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<P>RESTITUTION TO THE Royal Author OR A VINDICATION OF King <HI>CHARLS</HI> the Martyr's mo&s;t Excellent BOOK; Intituled &Esmogr;&Igr;&Kgr;&OHgr;&Ngr; &Bgr;&Agr;&Sgr;&Igr;&Lgr;&Igr;&Kgr;&EEgr; From the Fal&s;e, Scandalous, and Malicious Reflections lately Publi&s;hed again&s;t it.</P>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE>May 10, 1691:</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Z. I&s;ham.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>LONDON;</HI> Printed for <HI>Samuel Keble,</HI> at the Great <HI>Turks-Head</HI> in <HI>Fleet-&s;treet,</HI> over again&s;t <HI>Fetter-Lane-end.</HI> 1691.</P>
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<HEAD>RESTITUTION TO THE ROYAL AUTHOR: OR A Vindication of King <HI>Charles</HI> the Martyr's mo&s;t Ex|cellent Book Intituled, <GAP DESC="foreign"> from the Fal&s;e, Scandalous, and Malicious Reflections lately Publi&s;h|ed again&s;t it.</HEAD>
<P>MR. <HI>Milton's</HI> <GAP DESC="foreign"> being lately reprinted, the Editor has thought &s;it, out of what de&s;ign he be&s;t knows, to prefix the following <HI>Adverti&s;ement</HI> to his Book,</P>
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<P>Whereas a Book, called <HI>Eikon Ba&s;ilike,</HI> or King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI>'s <HI>Meditations,</HI> is most commonly reported and believed by many, e&s;pecially the Clergy, to be compo&s;|ed by King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t;</HI> the following In&s;ertion of the Noble Lord <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> under his own hand, was found by <HI>Edward Millington,</HI> prefixt to one of the Books, reputed to be King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t's.</HI></P>
<P>Which <HI>Memorandum,</HI> if the <HI>Declaration</HI> of two Kings may be believed, is &s;uffi|cient to &s;atisfie the World, how much that King was impo&s;ed upon by Dr. <HI>Gauden</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exeter,</HI></P>
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<HEAD>MEMORANDUM.</HEAD>
<P><HI>King</HI> Charles <HI>the</HI> Second <HI>and the Duke of</HI> York, <HI>did</HI> (<HI>both in the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament,</HI> 1675. <HI>when I &s;hewed them in the Lords Hou&s;e, the Written Copy of this Book, wherein are &s;ome Corrections and Alterations, written with the Late King</HI> Charles <HI>the</HI> Fir&s;t's <HI>own Hand,</HI>) <HI>a&s;&s;ure me that this was none of the &s;aid Kings compiling, but made by Dr.</HI> Gauden <HI>Bi&s;hop of</HI> Exeter, <HI>which I here in&s;ert for the undeceiving of others in this Point, by atte&s;ting &s;o much under my Hand.</HI></P>
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<P>Now to prevent the ill Impre&s;&s;ions, which may po&s;&s;ibly be occa&s;ion'd by the abovementioned <HI>Memorandum,</HI> and to re&s;tore this Incomparable Book to the ju&s;t Priviledge of its Royal Author, I &s;hall very briefly do the&s;e two things.</P>
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I. Shew &s;ome Marks of Su&s;picion upon the <HI>Adverti&s;ement.</HI></P>
<P N="2">II. Suppo&s;ing it had all the pretended advantages, I &s;hall produce &s;uch proof again&s;t it, which, the Circum&s;tances of the Evidence con&s;idered, mu&s;t be allowed an over Ballance to his Lord&s;hips Atte&s;tation.</P>
