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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

this Narrative it would seem as if it were somwhat longer but this is all that came to my Hands two Witnesses attesting that as far as it goes it is exactly conformable to the Original What Accident hinder'd the rest if there be any from being copy'd I cannot certainly tell tho' when ever I com by a true Information I shall if Occasion be publish my Knowledg of that Particular in an Appendix to this Book The Substance of what remains in the Abstract is That when King CHARLES the Second as we saw but now was made acquainted with this Mystery he gave a Promise to Dr. GAUDEN of the Bishoprick of Winchester and that the Duke of York had also assur'd him of his Favor That upon Dr. DUPPA'S Death tho' Dr. GAUDEN put the King in mind of his Promise he was only made Bishop of Worcester Dr. MORLEY having obtain●d the See of Winchester That her Husband dying soon after Mrs. GAUDEN petition'd the King shewing that she was left a Widow with four Sons and a Daughter that it cost her Husband 200l to remove from Exeter to Worcester and pray'd his Majesty to bestow the half years Rents upon her which he deny'd and gave then to another WE learn further from Dr. WALKER that immediatly upon Dr. GAUDEN'S Nomination to the Bishoprick of Worcester he told him that waiting upon the King the next Morning after the Bishop of Winchester's Death he found a remarkable Alteration in him his Majesty being pensive and out of Humor in which Temper he still found him for two Mornings after But having learnt the third Day that my Lord Chancellor had by all his Interest press'd the King to bestow Winchester on Dr. MORLEY he presum'd to tell his Majesty how uneasie he perceiv'd him to be between the Honor of his Word that he shou'd succeed his Friend Dr. DUPPA and the Importunity of those who sollicited for Dr. MORL●Y and that therfore he most willingly releas'd his Majesty of his Promise Here continues Dr. GAUDEN the King stopt me and vouchsaf'd to embrace me in his Arms with these Expressions My Lord I thank you and it may not be long ere I have Opportunity to shew you how kindly I take it And in the mean time you shall have Worcester and to make it to you as good as I can all the Dignities of that Church I know not how it comes to pass being in my Disposal I give you the diposing of them all during your time that you may prefer your Friends and have them near about you IT was an ordinary thing with King CHARLES the Second thus to forget his Promises which made him frequently uneasie and occasion'd Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE whom he had serv'd after this manner to fay of him in his incomparable Memoirs That this Temper made him apt to fall into the Persuasions of whoever had his Kindness and Confidence for the time how different soever from the Opinions he was of before and that he was very easie to change Hands when those he imploy'd seem'd to have engag'd him in any Difficulties so as nothing lookt steddy in the Conduct of his Affairs nor aim'd at any certain end THUS we have don with the Narrative of Mrs. GAUDEN who was often heard to relate the substance of it to her Friends and Relations and who when Dr. N●CHOLSON then Bishop of Glocester did on her receiving of the Sacrament put the Question to her affirm'd that her Husband wrote that Book which several now living in that City do very well remember WE come at length to the last Period of our Labor and that is to shew the Invalidity of the Facts which are alledg'd to prove CHARLES the First was the true Author of Icon Basilike And the first Evidence we shall hear is his own Son and Successor CHARLES II. who granted his Letters Patents to Mr. ROYSTON for printing all his Father's Works and particularly this Piece which says Mr. WACSTAF contratradicts what he 's believ'd to have said to my Lord ANGLES●Y But with his good leave the Conclusision does not follow for these Letters were issu'd out in the Year 60 before Dr. GAUDEN gave the King true Information and it was in 75 that he told his Opinion to my Lord ANGLESEY long after he was convinc'd that his Father had not written the Book But if King CHARLES the Second had dissembled his Knowledge of this Affair it had not bin at all a thing inconsistent with this Character but a Piece of his Grandfather's boasted Kingcraft and which he practic'd on many less pardonable Occasions Have not Princes in all Ages as well as other Men bin allow'd to keep things secret which it was not their Interest should be known and which are commonly call'd by the Name of State Mysteries How many Juggles are us'd by the Eastern Princes to beget an extraordinary Opinion of their Persons in the