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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61885	Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected and rectified : whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject, translated out of Italian : with a brief account of those passages of the authors life ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. / by Henry Stubbe ...	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.; Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557. Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Libro 3. English.; Sardi, Pietro, b. 1559? Artiglieria. English. Selections.; Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.; Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700.	1670 (1670)	Wing S6053; Wing S6063_PARTIAL; ESTC R21316	289,570	380

ridiculous already multiply occasions of further contempt The course is usual amongst the Papists and therefore less to be admired or strange in these Virtuosi When the Bishop of Spalato writ his excellent Books against the Romanists they answered him by calumniating his life when Padre Paolo writ the History of the Council of Trent the Jesuit Palavicini begins his Anti-History with a long debate wherein he attempts to prove that the Author of the said History was an Heretique and Atheist This procedure of his hath been laughed at every where and Caesar Aquilinius a Papist thus censures it An Petrus Soave suerit Haereticus an Atheus Questionem hanc proponit Henricus initio praefationis ad suam Censuram loquens enim de Petro Soave haec addit Scriptor Haereticus an Ath●ista nihil oportet inquirere quare ipse Quaestionem hanc ut superfluam contemnendam potius quam examinandam determinandam judicat Palavicinus vero existimans statim uno ictu adversarium atque ejus Historiae sternere autoritatem Quaestionem i●tam proponit solvit asserens in primo introductionis suae limine Petrum Soave fuisse Haereticum quod pejus est Atheum hoc etiam addit secundi voluminis initio in epistola quam tribuit sui operis Bibliopo●ae Probat hoc ex quibusdam verbis Manu scriptarum epistolarum quae juxta ejus sententiam Petro Soave tribuun●ur● Ve●um satis stultè videtur incedere a●●imulatur ei qui umbram insequitur relicto corpore habet prae manibus Historiam Concil●i Tridentini scriptam ab●illo typis datam in qua tanquam in speculo posset cognoscere quaenam sit Petri Soave Religio An Catholicus an Haereticus An fortasse Atheus laborat apud nonnulla privata manu scripta qua vel vera non sunt vel certe ancipitis expositionis Primus igitur Palavicini ictus satis vanus inutilis est ipse videtur assimilari homini qui cum non valeat suis viribus inimicum vincere utitur clarioribus maledicis vocibus debuisset solum respondere ad opposita quae in illius Historiâ inveniuntur non lacessere hostem injuriis imitari prudentiores ac Sanctos Scriptores adversus Haereticos qui relictis injuriis tantum eorum doctrinam confutant ac damnant In fine I was so far from being daunted at those rumors and threats that I enlarged much this Book thereupon and resolved to charge the Enemy home when I saw how weak resistance I should meet with I knew that recriminations were no answers and that a sober vertue needed not to stand in fear of any aspersions I understood well that the passages of a life like mine spent in different places with much privacie and obscuririty was unknown to them that even those actions they would fix their greatest calumnies upon were such as that they understood not their grounds nor had they learning enough and skill in casuistical Divinity to condemn that it would be imprudent in them to look beyond the Act of Indemnity and Oblivion which was more necessary to many of the Royal Society than to me nor can their deportment be justified as mine who joyned with no party frequented no Conventicles writ very honorably concerning the Episcoparians and pleaded for their Toleration I was at Westminster-School when the late King was beheaded I never took Covenant nor Engagement In sum I SERVED MY PATRON I endeavoured to express my Gratitude unto him who had relieved me being a Childe and in great poverty the Rebellion in Ireland having deprived my Parents of all means wherewith to educate me who made me a King's Scholar preferred me to Ch. Ch. C. in Oxon. who often supplied me with money when my tender years gave him little hopes of any return and who protected me amidst the Presbyterians and Independant● and other Se●ts with no●e thereof did I contract any relation or acquaintance my familiarity never engaged me with ten of that party and my genius and humor inclined me to fewer I neither enriched nor otherwise advanced my self during the late troubles and shared the common odium and dangers not prosperity with my Benefactor I believe no generous man who hath the least sense of bravery will condemn me and I profess I am ashamed rather to have done so little than that I have done so much for him that so frankly obliged a stranger and a childe When Gracchus was put to death for sedition that faithful friend and complice of his was dismissed and mentioned with honour by all Posterity who when he was impeached justified his Treason by the avowing a Friendship so great that whatever Gracchus had commanded him he would not have declined it and being further Ques●ioned Whether he would have burned the Capitol at his bidding He replied again That he should have done it but Gracchus would not bid such a thing They that knew me heretofore know I have a thousand times thus apologized for my self adding that in Vassals and Slaves and persons transcendently obliged their Fidelity exempted them from all ignominy though the principal Lords Masters and Patrons might be accounted Traytors And I am so far from dreading the Censure of the world especially from Cavaliers that I believe most men wish their favours so well placed and that in their exigencies they might meet with as brave acknowledgments My Youth and other circumstances incapacitated me from rendring him any great Services but all that I did and all that I writ had no other aim than his interest nor do I care how much any man can inodiate my former Writings as long as that they were sul●ervient to him I think this defence to be the most proper and seasonable that I can now make and I will not suffer my self to be engaged in any Disputes that may contribute to the dissettlement of this Nation and Monarchy it will therefore be but meanly done to assault what I now abandon and to revive the mention nay perhaps to contrive any answer after so many years omitting it is scarce prudential I have been confirmed by the Right Reverend father in God the Lord Bishop of Winchester and they that would write my life well must consult that excellent Prelate and a Letter which He hath of mine I have lived in Communion with the Church of England hitherto as standing upon the foundations laid by Qu. Elizabeth and my neighboring Diocesans of Worcester and Lichfiel● can certifie with how much respect I have demeaned my self to them upon occasion and I abhor all thoughts but such as shall contribute to the support of the Monarchy the Protestant Religion the Honor and welfare of th●se Kingdoms Having made this Declaration let them or more able men than they write against any piece of mine which hath been published since his Majesties restoration and consider the manner of my assertions and let them write the life of a man who hath some vertues of