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The character of King Charles I from the declaration of Mr. Alexander Henderson ... upon his death-bed : with a further defence of the King's holy book : to which is annex'd some short remarks upon a vile book, call'd Ludlow no lyar : with a defence of the King from the Irish Rebellion / by Rich. Hollingworth.
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Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.
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Assertions and I am sure this man in this particular if any man believe him must be beholden to his blind Credulity and not to his Skill in History Another thing I call this man to Account for is his bold asserting the Kings burning by the Hang-man his own Pacification with the Scots when he came to London which I refute by a Passage out of Bishop Burnets Memoirs of the two Hamiltons it is true the Figures are mistaken but the Story is truly related as it is in that Bishops Book but to convince the World of the Malice as well as Falseness of this Reflection I shall present them with a greater Authority than the Bishops and that is an Act of State against the Scots concerning a scandalous Paper dispersed by them which the Reader may find at large in the Council table-Table-Book On Sunday the Fourth of August 1639. His Majesty being in Council was pleased to acquaint the Lords with a Paper he had seen at Barwicke Entituled Some Conditions of His Majesties Treaty with his Subjects of Scotland which Paper being in most parts full of falshood dishonour and scandal to His Majesties Proceedings in the late Pacification All which Consider'd the whole Board unanimously became humble Petitioners to His Majesty that this false and scandalous Paper might be burnt by the Hang-man to which Petition the Earl of Pembrooke Salisbury and Holland afterward known Enemies to the King's Cause Consented And now I hope this will stop this mans and his Friends mouths as to this particular for the time to come though considering the Malice of the man to the Memory of King Charles I am apt to question it As to what he and I both say concerning the Proclamations about the Irish Rebellion I shall pass it by at present and refer thee Reader to the Vindication I make by two undoubted Papers of the King's Innocency as to that horrid Rebellion at the latter end of this Paper The last thing I assert in the behalf of this Great and Vertuous Prince is what he says himself upon the Scaffold as to the first beginning of that unhappy and indeed needless War on the Parliaments side where he Clears himself by calling GOD to Witness unto whom he was shortly to give an Account that they began the War with him for the Truth of which he refers to the Dates of both their Commissions to which I have not one Word of Answer from this bold Libeller but in a shuffling way talking of pawning Crown Jewels which for what ends it was done or designed to be done it is not fit for him and I to judge for the Actions of Princes are above our Reach and ought not to be so narrowly pryed into yet I dare say it was not to begin a War because the Good Man so often protests against any Intention of War because so small a Sum of Money in comparison would so little have answered an Undertaking against so great and powerful an Enemy as the Parliament then was and though the King afterwards made that use of the Money after the War was actually commenced against him yet that is no Argument That that was the Primary Design And now Reader having given thee these short Remarks upon this filthy and scurrilous Book I have little more to entertain thee withal than to tell thee That this Author has with a great deal of Boldness and Falshood declared notwithstanding the honest Account I have given of my self from the Age of Twenty One and of my being Ordained by the hands of Bishop Saunderson as soon as by Law I was capable namely at the Age of Twenty Three that I was a Presbyterian but to Answer this in short I do here declare in the Presence of God that I never was a Presbyterian in my Life and further by God's Grace that I never will be one for I neither like the Principles of that Government nor the Spirit of too many of that Party for I abhor all Bitterness and Cruelty As for what he repeats out of Manvel which were made against Dr. Parker I pray God forgive him it is a Description that belongs not at all to me as all those know who have been acquainted with the course of my Life nor yet do Dr. Wildes Verses against Dr. Lee reach me at all for I bless God ever since I came to a competent Understanding I have loved the Constitution of the Church of England and done what in me lay to promote its true Interest and which I will never cease to do as long as I have Tongue to speak and a Pen to write I shall conclude this part of my Discourse with hearty Prayers to God for my Adversary that God would open his Eyes and change his Heart before he dies that so this Iniquity may not be for his Eternal Ruine The Irish Rebellion falsly and scandalously imputed to King CHARLES the First TO make good which I onely desire thee Reader carefully to peruse the Two following Accounts The one is a Letter by that Kings own Order by the Hands of Secretary Vane to the Lords Justices of Ireland Borelase and Parsons above half a year before the Rebellion giving them to understand the Intelligence the King had from abroad of some dangerous Designs by the Popish Party against the Peace of that Kingdom that so they might be awakened to take all possible care to prevent them The other is an unfolding the whole Mystery of the pretended Commission with the King 's Broad Seal to it which the Enemies of that King have and do still charge that gracious Prince withal and by Vertue of which they do lay all the innocent Blood then so barbarously spilt at his door and consequently do endeavour thereby to render his Name odious to all succeeding Generations the Account is by Dr. Ker Dean of Ardagh and as I am assured by a considerable Dignitary of that Kingdom yet alive Sir Henry Vane's Letter to the Lords Justices concerning some Informations of Danger in Ireland Right Honourable HIS Majesty hath Commanded me to acquaint your Lordships with an Advice given him from abroad and confirm'd by his Ministers in Spain and elsewhere which in this Distemper'd Time and Conjuncture of Affairs deserves to be seriously consider'd and an especial care and watchfulness to be had therein which is That of late there have passed from Spain and the like may well have been from other Parts an unspeakable number of Irish Church-men for England and Ireland and some good old Souldiers under pretext of asking leave to raise Men for the King of Spain whereas it is observed among the Irish Friars there a whisper runs as if they expected a Rebellion in Ireland and particularly in Connaght Wherefore His Majesty thought fit to give your Lordships this notice that in your Wisdoms you might manage the same with that Dexterity and Secresie as to Discover and Prevent so pernicious a Design if any such there should be and to have
