By Whig authors and publishers he was extolled as a most impartial and humane man.

But the conduct which obtained their applause drew on him the abuse of the Tories, and was not altogether pleasing to his official superior Nottingham.

[379] No serious difference however seems to have arisen till the year 1692.

In that year an honest old clergyman named Walker, who had, in the time of the Commonwealth, been Gauden's curate, wrote a book which convinced all sensible and dispassionate readers that Gauden, and not Charles the First, was the author of the Icon Basilike.

This book Fraser suffered to be printed.