Service of the French Commanding Pennington to use all Force even to sinking in case of Refusal Hereupon Pennington put his Ship into the Absolute Power of the French King and Commanded the rest to do so But the honest Sea-men refused to be slaves to the French and fight against the Protestant Religion till forced by Shots But Sir Ferdinando Gerges to his Eternal Honour brought away the Neptune with Detestation of the Action All the English Men and Boys except one Gunner who was slain in Charging a piece of Ordnance according to his defect declined the Service and quitted the Ships refusing to serve against the Rochellers In September following these seven Ships were actually imployed against the Rochellers almost to their utter ruin The French boasted that the Vantguard mow'd the Hereticks down like Grass by these wicked means were these good People wholly lost They held the Town till the Year 1628. but were reduced to incredible Misery having lived long upon Horse Flesh Hides Leather Doggs and Cats c. There were but Four Thousand left of Fifteen Thousand Souls many dyed with Famine and they usually carried their Coffins into the Church-yard and there laid themselves and Dyed A Sad Story that ought never to be forgotten in the History of Our Blessed Martyr's Reign as wickedly call'd 7. That in Civil Matters took his Peoples Goods from them against their Wills and their Liberties against the Laws that pluck'd up the Root of all Property that acted almost like the Turks who send their Janizaries and place their Halbards at the Door and then are Masters of all for in the very beginning of his Reign he levied twelve thousand Soldiers contrary to Law and then required the Country to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8. That appointed Commissioners to Try Condemn and Execute those he unjustly call'd Delinquents by Martial Law directly against the Laws of the Land and some were Executed thereby 9. That struct directly at the Property of the Subject's Goods by issuing out Commissions contrary to many Laws for Raising Money by way of Loan and the Commissioners were ordered to certify to the Council Board the Names of all Refractery Persons particularly he Demanded One Hundred Thousand Pounds of the City of London and upon their Refusal he threatned them saying He would frame his Councils as appartained to a King 10. That against all Law required the Londoners to set forth Twenty Ships Manned and Victualed for three Months against which the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council Petition but to no purpose Being answered That Petitions and Pleadings were not to be received and that the Precedents of formers Times were Obedience not Direction The Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace of Dorsetshire being Commanded to set forth Ships insisted That the Case was without President for which they were severely checked and told that State Occasions were not to be guided by Ordinary Presidents Those Persons of Quality that refused to subscribe to the Loan were turned out of the Commission of the Peace and Lieutenancy Sir Peter Hayman upon his refusal of the Loan was commanded against his Will to go upon the King's Service beyond the Seas others of meaner Rank were either bound to appear before the Leiutenancy of the Tower to be Enrold for Soldiers for Denmark or were impressed to serve in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sir Randolph Crew the then Learned Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Declaring against the Loan and not giving Judgment that the King might Imprison during Pleasure was turned out and Sir Nicholas Hide put in his Room who presently complyed with the King Sir Thomas Darnell Sir John Corbet Sir Walter Earl Sir John Hevingham Sir Edward Hamden five of the Gentlemen Imprisoned for Refusing the Loan brought their Habeas Corpus in Michaelmas Term in the third year of his Reign The Warden of the Fleet made his Return that they were detained in his Custody by the special command of King and Sir Robert Heath then Attorney Generral justified this sort of Imprisonment though no special Cause was assign'd and the Lord Chief Justice Hide who was made on purpose for it did singly give Judgment for remanding the Gentlemen to perpetual Imprisonment 11. That Billotted Soldiers many of which were Papists upon whom he pleased for Punishments these Soldiers committed so many Disorders mastered the People and disturbed the Peace that there was a General Out-cry against them many being undone by them Yet this was not redressed 12. That in the year 1627. Issued a Commission under the Great Seal to several Temporal Lords with Neal ' and Laud Bishops of Winchester and Bath and Wells and others to Raise Money by way of Excise and to enforce the Payment and which is very probable to awe the Parliament which was