which I commiserate from my heart but am much more concerned that you do not leave the World in a Delusion and false Peace to the hindrance of your Eternal Happiness I heartily Pray for you and beseech your Lordship to believe that I am with the greatest Sincerity and Compassion in the World My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and Afflicted Servant J. Tillotson Printed for R. Baldwin 1683. No. IV. To the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty James the Second c. The Humble Address of the Bishops and Clergy of the City of London WE your Majesties most humble and Dutiful Subjects do heartily condole your Majestie 's loss of so dear a Brother of Blessed Memory And do thankfully adore that Divine Providence which hath so Peaceably setled your Majesty our Rightful Sovereign Lord upon the Throne of your Ancestors to the joy of all your Majesties good Subjects And as the Principles of our Church have taught us our Duty to our Prince so we most humbly thank your Majesty for making our Duty so Easie and pleasant by your gracious assurance to defend our Religion established by Law which is dearer to us than our Lives In a deep sence whereof we acknowledg our selves for ever bound not only in Duty but gratitude to contribute all we can by our Prayers our Doctrine and Example to your Majesties happy and prosperous Reign And with our most sincere promises of all Faith and Allegiance do humbly implore the Divine goodness to preserve your Majesties Person and to establish your Throne in this World and when he shall be pleased to Translate you hence to bestow on you an Eternal Crown of Life and Glory No. V. IN the Name of God Amen Before the Lord Jesus Christ Judge of the Quick and Dead We long since became bound by Oath upon the sacred Evangelical Book unto our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England That we as long as we lived shall bear true Allegiance and fidelity towards him and his Heirs succeeding him in the Kingdom by just Title Right and Line according to the Statutes and Custom of this Realm have here taken unto us certain Articles subscribed in form following to be proponed heard and tryed before the just Judge Christ Jesus and the whole World But if which God forbid by force Fear or violence of wicked Persons we shall be cast in Prison or by violent Death be prevented so as in this world we shall not be able to prove the said Articles as we wish Then we do appeal to the high Celestial Judge that he may judge and discern the same in the day of his supream Judgment First we depose say and except and intend to prove against Henry Darby commonly called King of England himself pretending the same but without all Right and Title thereunto and against his adherents fautors Complices that they have ever been are and will be Traytors Invaders and Destroyers of God's Church and of our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England his heirs his Kingdom and Common-wealth as shall hereafter manifestly appear In the Second Article they declare him Forsworn Prejured and Excommunicate for that he conspired against his Sovereign Lord King Richard In the Fourth they recite by what wrong illegall and false means he exalted himselfe into the Throne of of the Kingdom and then describing the miserable State of the Nation which followed after his Usurpation they again pronounce him Perjured and Excommunicate In the Fifth Article they set forth in what a Barbarous and inhuman manner Henry and his Accomplices Imprisoned and Murthered K. Richard and then cry out wherefore O England arise stand up and avenge the Cause the Death and injury of thy King and Prince If thou do not take this for certain that the Righteous God will Destroy thee by strange Invasions and foreign Power and avenge himself on thee for this so horrible an Act. In The Seventh they depose against him for putting to Death not only Lords Spiritual and other Religious Men but also divers of the Lords Temporal there Named for which they pronounce him Excommunicate In the Ninth they say and depose that the Realm of England never Flourished nor Prospered after he Tyrannically took upon him the Government of it And in the Last they Depose and protest for themselves and K. Richard and his Heirs the Clergy and Commonwealth of the whole Realm that they intended neither in word nor deed to offend any State of men in the Realm but to prevent the approaching Destruction of it and beseeching all men to favour them and their designs whereof the First was to Exalt to the Kingdom the true and lawful Heir and him to Crown in Kingly Throne with the Diadem of England No. VI. THat all Parliaments and Ambitious selfe seekers in them who under pretence of publick Reformation Liberty the Peoples ease or welfare have by indirect Surmise Policies Practices Force and new Devices most Usurped upon the