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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

A True ACCOUNT OF THE Author of a Book entituled Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ 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 Veritas est Filia Temporis Magna est praevalebit Some Men have turned aside to vain Janglings understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm Licensed and Entred according to Order LONDON Printed for Nathanael Ranew at the Kings-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1692. A Modest and Faithful Account OF Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ The Introduction IF Dr. H. had been pleased to consult me by Word or Letter before he had so falsly accused me of telling a false Story which if I may not say might have been expected in Justice or at least in common Civility yet I will say he had not only been kinder to me in saving me this unexpected and unwelcom labour but juster to himself in not answering a matter before he heard it and by preventing the appearance of making more haste than good speed by a teeming impatience to be delivered of a false Conception And tho' by his Reproachful Charge he hath given me sufficient provocation and by his hasty writing without due information no less advantage to reply in such a style as he hath chosen to begin in yet in this Vindication to which he hath constrained me by unavoidable necessity unless he expects that as a Felo de se I should by silence give consent to his unjust Calumnies I shall keep that modest temper which becomes one who designs no Personal Quarrel nor writes for Victory but Truth the search and discovery of which needs no Tricks no little Arts or big Words but is best attained by sedate proceeding and plain and open dealing And to evidence my Resolution to keep strictly to this Method I shall subjoyn these particulars by way of Introduction First That I will not meddle with any thing but what concerns my own just Vindication my inclination not allowing me to do more for I should greatly rejoyce to find the Title of the Doctors Book made good as near as is possible worthy of that Excellent King of happy memory whose Honour I believe is better secured by the Reputation of his acknowledged Wisdom Celebrated Virtues Exemplary Patience and Christian Magnanimity in his Sufferings than by such Defenders and either needs none or deserves one more considerate and better inform'd who might avoid such mistakes as I meet with in that part of the Postscript wherein I am attacqued for one remarkable flaw mars the beauty of a whole Piece and palpable Errours cause all the Truths with which they are mixt to be doubted of and call'd in question and Defences so managed overthrow their own design and end and usually do more harm than good Secondly I solemnly appeal to the Searcher of Hearts Avenger of Falshood and Revealer of Secrets that I will write nothing of the Truth of which I am not throughly persuaded and that by as full Evidence as I judge such a matter of fact needs and at such a distance of time is capable of Thirdly I will with undisguised openness produce the means by which I know what I profess the knowledge of and the Reasons upon which I believe what I profess the belief of and the probable Arguments upon which my Opinion is grounded as to those particulars concerning which I pretend no more than thinking them to be as I declare them And having with Honesty and Candour laid down such means of my knowledge such Reasons of my belief such probable Arguments for what I think I shall willingly submit them to the Judgment of every indifferent Reader And if they be not cogent and convincing to bring him to be of my mind let him retain his former Sentiments but withal I beg his leave that without his censure or displeasure I may retain mine till Means of Knowledge Reasons of Belief Arguments for thinking otherwise be produced which in an even ballance may out-weigh mine And when I meet with such I promise to yield without contumacy or exacting Miracles for my conviction for tho' I cannot allow every random Story and ill grounded Conjectures for good Evidence nor dare follow an Ignis fatuus or esteem a Will-in-the-Wisp to be a safe Guide yet will I not rebel against the Light when as clear as the Sun at noon day to which tho' Dr. H. hath been pleased to compare his Arguments I doubt not when I come to examine them to make it appear it had been an extravagant Hyperbole to have likened them to the faintest Moon-shine SECT I. THE Question in debate being concerning the Author of that famous Book intituled Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ or the Pourtraiture of His Sacred Majesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings whether it were written by that Royal Martyr or some other hand And an Opinion being raised that Dr. Gauden wrote it which spread and prevailed much upon a Memorandum of the E. of Anglesey's coming to light which his Lordship had writ in a blank Leaf before the said Book and by reason of the Relation I am known to have had to him I having been often asked what I knew or thought of that Report having declared the substance of what I am now forced to publish more fully And this being the supposed Crime for which Dr. H. hath handled me so roughly as to accuse me to have assisted an Objection against the King's being the Composer of it to the utmost of my power with a false Story In order to wipe off so rash not to say so rude an Accusation I shall with all possible clearness proceed by these five Steps First I will declare what I know of this Book and by what means and what I believe of it and for what Reasons Secondly I will produce such probable Arguments as confirm my self and may satisfie others that I am not mistaken nor deceived nor would deceive others Thirdly I will distinctly consider and fully answer all that Dr. H. hath produced to the contrary Fourthly I will endeavour to give satisfactory Answers to the Objections I meet with from an abler Pen. Lastly I will declare why I have acknowledged such my knowledge and belief when requested and set down my Reasons for so doing 1. Negative 2. Positive And by these Steps I hope I shall free my Reputation from that odious Reproach of being guilty of assisting an Objection by a false Story at least I shall free my self from confirming by my silence what I judge to be an Errour SECT II. I Know and believe the Book whose Author is enquired after was written by Dr. Gauden except two Chapters writ by Bishop Duppa so far as the subjoyned means may

