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
much as he ought in this Case forbear him p. 4 he doubts nay scorns to believe that Dr. Gauden made the Book called the King 's and told Dr. Walker so and the more because he Asserts it who was he not dead the Chaplain would give Reasons sufficient to satisfie any Man why he doth not believe it upon his Authority Dr. Walker's Book saith he is an unseasonable false and undutiful Book which gratifies none but the great Enemies of Monarchy and Episcopacy 'T is a Forgery and to Dâ— Hollingworth's knowledge has Amazed and Grieved a great part of the Subjects of the Kingdom The Sum total of the thing is to serve the Lusts of a party of Men against Monarchy and Episcopacy That Good that Pious Man Dr. Walker does Assert that Dr. Gauden said he Composed the Book and his words weigh more with us say the Common-wealths men than a Thousand Witnesses to the Contrary The Essex Dr. is a bold man an audacious Slanderer True Church of England men scorn to carry on their designs by Lyes and Forgeries by Tricks and Devises I was personally Acquainted with Dr. Walker and know he was an Encourager of and Comrade with those who had no kindness for the Church at all Well done Dr. Walker if thou hadst a man alone with thee undoubtedly he was always on thy side and thoâ— wert always in the right and when the Man was dead wouldest 〈◊〉 the Confidence to Print it The Common wealths-men say it look very hard upon the Memory of such a Man as famous Dr. Walker tâ— give him the Lye The Essex Doctor 's talk is vain and rash false and undutiful His Book is vain shuffling proud anâ— inconsistent I hope I have made good what I Assâ—rted and prov'â— Dr. Walker's Say soes but meer Fictions of his own I wisâ— he had resisted Temptations to Revenge and Vain glory Revenge against a Church to which he was never true so he was an Enemy within our Gates and then I am sure the Worlâ— would not have been pester'd with a Book stuft with so many notoâ—rious falshoods Thus Sir hath your Host at Aldgate whose Mouth wants scowring unloaded his Lay-stall and how justly these vile Calumnies might be retorted upon him who utters them let the World judg But I shall not rake further in this Dunghil 't is most certain that an ill Man cannot by praising confer Honour nor by reproaching fix an Ignominy The late Dr. Walker had such a Stock of solid and deserving Reputation that it is more than a wild rambling Slanderer can spoil or deface by all his Revilings he was such a judicious conscientious learned and sincere Protestant so true a Son of the Church of England that had this hot-headed Turn-coat had any Modesty he would have blush'd to reproach and load him with Contempt Malice and Obloquy but vile and insolent Language costs him nothing and therefore he has laid it on so prodigally I am now to look a little farther into the Aldgate Doctor 's Defence of that which he will call the King's Book against the Essex Doctor 's Assaults that I may shew you how he hath left Matters standing between him and his Adversary He saith pag. 2. It was for his Holy and Divine Book that that great King was so highly venerated so deservedly applauded and indeed upon the score of which the greatest part of his Actions were vindicated and therefore this Book must be considered and weighted in a just and proper Ballanse indeed so it ought Page 5. he tells us and who may question it that what Dr. Walker asserts of Dr. Gauden's writing the Book is all Sham and that if he had dared to have told such a Falshood he must have sat down contented with his Living at Barking without any Expectation from the Court without either being Bishop of Exeter or living in hopes of the Bishoprick of Winchester Now who will doubt Dr. Gauden's having possessed the fat Living of Barking But 't is all Sham he was no more Incumbent there than Dr. Hollingworth was in the See of Canterbury in the Reign of Charles the First How then should it happen that he talks of Barking I was thinking that he pitch'd upon it in regard of its near resemblance to Railing which has sometimes proved a good Living to an Ecclesiastical Wrangler But upon second Thoughts I consider that the Town of Barking is but seven Miles from London and contiguous to the small Vicarage of West-Ham which the Aldgate Doctor once possessed and learning there that Barking was a plump Parsonage of four or five