Prerogatives of their Kings or the Persons Lives Offices or Estates of such Nobles great Officers and other Persons of a contrary Party whom they most dreaded maligned and which have imposed new Oaths upon the Members to secure perpetuate and make irrevocable their own Acts Judgments and unrighteous Proceedings have always proved most abortive successless pernicious to themselves and the activest Instruments in them The Parliaments themselves being commonly totally repealed null'd and the Grandees in them suppressed impeached condemned destroyed as Traytors and Enemies to the Publick in the very next succeeding Parliaments or not very long after That Kings Created and set up meerly by Parliaments and their own Power in them without any true Hereditary Title have seldom answer'd the Lords and Commons Expectations in the Preservation of their just Laws Liberties and Answers to their Petitions yea themselves at last branded for Tyrants Traytors Murderers Usurpers Their Posterities impeached of High-Treason and disinherited of the Crown by succeeding Kings and Parliaments of c. From these Three last Observations we may learn that as Parliaments are the best of all Courts and Councils when duly Summoned Convened Constituted Ordered and kept within their Legal Bounds So they become the greatest Mischiefs and Grievances to the Kingdom when like the Ocean they overflow their banks or degenerate and become through Sedition Malice Fear or Infatuation by Divine Justice promoters of corrupt sinister Ends or Accomplishers of the private Designs and ambitious Interests of particular Persons under the disguise of Publick Reformation Liberty Safety and Settlement No. VII ALtho' it can no way be doubted but that His Majesty's Right and Title to these Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way Compleat by the Death of His most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony and Solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such Cases have been always used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this Occasion testify their Duty and Respect And since the Armed Violence and
not who thought Dr. Tillotson deserved the Praises he has given him I should be sorry that an Apostate and an Apostate by his own Confession should be his Encomiast and transmit his Memory to Posterity For Divines that contradict themselves and their most serious Doctrines which they pressed upon the Consciences of Men as he hath done are always to be Suspected and as for himself he above all others hath brought upon himself the Fate of Cassandra and is not to be believ'd when he speaks Truth upon his own Authority And if what I have hitherto said will not justifie the Severity of this Censure I hope what I am going to write will In his first Letter to my Lord Middleton bearing Date the 27th of May 1687. he tells his Lordship That few have preacht more than himself against all sorts of Treasonable Doctrines and Practices and particularly against the Lawfulness of rising in Arms upon account of Religion I have preacht a whole Sermon at the Hague saith he against all Treasonable Doctrines and Practices and in particular against the Lawfulness of Subjects rising in Arms against their Sovereigns upon the account of Religion and I have maintained this both in Publick and Private so that I could if I thought it convenient give Proofs of it that would make all my Enemies ashamed As often as I have talked with Sir John Cochran I took occasion to repeat my Opinion of the Duty of Subjects to submit and bear all the ill Administration that might be in the Government but never to rise in Arms upon that Account And in his third Letter to his Lordship bearing Date Hague 27. June 1687. he concludes with these Words But to the last Moment of my Life I will pay all Duty and Fidelity to his Majesty And yet before the Date of these Letters wherein he makes such high and solemn Professions of his Principles of Loyalty and of his Duty to the King he was engaged in one of the Deepest and most Heinous Treasons that Subject was ever engaged in against his Sovereign I mean in perswading the Princess of Orange to Consent to the unnatural Invasion of her Father's Kingdom by the Prince which then was resolv'd upon and with him to take his Crown if the Invasion should succeed This he thought so meritorious and honourable a Piece of Service that soon after he came to London he could not deny himself the Satisfaction of telling some Friends That he was the Man pitcht upon to break the Design of deposing the King her Father to her Royal Highness Two Years before the Revolution and that he gained her Consent upon Condition that the Prince might assume the Royal Power with her and be Crowned before her He told it to this purpose in the Deanry-house of St. Pauls and for the Truth of it I appeal to the then Dean of that Church