Transcriber’s note
Theoriginal has many inconsistent spellings. A few corrections havebeen made for obvious typographical errors; they have been notedindividually, as have a few words that are unclear.
The word Tyranny (Tyrannie, Tyrannies) is sometimes spelled with only one ‘n’, the other being denoted by a diacritical mark. The spelling has been regularised to ‘nn’.
The original contains somehandwritten corrections and additions (see the Introduction for details).They are represented like this.
There is no table of contents in the original text, which contains an Introduction, the Apologie and the Panegyric.
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 inLondon with the following title: “The Army’s Plea for Theirpresent Practice: tendered to the consideration of all ingenuousand 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 finishedwriting an answer, which was published a week later, on November4, under the title: “An Apologie for the Royal Party ... With aTouch At the pretended Plea for the Army. Anno Dom. MDCLIX”.No author’s name, printer or place was given. Evelyn afterwardsmade the note in his Diary under the date November 7, 1659, thatis, three days after the actual publication: “Was publish’d mybold Apologie for the King in His time of danger, when it was