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A62841	Amyntor, or, A defence of Milton's life containing I. a general apology for all writings of that kind, II. a catalogue of books attributed in the primitive times to Jesus Christ, his apostles and other eminent persons ..., III. a complete history of the book entitul'd Icon basilike, proving Dr. Gauden and not King Charles the First to be the author of it, with an answer to all the facts alledg'd by Mr. Wagstaf to the contrary, and to the exceptions made against my Lord Anglesey's Memorandum, Dr. Walker's book or Mrs. Gauden's narrative, which last piece is now the first time publish'd at large.	Toland, John, 1670-1722.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Wagstaffe, Thomas, 1645-1712. Vindication of King Charles the martyr.; Gauden, John, 1605-1662. Eikon basilike, the pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in his solitude and sufferings.; Walker, Anthony, d. 1692. True account of the author of a book entituled Eikon basilike.	1699 (1699)	Wing T1760; ESTC R22638	52,206	178

and this says my Lord is all the Account I can give of it What is become of the Manuscript I know not and what will become of his Majesty God knows Upon this my Husband told my Lord Marquiss That in his Opinion there was no way so probable to save his Majesty's Life as by endeavouring to move the Hearts and Affections of the People as much as might be towards him and that he also thought that that Book would be very effectual for that purpose Then my Lord bad my Husband to do what he would in regard the Case was desperate Then immediately my Husband resolv'd to print it with all speed that might be he having a Copy of that which he sent to the King and that he printed was just the same only he then added the Essay upon their denying his Majesty the Attendance of his Chaplains and the Meditation of Death after the Votes of the Non-addresses and his Majesty's close Imprisonment at Carisbrook Castle Now the Instrument which my Husband employ'd to get it printed was one Mr. SIMMONDS a Divine and a great Sufferer for his Majesty and he got one Mr. ROYSTON to print it which ROYSTON never knew any thing but that it was of his Majesty's own penning my Husband did then alter the Title of it and call'd it Icon Basilike Now when it was about half printed they who were in power found the Press where it was printing and likewise a Letter of my Husbands which he sent up to the Press whereupon they destroy'd all that they then found printed but could not find out from whence the Letter came in regard it had no Name to it Notwithstanding all this my Husband attempted the printing of it again but could by no means get it finish'd till som few Days after his Majesty was destroyed When it was com out they who were then in Power were not only extremely displeas'd at it but also infinitely solicitous to find out the Author of it thinking it very improbable that his Majesty should write it in regard of the great Disturbances and Troubles which for many Years he had suffer'd or at least impossible that he should have writ it all for after the Attendance of his Chaplains was deny'd him and he a close Prisoner they well understood that he could not write any thing without their Discovery They also took that very Manuscript which my Husband had sent his Majesty and saw that it was none of his Majesty's Hand-writing Upon this they appointed a Committee to examin the Business of which my Husband having notice he went privatly in the Night away from his own House to Sir JOHN WENTWORTH'S who liv'd near Yarmouth and him he acquainted with the Business and the great Danger he was then in when Sir JOHN did not only promise to conceal him but also to convey him out of England it being in his Power to give Passes to go beyond Sea About this time Mr. SYMMONDS was taken in a Disguise but God in his Providence so order'd it that he sickned immediatly and dy'd before h● came to his Examination nor could the Committee find out any thing by any means whatever which alter'd my Husband's Resolutions of going out of England Now besides these Circumstances to a●●ert the Truth of what I say I can produce som Letters which I am sure will put it out of all Dispute My Husband contin●●d at Bo●king till the return of his Majesty King CHARLES the Second and upon his Restoration knowing his Princely Disposition did not unjustly expect a suitable Reward for his Endeavors to serve his Majesty's Father and himself in that Book And meeting with Dr. MORLEY he fell into Discourse how sensible he was of the great Service which he had don his present Majesty and the Royal Family in composing and setting forth that excellent Piece call'd the King's Book and also assur'd him that it had bin very effectual not only at home but abroad to move the Hearts and Affections of People towards his Majesty instancing in several Persons who were most exceedingly affected with it and so advantageous he said it had bin to his Majesty that according to his great Merit he might have what Preferment he desir'd Dr. MORLEY also told him That he had acquainted Sir EDWARD HYDE with the Business and that he did very much commend and admire it but we have not said he acquainted his Majesty with it but did assure