The HISTORy of the PuRITANS. VoL. n. K. Charles I. cc he) acquainted me with his defign, and !hewed me the heads of feve– ~" ral chapters, and fame of the difcourfes. Some time after the king's Crit. Hilt. " death I afked him, whether his majefly had ever feen the book? He p.. '89.. " replied, I know it certainly no more than you; but I ufed my beft en– I-~·~ssr.uarts," deavonrs that he might, for I delivered a copy of it to the marquis P 3 "of Hertford, when he went to the treaty of the ljle if Wight--" Dr. Gauden delivered the MS. to this Walker, and fValker carried it to the prefs; it was copied by Mr. G(flord, and both the doctor's fon and his wife affirm, that they believe it was written in the houfe where they lived. Notwithftanding all this evidence Mr. archdeacon Eachard fays, the book is inconteflably the king's; and bilhop Kennet adds, that thofe who pretend Eikoon BqftlikJ was a !ham put upon the world, are a fet of men that delight to judge and execute the royal martyr over again by murder– ing his name. Dr. Hollingwortb, Dugdale, Wagfla.ffe, and others, have endeavoured to invalidate the abovementioned authorities, by !hewing that Dr. Gauden was not capable of writing fuch a book; but furely the evidence already produced, is as fhong and convincing as any thing of this nature can poffibly be. BoobpubThe king's trial and execution in fuch an illegal and unheard of man– Jijbed for and ner, ftruck the whole chriftian world with a!loni!hment. The prince of ~~az~fldthteb Wales, then in Holland, encouraged the learned Sa!mqftus to write a Iatin .mg, ea • . . "r: . D .t: "r · treatlfe, entitled Difei!J~O R egza, or a tjenCe q; Krng Charles I. dedicated to his Son Charles If. which was anfwered by Mtlion, in a book en. titled Difenjio pro populo Angl icano, or a Difence of the people of England, writ in an elegant but fcvere flile. This book, £1ys Mr. Bayfc, made the author's name famous over all the learned world. Another performance' <1ppeared about the fame time, entitled C!amor Rrgii Sanguinis ad Cce/um; or, '!'he Cry qf the King's Blood to Heavm. It was writ in Iatin by Pe– ter du lt1ou!in jun. and anfwcrcd by Miltt»z in the fame language. But to fatisfy the mglijh reader, Mr. John Goodwin publilhed a fmall treatife, which he called A Defence o/ the Sentmce pajfed upon the late king by the High Court qf JuJiice--~vherein thejtfftice and equity if theJcu'd jen– tence is dcmonjiratively a.ffirted, as we/J from clear texts of Jcripture as principles if rcafon, grounds of law, authorities and precedents, as well joreign as domiftic; a very weak and inconluiive performance! for admitting our author's principles, that the criginal of government is fi am the people, and that magijtrates are accountable to them for their adminijtra– tion, they are not applicable to the prefent cafe, becaufe the officers of the army bad neithenhe voice of the people, nor of their reprefentatives in afree parliament; the houfe of commons was purged, and the houfe of ·peers difperfed, in order- to make way fer this ou.trage. upon the confl~tuuon>
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