Gauden sent a Copy of the Book by the Marquess of Hâ—rtford to the King when a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight and that he believes it was corrected by his Majesty The Design of the Book was ad Captandum Populum and this King was no Fool I assure you He spent some time every Morning in perusing and making such Alterations and Emendations as he thought fit in the Papers and then took his walk leaving the Key in his Closet-Door and the Devout Papers upon the Table as a Bait to catch the Captain for though as the Aldgate Chaplain most wittily express'd himself Some Birds are not to be catch'd with Chaff yet some may And so I think the Mystery is unriddled And now that I may take a full revenge upon the Doctor I fall upon him with the But-end of another Bishop 't is Dr. Nicholson who was Bishop of Gloucester at the time when the Widow of Dr. Gauden after her Husband's Death resided in that City This Bishop understanding that Mrs. Gauden did declare that her Husband wrote the King's Book and desiring to be fully satisfied in that Point did put the Question to her upon her receiving the Sacrament and she then affirmed that it was wrote by her Husband For the Truth of this I can appeal to Persons of undoubted Credit now living in Gloucester and I am under no doubt but my Lord Bishop of Gloucester that now is will acknowledg that those Persons have related this Matter to him as I have now told it And I do as certainly know that there is a Person of Quality and clear Reputation who was Mrs. Gauden's Brother now living that will affirm that his Sister did constantly in her Conversation with him declare that her Husband was the Author of that Book And the same thing is well known to several of her Relations now in being I shall now hasten to an end when I have related a Story which agrees with the Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum and with Dr. Gauden's telling Dr. Walker as he asserts that the Duke of York knew that he was the Author of that Book and own'd it as a seasonable and acceptable Service There is now in being a Person of Quality in whose hearing the late King Iames was highly commending the excellent Language of the present Bishop of Rochester's Book called The Rye-House Conspiracy Whereupon this Person took occasion to say That his Majesties Father's Book was wrote in an excellent Stile To which the King replied My Father did not write that Book it was wrote by Bishop Gauden 'T is very indecent to publish Names without Permission but I will adventure to say that the Person I mean either is at present or lately was one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty I observe that Dr. Hollingworth never writes a Pamphlet without a Postscript in that against Dr. Walker he tells an idle Story That Mrs. Simmonds acquainted him that being at Dinner some Years since at a Citizens House he like one of the Faction and greedy to lessen Monarchy by aspersing King Charles told her if she would confess the Truth that her Husband made the Book called the King 's there were some hundreds of Pounds at her Service which she scorned and told him She was not to be bribed by never so much to so great a Lie 'T would be a very seasonable and good Work to set some body to bribe this prevaricating and forging Doctor to speak Truth For Mrs. Simmonds who is a conscientious Woman denies that she told the Doctor that any Body attempted to bribe her to a Lie or said to her that there were some hundred Pounds or any Sum at her Service but she declares she told him That quickly after the King 's Murder one Mr. Robinson who lived about Thredneedle-street invited her to Dinner and talk'd with her about her Husband 's writing the King's Book and said it might be some hundred Pounds in her way if she would acknowledg the Truth and that if she would not she might come into great trouble and she saith that she never saw him after And now after all this wrangling for Peace sake and half a Crown to be spent at the Pye-Tavern at Aldgate I will so far as I am interessed in the Matter give that diminutive and inconsiderable thing the Aldgate Chaplain his saying The Book was without further debate about it wrote by King Charles and he Lies that gain-says iâ—â— But then I must be allowed to observe that it begins with Falshood and 〈…〉 So that as Dr. Hollingâ—â—orth told him 1 st 〈◊〉 p. 37. If the Essex 〈…〉 Friend Dr. Gauden 〈…〉 for he was a learnâ—d and grive Divine and would 〈…〉 Colouâ—â— by 〈…〉 â—laâ—le Tyranny with the 〈…〉 â—eauty of 〈…〉 The King begin◠〈…〉 saying That 〈…〉 all knowing Men so apparently not true that a more 〈…〉 have come into his Mind He never lov'd never fulfilled never 〈…〉 End of Parliaments But having first tried in vain all undâ—e Way 〈…〉 his Army beaten by the Scots the Lords Petitioning and the general 〈◊〉 the People almost hissing him and his ill-acted Regality off the 〈◊〉 compelled at length both by his own Wants and Fears upon meer Extremity he summon'd this last Parliament And as to what we find in the end of this Book his 〈…〉 of Captivity Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the All-seeing Deity so little care of Truth in his Words or Honour to himself or to his Friends or sense of his Afflictions as immediately before his Death to pop into the Hands of that grave Bishop Doctor Iaxon who attended him as a special Relick of his Saint-like Exercises a Prayer stollen word for word from the Mouth of a Heathen Woman praying to a Heathen God and that not in a serious but a vain Amaâ—orious Book Sir Sidney's Arcadia a Book how full so ever of Wit not worthy to be â—amed among Religious Thoughts and Duties Not to be reâ—d at any time without good Caution much less in time of Trouâ—le and Affliction to be a Christian's Prayer-Book 'T is worthy of remâ—rk that he who had acted over us so Tragically should leave the World at last with such a ridiculous Exit as to bequeath among his deifying Friends such a piece of Mockery to be publish'd by them as must needs cover both his and their Heads with shame and confusion And sure it was the Hand of God that let them fall and be taken in such a foolish Trap as hath exposed them to all Derition is for nothing else to throw Contempt and Disgrace in the sight of all Men upon this his idoliz'd Book and the whole Rosary of his Prayers To conclude if any Man censures me for using too much 〈◊〉 in any of my Expression let him take notice that Dr. Walker told your 〈…〉 That 〈…〉 I am yours IOS WILSON 〈◊〉 Iune 10. 1692. Iâ—â—â—nis Veritas 〈…〉 Doctoribus 〈…〉 LUDLOW no Liar c. In a
Lord of Hosts The Fast of the fourth Month and the Fast of the Fifth and the Fast of the Seventh and the Fast of the Tenth shall be to the House of Judah Ioy and Gladness and chearful Feasts therefore LOVE THE TRVTH AND PEACE And I must say that I am strengthen'd in this Belief when I remember that about that Time and indeed upon the very Day when this Sermon was preached viz. Ian. 30. 1680. some of the Clergy I know their Names but will spare them did in their Pulpits deliver up our Laws and Liberties to the King's Will and according to their Doctrine we were to hold all at his Pleasure and in the three or four succeeding Years upon that and such-like Occasions these Beautefeux did raise Despotick Power to that dangerous height that England became too hot for Dr. Burnet as well as for many other good Men and he and I might with equal safety have returned together But to put it beyond doubt what my Lord Bishop of Salisbury's meaning was in that Expression It were better if we could have Job 's Wish c. which you insinuate that I wrest I shall lay before you some Expressions in that Sermon you may read pag. 4. these words Upon their loving Truth and Peace those black and mournful Days should be converted to Days of Gladness Pag. 5. It might have been expected that our 29 th of May should have worn out the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary and now at the end of two and thirty Years it may be reasonably ask'd should we still continue to fast and mourn Pag. 28. If we come to love the Truth and Peace to live in Love and Peace one with another then our Days of Fasting shall be turned into solemn and chearful Feasts Then should our 29 th of May swallow up the remembrance of the 30 th of Ianuary Or perhaps as the Prophet foretold such happy Deliverances should come to the Jews as should make even that out of Egypt to be forgotten so we might hope for such days as should outshine and darken the very 29 th of May If we come to love Truth and Peace then shall even this Fast of the 10 th Month according to the Jewish Account which according to Arch-Bishop Vsher is exactly our 30 th of Ianuary be to us Joy and Gladness I can now scarce with-hold my self from saying That 't is most evident the Doctor at Aldgate doth appear to be the Person who would wrest Bishop Burnet 's well-intended Words to his own malicious Design A Design to keep up Animosity Wrath and Feuds in the Kingdom a Person who shews himself estranged from Truth and Peace in contending to perpetuate the observation of this Day And seeing we have happily lived to behold the wonderful Deliverances which my Lord Bishop of Salisbury did not only hope for but seem to foretel Seeing we have our glorious 5 th of November