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might have terminated to the Bishop's. "trouble *."

The Bishop then was no farther troubled than by the officer's demanding this fingle paper. All the reft he carried off in the depth of his pocket. If any thing more troublesome had 'happened to the Bishop upon the occafion, Fuller would certainly have known it, and would as certainly have recorded it; for he takes him up again in his Worthies of England.

Other accounts fay, that the Bifhop afterwards retired to his own manor of Little Compton in Glocestershire, where he fometimes rode a hunting for his

*Fuller's Church History, p. penult.

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health; a certain fign that he had no great moleftation from the ruling party. Milton fays, the King "bequeathed this prayer among his deifying friends to be published by them." And publifhed it actually was, twice if not thrice, before Milton's Iconoclaftes appeared; which, according to Wagitaffe, was not till November 7, 1649. The proper inference from which premifes, compared with Fuller's circumftantial and candid account, is, that all these prayers remained with Dr. Juxon till his communication of them to the King's friends occafioned their being published..

The author of Clamor Regii Sanguinis, &c. as Englished by Wagstaffe,

* Wood, Athen. Ox. vol. II. p. 1145.

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fays, "The Bishop being brought be"fore the King's judges, was command"ed by them, not without dreadful me"naces, to reveal the meaning of the “word Remember, repeated to him twice the scaffold."

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To this latter charge Milton replies, "I will not deny that the Bishop might

"be interrogated by one or other of thefe judges, by the way, way, concerning "this matter; but I do not find that he

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cil, or the high court of juftice, as if "they all of them troubled themselves

about it, or were folicitous to know "it *."

* Defenfio Secunda, p. 391. cd. 1753, Quarto.

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'From Milton's filence it might perhaps be fufpected, that the Bishop was under fome fort of confinement, were it

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not that on the 7th of February we find him at full liberty, attending the King's funeral at Windfor, and ftanding ready with a Common-prayer-book to read the burial-office over the royal corpfe *.

But what is beyond a thousand furmifes, accumulated by Wagftaffe and others, to prove Milton's first publishing this prayer as selected by King Charles, for his own ufe, is the dead filence of Bp. Juxon from this period to the time of his death. If his timidity during the Interregnum prevailed with him to conceal the forgery, his fears must be at

Biographia Britannica, Juxon, Rem. [C]

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an end at the Reftoration. The prayer had been publifhed as King Charles's over and over during that interval; Milton's reproach was equally and repeatedly made public. Yet this worthy Bishop fuffers this prayer to be published in a collection of King Charles's works in the year 1662, without giving the least hint of the forgery, imputed afterwards to Milton and Bradshaw.

Let Dr. Johnfon then make what he can of the adaptation of this prayer to the cafe of King Charles; but let not his fplenetic prejudice against Milton affociate him with fuch a driveling crew, fuch a defpicable groupe of knights of the poft, as would perfuade the world that Milton wanted the aid of fuch piti

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