hundred Pounds a Year his Ambition might lead him to set his Heart upon it and his Brain being now crack'd at the Disappoinment he talks of it at the rate which we have seen a distracted Lover in Bedlam speaking of his hard-hearted Mistress But it seems one Falshood would have dash'd all Dr. Gauden's Hopes of Preferment I say then Alas poor Dr. Hollingworth you must sit down contented with your Chaplainship at Aldgate of 8 l. per Annum without any expectation of Barking though it is in their Majesties Gift or of any other Promotion from the Court for before I have done I shall demonstrate that your whole Book is but one huge Lie 27 Pages long Page 6. the Doctor repeats his old Story of a worthy Person Sir Brattle's informing him That in the Year 1647 the King having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book in loose Papers desired Bishop Iuxon to get some trusty Friend to look it over and put it into exact Method And the Bishop pitch'd upon Sir Iohn's Father who undertaking the Task was assisted by this his Son who sat up some Nights with his Father to assist him in methodizing these Papers all writ with the King 's own Hand You shall see what Dr. Walker said in this Point I make no Judgment saith he pag. 19. prejudicial or of disadvantage to the Character here given of Sir Iohn Brattle but with due respect to him I would ask the Doctor of few Questions 1. May it not be possible without any diminution of Sir Iohn's Veracity that in more than 40 Years there may be some mistake of other Papers for these or some other lapse of Memory about a Matter in which he was concerned but once or twice and that but transiently and on the bye Or was Sir Iohn who must be then a young Man and 't is likely but in a private Capacity so well acquainted with the King's Hand which 't is probable he had seldom or never seen I believe few Country Youths or young Gentlemen are so very well used to their Sovereign's Hand-writing as to make a critical Judgment of it and to be able with assurance to distinguish it from the Writing of all other Men. Further supposing but by no means granting that the King desired Bishop Iuxon as is said to desire a trusty Friend to do it Why another rather than the Bishop
pleased to declare that he did not much observe the Discourse not charge his Memory with the Particulars thereof but believes that Dr. Meriton began it and that Dr. Walker did assert in reply to him that Dr. Gauden was the Author of the Book Yet we are to believe if we please that poor Dr. Walker was confounded and put to silence but I am sure the Aldgate Doctor ought to be so whose very asserting a thing ought to carry in in self an Argument of Credibility and from henceforth surely he will be for ever banished from the Society of Learned and Honest Men. Where are we next Dr. Hollingworth saith pag. 9. The next thing I shall discourse upon is the Story of Mr. Simmonds Is it so come then let me hear it A reverend Friend the Vicar of Witham acquainted him where the Widow of Mr. Simmonds lived The Doctor went to her and enquired whether she knew any thing of the King's Book and how far her Husband was concerned in it she presently answer'd the Doctor that going into her Husband's Study she saw upon the Table a Book in writing which she knew was not her Husband's Hand and therefore asked him whose it was but he turned her off with bidding her mind her own Business A doughty Story upon my word and such a Command as this to mind his own Business from my Lord Bishop of London to our Doctor might have prevented the blotting of abundance of Paper but seeing 't is tumbled out and that with the License of his Lordship's Chaplain with a vain imagination that it serves the Cause I will take the liberty to say That a Friend of mine without consulting either the Vicar of Witham or the Vicar of Gotham sound that Mris. Simmonds lived with Mr. Span in Creed-lane near Black-Fryers and he assures me that upon discourse with her she appeared to be a very discreet and good Woman as in earnest I am assured her Reverend Husband was and did acknowledg that Dr. Hollingworth had been with her which without further examination of the abovementioned Story it deserving no Remark I will allow to justify the Doctor therein But quoth he pag. 11. she told me her Husband never joyed himself after the King's Murther but fell sick and died the 29th of March following