to Assemble the 17th of March He 13. Upon the 13th day of January 1627. sent a private Seal to the Lord Treasurer to this Effect We command you forthwith to pay to Philip Burlemark Merchant Thirty Thousand Pounds to be paid by him over by Bill of Exchange into the Low Countrys and Germany unto Sir William Balfoure and John Dolbier Esq who was a Papist for Levying and Providing certain Numbers of Horse with Arms for Horse and Foot to be brought over into this Kingdom for our Service c. Burlemark being afterwards call'd into the House of Commons and examin'd about this matter Declared That he received the Thirty Phousand Pounds That one Thousand Horse were levied and these Horses and their Riders were to come over and Arms were to be provided for them in Holland but heard a Countermand was gone to stay them 14. That caused Mr. Chambers a Merchant to be fined two thousand Pounds to be committed to the Fleet until he made his Submission for saying That the Merchants in no part of the World are scrued and wrung as in England and that in Turkey they have more Encouragement 15. That Oppressed and Imprison'd all Rank or Order of Men viz. The Earl of Bristol was two Years confined without being charged with any Accusation or brought to Tryal or permitted to Answer for himself for offering to accuse the Duke of Buckingham He Committed the Earl of Arrundel to the Tower in time of Parliament without expressing any cause of his Commitment which was a manifest violation of the Privileges of the House of Peers and though the Lords presented a Remonstrance yet this Lord was long detained Prisoner 16. That sent a threatning Message to the House of Commons That if he had not a timely Supply he would betake himself to New Councils Which could only mean the putting an End to the use of Parliaments That at another time said to the Lords and Commons Remember that Parliaments are altogether in my Power therefore as I find the fruits of them Good or Evil they are to continue or not to be 17. His shameful betraying the poor Protestants in the Palatinate and using the Money given
Powerful O 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 some proportion of Deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most Convenient Let not Injury O Lord Triumph ever me and let my 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 Eye of Mercy and let thine Infinite Power vouchsafe to limit out some proporrion of Deliverance unto me as to thee shall seem most Convenient Let not Injury O Lord Triumph over me and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Faults by thy hand be Corrected and make not mine unjust Enemies the Minister of thy Justice But yet my God if in thy Wisdom this be the aptest Chastisment for my unexcusable Folly if this low Bondage be fittest for my over high Desire 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 some Beam 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 vertue let their Power prevail but prevail not to Destruction let my Greatness be their Prey let my pain be Faults 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 Chastisment for my unexcusable Transgression if this ungrateful 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 chearfully 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 Affliction acknowledge it my Noblest Title to be thy Creature may still depend confidently on thee let Calamity be the Exercise but not the overthrow of my Vertue 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 stedfast Resolution ever to serve thee without fear or Presumption yet with that humble confidence which may best please thee so that at last I may come to thy Eternal Kingdom through the Merits of thy Son our alone Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen 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 O most gracious Lord said she whatever becomes of me preserve the vertuous Mu idorus Having now given an Account of the design of Publishing this special Book and also what it is composed of I shall now produce divers Reasons enough I think to convince any rational Man that will not be willfully blind And first I shall give you the Noble Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum perfixt before the Book reputed to be King Charles I's called Icon Basilice and found by Edward Millington who sold the said Earl's Library all Written with the Earl's own Hand in these Words King Charles the Second and Duke of York did both in the last Session of Parliament 1675. when I shew'd Them in the Lord's House the Written Copy of this Book wherein are some Corrections and Alterations written with the late King Charles I'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 incert for the undeceiving others in this Point by attesting so much under my Hand ANGLESEY This Noble Earl's Advertisement or Memorandum must have