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"Defence of Innocent ,•
I fta Vindicating of their /row
thofe bafe and barbarous Mfperftons are
mmy times loaden withal, ( »Jpi wWcr jp^o/e tongues
is the poyfn of Mfps) are Employments every way
becoming thofe who are Difciples of tlx HOL Y
JESUS, and have folemnly promifed to follow His
Example, and which I am certain wiH fpeak 'Peace
and Comfort to them, when others who give themfelves
the liberty to detract and defame, to and ill-
report the Deft of Men, mill fink at laft tinder tlje
Load of their own Guilt, and the Terroiirs of their
angry and difcontented Minds. >v\ • •
Thefenje of which has been a
my felf, ever Jince I have undertaken the Vindication
of the Name and Memory of Kjng Charle s I.
and has enabled me in fopic to fcorn and
live aboVe all t^°fe (Reproachesthat by
B ~Faction.


The Bpiftle Dedicatory.
Faction, have been without Truth or Modefly fo freely
fajhud upon- me,- and 1- am fo wea*
ry of the Task I have engaged, that I thank
every frejh IfyovocatiBtt' giVh as
Well as Advantage of knowing and under/landing the
incomparable Merits of thatfreat Man , and the
Courage po*pmmunicdtotfotit a-
mongB many other things that have come
face 1 began the Defence of this Great
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la i^y' dd^ the* tiring fw fetldng Ujf.
and f haveffieWn^
it, Jince Thad it, atnfeVerul Terfons of Names, ■
atid at great TFofh. hi<w- as
mightily tufajvwithy^ fV" deficits it
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Great Terfons Name isdealt a
Number of many (Bad Mm of this Age j as
fmi as 1 refohed to Reprint, 1 at the fame time re*
folvtd, it fhould, with Tour LadyfhipS Leave, -(tome
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The Charter of King CHARLES I.
Jicious misinformations againft his facred Majefly, efpe-
cially in point of Religion and moral-Wifclom; where¬
of, I confefs with great griefof heart, my ftlf to have
been (amongft many moe of ray coat) none of the
ftaft; who out of Imaginary fears and jealouftes, were
made real Inflruments to advance this un-naturaj War,
wherein fb"much Innocent Proteflant Blood hath been
fhed, and fo much downright Robbery committed,
without fear, or lhame of fin; to the fcandal of the
true Reformed Religion, as cannot but draw down hea¬
vy Judgements from Heaven upon thefe infatuated Ni¬
trons, and more particularly upon Us who iKould have
inflru&ed them in tire way of Truth, Peaces and Obe¬
dience.
I conceived it the duty of a good Chriftian,efpecially
one of my profeflion, and in the condition that I lie,
expecting God Almighty's Call, not only to acknow¬
ledge to the All-merciful God, with a humble fincere
remorft of Conference, the: greatnefi of this offence ;
which being done in fimplicity of,Spirit, I hope with
the ApoBle Paul to obtain Mercy, becauft I did it
through Ignorance :' Bat alfo, for the better fatisfacBion
©fall others, to publifh this Declaration tothe view of
the World; to the intent, that allthofe (efpecially of
the Miniftery) who have been deluded with me, may
by God's Grace, and my example (though a weak and
mean Inflrument) not only be undeceived themftlves,
but alfo Birred up to undeceive others, with mote ala-
critie and faciiitie;. that the fcandal may be removed
from our Religion and Profeflion, and the good King re-
Bored to his juft Rights, and truly honoured and obey¬
ed as God's Anointed and Vicegerent upon Earth; and
the poor diBrelled Subjects freed from thole intoilera-
ble Burdens and Oppreffions which they lye groaning
under,