So she told my Friend but with this difference as the Doctor knows but he seems resolved never to tell the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth that his Sickness whereof he died was the Small-Pox The Doctor 's next living Witness is your honest Name-sake Mr. Milbourn the Printer he told the Aldgate Chaplain if a Man may take his word That in 1648 he was Apprentice to Mr. Grisman a Printer at which time Mr. Simmonds by Mr. Royston sent the King's Book to be Printed and that his Master did Print it and that Mr. Simmonds alwaies had the Name of sending it to the Press and that it came to them as from the King Now though it seems as improbable that a Printer's Apprentice should know the Author of a Book which comes to his Master through several Hands as 't is in this Relation to be Printed with the greatest privacy as that those London Apprentices who understand the keeping their Master's Accompts are therefore capable of being Ministers of State Yet I will not contend this matter with Mr. Milbourn but be it as he saies In the next place pag. 13. I find a Certificate under the Hand of Mr. Clifford who assisted Mr. Milbourn in Composing and Correcting the Book which backs his Story with this Addition that great part of the Book was seized in Mr. Simmond's Lodgings and he though in a Shepherd's Habit was so far discovered as that he was pursued into Great Carter-Lane by the Rebels where he took Refuge and the bloody Villains fired two Pistols at him which frighted him up Stairs and out of the Garret-window he made his escape over the Houses And he further saith That he never heard nay that he is sure Dr. Gauden never was concerned in that Book by which Mr. Milbourn and himself printed it This Certificate I find Sir is attested by your self and Margaret Hollingworth And one of your and my Neighbours was inquisitive upon the reading it to know whether this Iewel for so they say Margaret is in the Greek be the Doctor 's Wife or Daughter but I could not resolve it Now had Dr. VValker been alive and had Clifford made Oath of what he here asserts I know not but he might have been indicted for Perjury for saying That he is sure Dr. Gauden was never concerned in the Book And then Dr. Hollingworth who confesses that he procured and penn'd this Certificate might have been in some danger of an Indictment for Subornation But pray let us compare the Relation of Mr. Clifford with that of good Mrs. Simmonds She saith That she lodged with her Husband in Carter-Lane and that their Lodgings being discovered a Souldier shot a Pistol to mark the Door the very Expression used by Dr. VValker in his Relation of the Story pag. 30. but she and her Husband were at that time at Dinner with a Major of the King 's at one Mr. Chibar's a Minister about Old Fish-street and had notice brought thither that Souldiers had been at their Lodgings whereupon her Husband went away bidding her go home And the Souldiers coming soon after to Mr. Chibars his House the Major made his escape at a Garret-Window before the Door of the House was unlock'd And she further told my Friend That till he read it to her out of Dr. Hollingworth's Book She never heard of her Husband 's going in a Shepherd's Habit. But when this Matter comes to be scrutiniz'd I foresee that our Doctor will affirm That by a Shepherd's Habit he only meant a Gown and Cassock The next material thing which occurs is pag. 17. If he the Essex Doctor had writ nothing but Truth a Nut-shell would have held it all There are more Brains in a Walnut than in the Aldgate Doctor 's dry Skull and their Shells are alike thin and brittle he is equally a Stranger to Wit and Manners but a quart Pot will scarce contain the Falshoods which he hath writ Page 19. Our Author inserts the Transcripts of two Letters from one Tom. Long of Exeter as he affirms which say That Dr. Gauden told him that he was fully convinc'd that the Eicon Basilice was entirely the King's Work This famous Story I observe is esteemed by their Majesties Aldgate Chaplain as a stabbing Evidence for before he came at it we were threatned with it all along in his Book Page 6. he said By and by I will prove under the Hand of a more credible Man than ever Dr. Walker was that Dr. Gauden had another Opinion of the Author of the Book Page 17. We have the same thing over again in these words I say and will prove it by a better Evidence than Dr.