the greater Weight for that he concealed it for ought I can hear from the Publick which doubtless he would not have done if he had had any design to carry it on by making it Publick This Memorandum being true the World has the Words of two Kings that Bishop Gauden and not King Charles Composed this lying Book For further proof that Dr. Gauden writ this Book take a Summary Account of some Papers relating Eicon Basilice now or lately in the Hands of Mr. North Merchant living on Tower Hill London whereby it appears that Dr. Gauden late Bishop of Exeter and afterwards of Worcester was the Author of that Book and not King Charles I. as the World hath for above Forty Years been imposed upon to believe Mr. North is a worthy Person and a Member of the Church of England he and Mr. Charles Gauden the Bishop's Son married two Sisters and Mr. Gauden dying about Ten Years since all his Papers were left with his Widow and Mr. North having occasion to look them over for some relating to his Sister-in-laws affairs found these relating to the Eicon Basilice carefully tied up together Mr. North by reason of his Marriage had many years acquaintance with Bishop Gauden's Family and knows that the Bishop's Widow at first gave them to her Darling Son John Gauden and upon his Death they came to Mr. Charles Gauden And further that in his many years knowledge of that Family it hath constantly and without any manner of doubt been declared that the Bishop was the Author of the Book There are several Letters and Papers I shall briefly give the Contents of them for the truth of which I shall refer to the Original Papers and to those many reverend and worthy Persons who have Read or been at the Reading of them Bishop Gauden at the time of King Charles the Second's Restauration was incumbent of Bocking in Essex and from that fat Parsonage was promoted to the Lean Bishoprick of Exeter which he complain'd was not sufficient to keep up the Port of a Bishop and thought that by his Merits he might lay claim to a better and the Death of Dr. Duppa Bishop of Winchester being daily expected he apply'd himself to the King with great Importunity to be translated thither pleading his Desert which as is evident from the Papers I mention could be no other than that of having written a Book which did such great Service to the Royal Family that King Charles the 2d
thought himself oblig'd to promise him that Bishoprick tho' when it became Void gave it to an other 1. There is Letter from Sir Edward Nicholas Secretary of State to Dr. Gauden dated January 1660 wrote by the King's Command intimating the King had received his Letter and that he should not have Cause to complain of his removal from Bocking 2. In the Bishops Letter to Chancellor Hide dated 28. December 1661 and his Petition to the King the Bishop sets forth That he had an high Rack The Bishoprick of Exeter but Empty Manger and declares what hazards he had run of Life and Estate and what great Advantage had accrued to the Crown by his Service That what he had done was for Comforting and incouraging of the King's Friends Exposing his Enemies and converting c. He pleads that what was done like a King should have a King-like Retribution and Instances in the Cases of Joseph Mordecai and Daniel who were Honoured and Rewarded for the Service they did to the Respective Princes tho' as he observes they were Captives in a strange Land 3. The Bishops Letter to the Duke of York dated the 17th of January 1661 Strongly urges the great Services he had done and Importunately Begs his Royal Highness to intercede for him with the King 4. There is an Original Letter from the Lord Chancellor Hide all of his own hand writing to the Bishop of Exeter dated 13th of March 1661 importing that the Chancellor had received several Letters from him That he was uneasy under the Bishop's Importunity excuses his not being yet able to serve him Speaks of annexing a Commendum to his Bishoprick and towards the close it hath this remarkable 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 This is Subscribed Edw. Hide C. 5. Mrs. Gauden after the Death of the Bishop writes to her Son Mr. John Gauden That she had sent him an Hogshead of Cyder and Orders some Pictures to be sent her by the same Man In this Letter she speaks of the Book commonly call'd the Kings she calls it the Jewel and tells her Son that 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 's that will clear it up 6. There is also a long Narrative of Mrs. Gauden's Hand-writing shewing that her Husband wrote the Book This she sent to her Son with the Letter wherein she said She had sent it that she might be a Clavis to him The 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 of 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 Marquiss of Hertford when He went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight That