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B08364
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Alter amyntor:, or, The case fairly stated between King Charles I. and Dr. Gauden Mr. Wagstaff and Mr. Toland, touching icon basilike. With short notes
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1699
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Wing A2929B; ESTC R224629
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Testimonies of two Authors Eye and Ear witnesses of Charles I. his being Author of Icon Basilike who in the year 49 immediately after Milton's Iconoclastes and other Pamphlets came out writ in Vindication of the K's Book and were never answer'd their Assertations being then taken as full proof of the matter of Fact The one Intituled Icon be piste has these remarkable Words The Author viz. of Icon alethine a virulent pamphlet might have informed himself of divers who have seen the Original Copy manuscribed by the King himself he might have seen it himself for asking And afterwards I take it to be the Kings Book I am sure of it I knew his hand I have seen the Manuscript I have heard him own it The other was the Author of a Book call'd the Princely Pelican writ on purpose as he says to satisfie the world that the King was Author of Icon Basilike In p. 4. he has these Words He the King was pleased some few days after he had retired from his Parliament to communicate his thoughts in his Garden at Theobald 's to some of his Gentlemen who were nearest to him and of whose intimacy and abilities he stood most confident how he had set pen to paper to vindicate his innocency in the first place by shewing the Reasons he had of receding from the Parliament and that not so much as one line had fallen from his pen which with Honour he might not confirm And then told us his next Essay should take its discourse from the faithfullest Servant and most incomparable Statesman that any Prince could rely on meaning the E. of Strafford and then gives us the Kings particular discourse condemning himself for suffering his hand to thwart the resolution of his heart c. And particularly writes at large the Discourses of his Attendants on that Subject with his Majesty He tells us further p. 19. that the King told him that as his morning Devotions took up the first part of the day so he ever reserved the next for these Meditations he had now in hand The Author yet further tells us p. 21. That at Navesby those Divine Meditations were siezed by the Enemy with other Papers of concern being inclosed in a Cabinet reserved for that purpose and that by the Benignity of the Conqueror or Divine Providence rather it was recovered above all Expectance and returned to his Majesty's hand and which infinitely cheered him And further p. 22. That a Person of high Command in the Rebel Army gave this censure of it Saying It was an Handsome piece of Hypocrisie XVI To these are added usually some Expressions Drawn from the Book it self which show that no man Living but the King himself could write it but being too many to insert here I shall refer the Reader to a Book intituled The Vindication of King Charles the Martyr for satisfaction in that Point WITNESSES for Dr. Gauden I. Dr. Gauden's Wife who is said to have left behind her some Papers in which the following account they say is found 1st a Letter to my Lord Chancellor Hyde Decemb. 28. 1661 and a Copy of a Petition to the King setting forth how kind he had been to his Fathers Friends and urging That what was done as a King should have a King-like Retribution Another Letter there is to the Duke of York dated Jan. 17. 1661. urging his great Services As also a Letter from the Lord Chancellor Hyde to the Bishop of the Chancellor's Hand-writing dated March. 13. 1661. Importing the Receit of several Letters from him that he was uneasie under the Bishops importunity And towards the Close hath this expression The particular you mention has indeed been 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 Among these Papers there is said to be A Letter of Mrs. Gauden's after the Death of her Husband to her Son John Gauden in which she speaks of the Book commonly called the King's Book and calls it the Jewel and adds Her Husband hoped to make a Fortune by it and wonders it should be doubted whether her Husband wrote it but says she has a Letter of a very great Man to clear it up There is also said to be a long Narrative of Mrs. Gauden's Hand-writing shewing that her Husband wrote the Book and sent it to her Son with the Letter This Narrative sets forth that after her Husband had wrote the Book he shewed it to the Lord Capel who approved it and was for the Printing it but wished the King might have a sight of it that an opportunity was taken to convey it to his Majesty by the Lord Marquess of Hertford when he went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight That the Marquess after his return from thence told her Husband that he gave the Book to the King and his Majesty did well like it but was for putting of it out not as his own but anothers but it being urged that Cromwel and others of the Army having got a Reputation with the People for Parts and Piety it would do best to be in the King's name His Majesty took time to consider of it That her Husband not hearing the King's Pleasure about it and finding Dangers hastning on him he having kept a Copy by him sent it by one Mr. Symonds to the Press together with a Letter That Mr. Royston was the Printer but did not know but the King wrote it That part was seized in the Press together with her Husband's Letter and Mr. Symonds was taken That nevertheless the Work was carried on and finished a few days after his Majesty's Death that when it was Published the Parliament was inraged and her Husband conceiving his Life and Estate in danger fled to Sir John Wentworth's near Yarmouth intending thence to pass the Seas but Mr. Symonds falling sick and dying and her Husband not being discovered he altered his purpose and returned home That the Title first intended was Suspiria Regalia but changed to Icon Basilike and that there were two Chapters added That the Marquess of Hertford and the Lord Capel Bishop Duppa and Bishop Morley were at first the only persons privy to it That Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester being very sick her Husband went to the King and acquainted him that he was the Author of that Book and for the truth thereof appealed to Bishop Duppa his Majesty's Tutor who was yet living and made an Apology for Printing it without his Majesty's Father's Order or his but pleaded the Circumstances of Time and the King's Danger that his Majesty told her Husband That till then he never knew that he wrote it but thought it was his Father's yet wondred how he could have time and observed that it was wrote like a Scholar as well as like a King and said if it had been published sooner it might have saved his Fathers life that at the same time the King gave him a