<P N="1">I There are &s;ome things in the <HI>Adverti&s;ement</HI> which render the Credit of it very que&s;tionable. For 1. It calls the Duke his then Royal Highne&s;s, <HI>the Duke of York.</HI> which was no Court Language in 1675; there being neither Rea&s;on nor Cu&s;tom for &s;uch a length of Di&s;tinction at that time. Now its &s;omewhat unlikely, that a Per&s;on of Honor and a Courtier, e&s;pecially one of my late Lord <HI>Angle&s;ey</HI>'s Sen&s;e, &s;hould be guilty of &s;uch an Impropriety. 2. We are inform'd by the <HI>Adverti&s;ement,</HI> that in the <HI>Written Coppy</HI> of the <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>There are &s;ome Corrections and Alterations written with the late King</HI> Charles <HI>the</HI> fir&s;t <HI>his own Hand;</HI> which is no contemptible Argument, if we had no other, that the King was the Author; otherwi&s;e we &s;hall be at a lo&s;s for the rea&s;on of his Maje&s;ty's Correcting the Manu&s;cript, and &s;uffering it to pa&s;s under the Title of his own Compo&s;ure. 3. The making Bi&s;hop <HI>Gauden</HI> the Author of this Book is another di&s;advantage to the credit of the <HI>Memorandum,</HI> for the Stile, the Air, and Thought of <GAP DESC="foreign">, is as different from the management of Bi&s;hop <HI>Gauden's</HI> writings, as 'tis po&s;&s;ible to imagine; But out of re&s;pect to the Bi&s;hop's Memory, I &s;hall forbear to in&s;i&s;t upon the Compari&s;on. 'Its likely therefore King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Second</HI> and the then Duke, might tell the late Earl of <HI>Angle&s;ey</HI> (which his Lord&s;hip might po&s;&s;ibly forget) that the Manu&s;cript was not King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> his Hand; but a Tran&s;cript of Dr. <HI>Gauden's</HI> writing, which as it agrees with matter of Fact; &s;o it gives a fair ac|count of the <HI>Alterations</HI> in the Copy, which the <HI>Memorandum</HI> grants were made by the King.</P>
<P N="2">II. Suppo&s;ing this <HI>Memorandum</HI> had all the pretended Advantages; I &s;hall now produce &s;uch proof again&s;t it, which the Circum&s;tances of the Evidence con|&s;idered, mu&s;t be allowed an over ballance to his Lord&s;hips Atte&s;tation.</P>
<P N="1">1. We have the <HI>Letters Patents</HI> of King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Second,</HI> dated <HI>Novem|ber</HI> the <HI>29th.</HI> 1660. In which <HI>Richard Roy&s;ton</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> Book&s;eller, has the &s;ole priviledge given him of Printing all the <HI>Works</HI> of King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> among&s;t which the <GAP DESC="foreign"> is mentioned, with a particular Character and Commendation.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;ame Priviledge for Reprinting the <HI>Works</HI> of King <HI>Charles</HI> the <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> is granted to the abovemention'd <HI>Richard Roy&s;ton</HI> by his P^t. Maje&s;ty King <HI>James</HI> the <HI>Second,</HI> as appears by his Maje&s;ties <HI>Letters</HI> dated <HI>February</HI> 22. 1685/6. Which grant refers expre&s;ly to the fir&s;t Edition Publi&s;h'd by <HI>Richard Roy&s;ton,</HI> in the year 1662, and in which his Maje&s;ty declares that <HI>all the Works of his Royal Father were Collected and Publi&s;hed.</HI> Which former Impre&s;&s;ion, as I have already ob&s;erv'd, makes particular men|tion of <GAP DESC="foreign">. Now I leave it to any unprejudiced Per&s;on to judge whether 'tis in the lea&s;t probable, that either of their Maje&s;ties &s;hould tell the late Earl of <HI>Angle&s;ey,</HI> that this excellent Book was written by Dr. <HI>Gauden,</HI> &s;ince they have both own'd it to be their Royal Father's in &s;o publick a manner, &s;o that to u&s;e the expre&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Adverti&s;ement, if the Declaration of two Kings,</HI> made with all the Circum&s;tances of Advantage, <HI>may be believ'd</HI> before a blind Manu&s;cript, written by a doubtful Hand, and grounded upon a private Relation, then we have <HI>&s;ufficient</HI> evidence to <HI>&s;atisfie the World how much this Adverti&s;er has Endeavour'd to impo&s;e upon it.</HI> To the&s;e Royal Te|&s;timonies,
