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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62143	An answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, Observations upon a compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary, Queen of Scotland, and of her son, King James ... the libeller, without a name, set out by G. Bedell and T. Collins, two booksellers / but the history vindicated by the authour William Sanderson, Esq.	Sanderson, William, Sir, 1586?-1676.; Collins, Samuel, 1576-1651.	1656 (1656)	Wing S644; ESTC R4854	21,265	30

was not Lieutenant then but after Moor which was since and could not Belfore be acquainted with what was done before and so a sufficient Author to report it The like of Ree and Ramsey's Duell Discoursing of Combats tempore Iacobi I mention many before and since in reference to time and give a hint of these of late two Scots meaning the year lately when I write this History 1655. for all men may know it was in King Charles his time and so to be understood from my own words To carp at me He cleers Chelsey house that the Duke did not buy it but had it for nothing and bids me ask the Countesse of Middlesex whether she did not tell him so A pretty employment to enquire of a Lady whether No-body does bely her The like of Copt-hall And that my mistakes ignoranc● and errors are infi●ite in language and matter Page 21. And concludes with the like counsell to me as to one Sir Edmond Read more and write lesse For which I shall give him a fee as no doubt Sir Edmond did who turn'd his back to his advice and bad him busse his bum Not to die in your debt I return my counsell to boot In your Reply if you please belie not the dead nor abuse the living lest the dirt of both bedaube your selfe and you deserve the finall sentence your first Libell to the fire by the Hadgman's hands your next about your neck Beware the Gallowes Three Letters from Doctor Samuel Collins Regius Professor and Provost of Kings Colledge in the University of Cambridge concerning the Commencement and Mr. Sanderson To the Right Honorable the Earle of Holland Chancellor of the University of Cambridge RIght Honorable my very good Lord and our only Patron c. I might take occasion of your Honours late bounty to the University but wanting no such occasion at any time I make bold to open my mouth in the cause of such extremity as the wisest amongst men charges us not to be silent in The rather because it may be my words of triumph in such late plenty of Commencers as the fashion is of Fathers when they create hath given some occasion of misreporting the Action Truly tender of your Honours inviolatest reputat●on yea and the indemnity of the meanest of them that belong to your Honour for your Honours own sake I may boldly affirme not any one unworthy that I know either Doctor or Batchelor in Divinity or Commencer in any kinde but sundry of them rather Paragons only One the most suspected for insufficiency yet offered to give Caution to keep his Acts then which nothing could be more required at the strictest When we consulted about them in the Consistory the Names of sundry were set down in Paper for most allowable even by them of the Heads that held backward most Lack of Time and lack of Living are too slender exceptions in my opinion not only against his Majestie's Largesse at his coming and glorifying of his Triumphs all we could The glory of the King being the multilitude of his people but against worth and sufficiency wheresoever such at any time fail of Time or Living If your Honour had seen what past in this kind under other Chancellors and namely in conferring the Master of Arts Degree yet that Degree opens way to holy Orders in men perhaps not otherwise worthy a perilous consequence Here few Masters of Art nor any unworthy And for the Graduates in Divinity they were all Ministers afore and so no danger of the foresaid ill consequence We had but two Doctors now more then we had in the last sicknesse time or rather three lesse as that number encreased soon after yet then his Majestie came not at all amongst us Now both King and Queen and all deserves more and more Schollars by far than that time which had nothing but wofull necessity to excuse it This for the generall that your Lordship conceive no regret upon Rumors I have presumed one of many yet in my zeal to your Honour wherein I come behinde none For Mr. Sanderson in particular a man of most usefull abilities That he hath not wronged your Honour whatsoever some may suggest I am not only told but do verily believe that he never compacted with any for that courtesie and one of them at the instant afore these flashes broke forth told me as much of his own accord Doctor Grant by name and I think the rest will say no lesse if they were deposed as many have been If afterwards they made him any voluntary requitall for his service which is more then I know yet the most that can be surmized yet neither any fee abated to the University thereby and the parties in escaping other charges think themselves no doubt well dealt with as well they may So with my prayers for your Honour c. Your Lordships Beadsman and most humble Servant Samuel Collins Cambr. Kings Coll. 4th April 1632. To the right Worshipfull my very good friend Mr. Doctor Bing in London Chancery lane SIR FOr your wonted good News c. For our number of Doctors and other Commencers Why could there be lesse to glorifie such a Triumph as his Majesties vouchsafed Presence and that with his Queen and all so full of honourable courtesie of all sides Remember how many of late in the sicknesse no such cause as now and far more of kin to pretence Neither do I coneeive but that the Gentleman you speak of whom I had the good luck to know of late Mr. Sanderson our Noble Chancellor's Secretary hath both kept his word to the Doctors and increased beholdings to his Lord without any the least blemish to reputation This you may avouch that I was in the Consistory at the debating and no man in the Paper to whom just exception lay that I can now remember The worst was that one was short in living by which reason I had never been a Doctor for I was bare Fellow of a Colledge and my Father charged me on his blessing not to alledge Poverty against taking my Degree Doctor Caesar only lackt time for I disputed on him my selfe and he woon so much approbation then as he might as easily have been Doctor as Bachellor of Divinity if he had had time But he is a Noble-mans son and of Oxford and so merits the more As likewise Doctor Gray a rare Scholar one of them that commenced now by the King I must leave you I see only know that which bred all or most of the Scruples which was intended for more satisfaction viz. To defer it till next Tearm God keep you Amen Your assured poor friend Sam. Collins Kings Coll. Camb. 2d Aprill 1632. To the VVorshipfull my very good Cosin Mr. Prinn these by the Wardrobe in London SIR IN much heavinesse c. Now concerning your question of the Doctors whereof our friend is One Sir I know not what they can say there as I said before but for my part as