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

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