Minds of their Subjects who by the force of such fantastical Stories carry their Respect even to Adoration But what need I go out of England for Examples When our own Kings have for so many Ages pretended to cure the King 's Evil by m●erly touching the affected Part and this Power of Healing is said to be communicated to them by the Blessing of King EDWARD the Confessor one of the weakest and most Priest ridden Princes that ever wore a Crown All the Monkish Historians and particula●ly the Abbot of Rievalle who wrote his Life have given us a large Catalogue of his Miracles but I wonder why our Princes have not also pretended to restore Sight to the Blind for this is also affirm'd of King EDWARD'S Wonder working Touch. 'T is strange that a Protestant Bishop should compose a Form of Divine Service to be read on this Occasion when he might as warrantably believe all the other Legends of those dark and ignorant times If I did persuade my self that King CHARLES the Second who is said to have cur'd very many was a Saint it should be the greatest Miracle I could believe But King WILLIAM who came to 〈◊〉 us from Superstition as well as from Slavery has now ab●lisht this Remnant of Popery For it is not as his Enemies suggest because he thinks his Title which is the best in the World defective that he abstains from Touching but because he laughs at the Folly and scorns to take the Advantage of the Fraud So much for the Letters Patents of CHARLES II. and we shall consider those of the late King JAMES in their due order THE next Witness shall be Major HUNTINGTON who as Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE relates in his short View of the Troubles of England did thro' the Favor of General FAIRFAX restore to King CHARLES the First after he was brought to Hampton-Court the Manuscript of Icon Basilike written with the said King 's own Hand and found in his Cabinet at Naseby Fight By the way they should have said for the Grace of the Story part of the Manuscript for

part whereof are still acknowledg'd to be genuin and the rest to be forg'd in neither of which Assertions I could be justly suppos'd to mean any Books of the N. Testament as I shall presently evince But Mr. BLACKHALL affirms That I must intend those now receiv'd by the whole Christian Church for he knows of no other A cogent Argument truly and clearly proves his Logic to be just of a Piece with his Reading I admire what this Gentleman has bin doing so long at the University that he should be such a great Stranger to these things But now I find a Man may be a very good Divine without knowing any thing of the Fathers tho' a Layman is always referr'd to 'em when he starts any Difficulties which makes him sooner acquiesce and swallow what he cannot chew than get Information at so dear a rate But had Mr. BLACKHALL been dispos'd to deal ingenuously 〈◊〉 me he might see without the help of the Fathers that I did not mean the Books of the New Testament when I mention'd Supposititious Pi●ces under the Name of CHRIST since there is none ascrib'd to him in the whole Bible nor do we read there that ever he wrote any thing except once with his Finger on the Ground when he acquitted the Woman taken in Adultery And for ought appears to the contrary Mr. BLACKHALL may deny that to be any Writing because he knows not what it was yet som German Divines as well read as himself have presum'd to tell us the Contents of it and came almost to excommunicating one another in their solemn Disputes about this weighty Affair To this Negative Argument from the Silence of the New Testament we may add the Positive Testimony of St. AUGUSTIN and St. JEROM whereof the former affirms That the Lord himself wrote nothing which makes it necessary we should believe those who have written of him And the latter says That our Saviour left no Volum of his own Doctrin behind him as is extravagantly feign'd in most of the Apochryphal Pieces NOW to convince all the World that I did not intend by those Pieces the Books of the New Testament as well as to shew the Rashness and Uncharitableness of Mr. BLACKHALL's Assertion I shall here insert a large Catalogue of Books anciently ascrib'd to JESUS CHRIST his Apostles their Acquaintance Companions and Contemporaries Of these som remain still entirely extant which I shall mark in their Places We have several Fragments of others preserv'd by the Fathers and all that is left us of the rest are only their bare Titles I constantly refer to the Books wherein they are quoted that every body may inform himself of the Fact And after the Catalogue is ended I shall distinguish the Books which the Ancicients alledg'd as the genuin Works of the Apostles or Apostolic Men from those that they rejected as the Forgeries of Heretics