Dr. Stillingfleet and to the worthy Bishop of Peterborough I mean Dr. White who was present when he spoke to that Effect and I make bold to mention his good Name because he hath spoken of it in many Places and to this Authority I could add that of a Right honourable Person of great Esteem in whose Hearing he spake in another Place to the same purpose Let this be written upon his Monument and embalm his Memory to Posterity That he was the Man who perswaded the yet innocent Daughter Absalon like to conspire the Destruction of her Father and to seize his Throne This he did against a King who according to his own Expression of the King his Father was by a (a) Serm. on the 30 of January 1674. p. 7. Tract of undisputed Succession what Saul was by immediate Revelation God's Anointed And after he had done it he again promised Fidelity to him to the last Moment of his Life and after that again invaded his Kingdom and used him the worst of all his Enemies I have been told that he was a Year in overcoming that unhappy Princess into this unnatural Resolution and if any one desire to know what Arguments and of what Sort he used to pervert her I am of Opinion he may find them in a French Book called Le Salut de la France which was written by Mounsieur Jurieu a French Minister to perswade the Dauphin of France to whom it is addressed to dethrone his Father They were both great Acquaintance one with the other both lived together in Holland both great Enthusiasts both acted with the utmost Revenge against their respective Sovereigns both engaged in the Interests of the Confederacy and it would be very strange if two such Wits and Incendiaries so agreeing in their Temper Design and their way of Writing should not jump in their Arguments on this Subject At the same time he was at work with the Princess he wrote many Seditious Libels to disaffect the People of these Kingdoms against the King contrary not only to his professed Fidelity but to the Respect he had before pretended was due to Crown'd Heads In his (b) P. 6. Reflections on Varillas he pretends That the sublime Character of a Crowned Head laid a restraint on those Groans which he would otherwise vent in behalf of the French Refugees And in his Letter to Mounsieur Thavenot he is very severe upon M. le Grand for speaking hardly of our Henry VIII telling him That there is a Reverence due to the Ashes of Kings which ought to make us speak of their Faults in the safest Words and avoid such reproachful ones as Lying and Imposture To which M. le Grand cries out in his Note upon that Passage Behold this Man who fills England and France with the most Seditious and Outragious Libels that were ever made against any Prince speaking at this rate And I say behold this Man with all his Fidelity to his own King and all the Respect he had professed to Crown'd Heads treating his own Sovereign as if he had not been anointed with Oyl At Exeter he would not let them say the Morning and Evening Prayer for the King's Majesty at Salisbury he sat down when it was said and at another Place in their March when a Noble Lord out of Respect to his Master 's Crown'd and Hoary Head asked him this Question with disdain What then must we do with the King He presently answered He must be deposed He must be deposed At St. James's he took upon him to require Mr. West whom I ought to mention with Honour to leave off praying for him and the Prince of Wales (a) See Tempora Mutantur p. 5. for whom though he had often prayed by Name in the Chapel Royal at the Hague yet in his Measures of Submission and Obedience he calls him a base Imposture for which if Men do not God in his appointed time will call him unto Judgment In his (b) P. 167. History of the Rights of Princes he calls the War which the Children of King Lewis began against their
other the Calamities of many Years last past have hitherto deprived us of any opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to His Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now Assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council-Men of the City of London and other Free-Men of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim that immediately upon the Decease of our late Sovereign King Charles I. the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-Right and lawful undoubted Succession descend and come to His most Excellent Majesty King Charles II as being lineally justly and lawfully next of the Blood-Royal of this Realm and that by the Goodness and Providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland and Ireland the most Potent Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto We most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever No. VIII An Account of several Considerable Services that have been done to the Government by vertue of the Powers given by the Act for Printing since the last Continuation thereof Feb. 13. 