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A44222	The death of King Charles I proved a down-right murder, with the aggravations of it in a sermon at St. Botolph Aldgate, London, January 30, 1692/3 : to which are added, some just reflections upon some late papers, concerning that King's book / by Rich. Hollingworth.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1693 (1693)	Wing H2501; ESTC R13678	16,735	43

Covenant and that when Mr. Zach. Crofton charges Dr. Gauden as one of the number of Covenanters And Dr. Gauden denies all Page 275. of Anti-Baal and says That Mr. Crofton reckons without his Host when he made him one of the number of Covenanters and positively assures the World that he never took any Oaths but those appointed by Law no League nor Vow and that if he had done it he must have had no peace 'till he had publickly repented and recanted such Dissimulation which he abhors as Hell I say when I read this I wonder at nay I believe nothing that Dr. Gauden either said or did in order to get a fat Bishoprick but before I leave this Paper give me leave to say that the Style is so like to all his other Writings and so altogether unlike the King's Book that I will as soon believe that Mr. Ralph Venning who Writ two Books called Milk and Honey and Orthodox Paradoxes or that Mr. William Seckar who Writ the fulsom Sermon called the Wedding Ring could have Writ the Whole Duty of Man or Mr. Baxter's Saints Everlasting Rest as that Dr. Gauden could Write the Eicon The next Paper is a Letter to my Lord Chancellour Hide still for the Bishoprick of Winchester And the Truth of it is here he displays himself to the full and shews his Virtues all at once and how far the World ought to give credit to his pretences for he down-right offers to commit the sin of Simony and bids one half of the Bishoprick of Winchester to get the other a fit Man indeed to Write such Holy and Divine Meditations as are contained in the King's Book who rather than miss his Ambitious Aims will enter in at the door of Perjury and I am sure he that will forswear himself will not fail to tell a falsehood when Covetousness and Pride have the Ascendant of him The next and last Paper I shall take notice of is a long Narrative of Mrs. Gauden's all which depends upon her Husband's Truth and which will not hold together when it comes strictly to be examined She tells you of an intercourse betwixt King Charles the Second and Dr. Gauden about the Book and the King upon satisfaction that he wrote it promised him the Reversion of the Bishoprick of Winchester and yet as by the former Story appears the King even after he was Elect of Worcester never said word to him of any such thing She further positively asserts that her Husband sent the Manuscript to the King at the Isle of Wight and that the King received it and sent Bishop Duppa to give Dr. Gauden an account of it and yet pag. 5. of Dr. Walker he asking Dr. Gauden whether the King had ever seen the Book he gave him this Answer I know it certainly no more than you but I used my best endeavours that he might for I delivered a Copy of it to the Marquess of Hartford when he went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight and intreated his Lordship if he could obtain any private opportunity he would deliver it to his Majesty and humbly desire to know his Majesty's 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 Here is brave work my Masters Dr. Gauden by Dr. Walker down-right giving Mrs. Gauden the lye She tells you in another place that it was some few days after the King's Murder that her Husband got the Book Printed it whereas it is well known the Book was Printed off before the King's Murder But commend me to the last positive assertion of this Lady for she tells you that some of the Rump-Parliaments Friends took the very Manuscript her Husband sent to his Majesty and appointed a private Committee to find out the business This had been brave for Mr. Milton and I am sure we should have heard of it again and again in his Answer to the King's Book and no doubt that Remnant of the House that sat and were so grieved at this Book and lost so much ground throughout the Kingdom by Vertue of this Book would have sent this news all over the Nation but not one word of all this but the Book passed as it ought to do for above 12. Years together as the King 's own And so I take my leave of Mrs. Gauden but not without expressing my hearty sorrow that I am absolutely necessitated to these Remarks and Reflections upon Dr. Gauden and his Wife for I take no pleasure neither in speaking ill of nor doing ill to any Man or Woman whatsoever But it may be some will say pray why did my Lord Chancellour Hide seem to believe it I answer that he was perfectly imposed upon by Dr. Gauden and knew nothing of the matter it self for he never saw the King's face after he left Oxford being always excepted out of Pardon by the Parliament and so became wholly a stranger to the King 's private Transactions And now my good Friends and Neighbours I shall