but Prudence in me to believe my self above such Trifles who have written a Book to Eternity Fourthly I regreat not to be Anvile for any ingenious Hammer to make pleasant musick on but it seems my Traducer was not so happy Lastly I remember a speech oâ— Sir Walter Rawleighs If any saith he speaketh against me to my face my Tongue shall give him an Answer but my back-side is good enough to return to him who abuseth me behind my back Dr. Heylyn In the next ranck of Impertinencies which are more intrinseall part of the substance of the work I account his Heraldry Blazons of Arms Descents of noble Families with their Atchivements intermingled as they come in his way not pertinent I am sure to a Church-Historian unless such persons had been Founders of Episcopal Sees or Religious-Houses or that the Arms so blazoned did belong to either Fuller I answer in generall Those passages of Heraldry are put in for variety and diversion to refresh the wearied Reader They are never used without asking of leave before or craving pardon after the inserting thereof and such craving is having a request in that kind with the Ingenious Grant it ill manners in the Author not to ask it is ill nature in the Reader not to grant so small a suit Mr. Camden in his description of Oxfordshire hath a prolixe though not tedious poeme of the marriage of Thame and Isis which he ushereth in with Si placet vel legas vel negligas read or reject either set by it or set it by as the Reader is disposed The same though not expressed is implied in all such Digressions which may be said to be left unprinted in Effect to such as like them not their Ploughs may make Balks of such deviations and proceed to more serious matter Dr. Heylyn Our Author tells us lib. 9. fol. 151. that knowledge in the Laws of this Land is neither to be expected or required in one of his profession and yet I trow considering the great influence which the Laws have upon Church-matters the knowledge of the Law cannot be so unnecessary in the way of a Clergy-man as the study of Heraldry But granting Heraldry to be an Ornament in all them that have it yet is it no ingredient requisit to the composition of an Ecclesiastical History The Copies of Battle-Abbey Roll fitter for Stow and Hollinshead where before we had them can in an History of the Church pretend to no place at all though possibly the names of some may be remembred as their Foundations or Endowments of Churches give occasion for it The Arms of Knight-Errant billeted in the Isle of Ely by the Norman Conqueror is of like extravagancy Such also is the Catalogue of those noble Adventurers with their Arms Issue and Atchievements who did accompany King Richard the first to the War of Palestine which might have better serv'd as an Appendix to his History of the Holy War then found a place in the main Body of an History of the Church of England Which three alone besides many intercalations of that kind in most parts of the Book make up eight sheets more inserted onely for the ostentation of his skill in Heraldry in which notwithstanding he hath fallen on as palpable Errors as he hath committed in his History Fuller Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments hath done the like presenting the names of such who came over at the Norman Conquest I have only made their Catalogue more complete And seeing it was preserved in Battle-Abbey the very addition of Abbey doth dye it with some Ecclesiastical tincture The Arms of the Knights of Ely might on a threefold title have escaped the Animadvertor's censure First they was never before printed Secondly the Wall whereon they were depicted is now demolished Lastly each Knight being blended or as I may say empaled with a Monk a Moiety of that Mixture may be construed reducible to Church-History As for the Arms of some signal persons atchieved in the HOLY-WAR If the Sirname of WAR be secular the Christian name thereof HOLY is Ecclesiastical and so rendred all actions therein within the latitude of Church-History to an ingenuous Reader Dr. Heylyn For besides those which are observed in the course of this work I find two others of that kind in his History of Cambridge to be noted there For fol. 146. he telleth us That Alice Countess of Oxford was Daughter and sole Heir of Gilbert Lord Samford which Gilbert was Hereditary Lord Chamberlain of England But by his leave Gilbert Lord Samford was never the hereditary Chamberlain of the Realm of England but only Chamberlain in Fee to the Queens of England betwixt which Offices how vast a difference there is let our Authour judge Fuller I plead in my own defence according to my last general Answer that I have charged my Margin with my Authoâ— Mr. Parker Fellow of Caius College in Cambridge one