and sicker constitution and some passages in them I do not approve I hope to acquit my self so dutifull a son to the Church of England that when in a reverent posture I shall crave her blessing she will give it me in as full and free a manner and measure as to the Animadvertor himself Dr. Heylyn Thirdly the Book called Histrio-Mastix was not writ by Mr. Prin about three years before his last sufferings as our Author telleth us for then it must be writ or published Anno 1634. whereas indeed that Book was published in Print about the latter end of 1632. and the Author Censur'd in Star-Chamber for some passages in it about the latter end of the year 1633. Otherwise had it been as our Author tells us the punishment must have preceded the offence and he must suffer for a Book which was not publisht at that time and perhaps not written But our Author hath a speciall faculty in this kind which few Writers have Fuller The Animadvertor hath a speciall faculty in cavilling without cause My Clock of time strikes true enough but that he is minded not to tell it aright My words are Some three years since which word SOME soundeth an interpretative plùs minus to all ingenuous Ears Besides this is our opposite marginall Note containing the contents of that Paragraph Mr. Prin accused for Libelling against Bishops which accusation was about two years before this his last Censure during which time he was imprisoned And my SOME three years are to bear date in the construction of any impartiall Reader from that his accusation and then nothing is mis-timed but falleth out in due season And now Reader judge where the many errors be into which I have run in the story of Mr. Prin and his sufferings seeing no one mistake can be produced and proved against me And seeing the first Book of Mr. Prin was â—ound in it self in my opinion and his last Books more moderate even in the judgment of the Animadvertor and his midling Books how faulty soever such for which he hath severally suffered let us even take a fair farewell of Mr. Prin and his Books and so proceed Dr. Heylyn Now as our Author post-dateth his Histrio-Mâ—stix by making it come into the world two years after it did so he ante-dates a Book of Dr. White then Lord Bishop of Ely which he makes to be publisht two years sooner then indeed it was That Book of his entituled A Treatise of the Sabbath came not out till Michaelmas Anno 1635. though placed by our Author as then written Anno 1633. for which see fol. 144. Fuller In answer hereunto May the Reader be pleased to take notice of these particulars 1. The revived controversie Lords-Day lasted ten years bandied with books from 1628. till 1638. 2. I was loath to scatter my Book with it but resolved on one intire Narrative thereof 3. I fixed on the yeare 1633. therein to insert the same because the middle Number from the rising to the sinking of the difference then came to the very heat and height thereof 4. Hence my Narrative retreated some years back to 1628. when Bradborn began the difference 5. Hence also it sallied forth to the year 1635. when Bishop White 's book was set forth and beyond it 6. The date of the yeare 1633. stands still unmoveable on my Margin the whole Relation being for the reasons aforesaid entered under it So that nothing is offered to the Reader unjoynted in Time if I be but rightly understood Dr. Heylyn Next unto Mr. Prinne in the course of his Censure comes the Bishop of Liâ—coln the cause whereof we have in our Author who having left a blank fol. 156. for somewhat which he thinks not fit to make known to all gives some occasion to suspect that the matter was far worse on the Bishops side than perhaps it was And therefore to prevent all further misconstructions in this businesse I will lay down the story as I find it thus viz. The Bishop's purgation depending chiefly upon the testimony of one Prideon it happened that the February after one Elizabeth Hodson was delivered of a base child and laid to this Prideon The Bishop finding his great Witness charged with such a load of filth and infamy conceived it would invalidate all his testimony and that once rendred invalid the Bishop could easily prognosticate his own ruine therefore he bestirs himself amain And though by order of the Justices at the publick Sessions at Lincoln Prideon was charged as the reputed father the Bishop by his two Agents Powel and Owen procured that Order to be suppressed and by subornation and menacing of and tampering with Witnesses at length in May 10 Car. procured the child to be fathered upon one Boon and Prideon acquit Which lewd practises for the supportation of his favourite's credit cost the Bishop as he confest to Sir Iohn Munson and others twelve hundred pounds so much directly and by consequence much more Fuller I have concealed nothing herein of Moment the Blank being insignificant and the mere mistake of the Printer and expect no considerable addition from the Animadvertor having in my Book truly and clearly stated the Bishops Cause from the best Records I appeal to the unpartiall Perusers of what I wrote whether by this Note any thing of moment is added to the matter in hand except the naming of a light houswife which I conceived beneath my History the rest being truly by me related before Dr. Heylyn But to proceed the cause being brought unto a censure fol. 157. Secretary Windebank motioned to degrade him which