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the church for the further enlightning of our understanding Nor that Dr. PERINCHIEF fhould tell us in his life how fom purchas'd chips of the block on which he was beheaded, and parcels of the fands difcolor'd with his blood, as also som of his hair, Hoping, continues he, they would be a means of cure for that difeafe, which our English kings, through the indulgence of kind heaven, by their touch did ufually heal: And it was reported that these reliques, experienc'd, fail'd not of the effect. Now who can laugh at the popifh legends, and be ferious when he reads this paffage? Wheras, if there was ever any power in England of curing the king's evil, it was plainly lodg'd in the people.

BEFORE I conclude, I must remark, that the his pretended friends were fo ready to father fuch books on CHARLES the first, wherein he had no band, yet they industriously left out of his works a letter to pope GREGORY XV, whereof I can prove him as evidently to be the author as CICERO or VIRGIL may be entitul'd to the Philippicks and the Æneids. There is an interpolated copy of it in the first volum of RUSHWORTH'S Collections: It is rightly inferted in the

fuch opinion of the matter; for when a certain Lord reminded his Majesty of his fwearing in cominon difcourfe, the King replied, "Your Martyr fwore more than ever I did."

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The Rev. Mr. Watfon's Apology for his conduct on January thirty. London printed 1756, in octavo. p. 24.

+ Hear what description an hiftorian of that party gives of thofe on the Royal fide. "Never had any good undertaking fo many unworthy attendants; fuch horrid blafphemers and wicked "wretches, as ours bath had : I quake to think, much more to speak, "what mine ears have heard from fome of their lips: but to discover them is not my present purpose."

Symmon's Defence of King Charles I. p. 165.

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quarto edition of a book call'd Cabala, or Myfteries of ftate: It is alfo in the Italian Mercury of VITTORIO SIRI: in DU CHESNE's French Hiftory of England, Scotland and Ireland: and in feveral Spanish and Italian authors. Pope URBAN VIII. mentions it in the letter which he likewife fent this prince, with another to his father king JAMES; both which may be read in RUSHWORTH'S Collections. Now was not the omitting of this letter a notorious fraud, fince that it alone, with those letters which the parliament publish'd to disgrace him, and a ́few pieces befides, make up all his genuin writings; for as to those meffages, propofitions, declarations, treaties, and other public papers, which fill that bulky folio they call his works, whoever takes them to be his, is likewife capable of believing he was the true author of Icon Bafilike.

THIS is all I had to write concerning this famous book, not to reflect on the memory of CHARLES the first, but in my own vindication; being a liberty not deny'd me by equity or law, and which, if I neglected to improve, I fhould be more unjust to my self than my adverfaries, whofe malice I fhall readily forget, and heartily pray God to forgive.

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