The Char after of IQng I.
underj piercing Heaven with their Tears and Cries;
and a (olid Peace fettled both id Kirk and Common¬
wealth, throughout all His Majefties Dominions, to
the Glory of God, and of our bleffed Mediator and
Saviour the Lord Chrift.
I do therefore Declare before God and the World,
That fince I had the Honour and Happinefsito Con-
verfe and Confer, with His Majeily, with all fort of
freedom; efpecially in Matters of Religion,- whether
in relation to the Kirk or State, ( which like Hypo-
crates Twins are lynked together ) that I found him
the rriofl intelligent Man that ever I fpoke with ; as
far beyond my Eprefjion, as Expe&ation, grounded
upon the Information that was given me ( before I
knew him ) by fuch as I though; Jhould have known
him. Jprofels that I was oft-times aftonilh'd with
th6 lofidity and qiiicknefs of his Reafonsahd Replies;
wondrcd how lie, '(pending his Time fo much in
Sports and Recreations, copld have attained to fo great
Knowledge, and mud confc/s, ingenuoufly, that I was
coiivinc'd in Confcience, and knew not how to give
him any r<:afpna|>!e Satisfaction; yet, the fweetncfs
of bis-DifppAfi,bh is Tuclj, that whatfeever I laid was-
si'cll taken; I'miiCl lay, that T,never met with any
Difputaqt (let be a King, and in Matters of fo high'
Concernment} of that mild and caJm Temper, which
convinced me the: more, and made me think that fuch'
Wifdom and Moderation, could not be without.an ex¬
traordinary meafure of divine grace S J. had. heard
much of his carriage towards the Priefts in Spat#, and
that King James told the Duke of Buckingham upon
his going thither, that he durfl venture his Son
with all the Jefuits in the World, he knew him to be lo
well grounded in the Proteftant Religion, but could ne¬
ver believe it before. I


The Qpara&erof Kjng ^ L I.
difunion between thefe Nations, than ever was be¬
fore: Like unto that bellum ,
ftederilus compofitiim, femper [Canon, lib. 3.
Chron in here. 5. an. dom. 1118.3 with a deluge of
Chriflian blood, and almofl ruine of both Parties5 or
like unto that helium Ruflicanum in , in quo
fupra centena millia Rufticorum occuluerunt. [idem an.
dom. 152-4.3 Or moil: of all, both in manner and Sub¬
ject, refembling that of John of ,and
Knoperduling, [idem an. 1534 ] which took its rife
from the former; fo many different Se&s fpring up
daily more and more amongfl them, which all like
Ephraim and Manaffes, Herod and confpire
againfl the Lord's-Arioynted, and the true Proteftant
Religion.
The City of London that was fo forward in the
beginning of this glorious Reformation, furpafies
now Amfterdam in number of Sebfs, and may be com¬
pared to old Rome, quce cum omnibus pene
maretur omnium gentium erroribus , &
fibi videbatur ajfumpjiffe Reli quia nullam refpue-
bat falfitatem. [Leo in Serm. de Petro & Paulo. app.J
their tranfgreffions are like to bring them to that
confufion of the Ifraelites when they had no Ring,
[Judg. nl]every one did what feemed good in his
own eyes, becaufe they feared not the Lord 5 [JhoJ.
10.] they {aid, What fhould a King do to us ? The
young men prefumed to be wifer than the elder,
[Ifai. 3.] the viler fort defpifed the honourable,
[Lament, ult.]and the very ferving men ruled over
them.
I profefs, when I faw thefe things fb clearly, I could
not blame the King to be fo backward in giving his
aflent to the fettling of our Presbyterial difcipline in
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I' I
II
The Epiftle Dedicatory.
that Kirke, for the great inconveniences that might
follow thereupon, to Him and his Pofterity, there
being fo many ftrong Corporations in that Kingdom
to lead on a Popular government, fuch a number of
people that have either no, or broken eftates, who
are ready to drive on any alteration, and fo weak
and powerlefs a Nobility to hinder it. Multes
pradarum,plures Res anguftre alios
feelerum Confcientia ft insula bat. [C. Tacit.']
And now, Madam, 1 hope Men, who haVe,
of late, fo boldly Ventured to throw the mojl Stic
king Dirt in the Face of this Great Prince, and Pa¬
tient Martyr, will,by Prpentance, give glory toff od,
and do fo no more; in hopes of which, I, after my
Prayers, and Earnefl Wifhes,for the
of your Ladyjhip, and whole and particular¬
ly for the long life,and health, of your Lord;
to whofe good Counfels, and indefatigable Labours we
of the Church of England owe fo much, do take
leave of your Ladyfhip, and my felf,
MADAM,
Your Ladyfhips mod Humble
and Faithful Servant,
Richard Hollingwortb.


