John Gauden

Joad Raymond (Queen Mary, University of London)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born 1605
Died 1662
Activity 1625-1662

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Pamphleteer
Political writer
Religious writer

Resources

Gauden's Works

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John Gauden was born in Mayland in Essex in 1605, educated at Bury St Edmunds School and then at St John's College, Cambridge. He became a tutor at Oxford in 1630, progressing to Doctor of Divinity (at Wadham College) in 1641, and thereafter became chaplain to Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick. His royalist allegiances were not strong enough to prevent him from becoming a member of the Presbyterian Assembly of Divines in 1643, nor from taking the Solemn League and Covenant. Nonetheless, visits to the imprisoned King Charles I swayed his conscience, and it now seems very likely that he was the author of

Eikon Basilike

(1649), a narrative of the king's life and sufferings written in the king's voice. During the 1650s Gauden wrote a series of anti-Cromwellian pamphlets, and was rewarded with the…

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Citation: Raymond, Joad. "John Gauden". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1703, accessed 22 November 2024.]