1692 shewing That there have been Five Private Presses and many Treasonable Pamphlets and Libels discover'd and seiz'd within less than Two Years viz. OCtober 29. 1692. Discover'd and Seiz'd a Private Press with a Libel near the Greek Church by So-Ho The Persons employ'd made their Escape May 2. 1693. Discover'd and Seiz'd another Private Press in S. James's street with 34 several Treasonable Pamphlets and Libels the Titles of which are as follow An Historical Romance of the War The Jacobites Principles vindicated A Vindication of the deprived Bishops Two Letters to the Author of Solomon and Abiathar A Vindication of some among our selves Eucharisticon or a Comment upon the Fast. The Humble petition of the Common People of England to the Parliament The Auction or Catalogue of Books A Letter to Mr. Samuel Johnson His Majesty's Speech with Reflections The Resolution of a Case of Conscience The People of England's Grievances A Specimen of the State of the Nation New Court-Contrivances or more Sham-plots A Bob for the Seamen An Answer to Dr. King 's Book A Dialogue between Sophronius and Philo-Belgius A Letter to Dr. Tillotson A French Conquest neither desirable nor practicable Lex Ignea or the Justice of the House of Commons for advancing a Title to the Crown by Conquest A second Letter to the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry occasion'd by a Letter to him from the Bishop of Sarum A New Song with Musical Notes The Sea-Martyrs A New Scotch Whim. A List of Ships lost or damag'd since 1688. His Majesty's Speech November the 4th with Explications The Bell-man of Piccadilly to the Princess of Denmark The Earl of Pembroke 's Speech about the Lords in the Tower Some Paradoxes presented for a New-Years-Gift from the Old Orthodox to the New serving for an Index to the Revolution Remarks upon the present Confederacy King William 's Speech to the Cabinet-Council Considerations upon the second Canon June 1693. Another Private Press seiz'd in Westminster with the late King James's Declaration and several other Libels About the same time another Private Press seiz'd in Long-Acre Jan. 17 1695. Discover'd and Seiz'd another Private Press in Peticoat-Lane in Spittle-Fields with the several Seditious and Treasonable Pamphlets following viz. A Ballad entitled The Belgic Boor. A Parallel between O. P. and P. O. Reflections on a Letter from S. Germains The humble Address to both Houses of Parliament Remarks on a Paper to restore the late King James Happy be Lucky or a Catalogue of Books c. Delenda Carthago or the true Interest of England c. A Dialogue between A. and B. two plain Country Gentlemen concerning the Times A Petition of the Prisoners in the Savoy shewing them to be neither Traytors nor Pyrates A Persuasive to Consideration and one Form of a Letter to Sir John Trenchard All which were found in the Custody of one James Dover a Printer committed to Newgate for the same Besides the above-recited Libels against the State many Heretical and Socinian Books have been seized and stopt particularly one Entitled A brief and clear Confutation of the Trinity which was publickly burnt by Order of both Houses of Parliament and the Author prosecuted And one other is lately taken with its Author call'd A designed End to the Socinian Controversie or a Rational and plain Discourse to prove That no other Person but the Father of Christ is God most High There have been Three Persons found guilty of High-Treason that were the Printers at some of the Private Presses above-mention'd one of which named William Anderton was Condemned and Executed There are Three Presses at least known to be lately remov'd from Public Printing-Houses in London into Private One from the House of one Bonny another from from one Astwood and another from one Andrew Sowle all Printers If the Design of these Persons who mannage these Presses were to do Lawful Work they may do that openly at home without Hazard or Disturbance It must therefore be concluded that they are gone into Private to Libel the Government Now Considering how absolutely necessary this Act for Printing hath been and is for the Security of the Common Peace and Good of the Nation It is hoped That this Honourable House will continue the same till they shall have leisure to take into their Consideration the Reasonableness of the Objections that may be made against the present Act or any Clause therein contain'd For should this be discontinu'd and the Press be but for a while without Restraint His Majestie 's Government would be left Defenceless against His Secret Adversaries at Home whilst he is hazarding His Royal Person Abroad against the Common Enemy the Consequences of which may prove so Fatal as not to admit of a Future Remedy No. IX A Catalogue of Books not yet Answer'd VIndiciae Juris Regii Being an Answer to the