occasion After the Death of the Bishop of Winchester I next morning waiting on the King found a remarkable alteration in him His Majesty was sad uneasie and out of his usual good humour and temper I could not but observe it but at present took no farther notice of it the second morning I found him so as much or rather more than on the preceding day yet neither then did I take any notice of it to him but when I had a short time waited on him withdrew but the third morning having been fully inform'd that my Lord Chancellor had by himself and all the Interest he could make prest the King to bestow the Bishoprick of Winchester upon the Bishop of Worcester Dr. Morly I thus Addrest my self to his Majesty Sir with all humillity I beg your leave to speak to you and your Majesties Gracious Pardon for It. Sir I well know not only how well becoming but how much it is the duty of every good Subject to contribute to the ease and satisfaction of his Prince And I cannot but conceive that your Majesty is in some streight between the Honour of your word by which you graciously pleas'd to Promise I should Succeed my excellent Friend the late Bishop of Winchester And the importunity by which you are prest in the behalf of another I therefore with greatest willingness release you freely of that Promise Here said the Bishop the King stopt me Vouchsafed 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 disposing of them all during your time that you may prefer your Friends and have them near about you And now I appeal to the Judgment of every considerate reader whether this story which I had for the substance and to the best of my memory in the very words from Bishop Gaudens own mouth when the thing was fresh and recent carry the fairest and most likely characters of truth or the Algate Dr's story For which he brings no proof but his own meer say so as indeed it is impossible he should for this must be a true story or else a dream and vision of my own Imagination the latter of which it is both Naturally and Morally next to impossible it should be First Naturally for I never pretended to so pregnant an Invention as to devise a story so self consistent in all its parts for falshoods will not jamm or hang coherently together be they told with never so good a Grace and Magisterially cram'd down Mens belief with huffing menaces and hectoring Rhetorick To fright men to swallow them at their peril For fear of being counted contumacious Witness the flaws and incoherences of all the Algate Dr's Narratives of this matter catcht up from uncertain Rumours and pieced out with groundless phancies of his own addition inconsiderately Secondly Morally impossible for Nemo gratis nequam No man will lie without advantage much less to create prejudice to himself And I am sure there is not so much as the appearance of a temptation to induce Dr. Gauden to tell it me as I solemnly aver he did if it had not been the truth nor to me to feign it in cool blood and deliberately to appeal to the God of Truth and Righteousness as a Witness and Avenger which I neither would or durst do to gain the World This might abundantly suffice to answer the Algate Dr's Sham Story concerning the Bishoprick of Worcester in the second Paragraph of his P. sc yet tho' I be well aware that over-doing is for the most part undoing and adding probabilities after clear and full evidence doth more harm than good and like setting shores and props to a strong house creates suspition that 't is tottering or like to fall without them yet I will for once run that risk and hazard and add these three Arguments to confirm what is before affirmed 1. 'T is highly probable that Dr. Gauden had the promise of Winchester obtained by his most entire Friend Bishop Duppa who besides the Power he had with the King having been his Tutor could unriddle to him as questionless he did the whole Affair of Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ to which he had been not only privy but a party and plead that to obtain the favour of that promise for him because divers of his intimate Friends had knowledge of his expectation to succeed in that See and why should he abuse his Best Friends with a groundless Flam 2. Because the King was so uneasie and deferr'd some days to give it Dr. Morly notwithstanding all the Interest made for him and His Majesties own inclination to him as having been beyond Sea with him in his Banishment why not give it presently as soon as vacant but after some days demur and uneasiness till his promise was released by him to whom 't was made 3. I will venture to reveal a secret at this distance which was then industriously conceal'd to prevent being made matter of sport upon the disappointment The Great House built by Sir Dennis Gauden the Bishop's Brother upon Clapham Heath in which Sir Dennis after lived and I think now Mr. Ewers was built as I was assured by one who knew it well to be the Mansion-house of the Bishoprick of Winchester being in that Diocess for 't is well known that Winchester-house beyond the Bridge had been pulled down and turn'd into Rent and Tenements and another was to be built or bought in lieu of it by the Bishop and setled as a Mansion-house for that