rendered famous to all succeeding Ages by our late repeated happy and miraculous Deliverance from Popery and its inseparable Companion Tyranny Seeing we behold our thrice happy 30th of April and 4th of November the Birth-Days of those matchless Princes our most deservedly admired and beloved Soveraigns King William and Queen Mary out-shining and darkening even the 29th of May I would hope that I may live to see the time when his Lordship will make a Motion in Parliament for the annulling the Law which enjoins the Observation of the 30th of Ianuary and that I am sure would be highly acceptable to the sincere Lovers of Truth and Peace But I already see an Objection against it You Doctor say Pag. 2. An Act of State has appointed this Day to be FOREVER observed to bewail the Sin of the Murder of the King However I am sure my Lord Bishop of Salisbury doth well remember that in Times by-past other Days have been appointed to be observed by Acts of State upon such like Occasions and one in particular to declaim against Gowry's detestable Conspiracy which is now forgot His Lordship also knows that in Numb 21. when for the Peoples speaking against God and Moses the Lord sent Fiery Serpents which destroyed many of them Upon their Confession of their Sin Moses at their Entreaty prayed for them and as it is in the 8th and 9th Verses The Lord said unto Moses Make thee a fiery Serpent and set it upon a Pole and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten when he looketh upon it shall live And Moses made a Serpent of Brass and put it upon a Pole and it came to pass that if a Serpent had bitten any Man when he beheld the Serpent of Brass he lived You see Sir this was God's own Institution and that I hope was at least as good as your Act of State Let us see now what became of this brazen Serpent 2 Kings 18. The good King Hezekiah and there were very few good ones in those days who did that which was right in the Sight of the Lord broke in pieces the brazen Serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it and he called it Nehushtan And that God highly approved this Act of this glorious Reformer is evident from the very next Verse which records that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Judah nor any that were before him And now Sir to dismiss this Black-Day allow me to observe that there is not one Syllable in either of my Letters reflecting on the Act of State which ordained the Observation of the 30 th of Ianuary but I term it a Madding-Day because our Parasitical Court-Priests would not keep the Peace but on that Day did set the Nation on Madding by infusing Principles of Slavery into her Free-born People Page 7. You pick a Quarrel with me about my Epistle Dedicatory and upbraid me for courting the Populace and Dedicating to Old-England in Aldgate Parish and say Sure the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council might have been made the Patrons of a Work that pretends to what Ludlow 's doth But whatever you think of your self or the World of you methinks 't was something sawcy even in you to prefix their Majesties Sacred Names to so silly a Book as was your first Defence and 't is as arrogant to entitle the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-bishops and Bishops the Nobility Gentry c. to this Second and to begin as if seated on the Throne MY LORDS and GENTLEMEN And it seems most impudent to tell them that upon the Reputation or Dishonour of King Charles the First and the Principles which maintain the one or those that propagate the other as much as if you had said upon my Scriblings depend the Being and Well-being of our present Church and State and consequently the Life and Preservation of our present King and Queen But whatever you may do 't is not for the mean
kindness to the Dissenters that you received a constant Contribution from such of them as you preserved from Doctors Commons and I know it may be made out that at your own entreaty a Collection was made amongst them by Mr. Ogden and Mr. Hâ—bster to raise the Money for to defray your Charges of Commencing Doctor and is it not an Act of foolish Prodigality in you to throw off such generous Benefactors as these Having thus Examined your Second Defence I shall now Sir recount the Heads of some things which you asserted in your First and which being answered by me you pass over in silence You affirmed page 7th of your first Defence that the Parliament in their Remonstrance Dec. 1641. made Reflections upon the King 's former Government unmanner's and false and that the King answered it and vindicated himself from those horrid aspersions wherewith they Loaded him Now pa. 35. I denied the falsehood thereof and said that the King only answer'd it in saying We shall in few words pass over that part of the Narrative wherein the misfortunes of this Kingdom from our first entring to the Crown to the beginning of this Parliament are remembred in so sensible expressions You asserted pa 12. that the King could by good Evidence prove the Lord Mandevile Mr. Holles Sir Arthur Hasterig Mr. Hambden Mr. Pym and Mr. Strode Members of the House of Commons Guilty of Treason Page 37 c. I gave you the full History of that matter and shew'd that the King retracted that rash accusation which I see is more than you will do tho good manners one would think should oblige you thereto and to beg pardon especially of the right Honourable the present Earl of Manchester as he is a Peer of the Realm and of the right Honourable and most eminently deserving Patriot Mr. Hambden as he is Chancellour of the their Majesties Exchequer and one of their most Honourable Privy-Council for such a horrid slander brought upon their highly deserving Families but you find it a grievous thing to forgo a falsehood that is serviceable to your great undertaking You affirm pa. 26. first defence that the Scots sold the King to the English Parliament I denied it pa. 67. and shew'd that the Scots might with the consent of the Parliament have taken him home to his Native Country but that they refused it fearing he might raise new Commotions there and you have not thought fit to contradict me in this neither You amongst other gracious concessions of the King 's wherein you glory speak pa. 11. 1st Defence of his consenting to a Treaty at Vxbridge I page 61 mentioned many things relating to that Treaty and to shew the King's insincerity in his pretensions of Peace gave a Relation how that at the very instant of that Treaty he used all imaginable means to bring not only 10000 Lorrainers but the Irish Cut-Throats against the Parliament That he declared himself resolved to adhere not only to the Bishops but also to the Papists c. These are Reproaches which you ought to wipe off if you would defend this King to any purpose but you touch them not View now I beseech you the Heads of many of the Articles of misgovernment which I recounted and which you have overlookt only saying in relation to them that some Birds are not to be catcht with such Chasse and I have done I. King Charles I. favoured Popery by his Marriage Articles he agreed that Papists should not be molested he put above a hundred Popish Lords and Gentlemen into great Trusts II. His Bishops were unsound in their principles in particular Land allowed Books which favoured Popery but refused to License Books written against it His Chaplains endeavoured to reconcile England to Rome and got preferment by it III. He Lent Ships to the French King to destroy the Protestants of Rochel which as the French boasted mowed the Hereticks down like Grass IV. He Raised an Army and required the Country to furnish Coat and Conduct Mony and Levied Mony by way of Loane and the Refusers of the meaner Rank Men of Quality being imprisoned were compelled to go for Souldiers or to serve at Sea V. He Suspended and Confined the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury not Land but Dr. Abbot because he refused to make that good by Divinity which the King had done against the Laws He imprisoned Dr. Williams Bishop of Lincoln for speaking against the Loane and not prosecuting Puritans VI. He turned out the Lord Chief Iustice Crew for opposing the Loane VII He remitted 30000l to Holland for the Levying Horse and Men there to serve his Arbitrary purposes VIII He violated the Petition of Right so soon as it was passed into a Law IX He confined the Earl of Bristol near two years without any Accusation and he Imprisoned the Earl of Arundel in the time of Parliament without expressing any Cause of his Commitment X. He shelter'd the Duke of Buckingham when he was Prosecuted in Parliament as the Patron of a Popish Faction and he Dissolved Parliaments when they were intent upon the Duke's Prosecution and charged him in effect with the Murder of King Iames In Relation whereunto Sir Edward Peyton who was a Member of Parliament in that time doth thus express himself in a Treatise called the Divine Catastrophe The Duke of Buckingham rewarded King Iames by Poyson as appeared plainly in Parliament by the Evidence of divers Physitians especially Dr. Ramsey and King Charles to save the Duke dissolved the Parliament when he was Impeached for it and never after had the Truth Tryed to clear himself from Confederacy or the Duke from so heinous a scandal XI He imprisoned