Enquiry into the Measures of Submission and Obedience c. A Discourse of the Sense of the Word Allegiance A Defence of the Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Chichester's Declaration An Answer to the Bishop of Sarum's Pastoral Letter which was burnt by the hands of the common Hangman An Answer to the Letter to a Bishop An Answer to the Historical Part of the Unreasonableness of a New-Separation Christianity a Doctrin of the Cross An Answer to Dr. Sharp's Funeral Sermon at S. Giles's A Vindication of some among our selves c. The Loyal Martyr Vindicated An Answer to Dr. King's Book An Answer to a late Pamphlet Entitled Obedience and Submission to the present Go-Government demonstrated from Bishop Overal 's Convocation-Book with a Postscript An Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Vindication of Allegiance due to Sovereign Princes An Answer to a Letter to Dr. Sherlock written in Vindication of that part of Josephus his History which gives the Account of Jaddus's Submission to Alexander against An Answer to the Vindication of the Divines of the Church of England who have taken the Oaths from the charge of Rebellion and Pruerjy An Answer to a Piece Entituled Obedience and Submission to the present Government The Title of an Vsurper after a thorough Settlement examined In Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers The Duty of Allegiance setled upon its true Grounds according to Scripture Reason and the Opinion of the Church In Answer to a late Book of Dr. William Sherlock Entitled The Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers c. 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Erubescet But if he will not be ashamed I know no reason why any Man that would not be deceived should take Things upon Trust from such a shameless Writer whom an impenitent Conscience hath hardened against the Confusion of Remorse and Blushing and made one of the greatest Examples of Impudence that ever dishonoured the Lawn Sleeves I hope it is a just Indignation that forces this Reflexion from me but if it seems too severe I beg the Reader 's Patience till I lay before him another of this unhappy Man's Books intituled A Vindication of the Authority c. of the Church and State of Scotland Printed 1673. This Book is full of very many Doctrins Rules and Precepts to which the Author's Life and all his Books since the beginning of the Revolution have been an open Contradiction In the Entrance of his Preface to the Reader saith he How sad but how full a Commentary doth the Age we live in give of those Words of our Lord I am come to send Fire on Earth Suppose you that I am come to give Peace upon Earth I tell you nay but rather Division Do we not see the Father divided against the Son and the Son against the Father and engaging into such angry Heats and mortal Feuds upon Colours of Religion as if the Seed of the Word of God like Cadmus Teeth had spawned a Generation of Cruel and Blood thirsty Men But how surprizing is the Wonder when Religion becomes the Pretence And after this Among all the Heresies this Age hath spawned there is not one more contrary to the whole Design of Religion and more destructive of Mankind than is that bloody Opinion of defending Religion by Arms and of forceable Resistance upon the Colour of preserving Religion The Wisdom of this Policy is Earthly Sensual and Devillish savouring of a carnal unmortified and unpatient Mind that cannot bear the Cross nor trust to the Providence of God Religion then as well as since was the Civil Property of these Kingdoms but at the time of the Revolution (a) In his Enquiry into the Measures of Submission to the Supreme Authority he distinguished the Christian Religion from it self as Religion and as it was one of the principal Rights and Properties of the Subject and though as Religion it ought not to be defended by Arms yet he affirmed That as a Civil Right and Property it might Would any Man but such a Bishop have had the Confidence to say That it was Lawful to sight for Religion as a Civil Right and Property who had published the Book above-mentioned and I know not how many after it to prove it Unlawful for Subjects to take up Arms in defence or under pretence of defending any Right or Property whatsoever Let such a Man say of Things or Persons or of Persons Dead or Living what he pleases he shall never be believed by me farther than he brings Proof The Passages of his forecited Book which now stare him in the Face are very many and very Emphatical and there is scarce a Page in it which is not a Record against him I must take notice of some and recommend (b) P. 8. to p. 18. p 35. 39. 40. 41. 42. 46. 