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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

could commend to him as a trusty person to look it over and to put it into an exact Method the Bishop pitcht upon Sir John's Father whom he had been acquainted with for many years who undertaking the Task was assisted by this his Son who declares he sate up with his Father some nights to assist him in methodizing those Papers all writ with the King 's own hand Thanks be to God Sir John is yet alive and is ready to give the same Account to any man that asks him Essex Drs. Reply Jam ventum est ad Triarios Sir John Brattle is a person whose name I do not remember I have heard before and therefore make no Judgment prejudicial or of disadvantage to the Character here given of him But as the Algate Dr. tells the Story I doubt it may prove as meer a Story as the rest But before I come to my particular Remarks upon it I confess 't is not unpleasant to observe that when the Dr's hand was in at Coyning Stories which I have proved to be of both so base Metal and false an Impress he should have recourse to the Royal Mint to borrow a more Authentick Stamp for what else can an Office there add to a Testimony in a matter of fact But with all due respect to Sir J. Br. I would ask the Dr. a few Questions 1. May it not be possible without any diminution of Sir John's veracity that in more than forty Years there may be some mistake of other Papers for these or some other lapse of Memory about a matter in which he was concerned but once or twice and that but transiently and on the by or was Sir John who must be then a young man and 't is likely but in a private capacity so well acquainted with the Kings hand which 't is probable he had seldom or never seen I believe few private Country Youths or young Gentlemen are so very well us'd to their Soveraigns hand-writing as to make a Critical Judgment of it and to be able with assurance to distinguish it from the writing of all other men 2. I would gladly know when and where the King desired this of Bishop Juxton for I refer my self to those who lived in those times observed the passages of them whether they ever so much as heard that the King and Bishop Juxton saw each other after his Majesty was driven from Westminster by the Tumults till he was violently brought to St. James's Jan 19. 48 to be tried and barbarously murdered The King indeed then obtain'd leave for the good man to come to him and assist him in extremis for neither his Age nor Character permitting him to be serviceable to him in following him in the Wars He liv'd Private and Retir'd and I never heard he saw him till upon the sad occasion forenamed and that was after the Book was Printed Thirdly Supposing but by no means granting that the King had desired Bishop Juxton as is said to desire a trusty Friend to do it why another rather than the Bishop himself Had the King any Friend more trusty than Bishop Juxton or was He too good or above doing such service for his Master who had not a Servant who honoured and lov'd him more or was He too busie to attend it when he was wholly out of all imployment and injoy'd the most undisturbed privacy and quiet of any man that had serv'd the King in any eminent degree Or was Bishop Juxton less fit and able than a private man when the Book consists of Policy and Piety and who a fitter Judge of what concern'd the first than one who had so long been Privy Councellor and Lord High Treasurer of England And for the second he was one on whom the King rely'd as much or more than on any Man for the conduct of his Conscience as appear'd by his singling him out to be with him in his Preparations for Death and upon the infamous Scaffold of his Martyrdom and who was so able a Divine that tho' his Publick Imployments hindred him from Preaching often yet when He did perform'd it so well I remember I heard a Bishop who was able to judge say He thought him one of the most excellent Preachers He ever heard and gave Instance in a Sermon He heard him preach at Court of Repentance And why must Bishop Juxton desire another man to do that work for which had there been any such work to be done He himself was the fittest man alive for Fidelity for Ability for Inclination to his Masters Service and for vacancy and leisure 4. Lastly I pray which of these stories in your P sc would you have us believe Your first of sending it to Mr. Simmonds by a trusty Messenger or your last of the Kings own delivering it to his trusty Servant Bishop Juxton They cannot both be true if that not this if this not that they are so contrary we must suppose the Algate Dr. the Relater of the One and their Majesties Algate Chaplain the Relater of the other I confess the doubt is too hard for me to solve I must e'ne leave it to be agreed betwixt themselves I might add I have heard near half a dozen stories about this Book all as inconsistent with one another as these two Yet all told with equal assurance a sufficient prejudice against them all with all unprejudiced Persons Algate Dr. P sc And whosoever after this will suspect this Book is certainly a man of that temper who will keep up his prejudices against this great man in spight of all evidences tho' as clear as the Sun at Noon and for my own part I must tell him that I