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throw down the Gauntlet in its behalf, and there are
no men about the City cry it up, but the great Ene¬
mies of Monarchy and Epifcopacy, let their Hypocri¬
tical Profeflions be what they will.
The Book is Dedicated to a Reverend Kinlfnan of
mine, under the Name of wil(on from Yarmouth, and
what can we expeft but Falfehood, when he begins
at this rate? For my Kinfman aiTures me, there is
no man of that Name in Tar mouth but an ordinary
Saylor, and I hope the World wdl believe the Talent
of fuch a Man lyes otherwaies, than to write fuch
Letters: The fhort is, the whole Book, as appears
by the Stile, the Air and Scurrility of it all, is writ
by one and the fame Pen, and as fo I fhall Anfwer
him.
The Party now fo hotly engaged againft Monarchy
and Epifcopacy, which they ftrike at thro' the fides -
of King Charles I. I know are very much enraged at
my Defence of King Charles's Holy and Divine Book,
and therefore take all Courfes to buoy up Dr. walkers
Credit, and to leffen, or elfe to attempt to prove falfe
the Authorities I have named, and to how good
purpofes this Anfwerer has done it, I now come to
ibew.
I tell the World pag. 7. of my Defence, the Inter¬
course betwixt Sir John Brattle and my felf about that
Book, and that he aflur'd me that he helped his Fa¬
ther in 47. to Methodize the Papers, that fo far as
they were then drawn up by the King, that made up
the greateft part of that Book, all writ with the Kings
own hand ; and I alfo affert, That Sir John has own¬
ed the fame fince, not only to my felf, but many o-
thers of my Friends. To which he Replies, That Sir
John who he agrees with me, is a very worthy Per-


T6T~ 1
to Dr. GoodaBy that Dr. Gauden did affirm to him, that
he was fully convinced that the Book was entirely
the King's own Work, and what fays my Anfwerer
to this ftabbing Evidence ? For fo truly it is, and I
am fure gives the Faction a great deal of Vexation and
foaming Rage; why truly the Reply to this is very
diverting, Mr. Long writ the Vox Cleri, and Mr. Long
is againft Free Prayer and Comprehenfion, &c. and
what then, is Mr. Long not to be bdiev'd becaufe of
his Opinion as to thefe things ? Has Mr. Long by any
art of Immorality, Sedition or Rebellion, wholly for¬
feited his Credit or Reputation, fo that his Word is
not to be taken ? No Reader, upon a juft Enquiry,
I find him to be a grave, learned, ferious, and pious
Divine, in that efteem amongft his Brethren, that I
will venture again to fay, That it is no difparage-
ment to Dr. walker*s Memory, to affert, that his Tefti-
mony is to be heeded and believed before Dr. Wal¬
ker's, and I am not willing to be provoked ( becaufe
the one of them is dead ) to give my Reafons for it.
There are two things more I give the World an
Account of in my Defence of this Great Mans being
the Author of that Book, which were too hot for my
Adverfaries fingers, and therefore he durft not touch
them ; The one is Major Huntington's Story, told
from his own mouth by a Non-conformift-Minifter to
my felf; Namely, That fome of thofe Papers, that
were part of that Book, were taken at Nazeby, kept
by General Fairfax, and obtained from him by the
Major, and afterwards by him prefented to the King,
and here I challenge him or any Man, to deny the
Truth of this Story, and that becaufe that Non-con^
formift-Minifter is of fuch efteem and credit in Lon¬
don, that I am fure they will blufh to deny what he
aflerts,


