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A66722	A true account of the author of a book entituled Eikōn basilikē, or, The pourtraiture of His Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings: proved to be written by Dr. Gauden, late Bishop of Worcester. With an answer to all objections made by Dr. Hollingsworth and others. / published for publick satisfaction by Anthony Walker, D.D> late rector of Fyfield in Essex. ; With an attestation under the hand of the late Earl of Anglesey to the same purpose.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.	1692 (1692)	Wing W310; ESTC R221937	33,851	40

declares that all the Works of his Royal Father were collected and published which former Impression as I have already observ'd makes particular mention of Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ Now I leave it to any unprejudiced Person to judg whether it is in the least probable that either of their Majesties should tell the late Earl of Anglesey that this excellent Book was written by Dr. Gauden since they both have owned it to be their Royal Father 's in so publick a manner So that to use the Expression of the Advertisement If the Declaration of two Kings made with all the Circumstances of Advantage may be believed before a blind Manuscript written by a doubtful Hand and grounded upon a private Relation then we have sufficient Evidence to satisfy the World how much this Adviser has endeavoured to impose upon it Answ As to the Letters Patent to print this Book amongst the Works of King Charles the First on which depends the whole strength of the Argument I confess 't is a nice and tender Point which good Manners rather than want of good Reasons restrain me from fuller answering I think it may suffice to say with Modesty and Caution Kings use not so critically to inspect all the minute Particulars of their General Royal Grants but sign them as drawn up for the best Advantage of the Grantee and an Under-Secretary or Clerk who drew the Patents put in what Mr. Royston reckoned up and desired and never boggled at inserting Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ among King Charles's Work because it was so reputed by most and few knew the Mystery and they who did did all they then could to hide and conceal it And suppose either of the Kings had examined every particular it was at utmost but conniving at a vulgar Errour which it was not their interest too nicely to discover And indeed the Argument is so palpably weak that I am perswaded this Writer being a Person of so good Sense puts no Stress upon it but added it for Number rather than Weight being rather too hot than too heavy to be dealt with and for want of better which 't is exceeding hard to find to prove what is not true brings in such an Argument as in the Schools we call captious or Argumentum odiosum which Respondents use allowably to reject not answer because 't is designed not for real Proof but to involve the Answerer in some Odium and Danger and dismiss it unreply'd to not because they cannot but because they dare not answer it or with Beneseance shew its Weakness And yet to approach one Step closer what understanding Man believes all the other particular Pieces which make up the whole Volume of the Works of K. Charles I to be originally penn'd by himself but knows many of them were prepared by his Secretaries and Council and then perused and approved by him and so became his by adding the Royal Stamp of his Approbation and Owning of them And the same was designed in this Book as hath been shewed before I shall conclude this Discourse of the Letters Patent to Mr. Royston to Print the King's Works and inferring this to be undoubtedly so because named amongst them with a parallel Case of a supposed License to print the Works of as great a King Admit Mr. Royston had obtain'd a Patent to have the sole Printing the Works of King David and to make all sure that no Man might in the least invade his Priviledg had got it explicitely inserted into his Patent all the Works of King David that is to say the whole Book of Psalms containing in number one hundred and fifty which is no hard Supposition would it have followed hence that he who granted this Patent had publish'd to all the World that he knew and believ'd that David was the real Pen-man of them all tho some of the were certainly written some Ages after David's Death after the return of the Babylonish Captivity and some by Heman Asaph c. I grant his Patent might secure his Right to print all the 150 but 't would be an invalid Argument to prove that David wrote all It needs no Application Having thus far vindicated the Truth of the Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum and consequently the Honour of his Lordship's Memory from the Charge of Forgery cast upon it by shewing good reason why I cannot allow the pretended Proof against it to over-ballance his Lordship's Attestation which how sufficiently I have performed I freely leave to the Judgment of all impartial Readers I shall now subjoin the Remark I promis'd to set down when I had answered the Objections against the Memorandum And it is to shew by comparing two signal Providences about this Book how it seems to be the Will of God for what special Ends is best known to his holy and unsearchable Wisdom at some of which I may