think it not worth the while to attempt his farther satisfaction because nullum remedium Deus posuit contumaciae God Almighty hath not provided a remedy for resolved stubbornness in the ordinary course of dealing with men and if nothing but miracles will convince them I have no Commission to pretend to them Essex Drs. Reply Sir tho' I will not vapour and huff my Reader with comparing what I have truely sincerely and as in the sight of God written concerning my Knowledge and Belief about this Book fairly declaring the means of my Knowledge and the Reasons of my Belief to the Sun at Noon as you think good to compare your waking Dreams and random guesses which deserve not to be likened to the light of the Moon a day before or after its change yet I abhor keeping up prejudices against that great and excellent Prince and have only given the account in the first and second Sections and reply'd to your slanders and reproaches which extorted from me this unwelcome labour to clear my Reputation you having according to your Talent as Mephibosheth complain'd of Ziba slandered me to the whole Nation and to my Lord the King by presuming to dedicate such stuff to their sacred Majesties And if you persist to slander ne videaris errasse I leave

occasion After the Death of the Bishop of Winchester I next morning waiting on the King found a remarkable alteration in him His Majesty was sad uneasie and out of his usual good humour and temper I could not but observe it but at present took no farther notice of it the second morning I found him so as much or rather more than on the preceding day yet neither then did I take any notice of it to him but when I had a short time waited on him withdrew but the third morning having been fully inform'd that my Lord Chancellor had by himself and all the Interest he could make prest the King to bestow the Bishoprick of Winchester upon the Bishop of Worcester Dr. Morly I thus Addrest my self to his Majesty Sir with all humillity I beg your leave to speak to you and your Majesties Gracious Pardon for It. Sir I well know not only how well becoming but how much it is the duty of every good Subject to contribute to the ease and satisfaction of his Prince And I cannot but conceive that your Majesty is in some streight between the Honour of your word by which you graciously pleas'd to Promise I should Succeed my excellent Friend the late Bishop of Winchester And the importunity by which you are prest in the behalf of another I therefore with greatest willingness release you freely of that Promise Here said the Bishop the King stopt me Vouchsafed to embrace me in his Arms with these expressions My Lord I thank you and it may not be long ere I have opportunity to shew you how kindly I take it And in the mean time you shall have Worcester and to make it to you as good as I can all the Dignities of that Church I know not how it comes to pass being in my disposal I give you the disposing of them all during your time that you may prefer your Friends and have them near about you And now I appeal to the Judgment of every considerate reader whether this story which I had for the substance and to the best of my memory in the very words from Bishop Gaudens own mouth when the thing was fresh and recent carry the fairest and most likely characters of truth or the Algate Dr's story For which he brings no proof but his own meer say so as indeed it is impossible he should for this must be a true story or else a dream and vision of my own Imagination the latter of which it is both Naturally and Morally next to impossible it should be First Naturally for I never pretended to so pregnant an Invention as to devise a story so self consistent in all its parts for falshoods will not jamm or hang coherently together be they told with never so good a Grace and Magisterially cram'd down Mens belief with huffing menaces and hectoring Rhetorick To fright men to swallow them at their peril For fear of being counted contumacious Witness the flaws and incoherences of all the Algate Dr's Narratives of this matter catcht up from uncertain Rumours and pieced out with groundless phancies of his own addition inconsiderately Secondly Morally impossible for Nemo gratis nequam No man will lie without advantage much less to create prejudice to himself And I am sure there is not so much as the appearance of a temptation to induce Dr. Gauden to tell it me as I solemnly aver he did if it had not been the truth nor to me to feign it in cool blood and deliberately to appeal to the God of Truth and Righteousness as a Witness and Avenger which I neither would or durst do to gain the World This might abundantly suffice to answer the Algate Dr's Sham Story concerning the Bishoprick of Worcester in the second Paragraph of his P. sc yet tho' I be well aware that over-doing is for the most part undoing and adding probabilities after clear and full evidence doth more harm than good and like setting shores and props to a strong house creates suspition that 't is tottering or like to fall without them yet I will for once run that risk and hazard and add these three Arguments to confirm what is before affirmed 1. 