Printed in Twelves his Lordship sent him the following Answer Page 151 Another Letter to Sir J. B. Page 157 Of Coâ—djutors to Bishops Page 160 Of the Original of Sine Cures c. Page 164 Of Pensions paid out of Church Livings c. Page 171 Another Letter of Annates c. Page 177 A Letter of the vast Subsidy given by the Clergy to Hen. VIII Page 179 A Letter to Mr. R. S. about Mr. Wood's Antiquities of the University of Oxford Page 181 Another to Mr. R. S. about the same subject Page 183 Some Quotations out of Bish p Barlow s Answer to Mr. Hobb's Book of Heresie wherein is proved the Papists gross hypocrisie in the putting Hereticks to Death Page 185 A Letter to Mr. R. T. concerning the Canon-Law allowing the whipping of Hereticks as practis'd by Bishop Bonner at his House at Fulham Page 189 A Letter to the Earl of Anglesey answering two Questions whether the Pope be Antichrist And whether Salvation may be had in the Church of Rome Page 190 A Letter to another person about Worshipping the Host being formal Idolatry and about famous Protestant Divines holding it lawful to punish Hereticks with death Page 202 A Letter about what Greek Fathers and Councils were not translated into Latine before the time of the Reformation Page 206 A Letter concerning the King's being empower'd to make a Layman his Vicar General Page 214 A Letter concerning the allowance and respect that the sentences of Protestant Bishops may expect from Popish ones writ by way of Answer to a Friend of Mr. Cottington's who acquainted the Bishop that the Court of Arches here was of Opinion that the Sentence of the Arch-Bishop of Turin could not here be question'd by reason of the practice of Popish and Protestant Bishops allowing each other Sentences Page 216 A Letter concerning Historical Passages in the Papacy and of the Question whether the Turk or Pope be the greater Antichrist Page 224 The Bishop's Thoughts about 1. When the famous Prophetical Passage in Hooker might have its accomplishment and 2. About the modus of deposing of a King in Poland the Circumstances of which it was propable the Bishop was well informed â—n by his frequent Conversation with some Polonian Noble-Men and Students at Oxford He returned his Answer to the two Enquiries Page 231 The Bishop's Answer to this Question whether the Famous Saying of Res nolunt male administrari of which a Gentleman in London pretends to be the Author had not its Origine from Aristotle's Metaphysicks to which Venerable Bede in his Philosophical Axioms refers in his citing the Saying Page 235 The Bishop's Letter about Natural Allegiance and of Kingly Power being from God and Confuting the Lord Shaftsbury's Speech in the House of Lords for the contrary c. Page 237 A Letter answering some Queries about Abby-Lands and about the Opinions of Calvin and Luther of the Punishing of Hereticks Page 240 The Bishop's Remarks on Bishop Sanderson's Fifth Sermon ad Populum 1 Tim. 4.3 4 5. Page 243 A Letter answering a Question about the temper of the Prophets when they Prophesâ—â—d and likewise a Query about the Tridentine Creed Page 250 A Letter of a new Popish Book Published Anno 1684. Page 253 A Letter to Sir P. P. Apologizing for his not going to Lincoln and proving that H. 8. his Marrying his Brother's Wife was only against the Judicial Law and animadverting on Calvin's making the Penal-Laws about Religion given to the Jews to bind under the Gospel Page 255 A Letter about the liberty formerly allow'd to the Protestants in France to Print Books there against Popery c. Page 260 A Letter about the French Persecution and of our King 's relieving and protecting the French Refugees in which Letter the Popish Tenet of the Intention of the Priest as necessary to the validity of the Sacrament is confuted Page 263 A Letter of somewhat falsely and maliciously brought in in the body of the Canon-Law Page 268 The Bishop's Judgment about the Levitical Revenue and the proportion between them and the other Tribes Page 271 A Letter to Mr. R. T. concerning the Confirmation of the Order of the Jesuites the numbers of that Order c. Page 281 A Letter censuring the Trent Councils denying the use of the Cup to the Laity in the Eucharist Page 284 A Letter charging the Tenet of the Lawfulness of burning Heretical Cities on the Church of Rome Page 287 A Letter of Gratian's falsifying the passage out of Cyprian