See as after Winchester-house in Chelsea was purchased by Bishop Morley and made part of the Bishoprick of Winchester tho' before in the Bishoprick of London these Diocesses being parted by the Thames I could add many more circumstances relating to this Affair but at present forbear as judging them needless I am at length arrived at the third and last Paragraph of the Algate Drs. P. sc which is to compensate and make amends for all the impertinences of the preceding for thus it begins Algate Drs. P. sc But to put all things out of doubt concerning this Book give me leave to tell this Story I was not many weeks ago in conversation with Sir John Brattle a worthy person and who hath long enjoy'd a considerable Office in the Royal Mint with whom discoursing about King Charles the First and particularly of the suspicions raised of the truth of the Book He frankly told me and assured me the truth of this Story that in the year 47. King Charles having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book and having writ it in some loose Papers at different times desired Bp. Juxton to get some friend of his whom he
And I am perswaded it was this which put him upon the designing and finishing of this Book Secondly The second probable Argument may be drawn from the 14th Chapter which is upon the Covenant And I beg pardon for relating this matter more minutely than may seem necessary that it may appear how and by whom I was furnished with it to render it more cogent After the Book was published being in Discourse with my worthy Tutor Dr. J. Barwick who died Dean of St. Pauls I being privy to the Truth of this affair out of curiosity ask'd him what He thought of this Book He so well knowing my Education and Principles wondered to hear me ask such a Question I beg'd his Pardon and told him the thing being doubtfully spoken of I made bold with him to ask his Judgment Well then said He I will prove it to you And thus attempted it it was writ by himself or by some other man but it could be writ by no other therefore by himself I desired him to prove his second Proposition which He did thus If by another it must be an enemy or a Friend but neither Enemy nor Friend could do it therefore it must be himself I once more desired him to prove his second Proposition which he attempted thus not by an Enemy for no Enemy of the King would represent him so much to his Advantage not by a Friend for no Friend of the Kings would write as He doth of the Covenant Now how easily could I have reply'd tho' at present I acquiesced that Dr. Gauden though now a most hearty Friend to the King had himself taken the Covenant which we may rationally conclude had induced him to write more favourably of it than any of the Kings Party or Friends or the King himself would ever have done 3. Third probable Argument may be drawn from Chap. 16. and 24. which as I shew'd before Res 2 d. Dr. Gauden told me were written by Bishop Duppa for the Ordinance against the Common-Prayer and denying His Majesty the Attendance of His Chaplains were Subjects which Dr. Gauden was less concerned to think on for 't is well known He had forborn the use of the Common-Prayer tho' 't was continued longer in his Church than in any thereabouts and had never been the Kings Chaplain but Bishop Duppa having been the Princes Tutor a long time Chaplain and a Bishop was as mindful of these particulars and as much concern'd to be so and with as great reason as any man living could be and therefore first desired Dr. Gauden to write on these Subjects but after recall'd that Motion and undertook to do it himself which he also performed as I shew'd before and his free declaring that he had neither thought of these Subjects nor wrote of them which it was so unlikely he should renders it very probable he spake Truth in declaring that he wrote the rest 4. I meet with expressions in the Devotional part very frequently us'd by Dr. Gauden in his Prayers for he used conceived Prayer both in his Family and in Publick which I never heard from any other Man and 't is very easie to observe that most Men even in ordinary Conversation and more especially in their Prayers tho' they vary in their method have peculiar Phrases and Modes of expressing themselves and where we find such occur 't is a probable evidence they proceed from him to whom they were peculiar 5. I am as sure as I can be of any thing that Dr. Gauden made the Extract out of this Book call'd I think Apophthegmata Coroliniana I am sorry I have not one by me to give a fuller account of it But the thing is most notorious that there was such a Book came out in a very short time after Printed by Mr. Dugard Now why should Dr. Gauden concern himself so much more than any other of the Kings Friends and dispatch it with such expedition had he had no more concern in it than other men and had not been inabled to finish it so speedily and could with such readiness take it in pieces and digest it into wise and weighty Sentences who had put it together and whose thoughts had dwelt so long and much upon it I cannot forbear to judge that to those who will consider it impartially it carries the fairest and highest probability to confirm what is before declared