give my humble Guesses in due place both to have this Book published and owned as the Composure of King Charles the First for some time and then to have the full Truth in due time come to that light in which the starting those fresh Contests about it is like to set it The First which I call a signal Providence towards its being publish'd is the preventing its being seized upon and stopt in the Press when the Proof-Sheets if not also so much of the Copy as those Sheets contained were actually in the Hands and Possession of and carried away by as great an Enemy of the King's as any Man living was as Mr. Simmonds described him to me I beg pardon for the length of the Story which I shall relate from Mr. Simmonds because I think it worth the knowing and also because 't is an Evidence I write not in this Affair by Hearsay and Conjecture as most do but as of what I was privy to and had an hand in all along from first to last Upon Monday January the 8 th or 15 th for I have written Memorials by me which assure me it could not be so early as the 1 st nor so late as the 22 d Mr. Simmonds came to my Chamber at Warwick-House where I then was Chaplain and as a Man affrighted abruptly spake to me We are undone or in great danger to be so if you do not help us which I hope you may being in this Family And when I ask'd him what the matter was he having a little recovered himself told me the following Story and when he had done we consulted what remedy was to be used His Story was as followeth I was said he a while since at a Gentleman's House a Friend of mine in Hertfordshire whilst I was there there came a Troop of Horse of Col. Rich's Regiment to quarter there-abouts and the Lieutenant whose Name is Arwaker quartered in my Friend's House He and I had many fierce Disputes about the Cause betwixt the King and Parliament and the Army's usage of his Majesty By which he was so provok'd that at last he told me he would not

and experience of which Instances might be given without number I beg pardon for this Digression into which the Dr. led me by an ill-grounded speculation which makes little to his purpose and I think hath done him little service yea will rather cause considerate Readers to suspect his want of better Arguments else he would not have had recourse to such thin and Airy Speculations which prove nothing but the weakness of their Judgments who put any stress upon them and would by them impose upon other men Yea give me liberty to add if the Drs. Argument hath any weight it seems to be in the wrong Scale and makes that end of the Ballance to preponderate which he endeavours to make appear the lightest for the evenness of the thought and expression the equality of the style and affection and the same Thread running quite through from first to last rather argues it an Artificial Composure of one who had vacancy for sedate and deliberate thinking than of him for whose Icon and Pourtraiture it was designed who was encompassed with so distracting an hurry of miseries as must often change the temper of his mind But to compensate for the weakness of the former part of this Paragraph it hath a sting in its Tail concluding that if Dr. Gauden wrote it he is next to an Atheist and that for that Reason the Essex Dr. if he had any value for his memory would have forborn telling it in all places with more than usual confidence as he hath done that is lest he represent him as an Atheist Essex Drs. Reply to which I say in general My Story represents him not so like an Atheist as your rashness represents you like a false Accuser of both him and me and for this Reason if Dr. H. had any kindness to the Reputation of his friend their Majesties Algate Chaplain he would have considered better before he had publisht with somewhat more than confidence such groundless Accusations and such crude and ill contriv'd Stories and more particularly why Dr. Gauden more an Atheist for preparing these discourses for the King to be own'd or laid aside as to His Majesties wisdom should seem good See Reason 3. Sect. I. than those who prepare Forms of Devotion for others to use or let alone as they see occasion And tho' my Story as I tell it vindicates him from that Imputation and I am not bound to answer for what you forge to be my Story being but your own dream Quod male dum recitas desinit esse meum I farther say that according to the old Axiom Amicus Plató Amicus Aristoteles sed magis Amica Veritas Tho' Dr. Gauden were a friend and Bishop Duppa a friend yet Truth is more a friend and I should count him no honest Casuist who would advise me to tell a Lye to save my friends Credit as your words imply you would have directed me had I consulted you in the case Alg. Drs. P. sc The Story in short that he the E. Dr. tells is this That Dr. Gauden then of Bockin in Essex made this Book and sent him then his Curate to the Press with it which command he obeyed and accordingly did so carry it in order to its Printing Essex Drs. Reply Good Sir use fairer play and be not so confident who accuse that for excess of confidence in me which hath not the tenth degree of yours and do not forge and mangle a Story and then pin it upon me My Story is honestly and sincerely told in the first Section and thither I refer your self and the Reader for the truth and a fuller Answer to this lame Account without