in the Canon Law to induce the burning of Heretical Cities c. Page 295 A Letteâ— to the Earl of Anglesey of the Council of Trent not being receiv'd in France Page 302 Another to the same Person on the same Subject Page 309 The Bishop's Survey of the number of the Papists c. Page 312 A Letter about my L. Falkland c. Page 324 The Substance of the Bishops Letter to Mr. Isaac Walton upon his design of writing the Life of Bishop Sanderson Page 333 A Letter giving an account of the Bishop and his Clergies Address to K. James Page 340 About Mr. Chillingsworth's Peculiar Excellency Page 344 A Question about the Case of the Marriage between Mr. C. P. and Mrs. M. C. answered Page 351 Biretti's Case in Bishop Taylor 's Ductor Dubitantium l. 3. ch 1. Rule 4. Page 358 The Case of the aforesaid Marriage between Mr. C. P. and Mrs. M. C. by Sir P. P. Page 361 The Bishop's Judgment in point of Conscience to it Page 372 A Letter asserting the King 's not being by Scripture prohibited to pardon Murther Page 374 An account of Guymenius's Book Apologizing for the Jesuites Tenets about Morals Page 378. A Letter about the Papists founding Dominion in Grace Page 380 The substance of a Preface to a Discourse about the Gunpowder Treason c. Page 383 The Substance of a Discourse confuting Mr. R. Baxter's Tenet in his Saints Everlasting-Rest that common or special and saving-grace differ only gradually Page 424 The Bishop's Discourse in Confutation of the Infallibility of the Church of Rome Page 454 The Bishops Exercitation on the Question whether it is better not to be at all than to be miserable Page 469 An Abstract of the Bishop's Exercitation concerning the Existence of God if demonstrable by the light of nature Page 521 The Bishop's determination of the Question if the Divine Prescience takes away Contingency Page 568 The Bishop's Determination of the Question whether Election be from Faith foreseen Page 577 The Question decided whether the Fathers under the Old Testament obtained Salvation by the death of Christ Page 583 The Question resolved whether the Church hath Authority in Controversies of Faith Page 594 The Determination of the Question if Faith alone doth justifie Page 601 Of the Supream Power as to things Sacred as well as Civil Page 608 Of the necessity of a Lawful Call to the Ministry Page 611 Concerning the Vnlawfulness of Self-murder Page 620 A Discourse
in that conjuncture thought fit to have revived here follows a deduction of the factum about it in the several Letters that the affair gave occasion for viz. Reverend Brethren IT hath pleased his Sacred Majesty to give some commands to my Lord's Grace of Canterbury to be communicated to the Clergy of his Province From his Grace they have been convey'd to the Right Reverend our good Diocesan who has injoin'd me to transfer them to you What his Majesties pleasure is you will I hope fully understand by the Letters here inclosed To have summoned you to Oxon or any other place for the delivery of those Letters would have been some trouble and possibly charge which his Lordship is always willing to prevent and therefore having no other commands from my Superiours to communicate save those here inclosed I chose rather to send them together with the Respects and Service of Reverend Brethren Your Affectionate Brother and Servant Tho. Barlow Q. Coll. Oxon May 22. 1673. I Need not tell you that the Laws and Constitutions mention'd in my Lord's Grace of Canterburies Letter are 1. The Constitutions of Convocation 1. Jacobi 1603. Can. 59.2 The Rubrick at the end of our Church Catechism in our present Common-Prayer Book Which Canon and Rubrick agree in this 1. That there must be Catechizing every Sunday and holy-day 2. It must be in the Afternoon 3. That all Fathers and Mothers Masters and Mistresses are bound to send their Children Apprentices and Servants But in some things they differ 1. The Canon injoins Catechizing as to the time before Evening-prayer but the Rubrick says after the second Lesson 2. The Canon says they shall Catechize Half an hour or more the Rubrick limits no time but leaves it to the prudence of the Minister as he shall think convenient Now where they differ the Rubrick is to be follow'd because ratify'd by Acts of Parliament which the Canon is not and so more obligatory 3. The Rubrick omits the Punishment the Ordinary may inflict in case