Members of Parliament in the time of Parliament for refusing to Answer out of the Parliament what was said and done there c. XII He threatned the House of Commons that if they did not give him Supplies he would betake himself to New Counsels he asserted that Parliaments were altogether in his Power and therefore as they humour'd him were to continue or not to be You may here see Sir to your shame had you any what a small advance you have made in the defence of that Cause which you so briskly engaged in and how much of your Work you have devolved upon your better Pens Before I take my leave of you I shall observe how little you the mighty defender of Princes are to be relyed upon for tho you tell their Majesties in the Dedication of your first Defence that you wrote it to secure them from Danger and the most Reverend Right Reverend c. had your word for it in your Dedication of this Second Pamphlet that you had nothing more in your aim in putting it out than to preserve the present Government in Church and State A most commendable and highly meriting Undertaking upon my word yet which is a melancholy consideration you their Majesties great Preserver who so bravely engaged never to drop the Cause as long as you could hold a Pen do now flinch and give ground and as vanquished by a grey-headed Man with one foot in the Grave as you Confess me to be you say page 13. that you will not give your self the trouble of Answering me a decrepit crazy Adversary but will spare your self the labour because you understand it is recommended to a better hand It is astonishingly strange that you this vaunting Goliah who came out strutting in a gigantick garb of Pace and Language and with a terrible look to Act a piece of Ecclesiastical Knight Errantry That you who in an unpresidented manner huff'd and threatned the World with that vast magazine of stuff which you had amass'd to annoy the Man that should be found in your way that you whom nothing must atone but a pray Master forgive me and I 'le do so no more That such a Doctor such a Champion as you should on the sudden be crying out for the aid of better Hands of better Pens than your own and that in a quarrel of your own picking upon the success whereof you vainly conceit the Being and Well-being of their Majesties and of every thing that is worth the preserving depends But I see you Inferiour Clergy-men do oft stand in need of Guides and let who will come to your assistance tho I am decrepit this good old Cause I rest assured will abide firm and unshaken against all the attempts of such Assailants as you can list and draw up against it I mean the true Government of old England by King Lords and Commons No more at present dear Doctor only I acquaint you at parting that I am sensible I have not paid you the Tithe of what I owe you but it lies ready for you when you shall draw a Bill upon Your Debtor Edmund Ludlow Geneva May 29. 1692. ALLatres licet usque nos usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas Ignotus pereas Miser Necesse est Non deerunt tamen hac in Urbe forsan Unus vel duo tresve quatuorve Pellem rodere qui velint Caninam Nos hac a scabie tenemus ungues Rail on poor feeble Scribler speak of me In as base Terms as the World speaks of thee Sit swelling in thy Hole like a vex'd Toad And full of Malice spit thy spleen abroad Thou canst blast no man's Fame with thy ill word Thy Pen is just as harmless as thy Sword FINIS Puritans These Desires of the Pope were seconded with continual Endeavours of Swarms of Jesuits and Priests permitted to reside amongst us The Pope well knew that his Design of destroying the Northern Heresy had been considerably advanced in K. James 's time * The Roman Strumpet is very industrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 19.2 * The Iâ—terests of Popery and Tyranny were always found 〈◊〉 well to agree and this Prince was lastly persuaded that his Crown and the Pope's Chair had common Friends and common Enemies * The Pope prepared a strange Wife for him which according to Scripture-truth is a dangerous Preparative for a strange God surely they will turn away your Heart after their Gods 1 King 11.2 * The Doctor saith P. 51. of 2 d Defence I tooke time to Consider the Nature and Terms of Conformity which by my former Education I was wholly a Stranger to * The Vicaridge of Westhom in Essex
Ludlow no Lyar Or a Detection of Dr. HOLLINGWORTH'S Disingenuity IN HIS Second DEFENCE OF King Charles I. AND A further Vindication of the Parliament of the 3 d of Novemb. 1640. With Exact Copies of the Pope's Letter to K. Charles the First and of his Answer to the Pope In a Letter from General Ludlow to Dr Hollingworth TOGETHER With a Reply to the false and malicious Assertions in the Doctor 's lewd Pâ—mphlet Entituled His Defence of the King 's Holy Divine BOOK against the rude and undutiful Assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex AMSTERDAM Printed 1692. To Mr. Luke Milbourn Minister of Great-Yarmouth and Assistant to Dr. Hollingworth in his mighty Undertakings SIR I Must Confess that when the Act of Parliament Injoyned the Clergy to take an Oath of Fidelity to our unquestionably Lawful Soveraigns Their Sacred Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY my self and your other Fellow-bowlers upon Yarmouth-Green were under a Jealousie that you would by refusal of that Oath have spoiled the old Proverb and parted the honest Man from the good Bowler but seeing that the Biass of your Interest wrought your Conscience to Compliance in that point it hath been an amazement to your Friends that you having left us near a Year since with promise to come back within a very few weeks any such Rub could come in your way as to stop your return to us and that we never received any Letter from you nor knew how to direct to you till now that yours which I received this day Sennight tells us that you have constantly Lodg'd at Dr. Hollingworth's and had been engaged with him in a business of a Close and Comfortable Importance of which we should be farther informed by the return of our next Carrier Now we all remembred that Comfortable Importance according to your Admired Dr. Parker's refined way of expressing it meant a Mistress but when we do daily see here your vertuous and well-deserving Wife and hopeful Children we were utterly at a loss how to understand you till the Carrier brought us this last Tuesday the Two Books Entituled Dr. Hollingworth's Defence of King Charles the First against Ludlow and of his Holy and Divine Book against Dr. Walker 's rude and undutiful Assaults to the Compileing whereof you say you had not a little Contributed In truth Sr till now at some times I suspected that you had repented as other frail Clergy-men have done before you of the onely good Deed you ever did I mean your having Sworn to their Majesties and had unsworn your Oath and were Caballing with your endear'd Friends the Iacobites At other times it ran in my head that you and the Dr. having been long in most inward Conversation with them you had redintigrated your selves and insinuated into those your old Associates the present Plotters with purpose to search out and discover their horrid design against the invaluable Lives of Their Majesties against our Church and Nation but your Books have put me out of doubt in the Point and as you requested I have given them a reading and had now presented you with some Transient Remarks upon them both but to my great Content I find that Ludlow by a Letter to the Dr. a Copy whereof was sent to a Friend here hath in great part prevented me however I shall make some general Observations upon both these famous Tracts and then speak more particularly to that which rudely traduces the Memory of the most pious Dr. Waâ—ker The Arrogance which runs through both these Books is insupportable the Author boasting proudly of himself vilifying and censuring others to such a degree that nothing is more like it than the Mountebanks who after a deal of Scaffold Pageantry to draw Audience entertain them by decrying all others with a Panegyrick of their own Balsam All his Arguing is frivolous and trivial and tho he knows or should know that the Rhetorick of Barking never moved any man he writes as tho he had ingross'd all the Ammunition of Railing he appears as serious as a mad-man and answers demonstration with the Lye 't is surely the highest indecorum for a Divine to write in such a stile as this and methinks if our Author had any spark of vertue unextinguished he should upon considering these things retire to his Closet and there lament and pine away for his desperate folly for the eternal shame to which he has hereby condemned his own Memory His Friends should give him good Counsel before his understanding be quite unsettled or if there be none nere the Neighbours should be called in and a Parson sent for to perswade him in time and not let it run on thus till he is fit for no place but Bedlam nothing will serve him but he must be a Mad-man in Print and write in Defence of a King and that at such a rate that if he were alive he would be out of love with himself he hath like those frightful Looking-Glasses made for sport represented his Idolized Saint in such bloated Lineaments as I am confident if he could see his face in it he would break the Glass