him that his Majesty did set a high Value upon the Book and had commanded Dr. EARL to translate into Latin som having taken the Pains to put it into other Languages before My Husband being encouraged by this Discourse of Dr. MORLEY'S and shortly after meeting with Dr. SHELDON who he knew was not ignorant that he was the only Author of the foremention'd Book he told Dr. SHELDON that since he had bin inform'd that his Majesty out of his Princely Disposition would without doubt when once acquainted with it reward that Service which he had endeavor'd to do his Father and himself he thought it most convenient for himself and also that he might be serviceable to his Majesty in the Diocess of London a Place where he was well known if it would please his Majesty to make him Bishop of that See Dr. SHELDON was pleas'd with a great deal of Gravity to tell him that was a great Leap at first Whereupon my Husband desisted and was resolv'd to leave his Preferment to God's dispose Soon after this the King being still ignorant of what he had done he was by the Mediation of a Person perfectly ignorant of his Merit as to this Matter made Bishop of Exeter all the considerable Bishopricks being otherwise dispos'd of Not long after this it pleas'd God to visit my Husband with an Infirmity which he had great cause to fear would as it did prove mortal to him This made him resolve to acquaint the King with the whole Matter and the rather because he saw som Persons who were privy to it desir'd nothing more than to have it conceal'd and bury'd in Oblivion but my Husband was not willing it should be so in regard he had at that time four Sons living and they he thought if he should die might be capable of his Majesty's Favour Besides the Duke of Somerset was dead and the Bishop of Winchester the Person who was best able to attest it was very ill These Considerations made him go to his Majesty and having the Opportunity of discoursing privatly with him he told him the whole Matter as I have related it and for the Truth of it appeal'd to Dr. DUPPA then Bishop of Winchester and formerly his Majesty's Tutor The King then was pleas'd to entertain som Discourse with my Husband about it and said that he did often wonder how his Father should have gotten Time and Privacy enough in his Troubles to compose so excellent a Piece and written with so much Learning BY the Extract that was publish'd of

ought not to write his Life at all For what I pray is the principal Part of a Learned Man's Life but the exact History of his Books and Opinions to inform the World about the Occasion of his writing what it contain'd how he perform'd it and with what Consequences or Success I have no Reason from my own second Thoughts the Opinion of better Judges or the Fortune of the ●●ok to be dissatisfi'd with my Conduct on this Occasion And had this Method as I said before been strictly observ'd we might have more Knowledg and fewer Critics AY but say these Gentlemen you have made an Inroad on our Persuasion and directly attack'd the sacred Majesty of Kings the venerable Order of Bishops the best constituted Church in the World our holy Liturgy and decent Ceremonies the Authority of Councils the Testimony of the Fathers and a hundred other things which we profoundly respect and admire nor are we the only Sufferers for almost all other Sects and Parties have equal Reasons of Complaint against you Well be it so then but good Sirs betake your selves for Reparation to JOHN MILTON or if he is not to be brought to easie Terms defend your Castles and Territories against him with all the Vigor you can For I assure you I am no further concern'd in the Quarrel than to shew you the Enemy and to give a true Account of his Forces And all this if you were of a peaceable Disposition you might learn from these plain Words in the Conclusion of the Life 'T is probable that you as well as I or any other may disapprove of MILTON's Sentiments in several Cases but I 'm sure you are far from being displeas'd to find 'em particulariz'd in the History of his Life For we should have no true Account of Things if Authors related nothing but what they lik'd themselves One Party would never suffer the Lives of TARQUIN or PHALARIS or SYLLA or CAESAR to appear while another would be as ready to suppress those of CICERO of CATO of TRAJAN or BRUTUS But a Historian ought to conceal or disguise nothing and the Reader is to be left to judg of the V●tues he should imitat or the Vices he ought to detest and avoid THIS might serve for a sufficient Answer to all that has bin yet objected to MILTON's Life if any Reply were thought necessary For the trivial and scurrilous Libels of mercenary Fellows I shall never regard they being already sufficiently neglected by the World and making themselves as little by this Practice as any of a more vindictive Temper could desire Besides that to answer 'em in their own Dialect I must first learn to speak it which is absolutely contrary to my Genius and below the Dignity of Human Nature since no body openly approves it even at Billingsgate I shall as little consider the censorious Tongues of certain more Zealous than Religious People who judge of others by their own narrow Schemes and despise all Knowledge in comparison of their privat Imaginations