saith he was lustily pronounced by a Knight and a Lay-man having no precedent for the same in former Ages But first it is not very certain that any such thing was moved by Sir Francis Windebank A manuscript of that daies proceedings I have often seen containing the Decree and Sentence with the substance of every Speech then made and amongst others that of Sir Francis Windebank in which I find no motion tending to a Degradation nor any other punishment inflicted on him than Fine Suspension and Imprisonment in which the residue of the Lords concurred as we find in our Author Fuller It is very certain he moved it and I avow it from honourable Eyes and Ears The Animadvertor misguides the reference of those my words having no precedent for the same in former Ages making them relate to the Bishop's Degradation whereof one precedent since the Reformation Unus homo nobis which indeed refer to the Knight's and Lay-man's first mentioning thereof which is unprecedented I am sure that such a person should FIRST make such a motion against a Bishop I confess at Bp. Midleton's Degradation some of the Lay-Privy-Counsellors were present but acted little therein so far from FIRST mentioning of it onely concurring with the Court the matter being chiefly managed by Arch-bishop Whitgift and some other Bishops and Deans the Commissioners as most proper
of these un-confessed-Faults and I sometimes plead the mistake of the Press for my Answer though seldome save when some similitude of form in the mistaken letter rendreth it probable for a Prelial Error CHAP. X. The Seventh and last General Answer That an Author charging his Margin with his Author is thereby Himself discharged HIstorians who write of things done at distance many miles from their dwellings and more years before their Births must either feign them in their owne Brains or fetch them from other credible Authors I say credible such as carry worth and weight with them Substantial Persons Subsidie men as I may say in Truths Book otherwise for some Pamphlets and all Pasquils I behold them as so many Knights of the Post even of no Reputation Now for the more credit of what is written and better assurance of the Reader it is very expedient that the Author alledged be fully and fairly quoted in the Margin with the Tome Book Chapter Leaf Page and Columne sometimes seldome descending so low as the Line where the thing quoted is expressed and this done the Author is free from fault which citeth it though He may be faulty who is cited if delivering a falshood Indeed if one become bound as Surety for another he engageth Himself to make good the Debt in the Default of Principal But if he onely be Bail for his Appearance and accordingly produceth his Person in Publick Court He ought to be discharged without farther trouble Semblably if one not onely cites but commends the words of an Authour then He undertakes for him adopts his words to be his owne becomes his Pledge and consequently is bound to justifie and maintain the truth of what he hath quoted But if he barely alledgeth his words without any closing with them in his Judgement he is onely bound for that Author's appearance Understand me to justifie that such words are exactly extant in manner and form in the place alledged easy to be found by any who will follow the Marginal direction This I reserve for my Eighth and last Answer when taxed by the Animadvertor for such things for which I have presented my Author in the Margin In such cases I conceive I should be discharged and if any Fees at all be to be paid I hope the Courteous Reader on my request will remit them and dismiss me without more molestation CHAP. XI That many of the Animadvertors Notes are onely Additional not Opposite to what I have written And that all things omitted in an History are not Defects WHo so beholdeth the Several places in my Book noted on by the Animadvertor hath cause at the first Blush to conclude my Church-History very Erroneous and full of Faults out of which so bigg a Bundle of Mistakes have been collected but upon serious Perusal of these Notes it will appear that a third part of them at the least are meerly Additional not opposite to what I have written so that they render my Book not for Truth the lesse but his for Bulk the greater Herein he seemeth like unto those Builders who either wanting Materials to erect an intire house or fearing so frail and feeble a Fabrick will not stand by it self run it along the side-walls of another house whereby they not onely save Timber but gain strength to their New Edifice The Animadvertor had a Mind to communicate some new Notions he had to the World but he found them not many and weighty enough to fill a just Book for Sale whereupon he resolves to range his Notions against my Church-History that so partly carping thereat and partly adding thereto he might betwixt both make up a Book Competent for Sale Hence it is that sometimes not liking my Language as not proper and expressive enough he substituted his owne with little or no variation of Matter and sometimes adds new Passages some whereof I could formerly have inserted but because I perceived my Book as the Reader is sensible by the price thereof grown already to too great a Volume When Additional Notes frequently occur I conceive my self not obliged in the least degree to return an Answer thereunto as being rather besides than against