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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65606	An answer to a late book written against the learned and reverend Dr. Bentley, relating to some manuscript notes on Callimachus together with an examination of Mr. Bennet's appendix to the said book.	Whately, Solomon.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1583; ESTC R38305	129,958	228

that Examination and this Appendix The was is to Charge the Dr. with saying what he never said and then to be sure they must have a great measure of Dulness if they cannot confute what they invented on purpose to be confuted The Bookseller has the Confidence to tell his Readers That the Dr. would be thought to have First set a-foot the Collection And yet the Dr. in words as full as can be desir'd has plainly implied the contrary For he tells us The Books had not of late been brought into the Library which is a manifest Proof that he believed himself and would have his Reader suppose that they had formerly been brought in according to the Act. For the Act commenc'd soon after the Restauration of K. Charles II. The Books therefore might have been gather'd for many years and yet of late have been neglected We have one plain Falshood then in the Bookseller's Representation of this matter and we shall presently have another For he talks of the Dr's setting a-foot the Collection and his Project of having the Books Collected for so says he the dr would have us understand him How the Gentlemen of the Half-Moon are used to understand the Dr's Writings the World is now pretty well satisfied But if I may measure other Readers from my self I durst be bold to affirm that not one of them could put that Construction upon the Dr's words unless he either carelesly read him or wilfully mis-represented him For the Dr. whose words I have cited above has not a Syllable about Collecting in all that passage He only says The Books had not been brought into the Library which is true beyong Contradiction But whether some or all of the Books had been Collected from the several Booksellers and laid up in the Stationers Ware-house that was more than he could pretend to know He found they were not in the Royal Library and like an honest and careful Man he did the Duty of his place and took care to see them lodg'd there And without such a Care they might have lain long enough before the King's Library had been the richer for them But besides all this it will appear presently that all the Books which were Printed from June 93 to April 94. might even be uncollected as well as not brought in till the Dr. demanded them After two such notorious Stretches that the Bookseller has made here in representing the Dr's words we may easily guess what will become of the rest of what he has brought on this Head He attempts to prove That no such Discourse i.e. when the Dr. says He asked Mr. Bennet to give his share of Books to the King's Library and Mr. Bennet refused it could happen between the Dr. and him because it appears by the Beadle that Mr. Bennet complied to give his share without any Dispute whatsoever July 13th 1693. which was before the Dr. was nominated to his Office P. 116. And the Act of Printing expiring about April or May 1693. after that time no Body could pretend to demand Arrears from particular Booksellers I must confess if I had not been pretty well acquainted with the Half-Moon Sincerity I should have thought this Argument a strong one and very pinching upon the Dr. But beign fully perswaded from the rest of their management that this too was all of a piece I began to cast about if I could find any flaw in the Proof and seeing the main of it depended upon the Act of Printing's expiring in May 1693 I fansied the Deceit must needs lie in that Particular I know my Reader will think now that this was a very unlikely Guess of mine for how is it credible that they would falsifie an act of Parliament where any Body that had a mind to Examine the matter might easily discover the Cheat This I own was something choaking For I argued so to my self at that time but however since it came into my way I was resolved to consult Keeble upon the Statute for Printing and there I found Keeble's Statutes p. 1658. that the Act of Printing when it was last revived commenced from the 13th of February 169 2 3 and from thence continued to the End of the next Session of Parliament which was May 1694. Let the Reader now reflect a little upon the Impudence of this Bookseller and those that assisted him who rather than say nothing against Dr. Bentley would tell thus in the Face of the Sun the most palpable Falshood The Act of Printing says he expired in April or May 1693. Therefore the Dr. could not demand Books of me after that time as he says he did upon that Act of Printing But the contrary of this Sir is most evident from the Act it self for it did not expire till May 1694. And the Dr. says that he demanded the Books of you after be was nominated to the Library-Keeper's Office and before his Patent was finished that is as you your self calculate it Mr. Ben. p. 113. sometime between December 23d 93 and April 18th 94 so that he demanded the Books of you while the Statute was in force And I make no doubt but he did really demand them of you both because it became one in his place to do so and because he made the same demand upon some other Booksellers at the same time and because you do not offer to disprove it withiout telling such manifest Untruths as all the World may discover But you think it utterly incredible that you should deny the Books to the King's Library upon Dr. B's asking when you had granted them without any Dispute to the Beadle Why truly Sir as you by falsifying an Act of Parliament have stated this matter there appears some Reason on your side For you make the Dr. and the Beadle demand them at or near the same time But as Mr. Keeble has assisted us to put the Case truly there 's nothing at all improbable in the Dr's Account of this Story For you might deliver some Books in June 1693. to the Beadle and yet your Opinion or your Humour might be chang'd before April 18th 1694. You say The Discourse that the Dr. puts in your Mouth is all over so absurd and senseless P. 118. that no Body that knows you will think you capable of it But for me that do not know you otherwise than from your share in this Controversie you 'll excuse me if I think you capable of it because I find you actually guilty of worse And I perswade my self that every Body else if he take your Character as I do from the Papers that carry your Name will be of my Opinion As for that Honourable Gentleman Sir Edward Sherburn's Letter which he sent to Mr. Bennet P. 134. and ordered to be imediately Communicated to the World all that I shall presume to say of it is this that the Reader who shall give himself the trouble of perusing the Dr's Praef. P. 46 c. Account of the Matter of Fact