which is a good Argument however that they were receiv'd by som Party of Christians to countenance their Opinions Next I design to name those Pieces of whose Spuriousness I doubted tho' their Authority is still receiv'd and so conclude this Point with som material Observations A Catalogue of Books mentioned by the Fathers and other Ancient Writers as truly or falsely ascrib'd to JESUS CHRIST his Apostles and other eminent Persons I. Of Books reported to be written by CHRIST himself or that particularly concern him 1. HIS Letter in answer to that of Abgarus King of Edessa Euseb. Hist. Eccles. l. 1. c. 13. You may also consult Cedrenus Nicephorus Constantinus Porphyrogennetus in the Manipulus of Combesisius p. 79 c. extant 2. The Epistle of Christ to Peter and Paul Augustin contra Faustum l. 28. c. 13. 3. The Parables and Sermons of Christ. Euseb. Hist. Eccl. l. 3. c. 39. 4. A Hymn which Christ secretly taught his Apostles and Disciples Augustin Epist. 253. ad Ceretum Episcopum 5. A Book of the Magic of Christ Augustin de consensu evangelico l. 1. c. 9 10. If it be not the same with the Epistle to Peter and Paul 6. A Book of the Nativity of our Savior of the Holy Virgin his Mother and her Midwife Gelasius apud Gratianum Decret 1. part Dist. 15. c. 3. But I believe this is the same with the Gospel of Iames whereof in its due Order II. MARY 1. An Epistle to Ignatius Which is now extant among his Works 2. Another Epistle to the Inhabitants of Messina To be read among the same Ignatius's Works 3. A Book of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary Usually publish●d with St. Ierome's Works 4. Another Book about the Death of Mary is said by Lambecius to ly unpublish'd in the Emperor's Library T. 4. p. 131. 5. We shall not insist on the Book of Mary concerning the Miracles of Christ and the Ring of King Solomon III. PETER 1. The Gospel of Peter Origen T. 11. Comment in Mat. Hieron in Catalog Scriptor Eccles. c. 1. Euseb. Hist. Eccl●s l. 3. c. 3 25. Idem l. 6. c. 12. 2. The Acts of Peter Euscb. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 3. Hieronym in Catalogo Origen Tom. 21. Comment in Joan. Isidorus Pelusiota l. 2. Epist. 99. 3. The Revelation of Peter Clem. Alex. in Epitom Theodot Euseb Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 25. l. 6. c. 14. Idem l. 3. c. 3. Hieron in Catalago c. 1. Zozomen Hist. Eccles. l. 7. c. 19. 4. The Epistle of Peter to Clemens is still shewn in the Aethiopic Language by the Eastern Christians Tilmont Hist. Eccles. Tom. 1. part 2. pag. 497. And he has it from Cotelerius The Epistle of Clemens to James is publish'd in the Clementines 5. The Doctrine of Peter Origen in praefat ad libros principiorum Gregor Nazian epist. 16. Elias Levita in notis ad Nazianzeni Orationem ad cives trepidantes 6. The preaching of Peter if it be not the same with his Doctrin Origen Tom. 14. in Joan. Idem in praefat ad Libros principiorum Clem. Alex. Stromat l. 1. l. 6 c. Lactant. l. 4. c. 21. Autor libri de baptismo Haereticorum inter opera Cypriani Joan. Damascen l. 2. parallel c. 16. 7. The Liturgy of Peter publish'd by Lindanus at Antwerp in the Year 1588 and at Paris Anno 1595. 8. The Itinerary or Iournys of Peter mention'd by Epiphanius Haeres 30. n. 15. and by Athanasius in his Synopsis of the Scriptures I believe to be the same with the Recognitions of St. Clement still extant wherein we have a very particular Account of Peter's Voyages and Performances 9. The Iudgment of Peter Hieronym in Catalogo c. 1. IV. ANDREW 1. The Gospel of St. Andrew Gelasius in Decreto c. 2. The Acts of St. Andrew Euscb. Hist. Eccles. l. 3. c. 25. Epiphan Haeres 47. n. 1. Item 61 63 47. Philastrius in Haeres 8. Gelasius in decreto Turribius Asturicensis apud Paschasium Quesnerum inter epistolas Leonis magni p. 459. V. IAMES 1. The Gospel of

of the Summer 1674. his Lordship went first to Farnham to the late Bishop of Winton the 14th of May and among several things he had in Charge from the Bishop to his Father he bad him tell him that the King had very ill People about him who turn'd all things into Ridicule that they endeavor'd to bring him to have a mean Opinion of the King his Father and to persuade him that he was not the Author of the Book which goes under his Name And when after his Lordship's Arrival in France the 30th of the same Month he had deliver'd his Father these Particulars among others to that concerning the Book his Father reply'd Good God! I thought the Marquiss of Hartford had satisfy'd the King in that Matter From hence Mr. WAGSTAF would infer that my Lord Chancellor did not believe any other besides CHARLES the First to be the Author of Icon Basilike and that he wondred any should go about to induce CHARLES the Second to question it