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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2''a S. N« C8., April 18. *67. 



Jesty's father's order or his, but pleaded the circumstances 

 of time, and the K.'s danger. 



" 11. That his Majesty told her Husband that till then 

 He never knew that he wrote it, but thought it was his 

 father's, yet wonder'd how he could have time ; and ob- 

 served that it was wrote like a Scholar as well as like a 

 King ; and said that if it had been published sooner, it 

 might have saved his father's life : That at the same time 

 the King gave him a promise of the Bishoprick of Win- 

 chester. 



" 12. That He afterwards acquainted the Duke of York 

 Ihat He was the Author of that Book which went under 

 his father's name ; and that the Duke answered He had 

 thought that his father wrote it : That her Husband then 

 told his Highness that the King had promised Him the 

 Bishoprick of Winchester, and that his Highness assured 

 Him of his favour. 



" 13. That Bishop Duppa dying, Her Husband applied 

 to the Ring upon his promise ; but Dr. Morley who had 

 told her Husband that he might have what he would ask, 

 got it, and her Husband was made Bishop of Worcester ; 

 but having enjoyed it about half a year, fell sick and 

 died. 



" 14. That she petitioned the King ; setting forth that 

 her Husband left her a Widow with 4 sons and a daughter. 



" 15. That it cost her Husband 200Z. to remove from 

 Exeter to Worcester, and prayed his Majesty to bestow 

 the half year's rents upon her, which he denied, and gave 

 them to another. 



" Toland's testimony about Mrs. Gauden, p. 130. 



" Mrs. Gauden was often heard to relate the substance of 

 her Narrative to her friends and relations, and who, when 

 Dr. Nicholson, then Bishop of Glocester, did on her re- 

 ceiving the sacrament put the Question to her, affirm'd 

 that her Husband wrote that Book, which several now 

 living in that city do very well remember. 



" Dr. Hollingworth's account of Mr. NortKs papers. Ep. 

 ded. to his Sermon. 



"1. The first paper is a petition to the King for the 

 Bishoprick of Winchester, which indeed is so Romantick, 

 so childishly cracking and boasting of his Heroic and 

 Secret Service that one would think he had lost all im- 

 pressions of common polity and prudence. 



" 2. The next paper is a Letter to my Lord Chancellor 

 Hyde, still for the Bishoprick of Winchester ; In which he 

 down-right offers to commit the sin of simony, and bids 

 one half of the Bishoprick of Winchester to get the other. 

 Now He that will enter in at the door of perjury and for- 

 swear Himself, will not fail to tell a falsehood, when 

 covetousness and pride have the ascendant. 



"3. The last paper is a long Narrative of Mrs. Gauden's, 

 in which she tells you of Dr. Gauden's acquainting K. 

 Ch. 2nd that He wrote the King's Book, who promised 

 Him thereupon the reversion of the Bishoprick of Win- 

 chester; though He owned to Dr. Walker after He was 

 Elect of Worcester that He knew not whether K. Ch. 2. 

 knew that He was the Author of it, 



" 4. Mrs. Gauden says that some of the Rump Parlia- 

 ment friends took the very manuscript her Husband sent 

 to his Majesty and appointed a private Committee to find 

 out the business. This had been brave for Mr. Milton, 

 who would have taken notice of it in his answer to the 

 K. Book. And no doubt the Rump would have got this 

 News all over the Nation." — Br. Hollingworth's Epistle 

 to his Sermon published An, '93. 



[We find the foregoing " Summary Account " is ex- 

 tracted from a pamphlet published in 1693, entitled, 

 " Truth brought to Light, or the Gross Forgeries of Dr. 

 Hollingworth Detected; to which is annexed a Manifest 



Proof that Dr. Gauden, not King Charles the First, was 

 the author of Icon Basilike, by a late happy discovery of 

 his original papers upon that occasion." An abstract of 

 this document is also given by Dr. Wordsworth in Who 

 Wrote Icon Basilike ? pp. 15, 16. — Ed. « N. & Q."] 



KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE. 



I have been kindly favoured with the following 

 authentic list of the noblemen and gentlemen 

 who, in 1829-30, composed the Metropolitan 

 Convent in England : — 



1. Admiral Sir William Sydney Smith, G.C.B., Grand 



Prior of England. 



2. The Right Hon. Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, M.P., 



Prior of the Metropolitan Convent of "England. 



3. The Right Hon. George Hamilton Chichester, after- 



wards Marquis of Donegal. 



4. John James Baron de Hochepied Larpent, afterwards 



a Baronet. 



5. Henry Smedley, Esq., Commander of Larissa, &c. 



6. Richard Forester, Esq. 



7. William Peter, Esq., M.P. 



8. Sir James Fellowes. 



9. Colonel Sir Hugh Percy Davison, K.H. 



10. Right Hon. John George Lambton, G.C.B., afterwards 



Earl of Durham ; Grand Prior of Scotland. 



11. Edmund Lomax, Esq. 



12. Septimus Arabin, Esq. 



13. William Dorset Fellowes, Esq., Secretary of the Me- 



tropolitan Convent of England. 



14. William Russell, Esq., M.P. 



15. Henry Somerset, Duke of Beaufort, K.G. 



16. William Williams, Esq., M.P. 



17. The Right Hon. George Byng, Viscount Torrington. 



18. Charles Mackinnon, Esq., M.P. 



19. The Right Hon. Lord William Henry Hugh Chol- 



mondeley, M.P. 



20. His Royal Highness Augustus Frederick, Duke of 



Sussex, K.G. 



21. Sir William Rumbold, Baronet. 



22. Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster, &c. 



&c. &c.. Grand Prior of Ireland. 



23. Thomas George Corbet, Esq., M.P. 



24. John James Watts, Esq., of Hawkesdale Hall, Com- 



mander of Carlisle. 



25. Colonel Charles Doyle. 



26. The Right Hon. Joseph Leeson, Earl of Miltown. 



27. Colonel Charles Kemys Kemys Tynte, Esq., M.P. 



28. Matthew Wilson, Esq. 



29. Sir Jasper Atkinson. 



30. Charles Porcher, Esq., M.P. 



31. Walter Croker, Esq. 



Can I be informed, through " N. & Q.," if the 

 Metropolitan Convent is still flourishing ? Any 

 information respecting a convent which was esta- 

 blished at Liverpool between twenty-five and 

 thirty years ago would also be most acceptable. 



William Winthrop. 



Malta. 



HEAENIANA. 



Unpunished Letter of Tom Hearve. — In look- 

 ing over some old manuscripts here the other day, 

 I found the letter of Hearne the antiquary to 