But to pretermit his defence against Ludlow I descend to make a few brief Animadversions upon his Treatise against Dr. Walker wherein I discern all along the footsteps of a most inveterate and implacable Malice However I am obliged to handle it with the more tenderness in respect to the venerable Licence the Title-page shews in these words Imprimatur Carol. Alston R P. D. Hen. Episc. Lond. Ã Sacris In the discharge of my Undertaking I shall in the first place take leave to recount the heads of some of those proofs offer'd by Dr. Walker to demonstrate that Dr. Gauden and not King Charles was the Author of the Idolized Book called Eicon Basilice This good Man in his Introduction saith that Dr. Hollingworth did put him upon that unwelcome labour by falsely accusing him of telling a false story without consulting him by word or letter before he did it and that he was constrained by unavoidable necessity unless that Doctor expected that as a Felo de se he should by silence give consent to his unjust Calumnies to vindicate himself And he declares his resolution to keep that modest temper which becomes one who designs no personal Quarrel nor writes for Victory but Truth The search and discovery of which needs no Tricks no little Arts no big Words but is best attained by sedate proceedings and plain and open dealing And he solemnly Appeals to the Searcher of Hearts Avenger of Falshood and Revealer of Secrets that he will write nothing of the Truth of which he is not throughly perswaded 1. He Asserts page 4 th that Dr. Gauden some time before the Book was finished acquainted him with his design and shewed him the heads of diverse Chapters and some of the discourses written of hem and asked his Opinion concerning it who told him he supposed it would be much for the
King's Reputation Honour and Safety but added he stâ—ck at the lawfulness of it and asked him how he satisfyed himself so to impose upon the World To which Dr. Gauden so readily replyed that he concluded he had thought of it before look on the Title 't is the Portraâ—cture c. and no man draws his own Picture 2. That some good time after Dr. Walker being with Dr. Gauden in London he went with him to Dr. Duppa Bishop of Salisbury and in the way thither Dr. Gauden told him that he was going to the Bishop whom he had acquainted with his design to fetch what he had left with him to be perused or to shew him what he had farther written that the Bishop had some private Discourse with Dr. Gauden who in their return told Dr. W. that the Bish. said there were two Subjects more which he wished he had thought on and propounded them to him viz. The Ordinance against the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book and the denying his Majesty the Attendance of his Chaplains which are now the 16th and 24th Chapters in the Printed Book and desired Dr. Gauden to write two Chapters upon them which he said he promised he would but before they parted the Bishop recalled that request and said pray go you on to finish what remains and leave these two to me I will prepare two Chapters upon them which he accordingly did as Dr. Gauden owned to Dr. Walker and others whom he had made privy to the whole and never pretended to have written these as he did to have done all the rest 3. That Dr. Gauden some time after the King was Murdered upon Dr. Walker's asking him whether the King had ever seen the Book answered that he did not certainly know but he used his best endeavours that he might for he delivered a Copy of it to the Marquess of Hertford when he went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight and entreated him to deliver it to his Majesty and humbly desire to know his pleasure concerning it But the Violence which threatned the King hastning so fast he ventured to Print it and never knew what was the Issue of sending it for when the thing was done he judged it not prudent to make farther noise about it by enquiry 4. That Dr. Walker asked Dr. Gauden whether King Charles the Second knew that he wrote it he answered I cannot positively and certainly say he doth because he was never pleased to take express notice of it to me But I take it for granted he doth for I am sure the Duke of York doth for he hath spoken of it to me and owned it as a seasonable and acceptable Service and he knowing it I question not but the King also doth 5. That Dr. Gauden's Wife some others and Dr. Walker believed it as much as they could believe any thing and when they spake of it in his presence or in his absence did it without the least doubt of his having writ it being as much assured of it as t was possible they could be of any matter of Fact And there is no shadow of Appearance why he should put so gross a cheat upon them all for 't was before it was finished and a good while before 't was Printed they so believed and therefore he had not the Temptation to steal the Applause it met with when made publick 6. That Dr. Gauden delivered to Dr. Walker with his own hand what was last sent up after part was Printed or at least in Mr. Royston's hands to be Printed and after he had shew'd it him and Seal'd it up gave him strict Caution with what Wariness to carry and deliver it and according to his direction he delivered it Saturday 23 d of December 1648 in the Evening to one Peacock who was instructed by what hands he should transmit it to Mr. Royston and in the same method a few days after the Impression was finished and Dr Walker received six Books by the hand of Peacock as an acknowledgment of the little he had Contributed to that Service one of which he affirmed he had still by him at the time of his writeing this Account To these reasons Dr. Walker adds page 7. that he meets with Expressions in the devotional part very frequently used by Dr. Gauden in his Prayers for he used Conceived Prayer both in his Family and in Publick which he never heard from any other man Now Sr. you are not to take these things which I have transcrib'd to be the Sum total of what Dr. Walker offers to evince that Dr. Gauden was the Author of the Book we are talking of he lays down many other Arguments of mighty weight in the point to which I must refer you and shall onely tell you that he concludes his modest Account of this matter in these words These are the Reasons why I believe as I do the Affirmative part of the Question that Dr. Gauden was the Author and as I believe I have also spoken And if any Man can produce stronger Reasons for the Negative part I do not say only I will but that I must believe that contrary part for no Man who Considers can believe as he lists but the weightiest Arguments will turn the Scale And if any Man will be so Charitable as to reclaim me from an Error he supposes I am in I even beseech him to write nothing for the Truth of which he does not make the like Appeals to God which I have done for if he attempts it by Railery or Railing by feeble Conjectures or Stories inconsistent with themselves or contradicting one another he may with more discretion spare his pains for as no wise man will be influenced farther by such Tools than to pitty them who use them or make themselvrs merry so I confess I am so tired with examining such Ware and so cloyed with such Quelk-chose I shall have no stomack to such Fare or think my self concern'd to take notice of it I come now Sr. to Consider Dr. Hollingworth's Answer to Dr. Walker and before I enter upon his Arguments I desire you to smell to a Nose-gay of Flowers which I have gather'd out of the Garden of Their Majesties Chaplain at Ald-gate His Title-page terms the Reverend Dr. Walker's Assertions Rude and undutiful Assaults He Affirms in his Preface That in his Answer to Dr. Walker's Book he has omitted many Inconsistencies therein because he resolved to dwell on matter of Fact and has forborn returning those Scurrilities and Scorns he had loaded him withal upon himself because he was dead p. 3. of his Pamphlet The Ald-gate Doctor saith that if God the Avenger of the injured and oppressed had not called the Essex Dr. to an Account before his Book was published he should have been so bold as to have given and that by undeniable Proofs such Instances of the Man as would have invaâ—idated his whole Testimony and made him and his Book too a Scorn to the World but being dead he will as