known for a most abâ—â— Antiquary but especially in Heraldry and I thought that he had lighten on some rare Evidence out of the ordinary road but seeing he was mistaken I will amend it God willing in my next Edition Dr. Heylyn And secondly The Honor of Lord Chamberlain of England came not unto the Earls of Oxford by that Marriage or by any other but was invested in that Family before they had attained the Title and Degree of Earls Conferred by King Henry the first on Aubrey de Vere a right puissant Person and afterwards on Aubrey de Vere his Son together with the Earldome of Oxford by King Henry the second continuing Hereditary in that House till the death of Robert Duke of Ireland the ninth Earl thereof and then bestowed for a time at the Kings discretion and at last setled by King Charls in the House of Lindsey Fuller This is nothing Confutatory of Me who never affirmed that the High-Chamberlainship accrued to the House of Oxford by any such match Dr. Heylyn But because being a Cambridge Man he may be better skill'd in the Earls of that County let us see what he saith of them and we shall find fol. 162. That Richard Plantagenet Duke of York was the eighth Earl of Cambridge Whereas first Richard Duke of York was not Earl of Cambridge Fuller He was he was he was as presently God willing will appear beyond all doubt and contradiction Dr. Heylyn And secondly If he had been such he must have been the seventh Earl and not the eighth For thus those Earls are marshalled in our Catalogues of Honor and Books of Heraldry viz. 1. William de Meschines 2. Iohn de Hainalt 3. William Marquess of Iuliers 4. Edmond of Langley D. of York 5. Edward D. of York 6. Richard de Conisburgh younger Brother of Edward 7. Iames Marquess Hamilton c. Fuller Indeed they are thus reckoned up in a late little and useful Book entituled The Help of History made as I am credibly informed by the Animadvertor himself and therefore by him wel
new peice of cloth must be more unfashionable Besides that many of these old ends are so light and ludicrous so little pertinent to the business which he has in hand that they serve only to make sport for Children ut pueris placeas Declamatio fias and for nothing else Fuller Had the Animadvertor come with a good stomach such larding had been no bad Cookery Certain I am that a Comment admitteth less latitude in this kind than a Church-History Certain I am also that a Comment on the Creed is allowed less Liberty then other Comments Now the Animadvertor hath be scattered his every where with Verses and Translations It consisteth not with my Charity to miscall it a Creed-Romance accounting it a sin so to decry or disparage his usefull endevours The best way to discover the deformity of my Fabrick is for the Animadvertor to erect a more beautifull Building hard by it that so his rare and regular may shame my rude peece of Architecture What if such mixtures make the Garment which also I utterly deny to be less in the fashion the fondling of Fancy I made it not for Sight but Service that it might be strong and warm to the Wearers thereof I stand on my justification that no such light or ludicrous Verses are to be found in my Book which render it to just exception But no wonder if the Bel clinketh even as the prejudic'd Hearer thinketh thereof Dr. Heylyn This leads me to the next impertinency his raking into the Chanel of old Popish Legends writ in the darker times of Superstition but written with an honest zeal and a good intention as well to raise the Reader to the admiration of the person of whom they write as to the emulation of his virtues But being mixt with some Monkish dotages the most learned and ingenious men in the Church of Rome have now laid them by and it had been very well if our Author had done so to but that there must be something of entertainment for the gentle Reader and to inflame the reckoning which he pays not for Fuller I have not raked into the Kennel of old Popish Legends who took the clearest water in this kind out of those Rivers which run at this day in highest Reputation with the Romanists I never cited any Legend but either out of Harpsfield who wrote in the last Generation and was as Ingenuous as any of his Perswasion or else out of Hierom Porter his Flores Sanctorum who wrot some forty years and in high esteem with the Papists at this day as appears by the dear price thereof I confess I have instanced taking ten perchance out of ten thousand in the grossest of them that is the fairest Monster which is most Deformed partly to shew what a Spirit of Delusion acted in that Age partly to raise our Gratitude to God seeing such Lying vanities are now ridiculous even to children I believe not the Animadvertor when saying that the most learned and