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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

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

Misery with thine Ey 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 Faults by thy Hand be corrected and make not mine unjust Enemy the Minister of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisement for my unexcusable Folly if this low Bondage be fittest 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 joyfully embrace what Sorrow thou wilt have me suffer only thus much let me crave of thee let my Craving O Lord be accepted of thee since even that proceeds from thee let me crave even by the noblest Title which in my greatest Affliction I may give my self that I am thy Creature and by thy Goodness which is thy self that thou wilt suffer som Beams of thy Majesty to shine into my Mind that it may still depend confidently on thee Let Calamity be the Exercise but not the overthrow of my Virtue Let their Power prevail but prevail not to Destruction Let my Greatness be their Prey Let my Pain be the Sweetness of their Revenge let them if so it seem good unto thee vex me with more and more Punishment But O Lord let never their Wickedness have such a Hand but that I may carry a pure Mind in a pure Body and pausing a while and O most gracious Lord said she whatever becomes of me preserve the Virtuous MUSIDORUS CONCLUSION I HOPE by this time I have satisfy'd Mr. BLACKHALL since I have not only laid together the first Testimonies concerning this Matter but also answer'd the Exceptions that were made to those Testimonies and disprov'd the fresh Evidence which was produc'd no the behalf of Icon Basilike But if he 's offended at my Performance he may thank himself seeing without his causeless Provocation I had never written a Word more on this Subject as I shall not do hereafter unless for as justifiable a Reason For notwithstanding I may not answer every Scribler yet I 'll be misrepresented and abus'd by no body worth my notice INDEED Mr. BLACKHALL is not the first who has occasion'd Controversies by a Thirtieth of Ianuary Segmon Every body knows how much the Observation of that Day was abus'd in the two last Reigns by servil Flatterers who not content to run shameful Parallels between the Sufferings of our Savior and the King wherein the latter was often made to exceed they taught the People the ridiculous Doctrin of Passive Obedience as they allow'd the Prince an Unlimited and Despotic Power This render'd those Persons justly odious to the Nation and made sober Men frequently wish that such an Opportunity of doing Mischief might be taken away from those who fail'd not to improve it to the utmost It was likewise observ'd how much these Sermons contributed to raise Animosities and Feuds in the Kingdom and to continue the fatal Distinctions of Names and Parties which every good Man should desire might be abolish'd or bury'd in eternal Oblivion Besides that for many weighty Reasons such Days ought not to be perpetuated or otherwise in a little time ours will be as full as the Roman Calendar wherfore I readily approve of the learned Bishop of Salisbury's Opinion That our Deliverances should wear out the Memory of such tragical Accidents which no body pretends to justify and indeed I think it very reasonable if our Legislators be of the same Opinion that the Commemoration of his present Majesty's Landing to deliver us from Slavery on the Fifth of November should hereafter take place of the Thirtieth of Ianuary Other Holydays have bin recommended to a constant Observation tho' they are since grown into disuse or are legally abolish'd which the best Friends of the Clergy desire may be the Fate of that Day out of their respect to the Church For these Sermons do constantly put the People in mind of that Set of Men who preach'd 'em out of their Liberties in former times and the honest Clergy themselves are still under an unhappy Necessity of saying many things that let 'em think what they will are not extremely pleasing to the Body of the Nation The Descendants of those concern'd in that Act and many of 'em far from approving it conceive themselves unkindly us'd in most of those Discourses nor are the Posterity of the greatest Royalists in a better Condition if that be a National Guilt that 's never to be expiated tho' neither they nor their Ancestors consented to it to say nothing of the frequent Intermarriages and other Tyes between both the Parties IF the Extravagancies of those Sermons had terminated with the late Reign few People perhaps would trouble themselves now about what 's past unless constrain'd to it by som officious Chaplain But they cannot endure to hear the Members of the Parliament of 40 so infamously branded considering how lately they were oblig'd themselves to assert their Laws and Liberties against the Martyrs Son who violated and broke them at his Pleasure And in this Sense many were of Opinion that King CHARLES's Blood lay heavy on the Nation which made them for the ease of the same to shake off the Burden of King JAMES SOM who otherwise Honor the Memory of King CHARLES the First are angry to hear him in Mr. BLACKHALL's Language call'd the best of Kings and the best of Men when they consider especially that the Apostles were Men and that several Persons among the Greek and Roman Heathens did infinitly excel him in all Moral and Heroic Virtues As for Princes if good Manners could not make Mr. BLACKHALL except the present King Justice at least might well oblige him to do it King WILLIAM has never dispens'd with express Laws in favor of Popish Recusants He never protected any of his Chaplains against the Parliament for preaching up Arbitrary Power He never requir'd Soldiers to be try'd by Martial Law in time of Peace nor levy'd Loans or Ship mony contrary to Law much less imprison'd fin'd or banish'd such as refus'd to pay those illegal Taxes He does not countenance any SIBTHORPS MANWARINGS or MOUNTAGUES to teach his Subjects Non-Resistance or to compliment himself with Arbitrary Power He is so far from sending for Foren Troops to enslave the Nation that he readily sent those away which he kept here by Law as soon as he understood the Kingdom had no further need of their Service He does not use to imprison Members of the House of Commons for using that Freedom of Debate which is Essential to their Constitution He never threaten'd to betake himself to other Councils than his Parliament as CHARLES the First did saying that Parliaments were in his Power and that he might grow out of Love with them Nor is it known that he went into the House of Commons to demand any of their Members no more than

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