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A66722	A true account of the author of a book entituled Eikōn basilikē, or, The pourtraiture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings: proved to be written by Dr. Gauden, late Bishop of Worcester. With an answer to all objections made by Dr. Hollingsworth and others. / published for publick satisfaction by Anthony Walker, D.D> late rector of Fyfield in Essex. ; With an attestation under the hand of the late Earl of Anglesey to the same purpose.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1692 (1692)	Wing W310; ESTC R221937	33,851	40

Hertford from Dr. Gauden as I gave account Sect. 1. Reas 3. on purpose to be corrected allow'd or laid aside as his Majesty should think good See the Section referr'd to And if the King himself had been the Author Why was not the Book in his own Hand-writing as well as the Correction and Alterations or why any Corrections of a fair Copy if he had finished the Original himself before 't was copied Or why if he sent it to be printed did he not send the corrected Copy rather than an imperfect one which needed his Correction and Alteration These Considerations confirm me beyond the least Hesitancy this was the Copy the Marquess of Hertford brought his Majesty at the time of the Treaty in the Isle of Wight But the Violence towards him hastned so fast he could not transmit it back and Dr. Gauden and Bp. Duppa thought it better to print it as it was than to defer it till it would be too late to do him the Service they designed by it 3. Objection the Third The making Bp. Gauden the Author of this Book is another Disadvantage to the Credit of the Memorandum for the Stile the Air and Thought of Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ is as different from the Management of Bp. Gauden's Writings as 't is possible to imagine but out of respect to the Bishop's Memory I forbear to insist upon the Comparison Answ This Objection from the Stile is a very thin and feeble one as I could easily make appear if I would enter upon the Theme of critical Judging of the Authors of Books by the Stile in which they are written and to name no more I might fetch Assistance from Elias Du Pin a Sorbon Doctor in his excellent new Bibliothec of Ecclesiastical Writers by many Volumes of which he hath obliged the Learned Part of the World and raised their Expectation and Desire of the rest But I will avoid such an unnecessary Digression it being sufficient to blunt the edg of this Objection to suggest these two Considerations First It ought to be considered whether the Writings compar'd are of the same kind for a Man may differ more from himself when his Writings are of different kinds than two Strangers differ in their Stile whose Design and End of Writing is the same As the Sermons or Disputings of different Men may be more like one another if you compare Sermon with Sermon and Disputation with Disputation than the Stile of the same Man is like it self if you compare different kinds of his Writings as Sermons with Disputations or either of these with an Oration fitted for a Learned Assembly And 't is an Observation very common that the Ancient Fathers greatly differ in their Stile and Air and Notions in their popular Harangues and Exhortations their Polemick Tracts and their Books of Devotion So that whatever Dr. Gauden's way of management were in his other Writings the difference of the Subject between them and this Book gives a fair account of the different Stile Air and Thought admitting it were as great as the Objection would suppose it Secondly If the Stile and Air of Mens Writings be various when the kinds of their writings are different though they write without Disguise and only change their Stile to accommodate it to the Subject or Kind of Writing in which they are engaged How much more reasonable is it to allow it must be so when they on purpose do induere Personam personate another Man and endeavour to the utmost to appear like him for whom they write and whose Name and Circumstances they tacitly assume What wonder that Idem non est Idem the same Man appears not like himself when he feigns himself to be another as Bp. Gauden did and wrote this Book as in his Majesty's Name though to be used allowed or altered as the King should please I have heard it hath been the custom of former Reigns for the Lord Chancellor some Privy Councellor or a Juncto of the Council to pen or draw up Speeches to be spoken by the King in Parliament or on some other Solemn Occasion or in Declarations Now any Man of Sense will readily grant that they who pen such Speeches keep not to their own Stile or Air or Thought which they use when they speak in their own Name or Person but do the best they can to adapt them to the Royal Person for whose use and service they are prepared and thus it most evidently was in this present Case He proceeds in this Objection 'T is likely therefore that King Charles the Second and the then Duke might tell the late Earl of Anglesey which his Lordship might possibly forget that the Manuscript was not King Charles the First his Hand but a Transcript of Dr. Gauden's writing which as it agrees with matter of Fact it gives a fair account of the Alterations in the Copy which the Memorandum grants were made by the King Answ This is soon said but very ill contrived for 't is not only highly improbable but meerly suppositio impossibilis If the King had writ it why not correct his own Copy But how should Dr. Gauden receive it from the King He was utterly unknown to him lived at a great distance from him in the Parliament's Quarters was under preudice with the Royal Party I am sorry this Gentleman writes for once so like him who feigned the Story of the King 's sending it to Mr. Simmonds and he sending for his Neighbour Gauden and lending it him and all this dispatch'd in a trice when Mr. Simmonds had been so many Years driven for his Loyalty from his Neighbourhood But the fair and faithful Account and which indeed agrees with matter of Fact is this was the Copy the Marquess of Hertford carried to the King when he went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight from Dr. Gauden and was humbly submitted to his Majesty's Wisdom to be altered corrected approved or disallowed and disposed of as he should please and accordingly the King corrected it to fit it more to his own Sense Having finished his Objections against the Memorandum this Gentleman proceeds thus to his Second Strength 2. Supposing this Memorandum had all the pretended Advantages I shall now produce such Proof against it which the Circumstances of the Evidence considered must be allowed to over-ballance his Lordship's Attestation 1. We have the Letters Patents of King Charles the Second Dated Nov. 29 1660. in which R. Royston of London Bookseller has that sole Priviledg given him of Printing all the Works of King Charles the First among which Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ is mentioned with a particular Character of Commendation 2. The same Priviledg for Re-printing the Works of King Charles the First is granted to the above-mentioned R. Royston by his present Majesty King James the Second as appears by his Majesty's Letters Dated February 22 1685 6 which Grant refers expresly to the First Edition published by R. Royston in the Year 1662 and in which his Majesty