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
the Church of England without controul and under the publick Licence and Protection and 't is not only inconvenient to print at Amsterdam but in regard there are so many Tories and Iacobites employed in the Custom-House 't is no small Risque that every Man runs who would bring over any thing which is wrote for the Service of Old-England I mean the Government of England by King William and Queen Mary with Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and that you agree to be Old-England indeed But I have too long digress'd You were telling me that I have so much lost my Credit with you that you will believe nothing of my bare Assertion Upon this you must allow me to say that you are laid so flat by the Reverend and pious Dr. Walker in relation to the idle Story of Sir Iohn Brattle about Dr. Gauden's Book commonly called King's and which they say Sir Iohn doth deny and you have put down so many things in your Defence of the Martyr which are incredible that your Credit is so much impaired with me that I cannot believe every thing you assert I therefore desire that for the future you would give your Authorities as I shall for what you write so that our Readers may know how to make a true Judgment of Things And I must tell you that you being deficient in this Point in your First Defence of King Charles I rather play'd than argued with you in my former Letter But I will now tell you that I had the King's Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Pope's Letter to him from Cabala Mysteries of State pag. 214. where you may read it in these words I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland Ireland and the whole World his Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he hath done Now Sir Cabala is a Book of clear Credit and not to be gain-say'd by you for you unluckily quote the same Book in the very same Paragraph wherein you raise your Huy and Cry after my Authentick Author And now for the further illustration of the Matters which I have too long dwelt upon I shall here transcribe not only that Letter we have been talking of but that of the Pope's to the King which he answered in so highly obliging terms and for your better Satisfaction you may compare them with Cabala p. 212 c. Pope Gregory the 15th's Letter to the Prince of Wales afterwards K. Charles the First Most Noble Prince Health and Light of Divine Grace c. GReat Britain abounding with worthy Men and fertile Virtues so that the whole Earth is full of the Glory of her Renown induceth many times the Thoughts of the great Shepherd to the consideration of her Praises In regard that presently in the Infancy of his Church the King of Kings vouchsased to choose her with so great Affection for his Inheritance that almost it seems there entred into her at the same time the Eagles of the Roman Standard and the Ensigns of the Cross. And not few of her Kings indoctrinated in the true Knowledg of Salvation gave example of Christian Piety to other Nations and after-Ages preferring the Cross to the Scepter and the Defence of Religion to the Desire of Command So that meriting Heaven thereby the Crown of eternal Bliss they obtained likewise upon Earth the Lustre and glorious Ornaments of Sanctity But in this time of the Britanick Church how much is the case altered yet we see that to this day the English Court is fenced and guarded with moral Virtues which were sufficient Motives to induce us to love this Nation it being some Ornament to the Christian Name if it were likewise a Defence and Sanctuary of Catholick Virtues Wherefore the more the Glory of your most Serene Father and the Property of your natural Disposition delighteth us the more ardently we desire that the Gates of Heaven should be opened unto you and that you should purchase the universal Love of the Church For whereas that Bishop Gregory the Great of most pious Memory introduced amongst the English People and taught their Kings the Gospel and a Reverence to the Apostolical Authority We much inferiour to him in Virtue and Sanctity as equal in Name and height of Dignity it is reason we should follow his most holy Steps and procure the Salvation of those Kingdoms especially most Serene Prince there being great hopes offered to us at this time of some successful Issue of your Determination Wherefore you having come to Spain and the Court of the Catholick King with desire to match with the House of Austria it seemed good to us most affectionately to commend this your Intent and to give clear testimony that at this time your Person is the most principal Care that our Church hath For seeing you pretend to match with a Catholick Damosel it may easily be presumed that the antient Seed of Christian Piety which so happily flourished in the Minds of British Kings may by God's Grace reverberate in your Breast For it is not probable that he that desires such a Wife should abhor the Catholick Religion and rejoice at the overthrow of the holy Roman