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 3 -->I &s;hall &s;ubjoyn that of Sir. <HI>Will. Dugdale,</HI> who having mention'd the re&s;tle&s;s Endeavours of the Rebels to le&s;&s;en his Maje&s;ties Reputation, as by other methods of Calumnies and Detraction, &s;o particularly with re&s;pect to this Book, a&s;&s;igning it to &s;ome other, tho' uncertain, Author. Having re|marked this ill u&s;age he delivers his opinion in the&s;e words.</P>
<P><Q>But to manife&s;t that the&s;e were no borrowed Wares,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir. <HI>William Dugdale's</HI> &s;hort View of the late troubles in <HI>England,</HI> pr. <HI>1681.</HI> p. <HI>380.</HI></NOTE> but by the good and gracious a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Almighty God were totally of his own compo&s;ure in the mid&s;t of his mo&s;t &s;ad afflictions, be&s;ides the unlikely-hood that any &s;uch expre&s;&s;ions could flow from an heart not oppre&s;&s;ed and griev'd with &s;uch a weight of &s;orrow as his was; I &s;hall make it evident from the Te&s;timony of very credible Per&s;ons yet Living, that he had begun the penning of them long before he went from <HI>Oxford</HI> to the <HI>Scots:</HI> For the Manu&s;cript it &s;elf writ|ten with his own hand being found in his Cabinet, which was taken at <HI>Naue&s;by</HI> Fight, was re&s;tor'd to him after he was brought to <HI>Hampton Court,</HI> by the Hand of Major <HI>Huntington,</HI> thro the favour of General <HI>Fairfax,</HI> of whom he obtain'd it. And that whil&s;t he was in the <HI>I&s;le</HI> of <HI>Wight,</HI> it was there &s;een frequently by Mr. <HI>Thomas Herbert,</HI> who then waited on his Maje|&s;ty in his Bed-chamber; as al&s;o by Mr. <HI>William Levet,</HI> (a Page of the back-Stairs) the Title then perfix'd to it being <HI>Su&s;piria Regalia,</HI> who not only read &s;everal parts thereof but &s;aw the Ring divers times writing farther on it. Add hereunto the Te&s;timony of Mr. <HI>Richard Roy&s;ton</HI> a Book&s;eller, at the <HI>An|gel</HI> in <HI>Ivy-Lane;</HI> who having in tho&s;e Rebellious times, adventur'd to Print divers of his Maje&s;ty's Declarations, Speeches, and Me&s;&s;ages; about the be|ginning of <HI>Oct.</HI> 1648, (the King being then in the <HI>I&s;le of Wight</HI>) was &s;ent to by his Maje&s;ty to prepare all things ready for the printing &s;ome papers which he purpo&s;ed &s;hortly after to convey to him. Which was this very Copy brought to him on the Twenty Third of <HI>December</HI> next following, by one Mr. <HI>Edward Symmons,</HI> a Reverend Divine, who Receiv'd it from Dr. <HI>Bryan Duppa.</HI> then Bi&s;hop of <HI>Salisbury,</HI> and afterwards of <HI>Winche&s;ter.</HI> In the Print|ing whereof Mr. <HI>Roy&s;ton</HI> made &s;uch &s;peed, that it was fini&s;h'd before that di&s;mal Thirtieth of <HI>January,</HI> that his Maje&s;ties Life was &s;o taken away, as before is ob&s;erv'd.</Q></P>
<P>To make the proof more inconte&s;tible, if po&s;&s;ible, I &s;hall in the la&s;t place in&s;ert a Letter, tran&s;cribed from the Original, written by Mr. <HI>Levet</HI> now Living; the Gentleman mentioned by Sir <HI>William Dugdale</HI> in the place a|bove cited.</P>
<P>The Super&s;cription of the &s;aid Letter runs thus,</P>