CO
Sure Levet, you do defign to get this Root by heart,
having often feen me reading of it, I can fefiife afoy
That Royfton the Printer told me, that he was impri-
fond by Oliver Cromwel the Protestor, hecaufi he wwli
not declare that King Charles I. was not the Author of
the [aid Book. Signed aud Sealed 0£tob. 16th. 1690.
ui\u tmt.
And again underftanding that one Mr. Hearne now
Schoolmafter of Ameshury, and formerly Amanuenfis to
Sr. Phillip Warwick ^ who waited upon the King at the
Ifle of Wight, as a Clark and Writer, as did alio
Mr. odert and Mr. whitaker, could give me fome Ac¬
count from Sr. Phillip as to this Book ,• I went to him
when he was laft in London, and defired to know
what Afliftance he could give me, as to the proving
the Truth of the Books being the Kings, who pre-
fently with his own hand gave me this following Te-
ftimony.
1 Robert Hearne, formerly Servant to Sir Phillip
Warwick, do Atte(fy That 1 have often heard my
faid Majler Sir Phil. Warwick, as likewife Mr. Odert
and Mr. Whitaker declare, That they had Tranfcrihed
Copies of the late King Charles the Firft's own Copy of
his Book Entituled eimv KanKim written with Bis faid
Majeflies own hand. Witnefs my hand,
In the Prefence of, ^ T ik-am*.
phii. Mijt, s&ouett ipeante*
Fr. Shift on.
I have but one thing more to take notice of as to
this Matter, apd that is a Story of this Authors con-
D 2, cerning


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ly declaring Dr. Gauden's confefling it to be the King's
own Book, Major Huntington alluring a Non-confor-
mift Minifter, that he prelented fome of the fame Pa¬
pers that made up part of the Book taken at Naze by
Fight, which was three years before Dr. walker pre¬
tends Dr. Gauden fent it to the King; Dr. Dillingham's
reading fome of the Book prefently after the King
came from Newcallle; Mr. Level's feeing and reading
the Book in the ijle of wight a great while before ic
was printed, and Mr. Heame's Teftimony from Sir
Phil. Warwick, Mr. Odert and Mr. , who all
attended the King in his Imprifonment as Clerks and
Writers; and if all thefe will not weigh down the
vain Tattle and confident Say-lo of fingle Dr. Walker
from fingle Dr. Gauden, then the Lord have Mercy
upon us; for we muft needs be got to an aimoft
Jervijh State of Incredulity; From which good Lord
deliver us.
Good Reader, there is one thing more to take No¬
tice of, which had aimoft llipt my Memory, and that
is this bold mans triumphing over King Charles I. up¬
on the Icore of a Prayer taken out of Sir Phillip Sid¬
ney's Arcadia, made to an Heathen God ; and as he
impudently allert, made ufe of by him in the time
of his Captivity. Now I muft defire thee to obferve,
the Spight as well as Falfity of this Reflexion; for
if Dr. Gauden made this whole Book, as Dr. Walker
allerts, and the Copy he lent to the King was never
returned, nor made ule of in any of the Impreflions,
then the Prayer was put in by Dr. Gauden, and the
King no ways concerned in it, and conlequently it is
a Scandal founded in the greateft Malice and ill Will
to the Reputation and Vertue of this Great Man ; but
as I deny, and have fully proved that Dr. Gauden was
not