47. those in the Margent to the curious Reader 's perusal at his leasure that he may make the same use of them that I am going to do of those that follow In the 68th Page of that Book he makes it of more dangerous Consequence to place the Deposing Power in the People than in the Pope Less Disorder saith he may be apprehended from the Pretensions of the Roman Bishops than from those Maxims that put the Power of Judging and Controuling the Magistrate in the Peoples hands which opens a Door to endless Confusion and sets every private Person in the Throne These Consequences of placing the Deposing Power in the People we have seen verified by Experience and still shall be more convinced of the Truth of them but yet his Enquiry into the Measures of Submission and Obedience which he owns among his 18 Papers and the Enquiry into the present State of Affairs which is his though he does not own it were both written upon the Principles of the Resisting and Deposing Power For in the one he Exhorts the People to resist the King as having fallen from his Authority and in the other to take upon them the Power and Authority of Deposing of him And to encourage them the more to it he doth affirm That the Power of the People of Judging the King in Parliament is a part of the Law of England and goes about to prove it from the Sentence of Deposition against King Edward the Second and Richard the Second which contrary to the Truth of History and I am confident of his own Knowledge he saith were never annulled by any subsequent Parliaments and therefore remain part of our Law Such an impudent Assertion contrary to so many Acts of Parliament printed in the Statute Books and (a) In Pryn's Jurisdiction of the Lords elsewhere would as Monsieur le Grand saith of him upon another Occasion (b) J'avoue qu'en faisant ces remarquâ—s je suis dans une veritable Contrainte de ne pas appeller M. Burnet de tous les Noms quile merite Lettre de M. Burnet a M. Thavenot avec les remarques de MLG. p. 33. Provoke a Man to call him by all the Names that he deserves But I pass on to the second Thing I intended to note in that Book and it is his own Answer to the Arguments for Resistance which in the first Conference he puts in the Mouth of Isotimus the Presbyterian to justify taking up Arms against our Lawful Governors from the Example of the Maccabees rising up in Arms against Antiochus and of the Christians who under Constantine the Great made no difficulty of fighting against the other Emperour his Colleague Licinius These Arguments he there pursues as far as they will go in the Mouth of Isotimus and then Answers them fully in the Person of Basilius the Royalist by whom he represents himself yet he lately made use of the very same Arguments to perswade his Clergy of the Lawfulness of taking up Arms against the King to bring about the Revolution and of the Obligations they were under to submit to it and support it without either retracting the Answer which he had made to those Arguments and which he might suppose some of them had read or replying to them or so much as mentioning of them but tells them in his Preface to his four Discourses That they had heard him urge them with seeming Satisfaction which I suppose was one sort of Satisfaction and Admiration too in many of them which I had rather hint than Name The third great Instance of that Book in which he hath contradicted himself is his Arguing for the Duty of Nonresistance from the Example of the Thebean Legion p. 58. which I cannot forbear to
notice of For P. Paulo was himself one of the Seven there being but Six employed by the Senate besides Paulo and the Seven Divines with much Zeal and was very prudently conducted by them In order to the advancing of it King James ordered his Ambassador to offer all possible Assistance and to accuse the Pope and the Papacy as the chief Authors of all the Mischiefs of Christendom P. Paulo and the Seven Divines pressed Mr. Bedel to move the Ambassador to present King James's PREMONITION TO ALL CHRISTIAN PRINCES AND STATES then put in Latin to the Senate and they were confident it would produce a great Effect But the Ambassador could not be prevailed with to do it at that Time and pretended that since St. James's day was not far off it would be more proper to do it on that day If this was only for the sake of a Speech that he had made on the Conceit of St. James's Day and King James's Book with which he had pretended to present it it was a Weakness never to be excused But if this was only a Pretence and that there was a Design under it it was a Crime never to be forgiven All that Bedel could say or do to perswade him not to put off a Thing of such Importance was in vain and indeed I can hardly think that Wootton was so weak a Man as to have acted Sincerely in this Matter Before St. James's Day came the Difference was made up and the happy Opportunity was lost so that when he had his Audience on that Day in which he presented the Book all the Answer he could get was That they thanked the King of England for his good Will but they were