Ingenious of Rome have laid them aside seeing Cornelius à lapide weaveth them in all along his comments and K. Iames did justly complain that Bellarmine himself did mar his pretty Books of Devotion with such Legendary mixtures Dr. Heylyn But above all things recommend me to his Merry Tales and scraps of Trencherjests frequently interlaced in all parts of the History which if abstracted from the rest and put into a Book by themselves might very well be serv'd up for a second course to the Banquet of Iests a Supplement to the old Book entituled Wits Fits and Fancies or an additional Century to the old Hundred Merry Tales so long since extant But standing as they do they neither do become the gravity of a Church-Historian nor are consistent with the nature of a sober argument Fuller The Animadvertor should have rendred me liable to just Reproof by instancing in One of those Tales so inconsistent with the gravity of a Church-Historian which no doubt he had done but because he knew himself unable to produce it He who is often seen to snap hastily at and feed hungerly on an hard crust will not be believed if bragging that he can eat Pheasants and Partridges at his Pleasure And seeing the Animadvertor doth commonly carp and cavil at the silly shadows of seeming mistakes in my Book it is utterly improbable he can yet will not charge me with a fault which cannot be defended But let him at leasure produce the most light and ludicrous Story in all my Book and here I stand ready to Parallel it with as light I say not in the Animadvertor but in as Grave Authors as ever put Pen to Paper Dr. Heylyn But as it seems our Author came with the same thoughts to the writing of this present History as Poets anciently address themselves to the writing of Comedies of which thus my Terence Poeta cum primùm animum ad scribendum appulit Id sibi negotii credidit solum dari Populo ut placerent quas fecisset fabulas That is to say Thus Poets when their mind they first apply In looser verse to frame a Comedy Think there is nothing more for them to do Then please the people whom they speak unto Fuller I admire that the Animadvertor who so lately had taxed me for writing and translating of Verses will now do the same himself There is a double people-pleasing One sordid and servile made of falshood and flattery which I defie and detest The other lawful when men deliver and dress Truth in the most plausible expression I have a precedent above Exception to warrant it even Solomon himself Eccles. 12.10 The Preacher sought out Acceptable words This I did and will aim at in all my writings and I doubt not but that the Animadvertor's Stationer doth hope and desire that he hath thus pleased people in his Book for the advancing of the price and quickning the Sale thereof Dr. Heylyn In the last place proceed we to the manifold excursions about the Antiquity of Cambridge built on as weak Authority as the Monkish Legends and so impertinent to the matter which he hath in hand that the most Reverend Mat. Parker though a Cambridge man in his Antiquitates Britannicae makes no business of it The more impertinent in regard that at the fag-end of his Book there follows a distinct History of that University to which all former passages might have been reduced But as it seems he was resolved to insert nothing in that History but what he had some probable ground for leaving the Legendary part thereof to the Church-Romance as most proper for it And certainly he is wondrous wise in his generation For fearing lest he might be asked for those Bulls and Chartularies which frequently he relates unto in the former Books he tells us in the History of Cambridge fol 53. That they were burnt by some of the seditious Townsmen in the open Market place Anno 1380. or thereabouts So that for want of other
Author hath all the reason in the world to desire to be admitted into their Communion and be made partaker of that happinesse which such Saints enjoy c. Fuller If God were not more mercifull unto us than we are charitable one to another what would become of us all I humbly conceive that these Exiles though I will not advocate for their carriage in all particulars had more liberty in modeling their own Church than such as live in England under a setled Government commanded by Authority Schismatick in my minde is too harsh for such who fled and suffered for their conscience However I conceive a Saint-ship not inconsistent with such Schismaticalnesse God graciously on their general repentance forgiving them their fault herein Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 39. Trinity Colledge built by Sir Thomas Pope I shall not derogate so much from Sir Thomas Pope as our Author doth from Trinity Colledge naming no Bishop of