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right, as long as there is any rude Vote or fcandalous
Libel,Remonttrance,or falfe Story to be found in prinr,
and to be communicated to this prefent Age, and nei¬
ther Friend nor Enemy, if they write any thing in be¬
half of the great King ought to be believed, if he may
have his Will, and let what ACts of Parliament be
quoted for the Juftification of that Prince, yet he ftill
was a Tyrant, and a Man neither of Honour nor Re¬
ligion : But to my main defign, in which I promife
to be very fhort.
Firft Reader, 1 mud defire thee to take Notice, That I
have Dedicated my Second Defence to the Arch Bi-
fhops, Bifhops, Nobility, Gentry, Clergy and Com¬
mons of the Nation, in which I tell them of the Books
that have been Printed fince this laft Revolution, a-
gainft the Conftitution both of Church and State,
which did fufficiently fhew the Defign on Foot, to
which not one Word of Anfwer in this Libel: I fur¬
ther tell them what DeftruCtion this Spirit once back¬
ed with power will make of them and all they have,
of which no Notice taken, for which indeed I do not
blame him ; for he knows in his Confidence all I fay
is true, and I hope the Body of the Nation for the
time to come, will be fo wife and provident, as not
to let things run fo far, as to make a Second Tryal
of that Spirit, by which they have fuffered, and that
fo fmartly already.
In the beginning of my Defence, I do honeflly up¬
braid him for taking upon him the Narrie of that Tray-
tor Ludlow, and tell him that he ought to fuffer in his
ftead, being fo forward to Reprefent him, and Vindi¬
cate thofe Adions for which he ftands Condemned ;
and this he is pleafed to pafs by too, no doubt being
convinced if he had his due, he would quickly be put
out


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cut of Capacity of poyfoning the Nation with fuch
Infamous Pamphlets.
The next thing I fhall make a few Remarks upon,
is the Letter of the Prince of Wales to the Pope ; I
tell him in my Defence, that as the Letter is in Rujb'
worth, his Acculations of that Great Prince from that
Letter, are falfe and made up of Lyes, upon which he
grows great in his own eyes, and triumphs over me
as if he had got a compleat Viftory, leaving me dead
upon the fpot; for he produces another Letter, in
which is contained all he Charges upon the Prince.
The Truth is, I had heard a little before his Libel
came out, from a Reverend Neighbour of mine, that
Mr. Rujfaworthin his Firft Edition Dedicated to Rich.
Crometvel then called Protector, had put in this Let¬
ter of his, but afterwards in thole Editions after the
Reftoration, not being able to juftifie the Letter, put
this in the room of it, both which I have good Rea-
fon to believe are alike true; that is, they are both
of them fpurious, and I Challenge this bold Writer,
or any of his Party, to name a man that ever faw or
took either of thefe Letters out of any Archive or
Publick Record at Rome, Madrid, or London; that
there was a Letter fent to the Pope, I grant, but that
it was pleafing to the Pope, I deny, and that for this
very Reafon, becaufe the Pope did fo greatly delay
the Difpenfation for the Marriage, which I dare fay
he would not have done if he had had fuch hopes of
making England Catholick, as they call it again, as
fuch a Letter as this from fuch a Perfon that was next
to the Crown, did give him. The Pope of Rome knew
England fo well, and the Advantages of it to the Pa¬
pal Chair, that I am fure he would have granted an
hundred Difpenfations at firft asking, for fuch an op¬
portunity


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that Vindicates the Breach of the Sixth Command¬
ment, his Teftimony fhall have no Credit with me,
nor will, I am lure, with any good and undefigning
man throughout the Kingdom. Another thing I An-
fwer his former vile Paper withal, is what is laid by
Mr. Whitelock,concerning the Scotch Rebellion, who
tells us, ( though a Friend to the Party ) what Con-
defcentions the King made, how He kept his Word,
and the Rebels broke theirs, after a folemn Agreement
betwixt them both, who tells us of their Signing a Let ¬
ter to the Trench King to come in to their Aid againft
their lawful Soveraign, And what lays my Adverlary
to thefe things? Why he quotes feveral Defences
they made, nothing to the purpole as to what Mr.
Whitelock alferts, and indeed fuch things as any Rebels
may lay for themfelves, and he knows there never yet
was lo bad a Caule, but Wit and Malice could invent
and draw up lomething that dazzled the eyes of the
Vulgar, and ferved to keep ignorant, or defigning men
in a Body together: But good Reader, I pray take
Notice, That whereas I give an Account from Mr.
whitelock, how far Cardinal interefted him-
lelf in this Rebellion of the Scots, and how he lent
Chamberlaine his Chaplain, and Hepburn his Page, to
blow up the Coals both in England, and Scotland a-
mongft the Puritans, yet my Adverfary is plealed here
to be utterly filent and to pafs it by, no doubt be-
caufe it was fo notorious and villainous a Correlpon-
dence, as would admit of no manner of Juftification.
The next thing I Advocate for this Great King for,
are his many and gracious Favours and Condelcenti-
ons in palling fo many Bills for the firft Year of the
Parliaments fitting down, which he would make the
World believe, were no Favours, but what he was
E i bound