But for my part I think it very plain on the contrary that he believ'd King CHARLES the First not to be the Author of that Book and wondred that King CHARLES the Second should not understand so much from the Marquiss of Hartford who as Dr. WALKER and Mrs. GAUDEN inform us was the Person that carry'd the Manuscript to the King in the Isle of Wight and so next to Dr. GAUDEN himself was best able to convince his Son of the Truth Moreover how could the Bishop of Winton imagin that the ill People about CHARLES the Second could bring him to doubt of his Father's being the Author of Icon Basilike if he really knew it to be written by him when upon this Supposition he was rather capable of satisfying all those who had any Scruples in this Affair AS for Dr. GAUDEN'S great Services and his saying in a Letter to the Chancellor That what was don like a King should have a Kinglike Retribution Mr. WAGSTAF says that those are Mystical Expressions and that by them he might probably mean a Book he wrote against the Covenant and a Protestation he publisht against the King's Death neither of which could be term'd such extraordinary Services when many others had don the same and more much less could it be said that either of these Books was don like a King or deserv'd a Kinglike Retribution whereas Mr. WAGSTAF and those who are of his Opinion maintain that the the Stile and Matter of Icon Basilike are so like a King 's that no Subject could possibly write it but a Multtiude of others agree with me that the Stile is infinitely liker that of a Doctor than a King LASTLY It is objected that Dr. WALKER's and Mrs. GAUDEN's Testimonies contradict one another But how Dr. WALKER says that Dr. GAUDEN told him he did not know if CHARLES the First had seen the Book but Mrs. GAUDEN affirms that the Marquiss of Hartford told her Husband the King had seen and approv'd it both which Assertions are consistent enough together For Dr. GAUDEN might be ignorant that the King had seen it when Dr. WALKER askt him that Question who perhaps never mention'd it to him again in their Discourses about this Matter or might easily forget it as he says he did several other Particulars little foreseeing he should ever be oblig'd to make this Discovery and besides we must upon all Accounts allow his Wife to know more Circumstances of th●s Business as of most others than his Friend The next suppos'd Contradiction is that Dr. WALKER says Dr. GAUDEN once told him after the Restoration that he did not positively and certainly know if King CHARLES the Second knew he wrote Icon Basilike tho' he believ●d he might because the Duke of York did who own'd it to have bin a seasonable and acceptable Service But Mrs. GAUDEN affirms that her Husband acquainted the King with it himself which is very true But pray let us examin at what time After his Discourse with Dr. WALKER most certainly For does she not in clear and direct Terms say that it was in his last Sickness which prov'd Mortal to him and that the Reason of it was because he saw som Persons who were privy to it desire nothing more than to have it conceal'd which he was not willing it should be in consideration of his numerous Family to whom it might somtime or other do seasonable Service NOW that no Mistakes may be occasion'd hereafter by imperfect Fragments of Mrs. GAUDEN's Narrative and that this Affair may be set in the clearest Light I shall before I proceed to the Examination of the positive Testimonies produc'd for the King insert the Narrative here at large as it was exactly copy'd from the Original to which the curious are refer'd Mrs. GAVDEN's NARRATIVE MY Husband understanding the great Value and Esteem the People had of CROMWELL and of others in the Army occasion'd by the high Opinion which they had of their Parts and Piety he being also well assur'd that one of the main Designs of those wicked Politicians was to Eclipse his Majesty that then was as much as might be and to give a false Misrepresentation of him to the World he that he might do his Majesty right did pen that Book which goes by the Name of the King's●Book The Title which he gave it then was Suspiria Regalia and the Design was to have it put forth as by som Person who had found the Papers in his Majesty's Chambers at Holmeby being by chance left or scatter'd there And to this purpose he had prefix'd an Epistle which might be suppos'd to be written by that Person who having found them by that Accident thought it not fit to conceal them His Design also in the Book was to give such a Character of her Majesty to the World as her great Worth extream Merits and admirarable Endowments deserv'd when my Husband had writ it he shew'd it to my Lord CAPEL who did very highly approve of it and though he thought it would