"it. After the Restoration he (Gawden) brought "the Duke of Somerset and the Earl of Southampton "both to the King and to himself, who affirmed "that they knew it was his Writing; and that it "was carried down by the Earl of Southampton, and "fhew'd the King during the Treaty of New"port, who read it, and approved of it as containing his Senfe of Things. Upon this he told me, that though Sheldon and the other Bishops oppofed Gawden's Promotion because he had "taken the Covenant, yet the Merits of that Ser"vice carried it for him, notwithstanding their "Oppofition."

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But this Matter is fet in the fulleft Light and put beyond all Difpute by Dr. Walker (a), a very zealous Admirer and Friend of King Charles, and a reverend Divine of the Church of England, who in the most publick and folemn Manner, ap pealing to GOD the Searcher of Hearts and Avenger of Falfhood, affirms" That being a "Friend and Intimate of Dr. Gawden's, and liv"ing in his Family, Dr. Gawden whilft he was "writing the Book and before it was finished, "was pleased to acquaint him with the Defign, "and fhew him the Heads of the feveral Chap"ters and what he had wrote upon them: after "a Perufing them Dr. Gawden afk'd him his

Opinion concerning it: he told him, he doubted "not it would be for the King's Reputation, but "ftuck at the Lawfulness of it; and modeftly "afk'd him, how he fatisfied himself thus to im

pofe upon the World? He answered, look "upon the Title, tis the Portraiture, &c. and no "Man draws his own Picture. Some Time after "Dr. Gawden took him (Mr. Walker) with him "to London, and to make a Vifit to Dr. Duppa, ¢ Bishop of Salisbury, where he fhew'd the Bi66 fhop

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shop what he had written (having before acquainted him with the Defign): As they re"turned home Dr. Gawden communicated to Mr. "Walker what had passed between him and the Bishop of Salisbury. He particularly told him, "there were two Subjects more he wish'd he had

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thought on, viz. the Ordinance against the "Common-Prayer, and the Denying his Majefty "his Chaplains: Which at first he defired him to "write two Chapters upon; but, before they "parted, undertook to do it himself; and de"fired him to go on and finish what remained.

"After the King was murder'd, upon Mr. "Walker's Afking the Doctor, Whether his Majef

ty had feen the Book? He told him he knew "not certainly, but he had fent it to the King at "the Isle of Wight, by the Marquis of Hartford; "that the Duke of York knew of it, and had “spoken of it to him (Dr. Gawden) as a season"able and acceptable Service. That Mrs. Gaw"den, himself, (Mr. Gifford, who transcribed the

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Copy fent to the Ifle of Wight) and others of "the Family, always fpoke of it, in his Presence " and Abfence, as his Book; being as much as"fured of it as they could be of any fuch Fact: "That the Doctor delivered to him (Walker) with

his own Hand the laft Part, (after Part was "printed, or at leaft in Royston's, the Printer's, "Hands) giving him Caution with what Wari"nefs to deliver it: And accordingly he deliver'd "it, Saturday December the 23d, to one Peacock, "who was inftructed by what Hands he fhould "deliver it to Royston: And in the fame Way "and by the Hands of Mr. Peacock, when the Impreffion was finifh'd he receiv'd fix Books as "an Acknowlegement of his Service."

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There is alfo a long Narrative of Mrs. Gawden, written with her own Hand, exprefsly confirming

this Teftimony of Dr. Walker, and a great many other Circumstances which put it out of all Doubt, that the Eikon was not the Compofure of King Charles. The Teftimony of the Earl of Anglesey fhall conclude this Subject, which was wrote upon a blank Leaf of the Eikon as follows.

Memorandum.

King Charles II and the Duke of York did. "both (in the laft Seffions of Parliament, 1675, "when I fhew'd them in the Lord's House the "written Copy of this Book Eikon Bafilike, where"in are fome Corrections and Alterations written "with the late King Charles I's own Hand) affure me that this was none of the faid King's Compiling, but made by Dr. Gawden, Bishop of "Exeter: Which I here infert for the undeceiving "others in this Point, by Attefting fo much under my Hand.