now reconciled to the Pope It may be easily imagined what a Wound this was to his Chaplain Behold here a Story as false as formal and great pity it is that Sir H. Wootton's Heir if any such be alive now to represent him should not have the Benefit of an Action against our Historian to repair the Honour of his Ancestor which is so deeply wounded by him For if this Story were punctually true it would not bear the severe Reflections which he hath made upon Sir H. for it because he might not think fit to follow his Chaplain's Advice without order from the King his Master which he might hope to receive before St. James's Day and yet for private Reasons not think sit to tell his Chaplain the Reason of his Delay But the Story must needs be false because the King's Book of which he makes mention was not then extant For the Pope and the Venetians were reconciled in (a) Bed Hist of the Ven. Interd p. 218. April 1607. and the King's Premonition came not out till 1609. Nor will it help him to say That this was only a Mistake of the Premonition for the Apology which was Reprinted with it and to which in the King 's own Phrase it was a Preamble For the first Edition of the Apology was as little extant before the Reconciliation mentioned as the Premonition For that which occasioned the King's Writing the Apology as himself tells us was the Two Breves sent over by the Pope and Cardinal Bellarmin's Letter and the later of the Breves bears date from Rome but in August 23 1607. and the Letter September 28 following By which it appears that the Reconciliation was made several Months before either of these were written and longer before they could come to the King's hand longer yet before he could finish the Apology in English and again longer before it could be put into Latin From whence it appears That this fine told Story which so dishonours the Memory of Sir H. Wootton to Honour that of his Chaplain is a pure Fiction and as much the Birth of some Bodies Brain as ever any Thing the Vanity of Varillas wrote was his But to go on with the Inventions of our Historian p. 17. he saith That P. Paulo might never be forgot by Bedel he gave him his Picture the invaluable Manuscript of the History of the Council of Trent together with the History of the Interdict and of the Inquisition No Body doubts of Father Paul's Kindness to Mr. Bedel but it will appear that these Tokens of it are more than questionable from what follows First as to his Picture he that reads his Life will scarce believe he was so forward to give his Picture or that he had it to give (a) Life of Father Paul Lond. p. 76. For he would never let his Picture be drawn from the Natural notwithstanding it were desired by Kings and great Princes And although many of his Pictures go abroad for Originals yet they are all but Copies of one which is said to be in the Gallery of a great King which was taken against his Will and by a Stratagem But for himself this may give Assurance that he did not endure to have his Picture drawn because in the last Years of his Life being intreated by the most illustrious and excellent Dominico Molin and likewise by his Confident Fra. Fulgentio being set on to beseech him yet it could not be obtained so much as to give a famous Painter leave to take his Picture though he was promised he should not sit above an Hour Whosoever considers this Account and more to the same purpose in the same Place must needs think that the Father had no Picture of himself to give Mr. Bedel Indeed there is mention of an Original Picture of the Fathers sent by (b) Bedel's Life p. 255. Sir H. Wootton to Dr. Collins but by the Account I have given out of the Father's Life which was written by a great Friend of his it must have been that which he saith was in the Gallery of a great King or one taken by the like Stratagem Secondly as to the History of the Council of Trent it was not extant when Mr. Bedel left Venice as may be gathered from a Letter of (c) Reliq Wootton p. 493. Sir H. Wootton's written in 1619. or perhaps 1618. wherein it is mentioned as a work then in hand or but newly finished whereas Bedel left Venice in 1610. Thirdly as to the History of the Interdict it was indeed lent by the Father at Venice to Mr. Bedel but with this Condition as he himself tells us in the Epistle prefixt to the Translation that he should not transcribe it and if he had given it to him when he parted with him there is no doubt but Bedel would also have mentioned that Lastly for the History of the Inquisition there are some Passages in it which shew plainly That it was not then in Being For there is mention made in it not only of Things which happen'd in 1610. just upon the return of Mr. Bedel but also 1607. which appears not to be a Mistake in the Print by a Character there added that it was 48 Years after 1569. which makes the Year 1610. Page 18. he saith