do very well to have it printed yet he said it was not fit to do so without his Majesty's Approbation and to come to speak to his Majesty in private was then impossible in regard of the strict Guard which they kept about him Immediately after this there was a Treaty with his Majesty at the Isle of Wight whereupon my Husband went to my Lord Marquiss of Hartf●rd that then was and to him deliver'd the Manuscript and he deliver'd it to the King at the Isle of Wight and likewise told him who the Author was When my Lord Marquiss return'd my Husband went to him to whom my Lord said That his Majesty having had some of those Essays read to him by Bishop DUPPA did exc●edingly approve of them and asked whether they could not be put out in some other Name The Bishop reply'd that the Design was that the World should take them to be his Majesty's Whereupon his Majesty desir'd time to consider of it

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

seal'd it giving him cautionary Directions how to deliver it which he did on Saturday the 23d of December 1648. for Mr. ROYSTON the Printer to Mr. PEACOCK Brother to Dr. GAUDEN's Steward who after the Impression was finish'd gave him for his Trouble six BOOKS whereof he always kept one by him To these Particulars Dr. WALKER adds that the Reason why the Covenant is more favorably mention'd in Ikon Basilike than the King or any other of his Party would do was because Dr. GAUDEN himself had taken it That in the Devotional part of this Book there occur several Expressions which were habitual to GAUDEN in his Prayers which always in privat and public were conceiv'd or extemporary and that to his Knowledge it was Dr. GAUDEN being best acquainted with the Beauty of his own Sayings who made that Collection of Sentences out of Ikon Basilike intitul'd Apophthegmata Caroliniana These and som Observations about the same individual Persons variation of Stile on different Subjects with the facility and frequency of personating others may be futher consider'd in Dr. WALKERS Original Account In this condition stood the Reputation of this Book till the last and finishing discovery of the Imposture was made after this manner Mr. ARTHUR NORTH a Merchant now living on Tower hill London a Man of good Credit and a Member of the Church of England marry'd the Sister of her that was Wife to the Doctor 's Son CHARLES GAUDEN who dying left som Papers with his Widow among which Mr. NORTH being concern'd about his Sister in Law 's Affairs found a whole Bundle relating to Ikon Basilike These Papers old Mrs. GAUDEN left to her darling Son JOHN and he to his Brother CHARLES There is first a Letter from Secretary NICHOLAS to Dr. GAUDEN 2. The Copy of a Letter from Bishop GAUDEN to Chancellor HYDE where among his other Deserts he pleads that what was don like a King should have a Kinglike Retribution and that his design in it was to comfort and incourage the King's Friends to expose his Enemies and to convert c. There is 3. The Copy of a Letter from the Bishop to the Duke of York wherin he strongly urges his Services 4. A Letter under Chancellor HYDE's own Hand dated the 13th of March 1661. wherein he expresses his uneasiness under the Bishop's importunity and excuses his inability yet to serve him but towards the Conclusion it contains these remarkable Words The Particular you mention has indeed bin imparted to me as a Secret I am sorry I ever knew it and when it ceases to be a Secret it will please none but Mr. MILTON There are other Papers in this Bundle but particularly a long Narrative of Mrs. GAUDEN's own writing irrefragably shewing her Husband to be Author of Ikon Basilike It intirely confirms Dr. WALKER's Account and contains most of the Facts we have hitherto related with many other curious Circumstances too long to be here inserted yet too extraordinary not to be known wherfore I refer the Reader to the Original Paper or to the faithful Extract made out of it before several learned and worthy Persons and which is printed in a Paper intitul'd Truth brought to Light Thus came all the World to be convinc'd of this notorious Imposture which as it was dexterously contriv'd and most cunningly improv'd by a Party whose Interest oblig'd 'em to keep the Secret so it happen'd to be discover'd by very nice and unforeseen Accidents Had not GAUDEN bin disappointed of Winchester he had never pleaded his Merit in this Affair nor would his Wife have written her Narrative had King CHARLES the Second bestow'd one half Years Rent on her after her Husband's decease which upon her Petition and considering her numerous Family none could imagin should be refus'd It was a slighter Accident that begot a a Confession from two Kings and CHARLES's own Sons And I doubt if any other than