staying upon some palpable mistakes because but circumstantial Alg. Drs. P. sc Now the truth of the Story is this There was one Mr. Simmonds a learned and pious Minister who lived near Dr. Gauden in Essex and who out of a true affection to His Majesties Person and Cause writ a learned Defence of the King with which the King was so pleas'd that he presently resolved that this Person should have the perusal and correction of his Book and accordingly sends it by a trusty Messenger Essex Drs. Reply There is scarce a line which is not liable to just exceptions but small faults must be past over in one who writes so heedlesly or we should never have done But there is one so notorious he must be blind who doth not see it what then was he that made it viz. that Dr. Hollingsworth and their Majesties Chaplain at Algate do flatly contradict each other Here he saith the King sent it by a trusty Messenger to Mr. Simmonds but pag. 39. l. 19. that he desired Bishop Juxton to get some trusty friend to look it over and put it into exact order Non bene conveniunt one of the two should have had a better memory or conferr'd Notes before they had publisht things so inconsistent such palpable difference of Witnesses is a shrewd prejudice against their Testimony Algate Dr's P. sc The Book when looked over by him did so affect him and no wonder that he could not forbear sending for his Neighbour Gauden In order to make him happy with himself in the sight and reading of such an inesteemable Jewel Dr. Gauden would not be denied the kindness of taking the Book home with him for a few days which upon importunity Mr Simmonds knowing the Dr. at that time a well-wisher to the King granted Dr Gauden presently falls to transcribing of it and in some days with great labour and application finishes it and so returns the Original to Mr. Simmonds again within a while the great storm coming upon the King which at last God knows wholly overset him Dr. Gauden out of a true affection to his Master the King hoping thereby to do him service sends this Copy by the hands of this Dr. to the Press And so far and no farther was he concern'd in it Essex Dr's Reply Sir what with your usual confidence you introduce with The truth of the Story is thus is all meer Story but not one word of truth nor hath it the least blush or appearance of Possibility or so much as Probability as I hope to convince your self First Not probable any Man who knows any thing of the measures of Decency and the circumstances of the Persons of whom he writes as he should be supposed to do who presumes to Dedicate his writings to so wise a King and Queen would have contriv'd his story and told his tale more handsomely and would rather have said that the Parson of Rayne who was a very private man had waited upon Dr. Gauden who liv'd at the rate of a Thousand a year and made the greatest figure of any Clergy Man in Essex or perhaps in England at that time than boldly and bluntly to send for him what ever the occasion might be but let that pass a slip in good manners is a small fault compared to the impossibility of his stories

being true for tho' Mr. Simmonds was once Minister of Rayne and Dr. Gauden Dean of Bockin which are neighboring Towns yet I question whether the Men were ever neighbours And that Mr. Simmonds was not gone from Raine Before Dr. Gauden came to Bockin But I need not urge that for what I aver and am as sure of as I can be of any matter of fact which is most notorious proves the impossibility I charge the Drs. story with home and beyond contradiction for before this Book was thought of or many of the subjects had hapned of which it treats Mr. Simmonds was sequestred for his Loyalty fled into the Kings Quarters and on Mr. Attkins a plundered Minister as they then call'd them who was fled into the Parliaments Quarters was placed in his sequestred living of Rayne I came to Dr. Gaudens August 1644. and I never knew Mr. Simmonds all the while I liv'd there tho' I knew him well when the book was printing as I may touch in place convenient and relate the occasion of our intercourse Somewhat runs in my mind of his being with my Lord Capel who was his Patron and had given him the Parsonage of Rayne who commanded about that time for the King in Shropshire but what need I multiply words about what I am not certain of when I am as certain as I can be of any thing he was far from being Dr. Gaudens Neighbour or any possibility of sending for him how trimly soever and with a good grace the Story is told not much to the credit of the teller of it or the confirmation of the thing he tells it for it so exposes it self it needs no farther confutation and I will be so kind as to slip an advantage of loading it with heavier aggravations tho' so much provoke't If any thing seem to deserve a farther answer I must request the Reader to call to mind or read over again my first Section where there is enough to satisfie him for I never pretended to carry the whole to the Press but as is there honestly declared a part of it I proceed to the 2d Paragraph p. the 38. Algate Drs. P. sc And whereas 't is said That Dr. Gauden told K. Charles II. he made the Book the truth of the Story is this that he putting in for the Bishoprick of Worcester and meeting with some opposition from Bishop Sheldon the King askt him what pretences he