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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

could commend to him as a trusty person to look it over and to put it into an exact Method the Bishop pitcht upon Sir John's Father whom he had been acquainted with for many years who undertaking the Task was assisted by this his Son who declares he sate up with his Father some nights to assist him in methodizing those Papers all writ with the King 's own hand Thanks be to God Sir John is yet alive and is ready to give the same Account to any man that asks him Essex Drs. Reply Jam ventum est ad Triarios Sir John Brattle is a person whose name I do not remember I have heard before and therefore make no Judgment prejudicial or of disadvantage to the Character here given of him But as the Algate Dr. tells the Story I doubt it may prove as meer a Story as the rest But before I come to my particular Remarks upon it I confess 't is not unpleasant to observe that when the Dr's hand was in at Coyning Stories which I have proved to be of both so base Metal and false an Impress he should have recourse to the Royal Mint to borrow a more Authentick Stamp for what else can an Office there add to a Testimony in a matter of fact But with all due respect to Sir J. Br. I would ask the Dr. a few Questions 1. May it not be possible without any diminution of Sir John's veracity that in more than forty Years there may be some mistake of other Papers for these or some other lapse of Memory about a matter in which he was concerned but once or twice and that but transiently and on the by or was Sir John who must be then a young man and 't is likely but in a private capacity so well acquainted with the Kings hand which 't is probable he had seldom or never seen I believe few private Country Youths or young Gentlemen are so very well us'd to their Soveraigns hand-writing as to make a Critical Judgment of it and to be able with assurance to distinguish it from the writing of all other men 2. I would gladly know when and where the King desired this of Bishop Juxton for I refer my self to those who lived in those times observed the passages of them whether they ever so much as heard that the King and Bishop Juxton saw each other after his Majesty was driven from Westminster by the Tumults till he was violently brought to St. James's Jan 19. 48 to be tried and barbarously murdered The King indeed then obtain'd leave for the good man to come to him and assist him in extremis for neither his Age nor Character permitting him to be serviceable to him in following him in the Wars He liv'd Private and Retir'd and I never heard he saw him till upon the sad occasion forenamed and that was after the Book was Printed Thirdly Supposing but by no means granting that the King had desired Bishop Juxton as is said to desire a trusty Friend to do it why another rather than the Bishop himself Had the King any Friend more trusty than Bishop Juxton or was He too good or above doing such service for his Master who had not a Servant who honoured and lov'd him more or was He too busie to attend it when he was wholly out of all imployment and injoy'd the most undisturbed privacy and quiet of any man that had serv'd the King in any eminent degree Or was Bishop Juxton less fit and able than a private man when the Book consists of Policy and Piety and who a fitter Judge of what concern'd the first than one who had so long been Privy Councellor and Lord High Treasurer of England And for the second he was one on whom the King rely'd as much or more than on any Man for the conduct of his Conscience as appear'd by his singling him out to be with him in his Preparations for Death and upon the infamous Scaffold of his Martyrdom and who was so able a Divine that tho' his Publick Imployments hindred him from Preaching often yet when He did perform'd it so well I remember I heard a Bishop who was able to judge say He thought him one of the most excellent Preachers He ever heard and gave Instance in a Sermon He heard him preach at Court of Repentance And why must Bishop Juxton desire another man to do that work for which had there been any such work to be done He himself was the fittest man alive for Fidelity for Ability for Inclination to his Masters Service and for vacancy and leisure 4. Lastly I pray which of these stories in your P sc would you have us believe Your first of sending it to Mr. Simmonds by a trusty Messenger or your last of the Kings own delivering it to his trusty Servant Bishop Juxton They cannot both be true if that not this if this not that they are so contrary we must suppose the Algate Dr. the Relater of the One and their Majesties Algate Chaplain the Relater of the other I confess the doubt is too hard for me to solve I must e'ne leave it to be agreed betwixt themselves I might add I have heard near half a dozen stories about this Book all as inconsistent with one another as these two Yet all told with equal assurance a sufficient prejudice against them all with all unprejudiced Persons Algate Dr. P sc And whosoever after this will suspect this Book is certainly a man of that temper who will keep up his prejudices against this great man in spight of all evidences tho' as clear as the Sun at Noon and for my own part I must tell him that I think it not worth the while to attempt his farther satisfaction because nullum remedium Deus posuit contumaciae God Almighty hath not provided a remedy for resolved stubbornness in the ordinary course of dealing with men and if nothing but miracles will convince them I have no Commission to pretend to them Essex Drs. Reply Sir tho' I will not vapour and huff my Reader with comparing what I have truely sincerely and as in the sight of God written concerning my Knowledge and Belief about this Book fairly declaring the means of my Knowledge and the Reasons of my Belief to the Sun at Noon as you think good to compare your waking Dreams and random guesses which deserve not to be likened to the light of the Moon a day before or after its change yet I abhor keeping up prejudices against that great and excellent Prince and have only given the account in the first and second Sections and reply'd to your slanders and reproaches which extorted from me this unwelcome labour to clear my Reputation you having according to your Talent as Mephibosheth complain'd of Ziba slandered me to the whole Nation and to my Lord the King by presuming to dedicate such stuff to their sacred Majesties And if you persist to slander ne videaris errasse I leave