John Gauden, an English prelate, born in Mayland, Essex, in 1605, died Sept, 20, 1662. Having preached an acceptable sermon before the parliament, he received from it the living of Bocking and other preferments. After the breaking out of the civil war he retained his preferments, submitted to the Presbyterian discipline, omitted the liturgy from the church service, and subscribed to the covenant. Meanwhile he secretly wrote a "Protestation" against the king's trial, a "Just Invective against those who murthered King Charles I.," and other similar papers. They were published after the restoration, when he declared himself a royalist, and was appointed chaplain to Charles II., afterward bishop of Exeter, and in 1662 of Worcester. His death is said to have been hastened by his not getting the rich see of Winchester, on which he had set his heart. The : the Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty K. Charles I. in his Solitudes and Sufferings," which is attributed to him, was at first supposed to have been written by Charles himself, and went through 50 editions, at home and abroad, in a single year (1648-'9). After carefully examining the evidence, Sir James Mackintosh came to the conclusion that Gauden was really the author of the book.