had to so great a favour he answered that he put out his Fathers Book which answer tho' true in some sense yet being ambiguously spoken as it got him the Bishoprick so it also gave rise to the late Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum which hath made so great noise in the World Essex Drs. Reply Good Sir if a man should be so bold as to ask a few Questions would you answer them as roundly as you would chouse the World with this Dream 1. I pray Sir did you hear all this 2. Have you any man of truth or modesty to produce as a Voucher 3. In sober sadness do you in cool blood believe it your self 4. Or to speak home will you confirm it by your solemn Oath as the Essex Dr. is ready to do the Story with which he will confront it ' The truth of the Story is this so you say but pace vestrâ by your good leave I cannot obtain leave of my self to believe one sentence in all your ten lines and for a better reason than you give for your incredulity where you use that phrase and my reason how silly and weak soever it may seem in plain English is because there is not one wise or true word in all this most falsly call'd Truth of the Story And I even wonder that Providence should furnish me with so exact a knowledge of this affair which I thought of little use before till it inabled me to confute this shameless fiction and I will for once be as confident as you and say the truth of the Story is this as I had it from Bishop Gaudens own mouth immediately upon his nomination to be translated from Exeter to Worcester But before I relate his words to me on that occasion let me make some few remarks upon some particulars 1. Whereas 't is said Dr. Gauden told K. Ch. II. c. whoever said so said what was not so He never told him See Sect. 1. Reason 4. 'T is strange he should himself tell the King and yet not know the King knew it but by inference because the D. of Y. did 2. He putting in for the Bishoprick of Worcester let that uncouth phrase pass But he did not put in for Worcester but rather was put off with that instead of Winchester pardon the expression what follows will justifie it at least excuse it 3 The King askt him c. still worse and worse the King askt him no such question nor was there the least shadow of occasion why he should and the Bishop never answered as is said he did for no Question needed no Answer 4. Ambiguously spoken not spoken at all therefore not spoken ambiguously remember the Logick Rule Ab est primi adjecti ad est secundi valet negatio As for Instance if a man be not their Majesties Chaplain he is not their Chaplain at Algate unless it be helpt out with speaking ambiguously 5. Helpt him to that Bishoprick sc Worcester instead of Winchester He was right enough served for speaking so ambiguously if he had so spoken 6. Gave rise to the late E. of Angleseys Memorandum In good earnest Sir were you awake when you dream'd all this Was the King Ch. the II. who was known to be a man of extraordinary sagacity and quickness in discerning mens temper and words so easily imposed upon and cheated by a fallacy to believe what it was his Interest more than any mans not to believe but upon most cogent evidence and convincing reasons and to tell it so freely and with assurance to the E. of Anglesey as his Memorandum declares with all due circumstances so that his Memorandum may sleep in a whole skin for all these dreams but of that more in due place hereafter Having past these short remarks upon the particular passages I shall now confront his truth of the Story with this Story of Truth in the Bishop's own words Only give me leave before I relate his words to say that besides the friendly freedom which he always used to me in kind communicating his concerns to me I can guess but at two reasons why he should tell me so fully and punctually what I shall presently relate Either 1. It was to prevent my being surprized at his missing Winchester which some who were most intimate with him knew he had the promise and upon that the expectation of Or 2. Providence stoopt so low to furnish me with a clear Reply to such a sensless feigned dream as I am confuting by it Now follow Bishop Gaudens words to me on this

suffer it and said he would revenge it were it not that he would not violate his Quarters Whereupon I thought the Place too hot for me to tarry longer in and therefore hasted back to London to my Lodgings in Carter-Lane Not long after that Troop came up to London and the same Lieutenant quartered at the Bell in the same Lane And yesterday about twelve as I was coming from Church to my Lodgings we met each other in Carter-Lane He knew me but said nothing to me but turned again when he had past me and dogg'd me to the House I lodg'd in As soon as I was in and had shut the Door he discharged his Pistol with a brace of Bullets to mark the Door and hasted away to the Bell. As soon as the Master of the House told me he was gone I got away and he presently returned with six Troopers and search'd the House for me and breaking open my Closet took away all my Papers and the printed proof Sheets which lay loose upon my Table but they seeing them blotted and thinking them to be but waste-Paper and not understanding the Title it being Greek or not having look'd into them threw them down in the Dirt which they of the House observing gathered up We