Church To which purpose we have caused continual Prayers to be made and most vigilant Orisons to the Father of Lights for you fair Flower of the Christian World and only Hope of Great Britain that he would bring you to the Possession of that most noble Inheritance which your Ancestors got you by the Defence of the Apostolick Authority and Destruction of Monsters of Heresies Call to memory the times of old ask your Fore-fathers and they will shew you what way leads to Heaven and perceiving what Path mortal Princes pass to the heavenly Kingdom behold the Gates of Heaven open Those most holy Kings of England which parting from Rome accompanied with Angels most piously reverenced the Lord of Lords and the Prince of the Apostles in his Chair Their Works and Examples are Mouths wherewith God speaks and warneth you that you should imitate their Customs in whose Kingdoms you succeed Can you suffer that they be called Hereticks and condemned for wicked Men when the Faith of the Church testifieth that they reign with Christ in Heaven and are exalted above all the Princes of the Earth and that they at this time reached you their hands from that most blessed Country and brought you safely to the Court of the Catholick King and desire to turn you to the Womb of the Roman Church wherein praying most humbly with most unspeakable Groans to the God of Mercy for your Salvation to reach you the Arms of Apostolical Charity to embrace most lovingly
Reason because you would have done it better You proceed pag. 16. saying The Iustice of the Nation ought not to be afraid of accounting with such bold Men as they shew'd themselves Mr. Burton speaking of the Bishops instead of Pillars calls them Caterpillers instead of Fathers Step-fathers O horrid is this true Why this was almost as bad as his laying open the Innovations in Doctrine Worship and Ceremonies which had lately crept into the Church and wishing the People to beware of them which I mention to be charg'd upon him and I question whether his Eares and 5000 l. Fine would have paid the Reckoning if Hollingworth had been in Laud's place But what then would have aton'd for Dr. Bastwick's Transgression He say you in his Answer to the Information against him inserted these words That the Prelates are Invaders of the King's Prerogative Contemners and Despisers of the Holy Scripture Advancers of Popery and Superstition Idolatry and Profaneness Also they abuse the King's Authority to the Oppression of his Loyal Subjects and therein exercise great Cruelty Tyranny and Injustice and in Execution of those impious Performances they shew neither Wit Honesty nor Temperance nor are they either Servants of God or of the King but of the Devil being Enemies to God and of every living Thing that is good And concluded that he the said Dr. Bastwick is ready to maintain these things thus put down Now seeing that they cut off his Ears for these Expressions without bringing the Point to trial I will put my self in his place and stake mine against yours that I will make good every Syllable in this Charge against that Caterpiller Laud and some of his Brethren when I see you take it to pieces and say in your Rhetorical Flights This is false That 's a Lie And I will give it under my hand into the Bargain that I will prove that these Bishops were a Generation of Vipers which on any terms would have eaten their way to Preferment through the Intrails of either Church or State you may make your best on 't Doctor In your 17 th Page you affirm That these three Men suffered for Libelling the Government and putting Indignities and Affronts upon the then legal Administrators I have shown you the heinous Transgressions of Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton but you leave us in the dark as to Mr. Pryn's therefore pray let this put you in mind when you write next to tell the World what those Indignities and Affronts were for which Mr. Pryn suffered because I have been told 't was for publishing a Book which Dr. Buckner Chaplain to the Arch-bishop I do not mean the Villain Laud but that excellent Pattern for Bishops Dr. Abbot did approve and license to be printed Having finished your Vindication of the Punishment of these Persons you dismiss it thus pag. 17. And so much by way of Answer so that part of your Book by which you have endeavoured to blacken the good King's Reign and to run down the Reputation of Bishop Laud and to express your Indignation against me for saying otherways he was a very good Man I see a Man cannot for his Heart prevail upon this Hare-brain'd Doctor to let Laud alone but whether we will or not he will go on to murder the Reputation of this his Martyr You run on thus without Fear Wit or Honesty I say still he was a good Man and have a very good Man to back me Iudg Whitlock a Man of a clear Credit and sound Iudgment who as his Son tells me in his Memoirs said of him that he had too much Fire but was a just and good Man This is to purpose if it hath the necessary Ingredient of Truth But I observe