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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

that have bin formerly us'd to prove it spurious and the Confidence of a late Writer the Author of MILTON's Life asserting it to be so without either producing any new Evidence for the Proof of his Assertion or offering one Word in answer to those just and rational Exceptions that had bin made before to those only Testimonies which he insists upon to prove it a Forgery or making any Exceptions to those later Evidences that have bin produc'd to prove it Authentic Whether this Book was compos'd by himself is our Business at present to enquire and shall be quickly determin'd for as to his improving by his Sufferings I will not deny what I hope and Charity commands me to believe The Reason why I produc'd no new Evidence to prove the spuriousness of Icon Basilike was because I thought the old ones sufficient I vouchsaf'd no Answer to the Exceptions made to those Testimonies because I neither thought 'em just nor reasonable And I would not discuss the Facts that have bin since alledg'd to prove the Book Authentic because I intended not before to write a just Dissertation on this Subject and so was not oblig'd to mention all the Particulars relating to it If Mr. BLACKHALL does not think this Answer satisfactory I shall make amends now for all former Omissions and being very desirous to content him will follow that same Method he was pleas'd to chalk me out in his Sermon IN the first place therefore to make this Discourse complete and that the Evidence of the several Parts whereof it consists may the better appear by laying 'em all together I shall here insert the Abstract which I made of Dr. WALKER's Book in MILTON's Life with ANGLESEY's Memorandum and the other Testimonies I shall secondly give particular Answers to the Exceptions that have bin made to all these Pieces And lastly shew the invalidity of the Facts which are alledg'd to prove King CHARLES the First was the true Author of Icon Basilike I have not undertaken this Work out of Affection or Opposition to any Party nor to reflect on the Memory of that unfortunat Prince whose officious Friends are much more concern'd but to clear my self from a public Charge and to discover a pious Fraud which deserves not to be exemted from Censure for being the Contrivance of a Modern Bishop no more than those of the ancient Fathers of the Church THE Relation of the whole Fact in MILTON's Life is after this manner In the Year 1686 Mr. MILLINGTON hap'ning to sell the late Lord ANGLESEY's Library by Auction put up an Ikon Basilike and a few bidding very low for it he had leisure to turn over the Leaves when to his great Surprize he perceiv'd written with the same noble Lord 's own Hand the following Memorandum KING CHARLES the Second and the Duke of York did both in the last Sessions of Parliament 1675 when I shew'd them in the Lords House the written Copy of this Book wherein are som Corrections and Alterations written with the late King CHARLES the First 's own Hand assure me that this was none of the said King 's compiling but made by Dr. GAUDEN Bishop of Exeter which I here insert for the undeceiving of others in this point by attesting so much under my own H●nd ANGLESEY This occasion'd the World to talk and several knowing the Relation which the late Dr. ANTHONY WALKER an Essex Divine had to Bishop GAUDEN they inquir'd of him what he knew concerning this Subject which he then verbally communicated to them But being afterwards highly provok'd by Dr. HOLLINGSWORTH's harsh and injurious Reflections he was oblig'd in his own Defence to print an Account of that Book wherein are sufficient Answers to all the Scruples or Objections that can be made and whereof I here insert an exact Epitome He tells us in the first place that Dr. GAUDEN was pleas'd to acquaint him with the whole Design and shew'd him the Heads of divers Chapters with som others that were quite finish'd and that Dr. GAUDEN asking his Opinion of the thing and he declaring his Dissatisfaction that the World should be so impos'd upon GAUDEN bid him look on the Title which was the King's Portraiture for that no Man is suppos'd to draw his own Picture A very nice Evasion he further acquaints us that som time after this being both in London and having din'd together Dr. GAUDEN took him along with him to Dr. DUPPA the Bishop of Salisbury whom he made also privy to his Design to fetch what Papers he had left before for his perusal or to shew him what he had since written and that upon their return from th●● place after GAUDEN and DUPPA were a while in privat together the former told him the Bishop of Salisbury wish'd he had thought upon two other Heads the Ordinance against the Common Pray'r Book and the denying his Majesty the Attendance of his Chaplains but that DUPPA desir'd him to finish the rest and he would take upon him to write two Chapters on those Subjects which accordingly he did The reason it seems why Dr. GAUDEN himself would not perform this was first that during the Troubles he had forborn the use of the Liturgy which he did not extraordinarily admire and secondly that he had never bin the King's Chaplain whereas Dr. DUPPA was both his Chaplain his Tutor and a Bishop which made him more concern'd about these Particulars Thirdly Dr. WALKER informs us that Dr. GAUDEN told him he had sent a Copy of Icon Basilike by the Marquiss of Hartford to the King in the Isle of Wight where it was we may be sure that he made those Corrections and Alterations with his own Pen mention'd in my Lord ANGLESEY's Memorandum and which gave occasion to som then about him that had accidentally seen or to whom he had shown the Book to believe the whole was his own Fourthly Dr. GAUDEN after the Restoration told Dr. WALKER that the Duke of York knew of his being the real Author and had own'd it to be a great Service in consideration of which it may be the Bishoprick of Winchester tho' he was afterwards put off with that of Worcester was promis'd him And notwithstanding it was then a Secret we now know that in expectation of this Translation the great House on Clapham Common was built indeed in the Name of his Brother Sir DENYS but really to be a Mansion●house for the Bishops of Winchester Fifthly Dr. WALKER says that Mr. GAUDEN the Doctor 's Son his Wife himself and Mr. GIFFORD who transcrib'd it did believe it as firmly as any Fact don in the place where they were and that in that Family they always spoke of it among themselves whether in Dr. GAUDEN's Presence or Absence as undoubtedly written by him which he never contradicted We learn Sixthly that Dr. GAUDEN after part of it was printed gave to Dr. WALKER with his own Hand what was last sent to London and after shewing him what it was

