reading of such an inestimable Jewel Dr. Gauden would not be denied the kindness of taking the Book home with him for a few days which upon importunity Mr. Simmonds knowing the Dr. a Well-wisher at that time to the King granted Dr. Gauden presently falls to transcribing of it and in some days with great Labour and Application finishes it and so returns the Original to Mr. Simmonds again Within a while the great Storm coming upon the King which at last God knows wholly overset him Dr. Gauden out of a true Affection to his Master the King hoping thereby to do him Service sends his Copy by the Hands of this Doctor to the Press And so far and no farther was he concerned in it And whereas it is said that Dr. Gauden told King Charles the Second he made the Book the Truth of the Story is this That he putting in for the Bishoprick of Worcester and meeting with some opposition from Bishop Sheldon the King asked him what Pretences he had to so great a Favour he answered That he put out his Fathers Book which Answer tho' true in some sence yet being ambiguously spoken as it got him the Bishoprick so it also gave Rise to the late Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum which hath made so great noise in the World But to put all things out of doubt concerning this Book give me leave to tell this Story I was not many weaks ago in Conversation with Sir John Brattle a worthy person and who hath long enjoy'd a considerable Office in the Royal Mint with whom discoursing about King Charles the First and particularly of the Suspicions raised of the Truth of the Book he frankly told me and assured me the Truth of this Story That in the year 47. King Charles having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book and having writ it 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 to 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 declares he sate up with his Father some nights to assist him in methodizing these Papers all writ with the King 's own Hand Thanks be to God Sir John is yet alive and is ready to give the same Account to any man that asks him And whosoever after this will suspect this Book is certainly a man of that temper who will keep up his Prejudices against this Great man in spight of all Evidences though as clear as the Sun at Noon And for my own part I must tell him that I think it not worth the while to attempt his further satisfaction because nullum remedium Deus posuit contumariae God Almighty hath not provided a Remedy for Resolved Stubbornness in the ordinary course of dealing with Men and if nothing but Miracles will convince them I have no Commission to pretend to them FINIS

Peace sake makes such Concessions that the major part of the House after many hours debate came to this Vote That His Majesty's Concessions to the Propositions of Parliament upon the Treaty are sufficient Grounds for settling the Peace of the Kingdom And happy had it been for the whole Nation if they had passed such a Vote some years before upon what the King offered them they had prevented the wasting of abundance of Blood and Treasure but alas their Eyes were in their Heads now too late the Army was now too much poysoned with Common-wealth and destructive Principles and therefore notwithstanding all their former Assurances of Submission and Faithfulness to the Parliament they make bold to let them know they have been under the Jurisdiction of better Masters and have learned another Lesson and therefore when the House met again they very fairly lay violent hands upon their Persons and forcibly pluck them from their Duty and confine a great part of them keeping them under a strict Guard What follow'd after this is known to all the World The Great the Good the Wise the Condescending King his Person is seiz'd by order of the Army he is brought up to London try'd and condemn'd by a Mock-Court of Justice against all Law Justice Honour Oaths and Promises and at last barbarously murthered by his own Palace And thus died Charles the First the Glory of the English Monarchs the Mirror of Patience the great Pattern of Religion and Devotion and whose Name among good and unprejudic'd men hath ever since blossom'd in the Dust and may the Judgments that have followed the Nation since be the last upon the account of that horrid and unheard-of Murther Amen Amen POSTSCRIPT READER I Have reserved an Answer to some particular Objections which are commonly made by this Great Man's Enemies against him by way of Postscript having not had a fair occasion to bring it into the Body of this little Book only before I make it I must beg leave to tell thee what I have observed concerning the men that are now so busie in defaming and scandalizing this Great and Pious Prince namely That they are most of them persons that were not born when the Horrid Murther of the King was committed and that have not read his Story at all but are only put on by old Foxes that lost by the Restauration of Charles the Second what they never had a legal Right to and therefore long to be dabbling again in Crown and Church-Lands which indeed is the true Notion of these mens Liberties and Properties of the Subject First They considently say That he was a Papish or at least Popishly inclined and therefore by way of Scorn nothing is more usual than to hear them saying That the late King James was the best of the Three meaning King Charles the First and his two Sons that reigned after him Now by way of Answer to this base and false Imputation I will not trouble thee Reader with any tedious and long Defence for they that hear this Scandal after they have looked into the Life and Conversation of this Great man must both scorn and pity the Malice as well as Ignorance of such as lay such an Aspersion at his Door And for an eternal confutation of it I beg of thee to take good notice of this true Story His Majesty being to receive the Sacrament in 1643 at Christ-Church in Oxford from the Hands of the Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh rising up from his Knees and beckoning to the Archbishop said My Lord I espy here many resolved Protestants who may delare to the World the Resolution I now make I have to the utmost of my power prepared my Soul to become a worthy Receiver and may I so receive Comfort by the Blessed Sacrament as I do intend the Establishment of the True-reformed Protestant Religion as it stood in its Beauty in the happy Days of Queen Elizabeth without any Connivance at Popery I bless God that in the midst of these publick Distractions I have still liberty to communicate And may this Sacrament be my Damnation if my Heart do not joyn with my Lips in this Protestation And he that will continue to scandalize this Great Person after he has read this Story upon this account is resolved to be an incurable Secondly Another thing they lay to his charge at this time is That he set on foot and encouraged the Irish Rebellion Ans They that talk at this rate I am sure have never read his Story or if they have it has been with an invincible and resolved Prejudice His frequent and publick Detestations of it his groaning under the Miseries and Murders of his poor Protestant Subjects there his offering to go in Person to subdue the Rebels are sufficient Vindications of him against this vile Defamation and will ever be received as such amongst good men But to strike this Objection dead over and above all those Defences the King made for himself and the Scorn and Defiance he gave to the pretended Broad Seal to countenance the Rebellion which is Forgery all over give me leave to lay before the Reader these two things The Lord Macquire a great and bloody Rebel being taken Prisoner and conveyed to London and there tryed for his Life at the King's-Bench-Bar for High Treason where being found guilty he had Sentence pronounc'd against him as a Traytor which Sentence was particularly executed in the presence of the Sheriff and it 's believ'd of Fifteen thousand Spectators Now when he came to Execution the Sheriff abjur'd him by the dreadful Tribunal of God before which shortly he was to appear and for the clearing and easing of his Conscience that he would then ingenuously confess whom he knew guilty of the same Crime namely the Irish Rebellion upon which the Criminal though the Rope was about his Neck and he half way up the Ladder yet by Name he acquitted King Charles from being any ways privy to it Nay says my Author being cast off the Ladder and when he had tryed what Hanging in part was being reprieved and had no small hopes given him of a Pardon he still persisted in the same Protestation And that which further convinces me and so it will any unprejudic'd man besides of the truth of this is That when they came to draw up the Charge against him in order to his Trial and Condemnation though their business was to blacken him with all the foul Imputations their Malice could rake up and they did so yet not one word in the whole touching his abetting or countenancing the Irish Rebellion which certainly they neither could nor would have omitted if they had had any Grounds to believe and to charge him with it Thirdly The last Objection against him is his Divine and Holy Book It is not to be imagined with what Industry they have within this last year endeavoured to perswade the World it was a Forgery and not of his compiling and there is a