now that when you have a sure Second one upon whom you can depend you constantly quote the Page as well as Author but you left me here very unkindly to turn over a large Folio to find Judg Whitlock's Character of Laud and at length I pitch'd upon it in the Mem. pag. 32. in these very words Laud was more busy in Temporal Affairs and Matters of State than his Predecessors of late times had been Iudg Whitlock who was anciently and throughly acquainted with him and his Disposition would say he was too full of Fire though a just and good Man and that his want of Experience in State-Matters and his too much Zeal for the Church and Heat if he proceeded in the way he was then in would set this Nation on fire But this you intended to conceal And now I think that the Iudg did not only speak like a very good Man but like a Prophet and I wish you much Joy of Mr. Whitlock's Authority whom some will tell you you had much better have let alone Well that I may once for all rid my hands of this troublesome Bishop such you make him to this day I will give you his Character from another very good Man a Person of clear Credit and sound Judgment we all know that is Sir Harbottle Grimston 't is in his Speech upon the Arch-bishops Impeachment in 1641 which you will find printed in the Continuation of Rushworth's Collections now published We are saith he fallen upon the great Man the Arch-bishop of Canterbury look upon him as he is in his Highness and he is the Sty of all pestilent Filth that hath infected the State and Government of the Church and Common-wealth look upon him in his Dependencies and he is the Man the only Man that hath raised and advanced all those that together with himself have been the Authors and Causers of all the Ruins Miseries and Calamities we now groan under Who is it but he only that brought in the Earl of Strafford a fit Instrument and Spirit to act and execute all his wicked and bloody Designs in these Kingdoms Who is it but he only that brought in Secretary Windebank the very Broker and Pander to the Whore of Babylon Who is it but he only that hath advanc'd Bishop Manwaring the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Oxford and Bishop Wâ—en the least of all but the most unclean one These are Men that should have fed Christ's Flock but they are the Wolves that devoured them It was the Happiness of our Church when the Zeal of God's House did eat up the Bishops glorious and brave Martyrs that went to the Stake in the defence of the Protestant Religion but the Zeal of these Bishops hath been to eat up and persecute the Church He hath been and is the common Enemy to all Goodness and good Men. So much for this otherways good Man What have we next You say Pag. 18. I come now to make some Reflections upon your Scotchâ— Story which you have told with so much Venom and Partiality that you have every ways acted like your malicious and ungodly self You begin with a Relation of Bishop Laud 's what more of Laud still composing a common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book for them and tell us
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-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
Appendix And for my part I have read it some Years since and now turn'd it over but cannot find therein the Story for which you vouch him I am apt to think as you told me pag. 50. That some crafty Knave finding you ready to pick up any Story whereby you might serve your Cause had a mind to put a Trick upon you and to expose the Truth of the rest of your Book by telling you that Bishop Burnet 's Evidence against the Scots would outweigh a thousand Witnesses and that he had declared what false Loons they were in a certain Book called his Memoirs But is not he a Blockhead then that will be so imposed upon Nevertheless to deal openly and without reserve in this Matter I find these Memoirs speaking thus pag. 143. When the Scotch Commissioners came back to the Camp they gave an account of their Negotiation and besides Articles of Treaty they produced another Paper which passed among all for the Conditions of Agreement it was a Note containing some Points which were alledged to have been agreed to at Berwick verbally though not set down in the written Treaty which was made up of some down-right Mistakes this Term comes something short of False Scandalous Vntrue and Seditious which are your Epâ—thets and of other things which the King in discourse had indeed said but not positively nor as a Determination on which he had concluded It were now worth the knowing what in particular these down-right Mistakes and these other things were but this History leaving us in the dark therein I shall shew you what was the main thing which gave distaste in that Paper which Bishop Burnet saith passed among all for the Conditions of the Agreement and how the Estates of Scotland justified that Paper from the Imputation of Mistakes The Paper is intituled Some Conditions of his Majesty's Treaty with his Subjects of Scotland before