'T is highly probable that Dr. Gauden had the promise of Winchester obtained by his most entire Friend Bishop Duppa who besides the Power he had with the King having been his Tutor could unriddle to him as questionless he did the whole Affair of Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ to which he had been not only privy but a party and plead that to obtain the favour of that promise for him because divers of his intimate Friends had knowledge of his expectation to succeed in that See and why should he abuse his Best Friends with a groundless Flam 2. Because the King was so uneasie and deferr'd some days to give it Dr. Morly notwithstanding all the Interest made for him and His Majesties own inclination to him as having been beyond Sea with him in his Banishment why not give it presently as soon as vacant but after some days demur and uneasiness till his promise was released by him to whom 't was made 3. I will venture to reveal a secret at this distance which was then industriously conceal'd to prevent being made matter of sport upon the disappointment The Great House built by Sir Dennis Gauden the Bishop's Brother upon Clapham Heath in which Sir Dennis after lived and I think now Mr. Ewers was built as I was assured by one who knew it well to be the Mansion-house of the Bishoprick of Winchester being in that Diocess for 't is well known that Winchester-house beyond the Bridge had been pulled down and turn'd into Rent and Tenements and another was to be built or bought in lieu of it by the Bishop and setled as a Mansion-house for that See as after Winchester-house in Chelsea was purchased by Bishop Morley and made part of the Bishoprick of Winchester tho' before in the Bishoprick of London these Diocesses being parted by the Thames I could add many more circumstances relating to this Affair but at present forbear as judging them needless I am at length arrived at the third and last Paragraph of the Algate Drs. P. sc which is to compensate and make amends for all the impertinences of the preceding for thus it begins Algate Drs. P. sc But to put all things out of doubt concerning this Book give me leave to tell this Story I was not many weeks ago in conversation with Sir John Brattle a worthy person and who hath long enjoy'd a considerable Office in the Royal Mint with whom discoursing about King Charles the First and particularly of the suspicions raised of the truth of the Book He frankly told me and assured me the truth of this Story that in the year 47. King Charles having drawn up the most considerable part of this Book and having writ it in some loose Papers at different times desired Bp. Juxton to get some friend of his whom he

it to all impartial men I could almost say to the most partial who will compare and weigh before they censure to judge between us where lies the stubbornness but however I refer my self to the Righteous Judge to determine betwixt us who best knows the ends and designs which put you upon writing so rashly on a Subject for which you appear so ill furnisht and me whom you have constrained to it in a necessary vindication of my self and the Truth And tho' you conclude with a modest disclaiming a pretence to Miracles let me at parting advise you to take courage for if you satisfie any wise man by such weak and inconsistent Arguings as that part of P sc consists on in which the Essex Dr. is concerned 't is that Drs. opinion your performance may vye miracles with any Miracle-Mongers celebrated in those Roman Legends which as one wittily saith were written with Leaden Heads and Brazen Fore-Heads SECTION IV. I Shall in the next place say somewhat to another Paper publish'd some months before of the same subject Intituled Restitution to the Royal Author c. which I confess I was then desired to answer but forbore not being personally concerned But Dr. Hollingsworth having forced me to what I have now done it seems necessary to add some few remarks upon this Paper lest my not taking notice of it should be misinterpreted to be a tacite acknowledgment of some difficulties in it not to be grapled with And I must do this Author the right to own him to be a Person of another figure than I have had to do with in the preceding Section One who writes not extempore Quicquid in buccam in calamum catches not up every groundless Report and flying Rumour and Ecchoes it back as an Oracle But seems to have weighed and considered what he writes endeavouring the best Information he could get and hath driven it as far as it would go and relates in some particulars what is true and puts some colour of Probability upon those in which he is mistaken or was ill informed and does all with modesty and candor and as becomes a man who hopes to obtain what he aims at by sober Reason and dint of Argument not by Hectoring and noisie Clamour and I shall treat him as a Person who deserves this Character which ex animo I give him and hope He will not count me an Enemy for telling him the Truth but esteem it rather kindness than rudeness to shew him where he is mistaken And first I shall set down as he himself hath done the Earl of Anglesey's Memorandum for furnishing me with which I give him my Thanks for though I have seen the Original in Mr. Millington's hand I had no Copy of it ready by me MEMORANDUM KING Charles the Second and the Duke of York did both in the last Sessions of Parliament 1675 when I shewed them in the Lords House the written