this House as he doth of others He tells us that he liv'd in this University about 17 weeks and all that time Dr. Skinner the Bishop of Oxford liv'd there too Dr. Wright the Bishop of Liechfield probably was then living also for he deceased not till after the beginning of the year 1643. but he living at that time in his own House of Ecclesal Castle Both of them Members of this Colledge and therefore worthily deserving to have found some place in our Authors History And because our Author can finde no learned Writers of this Colledge neither I will supply him with two others â—n that kinde also The first whereof shall be Iohn Selden of the Inner Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that renown'd Humanitian and Philologer sometimes a Commoner of this House and here initiated in those Studies in which he afterwards attain'd to so high an eminence The second William Chillingworth an able and accute Divine and once a Fellow of this Colledge whose Book intituled The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation written in defence of Dr. Potters Book called Charity mistaken commended by our Author Lib 3. fol. 115. remains unanswered by the Iesuites notwithstanding all their brags before-hand to this very day Which Book though most ridiculously buried with the Author at Arundel get thee gon thou accursed Book c. by Mr. Francis Cheynel the usu fructuary of the rich Parsonage of Petworth shall still survive unto the world in its own value when the poore three-penny commodities of such a sorry Haberdasher of Small-weares shall be out of credite Of this Pageant see the Pamphlet call'd Chillingworthi Novissima printed at London Anno 1644. Fuller If the Animavertor had written an History of Cambridge perchance he would have made as many and great Omissions I have craved solem pardon of the Reader when such failings should occur Church History Book 3. pag. 67. I humbly request the Antiquaries of their respective foundations best skilled in their own worthy Natives to insert their own observations which if they would restore unto me against the next Edition of this work if it be thought worthy thereof God shall have the Glory they the publick thanks and the world the benefit of their contributions to my endeavours Bishop Wright is entred in where he ought a Warden of Wadham the rest shall be inserted in the next Edition with my worthy friend Mr. Gilbert Ironside of the same foundation Mr. Cheynel is now rather the object of the Animadvertors prayer and pittie than of his Anger Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 41. But now it is gone let it go it was but a beggerly Town and cost England ten times yearly more than it was worth in keeping thereof Admit it be so yet certainly it was worth the keeping had it cost much more The English while they kept that Town had a dore open into France upon all occasions and therefore it was commonly said that they carried the Keyes of France at their Girdles c. Fuller The Animadvertor might understand my meaning even to make the best of a bad matter when it cannot be helped A KEY falleth under a double valuation one for the intrinsicall works from the weight thereof in Metal which is very inconsiderable The other from the use thereof and thus it 's price riseth or falleth as it openeth to more or less treasure Calis I confesse in the second consideration was a place of main importance yet indeed it cost a vast expence in keeping it as by a Book in the Exchequer which some moneths since I perused doth appear the charge amounting to an innumerable Sum at the rate of Money in that Age. THE NINTH BOOK Containing the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Dr. Heylin THe short Reigns of King Edward the sixth and Queen Mary being briefly past over by our Author he spends the more time in setting out the affairs of the Church under Queen Elizabeth not so much because her Reign was long but because it was a busie Age and full of Faction To which Faction how he stands affâ—cted he is not coy to let us see on all occasions giving us in the very first entrance this brief but notable Essay viz. Fol. 51. Idolaty is not to be permitted a moment the first minute is the fittest to abolish it all that have power have right to destroy it by that grand Charter of Religion whereby every one is bound to advance Gods glory And if Sovereigns forget no reason but Subjects should remember their duty Our Author speaks this in behalf of some forward Spirits who not enduring the lazinesse of Authority in order to the great work of Reformation fell before hand to the beating down of superstitious Pictures and Images And though some others condemned their indiscretion herein yet our Author will not but rather gives these