the English Nobility It is there remembred that it being with all Instancy and Humility prest Saturday June 15. that his Majesty would satisfy that main Desire of his Subjects by declaring that he would quit Episcopacy did answer That it was not sought in our Desires And when it was replied That our first Desire to have the Acts of the General Assembly ratified imported the same His Majesty acknowledged it to be so and averred that he did not refuse it but would advise till Monday the 17 th At which time his Majesty being prest to give some Signification of his quitting Episcopacy And it being plainly shown to his Majesty That if he would labour to maintain Episcopacy it would breed a miserable Schism in this Kirk and make such a Rapture and Division in this Kingdom as would prove uncurable And if his Majesty would let the Kirk and Country be freed of them his Majesty would receive as hearty and dutiful Obedience as ever Prince received of a People His Majesty answer'd that he could not prelimit and forestal his Voice but had appointed a Free Assembly which might judg of all Ecclesiastical Matters the Constitutions whereof he promised to ratify in the ensuing Parliament See now what the Estates of Scotland said in vindication of themselves in this Matter you will find them thus expressing it in their Representation of the Proceedings of the Kingdom pag. 15. After much Agitation and many Consultations his Majesties Declaration touching the intended Pacification was read to our Commissioners who upon their Dislike and Exceptions taken both at Matter and Expressions as contrary to our Minds and prejudicial to our Cause did humbly remonstrate that the Declaration as it was conceived could not give Satisfaction to us from whom they were sent His Majesty was graciously pleased to command some words to be deleted other words to be changed and many parts thereof were by verbal Promises and Interpretation from his Majesty's own Mouth mitigated Which in our Estimation were equal to that which was written some of the Counsellors of England assuring our Commissioners that what was spoken and promised before Men of Honour and in the Face of two Armies was no less certain and would no doubt be as really performed as if it had been written in Capital Letters which therefore were diligently observed carefully remembred and punctually related by our Commissioners at their delivering of his Majesty's Declaration to us And without which we nor could nor would have condescended and consented to the Articles of the Declaration more than we could or would against the Light of our Minds and Consciences have sinned against God and condemned our own Deed. Thus way was made to the Pacification and for preoccupying all Mistakes whether wilful possibly by some or through weakness of Memory by others These vocal Interpretations and Expressions were collected keeped by our selves and in Papers delivered to some of the Commissioners of England It may now be observed upon the whole Matter that this Paper contained nothing contrary to the Articles or the Pacification but was a mollifying of his Majesty's Declaration that it might be the more readily received by the People And it had been more than imaginable Impudence to put into the Hands of the Nobility of England a Paper professing what was openly spoken but just before in their own hearing and yet containing Untruths and seditious Positions contrary to all that was done for Peace The Truth of the Case is this The King had promised them a General Assembly to be holden the 6 th of August and a Parliament upon the 20 th to ratify what should be decreed in the Assembly But he was reprimanded by the Queen and the Bishops who vilified the Pacification and upbraided him that he had brought home a dishonourable Peace Whereupon he altered his Mind declaring that what had been agreed would be unprofitable for the Kirk because he well knew that nothing short of the extirpation of Prolacy could satisfy that People He therefore about a Month after the Pacification set himself to pick a Quarrel with them and upon the 18 th of Iuly 1639 he charged them with no less than Eighteen Criminal Articles whereof they denied some and made full Answers to the rest I shall touch upon two of them because they refer to your Discourse which we are now examining The third Article was Forces not dismissed and in particular Monro's Regiment yet kept on foot The Answer was this Since his Majesty will have that Regiment disbanded the same shall be done presently But we humbly beg that his Majesty would be pleased to dismiss the Garisons in Berwick Carlisle and the rest of the Borders The 18 th Article was The Paper divulged and if they avow the same Which had this modest Answer As we are most unwilling to fall upon any Question which may seem to import the least Contradiction with his Majesty so if it had not been the Trust which we gave to the Relation of our Commissioners the written Declaration would not have been acceptable nor the