wherein they exceedingly please themselves a Happiness no body envies them Nor should I if that were all think my self concern'd in making any Return to the obliging Complements of those Gentlemen who as Father PAUL formerly said of himself remember me oftner in their Sermons than in their Prayers tho' som of them are apt to say that when they mention Turks Iews In●idels and Heretics they do not forget me But when I am openly accus'd before the greatest Assembly in the World the Representative Body of the People of England let the Charge be never so frivolous in it self or to be slighted on any other Occasion yet such a Respect is due to the Dignity of those to whom it was exhibited that I hold my self oblig'd to convince 'em of my Innocence and to remove all Suspicion far from me of what in its own Nature is acknowledg'd to be Criminal or by them might be reputed Indecent THE Matter of Fact is this On the Thirtieth of Ianuary Mr. OFSPRING BLACKHALL who stiles himself Chaplain in Ordinanary to His Majesty Preacht a Sermon before the Honorable House of Commons wherein after exclaiming against the Author of MILTON's Life for denying Icon Basilike to be the Production of King CHARLES the First he pursues his Accusation in these Terms We may cease to wonder says he that he should have the Boldness without Proof and against Proof to deny the Authority of this Book who is such an Infidel as to doubt and is shameless and impudent enough even in Print and in a Christian Country publicly to affront our Holy Religion by declaring his Doubt that several Pieces under the Name of Christ and his Apostles he must mean those now receiv'd by the whole Christian Church for I know of no other are supposititious tho' thro' the remoteness of those Ages the Death of the Persons concern'd and the decay of other Monuments which might give us true Information the Spuriousness thereof is yet undiscover'd Here is indeed a Charge of a very high Nature I will not say in his own mean Language an impudent and a shameless one tho' if it be not better prov'd I cannot hinder others from calling it what they please or the thing deserves But before I proceed to make Observations on it I shall insert the intire Passage of my Book which he has taken the liberty of abridging and so joining the Words of two widely different Assertions as if they were but one About this little Artifice however I shall make no difference with him for I can easily determin our Controversie without using all the Advantages I might otherwise take AFTER stating the Proofs therefore that Dr. GAUDEN and not King CHARLES was the true Author of Icon Basilike I added a very natural Observation in the following Words When I seriously consider how all this happen'd among our selves within the Compass of Forty Years in a time of great Learning and Politeness when both Parties so narrowly watch'd over one anothers Actions and what a great Revolution in Civil and Religious Affairs was partly occasion'd by the Credit of that Book I cease to wonder any longer how so many supposititious Pieces under the Name of CHRIST his Apostles and other great Persons should be publish'd and approv'd in those Primitive times when it was of so much Importance to have 'em believ'd when the Cheats were too many on all sides for them to reproach one another which yet they often did when Commerce was not near so general as now and the whole Earth entirely over-spread with the Darkness of Superstition I doubt rather the spuriousness of several more such Books is yet undiscover'd thro the remoteness of those Ages the death of the Persons concern'd and the decay of other Monuments which might give us true Information Here then in the first place it is plain that I say a great many spurious Books were early father'd on CHRIST his Apostles and other great Names

a good deal of the Book was written afterwards be the Author who you please And they should have told us likewise how General FAIRFAX durst send one part of his Papers to the King when he sent the rest to the Parliament or since they would make us believe he was so kind to the King why he did not restore him all the Papers when 't is very evident that those which the Parliament order'd to be publish'd were infinitely of greater consequence and made him a world of Enemies which oblig'd the Author of Icon Basilike to write a Chapter on this very Subject whereas the Papers in question would probably mollify som of his Opposers But now when all is don tho' General FAIRFAX was afterwards against putting the King to death yet he was not at that time dispos'd to grant him any Favors and acted with as hearty Zeal against him as any in the Nation which appears by all the Histories of those times as well as by his own and the Memoirs of the Lord HOLLIS As for Major HUNTINGTON Dr. WALKER assures us That he told him when he heard such a Book was publish'd and confidently reported to be the Kings all he said was that he surely believ'd those were the Papers he saw him so usually take out of his Cabinet and that he never read one Line or Word of them This and Sir WILLIAM DUGDAIE'S Testimony are diverse from that of Mr. RICHARD DUKE of Otterton in Devon who writes the following Letter to Dr. GOODAL famous for his Zeal on the behalf of Icon