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<HEAD>For <HI>Seymer Bourman,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> near the Arch in <HI>Lincolns-Inn Fields.</HI></HEAD>
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<SALUTE>Dear Brother,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>YOurs of the <HI>21th.</HI> of this in&s;tant <HI>April</HI> I received, and one Letter before that to the &s;ame effect, <HI>Viz.</HI> To give a true Account of my knowledg of that unparallel'd Book, which his Sacred Maje&s;ty, of ever ble&s;&s;ed memory, King <HI>Charls</HI> the Fir&s;t (murdered by his own Rebellious Subjects before his own Pallace at <HI>White-hall,</HI> with all the violent and maliti|ous circum&s;tances that wicked Men could invent) which Book, of my certain knowledge, I can depo&s;e, was truly His own, hav|ing ob&s;erved His Maje&s;ty oftentimes writing His Royal Re|&s;entments of the bold and in&s;olent behaviour of His Souldi|ers (His Rebellious Subjects) when they had Him in their cu|&s;tody. I waited on His Maje&s;ty as Page of the Bed-chamber in ordinary during all the time of His Solitudes, (except when I was forced from Him) and e&s;pecially being nominated by His Maje&s;ty to be one of His Servants, among&s;t others, that &s;hould attend Him during the Treaty at <HI>Newport</HI> in the I&s;le of <HI>Wight,</HI> had the happine&s;s to read the &s;ame oftentimes in Manu&s;cript under His Maje&s;ties own Hand, being plea|&s;ed to leave it in the Window in His own Bed-chamber, where I was alwayes obliged to attend His Maje&s;ties com|ing thither. But the Treaty being ended in few dayes af|ter, the Souldiers with One to conduct them, by name Mr. <HI>Anthony Mildmay</HI> then Cup-bearer, came to the Bed-chamber, about ii. of the clock in the Night, and knocked at the door, and one <HI>Mr. Herbert, Mr. Kirk,</HI> and my &s;elf having &s;ome hint of their intentions, were watching in an inward Room, and hearing the noi&s;e, went into His Maje&s;ties Bed-chamber, and asked, who they were that dur&s;t di&s;turb His Maje&s;ty at that un&s;ea&s;onable time of the Night, who an&s;wered, they were &s;ent to tell the King, He mu&s;t ri&s;e and go with them. We ac|quainting His Maje&s;ty with their de&s;ign, He was plea&s;ed to command us to tell them, He would go with them, but it was not His u&s;ual hour to ri&s;e &s;o &s;oon, we again acquainted the Souldiers with His Maje&s;ties an&s;wer. They in&s;tead of complying with his Maje&s;ty, bid us tell Him, if He did not ri&s;e pre&s;ently they mu&s;t force Him to it: His Maje&s;ty onely
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 4 -->&s;aid, if I mu&s;t, give me my Cloaths, and &s;o He immediately aro&s;e. (Here you may ob&s;erve a mirrour of Patience in a di|&s;tre&s;&s;ed Prince) During the time of His Maje&s;ties making him|&s;elf ready, he concern'd him&s;elf only how to &s;ecure this Book of his, and a &s;mall Cabinet, wherein he &s;ecured his Letters to his Queen, who was then beyond the Sea, and his Maje&s;ty having procured a Pa&s;s for me from the Governour that I &s;hould wait on him there; He gave me in charge this &s;aid Book and &s;mall Cabinet, which I faithfully pre&s;ented to his Maje|&s;ties own hands that Night in <HI>Hur&s;t-Ca&s;tle.</HI> But the Gover|nour, by what information is too tedious to in&s;ert here at this time, and therefore I omit it, did on the <HI>Saturday</HI> bani&s;h me out of the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P>I &s;hould have &s;ent you a Relation which I had from <HI>Roy|&s;ton,</HI> the Kings Printer, for the Printing the &s;aid Book by his Maje&s;ties e&s;pecial Command, brought to him by a Divine, but not to be<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">By <HI>Printed,</HI> is to be under&s;tood, <HI>Publi&s;hed.