the reasonable belief of his being the Composer of it how much more when all the five are joyn'd together SECT III. Containing a full Answer to what Dr. Hollingsworth hath written in his P. sc concerning this Book ALthough the modest and faithful account I have given in the former Sections of what I know and believe of this Book and the Means of such my Knowledge and Reasons of such my Belief contains a sufficient Answer to whatever I meet with in this P script and might supersede my farther Labour yet that the Reverend Dr. may not think himself neglected or the Reader who it may be will not take the Pains to compare them may have no cause to suspect I wave a distinct reply because I find the task too difficult and lastly because this P sc gave the sole occasion and whole Provocation to my writing upon this Subject I will now distinctly consider every particular of the P sc which concerns this matter and either by referring to what is said before to prevent writing the same thing over and over or by subjoyning a farther clear Answer reply to the whole for the necessary vindication of the Truth and my injur'd self And that what the Dr. writes may have its full Strength and He have no pretence to complain any thing is omitted I will transcribe Verbatim all his Words and subjoin full Answers adapted to every Paragraph in that part of his P script which relates to the Question in debate The first Passage begins thus Pag. 37. Line 13. The last Objection against Him is his Divine and Holy Book It is not to be imagined with what Industry they have within this last Year endeavoured to perswade the World it was a Forgery and not of his compiling And there is a certain Essex Doctor of Divinity who hath assisted this Objection to the utmost of his Power with a false story which I will presently refute and set the whole in a true and proper Light The Essex Doctors Reply to the Algate Doctor who begins thus The last Objection against him c. He could scarce have exprest himself more improperly if he had studied to do it We may guess at his meaning by what follows but who ever made this Divine and Holy Book an Objection against him but rather accounted it his great honour and from a Man who writes for Crowned Heads to read more accuracy and caution might be expected and this stumble at the threeshold is no auspicious or lucky Omen but rather an earnest and tast of what we are to look for in the Sequel
and experience of which Instances might be given without number I beg pardon for this Digression into which the Dr. led me by an ill-grounded speculation which makes little to his purpose and I think hath done him little service yea will rather cause considerate Readers to suspect his want of better Arguments else he would not have had recourse to such thin and Airy Speculations which prove nothing but the weakness of their Judgments who put any stress upon them and would by them impose upon other men Yea give me liberty to add if the Drs. Argument hath any weight it seems to be in the wrong Scale and makes that end of the Ballance to preponderate which he endeavours to make appear the lightest for the evenness of the thought and expression the equality of the style and affection and the same Thread running quite through from first to last rather argues it an Artificial Composure of one who had vacancy for sedate and deliberate thinking than of him for whose Icon and Pourtraiture it was designed who was encompassed with so distracting an hurry of miseries as must often change the temper of his mind But to compensate for the weakness of the former part of this Paragraph it hath a sting in its Tail concluding that if Dr. Gauden wrote it he is next to an Atheist and that for that Reason the Essex Dr. if he had any value for his memory would have forborn telling it in all places with more than usual confidence as he hath done that is lest he represent him as an Atheist Essex Drs. Reply to which I say in general My Story represents him not so like an Atheist as your rashness represents you like a false Accuser of both him and me and for this Reason if Dr. H. had any kindness to the Reputation of his friend their Majesties Algate Chaplain he would have considered better before he had publisht with somewhat more than confidence such groundless Accusations and such crude and ill contriv'd Stories and more particularly why Dr. Gauden more an Atheist for preparing these discourses for the King to be own'd or laid aside as to His Majesties wisdom should seem good See Reason 3. Sect. I. than those who prepare Forms of Devotion for others to use or let alone as they see occasion And tho' my Story as I tell it vindicates him from that Imputation and I am not bound to answer for what you forge to be my Story being but your own dream Quod male dum recitas desinit esse meum I farther say that according to the old Axiom Amicus Plató Amicus Aristoteles sed magis Amica Veritas Tho' Dr. Gauden were a friend and Bishop Duppa a friend yet Truth is more a friend and I should count him no honest Casuist who would advise me to tell a Lye to save my friends Credit as your words imply you would have directed me had I consulted you in the case Alg. Drs. P. sc