suffer it and said he would revenge it were it not that he would not violate his Quarters Whereupon I thought the Place too hot for me to tarry longer in and therefore hasted back to London to my Lodgings in Carter-Lane Not long after that Troop came up to London and the same Lieutenant quartered at the Bell in the same Lane And yesterday about twelve as I was coming from Church to my Lodgings we met each other in Carter-Lane He knew me but said nothing to me but turned again when he had past me and dogg'd me to the House I lodg'd in As soon as I was in and had shut the Door he discharged his Pistol with a brace of Bullets to mark the Door and hasted away to the Bell. As soon as the Master of the House told me he was gone I got away and he presently returned with six Troopers and search'd the House for me and breaking open my Closet took away all my Papers and the printed proof Sheets which lay loose upon my Table but they seeing them blotted and thinking them to be but waste-Paper and not understanding the Title it being Greek or not having look'd into them threw them down in the Dirt which they of the House observing gathered up We then after consulting what to do concluded the best if not the only way we could take was to get a Note from Col. Rich to his Lieutenant to restore all he had so taken from Mr. Simmonds It hapned even beyond our Hopes and Expectations that the very same day Col. Rich came to dine at Warwick-House and between Prayers and Dinner I desired Mr. Charles Rich after Earl of Warwick to request a Favour for me of the Colonel who beckoned him to him cross the Room and desired him to do me a Kindness and referr'd him to me to know what it was the Colonel drew me aside and ask'd what it was I desired of him I then ask'd him if there were not one Lieutenant Arwaker in his Regiment he said there was I then told him he had upon a pique broke open a Minister's Closet and taken away all his Sermon-Notes and other Papers and to disguise the better jocularly added He hath undone a poor Parson in robbing him of all his Tools and pray'd him to write a Note to him to require him to restore them The Colonel was so kind and just upon my fetching Pen Ink and Paper to write a Note to him to re-deliver all which he did so punctually that Mr. Simmonds told me he missed not one Paper when his Landlord who carried the Note brought them for he durst not appear himself so good and speedy Success we had even beyond our Hopes and there was no time to examine the Papers all being dispatch'd the next day after they were seized Now whatever others may think I judg it a Sign that God would have them publish'd for some eminent Ends which as I before hinted I may touch hereafter tho I argue not from his Permissive to his approving Providence The second signal Providence which seems to me to signify that on the other side God would now have the Truth of this Affair brought to light is the Discovery of this Memorandum in so publick and unexpected a manner which is as generally known as the Memorandum it self to wit at the Sale of the Earl of Anglesey's Books by publick Auction 'T is like no Eye had seen it from the time of the Writing of it and if Mr. Millington had not casually opened the Book there being some time betwixt the putting it up and the Sale of it it might in likelihood have fallen into some Hand who would either have not regarded it or concealed it to which may be added Dr. Hollingsworth's unseasonable provoking me to declare what I now have done in my own necessary yea unavoidable Vindication of my self from his insulting and most false Accusations For what remains of the two Sheets tho I forbear the transcribing them 't is to avoid a tedious Work which is needless not to conceal any strength in them for I shall faithfully reply to all that hath any seeming weight in it In Sir William Dugdale's Account here quoted there are four Things asserted to all which I shall answer in order denying what I know to be Mistakes and granting what I know or believe to be true or probable and give the Reasons of such my Denying or Granting 1. The first and most material Passage is that concerning Major Huntington to which I say two things 1. That this Account of his Testimony is wholly different from what was used to be alledged as his and I have very often heard but never met with this before and 't is highly improbable that the Lord Fairfax would take any thing out of the Cabinet and send up the Cullings to the Parliament who publish'd his Majesty's Letters on which the 21 chap. of the Book is written nor had Gen. Fairfax that Respect or Tenderness for the King then though he was heartily against his Murder 2. I will in the Faith of a Christian declare what I had from Major Huntington's own Mouth without diminution or wresting of it I had so often heard Major Huntington's Testimony alledged that whilst he had attended his Majesty or had the guarding of him he saw the King frequently take these Papers out of his Cabinet and sometimes read them sometimes write more and that when he saw the Book he declared those Chapters in it were those very Papers he had so seen I having I say so often heard this alledged and knowing well it was impossible to be true had as earnest a desire to speak with him as I ever had to speak with any Man but could a good while meet with no Opportunity but after some time being at Tunbridg-Wells the Major coming thither with his Son-in-law Sir J. Friend a fair occasion offered for after some small Acquaintance and Converse upon the Walks the Major invited me to his Lodgings at Caverly-Plain which I most readily accepted and made him a Visit one Afternoon When I came he received me very kindly and all the Company besides himself being engaged in their Divertisements I had as free an opportunity as I could wish to discourse of this Affair after a while I told him I had a Favour to beg of him in granting which he would greatly oblige me He answered to this purpose he would not deny me any thing in his Power wherein he might serve me I then told him what I heard as I have above related and earnestly intreated him to tell me what he knew or had said of that Book He willingly condescended and began thus 'T is like you have heard how much Trouble this hath put me to I have been examined by one Committee after another and that time after time about it and many things alledged that I should say But I will tell you freely and fully all I know or ever said concerning it