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 I am perswaded it was this which put him upon the designing and finishing of this Book Secondly The second probable Argument may be drawn from the 14th Chapter which is upon the Covenant And I beg pardon for relating this matter more minutely than may seem necessary that it may appear how and by whom I was furnished with it to render it more cogent After the Book was published being in Discourse with my worthy Tutor Dr. J. Barwick who died Dean of St. Pauls I being privy to the Truth of this affair out of curiosity ask'd him what He thought of this Book He so well knowing my Education and Principles wondered to hear me ask such a Question I beg'd his Pardon and told him the thing being doubtfully spoken of I made bold with him to ask his Judgment Well then said He I will prove it to you And thus attempted it it was writ by himself or by some other man but it could be writ by no other therefore by himself I desired him to prove his second Proposition which He did thus If by another it must be an enemy or a Friend but neither Enemy nor Friend could do it therefore it must be himself I once more desired him to prove his second Proposition which he attempted thus not by an Enemy for no Enemy of the King would represent him so much to his Advantage not by a Friend for no Friend of the Kings would write as He doth of the Covenant Now how easily could I have reply'd tho' at present I acquiesced that Dr. Gauden though now a most hearty Friend to the King had himself taken the Covenant which we may rationally conclude had induced him to write more favourably of it than any of the Kings Party or Friends or the King himself would ever have done 3. Third probable Argument may be drawn from Chap. 16. and 24. which as I shew'd before Res 2 d. Dr. Gauden told me were written by Bishop Duppa for the Ordinance against the Common-Prayer and denying His Majesty the Attendance of His Chaplains were Subjects which Dr. Gauden was less concerned to think on for 't is well known He had forborn the use of the Common-Prayer tho' 't was continued longer in his Church than in any thereabouts and had never been the Kings Chaplain but Bishop Duppa having been the Princes Tutor a long time Chaplain and a Bishop was as mindful of these particulars and as much concern'd to be so and with as great reason as any man living could be and therefore first desired Dr. Gauden to write on these Subjects but after recall'd that Motion and undertook to do it himself which he also performed as I shew'd before and his free declaring that he had neither thought of these Subjects nor wrote of them which it was so unlikely he should renders it very probable he spake Truth in declaring that he wrote the rest 4. I meet with expressions in the Devotional part very frequently us'd by Dr. Gauden in his Prayers for he used conceived Prayer both in his Family and in Publick which I never heard from any other Man and 't is very easie to observe that most Men even in ordinary Conversation and more especially in their Prayers tho' they vary in their method have peculiar Phrases and Modes of expressing themselves and where we find such occur 't is a probable evidence they proceed from him to whom they were peculiar 5. I am as sure as I can be of any thing that Dr. Gauden made the Extract out of this Book call'd I think Apophthegmata Coroliniana I am sorry I have not one by me to give a fuller account of it But the thing is most notorious that there was such a Book came out in a very short time after Printed by Mr. Dugard Now why should Dr. Gauden concern himself so much more than any other of the Kings Friends and dispatch it with such expedition had he had no more concern in it than other men and had not been inabled to finish it so speedily and could with such readiness take it in pieces and digest it into wise and weighty Sentences who had put it together and whose thoughts had dwelt so long and much upon it I cannot forbear to judge that to those who will consider it impartially it carries the fairest and highest probability to confirm what is before declared the reasonable belief of his being the Composer of it how much more when all the five are joyn'd together SECT III. Containing a full Answer to what Dr. Hollingsworth hath written in his P. sc concerning this Book ALthough the modest and faithful account I have given in the former Sections of what I know and believe of this Book and the Means of such my Knowledge and Reasons of such my Belief contains a sufficient Answer to whatever I meet with in this P script and might supersede my farther Labour yet that the Reverend Dr. may not think himself neglected or the Reader who it may be will not take the Pains to compare them may have no cause to suspect I wave a distinct reply because I find the task too difficult and lastly because this P sc gave the sole occasion and whole Provocation to my writing upon this Subject I will now distinctly consider every particular of the P sc which concerns this matter and either by referring to what is said before to prevent writing the same thing over and over or by subjoyning a farther clear Answer reply to the whole for the necessary vindication of the Truth and my injur'd self And that what the Dr. writes may have its full Strength and He have no pretence to complain any thing is omitted I will transcribe Verbatim all his Words and subjoin full Answers adapted to every Paragraph in that part of his P script which relates to the Question in debate The first Passage begins thus Pag. 37. Line 13. The last Objection against Him is his Divine and Holy Book It is not to be imagined with what Industry they have within this last Year endeavoured to perswade the World it was a Forgery and not of his compiling And there is a certain Essex Doctor of Divinity who hath assisted this Objection to the utmost of his Power with a false story which I will presently refute and set the whole in a true and proper Light The Essex Doctors Reply to the Algate Doctor who begins thus The last Objection against him c. He could scarce have exprest himself more improperly if he had studied to do it We may guess at his meaning by what follows but who ever made this Divine and Holy Book an Objection against him but rather accounted it his great honour and from a Man who writes for Crowned Heads to read more accuracy and caution might be expected and this stumble at the threeshold is no auspicious or lucky Omen but rather an earnest and tast of what we are to look for in the Sequel