The Calves Head Club was decidedly an opposition one, and its history, true or not, is told in a little book which some people have attributed to Ward,[326] 'The SECRET HISTORY of the CALVES HEAD CLUB: or, the REPUBLICAN UNMASK'D. Wherein is fully shewn the religion of the CALVES HEAD Heroes in their Anniversary Thanksgiving Songs on the Thirtieth of _January_, by them called Anthems, for the years 1693, 1694, 1695, 1696, 1697. NOW PUBLISHED to demonstrate the Restless, Implacable Spirit of a certain Party still among us, who are never to be satisfied till the present Establishment in Church and State is subverted. The Second Edition. [Footnote 326: _Brit. Mus._ 1093, c. 73.] _Discite justitiam moniti, & non temnere Divos._ Virg. * * * * * London. Printed, And Sold by the Booksellers of _London_ and _Westminster_. 1703.' The author tells the history of the club as follows: 'Happening in the late Reign to be in the Company of a certain active Whigg, who in all other Respects was a Man of probity enough; he assured me, that to his Knowledge, 'twas true, That he knew most of the Members of that Club, and that he had been often invited to their Meetings, but that he had always avoided them: Adding, that according to the Principles he was bred up in, he wou'd have made no scruple to have met _Charles_ the First, in the Field, and oppos'd him to the utmost of his Power; but that since he was Dead, he had no further Quarrel to him, and looked upon it as a cowardly piece of Villany, below any Man of Honour, to insult upon a Memory of a Prince, who had suffer'd enough in his Life Time. 'He farther told me, that _Milton_, and some other Creatures of the Commonwealth, had instituted this Club, as he was inform'd, in Opposition to Bp. _Juxon_, Dr. _Sanderson_, Dr. _Hammond_, and other Divines of the Church of England, who met privately every 30th of _January_; and, tho' it was under the Time of the Usurpation, had compil'd a private Form of Service for the Day, not much different from that we now find in the Liturgy....