one of Mr. MILLINGTON's great Curiosity and no Bigotry had the disposal of my Lord ANGLESEY's Books we should never have heard of the Memorandum Had not Dr. HOLLINGWORTH's indiscreet Zeal provok'd the only Man then alive who had any personal knowledg of this Business Dr. WALKER had never publish'd his Account nor would the whole Discovery be so complete without the least Intricacy or Question without Mr. NORTH's Papers THIS is the complete History of Ikon Basilike as it is suppos'd to be a Forgery and we must next proceed to examin the Exceptions made to it as they are collected by Mr. WAGSTAF in his Vindicatiof King CHARLES the Martyr To begin with my Lord ANGLESEY's Memorandum 't is urg'd that it does not particularly express by the Date whether it meant the last Session of Parliament before the writing of it or the last Session of the Year 75. when it is plain that he meant the last or Winter Session and that it was therefore the immediat Session preceding the writing of this Memorandum To say that there is no Witness to it is a very singular sort of Objection when his Lordships Relations and all that have seen this and his other Writings own it to be his Hand It is not likely that there were any Witnesses of the Royal Brother's telling him their Opinion of Icon Basilike Nor is there any thing more common than for learned or great Men to leave such Memorandums in a Book concerning the Author of it when it was a Question or about any other Secret relating to it which they thought they had discover'd and yet 't is a thing unheard till now that they were deny'd to be theirs whose Names they bear because the Day of the Month was not mention'd nor the Names of any Witnesses added when the Hand was confest to be the same with their other Writings Many instances of this kind appear in the Books of Mr. HAMDEN lately sold and whereof I have som to shew as in the Book intitul'd Apollonii Grallae he writes that LANSBERGIUS was the Author of it of whom he there gives a Character IT is no just Exception to this Memorandum that my Lord ANGLESEY did not communicat the Contents of it to any of his Friends or Relations for tho' the Two Royal Brothers imparted the Secret to him it does by no means follow that they intended he should publish it to the World And supposing they did not oblige him to silence yet 't is probable that his Lordship was not very fond of being disturb'd by the Clamors of som Churchmen who carry'd things so high at that time that I do not believe they would pardon such a Discovery to either of the Brothers themselves There was never any poor Prince more notoriously abus'd by many of those he took for his best Friends than CHARLES the First They put him on all those unhappy Measures which prov'd his Ruin in the end And as they made use of his Temper to serve their own Purposes when he was alive so they did of his Name for the same

Reason after his Death They were not concern'd so much for his Honor as their own Interest and having contriv'd this Forgery to carry their Cause they thought themselves afterwards oblig'd to support it Mr. WAGSTAF affirms that there is no presumtion that the Royal Brothers communicated this Affair to any other Person besides my Lord ANGELSEY which is a negative Argument and proves nothing 'T is possible enough that my Lord ANGLESEY himself told of this to others tho' they may be since dead or are not willing to tell it again If the Royal Brothers had spoke of it to no body else it follows not that a Secret was never committed to one because it was not to more as if it were necessary for a Man to call Witnesses that he imparted a Secret to his Friend But we shall presently alledge more than a Presumtion that both King CHARLES the Second and the late King JAMES declar'd thier Opinion to other People besides my Lord ANGLESEY that Icon Basilike was not their Father's Book By such nice Cavils against the Memorandum we can easily judg of the Exceptions we may expect to Dr. WALKER's Account That GAUDEN hop'd o make a Fortune by this Book as well as to promote the Cause of the Church ought by no means to be counted strange for who is it pray that serves the King any more than God for nought Have not most of the Bishops and other Clergymen of those times that either liv'd depriv'd here in England or that accompany'd CHARLES the Second in his Exile pleaded their Loyalty and magnify'd their Services at the Restoration as many others would questionless do if King JAMES should ever return again Were not great Persons employ'd to solicit and make an Interest for them And in a Word are not Divines observ'd to make the same Steps and take the same Measures that all other sorts of Men do to get Preferment I should rather doubt that Dr. GAUDEN was not