himself Had the King any Friend more trusty than Bishop Iuxon Or was he too good or above doing such Service for his Master who had not a Servant who loved or honoured him more Or was he too busy to attend it when he was wholly out of all Employment and enjoy'd the most undisturbed Privacy and Quiet of any Man that had serv'd the King in any eminent Degree Or was Bishop Iuxon less sit and able than a private Man when the Book consists of Policy and Piety And who a sitter Judg of what concerned the first than one who had so long been a Privy-Counsellor and Lord-High-Treasurer of England And for the second he was one on whom the King relied as much or more than on any Man for the conduct of his Conscience as appeared by his singling him out to be with him in his preparations for Death And why must Bishop Iuxon desire another Man to do that Work for which had there been any such Work to be done he was the fittest Man alive for Fidelity for Ability for Inclination to his Master's Service and for vacancy and leisure Let 's soe now what Answers their Majesty's Chaplain at Aldgate makes to these plain Questions for we find him vaunting pag. 22. That he hath made out Matter of Fact against Dr. Walker 's Assertions in his vain shuffling proud and inconsistent Book Why all that the Aldgate Doctor saith hereunto is pag. 9. He Dr. Walker questions Sir Iohn's Memory and talks of his Youth to invalidate the Story but that is so great an Affront to all the young Gentlemen and Apprentices in London who at the Age of Nineteen are so very much imployed and trusted in their Master's Books and Accounts that I leave them to vindicate Sir Iohn upon the score of helping his Father in a thing of such a Nature as this was at such an Age. What ridiculous Stuff is this 'T is such an inexcusable Affront to the London Apprentices to say That though they understand their Master's Account-Books they have not at Nineteen the necessary qualifications of States-men and Divines that they must be instigated to draw up an Abhorrence against it and it may be this Doctor who would cokes them to fall upon Dr. Walker as their common Enemy designs them a Venison Feast this Season but should he do it I advise you as his Friend to caution him to appoint it at some other place than Merchant-Taylors Hall in regard Dr. Meriton lives opposite to it and it may be some diminution to his Credit if that Reverend Divine should take the opportunity to cross the Street and tell him in the midst of his Jollity with the Lads that he hath twice belied him in his malicious Scriblings against Dr. Walker The Aldgate Doctor pag. 9. dismisses Sir Iohn Brattle saying And this is all I have to say as to Sir John Brattle and that he told me this I will depose upon Oath whenever I am lawfully RECALLED I have heard of Re-ordaining Recanting and Re-recanting and it is more than probable that this Learned Gentleman understands the meaning of these words but 't is beyond my Capacity to make sense of Recalling in this place and he will oblige me in telling me his meaning therein And to requite the Courtesy you may tell him that I will produce good Evidence upon Oath when REquired there 's a Re for his Re that Sir Iohn Brattle who I agree is a very worthy Person doth declare That he never told Dr. Hollingworth or any other Person that the Papers he spoke of were writ with the King 's own Hand Their Majesty's Chaplain may not take it ill or think that his Veracity is called into Question by enquiring of Sir Iohn about this Matter for we had his leave to do it when he asserted the thing and said Thanks be to God Sir John is yet alive and is ready to give the same Account to any Man that asks him The Aldgate Doctor affirms pag. 10. That the Reverend Dr. Meriton dining the latter end of the last Year with the Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Pilkington happened to meet with Dr. Walker at the same Table where Dr. Walker was pleased with his usual Confidence to assert Dr. Gauden the Author of the King's Book Upon which Dr. Meriton turned upon him with the Story of Mr. Simmonds communicating the whole thing to Dr. Gauden upon which he was so confounded that he had nothing to say for himself and though if none but Dr. Meriton himself had declared to me quoth he the Issue of their Debate it would have satisfied me yet the further satisfaction I had from my worthy Friend Mr. Marriot then Chaplain to the Lord-Mayor and Minister of the Parish Church in Rood-Lane who stood by and heard the whole Discourse and withal the silence he put Dr. Walker to which he professed to my self gave me so full a satisfaction that upon that account I ventured to give the World an Account of it in print Now it had been much better either to have let this Story quite alone or to have given a true Relation of it but our Author trusts to Falshoods more than to the Truth of the Cause he saith in his Preface If any Man questions the Truth of these Living Evidences I have quoted if he pleases to come to me I will wait upon him to them and he shall have satisfaction from themselves of the truth of what I have writ I should tell him now if I did not know him that he might be ashamed to prevaricate as he doth but he hath cast off all Shame he exclaims thus upon Dr. Walker page 20. Well done Dr. Walker if thou ever hadst a Man alone with thee undoubtedly he was alwaies on thy side and thou wert always in the right and when the Man was dead wouldst assume the confidence to print it In what words now shall I bespeak Dr. Hollingworth he offers to wait upon any Man who is doubtful in the Matter to the Persons he names and yet I am at a certainty that he hath assumed the confidence to put these reverend Divines Dr. Meriton and Mr. Marriot whom he terms his Worthy Friends in print whilst living without their Privity or Consent or consulting them of the truth of what he relates and I am as sure that they will not averr what he asserts they told him for without putting the Doctor to the trouble of waiting upon him I engaged a Friend to enquire of these Reverend Persons of the truth of what he writes relating to them and Dr. Meriton saith that Dr. Hollingworth hath committed two Mistakes to give it no harder Name in the Story for whereas he affirms that Dr. Walker with his usual Confidence began the Discourse at my Lord-Mayor's Table Dr. Meriton declares that there was no such Discourse at the Table but that after Dinner he himself began the Discourse taking Dr. Walker into a Corner of the Room and Mr. Marriot is
Shrubs of the Laity to soar so high as you presume and I took mine to be a modest and inoffensive Dedication and do yet think it ought to be esteemed such though you snarl and in your gay or angry Humour make Distinctions if not a Schism and that in your own Parish and very prodigally throw out to Ludlow a good number of your old Benefactors because they do not believe that they were the only good Men who took part with the King against the Parliament who you say only did their Duties in standing by their Prince according to the Laws of the Land and the Oaths they had taken Now if this be not an inconsiderate and weak Way of arguing why did not you and your Brethren do your Duty and as the Iacobites query stand by King Iames to whom you were sworn And as to your Old Englishmen whom you cull out and set by for your self under the Notion of Lovers of the Government by King Lords and Commons I doubt not but there are of your Acquaintance a great many Pretenders thereto and yet if a Man could stand behind the Hangings at your Club at the Pye Tavern he might hear many of 'em keck at the Healths of King William and Queen Mary and yet be the first who will propose and urge the drinking the King's Health which every Boy understands is in their meaning Iames's To proceed Page 9. you tell me that I begin my Epistle with a prophane piece of Wit namely THE CHVRCH THE CLERGY but the best of it is but borrowed Now I hope we of the Laity may without committing the Sin of Sacrilege borrow and lend this Commodity amongst our selves and were all Clergy-Men as dull as your self Doctor 't would be as great a Sin to borrow of them as to rob a Spittle The piece of Wit which you here term prophane was only a seasonable Exhortation to you to shew a little regard to Sense Truth and Christianity in your future Writings and this your last Book demonstrates that of all the Scriblers of the Age you ought to have attended to this Caution But this was prophane Wit ay no doubt of it there 's no Salvation can there be any Wit out of the Church Wit is ever prophan'd say these Borderers upon it if any Man touches it but themselves However I will adventure to borrow again from my Old Lay-Friend the most ingenious Mr. Andrew Marvell Albeit saith he Wit be not inconsistent and incompatible with a Clergy-Man yet neither is it inseparable from them So that it is of concernment to my Lords the Bishops henceforward to repress those of 'em who have no Wit from Writing and to take care that even those that have it do husband it better as not knowing to what Exigency they may be reduced You say Pag. 10. I shall betake my self with all the brevity I can to consider your various Charges you so impudently draw up against the King and Queen's Grand-Father both in your Epistle and in your Book it self And Pag. 11. you fall thus to work In your Epistle you tell us of a Letter which the Prince wrote to the Pope which from the beginning to the end savours of Popery and you mention your Particulars to prove it First You tell us that he professes nothing could affect him so much as an Alliance with a Prince that had the same apprehensions of true Religion with himself You are in the right I did say so and if I cannot make it out you deservedly stile me a foul-mouth'd scandalous and leâ—d Miscreant And a Man would think that you should not doubt your having caught me when you bespeak me in these confident Words For God's sake Sir read over the Letter again and tell 〈◊〉 where there is such a word or any thing like it I have the Letter now before me as it is in Rushworth and I assure you upon reading it again and again I find nothing like it and I hope I am not so dull but I understand common Sense and if it was not for the unmannerliness of the Expression I would I am