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mak ^0 give bat little heed to, and I will be fo hardy as
%• to tell'the World, that I will believe the Aflertions of
Kihg Charles I. before Twenty Committees of thofe
days, confidering the defigns then on foot, and the re-
"fri® folations to carry them on ; and I muft confefs, ever
jfcol'i 'fince I read Whites Centuries, the Witnefles received,
®mtTe and the ruine of io many Families upon fuch Teftimo-
»al nies, I have had but a very {lender Value for what
fe was printed from thofe Committees; let this man an-
M fwer what the King fays upon this Account in his own
it'll te Defence, and what the Officers of the Army fay in
their Petition in their behalf, and then he will aQ: like
Sera- a clear Anfwerer, and deferve a further Confideration.
alts Another thing I Charge this modeft and mannerly
Gentleman withal, is his falfe Account he gives in his
M former Libel of the Rabble running down to
(ler in a riotous and tumultuous manner, who he fays
'ml,is went otily armed with Petitions in their hands in a
(A peaceable way, as to which I tell him, and that truly,
iTtt that he contradids all the Hiftorians of that Age, and
Nou that they were fo far from fuch a decent Carriage as
Ik hi® he afferts, that they with Clubs and Staves in their
ft® hands, cryed out they would have no Groom-Porters-
ae is no Lodge at Whitehall, but would {peak with the King
Jntffli liimletf when they pleated, that they befet the Houfe
of Lords door, and cryed hijlice, Juftice, that they
fett broke the Organ, and tore the Veftments of the Church
Igijiti) of wettminfter in pieces, threw ftones at the Bifhops,
pluiijf and endangered the Bilhop of Durham's Life: And
what fays he to thefe things in his Reply ? Why tru-
fie,and ly not one Word, but ftill fillily and againft all Truth,
onfite- would make the World believe the King was not at all
:(j fitfi affronted, and had no Realon to leave Whitehall, which
110,1 be muft be a great Stranger to Matters of Fad, that
cm gives


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gives any Credit to fuch bold Allertions; and I am
lure this man, in this particular, if any man believe
him, mud be beholden to his blind Credulity, and not
to his Skill in Hiftory.
Another thing I call this man to Account for, is his
bold aflerting the Kings burning by the Hang man, his
own Pacification with the Scots when he came to Lon-
don, which I refute by a Paflage out of Bifiiop
Memoirs of the two Hamiltons; it is true, the Figures
are miftaken, but the Story is truly related as it is in
that Bilhops Book, but to convince the World of the
Malice, as well as Falfenefs of this Reflection, I fhall
prefent them with a greater Authority than the Bi¬
lhops, and that is an Ad: of State againft the Scots con¬
cerning a fcandalous Paper difperfed by them, which
the Reader may find at large in the Council Table-
Book.
On Sunday the Fourth of August 1639. His Ma je¬
lly being in Council, was pleafed to acquaint the
Lords with a Paper he had feen at Entituled,
Some Conditions of His Alajejlies Treaty with his Sub] eels
of Scotland, which Paper being in moft parts full of
Falfhood, difhonour and Icandal, to His Majefties Pro¬
ceedings in the late Pacification; All which Confi-
der'd, the whole Board unanimoufly became humble
Petitioners to His Majefty, that this falfe and fcanda¬
lous Paper might be burnt by the Hang-man, to which
Petition the Earl of Pembrooke, Salisbury and Holland,
afterward known Enemies to the King's Caufe, Con-
lented. And now I hope this will flop this mans, and
his Friends mouths as to this particular for tfc time to
come, though confidering the Malice of the man to
the Memory of King Charles, I am apt to queftion it.
As to what he and I both fay concerning the Procla¬
mations