only trouble you by asking you whether those are not very credulous Men and have Throats that will swallow Mountains that make these vain contradictory Papers weigh down the evidence of Major Huntington who after Nazeby fight procured so much of the King's Book as was then drawn up from Fairfax the General and delivered the Papers with his own hand to the King who received them with great joy and told him that he esteemed them more than all the Jewels he had lost in his Cabinet which was attested to me by Mr. Cave Becke a Reverend Pious and Learned Minister now living in Ipswich from the mouth of the Major in a Letter under his own hand and also by Mr. Ric. Duke of Devon and several others in the same County to Mr. Read Archdeacon of Barnstaple who all had it from the Major himself or will weigh down the Evidence of that holy humble modest and admirable learned Man Dr. Dillingham sometimes Fellow and Master of Emanuel College in Cambridge who declared to his Son which I have formerly Printed from a Letter writ by himself to a Reverend Minister in London That his Father read in the King's Closet at Holdenby presently after he came from Newcastle several Sentences newly writ as he supposed by the King 's own hand which he afterwards found exactly in a Chapter of the King's Book the Truth of which Story has been very lately confirmed to me by the Reverend Mr. Saunderson late Fellow of Emanuel College to whom that learned Doctor did tell it more than once Or further Whether these vain and unaccountable Papers will weigh down the Evidence of Sir John Brattle lately deceased who has declared a hundred and a hundred times within this last year to my self and others That he assisted his Father in methodizing the King 's loose Papers which made up the greatest part of this Book in the Year 1647. and which

were brought to his Father by the King's Order by Bishop Juxon for that purpose or weigh down the credit of that holy honest and couragious Sufferer Mr. Simmonds All which Characters will appear in a few Weeks to be true of him by his Book called The Vindication of King Charles the First which was Printed in 48. and now Re-printed again by my self who all along in his Sickness and to his last Breath declared it to be the King 's own Book and none others whose only fault was in the trust reposed in him by the King to Print and Correct this Book that he showed it to Dr. Gauden and let him too much into the knowledge of it who thereupon Mr. Simmonds being dead and the Marquess of Worcester too who if living could have disproved to his shame all his Pretences in order to serve his ambitious ends sets up for the Author of the Book Or lastly weigh down the Evidence of the Reverend Mr. Long who so sacredly has declared that he heard Dr. Gauden declare and often affirm that he was fully convinced that the Book was entirely that King's Work I now my good Friends appeal to you all to judge betwixt these so much cryed-up Papers and the Evidence against them for that great and good King and I leave my self in your hands and the hands of all the dis-interested and unprejudiced part of the Kingdom to judge whether I am guilty of Forgery that great sin a late Barbarous Libeller lays to my charge I shall detain you no longer than to tell you That the reason of my Zeal and Labour in the Vindication of this King next to my satisfaction in his Personal Vertues it that the Principles by which this King was Murdered and by which his Murder is now justified will if they prevail once more destroy our English Ancient Monarchy and tear up by the Roots again the best constituted Church in the World and by the Grace of God as I will never contribute to such a Design so according to my small Ability I will in my place endeavour to prevent it let what will come of Me and Mine My good Neighbours praying for your Health and Happiness and thanking of you for your continued kindness to me I am your hearty loving Friend and Minister RICH. HOLLINGWORTH TO THE Counterfeit LUDLOW SIR WHereas you challenge me as to the Truth of the Story concerning Mrs. Gauden to a Lady if you please to come or send to me I will direct you to that Reverend Person who will satisfie you that a Lady told him above sixteen years ago that Mrs. Gauden told her That she questioned the Eternal State of her Husband because he pretended to be the Author of a Book which to her knowledge he never wrote And when you know him you will say I am not out when I say He is as considerable a Person as most that wears a Gown Imprimatur Guil. Lancaster Good Reader YEsterday being the 15th of February a very Worthy and particular Friend of mine was pleased to come to my house and to inform me That one Captain Rhodes together with his Mother could give me a farther account of King Charles the First 's Book upon which I gave the said Captain a meeting the last Night who was pleased to invite me to his House this afternoon being the 16th instant where and when the Mother a grave serious Gentlewoman did declare to me that her Husband