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

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

wherof every Parish in England should be oblig'd to have a Copy and to chain it in the Church which in his Opinion would prove a more glorious and lasting Monument than any could be fram'd of Brass or Marble This Thought was very well lik'd by several great Men of the Church and State who shew'd themselves ready to promote it and he did not we may imagin spare any Cost or Labor to have it succeed tho' 't is well known how little CHARLES the Second himself encourag'd it But the Distrusts arising afterwards between the King and People the Heats in Parliament and particularly the Popish Plot broke this and all such Designs to Pieces So that there was no farther Mention of any Monument for his Father But when the Duke of York mounted the Throne and had given Assurances of his Favor to the Church of England Mr. CHISWEL thought again of rev●ving his Project and employ'd Sir ROGER L ESTRA●GE to procure him only King JAMES's recommendatory Letter for he did not expect any thing from Parliament as before only 〈◊〉 how agreeable this would seem to the King's Design if it were real of bege●●ing a Confidence of himself in the Church This Request the King Icon giving for his Reason that 〈◊〉 Basilik● was not his Father's Book and he could not therefore in Conscience recommend it as his Mr. CHISWEL being inform'd of this Resolution by Sir ROGER answer'd that he thought he could accommodat the Matter For since the publishing of the rest would signifie nothing without the Addition of Icon Basilike he would remove it from the Front where it stood in the former Edition and place it in the Rear after Finis as Books of uncertain Authority use to be printed To this the King consented on condition som Expressions which he thought injurious to the Monarchy should be left out with which Mr. CHISWEL said he could by no means comply as being a disingenuous Practice towards any Author and a great Abuse on the Public but propos'd as another Expedient that those Words should be put within Crotchets And thus Icon Basilike stands now printed after the End of the second Part of the King's Works of the Edition of 86 by Mr. CHISWEL who told me this Story himself not to gratifie or injure any side but as a Matter of Fact wherein he was personally concern'd and from whence he draws no manner of Inference The Royal Brothers said the same to several others besides my Lord ANGLESEY and particularly to som eminent Persons now living who told me so much themselves with a Liberty of mentioning their Names which after all that has bin offer'd I see no Necessity of doing THAT nothing may be wanting I shall in the last place consider what is objected to the Prayer us'd by the King as his own in the time of his Captivity but is with very small Variation the same that is said by PAMELA to a Heathen Deity in Sir PHILIP SYDNEY's Arcadia This Discovery as we said before was first made by MILTON in his Iconoclastes But Dr. GILL affirms That his Patient HENRY HILL the Printer said it was put in by a Contrivance of MILTON who catching his Friend Mr. Du GARD printing an Edition of Icon Basilike got his Pardon by BRADSHAW's Interest on Condition he would insert PAMELA's Prayer to bring Discredit on the Book and the Author of it I wonder at the Easiness of Dr. GILL and Dr. BERNARD to believe so gross a Fable when it does not appear that Du GARD who was Printer to the Parliament ever printed this Book and that the Prayer is in the second Edition publish'd by Mr. ROYSTON whose Evidence is alledg'd to prove the Genuinness of the Book And if the King's Friends thought it not his own what made them print it in the first Impression of his Works in Folio by ROYSTON in 62 when MILTON could not tamper with the Press Or why did they let it pass in the last Impression in Folio by Mr. CHISWEL in the Year 86 when all the World knew that it was long before expos'd in Iconoclastes After this I need not go about to shew that Dr. GILL had no Reason for the great Opinion he entertain'd of HENRY HILL and how little he consulted his own Reputation by asserting that no Man was better vers'd in the secret History of those times that he was intrusted with Intrigues by the great ones of that Government who as all the World knows manag'd their Affairs after another rate Nor will I insist upon his turning Papist in King JAMES's time to becom his Printer as he was OLIVER's before or any other Circumstance to lessen his Credit since it appears that what he averr'd is inconsistent with Matter of Fact Mr. ROYSTON and not Du GARD having publish'd the Celebrated Prayer which I add in this Place laid Parallel with the Original The Prayer of King CHARLES stil'd A Prayer in Time of Captivity Printed in pag. 94. of his Works 1686 and also in Icon Basilike O Powerful and Eternal God to whom nothing is so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemn'd look upon my Misery with thine Eye of Mercy and let thine infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out som proportion of deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most convenient Let not Injury O Lord triumph over me and let my Fault by thy Hand be corrected and make not my unjust Enemies the Ministers of thy Iustice. But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Transgressions if this ungrateful Bondage be sittest for my over-high Desires if the Pride of my not-enough humble Heart be thus to be broken O Lord I yield unto thy Will and cheerfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of since it even proceeds from thee that by thy Goodness which is thy self thou wilt suffer some Beam of thy Majesty so to shine in my Mind that I who in my greatest Afflictions acknowledg it my noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend considently on thee Let Calamity be the Exercise but not the Overthrow of my Virtue O let not their prevailing Power be to my Destruction and if it be thy Will that they more and more vex me with Punishment yet O Lord never let their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may still carry a pure Mind and sledfast Resolution ever to serve thee without Fear or Presumtion yet with that hum-Confidence which may best please thee so that at the last I may com to thy Eternal Kingdom through the Merits of thy Son our alone Savior JESUS CHRIST Amen The PRAYER of PAMELA to a Heathen Deity In Pembroke's Arcadia pag. 248 1674. O All-seeing Light and Eternal Life of all things to whom nothing is either so great that it may resist or so small that it is contemn'd look upon my