Copy of this Book wherein are some Corrections and Alterations written with the late King Charles the First 's own Hand assure me that this was none of the said King 's Compiling but made by Dr. Gauden Bishop of Exeter which I here insert for the undeceiving others in this Point by attesting so much under my Hand ANGLESEY Now this Gentleman is pleased to raise three Objections against this Memorandum to enervate the Force and Credit of it notwithstanding which Objections I think this Memorandum very authentick and an unconquerable Evidence to prove the Truth of what I have so sincerely declared concerning this Book and in a just Vindication of it I will first answer all his Objections produced against it and farther subjoin a Remark which I hope may be of some use and therefore not unacceptable which could be given by no other Pen. First Objection It calls the Duke his then Royal Highness The Duke of York which was no Court-Language in 1675 there being neither Reason nor Custom for such a length of Distinction at that time Answ 1 st Loquendum cum vulgo and I appeal to Experience if he were not call'd the Duke of York ten times to once that he was call'd His Royal Highness and for the length the former is the shorter of the two But he proceeds in the same Objection Now it is somewhat unlikely that a Person of Honour and a Courtier especially one of my late Lord Anglesey's sense should be guilty of such an Impropriety Answ No Impropriety at all especially if we consider this was not spoken in Court but privately writ in a Leaf before the Book for in such like cases even Courtiers confine not themselves to the Punctillios they observe in speaking or in writing what is to be publish'd 2. I hope I may convince himself how weak and non-concluding this Argument is by a Passage with which he hath furnish'd me in the same Page line 36 37. viz. His pt Majesty King James the Second if that Abbreviation pt stand for present as I perceive 't is generally believed to do let us form two parallel Arguments His Argument against the Earl of Anglesey's being Author of the Memorandum runs thus A Courtier and a Person of such sense as the late E. of Anglesey could not write this Memorandum because 't is unlikely such an one should be guilty of such Impropriety of Language as to call his then Royal Highness Duke of York which was no Court-Language in 1675. Very good Now suppose it should in time be questioned Whether this Gentleman wrote the two Sheets call'd Restitution c. and one should argue against it with a parallel Argument A Man of such sense could not write them because 't is somewhat unlikely that he could be guilty of such Impropriety of Language as to call him His present Majesty King James the Second which is neither Court-Language nor Country-Language in 1691. Now what think you Sir would this Argument exclude you from being the Writer of these Sheets If not why should a less Impropriety of Language exclude the E. of Anglesey from being the Writer of this Memorandum especially if we consider that supposing but not yielding if he exprest himself not like a Courtier 't was a private Note in a Leaf of a Book which might be seen or never seen and you have made yours publick to the wide World 2. Second Objection We are informed by the Advertisement that in the written Copy of the Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ there are some Corrections and Alterations written with the late King Charles the First 's own Hand which is no contemptible Argument if we had no other that the King was the Author otherwise we should be at a loss for the Reason of his Majesty's correcting the Manuscript and suffering it to pass under the Title of his own Composure Answ What the Corrections by the King 's own Hand seem to you to be an Argument of seems to me quite contrary and I assuredly believe this corrected Copy was that sent by the Marquess of

Hertford from Dr. Gauden as I gave account Sect. 1. Reas 3. on purpose to be corrected allow'd or laid aside as his Majesty should think good See the Section referr'd to And if the King himself had been the Author Why was not the Book in his own Hand-writing as well as the Correction and Alterations or why any Corrections of a fair Copy if he had finished the Original himself before 't was copied Or why if he sent it to be printed did he not send the corrected Copy rather than an imperfect one which needed his Correction and Alteration These Considerations confirm me beyond the least Hesitancy this was the Copy the Marquess of Hertford brought his Majesty at the time of the Treaty in the Isle of Wight But the Violence towards him hastned so fast he could not transmit it back and Dr. Gauden and Bp. Duppa thought it better to print it as it was than to defer it till it would be too late to do him the Service they designed by it 3. Objection the Third The making Bp. Gauden the Author of this Book is another Disadvantage to the Credit of the Memorandum for the Stile the Air and Thought of Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ is as different from the Management of Bp. Gauden's Writings as 't is possible to imagine but out of respect to the Bishop's Memory I forbear to insist upon the Comparison Answ This Objection from the Stile is a very thin and feeble one as I could