Dr. Rhodes Minister of Haughton and Thorpe near Newark did live in Newark in the time it was a Garison while the King was there and that the King came often to her House to discourse with her Husband and that her Husband did conduct the King in a disguise from Newark to Oxford and was with him often from that time till his being a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight where he attended him also in all which places he saw those parts of the King's Book which he then drew up Written with his own hand being so intimate with the King and so intirely beloved by him as to be admitted into his Closets and secret Communications all which her Husband often told her as great Truths and the said Captain her Son did declare to me which he will when lawfully called restifie upon Oath that he was in company with Sir Francis Leake and one Major Millington a Sectary and his Father when a discourse arising about this Book his Father solemnly laid his Hand upon his Breast and said upon the Word of an Honest Man I have at several times and in several places seen and read these Papers Writ with the King 's own hand This Captain Rhodes and his Mother live in Mansel-street in Goodman's Fields within two doors of the Green Man and will justifie the Truth of what I have said to any that have the curiosity to ask them And now Mr. Ben. Hatley who against Faith and Promise exposed these false and ridiculous Papers to publick View at the Rummer in Queen-street and suffered a silly abstract to be taken by the Counterfeit Ludlow much good may your Design do you though I assure you Dr. Gauden's Relations have no reason to thank you MATTHEW XIX 18. Jesus said Thou shalt do no Murder WHEN God Created Man He designed that his Issue and Posterity should live in Love and Peace with one another mutually Helping and Assisting each other according to their several Necessities and Straits and therefore when Cain rose up against his Brother Abel and embrued his Hands in his Bloud the great God to shew his abhorrence and detestation of the Sin tells him that the Voice of his Brother's Bloud was come to Him from the ground and in Judgment makes him a Vagabond and a Wanderer and afterwards makes a standing Law in order to deterr Men from a Sin that did so break in upon the Reason of his Creation and the Laws of Society That whosoever did shed Man's Bloud by Man should his Bloud be shed And when He gave the Ten Commandments by the hands of Moses to the Children of Israel He inserted this for one Exod. 20. That he should not kill And our Saviour who came to fulfil all Righteousness and as He tells us himself Matth. 5. Not to destroy but to fulfil the Law namely To set things in a clearer Light to found the Practice of them upon Nobler Principles to carry them to Nobler Ends and to give Men greater Spiritual Aids and Assistances to perform them than the Jews had under the Paedagogy of Moses He repeats and justifies this particular Law making the observance of it one of the conditions of Eternal Life and tells the Man in the words of my Text Thou shalt do no Murder In the handling of which Words I will briefly fix the true Notion of Murder of Killing our fellow Creatures those of the same Rank and Order of Being with our selves and then see whether the Murder we are appointed by the Wisdom of the

THE DEATH OF King Charles I. Proved a Down-right MURDER With the Aggravations of it IN A SERMON AT St. Botolph Aldgate LONDON January 30. 1692 3. To which are Added some Just Reflections upon some late Papers concerning That King's Book By RICH. HOLLINGWORTH D.D. LONDON Printed by R. Norton for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1693. To the INHABITANTS Of St. Botolph Aldgate LONDON Who are true Lovers of Old England indeed My good Friends and Parishioners THere is a certain bold Libeller who has been pleased under the Name of Ludlow a Regicide to load me with a great many reproaches and false Stories in several lewd Pamphlets in order to prejudice you against my Person and thereby to hinder the success of my Ministry amongst you which thanks be to God has had very little effect as yet and I hope never will for I must say thus much that I have found the Love and Respects of abundance of You rather encrease than diminish ever since I undertook the honest and just Defence of King Charles the First into my hands but however that You may not repent of standing by me in this good Cause I think it very necessary to take this occasion to defend my self against an Imputation of this bad Man's to wit of Forgery a Sin of which if I thought or knew my self guilty I should Blush nay Tremble ever to come into a Pulpit to Preach the Doctrines of the Gospel either to You or any other persons whatsoever and therefore I shall with all freedom and unreservedness let You into the Knowledge of this thing which he calls Forgery Being the last Summer at my Lord Bishop of London's I accidentally met with the Reverend Mr. Lamplugh Son to the late Archbishop of York who was pleased knowing that I was