reasons for their justification 1. That the Popish Religion is Idolatry 2. That Idolatry is to be destroyed by all that have power to doe it 3. Which is indeed the main that if the Sovereigns do forget there is no reason but Subjects should remember their duty This being our Authors Master-piece and a fair ground-work for Seditious and Rebellious for the times ensuing I shall spend a little the more time in the examination of the propositions as before we had them c. Fuller The Animadvertor hath dealt most unfairly with me in citing by the halfs what I have written and leaving out what immediatly followed and what he ought to have inserted viz. For after I had presented the Judgement of these rigid and violent Hotspurs I subjoyned as followeth in confutation of their Extravagancies But others condemned their indiscretion herein for though they might reform the private persons and families and refrain to communicate in any outward Act contrary to Gods word yet publick reformation belonged to the Magistrate and a good deed was by them ill done for want of a calling to doe it I appeal to such who knew me in the Universitie to those that
¶ 34 35. LECHLADE or LATINELADE a place where Latine was anciently taught Cent. 9. ¶ 30. Thomas LEE or LEAH a prime Officer imploied in the dissolution of Abbeys Hist. of Ab. 314. visiteth the University of Camb. Hist. Cam. of p. 109. ¶ 55. his injunctions to the University ibidem Barthol LEGATE burnt for an Arrian b. 10. p. 62. ¶ 6 7 8. c. Dr. LEIGHTON his railing book severely censur'd b. 11. p. 1-36 ¶ 3. recovered after his escape and punished ¶ 4. The first LENT kept in England C. 7. ¶ 74. Jo. LEYLAND an excellent Antiquary follow of Christs Coll. Hist. of Cam. p. 90. ¶ 7. wronged in his works by Polydore Virgil and another namelesse Plagiary b. 5. p. 198 ¶ 54. imployed by King Henry 8. to collect and preserve Rarityes at the dissolution of Abbeys b. 6. p. 339. ¶ 8. died distracted ¶ 9. LICHFIELD bestrewed with the dead bodies of Martyrs C. 4. ¶ 8. made the See of an Arch-bishop by King Offa b. 2. p. 104. ¶ 34 the builders of the present almost past Cathedral b. 4. p. 174. the praise and picture thereof p. 175. LIEGE Coll. in Lukeland for English fugitives b. 9. p. 91. William LILLY the first schoolmaster of Paul's b. 5. p. 167 ¶ 17. the many Editions of his Grammar p. 168. ¶ 18. LISBON a rich Nunnery for Engl. Bridgitines b. 6. p. 262. ¶ 5 6 c. LITURGIE an uniformity thereof when prescribed all over England b. 7. p. 386. three severall editions thereof with the persons employed therein ibid. Bishop Latimer his judgement against the contemners thereof p. 426. LONDON why so called C. 1. ¶ 2. layeth claime to the birth of Constantine the Emperour C. 4. ¶ 18. the walls thereof built with Jewish stones b. 3. p. 86. ¶ 42. the honourable occasion of an Augmentation in their Armes b. 4. p. 141. ¶ 21. William LONGCAMPE Bp. of Ely his pride b. 3. p. 43. ¶ 24. his parallell with Cardinal Wolsey ¶ 28 c. LOVAINE Colledge in Brabant for English fugitives b. 9. p. 90. a nunnery or rather but halfe a one therein for Engl. women b. 6. p. 364. ¶ 2. LINCOLN Coll. in Oxford founded by Richard Fleming b. 4. p. 168. The Rectors Bps. c. thereof p. 169. William LINWOOD writeth his Provincial constitutions his due praise b. 4. page 175. ¶ 71. c. LUCIUS the different dates of his conversion C. 2. ¶ 1. do not disprove the substance of his story ¶ 3. might be a British King under the Romans ¶ 4. several Churches in Britain said to be erected by him ¶ 13. confounded by unwary writers with Lucius a German preacher in Suevia ¶ 14. said to be buried in Gloucester with his Dunsticall Epitaph C. 3. ¶ 1. LUPUS assisteth Germanus in his voyage into Britain to suppresse Pelagianisme C. 3. ¶ 4. M. MADRID Coll. in Spain for English fugitives b. 9. p. 90. MAGDALEN Coll. in Ox. founded by William Wainsleet b. 4. p. 188. ¶ 24. Scarce a Bp. in England to which it hath not afforded one prelate ¶ 25. sad alterations therein by the Visitors in the first of Q. Mary b. 8. ¶ 8. the character of this Coll. with the violence of rigid non-conformists therein presented in a latine letter of Mr. Fox b. 9. p. 106. ¶ 14 15. MAGDALEN Colledge in Cambridge founded by Thomas Lord Audley History of Cambridge p. 120. ¶ 8 c. MALIGNANT whence derived and first fixed as a name of disgrace on the Royall party b. 11. p. 195. ¶ 32. Roger MANWARING charged by Mr. Pym in Parliament b. 11. ¶ 61. for two Sermons preached ibidem his censure ¶ 62. and submission ¶ 63. MARRIAGE of the Priests proved lawfull b. 3. p. 20 21 22 23. MARRIAGE of a Brothers Wife is against Gods Word and above Papal dispensation b. 5. p. 179 180 181. Tho. MARKANT Proctor of Cambridge made and gave a rare Book of her