what I have written However if I have left out any thing it would have been suspected I had omitted that which most had made against me to prevent which Jealousie such Additional Notes are also here verbatim represented To such as object that the Animadvertor's Additions are Suppletory of the Defects in my Church-History I answer that a Defect properly is Absentia debiti adesse the Absence of what ought to be there so that a thing is maimed or lame without it But Additions to an History are reducible to these two Heads viz. either such as they Must without Imperfection be added May without Impertinency be added Few if any of the former some of the latter kind are found in the Animadvertor's Additory Notes And let me tell Him that if He writes Books against all who have written Books and have not written all which may be said of their Subject he may even write against all who have ever written Books and then He will have work enough Let us go no farther then to his own Geophraphy being sure he is too Iudicious to be so conceited of his own pains as to think he hath inserted all that may be said of so large a Subject The Story is well known of Aesop's Master who buying two Servants together in the Market-place demanded of one of them what he could doe He answered that he would doe all things doe all things Then the other Aesop himself being askt what he could doe answered He could doe nothing His Master seeming angry to keep so unprofitable a Servant How can I returned Aesop doe any thing when my Fellow-servant will doe all and leave me nothing to doe If Dr. Heylin hath done all things in his Geography he hath given a Writ of Ease for ever to Posterity who may Despair to merit more of that matter All who hereafter shall write a new Book of Geography must also find out a new World with Columbus as anticipated by the Doctor having formerly completed all on that Subject I presume not to say that I have in my Church-History done all things having written many and most material Passages leaving the rest to others But this I say that all things left out in a History are not wanting neither are all things wanting Defects if not essential thereunto As for some of the Animadvertors added Notes they are no more needful or useful than a sixth finger to a mans Hand as God willing in due time shall appear CHAP. XII That the Author Designed unto himself no Party-pleasing in Writing his Church-History PArtiality is constantly charged on me by the Animadvertor and once with a witness as followeth pag. 257. We see by this as by like Passages which way our Author's Bowle is BY ASSED how constantly he declares himself in Favour of
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
stiled OUR Catalogues of Honour But more exact Heralds whom it concerns to be skilful in their own Profession do otherwise account them Dr. Heylyn No Richard Duke of York to be found amongst them his Father Richard of Konisburgh having lost that Title by Attainder which never was restored to Richard his Son though most improvidently advanced to the Dukedom of York nor unto any other of that Line and Family Fuller I admire at the Animadvertor's peremptoriness in this point when the no less learned but more modest Mr. Camden speaking of these Earls in the Description of Cambridge-shire saith that after the death of Richard of Conisburgh The Title of the Earl of Cambridge either wholly vanished with him or else lay hid amongst the Titles of Richard his Son who was restored Duke of York as Kinsman and Heir to his Uncle Edward Duke of York What he warily said laid hid is found out by such as since wrote on that Subject Mr. Brooke York Herald and Mr. Augustine Vincent in effect Mr. Camden revised who writing Corrections on Brooke concurreth with him in this particular for Richard of Edward's Brother was after created Earl of that place Cambridge and after him another Richard who was Richard of Conisburgh's Son See Reader what an Adversary I have gotten who careth not to write against the most evident and avowed Truths so be it he may write something against Me. Dr. Heylyn 4. Proceed we in the next place to Verses and old ends of Poetry scattered and dispersed in all parts of the History from one end to the other for which he hath no precedent in any Historian Greek or Latine or any of the National Histories of these latter times The Histories of Herodotus Xenophon Thucidides and Plutarch amongst the Greeks of Caesar Livy Salust Tacitus and Suetonius amongst the Latines afford him neither warrant nor example for it The like may be affirmed of Eusebius Socrates Sozomen Theodoret Ruffin and Evagrius Church-Historians all though they had all the best choice and the most excellent Poets of the world to befriend them in it And he that shall consult the Historyes of succeeding times through all the Ages of the Church to this present day will find them all as barren of any incouragements in this kind as the ancients were Fuller Never had Herodotus given his Nine Books the names of the Nine Muses if such was his Abstemiousness from Poetry Not one of them which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in this kind and there are found in Clio the first no fewer than thirty Verses of the Oracles of Pythia As those his Books are fruitful so his Book of the Life of Homer hath a superfetation of them so that if Paose be the Warp Verses are the Woof