engaged in the Cause of King Charles the First to shew me Mr. Henderson's Death-bed Declaration which he found in his Father's study and upon my request to lend it me which after I had read and found so very Honest so plain and hearty a Character and so agreeable to what by an uninterrupted Tradition had been delivered down to us of this Age both by English and Scotchmen namely that Mr. Henderson after a thorow acquaintance and conversation with King Charles the First at Newcastle went away perfectly changed as to his Opinion of that King's Sanctity Learning and profound Judgment and with great grief that he had been instrumental to the Miseries that Good Man was brought to at that time I say it being so agreeable to what was so generally said of Mr. Henderson I after I had shewed it to many Persons of great Character and Consideration in Our Church and by them encouraged to make it more publick resolved to Re-print it that the World might see how much that Great and Good Man was abused by this Libeller who so impudently brands him with the Name of Nimrod Pharaoh and unaccountable Tyrant which Character as it wonderfully pleased all that wish well to our English Monarchy so it had the contrary effect upon our Commonwealths men and therefore in half a Years time this Scribler makes a shift to get Two pretended Papers to Prove this a Forgery The First is as he tells you a Letter from a grave and worthy Gentleman who lived in Scotland about that time and was very conversant in the great Affairs of that Kingdom And what says this grave and knowing Gentleman to this affair why he tells him he never heard of this Declaration neither there nor here and that had it been true to wit that there was such a one the World would have been full of it Strange that this Man so conversant in the great Affairs of Scotland at that time should not hear of a Declaration of the General Assembly as to the Falshood and Forgery of that Book and therefore this very thing must make any Man not prejudiced call in question the Truth of the Assemblies Declaration especially considering this bold Man puts it out without any attestation from any Publick Notary or any other Creditable Witnesses whom he might have employed to search the Records and therefore I believe upon this account the World will lay the Forgery at his Door and not at mine especially when I tell him this Story that I have from a great and undoubted hand That Mr. Henderson when he came from Newcastle to Edinburgh did design to unbosome himself in the great Church at Edinburgh as to the Vertues of that great King and the Reasons of the Change of his Opinion of Him which was understood by some great Leaders in the Assembly and therefore they hindred his Preaching after which he fell Sick and Dyed and no doubt to unburthen and ease his Mind drew up in this Declaration what he intended to Preach had he been permitted And now I think my Good Neighbours You will say I have sufficiently defended my self from the base Imputation of a Forgerer The other things I shall trouble you with the account of are some Papers said lately to be found which plainly as they say make it out that King Charles I. was not the Author of that Book which for forty odd Years has gone in his Name These Papers by the kindness of the Gentleman in whose hands they are I have examined twice and I am very sorry for Dr. Gauden's Memory sake that they have been so much exposed because in my Remarks upon them some things must fall very hard upon that Prelate which I should be very averse to was not the Name Honour Religion and Learning of King Charles concerned which I hope will excuse me amongst all Men that understand the difference of Persons especially of a King and a Subject The first Paper I shall take notice of is a Petition to the King for the Bishoprick of Winchester which indeed for his Memory's sake ought by no means to have been exposed to view it is so Romantick so childishly cracking and boasting of his Heroick and Secret Service that a Man would think the poor Man had utterly forgot and lost all the impressions of common Policy and Prudence and was resolved to provoke the King to command him out of White-Hall as a Man not fit to be a Countrey Curate much less preferred to the wealthiest Bishoprick in England But the best of it is though he had the vanity to draw it up he was yet so wise as not to present it which is plain from his own mouth for Page 5 of Dr. Walker we have this Story That the last time Dr. Walker saw him which was after he was Lord Bishop of Worcester Elect he asked him whether King Charles II. knew that he wrote the Book He gave him this answer That I cannot positively and certainly say he doth because he was never pleased to take express notice of it to me The truth of it is when I consider that Dr. Walker says That Dr. Gauden took the

