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-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
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-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
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.
Walker can be supposed to be that Dr. Gauden after he was Bishop of Exeter did justify it to be the King's Book Page 18. this celebrated Witness is produced and our Doctor tells us 'T is Mr. Long Prebendary as he takes it of Exeter And page 20. he thus characterizes him I must tell the Reader that he is an ancient grave Reverend Divine well known for his Truth and Honesty one who as he is a professed Member of the Church of England so he hath always been true to the Doctrine and Discipline of it in his Preaching and Practice and not like my Adversary who I know for I was personally acquainted with him was an Encourager of and Comrade principally with those who had no kindness for the Church at all I must with your leave Sir a little remark upon this most extraordinary and remarkable Man Dr. Hollingworth is no doubt sure of the truth of what he saies we are bound to believe him though he is not at a certainty what this Long is for he tells us that he is Prebendary of Exeter as he takes it He hath alwaies been true to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England That 's indeed something and makes the Prebendary a much more valuable Man than our Chaplain for he once upon a time declared that be thanked God he had vomited up all his Calvinistical Principles Whereupon a Person of true Worth and of high Desert replied thus to him Then the Doctrine of the Church of England and St. Paul 's Epistles have spew'd you out for an Apostate and so farewell to you for a Knave But I may not let the Prebendary thus slide out of my hands I have found there 's something more than ordinary in the Man which recommends him to the Doctor 's Favour and I will not withhold it from you There 's a kind of Sympathy in the natures of these two mightâ— Church man our Doctor proposed page 50. of his second Defence That every Parish of England famousâ—icon â—icon Basilice with the other Works of King Charles and chain it up to inform the Minds of all good Men and the Prebendary hath a Crâ—chet of reading some Portions out of it in the Church for the further enlightning our â—nderstanding Behold how they pisâ— in a Quiâ—â— and for ought I know the next proposal from these Men may be to read the Arcaâ—â—an Prayer in the same Book for the furthering of our Devotion I proceed to give you something more of Long'sâ—ust â—ust Character and leave it to you to judg how much you find of Hollingworth therein He hath an aking Tooth at Lectures and Sermons too and a mighty Spleen at Free-Prayer he would haâ—e all the publick Ministrations to consist in reading Liturgies and Homilies But his virulent Book called Vox Cleri or the Sense of the Clergy concerning the making of Alterations in the establish'd Liturgy published in the Year 1690 doth most truly speak the Man's Principles and discover what sort of Men are in our Doctor 's esteem the True Church of England Men and upon what sâ—ore he terms the pious Dr. Walker an Adversary to the Church This Book is Libel upon that great and excellent Person his Grace my Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury that now is and several others of the highly deserving Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England who were found inclinable to the much long'd-for Vnion of Protestants in the late Convocation He glories that the Clergy opposed and overthrâ—w a Bill for Comprehension contrived by Bishop Wilkins Sir Orlando 〈◊〉 and Judg Hales because they thought 〈…〉 the Church would prove more hurâ—ful than a Schism without it c. He rejoiceâ—punc that Dr. Iane was chosen Proâ—â—cutor of the Convâ—câ—tion in opposition to Dr. 〈◊〉 and saies that 't is look'd upon as a good Omen of success in their Proceedings for the good of the Church and throughout the whole Book he puts aâ— high value upon Dr. Iane for opposing any alteration in the liturgy or Ceremonies with a Nolumus Leges Angliae mutare and at the same time casts leering Reflections upon the Friends of Union and Peace under the name of Latitudinarians He oft extols and magnifies the Non-swearing Bishops and calls their deserved Deprivation for their Obstinacy a dealing with them as the Bishops were dealt with in 1642 by the Scotish and Dissenters Malice He expresly declares himself against parting with any thing for the Dissenters satisfaction and perswades to the inforcing them to Uniformity by strict Discipline But I may not dwell upon his envenom'd Invective in short both Hollingworth and Long appear to be Fiery Zealots Violent Bigots who stand at an irreconcilable distance with dissenting Protestants and will run botâ—â—ut of the Church and their Wits too if the Parliament should think sit to let the Dissenters in upon an honourable Accommodation of our Differences And 't would be strange indeed if a Man of Dr. Walker's healing Spirit should have any Credit with such Men as these but 't is his Honour to be traduced by them But now he falls with a Witness upon poor Dr. Walker saying page 22. I have a Commission from the present Bishop of Gloucester Dr. Fowler to present the World with this Narrative attested by himself which has a great deal in it considering the former Testimonies The former Testimonies indeed considered which have nothing in them but Falshood and empty or angry Words I must allow that there is something in this though not to the Doctor 's Purpose We have here a Certificate attested by my Lord Bishop of Gloucester which fills almost three Pages with most undoubted Truth and this must be esteemed something and 't is a rare thing too for this Relation excepted a Man may aver that there is scarce a Paragraph in their Majesties Chaplain's seven and twenty Pages without a Falshood It behoves then that we look into this Narrative The Sum of it is this About 28 Years since Mrs. â—eighly a very Religious and Pious Gentlewoman told Dr. Fowler that a Captain of the Parliament Army told her that being appointed to stand every Morning at his Majesty's Bed-Chamber Door when he was a Prisoner in the Isle of Wight he observed for several days that he went into his Closet and there staid a considerable time and then went into the Garden And the Captain perceiving that he still left the Key in the Closet Door he went in and found that the King had been penning most Devout and Pious Meditations and Prayers which the Captain read for several Mornings together And Mrs. â—eighley said That he gave such an Account of these Meditations and Prayers that she was confident they were printed in Eicon Basilice after she came to read the same And I am very inclinable to be of good Mrs. Keighley's Mind and yet this Relation doth more serve Dr. Walker than Dr. Hollingworth It must be remembred that the Essex Doctor asserts that Dr.
