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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

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