The Irifh Rebellion faljly and fcandaloufly imputed to
King CHARLES the Firft,
♦O make good which, I onely defire thee Reader, care-
__ fully to perufe the Two following Accounts.; The one
5s a Letter by that Kings own Order, by the H?nds of Secre¬
tary Kane to the Lords Juftices of Irtiknd,Bor$ltife and Par>fons7
above half a year before the Rebellion,tgiviftg thfcm to under*
ftand the Intelligence the King had from abroad, of fonie dan*
gerous
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One, and of my being Ordained by the hands of Bi-
{hop Saunderfon, as loon as by Law I tyas capable,
namely at the Age of Twenty^ Three, that I was a Pref-
byterian ; but to Anfwer this in fhort, I do here de¬
clare in the Prefence of God, that I never was a Pref*
byterian in tny Life, and further, by God's Grace, that
I never will be one, for i neither like the Principles of
that Government, nor the Spirit of too many of that
Party, for I abhor all Bitternefs and Cruelty.
As for what he repeats out of which were
madeagainft Dr. Parker, I pray God forgive him, it is
a Defcription that belongs not at all to me, as all thole
know, who have been acquainted with the courle of
my Life, nor yet do Dr. Wildes Verles againft Dr. Let
reach me at all; for I blcls God, ever fince I came to
a competent Underflanding, I have loved the Confti-
tution of the Church of England, and done what in me
lay, to promote its true Intereft, and which I will ne¬
ver ceale to do, as long as I have Tongue to fpeak, and
a Pen to write.
I {hall conclude this part of my Dilcourfe with hear¬
ty Prayers to God for my Adverlary, that God would
open his Eyes, and change his Heart before he dies, that
fo this Iniquity may not be for his Eternal Ruine.


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lijltj Lord Loudens Head by Nine of the Clock next Morning) with-
Sfat out any Procefs of Law ?
fyr VI. Whether he does not deferve a feve.re Cenfur^ that
belyes my Lord ■ Strafford, with Words fpoke at the Cabinet-
via Council, notwithftanding the Marquefs Hamiltony Earl of
tfti Northumberland, Lord Treasurer, pnd, Lord CoiiingtZn, upon
etfk their Honours declared, being prefent at the fame Council,
fyaj they heard no fuch Words ?
V11. Whether they are not great Fools, or de/jgning K—
that believe any thing this-Libeller writes againft King Charles
the Tirfi ?
-jjj VIII. Whether he hath not done me'a greater Honour
[y, than ever I could expeft, or can deferve, to belye, defame,
J and abufe me, with the fame Pen he has abus'd King Charles
the Tirft, and that purely for His fake ?
^ Whether that Holy and Renowned Martyr, Arch-
BiQiop Cranmer, and that flout Reformer Martin Luther,
C would not appear worfe Men, than this Scribler has made
U King Charles I. if we fhould believe nothing of them , but
for what their grand Enemies the Priefls and Jefuites have writ
^ againfl them.
^ After I had finifhed the Defence of the King's Book, I re-
cetved this Letter from a Reverend Minifter of Tpfmch in
3 Suffolk which deferves to be taken Notice of.
fa, SIR,
t# Q0ME years aftcr t^je Kings Tryal, Major Huntington at
i3 Ipfwich afjured me, That fo much of the faid Book^as con-
tained His Majefties Meditations before Nafeby Fight, was
taken in the Kings Cajffpct± antyfhai Sir Thomas Fairfax de¬
livered the f aid Papers unto him, and ordered him to carry them
to the King and the Major affirmed9 that he read them over
before he delivered them-, and that they were the fame for Mat¬
ter and Form, with thofe Meditations in the Printed Book, and
that he was much affetted with them, and from that time became
j;"' a profelyte to the Royal Caufe : He alfo told me. That when
'iv he delivered them to the King, His Majefiy appeared very joy-
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