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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