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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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lOifDOn, SATVRDAY, APRIL 18, 1857. 



£ARLT NOTES ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE 

 "icon BASILIKE." 



Though the question agitated by the late 

 learned Dr. Wordsworth in his " Who wrote Icon 

 Basilike ? " is now generally, I believe, considered 

 as settled in favour of Dr. Gauden, the following 

 Notes written in a copy of Toland's Amyrdor, or 

 a Defence of Milton's Life, London, 1699, in a 

 handwriting of that time, may deserve to be re- 

 corded in the columns of " N. & Q." Some of the 

 facts related are, I am aware, well known — others 

 may be — but so much interest was once attached 

 to the Icon Basilike, that I think the space T^^hich 

 these Notes will occupy may fairly be spared for 

 them. By- the- bye, who was the author of the 

 clever parody on the nursery jingle on Dr. Words- 

 worth's volume ? 



" Who Avrote ' Who wrote Icon Basilike ? ' 

 I, said the Master of Trinity, 

 I am a Doctor of Divinity, 

 And I wrote ' Who wrote Icon Basilik^.' " 



M. N. S. 



" ^ summary account of some papers relating to the 

 Icon Basilice now in the Hands of Mr. Arthur 

 North, Merchant, living at Toiver Hill, An. '93. 



" 1. Mr. Xorth and Mr. Ch. Gauden (the Bishop's son) 

 married two sisters, Mr. Gauden dying above 10 yeafs 

 since, all his papers were left with his widow, amongst 

 which were these carefully tied up relating to the Icon. 



" 2. These papers were at first given by the Bishop's 

 widow to her darling son John Gauden (apprentice with 

 Sir Jonathan Dawes), and that upon his death they came 

 to Mr. Ch. Gauden, and that in his many years' know- 

 ledge of that family it hath constantly been declared that 

 the Bishop was the Author of the Book. 



" 3. There are several letters and papers : I will give a 

 particular account of each. 



" 4. The Bishop was promoted from Bocking, a fat 

 living, to a lean Bishoprick, which he complained was not 

 sufficient to keep up the port of a Bishop, and thought 

 that his merits claimed a better, and the death of Dr. 

 Duppa being daily expected. He applied to the K. with 

 great importunity to be translated to the Bishoprick of 

 Winchester. 



" 1. There is a letter from Sir Edward Nicholas, secre- 

 tary of state, dated Jan. 1660, to Dr. Gauden, Bishop of 

 Exeter, Avherein the secretary tells him that he wrote by 

 the K.'s command to acquaint Him that the K. had re- 

 ceived his Letter, that he should not long have cause to 

 complain of his removal from Bocking. 



" 2. There is a Copy of a Letter from the Bishop to the 

 Lord Chancellor Hyde, dated Dec. 28, '61, and also a copy 

 of a petition to the King, all wrote by the Bishop's hand. 

 In these he sets forth his great merits. P. 36. 



" 3. There-is a Copy of a Letter of the Bishop's to the 

 Duke of York, Jan. 17, '61. His sole hope being in his 

 mediation. P. 36. 



" 4. There is an original Letter from the Lord Chan- 

 cellor Hyde to the Bishop, March 13, '61. It imports that 

 he had received several Letters from Him, that He was 

 uneasie under his importunity, excuses bis not being able 



to serve Him, speaks of annexing a Commendam to his 

 Bishoprick, and in the close hath this expression, The 

 particular vou mention has indeed been imparted to me as 

 a secret ; I am sorry I ever knew it, and when it ceases to 

 be a secret, it will please none but Mr. Milton. 



• Edw. HYDt, C 



"5. There is a Letter of Mrs. Gauden's own Hand- 

 writing after the death of the Bishop to her son Mr. John 

 Gauden, in which she speaks of the Book comonly called 

 the King's, She calls it the Jewel, and tells her son, that 

 her husband hoped to make a fortune by it, and wonders 

 it should be doubted whether her Husband wrote it ; and 

 says she has a Letter of a very great marCs which will clear 

 it up. 



" 6. There iS a long Narrative of Mrs. Gauden's Hand- 

 writing showing that her Husband wrote the Book. This 

 she sent to her son with the Letter, wherein she said, she 

 had sent it that she might be a Clavis to him. 



" The Narrative sets forth, 



" 1. That after her Husband had wrote the Book, He 

 show'd it to the Lord Capell, who approved it, and was 

 for the printing it, but wish'd the K. might have a sight 

 of it. 



" 2. That an opportunity was taken to convey it to the 

 K. by the Lord Marquess of Hertford, when he went to 

 the treaty at the Isle of Wight 



" 3. That the Marquis after his return from thence told 

 her Husband, that he gave the Book to the King, and his 

 Majesty did well like it, but was for putting it out, Not 

 as his own, but another's. But it being urg'd that Crom- 

 well and others of the Army having got a great reputa- 

 tion with the people for parts and piety, it would do best 

 to be in the King's name. His Majesty took time to con- 

 sider of it. 



"4. That the Marquess told her Husband, that he 

 knew not what was become of the Papers, and said, God 

 knows what will become of the King. 



"5. That her Husband not hearing the King's pleasure 

 about it, and finding danger hastening on Him, He having 

 kept a Copy by him, sent it by one Mr. Symmonds, a per- 

 secuted Minister, to the Press, together with a Letter. 

 That Mr. Koyston was the printer, but did not know but 

 the King wrote it ; That part of it was seized in the press, 

 together with her husband's Letter, and Mr. Symmonds 

 was taken. 



" 6. Nevertheless the work was carried on and finished 

 a few days after his Majest3''s death. That when it was 

 published, the parliament was enraged ; and her Husband 

 considering his life and estate to be in danger, fled to Sir 

 John Wentworth's near Yarmouth, intending thence to 

 pass the seas ; but Mr. Symmonds falling sick and dying 

 soon after, not having been examined, and it not being 

 discovered that her Husband was concem'd in it (The 

 Letter which had been taken having no name to it). He 

 altered his purpose and returned home. 



" 7. That there was an Epistle first intended. That the 

 first title was Suspiria Regalia, but changed to Icon Ba- 

 silice, and that there were two chapters added. 



" 8. That the Marquess of Hertford, the Lord Capel, 

 Bishop Duppa, and Bishop Morley, were at first the only 

 persons privy to it. 



" 9. That after the King's restoration Dr. Morley told 

 her Husband that his merit was such, that He could ask 

 nothing but he would receive it. 



" 10. That Bishop Duppa of Winchester being very sick 

 (He died March 26, '62, Gauden was translated to Wor- 

 cester, May, '02, and died the 20th of Sept., '02.), Her Hus- 

 band went to the King and acquainted Him that He was 

 Author of the Book, and for tlie truth thereof appealed to 

 Bishop Duppa, his Majesty's Tutor, who was yet living; 

 and made an Apology for printing it, without his Ma- 



