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_treatises_. E.g. _Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia_ (part 1), 1649, by George Bate or Bates, princ.i.p.al physician to Charles I and II; _England's black Tribunall. Set forth in the Triall of K. Charles I_, 1660; and the sermon mentioned above.
Page 51, l. 20. _educated by that people_. His tutor was Sir Peter Young (1544-1628), the tutor of James. Patrick Young (1584-1652), Sir Peter's son, was Royal Librarian.
l. 26. _Hambleton_. Cf. p. 18, l. 24.
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Memoires Of the reigne of King Charles I. With a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II. By Sir Philip Warwick, Knight.
Published from the Original Ma.n.u.script. With An Alphabetical Table.
London, 1701. (pp. 64-75.)
Warwick (1609-83) was Secretary to Charles in 1647-8. 'When I think of dying', he wrote, adapting a saying of Cicero, 'it is one of my comforts, that when I part from the dunghill of this world, I shall meet King Charles, and all those faithfull spirits, that had virtue enough to be true to him, the Church, and the Laws unto the last.'
(_Memoires_, p. 331.) Pa.s.sages in the _Memoires_ show that they were begun after the summer of 1676 (p. 37), and completed shortly after May 18, 1677 (p. 403).
Page 55, l. 13. _Sir Henry Vane_, the elder.
l. 14. _dyet_, allowance for expenses of living.
Page 56, l. 26. [Greek: Eikon Basilikae]. _The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiesty in his Solitudes and Sufferings_ was published in February 1649. Charles's authors.h.i.+p was at once doubted in Milton's [Greek: EIKONOKLASTAES] and in [Greek: EIKON ALAETHINAE]. _The Pourtraicture of Truths most sacred Majesty truly suffering, though not solely_, and supported in [Greek: EIKON AKLASTOS], in [Greek: EIKON AE PISTAE], and in _The Princely Pellican_, all published in 1649. The weight of evidence is now strongly in favour of the authors.h.i.+p of John Gauden (1605-62), bishop of Exeter at the Restoration. Gauden said in 1661 that he had written it, and examination of his claims is generally admitted to have confirmed them. See H.J. Todd's _Letter concerning the Author_, 1825, and _Gauden the Author, further shewn_, 1829; and C.E. Doble's four letters in _The Academy_, May 12-June 30, 1883.
Carlyle had no doubt that Charles was not the author. 'My reading progresses with or without fixed hope. I struggled through the ”Eikon Basilike” yesterday; one of the paltriest pieces of vapid, shovel-hatted, clear-starched, immaculate falsity and cant I have ever read. It is to me an amazement how any mortal could ever have taken that for a genuine book of King Charles's. Nothing but a surpliced Pharisee, sitting at his ease afar off, could have got up such a set of meditations. It got Parson Gauden a bishopric.'--Letter of November 26, 1840 (Froude's _Thomas Carlyle_, 1884, vol. i, p. 199).
Page 57, l. 4. Thomas Herbert (1606-82), made a baronet in 1660.
Appointed by Parliament in 1647 to attend the King, he was latterly his sole attendant, and accompanied him with Juxon to the scaffold.
His _Threnodia Carolina_, reminiscences of Charles's captivity, was published in 1702 under the t.i.tle, _Memoirs of the Two last Years of the Reign of that unparalleled Prince, of ever Blessed Memory, King Charles I_. It was 'printed for the first time from the original MS.'
(now in private possession), but in modernized spelling, in Allan Fea's _Memoirs of the Martyr King_, 1905, pp. 74-153.
l. 10. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), bishop of Salisbury, 1689, the historian whose characters are given in the later part of this volume.
His _Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William Dukes of Hamilton_, 1677, his first historical work, appeared while Warwick was writing his _Memoires of Charles_. It attracted great attention, as its account of recent events was furnished with authentic doc.u.ments.
'It was the first political biography of the modern type, combining a narrative of a man's life with a selection from his letters' (C.H.
Firth, introduction to Clarke and Foxcroft's _Life of Burnet_, 1907, p. xiii).
l. 15. _affliction gives understanding_. Compare Proverbs 29. 15, and Ecclesiasticus 4. 17 and 34. 9; the exact words are not in the Authorised Version.
l. 30. Robert Sanderson (1587-1663), Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, 1642, Bishop of Lincoln, 1660. Izaak Walton wrote his _Life_, 1678.
Page 58, l. 20. Sir Dudley Carleton (1573-1632), created Baron Carleton, 1626, and Viscount Dorchester, 1628; Secretary of State, 1628.
l. 21. Lord Falkland, see pp. 71-97; Secretary of State, 1642.
Page 59, ll. 11-13. Plutarch, Life of Alexander the Great; opening sentences, roughly paraphrased.
Page 60, l. 20. _Venient Romani_, St. John, xi. 48. See _The Archbishop of Canterbury's Speech or His Funerall Sermon, Preacht by himself on the Scaffold on Tower-Hill, on Friday the 10. of Ianuary, 1644. London_, 1644, p. 10: 'I but perhaps a great clamour there is, that I would have brought in Popery, I shall answer that more fully by and by, in the meane time, you know what the Pharisees said against Christ himself, in the eleventh of _Iohn_, _If we let him alone, all men will beleeve on him_, Et venient Romani, _and the Romanes will come and take away both our place and the Nation_. Here was a causelesse cry against Christ that the Romans would come, and see how just the Iudgement of G.o.d was, they crucified Christ for feare least the Romans should come, and his death was that that brought in the Romans upon them, G.o.d punis.h.i.+ng them with that which they most feared: and I pray G.o.d this clamour of _veniunt Romani_, (of which I have given to my knowledge no just cause) helpe not to bring him in; for the Pope never had such a Harvest in England since the Reformation, as he hath now upon the Sects and divisions that are amongst us.'
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