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A44224	Dr. Hollingworth's defence of K. Charles the First's holy and divine book, called Eikon basilikē against the rude and undutiful assaults of the late Dr. Walker of Essex proving by living and unquestionable evidences, the aforesaid book to be that royal martyr's, and not Dr. Gauden's.	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2503; ESTC R13677	14,190	32

the Suspicions of the Truth of his Book he frankly told me and assured me the Truth of this Story That in the year 47 the King having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book and having writ in some loose Papers at different times desired Bishop Juxon to get some Friend of his whom he could commend to him as a trusty person to look it over and put it into an exact method The Bishop pitched upon Sir John's Father whom he had been acquainted withal for many years who undertaking the Task was assisted by this his Son who declared he sate up some Nights with his Father to assist him in methodizing these Papers all writ with the King 's own Hand Which Story upon the coming out of my Book did so nettle the Enemies of King Charles that Sir John was presently pestered with Penny-Post Letters the usual way of that Party when any thing crosses their Designs and gave him such a disturbance that presently they raised a Story about Town that Sir John had denied the thing and consequently I had abused the World with a Tale of my own inventing upon hearing of which I went the next morning to Sir John's House in the Tower and not finding him at home by good Providence in my return met him under Aldgate and walking with him down towards Crouched Fryers I told him what I had heard and desired to know whether he had said any such thing Sir John presently without haesitation told me that all I had printed was true but was troubled at my printing of it because of the Trouble he had with these Penny-Post Letters at which I was not so much concerned because I thought it an Honour to Sir John to have any hand in vindicating his old Master and did think the Cause I was engaged in would defend me from any Imputation of Undecency in not asking his Leave to print a Story which he told without any Obligation to silence and in company of another person a worthy Citizen as well as my self but to do Sir John Justice I must acknowledge that what he said to me as to the truth of what I writ in his Name he hath said to all my Friends ever since that have had the opportunity of conversing with him and talking about this Affair And now let us see what Dr. Walker says to this why truly he does as good as tell me that I have contradicted my self when I assert the Book was delivered by the King to Bishop Juxon and the same Book sent by the King to Mr. Simmons He says They cannot both be true if that not this if this not that they are so contrary pag. 2. Good God! how fast will some men shut their Eyes when seeing the Light would make them write and speak Truth A man of very ordinary Parts and of an honest Mind might at first sight fee no manner of inconsistency in these two Stories for in plain terms I tell you Bishop Juxon received the most considerable part of the Book to methodize by his Friend Dab as he in familiarity called Sir John's Father in 47 and the King sent it to Mr. Simmonds in 48 so that here is a full Years difference betwixt the one and the other But poor Dr. Walker knew very well what sort of mens Cause he was carrying on and that a bare telling of them I had contradicted my self would be enough for they presently run away with a Scandal though never so gross and groundless without any further examination Further he questions Sir John's Memory and talks of his Youth to invalidate the Story but that is so great an Affront to all the young Gentlemen and Apprentices in London who at the age of Nineteen are so very much employed and trusted in their Masters Books and Accounts that I leave them to vindicate Sir John upon the score of helping his Father in a thing of such a Nature as this was at such an Age. And as for his doubting whether Bishop Juxon ever saw the King from the beginning of the War till his Murther pray who can believe that a person who had been so obliged by his Master as Bishop Juxon was would not take a days Journey to visit his Royal Master at Hampton-Court when the Army caressed him at that great rate and suffered access to him by all forts of Persons even the Marquess of Ormond himself who had so stoutly appear'd against them And this is all I have to say as to Sir John Brattle and that he told me this I will depose upon Oath whenever I am lawfully recalled The next thing I shall discourse upon is the Story of Mr. Simmonds I say in my Postscript That King Charles sent his Book to Mr. Simmonds to peruse and correct he having writ so excellent a Vindication of him as indeed it is the best I ever saw and which I wish were reprinted and that Mr. Simmonds upon the reading of it sent for Dr. Gauden shewed it him and who was so taken with it that he borrowed it transcribed it and so returned it back to his loving Neighbour again which Story I had from the Reverend and my Worthy Friend Dr. Meriton who does not use to tell Stories of this high nature without very good Grounds but that which confirmed me in the belief of this Account was this namely That Dr. Meriton dining the latter end of the last year with the late Lord Mayor Sir Thomas Pilkington happened to meet with Dr. Walker at the same Table where Dr. Walker was pleased with his usual Confidence to assert Dr. Gauden the Author of the King's Book upon which Dr. Meriton turned upon him with this Story of Mr. Simmonds communicating the whole thing to Dr. Gauden upon which he was so confounded that he had nothing to say for himself and though if none but Dr. Meriton himself had declared to me the issue of their Debate it would have satisfied me Yet the further satisfaction I had from my Worthy Friend Mr. Marriot then Chaplain to the Lord Mayor and Minister of the Parish Church in Rood Lane who stood by and heard the whole Discourse and withal the Silence he put Dr. Walker to which he professed to my self gave me so full a satisfaction that upon that account I ventured to give the World an account of it in Print After this in January last a Reverend Friend Mr. Jonas Warley Vicar of Witham in Essex coming to Town was pleased to let me know by a Paper of Directions where Mrs. Simmonds the Widow of the aforesaid Loyal Sufferer lived whom according to the Directions I found at the same place where after telling her that I heard she was such a man's Widow once and she acknowledging it I asked her whether she knew any thing of the King's Book and how far her Husband was concerned in it she presently answer'd me that going into her Husband's Study she saw upon the Table a Book in writing which she knew