the Marquiss after his Return from thence told her Husband that he gave the Book to the King and his Majesty did not like it but was for putting it out not as his own but another's But it being Urged That CROMWEL and others of the Army having got a great 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 the Marquiss told her Husband He knew not what was become of the Papers and said God knows what will become of the King That her Husband not hearing the King's pleasure about it and finding Danger hastening on him he having kept a Copy by him sent it by one Mr. Symmonds a persecuted Minister to the Press together with a Letter That Mr. Royston was the Painter but did not know but the King wrote it That part of it was seized in the Press together with her Husband's Letter and Mr. Symmonds was taken Nevertherless the Work was carried on and finished a few days after his Majesty's death That when it was published the Parliament was Enraged and her Husband conceiving his Life and Estate to be in danger fled to Sir John Wennworth's near Yarmouth intending thence to pass the Seas But Mr. Symmonds falling sick and dying soon after not having been Examin'd and it not being discovered that her Husband was concern'd in it the Letter which had been taken having no Name to it he altered his purpose and returned home That there was an Epistle at first intended That the first Title was Suspisia Regalia but changed to Eicon Basilice and that there were two Chapters added That the Marquiss of Hertford the Lord Capel Bishop Duppa and Bishop Morley were at first the only Persons privy to it That after the King's Restoration Dr. Morley told her Husband That his Merit was such that he could Ask nothing but he could receive it That Duppa Bishop of Winchester being very sick her Husband went to the King and acquainted him that He was the Author of the 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 that if it had been published sooner it might have saved his Fathers Life That at the same time the King gave him a Promise of the Bishoprick of Winchester That when he afterwards acquainted the Duke of York That he was the Author of that Book yet went under his Father's Name the Duke answered He thought his Father Wrote it That her Husband then told his Highness that the King had promised him the Bishoprick of Winchester and that his Highness assured him of his Favour That Bishop Duppa dying her Husband apply'd to the King upon his Promise but Dr. Morley who had told her Husband that he might have what he would ask got it and her Husband was made Bishop of Worcester but having enjoy'd it but about half a Year fell Sick and Dyed That She Petitioned the King setting forth That her Husband left her a Widdow with four Sons and a Daughter That it cost her Husband 200 l. to remove from Exeter to Worcester and pray'd his Majesty to bestow the half Years Rents upon her which he denied and gave them to another Reader take Notice This is the Substance tho' not perhaps the Express Words of Mrs. Gaudens Papers and it could be wished that the Papers themselves were made Publick then this short account would be fully justified I cannot dismish this matter without admiring the remarkable Providence of God
have Countermanded it and have sent Ships to make them change their Design that they had taken to come back I shall shortly send you some number of Ships to reinforce it and with the help of God the Success will be happy for that Deliverance Your Good Friend CHARLES R. And on the 21st in the Morning there came to Rochell from England a Soldier bringing another Letter from the King Dated 27th of May Old Stile sealed with the Arms of England which was as followeth Gentlemen I Have been troubled to here that my Fleet was upon the Point of Returning without Answering my Commands which were to force the Entry of your Provisions whatever came of it and have given it new Orders to Return into your Road and not stir untill it hath relieved you with Victuals or that I have sent them an Additional strength for which I have caused Men to work with all Diligence Be assured that I will never Abandon you and that I will imploy all the Force of my Kingdom for your Deliverance untill it please God to bless Me with giving you an assured Peace Given at Our Palace at Westm. May 27. 