justly provoked to say leave your L I must confess Sir this your Expostulation struck me with no small astonishment and your bold and confident Assertion would if possible have made me ready to suspect my self as you represent me for one of the vilest Impostors that ever appeared in the World for I never doubted but your Mother instructed you in the reading of English and he who hath attainâ—d thereto should not mistake in such a case as this But Upon my second reading you I observed that you say I have the Letter now before me AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH this raised a Suspicion in me that you were conscious that it was elsewhere to be found why else should you say AS IT IS IN RUSHWORTH Turning to Rushworth which you were poring upon when you wrote your Defence I was confirmed in my Opinion for in the Margin to that Letter in Pag. 82. I read and you will see when you put on Impartial Spectaâ—les this honest Intimation There is another Copy of the Prince's Letter to the Pope published by several Hands somewhat different from this Well though you affirm that you find nothing like what I charge I can see as you presently shall even in Rushworth several Things as like it as I have found a Doctor to be like a Dunce Indeed this Letter to the Pope is not found in Dr. Gauden's Famous Book called Eicon Basilice nor in the Works of King Charles neither is it in Pembrook's Arcadia in Heylin or in Nalson But you good Doctor may see it in a Book which you have in your Library for you quote it in your 13th Page 't is entituled Cabala Mysteries of State in Quarto Pag. 214. The Royal Words there which you could not or rather would not find are these I shall never be so extreamly affectionate to any thing in the World as to endeavour Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the true Religion with my self The same thing is expressed by Mr. Rushworth in these Words Your Holiness's Conjecture of our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joined in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any Mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated You proceed in the Examination or rather as you affirm Derection of Ludlow's Lying in the Particulars excerpted from the King's Letter to the Pope 2 dly Quoth you What Sir you say That he calls Popery the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion all others Novelty and Faction In what part of the Letter find you this Sir I tell you 't is false there is not one Syllable of this nature throughout the whole and I challenge the whole World of Malice to shew me any thing like it in the Letter And now again Sir
how the Mutinies and Disturbances in Scotland sprung from thence which truly I am very sorry for 'T is well we are agreed in this point that from the imposing this Liturgy the Scotish Troubles did arise so that hitherto there 's no Ungodliness in my Story But you proceed I am sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion profess'd amongst them if they had submitted to the Vsage of that Book and continued it ever since This in truth Sir is ungodly and malicious all over you are sure it had been better for the Christian Religion c. Why not Protestant Religion CHRISTIAN RELIGION is indeed in its true and genuine Sense so good an Expression that a better cannot be found for the only true Religion but these Laudean Church-men the Papists in disguise must be narrowly watch'd for 't is notoriously known that they hold the Roman-Church to be a true Church though we know 't is idolatrous We must hold them to the Shiboleth PROTESTANT when they pretend to tell us what is best for the Christian Religion Laud himself spoke at the rate which you crafty Turn-Goat here do his Letters expressed his fear of delay in bringing in the Common-Prayer-Book for the great good not of the Church of Scotland but of the Church My Lord Bishop of Salisbury may surely be allowed to be a more competent Judg in this matter than you He saith Pag. 30. of his Memoires The Liturgy had some Alterations from the English which made it more invidious and less satisfactory The imposing it really varied from their former Practices and Constitutions Pag. 33. The Lords petitioned complaining against the Liturgy and Book of Canons offering under the highest Penalties to prove they contained things both contrary to Religion and the Laws of the Land Pag. 36. The Earls of Traquaire and Roxburgh by Letter to the King advised him to secure the People of that which they so much apprehended the fear of Innovation of Religion saying that they found few or none well satisfied Pag. 33. The Earl of Trequaire went to Court and gave account that all the Troubles were occasioned by the introducing the Liturgy with which scarce a Member of Council except Bishops was well satisfied neither were all these cordially for it for the Arch-bishop of St. Andrews from the beginning had withstood these Designs and the Arch-bishop of Glasgow was worse pleased See now what the Scotish Nation offered against this Liturgy which you Doctor are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had received and used it Their Commissioners in their Charge against Laud exhibited in our Parliament in 1641 say Pag. 11 c. This Book inverteth the Order of the Communion in the Book of England of the divers secret Reasons of this change we mention one only In joining the Spiritual Praise and Thanksgiving which is in the Book of England pertinently after the Communion with the Prayer of Consecration before the Communion and that under the Name of Memorial or Oblation for no other end but that the Memorial and Sacrifice of Praise mentioned in it may be understood according to the Popish Meaning Bellar. de Missâ lib. 2. cap. 21. Not of the Spiritual Sacrifice but of the Oblation of the Body of the Lord. The corporal Presence of Christ's Body is also to be found here for the words of the mass-Mass-Book serving to this purpose which are not to be found in the Book of England are taken in here Almighty God is incall'd that of his Almighty Goodness he may vouchsafe so to bless and sanctify with his Word and Spirit these Gifts of Bread and Wine that they be unto us the Body and Blood of Christ. On the other part the Expressions of the Book of England at the delivery of the Elements Of feeding on Christ by Faith and of eating and drinking in remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly deleted Now one would think that if such a whissling Doctor as you are were not past all shame as you affirm me to be it would make you blush but we may sooner expect to see you burst that you who appeared but now very tender of passing a Judgment upon the Actions of the accused Star-Chamber should be found so pragmatical so arrogant as to censure King Charles the First who damn'd this very Book by Act of Parliament and the Kingdom and Church of Scotland in this Point and declare That you are sure it had been better for them and the Christian Religion if they had submitted to the Vsage of this Babylonish Book and continued it ever since But you are so inflexible that there 's little hope of reconciling you to that Nation I had almost said to the King and Queen unless this well-approved Liturgy be sent down once more and entertained there For then you say pag. 18. the Worship of God would be performed with Order and Decency and in a way suitable to his Divine Nature and Perfections And consequently could not have been nauseous to the soberly wise and seriously devout part of that Kingdom as now it is by reason of those rude and undigested Addresses those ex-tempore and unpremeditated Expostulations with God those bold and saucy Applications that for want of a good Book or a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to memory are so commonly made use of in their Pulpits too many of the accounts of which we have lately since the great Turn in Scotland received from very good Hands and undeniable Testimonies This is I am sure a nauseating if not an ungodly and prophane way of Talking You poor weak Man as you are run away with a gross Mistake that because there were Bishops in Scotland till the great Turn as you term the legal Settlement of that Church by their present Majesties they had also a Common-Prayer Book but believe me or let it alone as you please they had no such thing it was detested even by many of their Episcopal Clergy I shall not pretend to remark upon your most unbecoming and malicious Representation of the praying of the present Ministers of that Kingdom but 't is well known that their Divines are of good Ability and every way well qualified for the discharge of the Ministerial Function And whereas you pretend to recommend a well-framed Form of Prayer of their own before-hand and committed to Memory for the prevention of rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications I would fain know of you what Canon allows a Minister of the Church of England to frame his own Prayer and to mutter out a good part of it so as no body can tell what he says And then to rise constantly in his Voice when he comes to the Ox and the Ass But to talk seriously of this most serious Matter pray see what the Devout and Learned Bishop of Salisbury says of such Doctors as your self in his Sermon Ian. 30. 1680.