priviledges to the university which was lost found lost found lost Hist. of Camb. p. 65. ¶ 33 34. Q. MARY quickly recovereth the Crown in right of succession b. 8. ¶ 1. in her first Parliament restoreth Popery to the height ¶ 20 21. makes a speech in Guild-Hall ¶ 30. her character S. 2. ¶ 34. valiant against the Pope in one particular S. 3. ¶ 41. very Melancholy with the causes thereof ¶ 46 47. dyes of a Dropsey ¶ 48. two Sermons preached at her funerall ¶ 52. her deserved praise ¶ 53. for refounding the Savoy ¶ 54. her buriall ¶ 55. MARY Queen of Scots flies into England and is there imprisoned b. 9. S. 2. ¶ 13. her humble letter to Pope Pius the fifth ibidem her second letter unto him b. 9. p. 99. her death Poetry buriall removal to Westminster and wel-Latined Epitaph p. 181. Queen MARY Wife to King Charles her first landing at Dover b. 11. ¶ 9. delivered of a Son by a fright before her time b. 11. p. 135. ¶ 1. Toby MATTHEW Arch-bishop of York dying yearly dyes at last b. 11. ¶ 74. is gratitude to God ¶ 75. MAUD for four descents the name of the Queens of England b. 7. p. 25. ¶ 28. MAXIMUS usurpeth the Empire and expelleth the Scots out of Britain C. 4. ¶ 22. draineth the Flower of the British Nation into France ¶ 23. slain in Italy ¶ 24. his memory why inveighed against ibidem Mr. MAYNARD his learned speech against the late Canons b. 11. p. 180. ¶ 77. MEDUINUS sent by King Lucius to Eleutherius Bishop of Rome C. 2. ¶ 5. MEDESHAMSTED Monastery burnt by the Danes C. 9. ¶ 20. MELLITUS Bishop of London converteth the Kingdome of Essex C. 7. ¶ 23. departeth England and why ¶ 33. returneth ¶ 35. and is rejected at London 36. his character 37. MERCIA a Saxon Kingdome when begun how bounded C. 5. ¶ 17. converted to Christianity under Prince Peada C. 7. ¶ 83. Thomes MERKES Bishop of Carlile his bold speech in the behalf of King Richard the second b. 4. p. 153. ¶ 55. tried for Treason not by his Peers but a Common lury p. 154. ¶ 57 58. his life spared and he mad Bishop of Samos in Greece ¶ 59. MERLIN two of the name C. 5. ¶ 20. his magicall Pranks ¶ 26. questionable whether ever such a man ¶ 32. fitted with two other fowles of the same Feather ibidem MERTON Coll. in Oxford founded by Walter Merton b. 9. p. 75. ¶ 7 c. Wardons Bishops Benefactours and thereof ¶ 8. a by-foundation of Post-masters therein p. 76. happy in breeding Schoolmen p. 99. ¶ 27. a petty rebellion therein supprest by Arch-bishop Parker b. 9. p. 71. ¶ 47 48. not founded before Peter-house in Cambridge Hist. of Camb. p. 32. ¶ 33 c. Sr. Walter MILD MAY foundeth Emanuel Colledge Hist. of Cam. p. 146. ¶ 11 12. c. The MILLENARIE petition b. 10. p. 22. the issue thereof p. 23. ¶ 25 26. the Millenarie is equivocall p. 24. MINSHULLS their honourable Armes atchieved in the
interesting it self therein It will not be long before the Animadvertor as God willing in due time shall be observed stickleth with might and main that Lucius might properly style himself and be styled King of Brittain who had not an half of the Southern-half of this Island and therefore by his own Principles it is no Solecisme in me to name the cis-Tweedan Moity thereof Brittain Had I given my native Countrey a narrow and restrictive name I had deserved due reproof but now measuring the denomination thereof with all honourable advantage I humbly conceive my self not to fall under just reprehension for the same Dr. Heylyn Nor is it thirdly a Church-History rightly and properly so called but an aggregation of such and so many Heterogeneous bodies that Ecclesiastical affairs make the least part of it Abstracted from the dresse and trimming and all those outward imbelishments which appear upon it it hath a very fit resemblance to that Lady of pleasure of which Martial tells us Pars minima est ipsa puella sui that the woman was the least part of her self The name of a Church-Rhapsody had been fitter for it though to say truth had it been answerable thereunto in point of learning it might have past by the old Title of Fuller's Miscellanies For such and so many are the impertinencies as to matters of Historicall nature more as to matters of the Church that without them this great Volume had been brought to a narrower compass if it had taken up any room at all So that we may affirm of the present History as one did of the Writings of Chrysippus an old Philosopher viz. Si quis tollatâ—è Chrysippi Libris quae aliena sunt facilè illi vacua relinquerentur Pergamena that is to say that if they were well purged of all such passages as were not pertinent to the business which he had in hand there would be nothing left in them to fill up his Parchments Fuller The Animadvertor hath a free liberty to name His own Books and I crave the same leave my self to denominate