thereof Whereas the Animadvertor instances in Plutarch open at the life of Theseus and we are presented with Poetry therein But grant no precedent in this nature in these Authors A more free Genius acteth in modern than in ancient Historians manumissed from the Servilities they were tied or tied themselves unto The Animadvertor like another Empson endevoureth to revive the Penal Statutes of History against me so to subject me to fine for the breach thereof which Time in effect hath cancelled Qui Scribit Historicè scribit miserè if enslaved to all puntillo's thereof Let the Animadvertor keep those Steel-bodys for his own wearing and not force them on me What not a Plait or a Ruffle more or less but all must be done in Number Waight and Measure according to Historicall criticisme This is not putting the Book but the Author himself into the Press Tacitus himself here instanced in would be Tacitus indeed if all Politick Sentences and prudential results were deleted in him being trespasses on the preciseness of History confined to matter of Fact But well-fare that Historian who will go out of his own way to direct his Reader We know Pliny Solinus c. in their Topographical description of Countreys are barren of verses Let the Animadvertor on the same account therefore charge Mr. Camden for surcharging his Britannia with Poetry having but three verseless Shires viz. Dorset Bucks and Westmerland in all England and more than fourscore verses apeece in the three severall Counties of Berks Oxford and Somerset Dr. Heylyn Nay whereas Bishop Godwin in his Annals gives us an Epitaph of two Verses only made on Queen Iane Seymour and afterwards a Copy of eighteen verses on the Martyrdome of Arch-Bishop Cranmer he ushers in the last with this short Apology Contra morem Historiae liceat quaeso inserère c. Let me saith he I beseech you insert these following verses though otherwise against the Rule and Laws of History Fuller What if that worthy Prelate was pleased to pass a Complement on his Reader it followeth not that they do want Civility who have less Courtship in this Point than he hath Let us look on his Catalogue of Bishops which hath more vicinity with my Subject and there we shall find the Bulk of the Book considered more verses in proportion than in my Church-History on the token that where I cite but four he quoteth fourteen out of Martial to prove Claudia Ruffina a Britan and a Christian. Dr. Heylyn But what alas were eighteen or twenty verses compared with those many hundred six or seven hundred at the least which we find in our Author whether to shew the universality of his reading in all kind of Writers or his faculty in Translating which when he meets with hard Copies he knows how to spare I shall not determine at the present Fuller If peeces of verses be counted whole ones which in this point is no Charitable Synecdoche and if Translations be reckoned distinct Verses though it is hard that a Man and his Shadow should be accounted two different persons And if the verses in the History of Cambridge be adjected though he who banisheth Poetry out of an University will find Iambicks enough to pay him for his pains And if the verses in the History of Waltham-Abby be cast in though who shall hinder but I will describe my own Parish in Prose or Poetry as I think fit all put together will not amount to the number Besides many of my verses may be said to be Prose in Effect as containing the Religion of that Age and therefore alledged as Evidence thereof before the Norman Conquest and no authority can in Prose be produced which doth so fully and cleerly represent the same Other Verses are generally Epitaphs on some eminent Church-men which could not well be omitted Dr. Heylyn Certain I am that by the interlarding of his Prose with so many Verses he makes his Book look rather like a Church-Romance our late Romancers being much given to such kind of mixtures than a well-built Ecclesiastical History And if it be a matter so inconvenient to put a new peice of cloth on an old garment the putting of so many old patches on a
take notice thereof Dr. Heylin Our Author proceeds Fol. 21. This Conference was partially set forth only by Dr. Barlow Dean of Chester their professed Adversary to the great disadvantage of their Divines If so how did it come to passe that none of their Divines then present nor any other in their behalf did ever manifest to the world the partialities and falshoods of it The Book was printed not long after the end of the Conference publickly passing from one hand to another and never convicted of any such Crime as it stands charged with in any one particular passage to this very day c. Fuller I only said that some did complain that this Conference was partially set forth I avowed not that they complained justly I believe their complaint causlesse and let it be remedilesse for me seeing I my self professe verbo Sacerdotis that I have been accused that I have abridged this Conference to the disparagement of Dr. Reynolds though my Conscience be clear herein Dr. Heylin However our Author telleth us that he viz. Mr. Nicholas Fuller left behind him the reputation of an honest man No question of it It is a thing so incident to the Name that whatsoever they doe or say they are honest still Fuller All his jeering on my Name shall not make me goe to the Heraulds Office to endeavor the altering thereof I