as I am concerned must beg Leave to tell the World what I have to say for my self and what I have to say in Bar to the Truth and Credit of this Book so much admired by a Party of men who will cry up any thing that serves their Lusts against Monarchy and Episcopacy for that is in short the sum total of the thing and was there no Hopes of overturning the Government once again and engrossing the whole Power of the Nation into their hands King Charles's Ashes might lye still in the Grave without any disturbance or molestation The Title Page of the Book is A True Account of the Author of a Book entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his Solitude and Sufferings With an Answer to all Objections made by Dr. Hollingworth and others in defence of the said Book The Author is Dr. Walker of Essex who if God the Avenger of the Injured and Oppressed had not called him to an account before his Book was published I should have been so bold as to have given and that by undeniable Proofs such Instances of the man as would have invalidated his whole Testimony and made him and his Book too a Scorn to the World but he is dead and therefore I will as much as I ought in this Case forbear him and let his Ashes lye easier in the Grave than he has the Ashes of King Charles the First The design of the Book is to tell the World that that Book that hath for 43 years together gone under the Name of King Charles was none of his but drawn up by Dr. Gauden Well But how must we be satisfied in this For truly there ought to be mighty clear and home Proofs that a Book writ in so lofty noble and so agreeable a Stile to all the other acknowledged Writings of this great King a Book so full of Accounts of Political and State-Affairs that no man hardly could be acquainted withal but himself a Book so full of Divine Thoughts and Meditations so suited to the various Conditions and Afflictions he was in and indeed a Book as the present Bishop of Rochester said in a Sermon must needs be his because it was impossible any one should write it but himself I say there ought to be mighty clear Proofs such a Book was none of his Witnesses upon Witnesses and those very honest and known upright men who make Conscience of the Appearance of Evil ought to be brought into Court to make this good to convince the World this so celebrated a Book was none of his I but here is no such thing Dr. Gauden made the Book and told Dr. Walker so and therefore 't is true and who ought to doubt it And this most of the Dissenters about Town say too Why truly with the Worlds good Leave I am one that doubts it nay that scorns to believe it and the more because Dr. Walker asserts it who was he not dead which upon this account and no other I am truly sorry for as I said before I would give Reasons sufficient to satisfie any man why I do not believe it upon his Authority Well further Dr. Gauden shew'd him some of the Heads of Chapters and afterwards told him that he had made Bishop Duppa acquainted with it and sent it by the Hands of my Lord Marquess of Hartford to the King This is all fine indeed and yet notwithstanding both the Marquess and Bishop Duppa survived the Calamities of the War and saw King Charles the Second's Restauration and felt the good Effects of it the one by being made Duke of Somerset and the other Bishop of Winchester yet poor and yet so highly deserving Dr. Gauden was fain to sit down contented with the small Bishoprick of Exeter though over-and-above he had wrote against the very Covenant he as Dr. Walker said had taken and never durst desire as by the Sequel appears either Marquess or the Bishop to recommend him to the particular and great Opinion of King Charles the Second for the Dr. tells us pag. 5 that Dr. Gauden did not know whether the King knew it yea or no nor yet did he ever as by Dr. Walker's further Account appears give himself the Pleasure and Satisfaction to understand from the Marquess whether King Charles the First received it approved it and made use of it in his Retirements as he pretended to design it which certainly he might have done by a word speaking to the Marquess after the Restauration for he lived till October following And this to me makes it a plain Case that it is all Sham and that if Dr. Gauden had dared at that time to have told such a Falshood he must have sate down contented with his Living at Barking without any Expectations from the Court without either being Bishop of Exeter or living in hopes of the Bishoprick of Winchester And Sir Dennis Gauden might have spared the Cost and Charges of building an House upon Clapham Common for his Brother the next Bishop of Winchester that was to be A Story all things considered enough to make a very melancholy man to smile but 't is such a one as Dr. Walker was accustomed to That Sir Dennis Gauden should lay out five or six thousand pounds upon an House for his Brother when Bishop of Winchester which he was to have for writing a Book and yet neither he nor his Brother knew neither King Charles the Second had nay knowledge of his writing the Book at all So that in short the whole thing lies within this compass Dr. Gauden made the Book and told Dr. Walker so I say on the other side if Dr. Gauden said it he did but jest with him or else did something worse which I will not name for I will prove by and by under the hand of a more creditable man than ever Dr. Walker was without any Disparagement to his Memory that Dr. Gauden had another opinion of the Author of that Book and did so declare it Well he says he believes upon this Say-so of Dr. Gauden that it was his Book and would have others upon his bare credit believe the same and there are Thousands of Designing men have upon this man's Assertion greedily swallowed it down though I hope either to shame or silence them before I have done And therefore on the other hand I say I have better and greater Testimonies to the contrary which I now come to offer to the World which when I have done I will leave my self in the hands of all unprejudiced dispassionate and uninterested men to judge which of us upon true Evidence and Proof ought to be believed And thus I begin I tell the World in my Postscrip to the Defence of King Charles the First that being in Conversation with Sir John Brattle a worthy person and who hath long enjoy'd a considerable Office in the Royal Mint and discoursing with him about King Charles the First and particularly of