1628. Old Stile GENTLEMEN Your Good Friend CHARLES R. Whosoever shall carefully Read and Consider these two Letters and the Sollemn Declarations there and observe how contrary to his Royal Word he Sacrificed these Poor Protestants will have cause to harbour the worst of thoughts of this King and to blush at the horrid Impudence and Impiety of those Wicked Wretches that would make a Saint and a Martyr of him And to demonstrate this Treachery I shall incert a Copy of the Remonstrance made by one of the Deputies of the City of Rochel because it will very much illustrate the Subject and be as an Eternal mark of Infamy to the Memory of that Prince and deserves to be Engraven on Brass and Wrote on Marble that so the Remembrance of it may never be lost it is as followeth A Copy of the Remonstrance of the Sieur Vincent to the King of Great Britain drawn out of his own Journals SIR THE Grief which obliges us to fill the Ears of Your Majesty with our Cries and to Reiterate them so often ought to be extream to the last Degree Behold us now Sir prostrate at your Feet to Wash them with our Tears and God Almighty Grant that we do not in a little time come to Sigh out our last Breath with the News of the Desolation of our City We know not how Sir to conceal it from You the Sence we have of Her being at Her last Gasp puts us into Despair seeing the Succours which Your Majesty hath made us hope would be ready hath been deferred from day to day for many Weeks together SIR the City of Rochell did by us beg of You with all the Humility they were capable of Expressing to receive them into your Protection and You as Solemnly agreed to it since they have had at divers times all the Assurances possible as well from your own Month as under the Hand of Your Majesty that you would never abandon them Whereupon by a Miracle of Constancy they have held out hitherto firm a whole Year contending with the Horrours of a most gastly Famine that thereby they might give Your Majesty full leisure to send them the Succours You were graciously pleased to promise them and thus constant and unshaken were they even when all Europe believed they ought to have despaired in that after they had Relief as they thought several days in their sight it returned without effecting or attempting any thing And though our Enemies have from thence taken occasion to make them divers Overtures of Accommodation which their extream Necessities seemed to Counsel them to hearken unto yet they chose rather to run the Hazzard of their utter Destruction then to be wanting in the least to the Promises we had Sworn for them to Your Majesty or to shew they had the least Diffidence of your Protection After all this Sir shall it be Recorded in the History of Your Reign That they perished in your Hands without having reaped any other Fruit of the Good Will Your Majesty hath professed towards them and of the Assurance they have therein relied upon then the rendring them irrecountable to their King from whom otherwise they might have hoped to have found Grace and Favour Pardon Sir this from a People who see themselves upon the very Threshold of their Sepulchers if they cannot avoid Sighs which may seem undecent in your Royal Presence It is common for those that are near their End to finish their Lives with Groans In the Name of God Sir so long as there remains any Breath in us and before we do quite Expire command your Succours to hasten to our Assistance provided that diligence be yet used we will remain Caution to Your Majesty with the Peril of our Heads that they will arrive time enough to save us As to the Impossibilities that some may be willing to find in it permit us to tell You freely Sir That those are only founded either in their fear or their very little Affection for us and that besides the Report which some Persons unsuspected have made to Your Majesty we beseech You be You judge whether our City which is within sight of the Digne and Pallisade and carriage of her Cannon would send time after time to implore Your Assistance if they thought it would be unprofitable to them and if having every day offers of Capitulation upon advantagious Conditions if they would hearken to it for themselves alone they would be so imprudent to neglect the opportunity But we are ready if it shall please Your Majesty to permit it to take upon us the first Risques and Hazzards of the Execution to the end that we may be justified to all the World in the sincerity of our Proceeding and that it may not be imputed to us that we are prodigal of the Blood of Your Majesties Subjects to ill purpose to be sparing of our own No Sir there is no such impossibility as what some would pretend The only Cause of our Fears comes from the slowness and continual neglects from one Day to another and one Week to another which makes our hopes Recoil After the Return of your Fleet we comforted our selves with the Promise that was made us by Your Majesty That it should depart again within fifteen days but when after twenty were past there were added fourteen more to them And after that we found divers other neglectful Disappointments that have now taken up two Months compleat Good God Sir How long has that time seemed to those miserable Wretches that have not Bread We know very well the good Inclinations Your Majesty hath for our Weal as also we have had most certain Proofs of the Duke of Buckingham your high Admiral his passionate applying himself for us as also the same of the Lords of your Council but shall we not