the Author of this Forgery if he had not expected a Reward for it from CHARLES the Second for 't is certain that the Credit of Icon Basilike contributed more to his Establishment than any other single Motive whatsoever But 't is well known that this Prince was not the kindest in the World to his Father's Friends who would too often forget his own and that it was not the Interest of som People to have this business unravell'd tho' their impolitic Conduct has bin since the occasion of divulging what every body suspected before THE Immorality of this Forgery is urg'd as an Argument against it and if it could by any means hold Water is indeed an Argument worth a Million Then it would clearly follow that because it was a most immoral thing to ly for God and to forge Books Epistles or the like under the Names of CHRIST and his Apostles there were therefore never any such Pieces and that because it was an ill thing to feign Miracles or to destroy Mens Lives for the Advancement of Religion there never was therefore any Priestcraft nor any of these infamous Practices known in the World But if the contrary be as clear as the Day I believe Men might be found that would make as bold with the Name of King CHARLES as others have don with that of King JESUS Mr. WAGSTAF knows tho' Mr. BLACKHALL does not that TERTULLIAN tells us of a certain Presbyter of Asia who when he was accus'd of having forg'd a Book containing the Travels of PAUL and THECLA confest the Fact and alledg'd that he did it for the love of PAUL and I say that Dr. GAUDEN wrote Icon Basilike for the Church's sake the King 's and his own AS for the plausible Accounts given in that Book of the King 's Secret Intentions his particular Trobles his Remorses of Consciences and the like it is very ridiculous to alledge 'em as an Argument of the Genuinness of it when the Book was written for that very end For the Design of the Author was to give such a Color to all the King's Actions and to tell such fine things of his gracious Purposes as would beget a better Opinion of him in the Readers Mind and move his Indignation against the Parliament or Compassion of his Misfortunes But that Dr. GAUDEN has frequently made the King's Thoughts to contradict his Actions is evident to any Man that has both read Icon Basilike and the History of those times And this Subject is thro'ly handled by JOHN MILTON in his Iconoclastes to which I refer those who want Satisfaction BUT there is an Objection still behind and as strong be sure as any of the rest which is that Dr. WALKER did not see Dr. GAUDEN write this Book nor tells us that it was in his own Hand But I believe Mr. WAGSTAF is the only Man living that questions whether Dr. WALKER meant Dr. GAUDEN's own Writing when he says that before the whole was finisht Dr. GAUDEN was pleas'd to acquaint him with his Design and shew him the Heads of diverse Chapters with som of the Discourses written of them and that Mr. GIFFORD transcrib'd a Copy of it This is all that can be said of any Author in the World and if Dr. WALKER had said more expresly or rather superfluously that it was likewise D. GAUDEN's Hand-writing we should then have bin told that it was a Transcript from the King's Copy in the Hands of Mr. SYMMONDS of which more hereafter WE proceed now to those Pieces commonly call'd Mr. NORTH's Papers he being the Discoverer Chancellor HYDE in his Letter to Dr. GAUDEN tells him as was said before That the Particular he mention'd had indeed bin imparted to him as a Secret which he was sorry he ever knew and that when it ceast to be a Secret it would please none but Mr. MILTON Was there no other Secret in the World but this says Mr. WAGSTAF that the divulging of it would gratify Mr. MILTON Yes doubtless but I believe not one that would please none but Mr. MILTON as the Chancellor expresses it For he having particularly question'd the Genuinness of this Book and offer'd a fair Proof of the Spuriousness thereof from intrinsic Evidence only without any further Light would be extreamly pleas'd to find his Reasonings and Judgment confirm'd by undeniable Matters of Fact Nor does any indifferent Person in the World understand this Passage otherwise that weighs Dr. GAUDEN's Pretences with Mr. MILTON's Concern and considers that Mrs. GAUDEN put this and the other Papers relating to Icon Basilike in one Bundle together with her own Narrative for the Information of her Son Besides that all those who ever saw other Writings of the Chancellor own this to be his Hand and particularly his eldest Son the present Farl of CLARENDON as Mr. WAGSTAF himself acknowledges BUT he says That my Lord CLARENDON from whom he had it in a Letter by leave of the King and Queen preparing to attend his Father in France in the beginning