pag. 9. Many weak Persons who by the Heat of their Tempers are inclined to entertain Prejudices hold that Addressing to God in Prayer and the being gaided by the inward Motions of Grace and God's Holy Spirit are but illusions of Fancy if not the Contrivances of designing Men. Pag. 10. Earnestness in Prayer and depending on the inward Assistances of God's Holy Spirit How have Men who know or value these things little themselves taken occasion to disparage them with much Impudence and Scorn Now Sir upon the whole Matter I do think it might tend to the Publick Peace if my Lord Bishop of London would please to suspend such a dry and insipid Doctor as you are from publishing even ex-tempore and unpremeditated Defences and to injoin you a well-framed Form of Defending so that it may be performed with Order and Decency and not be exposed to Contempt and Scorn by reason of any rude and undigested Addresses bold and saucy Applications to their most Sacred Majesties the Most Reverend and Right Reverend the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. For I perswade my self that the Ex-tempore Rhimes of some Antick Iack-Pudding may deserve Printing better than your empty and nonsensical Pamphlets and that it had been better to have set some Ballad-Singer to have bewailed the King's Misfortunes than so ridiculous an Orator as you are found to be who are so insipid that there 's not the least Spirit in any thing you say Where are you now Sir I but this Bold face says This Liturgy for Scotland was not only composed by Bishop Laud but sent by him to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation and this Story I must not dare to deny But with your leave Mr. Modesty I will venture upon that piece of Confidence as to tell you I do not believe it and that because you assert it Now I do agree that I did say so and I am indeed a Bold-face if I have not good Authority for what â— thus charge upon Arch-Bishop Laud for no Man's bare Assertion may pass in such a Case as this But there is more in this Matter than the Short-sighted Chaplain at Aldgate is aware of You may find the Story of Laud's sending the Scots Common-Prayer to be approved by the Pope and Cardinals as I told it in a Book of good Credit entituled A new Survey of the West-Indies wrote by a Reverend Divine of the Church of England Mr. Thomas Gage Minister of Deal in Kent 't is in Page 280 in the Folio Impression He there tells you That being a Friar he went to Rome with Letters of Recommendation to Cardinal Barbarini the Pope's Nephew intituled The Protector of England That coming acquainted with Father Fitz-Herbert Rector of the English Colledg of jesuits he highly praised Arch-Bishop Laud and said That he not long since sent a Common-Prayer Book which he had composed for the Church of Scotland to be first viewed and approved by the Pope and Cardinals and that they liked it very well for Protestants to be trained up in a Form of Prayer and Service yet the Cardinals first giving him Thanks for his Respect sent him word that they thought it was not fitting for Scotland That Father Fitz-Herbert told him he was Witness of all this being sent for by the Cardinal to give them his Opinion about it and of the Temper of the Scots And that Laud hearing the Censure of the Cardinals concerning his Intention and Form of Prayer to ingratiate himself the more in their Favour corrected some things in it and made it more harsh and unreasonable for that Nation This good Man Mr. Gage after he had there related the Matter as above expresses himself thus This most true Relation of Arch-Bishop Laud I have oft spoke of in private Discourse and publickly in Preaching and I could not in Conscience omit it here both to vindicate the just Censure of Death which the Parliament gave against him and to reprove the ungrounded Opinion and Error of some ignorant Spirits who have since his Death highly exalted and cried him up for a Martyr You may also find something like this of Mr. Gage in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs pag. 83. he relates That in the Year 1638 one Abernethy who from a Jesuit turned a zealous Presbyterian spread a Story in Scotland which took wonderfully of the Liturgy of that Kingdom being sent to Rome to some Cardinals to be revised by them and that Signior Con the Popes Nuncio to the Court of England had shewed it to Abernethy at Rome Indeed the Bishop adds ' That the Marquess of Hamilton wrote to Con about it but he protested seriously he never so much as had heard of a Liturgy designed for Scotland till he came last to England that he had never seen Abernethy at Rome but once and finding him light-headed had never again taken notice of him Now it takes not much from the Credit of Abernethy's Relation that Con denied it for it must be noted that he was a Jesuit and according to the Tenets of the Romish Church 't was lawful if not his Duty to lie for Holy Church You come next with a most convincing Argument to shew the Falshood of my last Assertion What! say you pag. 19. Bishop Laud send to the Pope and Cardinals for their Approbation of a Liturgy almost the same with ours I think this vexatious Ghost will never be laid I thought we had done with Laud but here he appears again What! Laud send to the Pope to approve a Liturgy almost the same with ours Ay Laud the most likely Bishop in England to do it You say That his Heart was set upon Designs of Vniformity And was not this the most probable Course to accomplish them Mr. Whitlock whom you will credit shews as I but now told you that Laud declared That the Protestant Religion and Romish Religion were all one and if the one was false so was the other That he brought the Romish and English Churches I think I must say Steeple-houses to be rightly understood to such a Vniformity that the Popish Priests knew no difference between theirs and ours Why then may we not believe that in pursuit of that Plot of Vniformity his Heart was so much set upon he sought the Pope's Approbation of the Liturgy whom as Mr. Whitlock himself declares he held to be the Metropolitan Bishop of the World so that Laud was to him as that Traitor Turner late Bishop of Ely to Sancrost but a younger Brother Proceeding to argue the Point you say Sure Sir you have forgot the Bull of the Pope in the 10 th of Queen Elizabeth which commands all his pretended Catholick Children not to attend upon the publick Liturgical Devotions of our Church and you have forgot that the Papists upon that account and by virtue of the Authority of that Bull have declined our Publick Service ever since and therefore it is very likely Bishop Laud should send a Liturgy to Rome for its Approbation
shew you from Mr. Whitlock how this was growing up from being the Bishop's to be a Popish War he relates Page 31. That the Queen employed Sir Kenelm Digby and Mr. Walter Mountague who at that very time as we have it in Gage's Survey of the West-Indies p. 209 stood Candidates at Rome for a Cardinal's-Cap to labour the Papists for a liberal Contribution which they gained and Sir Basil Brooks a Person afterwards very active in the Irish Rebellion was appointed Treasurer for the Monies thus raised by the Queen's Solicitation for this War against the Scots hereupon some stiled the Forces raised against the Scots in the beginning of the year 1640 THE POPISH ARMY But to return to what I intended I will shew you the Heads of the Scotch Declaration which Mr. Whitlock puts down upon the Page you mention and that I may not be accused of Partiality take first the King's Declaration His Majesty saith he sets it forth to inform his Subjects of the seditious Practices of some in Scotland seeking the overthrow of Regal Power under false pretext of Religion c. He takes God to witness he is constrained by their Treasons to take Arms for the safety of that and this Kingdom He resolves to maintain Episcopacy there c. The Scots answer That though the Secrets of God's Ways cannot be sounded yet considering his Providence in their personal Affairs the Lord is about some great Work on Earth for the Cup of Affliction propined to other Reformed Kirks is now presented to them That instead of a gracious return to their humble Petitions from time to time the return is a late Declaration libell'd against them though the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against their Cause and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ now in question Which Declaration proceeds from the Unchristian Prelates and their Party They conclude setting forth their long suffering of the Prelates Insolency c. and fearing Popery to be introduced And they say for doing any harm to England cursed be their Breasts if they harbour any such Thought c. Your next Accusation Doctor against the Scots is Page 23. The King consents to a Treaty Commissioners were appointed on both sides and they came to a Conclusion agreeing upon seven Articles The King justly performed the Articles on his side notwithstanding the first Article agreed upon was to disband the Forces of Scotland within 24 hours yet these perfidious Persons kept part of their Forces in a body and all their Officers in pay and kept up their Fortisications at Leith And now let the Reader judg by this how deserving these Men are of such Commendations as this pestilent and bold Letter-Writer gives them Take a full Answer to this Slander from the Representation of the Proceedings of the Kingdom of Scotland since the late Pacification by the Estates of the Kingdom pag. 35. We within the space of forty eight hours the time appointed by his Majesty dissolved our Army Concerning the Officers we were careful both to observe that Article of the Pacification to his Majesty and also to keep promise to them which did bind us not to hold them in Military Pay but to vouchsafe them Entertainment till they should be restored to their own or called to other Service which ought not to be taken for any Breach Contempt or Disobedience but for an observation of the Law of Nature and common Equity they being our own Natives and having forsaken their Places and Means for Defence of Us and their Native Country less than this neither could they expect nor we perform although the Peace had been most firmly settled All Forts and Castles were speedily restored although they be now used for a Terror and Invasion against us Some part of the Fortifications at Leith was demolished for his Majesty's Satisfaction and the whole remitted by his Majesty to the Town of Edinburgh as having right to the same See further what they say in Refutation of this vile Calumny in their Remonstrance concerning the present Troubles pag. 7. We delivered all Places into his Majesty's Hands which were desired in testimony of our Obedience and although they might have been in our Hands Pledges of Assurance for performance of those Articles that were agreed to be granted in the following Assembly and Parliament and now contrary to our Expectation are turned for Engines of Terror and Fetters of Slavery to frustrate us from obtaining the benefit of that Capitulation Now to put you Doctor to eternal silence I shall subjoin an unconquerable Evidence against your bold Assertion The Pacification was made upon the 18 th of June 1639. And upon the 24 th the Marquess of Hamilton received possession of the Castle of Edinburgh for the King This is in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs of the two Hamiltons pag. 144. 