The Story in short that he the E. Dr. tells is this That Dr. Gauden then of Bockin in Essex made this Book and sent him then his Curate to the Press with it which command he obeyed and accordingly did so carry it in order to its Printing Essex Drs. Reply Good Sir use fairer play and be not so confident who accuse that for excess of confidence in me which hath not the tenth degree of yours and do not forge and mangle a Story and then pin it upon me My Story is honestly and sincerely told in the first Section and thither I refer your self and the Reader for the truth and a fuller Answer to this lame Account without staying upon some palpable mistakes because but circumstantial Alg. Drs. P. sc Now the truth of the Story is this There was one Mr. Simmonds a learned and pious Minister who lived near Dr. Gauden in Essex and who out of a true affection to His Majesties Person and Cause writ a learned Defence of the King with which the King was so pleas'd that he presently resolved that this Person should have the perusal and correction of his Book and accordingly sends it by a trusty Messenger Essex Drs. Reply There is scarce a line which is not liable to just exceptions but small faults must be past over in one who writes so heedlesly or we should never have done But there is one so notorious he must be blind who doth not see it what then was he that made it viz. that Dr. Hollingsworth and their Majesties Chaplain at Algate do flatly contradict each other Here he saith the King sent it by a trusty Messenger to Mr. Simmonds but pag. 39. l. 19. that he desired Bishop Juxton to get some trusty friend to look it over and put it into exact order Non bene conveniunt one of the two should have had a better memory or conferr'd Notes before they had publisht things so inconsistent such palpable difference of Witnesses is a shrewd prejudice against their Testimony Algate Dr's P. sc The Book when looked over by him did so affect him and no wonder that he could not forbear sending for his Neighbour Gauden In order to make him happy with himself in the sight and reading of such an inesteemable Jewel Dr. Gauden would not be denied the kindness of taking the Book home with him for a few days which upon importunity Mr Simmonds knowing the Dr. at that time a well-wisher to the King granted Dr Gauden presently falls to transcribing of it and in some days with great labour and application finishes it and so returns the Original to Mr. Simmonds again within a while the great storm coming upon the King which at last God knows wholly overset him Dr. Gauden out of a true affection to his Master the King hoping thereby to do him service sends this Copy by the hands of this Dr. to the Press And so far and no farther was he concern'd in it Essex Dr's Reply Sir what with your usual confidence you introduce with The truth of the Story is thus is all meer Story but not one word of truth nor hath it the least blush or appearance of Possibility or so much as Probability as I hope to convince your self First Not probable any Man who knows any thing of the measures of Decency and the circumstances of the Persons of whom he writes as he should be supposed to do who presumes to Dedicate his writings to so wise a King and Queen would have contriv'd his story and told his tale more handsomely and would rather have said that the Parson of Rayne who was a very private man had waited upon Dr. Gauden who liv'd at the rate of a Thousand a year and made the greatest figure of any Clergy Man in Essex or perhaps in England at that time than boldly and bluntly to send for him what ever the occasion might be but let that pass a slip in good manners is a small fault compared to the impossibility of his stories
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
declares that all the Works of his Royal Father were collected and published which former Impression as I have already observ'd makes particular mention of Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ Now I leave it to any unprejudiced Person to judg whether it is in the least probable that either of their Majesties should tell the late Earl of Anglesey that this excellent Book was written by Dr. Gauden since they both have owned it to be their Royal Father 's in so publick a manner So that to use the Expression of the Advertisement If the Declaration of two Kings made with all the Circumstances of Advantage may be believed before a blind Manuscript written by a doubtful Hand and grounded upon a private Relation then we have sufficient Evidence to satisfy the World how much this Adviser has endeavoured to impose upon it Answ As to the Letters Patent to print this Book amongst the Works of King Charles the First on which depends the whole strength of the Argument I confess 't is a nice and tender Point which good Manners rather than want of good Reasons restrain me from fuller answering I think it may suffice to say with Modesty and Caution Kings use not so critically to inspect all the minute Particulars of their General Royal Grants but sign them as drawn up for the best Advantage of the Grantee and an Under-Secretary or Clerk who drew the Patents put in what Mr. Royston reckoned up and desired and