</HI></NOTE> printed till after the Kings death, which he ob&s;erved accordingly, for which <HI>Cromwel</HI> &s;ent for him to <HI>White-hall,</HI> not onely promi&s;ing Rewards, but al&s;o threatning Puni&s;hment, if he would not deny, that he print|ed it by his Maje&s;ties Order, which he refu&s;ing to do did im|pri&s;on him for about a fortnight, but &s;eeing he could not work upon him, relea&s;ed him; which is all at pre&s;ent from</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From <HI>Savernack</HI> Park near <HI>Marlborough,</HI> <DATE>Apr. 29. 1691.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Your Affectionate Brother To &s;erve you <HI>WILLIAM LEVETT.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The&s;e Authorities, together with Remarks upon the <HI>Memorandum</HI> are, I conceive, &s;ufficient to clear the Point in hand, and to give the Reader full &s;atisfaction. I &s;hall ju&s;t add a word concerning the <HI>Prayer,</HI> which <HI>Milton</HI> pretends the King took from Sir <HI>Philip Sidney's Arcadia,</HI> and &s;o conclude.</P>
<P N="1">I. We may take notice that the Prayer it &s;elf is Grave, Pious, and unex|ceptionable.</P>
<P N="2">II. This Prayer, as it is ob&s;erv'd by the excellent Author of <GAP DESC="foreign">, p. 82, <HI>Was neither made by an Heathen Woman, nor to an Heathen God (as the
<PB N="8" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 5 -->Objection &s;uppo&s;es) but compo&s;ed, as is believed by the Author a Chri&s;tian, with out Reference to any Heathen Deity.</HI></P>
<P N="3">III. This <HI>Prayer</HI> was not printed with <GAP DESC="foreign"> in two or three of the Fir&s;t Impre&s;&s;ions of that Book, which is an Argument it was not u&s;ed by the King; but afterward in&s;erted by the Printers for their private advan|tage. This Inference, be&s;ides the rea&s;onablene&s;s of it, is the Opinion of the Learned Per&s;on aboyementioned.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>PReparation to a Holy Life,</HI> or Devotions for Families or Private Per&s;ons, with Directions &s;uited to mo&s;t particular Ca&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> by the Author of the <HI>Weeks Preparation to the Sacrament,</HI> &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A</HI> Collection of Private Forms of Prayer out of the Common Prayer Book, for Morning, Noon and Night, and other &s;pecial Occa&s;ions, being in a diffe|rent method from any former, by the Author of the <HI>Weeks Preparation to the Sacrament,</HI> &amp;c. Together with the Holy Fea&s;ts and Fa&s;ts as they are ob&s;erved in the Church of <HI>England,</HI> explained, and the Rea&s;ons why they are yearly Celebrated.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A</HI> Table to all the Epi&s;tles and Go&s;pels in the Book of Common-Prayer, &s;o that you may find any Texts of Scripture, being contained in them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rules of more Devout Behaviour in the time of Divine Service in the Church of <HI>England.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Explication of the Terms, Order, and U&s;efulne&s;s of the Liturgy of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> by way of Que&s;tion and An&s;wer, recommended to be learned after the Church Catechi&s;m.</ITEM>
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<P>All Five Printed for <HI>Sam. Keble,</HI> and are to be Sold at the <HI>Great Turks-Head</HI> in <HI>Fleet&s;treet</HI> over again&s;t  <HI>Fetter-Lane end.</HI> 1691.</P>
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