Affection of the English to Enslave and Ruin the Scotish Nation It is not improper here to observe 1. That the Scotish Covenant was not a new Invention or Innovation but Established by the Law of Scotland and taken by King James the First seventy Years before King Charles the Second took it 2. That Bishops and Clergymen in Conjunction with Papists abetted and assisted this T in the violation of the Laws when the Bulk of the Nobility Gentry and People of England appeared undauntedly in Defence of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom 3. That Popery hath greatly spred in Scotland ever since Laud's Superstition was introduced here the Number of Papists not exceeding 600. And therefore Presbetery being now restored by a Law it may be reasonably hoped that it will reduce many who have been deluded into that Idolatry 4. That Princes are not always to trust to the Insinuations and Suggestions of Scotish Bishops seeing that when they instigated King Charles I. to Dissolve the Synod and Parliament he was seduced by them into a belief That the Scotish Covenanteers were a contemptible Number and their Party in Scotland was sufficient to deal with them 5. That the Scots were not Rebells in taking Arms to Assert their Rights and Vindicate the Laws and Liberties of their Countrey That the horrid Imposition of Laud's Popish Liturgy did occasion the Troubles of Scotland is very manifest from Dr. Burnet's now Bishop of Salisbury his Memoirs of Duke Hamilton for he saith Page 30. The Liturgy had some Alterations from the English which made it more Invidious and less Satisfactory The Imposing it really varied from their former Practices and Constitutions Pag. 33. The Lords Petition'd complaining against the Liturgy and Book of Canons offering under the highest Penalties to prove they contain'd things both contrary to Religion and the Laws of the Land pag. 36. The Earls of Traquaire and Roxbourgh by Letter to the King advised him to secure the People of that which they so much apprehended the fear of Innovation of Religion saying that they found few or none well satisfied pag. 33. The Earl of Traquaire went to Court and gave Account that all the Troubles were occasioned by introducing the Liturgy with which scarce a Member of Council except Bishops was well satisfied Neither were all these Cardinals for it for the Archbishop of St. Andrews from the beginning had withstood these Designs and the Archbishop of Glascoe was worse pleased Their Commissioners in their Charge against Laud exhibited to the Parliament of England 1641. say pag. 11. c. This Book inverteth the Order of the Communion in the Book of England of the divers secret Reasons of this Change we mention one only In joyning the Spiritual Praise and Thanksgiving which is in the Book of England pertinentâ— after the Communion with the Prayer of Consecration before the Communion and that under the Name of Memorial or Oblation for no other ends but that the Memorial and Sacrifice of Praise mention'd in it may be understood according to the Popish meaning Bellarmin de Missâ Lib. 2. Chap. 21. 〈◊〉 of the Spiritual Sacrifice but of the Oblation of the Body of the Lord. The Corporal Presence of Christ's Body is also to be found here for the Words of the Mass-Book serving to this purpose which are not to be found in the Book of England are taken 〈◊〉 here Almighty God is incall'd That of his Almighty Goodness he may vouchsafe so to Bless and sanctifie with his Word and Spirit these Gifts of Bread and Wine that they be unto us the Body and Blood of Christ. On the one part the Expressions of the Book of England at the delivery of the Elements Of feeding on Christ by Faith and of Eating and Drinking in Remembrance that Christ died for thee are utterly Deleted To prove that Laud did send this Liturgy to Rome to be approved of Read a Book of Good Credit Entitled New Survey of the West Indies Wrote by a Reverend Divine of the Church of England Mr. Thomas Gage Minister of Deal in Kent 't is in pag. 280. in the Folio Edition He there tells you That being a Fryar he went to Rome with Letters of Recommendation to Cardinal Barbarini the Pope's Nephew Entituled The Protector of England That coming acquainted with Father Fitzherbert of the English Colledge of Jesuits he highly praised Archbishop Laud and said That he not long since sent a Common Prayer Book which he had composed for the Church of Scotland to be first viewed and approved by the Pope and Cardinals and That they liked it very well for Protestants to be Trained up in a Form of Prayer and Service yet the Cardinals first giving him thanks for his Respect sent him word that they thought it was not fitting for Scotland that Father Fitzherbert told him he was Witness of all this being sent