easily make appear if I would enter upon the Theme of critical Judging of the Authors of Books by the Stile in which they are written and to name no more I might fetch Assistance from Elias Du Pin a Sorbon Doctor in his excellent new Bibliothec of Ecclesiastical Writers by many Volumes of which he hath obliged the Learned Part of the World and raised their Expectation and Desire of the rest But I will avoid such an unnecessary Digression it being sufficient to blunt the edg of this Objection to suggest these two Considerations First It ought to be considered whether the Writings compar'd are of the same kind for a Man may differ more from himself when his Writings are of different kinds than two Strangers differ in their Stile whose Design and End of Writing is the same As the Sermons or Disputings of different Men may be more like one another if you compare Sermon with Sermon and Disputation with Disputation than the Stile of the same Man is like it self if you compare different kinds of his Writings as Sermons with Disputations or either of these with an Oration fitted for a Learned Assembly And 't is an Observation very common that the Ancient Fathers greatly differ in their Stile and Air and Notions in their popular Harangues and Exhortations their Polemick Tracts and their Books of Devotion So that whatever Dr. Gauden's way of management were in his other Writings the difference of the Subject between them and this Book gives a fair account of the different Stile Air and Thought admitting it were as great as the Objection would suppose it Secondly If the Stile and Air of Mens Writings be various when the kinds of their writings are different though they write without Disguise and only change their Stile to accommodate it to the Subject or Kind of Writing in which they are engaged How much more reasonable is it to allow it must be so when they on purpose do induere Personam personate another Man and endeavour to the utmost to appear like him for whom they write and whose Name and Circumstances they tacitly assume What wonder that Idem non est Idem the same Man appears not like himself when he feigns himself to be another as Bp. Gauden did and wrote this Book as in his Majesty's Name though to be used allowed or altered as the King should please I have heard it hath been the custom of former Reigns for the Lord Chancellor some Privy Councellor or a Juncto of the Council to pen or draw up Speeches to be spoken by the King in Parliament or on some other Solemn Occasion or in Declarations Now any Man of Sense will readily grant that they who pen such Speeches keep not to their own Stile or Air or Thought which they use when they speak in their own Name or Person but do the best they can to adapt them to the Royal Person for whose use and service they are prepared and thus it most evidently was in this present Case He proceeds in this Objection 'T is likely therefore that King Charles the Second and the then Duke might tell the late Earl of Anglesey which his Lordship might possibly forget that the Manuscript was not King Charles the First his Hand but a Transcript of Dr. Gauden's writing which as it agrees with matter of Fact it gives a fair account of the Alterations in the Copy which the Memorandum grants were made by the King Answ This is soon said but very ill contrived for 't is not only highly improbable but meerly suppositio impossibilis If the King had writ it why not correct his own Copy But how should Dr. Gauden receive it from the King He was utterly unknown to him lived at a great distance from him in the Parliament's Quarters was under preudice with the Royal Party I am sorry this Gentleman writes for once so like him who feigned the Story of the King 's sending it to Mr. Simmonds and he sending for his Neighbour Gauden and lending it him and all this dispatch'd in a trice when Mr. Simmonds had been so many Years driven for his Loyalty from his Neighbourhood But the fair and faithful Account and which indeed agrees with matter of Fact is this was the Copy the Marquess of Hertford carried to the King when he went to the Treaty at the Isle of Wight from Dr. Gauden and was humbly submitted to his Majesty's Wisdom to be altered corrected approved or disallowed and disposed of as he should please and accordingly the King corrected it to fit it more to his own Sense Having finished his Objections against the Memorandum this Gentleman proceeds thus to his Second Strength 2. Supposing this Memorandum had all the pretended Advantages I shall now produce such Proof against it which the Circumstances of the Evidence considered must be allowed to over-ballance his Lordship's Attestation 1. We have the Letters Patents of King Charles the Second Dated Nov. 29 1660. in which R. Royston of London Bookseller has that sole Priviledg given him of Printing all the Works of King Charles the First among which Εἰκὼν Βασιλικὴ is mentioned with a particular Character of Commendation 2. The same Priviledg for Re-printing the Works of King Charles the First is granted to the above-mentioned R. Royston by his present Majesty King James the Second as appears by his Majesty's Letters Dated February 22 1685 6 which Grant refers expresly to the First Edition published by R. Royston in the Year 1662 and in which his Majesty