Religion as professed in the Church of England and no doubt would have maintained its Interest and Honour both at home and abroad by Virtue of the Principles of their Education which must without all dispute have taught them to Love and Honour to Support and Strengthen the Protestant Interest over all these Western Parts of the World and therefore we must thank these Murderers of this Good King for the misfortunes of the last Reign and for the Fears that are upon us at present And now having proved the Murder and shewed you the Aggravations of it give me leave to ask you whither we ought not to be serious in the observation of this Day And whether they be not great Offenders and bad Men that ridicule the Day and call it in scorn the madding Day Whether they be not Men of mischievous and provoking Principles that still continue to assert and justifie this barbarous Act And whether we may not expect great Judgments to fall upon us upon this account Come therefore my Beloved let us all seriously bethink our selves and consider what great reason we have to do every thing that tends to pacifie Divine Wrath at this time and to procure His Prefence to go along with us You all know that we have at this time the greatest and dearest things that belong to us lye at stake to wit our Religion and our Laws we have a potent Enemy to encounter who yet scorns us and bids defiance to all the conjoyned Forces on this side Europe an Enemy who if he prevails will certainly bring us into the condition of his own Subjects both as to Religion Liberty and Property and therefore Oh! thou good God give us the Interposals and Watchfulness of Thy Providence lend us Thy mighty helping Hand in this our time of Trouble let us be under Thy Conduct and Guidance and preserve still our Noble Prince and let him be under the shadow of Thy Wings and make his Enemies to flee before him And blessed are as the Psalmist says the People that are in such a case and who thus have the Lord for their God I but my beloved tho God is ready to help us yet he hath proposed conditions on our part in order to an interest in his Power and Presence we must eschew Evil and do Good we must forsake the wickedness of our ways we must not speak evil of Dignities nor curse the King no not in our hearts we must not shed Innocent Bloud nor vindicate and justifie it when it is done If we are resolved upon such courses as these are we must expect to be dealt withal by the great God accordingly we must follow the example of David and cry Deli●●● us from Bloud guiltiness O God thou God 〈◊〉 Salvation And beg that we may be warned throughly from this sin and cleansed from this iniquity I this is the way to have success attend our Counsels and our Engagements both by Land and Sea Give me leave to speak plainly to you and I hope those if there be any such as I am satisfied there are that came with a design to make themselves merry here to day with our preaching and praying will go away with better and more serious Thoughts and that because the happiness of their Countrey is concerned in their holy and pious resentments of and indignation against this horrid Murder But if all this will not prevail with you give me leave to tell these sort of Men that are resolved to abuse this great Martyr and laugh at the observation of the Day that at the same time they abuse the King and the Queen who this Day solemnly observe it that they abuse the Two Houses of Parliament who have appointed Preachers to set out affect them with the sin of the Day And withal let me tell you notwithstanding all their professions of Honour to and kindness for King William and Queen Mary yet they are unmannerly and clownish ill bred and rude persons for if King Charles I had had no personal Vertues to recommend him to the World yet methinks they should be so civil and so far make good their pretensions of Honour and Affection to K. William and Q. Mary as at least to hold their Tongues and keep them from railing against him and that barely because he was the King and Queen's Grandfather And now tho' I have said so much as I am sure will convince all good men yet I am satisfied there are a Generation of Men will not cease to vent their rage against this great Prince and in order to it have very lately cryed up and triumphed in a discovery of some Papers which seem to rob him of the glory and honour of being Author of his excellent Book which Papers I have read and find them Romantick and vain-glorious making a simoniacal offer in order to obtain the best Bishoprick in England and withal so contradictory to plain evidence two years before they are pretended to be writ by the Author and so vastly different from the noble Air and Stile and Spirit of that excellent Book that I do here in the face of this Congregation challenge the Party to Print the Papers and do assure them they shall have a just Examination and Consideration in a due and convenient time and this great King's Memory will still be preserved by that great and excellent Book which indeed it is almost impossible to believe any man could write but he that was in his Circumstances and Condition and under such Thoughts as such a Condition when Sanctified is usually attended withal FINIS