for by the Cardinal to give him his Opinion about it and of the Temper of the Scots And that Laud hearing the Censure of the Cardinals concerning his Intention and Form of Prayer to ingratiate himself the more in their Favour Corrected some things in it and made it more harsh and unreasonable for that Nation This Good Man Mr. Gage after he had here related the matter as above expresses himself thus This most True Relation of Archbishop Laud I have oft spoke oâ— in private Discourse and publickly in Preaching and I could not in Conscience omit it here both to vindicate the jâ— Censure of Death whiâ—h the Parliament gave against him and to reprove the ungrounded Opinion and Error of some Ignorant Spirits who have since his Death highly exalted and cryed him up as a Martyr 'T is worthy of Notice that these Passages making Laud to appear a great Villain were by the means of Priest Craft left out of the Impression in Octavo Something like this of Mr. Gage may be found in Bishop Burnet's Memoirs of Duke Hamilton fol. 83. he relates That in the Year 1638. one Abernethy who from a Jesuit turned a zealous Presbyterian spread a story in Scotland which took wonderfully of the Liturgy of that Kingdom being sent to Rome to some Cardinals to be Revised by them and that Seignior Con the Popes Nuncio to the Court of England had shewed it to Abernethy at Rome and though Con denied it afterwards as is pretended yet it doth not follow that what Abernethy asserts was false for it is well known that Con being a Jesuit might Lye for the Holy Church If I had time and that this Book would not be too large I could produce very many more instances of King Charles his Tyrannical Oppressing his Subjects of England Scotland and Ireland I shall end this Melancholly Story with the Heads of the many Articles of Mis-government of that Prince viz. His taking Buckingham Laud and many more Evil Counsellors into the highest Favour and being Govern'd by them His Popish Match and Private Articles in favour of Popery His receiving a Letter from the Pope and sending him 〈◊〉 Answer calling him most Holy Father c. His Pardoning 20 Popish Priests c. pursuant to the Private Articles of Marriage His most unchristian like Betraying the Isle of Rhee and Rechell a sad Story His plucking up the Root of all Property by taking the Peoples Goods against their Wills and their Liberties against Law His giving Commissions to Try and Execute his Subject by Martial Law His Raising Money by Loans against Law His requiring London and other places to set out Ships 〈◊〉 him at their own Charge His Billotting Soldiers many of which were Papists on his poor Subjects His giving Commissions to several Lords to raise Money by way of Excise His ordering his Treasurer to pay 30000 l. to buy a large number of German Horse with Arms both for Horse and Foot to be brought to England against the Parliament His causing Mr. Chambars a Merchant to be fin'd 2000 l. for complaining of the hard Usage the Merchants of England had His oppressing and Imprisoning all Ranks and Orders of Men Unjustly His threatning the House of Commons if they would not give Money His shameful betraying the Palatinate and keeping the Charity of England from them His having without doubt a great Hand in the wicked Irish Rebellion His large Demonstration of his Piety by ordering a Declaration of Sports on the Lord's Day His giving Wicked Arbitrary and Tyrannical Orders Instructions and Commissions to the Earl of Strafford Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and endeavoured to save him from the Parliaments Just and necessary Prosecution His suffering the Bishops Gauden and Duppa to compose a lying Book call'd Eicon Basilice and to put it out in his Name the better to justify his evil Actions against his People His causing the Star-Chamber and High Commission Courts to be made use of to the great Grievance of the People of England His falsely charging with Treason and unjustly imprisoning the Lord Mandevil Mr. Hollis Mr. Strode and many others and would produce no Witness against them His Tempting and Incouraging his English and Irish Armies to come and Destroy the Parliament His dealing most Basely and Treacherously with the Parliament whilst Treating at Uxbridge His having a hand in the untimely Deaths of King James the First and Prince Henry His being an Exorbitant and Outragious Tyrant upon the People of England * He had agree to Treat with them as a Parliament the Queen upbraided him for so doing and he thus vindicates himself * If this were so good a King Why so much clamour against King James the II. for designing the same thing ⸫ There was at this time high Division in London between the Presbyterians and Independants therefore to â—in both by fomenting misunderstandings between them the Independants are to be Caâ—oled a thing worthy remembrance in all times