't is a Book you have heard of though I doubt never seen you shall presently see why I say so If this Treatise be partial it must incline to the King against the Scots because the Marquess was deeply engaged in the Royal Cause This was not only wrote by the Bishop when he was a Chaplain to King Charles the Second from the Marquesses own Memoirs but is dedicated to the King and was published with his Royal Testimonial that he had seen and approved it And is there room now for any Man to believe that if the Scots had not acted with the highest Simplicity and Integrity in this Treaty they would have instantly and voluntarily quitted the best Strength in that Kingdom to his Majesty And now let the Reader judg by this whether one word that such a paltry Doctor as you utter out of your Pulpit â—e to be credited Well what comes next e'ne what lies uppermost pag. 23. And whereas this scandalizing Person has the confidence to assert that the King when he came home burnt by the common Hangman the Pacification he had made I must tell him he talks as he has done all along throughout his Letter falsly and against his own Reading and Knowledg and for this I appeal to Bishop Burnet in his Memoirs of the two Hamiltons where pag. 782. he acquaints us That the Scots published a false and scandalous Paper entituled Some of his Majesties Treaties with his Subjects of Scotland so Vntrue and Seditious that it was burnt by the Hands of the Common Hangman And are not you a base Person then to oberude such a Lie upon the World as you have done But it is no wonder the Father whose Cause you have served in this rude and seditions Libel is the Father of Lies Why now most unhappy Doctor you are catch'd again and whereas you say that I talk falsly against my reading it will be found that you talk at random for want of reading I told you that I suspected you had never seen Bishop Burnet's Alemoirs you shall now see my reason for it You quote pag. 782. and there are but 436 Pages in that Book and 47 in the
Kingdom the Lower House are weary of the King and Church The Enemies of Popery were even in that Day Commonwealths-men All Ways shall be just to raise Money by in this inevitable Necessity and are to be used being lawful Arch-bishop For an Offensive not a Defensive War Strafford The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on Foot and if any of them stir We will make 'em smart Now you will readily agree that this is no Sham in regard it comes from Mr. Whitlock whom you quote four or five times Besides I assure you that it was given in Evidence upon Oath at the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and which further evinces the Truth thereof the King instantly required the Loan of the City of London as here advised and for refusal to comply therein Ludlow tells you pag. 17. he imprisoned Sir Stephen Soame Sir Nicholas Rainton and other eminent Citizens And were not these Halcion Days were not these a rare Set of blessed Saints Pag. 32. You lash me for my Relation of the King 's tampering with the Army to â—urb the Parliament and subdue them to his Will and say that I tell a Story of Piercy and Goring c. such a one as the Faction was wont to make use of upon all occasions to amuse and heat the People but the best of it is there are so many incredible Things you say in the Account that I must tell you it hath not gained upon my belief at all amongst the rest you tell us that two of the Parties concerned confess that all the French that were about the Town were to be mounted but that which is the Nicker is that the Clergy would raise 1000 Horse to assist them and yet this Conspiracy was under an Oath of Secrecy And VERY LIKELY INDEED WHEN SO MANY CLERGY-MEN MVST BE ACQVAINTED WITH IT Surely Sir you have a mighty Opinion of your self Surely Sir you have a very bad Opinion of your Brethren of the Cassock or else a most weak way of arguing and the more you say the more you discover your Rashness and want of Judgment The Clergy will not con you Thanks for representing them to the World as Blabs of their Tongues to the prâ—judice of the Cause of Mother-Church as an Order of Men who may not be trusted with a Secret committed to them under a strict Oath But this Story you say has not gained upon your Belief who can help it Our Saviour converted many of divers States and Conditions to the Faith but we do not find that ever he converted a Priest That the King did tamper with the Army to bring them against the Parliament as I relate it appears most evidently in Whitlock's Memoirs Pag. 44. and also by the several Informations Examinations and Confessions upon Oath before a Committee of the House of Lords of the Parties engaged in it most of them Men of Quality and highly in Favour with the King You may read them at large in Husband 's exact Collections a Book in esteem with you beginning at Pag. 220. I there find that the two Parties who confessed that the French about the Town were to be mounted and that the Clergy were to find 1000 Horse were Lieutenant Colonel Ballard and Captain Chudleigh But in regard you have taken the Pains to relate what his Majesty's Declaration said to this Point I shall for the setting the matter in its true Light transcribe a brief Account thereof from the Declaration of the Parliament which you most rudely call the Faction as you will find it in Husband's Collections Pag. 200. There speaking of the intended Force upon the Parliament they declare themselves thus Certainly we have been more tender of his Majesty's Honour in this point than he whosoever he was that did write his Majesty's Declaration where he calls God to witness he never had any such Thought or knew of any such Resolution of bringing up the Army which truly will seem strange to those who shall read the Depositions of Mr. Goring Information of Mr. Piercy the Examination of Mr. Wilmot Mr. Pollard and others with the other Examination of Capt. Legg Sir Iacob Ashley and Sir Iohn Conyers and consider the Condition and Nature of the Petition which was sent unto Sir Iacob Ashley under the Approbation of C. R. which his Majesty doth now acknowledg to be his own Hand and being full of Scandal to the Parliament might have proved dangerous to the whole Kingdom if the Army should have interposed betwixt the King and them as was desired You tell me pag. 43. That I have been so bold in my Assertion about the Tumults that I give the Lie to almost all the Historians that have writ the Transactions of those Times and you refer me to the Votes of the Common Council Dec. 31. 1641. Now because you are short in the Relation of that Matter I shall give you it as it is in Husband's Collection pag. 30. The Lord Newburgh upon Dec. 31. 1641 delivered a Message from his Majesty to the Common Council to this effect There having been of late many tumultuary Assemblies about Whitehal and Westminster the King recommended to their Care the preventing the like Tumults and declared That he was so well assured of the good Affections of the City that he could in no wise understand it to have any share in the Fault of these Tumults but that they proceed meerly from the mean and unruly People of the Suburbs c. Hereupon the Common Council returned Answer That they had no hand in these tumultuous Proceedings and disavowed the same and promised their best Endeavours to prevent and suppress in time to come all such tumultuous Assemblies and all mutinous rebellious Persons And they humbly desired that all the Delinquents and Causers of Tumults being apprehended may receive condign Punishment And They ordered every Member of the Common Council to make it known That if any Person should neglect his Duty of Watch and Ward c. and not do his best Endeavour to suppress or prevent Tumults he shall receive condign Punishment Now Sir I appeal to all Mankind whether this doth any way serve your Purpose You refer to the Votes of the Common Council and would thence argue that the King was necessitated by reason of the Tumults to leave Whitehal But the contrary is most evident from the King's Message and the Answer and Resolutions of the City The King declares That he was well assured of the good Affections of the City and that they had not any share in the Fault of the Tumults but that they proceeded meerly from the mean and unruly People of the Suburbs The Common Council promises to prevent and suppress all Tumults and command strict Watch and Ward to be kept to that purpose And might not the King have been hereby perswaded that he was in no danger from Tumults Were not these Votes a full Security against Fear from such Disorders for the future No doubt