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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40517	Some particular motives of the conversion of Peter Frotte, heretofore canon-regular of the Royal Abby of St. Genevieve at Paris. Prior of the priory and parish of Souilly in the Diocess of Meaux In a letter directed to Mr. James Benign Bousset, bishop of Meaux; formerly tutor of Monseigneur Le Dauphin. Englished by the author. And dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stampe, Lord Mayor of the City of London. And the Honourable Court of Aldermen.	Frotté, Pierre.; Stamp, Thomas, Sir, 1628-1711.; Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704.	1691 (1691)	Wing F2247B; ESTC R214641	14,270	38

moment would sanctifie and crown all your excellent qualities I pray God to inspire you with this good design and give you not only to Will but also to fulfil it I am SIR Your Most Humble and most Obedient Servant PETER FROTTE Certificates of the Manners Doctrine and Conversation of the Converted Author The first from HOLLAND SOme Months ago Mr. Frotté heretofore Canon Regular and possessed of a Living in France of one of the best Families in Paris came to live amongst us and gave proof he had abjured Popery in Switzerland from whence he also brought an excellent Testimony and made good here abundantly all the praises given him in those Countries having shew'd as well by his Writings as by his Conversation very much of Wit Learning and Sincerity for the motives of his Conversion We desired to make him stay in this Countrey but he finding not how to subsist here honourably resolved to go into England and we have given him this present Testimony that he may he known for a Person of no vulgar Merit Dated at Roterdam the 14th of March 1690. Jurieu Minister and Professor in Divinity Le Gendre Minister Phinees Pielat Minister Basnage Minister Another Certificate from London THE Acquaintance we have had for these fourteen Months with Mr. Frotté hath given us a perfect Knowledge of him We were very glad to experience in him the Character under which the precedent Attestation represents him He gave us some Proofs of his Dexterity in expounding of the Holy Scripture and of his Knowledge in Divinity The Gifts of Preaching he received of God is not ordinary it would have been a loss if he had imployed it in the Defence of errors and Idolatry We were edifi'd also by his Modesty and good Conversation and we hope all those that shall know him will be affected towards him in the same manner Dated at London the First Day of May 1691. J. Graverol Minister I approve this precedent Certificate which might be made more advantageous without offending the Truth De Galinieres Pesè Minister I approve this Attestation above-mentioned Brocas of the Hondes plens Minister Another Certificate from Ispwich in Suffolk WE willingly give this Testimony to Mr. Frotté That during the space of four Months in which he resided in this Town we have never found in him any other Sentiments but what are conformable to the pure Doctrine of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to the present Government of this Nation and that as to his Conduct and Behaviour it hath always appear'd most Worthy of his Profession his Piety and Charity having edified us upon all occasions We beseech God to continue to him always his Consolations and the strength of his Holy Spirit in all Tryals through which Providence shall be pleased to make him to pass Dated at Ipswich the 20th of September 1691. Fontanier Minister De Marraquier Gentleman FINIS A●e Sold by James Langford Taylor in Flower-deluce-Court in Black-Friers 1691. BOOKS Printed for Richard Baldwin TRuth brought to light by Time or the most remarkable Transactions of the first fourteen Years of King James's Reign The second Edition with Additions A New Plain Short and Compleat French and English Grammer whereby the Learned may attain in few Months to Speak and Write French Correctly as they do now in the Court of France And wherein all that is Dark Superfluous and deficient in other Grammers is Plain Short and Methodically Supplied Also very useful to strangers that are desirons to learn the English Tongue For whose sake is addded a Short but very Exact English Grammer The Second Edition By Peter Berault The Devout Christian's Preparation for holy Dying Consisting of Ejaculations Prayers Meditations and Hymns adopted to the several States and Conditions of this Life And on the four last things viz. Death Judgment Heaven and Hell Victoriae Anglicanae being an Historical Collection of all the Memorable and Stupendious Victories obtain'd by the English against the French both by Sea and Land since the Norman Conquest viz. The Battle 1. Between K. Henry II. and Robert of Normandy 2. At Morleis 3. At the Rescue of Calice 4. At Poicters 5. At Cressey 6. At Agincourt 7. At the mouth of the River Seine 8. At Vernoil 9. At Cravant 10. At the Relief of Orleance with the great Actions of the Lord Salisbury and Talbot 11. Of Spurrs Dedicated to all the Commission'd Officers of the Maritime and Land Forces Price stitcht 6 d. The Memoirs of Monsieur Deagant Containing the most Secret Transactions and Affairs of France from the Death of Henry IV. till the beginning of the Ministry of the Cardinal de Richlieu To which is added a particular Relation of the Archbishop of Embrun's Voyage into England and of his Negotiation for the advancement of the Roman-Catholick Religion here together with the Duke of Buckingham's Letters to the said Archbishop about the Progress of that Affair Which happen'd the last Years of King James I. his Reign faithfully translated out of the French Original A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from Dinant in Britany to Thoalon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance c. Faithfully and impartially Performed by Richard Strutton being an Eye-witness and a Fellow-Sufferer The State of Savoy In which a full and distinct Account is given of the Persecution of the Protestants in the Valleys of Piedmont by means of the French Councils As also of the Unreasonable Conditions and Demands that the French King would have put on the Duke of Savoy And of the just Causes and Motives that induced that Duke to break off from the French Interest and join with the Confederates Together with the most memorable Occurrences that have since hapned there As also the true Copies of all the Letters and Dispatches that have passed between them