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ANGLESEY.

CHAP. XVIII.

A Summary View of King CHARLES'S
Character and Reign by a very great Statef

man.

T may not be amifs, as a kind of Recapitulation, here to present the Reader with a fuccinct View of this Reign, as it is drawn up by a great Minifter of State, a Member of the establish'd Church, and a Perfon of diftinguish'd Name both in the political and learned World; in the Short Hiftory of a Standing Army.

State Tracts,

Vol. II. p.657.

"King CHARLES was a great Bigot, which made him the Darling of the Clergy: but hav"ing no great Reach of his own, and being go"verned by the Priests, who have been always "unfortunate when they meddled with Politicks, "with a true ecclefiaftical Fury he drove on to the "Deftruction of all the Liberties of England. "This King's whole Reign was one continued Act "against the Laws. He diffolved his first Par"liament for prefuming to enquire into his Fa"ther's Death, though he loft a great Sum of "Money by it, which they had voted him. He "enter'd at the fame Time into a War with France "and Spain, upon the private Piques of Bucking"ham, and managed them to the eternal Dishon

our and Reproach of the English Nation; wit"nefs the ridiculous Enterprifes upon Cadiz and "the Ifle of Rhee. He delivered Penington's "Fleet into the French Hands, betrayed the Ro"chellers, and fuffered the Proteftant Interest in "France to be quite extirpated. He raised Loans "and Excife, Coat and Conduct-Money, Tonnage "and Poundage, Knighthood and Ship-Money with"out Authority of Parliament: impofed new "Oaths on the Subjects to discover the Value of "their Eftates: imprisoned great Numbers of the "most confiderable Gentry and Merchants for not

Paying his arbitrary Taxes: Some he sent be"yond-fea, and the poorer Sort he prefs'd for "Soldiers, whom he kept on Free Quarters and "executed martial Law." He granted Monopolies "without Number, and broke the Bounds of the Forefts. He created Arbitrary Courts, and en

larged others; as the High-Commiffion Court, "Star-Chamber Court, Court of Honour, Court of "Requests, &c. and unspeakable Oppreffions were "committed in them, even to Men of the first "Quality.

"Quality. He commanded the Earl of Bristol, "and Bishop of Lincoln not to come to Par"liament: committed and profecuted a great

many of the most eminent Members of the Houfe of Commons, for what they did there; "fome for no Caufe at all; and would not let "them have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus :

fufpended and confined Archbishop Abbot, be"cause he would not license a Sermon that affert"ed Defpotick Power, whatever other Cause was "pretended. He fufpended the Bishop of Gloucefter for refufing to fwear never to consent to "alter the Government of the Church. He fupported all his arbitrary Ministers against the Par "liament; telling them, be wonder'd at the foolish

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Impudence of any one to think he would part with "the meanest of his Servants upon their Account. "And indeed in his Speeches, or rather Menaces, "he treated them like his Footmen, calling them "undutiful, feditious and Vipers.

"He brought unheard of Innovations into the "Church; prefer'd Men of Defpotick Principles " and inclinable to Popery; efpecially those Fire" brands, Laud, Montague and Manwaring: One "of whom had been complained of in Parliament, "another impeached for Advancing Popery, and "the third condemn'd in the House of Lords. He "difpenfed with the Laws against Papifts, and "both encourag❜d and prefer'd them. He called "no Parliament for twelve Years together, and "in that Time governed as arbitrary as the Grand Signior. He abetted the Irish Massacre, as ap" pears by their producing a Commission under the "great Seal of Scotland, by the Letter of Charles "II in the Favour of the Marquis of Antrim, by stopping the Succors which the Parliament "fent to reduce the Rebels fix Months under the

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