LETTER TO HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CONCERNING THE AUTHORSHIP OF ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ, BY THE REV. HENRY JOHN TODD, M.A. F.S.A. &c. CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, AND RECTOR OF SETTRINGTON, COUNTY OF YORK. "There has been a great deal of disputing about this Book: some are so Bishop Burnet, Hist. of his Own Time. LONDON: C. & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, AND WATERLOO-PLACE. 1825. 853 CORRECTIONS. PAGE 1--For "A third is now" read "A third address is now," &c. 31-For "worty" read" worthy " 42-After "believe" place a comma 52-After "then" place a comma 54-For "men's" read "mens A LETTER, &c. MY LORD, YOUR Grace's attention has lately been expressly invited to two very interesting Letters, written by the learned Dr. Wordsworth, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, upon the subject of who was the author of ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ, or the Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty, King Charles the First, in his solitudes and sufferings. A third is now humbly submitted to your Grace, by an inferior hand, in consequence of those Letters; for in them it appears that the introduction into the Memoirs of Bishop Walton, which a few years since I published, of four Original Letters by Bishop Gauden, (whose claim to the authorship of the book in question has been asserted by himself and others,) has occasioned the laudable and zealous endeavour of Dr. Wordsworth to maintain the belief, that to the Royal Martyr the composition of the Portraiture belongs. My belief that the claim of Bishop Gauden is just, I have hitherto pro B |