in a fair hand which he judged to be the King 's own and he told me when he real the King's Book in print he found in one Chapter the very same things word for word as far as he could remember with that Manuscript Paper What Chapter the King was then writing of I cannot tell neither did I ever ask my Father but if I may conjecture of it at this distance I should guess it might be that wherein he Complains of being deprived of his Chaplains for while my Father was there the Parliament sent down some Chaplains of their own to attend upon Him Thus Sir you have what I can recollect concerning this Matter Be pleas'd not only in this but in whatsoever else I can serve you to Command Your ready Servant and Faithful Friend Tho Dillingham A little before this Letter came to my hands I had another from a Learned Fellow of Trinity College in Oxford with an enclosed Paper in it taken by his own hands from the Original now in the possession of the Gentleman 's own Son Fellow of Exeter College which enclosed was this IF any one has a desire to know the True Author of a Book Entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I one of the Servants of King Charles I. in his Bed-Chamber do declare when his said Majesty was Prisoner in the Isle of Wight That I read over the above-mentioned Book which was long before the said Book was printed in his Bed-Chamber writ with his Majesties own hand with several Interlinings Moreover his Majesty King Charles I. told me Sure Levet you do design to get this Book by heart having often seen me reading of it I can Testifie also That Royston the Printer told me that he was imprison'd by Oliver Cromwel the Protector because he would not declare that King Charles I. was not the Author of the said Book Signed and Sealed Octob. 16th 1690. Wil. Levet And again understanding that one Mr. Hearne now Schoolmaster of Amesbury and formerly Amanuensis to Sr. Phillip Warwick who waited upon the King at the Isle of Wight as a Clark and Writer as did also Mr. Odert and Mr. Whitaker could give me some Account from Sr. Phillip as to this Book I went to him when he was last in London and desired to know what Assistance he could give me as to the proving the Truth of the Books being the Kings who presently with his own hand gave me this following Testimony I Robert Hearne formerly Servant to Sir Phillip Warwick do Attest That I have often heard my said Master Sir Phil. Warwick as likewise Mr. Odert and Mr. Whitaker declare That they had Transcribed Copies of the late King Charles the First 's own Copy of his Book Entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 written with His said Majesties own hand Witness my hand In the Presence of Phil. Mist Fr. Shipton Robert Hearne I have but one thing more to take notice of as to this Matter and that is a Story of this Authors concerning Mrs. Gaudens declaring to Bish Nicholson of Gloucester upon receiving the Sacrament that her Husband wrote the Book how far this man is to be credited as to any Story he tells I leave the Reader who has looked his Book over impartially to judge but however seeing he is so fond of and so apt to pick up any thing that he thinks will serve his wicked design even to the very Mistakes of the Press as is apparent in the Words Barking and Recalled with which he makes such ridiculous Work I will give him a Rowland for his Oliver and will Answer this Story with another quite contrary to his from the same Gentlewoman There is a Reverend and Learned Minister now of London who does assure me that a Lady of good Quality told him sixteen Years agoe That being in discourse with Mrs. Gauden she told her that she had a great Concern for the Eternal State of her Husband because he pretended to be the Author of that Book when to her knowledge he never writ it the Reverend Person tells me he has forgot the Ladies Name or else he would freely have had his own mentioned but the Story it self he very well remembers and I am sure he is to be credited as much as any man that wears a Gown And thus good Reader thou hast here Sir John Brattle's Testimony for the Book in 47 Mrs. Simmondses that her Husband dyed asserting the Book to be the Kings own Dr. Meriton's declaring his putting Dr. Walker to silence with his Story of Mr. Simmonds Mr. Cliffords Account of Mr. Simmonds committing it to the Press by the King's Command together with Alteration of the Title by Dr. Jerem. Tayler and his Composing and Correcting it not from Dr. Gauden's but Mr. Odert's own Copy Mr. Long 's Letters positively declaring Dr. Gauden's confessing it to be the King 's own Book Major Huntington assuring a Non-conformist Minister that he presented some of the same Papers that made up part of the Book taken at Nazeby Fight which was three years before Dr. Walker pretends Dr. Gauden sent it to the King Dr. Dillingham's reading some of the Book presently after the King came from Newcastle Mr. Levet's seeing and reading the Book in the Isle of Wight a great while before it was printed and Mr. Hearne's Testimony from Sir Phil. Warwick Mr. Odert and Mr. Whitaker who all attended the King in his Imprisonment as Clerks and Writers and if all these will not weigh down the vain Tattle and confident Say-so of single Dr. Walker from single Dr. Gauden then the Lord have Mercy upon us for we must needs be got to an almost Jewish State of Incredulity From which good Lord deliver us Good Reader there is one thing more to take Notice of which had almost slipt my Memory and that is this bold mans triumphing over King Charles I. upon the score of a Prayer taken out of Sir Phillip Sidney's Arcadia made to an Heathen God and as he impudently assert made use of by him in the time of his Captivity Now I must desire thee to observe the Spight as well as Falsity of this Reflection for if Dr. Gauden made this whole Book as Dr. Walker asserts and the Copy he sent to the King was never returned nor made use of in any of the Impressions then the Prayer was put in by Dr. Gauden and the King no ways concerned in it and consequently it is a Scandal founded in the greatest Malice and ill Will to the Reputation and Vertue of this Great Man but as I deny and have fully proved that Dr. Gauden was not the Author of this Book so I must acquaint thee that this Prayer which this man makes himself and his Party so prophanely merry withal was not printed in the first Edition by that Copy sent by Mr. Simmonds to the Press but was foisted in afterwards by some crafty and designing Person on purpose to expose the Book and to lessen that deserved Credit