Most likely for this very reason and one who did not well know you to be a Hare-brain'd Blunderbuss would be ready to conclude with that ingenious Iacobite of the Lacedemonian Society who inveighing against my Letter told a Friend of mine it must be answered by a better Pen for the Doctor writes said he as though he play'd booty I appeal to any Man of common Understanding whether a better Reason can be invented to persuade the World of the Probability of Laud's sending the common-prayer-Common-Prayer-Book to be approved at Rome than you here assigned The Point is already settled that his Head was set upon Designs of Vniformity the Pope was his elder Brother the Papists came to the Common-Prayers of our Church for the first 10 years of Q. Elizabeth and by consequence might have so done to this day had not Pope Pius the 5 th prohibited them Let any Man shew me a more probable way to obtain a Repeal of that Bull which hath made the Papists ever since decline our Liturgical Church-Devotions and to bring them to Church again or rather to bring us to go to Church with them than by introducing a Liturgy allowed and approved by his Holiness a Liturgy in which as I said and you do not deny all the material Parts of the Mass-Book seminally were and wherein Transubstantiation was rather allowed than denied But that empty Head of yours is carried round that you do not know what is fit to be said What have we next Page 20. Well Sir you say If the Common-Prayer-Book was sent into Scotland pray let me ask you one Question In whose Name and by whose Authority was it sent The Answer is as obvious as short and you needed not to have sent to Switzerland to have a Resolution in the point 't was sent in the name of one who had not Authority to impose it upon the Scots according to their Laws You go on saying Why if they did not like it did they not first submissively petition their lawful King and let him know how disgustful the Liturgy was to many of his Subjects in that Kingdom Why 't is most evident from all the Historians of that time that they did in the very beginning petition in the most submissive manner against the imposing this Liturgy and that thereupon after the first reading it in the great Church of Edinburgh upon the 23 d of Iuly 1637 the Council of Scotland yielded that it should not be further urged by the Bishops till his Majesty's Pleasure were known Upon which the Petitioners returned satisfied to their Habitations But upon the 18 th of October there being a great conflux of People at Edinburgh to hear the King's Determinations a Proclamation was published commanding them upon pain of Rebellion to depart the City and shortly after the King commanded the Privy Council to receive no more Petitions against the Common-Prayer-Book Nevertheless you confidently demand Why if they did not like it did they not first submissively petition But the Scots shall here answer for themselves take their own words in their Charge exhibited in Parliament against Laud Our Supplications say they were many against this Book but Canterbury procured them to be answer'd with terrible Proclamations we were constrained to use the remedy of Protestation but for our Protestations Canterbury procured us to be declared Rebels and Traitors in all the Parish-Kirks of England When we were seeking to possess our Religion in Peace against these Devices and Novations Canterbury kindled War against us Our Scotish Prelates petitioned that something might be abated of the English Ceremonies as the Cross in Baptism c. but he would not only have these kept but others super-added which was nothing else but the adding Fewel to the Fire Read also their Expostulation in their Remonstrance 1639 Pag. 4. Certainly Posterity will hardly believe as we who have seen it cannot but wonder how it hath come to pass that we should have so long petitioned our Native Prince to do us Justice whereof he is Debtor to his People and to hear our just Complaints against the Usurpation of a few Men who were undermining the professed Religion and the Government of the State and to suffer us to live according to our Laws and yet could never be heard nor answer'd in the point of our just Desires far less will they guess what hath been the ground of that merit and trust of one domineering Prelate in the Affection of the King that it should be more forcible to diswade than all the Supplications and Intercessions of so ancient and faithful a Nation should have power to move Well what say you next Mr. Tittle-tattle The Scots took a Covenant against Compliance with the Church of England Against Compliance with the Church of England Ay now 't is out there 's the ground of the Quarrel the Scots traiterously refused to comply with Bp. Laud But they shall speak for themselves they answer you thus Doctor We are free of the heavy Censures of Rebellion and Treason which are so ordinarily thunder'd out that they are become the less formidable to us We are supported with this inward Testimony that we fear God and still honour the King although our Adversaries will not be pleased except we will follow their Rules which are not unlike those of the Jesuits sound at Padua when they were expelled the Territory of Venice One of them was that Men should take heed that they press or inculcate not too much the Grace of God Another was that Men must believe the Hierarchical Church although it tells us that that is black which our Eye judgeth to be white Unto which we may add the third invented by Ignatius Loyola of blind Obedience which we have no mind to practise To move forward Page 22. We find say you their Seditious Remonstrances Declarations and Pamphlets were dispersed Now I cannot find that Mr. Whitlock whom you quote informs you that their Remonstrances c. were seditious this is maliciously foisted in by you and if you were in Scotland you would as you deserve be severely punished which you would call Persecution upon the Statute against Leising-makers Mr. Whitlock in Pag. 28. which you cite gives this Relation About the year 1560 the Earl of Murray with Knox Buchanan and others gave such a shock to Popery as made every thing and by consequence Episcopacy which stood near it to reel He then shews how Episcopacy and Presbytery took their turns of Government and giving an Account of the King's Resolution to inforce the Common-Prayer-Book and by an Army to bring the Scots to obedience or as you phrase it to compliance with the Church of England he saith That because this was the Bishop's War it was held fit that they should contribute largely towards the Preservation of their own Hierarchy and accordingly the Clergy were assembled by the Bishops in their Diocesses and invited to a liberal Aid I shall now Sir in a short Digression
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
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