My own Before he had fallen so fiercely on my extravagancies in the Church-Historie he had done well to have defended his own in his Geographie sixteen parts of twenty therein being meerly Historicall and aliene from his Subject in the strictness thereof Sure I am Ptolomey Strabo Pliny c. in their severall descriptions of the world have nothing to countenance the excursions about the Pedegrees of Princes not reductive to Geographie without the great favor of the Reader so to understand it But because Recrimination is no part of Purgation I provide my self to answer to all which shall be objected for impertinencies Dr. Heylyn The first of this kind which I am to note is a meer extrinsecall and outside unto those impertinencies which are coucht within consisting of Title-Pages Dedicatory-Epistles and severall intermediate Inscriptions unto every Section A new way never travelled before by any till he found it out and such wherein he is not like to find many followers though the way be opened I know it is no unusuall thing for works of different Arguments publisht at severall times and dedicated to severall persons to be drawn together into one Volume and being so drawn together to retain still those particular Titles and Dedications which at first they had But I dare confidently say that our Historian is the first who writing a Book of the same Argument not published by peece-meal as it came from his hand but in a full and intire Volume hath filled his Sheets with so many Title-leaves and Dedications as we have before us Fuller I answer first Although it be unlawfull even for the owner himself abuti re sua to abuse what is his own because the Publick hath an interest therein Yet Is it not lawfull for me to Do what I will with my Own Secondly seeing the Animadvertor pretendeth in his notes to rectifie Mistakes Falsities and Defects this cometh not under any of these notions And whereas he writeth as he saith for the Vindication of the Truth Church and injured-Clergy by my dedicating of my Book to many Patrons the Truth is not prejudiced nor the Church wronged nor any of the Clergy injured Thirdly Of late some usefull and costly Books when past their Parents power to bring them forth have been delivered to the Publick by the Midwifery of such Dedications Fourthly Many if not most of my Patrons invited themselves purposely to encourage my endevours And why should any mans eye be evil because theirs were good unto me Lastly It is all one in effect whether one printeth his Dedications to many Patrons or whether one presenteth a printed History of St George to each English Knight of the Garter with a written letter prefixed to every one of them save that the former way is better as which rendereth the Authors gratitude the more publick and conspicuous Dr. Heylyn For in this one Book taking in the History of Cambridge which is but an Appendix to it there are no fewer than twelve particular Titles besides the generall as many particular Dedications and no fewer then fifty eight or sixty of those By-Inscriptions which are addrest to his particular Friends and Beâ—efâ—ctors which make it bigger by forty Sheets at the least then it had been otherwise Nay so ambitious he is of increasing the Number of his Patrons that having but four Leaves to come to the end of his History he finds out a particular Benefactress to inscribe it to Which brings to my minde the vanity of Vitellius in bestowing and of Roscius Regulus for accepting the Consular Dignity for that part of the day on which Cecinna by Order and Decree of the Senate was degraded from it Of which the Historian gives this Note that it was Magno cum irrisu accipientis tribuentisque a matter of no mean disport amongst the People for a long time after Fuller Ordinary Dedications exceed not a dozen lines and therefore I believe the Animadvertor is much mistaken in his proportions If I did Dedicate four leaves to a distinct Patroness no such fault therein seeing I am confident those four leaves contain in them so remarkable an Accident as the Animadvertor never read the like in four thousand leaves of any Historian Dr. Heylyn But of this Argument our Author heard so much at the late Act at Oxford that I shall say no more of it at this present time Fuller I heard nothing thereof at Oxford being then sixty miles distanced thence Sure I am I did not there Malè audire deservedly and if undeservedly mala fama bene parta delectat Secondly I have heard since that one in the Act was bold to play on my own name and Church-History But for the seventeen years I lived in Cambridge I never heard any Prevaricator mention his Senior by name We count such particularizing beneath an University Thirdly I hope it will not be accounted Pride