fetcht it from my great-great Grand father and hope shall leave it to my great-great Grand-child A Name which no doubt originally was taken from that usefull trade without which Mankind can neither be warm or cleanly The like is frequent in many respectfull Families in England as the Antiquary hath observed From whence came Smith al be he Knight or Squire But from the Smith that forgeth at the fire Yet considering the narrownesse of my name it is inferiour to few having produced the best of English Pilots T. Fuller who steered Captain Cavendish round about the World the best of English Criticks N. Fuller so famous in forain parts for his Miscellany's and none of the worst of English Benefactors I. Fuller one of the Judges of the Sheriffs Court in London who built and endowed an Almeshouse for twelve poor men at Stoken-heath and another at Shorditch for as many poor Women Besides he gave his Lands and Tenements of great yearly valuation in the Parishes of S. Bennet and Peters Pauls Wharf London to Feoffees in Trust to release Prisoners in the Hole of both Counters whose Debts exceeded not twenty shillings eight-pence Yea it hath at this Day one Bishop one Dean one Doctor two Batchelour of Divinity and many Masters of Arts of no contemptible condition Pardon Reader this digression done se defendendo against one by whom my Name is too much undervalued by Ironical over-valuing thereof Dr Heylin Before we had the story of Thomas Fuller of Hammersmith condemn'd for felony but still so honest and so entirely beloved by King Harry the sixth after his decease that he appeard to him on the top of the Gallows incourag'd him and so charm'd the Rope that it did not strangle him lib. 4.154 Afterwards we meet with Iohn Fuller Doctor of the Laws a better than he a Persecutor in Queen Maries dayes but a pittiful man as the Index telleth us Here we have Nicholas Fuller a Counseller the best of the three decrying openly the Authority on the High Commission and thereby giving a legal advantage to Archbishop Bancroft by whom imprisoned and there dying but dying with the reputation of an honest man And then another Thomas Fuller a Minister the best of all the company and an honest man too so well deserving of the Church and all good Church-men both alive and dead by this notable History as not to doubt of the like favour at their hands should there be occasion as Thomas of Hammersmith receiv'd of King Harry the sixth Fuller Here are four Gradations of Fullers good better best best of all which in the language of jeering speaking alwayes by the contraries amounteth unto bad worse worst worst of all As for the first T. Fuller I answer First the tale is not made but related by me who have charged my Margin with the Author thereof Harpsfeild not inconsiderable for Learning Religion amongst his own party Secondly not the least credit is given thereunto in my reporting it matching it with another miracle which I call equally true that is equally untrue in the interpretation of any unpartial Reader Thirdly seeing I followed Harpsfeild in relating his Miracles in other places if here I should have deserted him probably it would have been by others condemned in me for a sullen omission as by the Animadvertor for a light Insertion because T. F. was my Namesake The good nature and pittiful disposition of Dr. I. Fuller plainly appeareth in Mr. Fox and as for his bounty to Iesus Col. in Cambridge I leave it to some of that foundation to give testimony thereof As for the third N. Fuller be it reported to the IESSES of Grayes-Inne I mean such Benchers as pass amongst them for Old Men and can distinctly remember him whether he hath not left a pretious and perfumed memory behinde him of one pious to God temperate in himself able in his Profession moderate in his Fees carefull for his Client faithfull to his Friend hospital to his Neighbour pittifull to the Poor and bountifull to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge in a word blamless in all things save this one Act of Indiscretion which could not make him forfeit the reputation of his honesty especially seeing he paid dear for it and died in durance Thus though Mr. Stubbs was so obnoxious to the displeasure of Queen Elizabeth that hâ—s Right-hand was cut off for writing a Libel against Her Match with Monseir yet Mr. Camden does call him Virum famae integerrimae For the fourth and last I will make the Animadvertor the self same Answer which the Servants of Hezekiah returned to Rabsecah But they held their peace and answered him not a word Dr. Heylin The Author saith and as about this time some perchance over-valued the Geneva Notes out of that especial love they bare to the Authors and place whence it proceeded So on the other side same without cause did sleight or rather without charity did slander the same I trowe our Author will not take upon him to condemn all those who approve not of the Genevian Notes upon the Bible or to appear an Advocate for them though he tells us not many lines before that they were printed thirty times over with the general liking of the people Fuller Had I said two and thirty times though past the Head Game I had not been out And now the Reader shall have my full and free sense of the Genevian Notes I remember the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Head of Polypus is had What is good and what is bad Such a mixture is in these