Basilike Sir I confess that I heard Major HUNTINGTON to say more than once that whilst he guarded CHARLES the First at Holmby-House as I remember he saw several Chapters or Leaves of that great King's Meditations lying on the Table several Mornings with a Pen and Ink with which the King scratch'd out or blotted som Lines or Words of som of them Upon which I must also confess that I concluded they were originally from the King but others have drawn a contrary Argument from the King 's correcting the Papers Yet I put this under my Hand that the Major told me that he did suppose them originally from that learned Prince which is the Totum that can be intimated from Sir your humble Servant RICHARD DUKE Then one Mr. CAVE BECK writes to Dr. HOLLINGWORTH That Major HUNTINGTON at Ipswich assur'd him that so much of the sa'd Book as contain'd his Majesty's Mediations before Naseby-●ight was taken in the King's Cabinet and that Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX deliver'd the said Papers to him and order'd him to carry them to the King and also told him that when he deliver'd them to the King his Majesty appear'd very joyful and said he esteem'd 'em more than all the Jewels he had lost in the Cabinet This Major HUNTINGTON was a strange Man to vary so often in his Story and to tell so much more or less to every body that enq●●r'd of him but indeed 't is no great Wonder that these Gentlemen should so widely differ from one another both as to Time and Place as well as to Matters of Fact when Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE has printed under Major HUNTINGTON's Name quite another Story from the written Memorial out of which he had it In his short View he positively says as we read before that the Manuscript was written with the King 's own Hand But in his Warrant for this it is only said as Mr. WAGSTAF himself acknowledges that all the Chapters in it were written by the Hand of Sir EDWARD WALKER but much corrected with Interlineations of the King's Hand and that the Prayers were all so NOW to shew further how cautiously People should rely on Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE and Historians like him we shall produce another remarkable Instance In the Book before-quoted he expresly writes That Mr. HERBERT did often see the Icon Basilike while he waited on the King in the Isle of Wight wheras all that Sir THOMAS for he was Knighted after the Restoration has said in the Manuscript which Sir WILLIAM perus'd and wherof Mr. WAGSTAF has printed an Abstract is that he had there the Charge of the King's Books and that those he most read after the Sacred Scriptures were Bishop ANDREWS's Sermons HOOKER's Ecclesiastical Policy VILLALPANDUS on EZEKIEL SANDY's Paraphrase on the Psalms HERBERT's Poems the Translation of GODFREY of Bulloign by Mr. FAIRFAX of ORLANDO FURIOSO by Sir JOHN HARRINGTON and SPENCER's Fairy Queen to which he might have added PEMBROKE's Arcadia And at this time it was as is presum'd continues Sir THOMAS that he compos'd his Book call'd Suspiria Regalia publish'd soon after his Death and entitul'd The King's Portraiture in his Solitudes and Sufferings which Manuscript Mr. HERBERT found among those Books his Majesty was pleas'd to give him those excepted which he bequeath'd to his Children hereafter mention'd In regard Mr. HERBERT tho' he did not see the King write that Book his Majesty being always privat when he writ and those his Servants never coming into the Bed Chamber when the King was privat til he call'd yet comparing it with his Hand-writing in other things he found it so very like as induces his Belief that it was his own having seen much of the King's Writings before Here Sir THOMAS only presumes the King might write the Book in the Isle of Wight and directly says he never saw the King write it nor the Book it self till after his Death but Sir WILLIAM affirms from these very Papers for they are said to be written at his Request by Sir THOMAS that he often saw it in the Isle of Wight when he waited on the King in his Bed-Chamber 'T is to be observ'd that the Title of Suspiria Regalia is as agreeable to Mrs. GAUDEN's Narrative as the rest of the Particulars are different from Sir WILLIAM's Relation BEFORE we examin the Force of Sir THOMAS's Testimony we must first consider what is said by Mr. LEVET who attended the King at the same Time and Place In short he says That of his own certain Knowledg he can depose the Book was truly the Kings having observ'd his Majesty oftentimes writing his Royal Resentments of the bold and insolent Behavior of his Soldiers when they had him in their Custody That being nominated by his Majesty to be one of his Servants during the Treaty in the Isle of Wight he had the Happiness to read the same oftentimes in Manuscript under his Majesty's own Hand being pleas'd to leave it in the Window of his Bed-Chamber And that when the King was remov'd to Hurst-Castle he had the Charge of this Book and a Cabinet of other Papers which at the said Castle he deliver'd again to his Majesty where by the way he does not inform us if the Book was distinctly given him from the Cabinet or that he only concluded it was in it Here are several very observable Circumstances As First that altho' Mr. HERBERT who was of the