then after consulting what to do concluded the best if not the only way we could take was to get a Note from Col. Rich to his Lieutenant to restore all he had so taken from Mr. Simmonds It hapned even beyond our Hopes and Expectations that the very same day Col. Rich came to dine at Warwick-House and between Prayers and Dinner I desired Mr. Charles Rich after Earl of Warwick to request a Favour for me of the Colonel who beckoned him to him cross the Room and desired him to do me a Kindness and referr'd him to me to know what it was the Colonel drew me aside and ask'd what it was I desired of him I then ask'd him if there were not one Lieutenant Arwaker in his Regiment he said there was I then told him he had upon a pique broke open a Minister's Closet and taken away all his Sermon-Notes and other Papers and to disguise the better jocularly added He hath undone a poor Parson in robbing him of all his Tools and pray'd him to write a Note to him to require him to restore them The Colonel was so kind and just upon my fetching Pen Ink and Paper to write a Note to him to re-deliver all which he did so punctually that Mr. Simmonds told me he missed not one Paper when his Landlord who carried the Note brought them for he durst not appear himself so good and speedy Success we had even beyond our Hopes and there was no time to examine the Papers all being dispatch'd the next day after they were seized Now whatever others may think I judg it a Sign that God would have them publish'd for some eminent Ends which as I before hinted I may touch hereafter tho I argue not from his Permissive to his approving Providence The second signal Providence which seems to me to signify that on the other side God would now have the Truth of this Affair brought to light is the Discovery of this Memorandum in so publick and unexpected a manner which is as generally known as the Memorandum it self to wit at the Sale of the Earl of Anglesey's Books by publick Auction 'T is like no Eye had seen it from the time of the Writing of it and if Mr. Millington had not casually opened the Book there being some time betwixt the putting it up and the Sale of it it might in likelihood have fallen into some Hand who would either have not regarded it or concealed it to which may be added Dr. Hollingsworth's unseasonable provoking me to declare what I now have done in my own necessary yea unavoidable Vindication of my self from his insulting and most false Accusations For what remains of the two Sheets tho I forbear the transcribing them 't is to avoid a tedious Work which is needless not to conceal any strength in them for I shall faithfully reply to all that hath any seeming weight in it In Sir William Dugdale's Account here quoted there are four Things asserted to all which I shall answer in order denying what I know to be Mistakes and granting what I know or believe to be true or probable and give the Reasons of such my Denying or Granting 1. The first and most material Passage is that concerning Major Huntington to which I say two things 1. That this Account of his Testimony is wholly different from what was used to be alledged as his and I have very often heard but never met with this before and 't is highly improbable that the Lord Fairfax would take any thing out of the Cabinet and send up the Cullings to the Parliament who publish'd his Majesty's Letters on which the 21 chap. of the Book is written nor had Gen. Fairfax that Respect or Tenderness for the King then though he was heartily against his Murder 2. I will in the Faith of a Christian declare what I had from Major Huntington's own Mouth without diminution or wresting of it I had so often heard Major Huntington's Testimony alledged that whilst he had attended his Majesty or had the guarding of him he saw the King frequently take these Papers out of his Cabinet and sometimes read them sometimes write more and that when he saw the Book he declared those Chapters in it were those very Papers he had so seen I having I say so often heard this alledged and knowing well it was impossible to be true had as earnest a desire to speak with him as I ever had to speak with any Man but could a good while meet with no Opportunity but after some time being at Tunbridg-Wells the Major coming thither with his Son-in-law Sir J. Friend a fair occasion offered for after some small Acquaintance and Converse upon the Walks the Major invited me to his Lodgings at Caverly-Plain which I most readily accepted and made him a Visit one Afternoon When I came he received me very kindly and all the Company besides himself being engaged in their Divertisements I had as free an opportunity as I could wish to discourse of this Affair after a while I told him I had a Favour to beg of him in granting which he would greatly oblige me He answered to this purpose he would not deny me any thing in his Power wherein he might serve me I then told him what I heard as I have above related and earnestly intreated him to tell me what he knew or had said of that Book He willingly condescended and began thus 'T is like you have heard how much Trouble this hath put me to I have been examined by one Committee after another and that time after time about it and many things alledged that I should say But I will tell you freely and fully all I know or ever said concerning it