An Apologie for the Royal Party; and A Panegyric to Charles the Second

An Apologie for the Royal Party;
and A Panegyric to Charles the
Second

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Title: An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to
Charles the Second (1661)
Author: John Evelyn
Editor: Geoffrey Keynes
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The Augustan Reprint Society
John Evelyn An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric
to Charles the Second (1661)
With an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes
Publication Number 28
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of
California 1951

GENERAL EDITORS
H. RICHARD ARCHER, Clark Memorial Library RICHARD C.
BOYS, University of Michigan EDWARD NILES HOOKER,
University of California, Los Angeles JOHN LOFTIS, University of
California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR
W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORS
EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington BENJAMIN
BOYCE, Duke University LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of
Michigan CLEANTH BROOKS, Yale University JAMES L.
CLIFFORD, Columbia University ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University
of Chicago LOUIS A. LANDA, Princeton University SAMUEL H.
MONK, university Of Minnesota ERNEST MOSSNER, University of
Texas JAMES SUTHERLAND, Queen Mary College, London H. T.
SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles

INTRODUCTION
On October 24, 1659, a quarto pamphlet was published in London with
the following title: "The Army's Plea for Their present Practice:
tendered to the consideration of all ingenuous and impartial men.
Printed and published by special command. London, Printed by Henry
Hills, Printer to the Army, dwelling in Aldersgate Street next door to
the Peacock. 1659". Three days afterwards, on October 27, John Evelyn
had finished writing an answer, which was published a week later, on
November 4, under the title: "An Apologie for the Royal Party ... With
a Touch At the pretended Plea for the Army. Anno Dom. MDCLIX".
No author's name, printer or place was given. Evelyn afterwards made
the note in his Diary under the date November 7, 1659, that is, three
days after the actual publication: "Was publish'd my bold Apologie for
the King in His time of danger, when it was capital to speak or write in

favour of him. It was twice printed, so universaly it took."[1] Evelyn
was by conviction an ardent royalist, but by temperament he was
peaceable, and the publication of this pamphlet was a courageous act
on his part, involving considerable risks.
The Apologie for the Royal Party contains an eloquent and outspoken
attack upon the parliamentary party, the depth of the author's feelings
making his style of writing more effective than it usually was.
Events were at this date nearing their climax, and Evelyn, soon after the
publication of his pamphlet, made persistent attempts to induce Colonel
Henry Morley, then Lieutenant of the Tower of London, to declare for
the King. In the edition of Baker's Chronicle of the Kings of England,
edited by Edward Phillips, 1665, is given the following account of the
negotiations (p. 736): "Mr. Evelyn gave him [Col. Morley] some visits
to attemper his affection by degrees to a confidence in him, & then by
consequence to ingage him in his designes; and to induce him the more
powerfully thereunto, he put into his hands an excellent and
unanswerable hardy treatise by him written and severall times reprinted,
intituled _An Apology for the Royall Party_, which he backed with so
good Argument and dextrous Addresses in the prosecution of them,
that, after some private discourse, the Colonel was so well inclin'd, as
to recommend to him the procurement of his Majestie's Grace for him,
his Brother-in-law Mr. Fagg, and one or two