never boggled at inserting Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ among King Charles's Work because it was so reputed by most and few knew the Mystery and they who did did all they then could to hide and conceal it And suppose either of the Kings had examined every particular it was at utmost but conniving at a vulgar Errour which it was not their interest too nicely to discover And indeed the Argument is so palpably weak that I am perswaded this Writer being a Person of so good Sense puts no Stress upon it but added it for Number rather than Weight being rather too hot than too heavy to be dealt with and for want of better which 't is exceeding hard to find to prove what is not true brings in such an Argument as in the Schools we call captious or Argumentum odiosum which Respondents use allowably to reject not answer because 't is designed not for real Proof but to involve the Answerer in some Odium and Danger and dismiss it unreply'd to not because they cannot but because they dare not answer it or with Beneseance shew its Weakness And yet to approach one Step closer what understanding Man believes all the other particular Pieces which make up the whole Volume of the Works of K. Charles I to be originally penn'd by himself but knows many of them were prepared by his Secretaries and Council and then perused and approved by him and so became his by adding the Royal Stamp of his Approbation and Owning of them And the same was designed in this Book as hath been shewed before I shall conclude this Discourse of the Letters Patent to Mr. Royston to Print the King's Works and inferring this to be undoubtedly so because named amongst them with a parallel Case of a supposed License to print the Works of as great a King Admit Mr. Royston had obtain'd a Patent to have the sole Printing the Works of King David and to make all sure that no Man might in the least invade his Priviledg had got it explicitely inserted into his Patent all the Works of King David that is to say the whole Book of Psalms containing in number one hundred and fifty which is no hard Supposition would it have followed hence that he who granted this Patent had publish'd to all the World that he knew and believ'd that David was the real Pen-man of them all tho some of the were certainly written some Ages after David's Death after the return of the Babylonish Captivity and some by Heman Asaph c. I grant his Patent might secure his Right to print all the 150 but 't would be an invalid Argument to prove that David wrote all It needs no Application Having thus far vindicated the Truth of the Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum and consequently the Honour of his Lordship's Memory from the Charge of Forgery cast upon it by shewing good reason why I cannot allow the pretended Proof against it to over-ballance his Lordship's Attestation which how sufficiently I have performed I freely leave to the Judgment of all impartial Readers I shall now subjoin the Remark I promis'd to set down when I had answered the Objections against the Memorandum And it is to shew by comparing two signal Providences about this Book how it seems to be the Will of God for what special Ends is best known to his holy and unsearchable Wisdom at some of which I may give my humble Guesses in due place both to have this Book published and owned as the Composure of King Charles the First for some time and then to have the full Truth in due time come to that light in which the starting those fresh Contests about it is like to set it The First which I call a signal Providence towards its being publish'd is the preventing its being seized upon and stopt in the Press when the Proof-Sheets if not also so much of the Copy as those Sheets contained were actually in the Hands and Possession of and carried away by as great an Enemy of the King's as any Man living was as Mr. Simmonds described him to me I beg pardon for the length of the Story which I shall relate from Mr. Simmonds because I think it worth the knowing and also because 't is an Evidence I write not in this Affair by Hearsay and Conjecture as most do but as of what I was privy to and had an hand in all along from first to last Upon Monday January the 8 th or 15 th for I have written Memorials by me which assure me it could not be so early as the 1 st nor so late as the 22 d Mr. Simmonds came to my Chamber at Warwick-House where I then was Chaplain and as a Man affrighted abruptly spake to me We are undone or in great danger to be so if you do not help us which I hope you may being in this Family And when I ask'd him what the matter was he having a little recovered himself told me the following Story and when he had done we consulted what remedy was to be used His Story was as followeth I was said he a while since at a Gentleman's House a Friend of mine in Hertfordshire whilst I was there there came a Troop of Horse of Col. Rich's Regiment to quarter there-abouts and the Lieutenant whose Name is Arwaker quartered in my Friend's House He and I had many fierce Disputes about the Cause betwixt the King and Parliament and the Army's usage of his Majesty By which he was so provok'd that at last he told me he would not