the Rubrick or Canon be not observ'd But the Canon distinctly sets down the penalties 1. Of the Minister if he neglect Catechizing according to Canon 2. Of Parents and Masters if they refuse or neglect to send their Children or Servants 3. Of Children and Servants if they refuse to come and be Catechiz'd according to Canon Which penalties upon neglect of Duty will I doubt not be inflicted by those in Authority My Lord I Have received a Letter from his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury a Copy whereof I am required to transmit to your Lordship by which you will understand the Duty which his Majesty requires of your Lordship The Letter is as followeth The Kings most Excellent Majesty being truly sensible that the growing increase of the prevailing Sects and Disorders among us proceeds chiefly from the general neglect of instructing the younger sort of persons or their erroneous instructions in the Grounds and Principles of true Religion is therefore pleas'd to command me that in his name I require your Lordship and by you the rest of my Brethren the Bishops of this Province that by your Selves and Officers you will at all seasonable times reinforce the execution of such Laws and Constitutions as enable Us to enjoin the Use and Exercise of our Church-Catechism and that by the most effectual remedies that may be such as without Licence either publickly or privately teach School within your Lordships or their jurisdiction be forthwith proceeded against according to such rules as are prescribed unto Us for their restraint and to the end that this mischief may be prevented for the future He more-over strictly chargeth us that none be admitted to that office without Subscription Oaths and Declaration as are exactly requisite but in the mean time I desire that your Lordship and They will with the first conveniency let me know how we are already defective in these particulars that I may be able to give such satisfaction as hereafter will be necessary I bid your Lordship heartily farewel Lambeth House Feb. 6. 167â— Your Lordships very Affectionate Friend and Brother Guil. Cant. Your Lordship does hereby fully understand his Majesties pleasure which I am requir'd to let you know London-House Feb. 8. 167â— Your Lordships very loving Brother and Servant Humfr. London Mr. Archdeacon YOU hereby fully understand his Majesties pleasure which I know not how better to communicate to the Clergy with in my Diocess than by your self you being the most proper officer in my absence the manner of doing this I shall wholly leave to your own discretion and desire that with all convenient speed you would give me some account of what you have done herein that I may be able to give such satisfaction as hereafter may be requir'd by his Majesty from Whitehall April 26. 1673. Your very affectionate Friend N. Oxon. THE Questions I sent the Bishop of Oxon were 1. Whether by Sects in my Lord of Canterbury's Letter Papists were as well as others included 2. And whether their Children c. should be summon'd by the Minister to be Catechiz'd And 3. In case they come not what punishment 4. Whether Popish School-Masters might teach without License c Mr. Arch-deacon YOU have put some Questions to me which I believe have not been put to any other Bishop and therefore I shall not take upon me to give any other answer than this that I have no Commission to make any Comment or Explanation upon my Lord of Canterburies Letter which was sent to me but only to Communicate it to the Clergy Your speedy care in this will be necessary whether you are willing to appear in person concerning it or to distribute such Copies of it as are requisite I leave to your own choice but I pray fail not the doing of it I am Sir Your very affectionate Friend N. Oxon. White-hall May 10. 1673. An Answer to My Lord's Letter of May 10. 1673. Right Reverend c. I Have received your Lordships Letter and Commands in obedience to which I have now communicated the Letters your Lordship sent to the Clergy of your Dioces I did not think it convenient to summon them all to meet at Oxon or any other place because that might be some trouble and charge to them nor had I any thing to say or do save only to deliver Letters to them the way I took was this There being eight Deaneries in your Dioces I transcribed eight Copies of those Letters and sent one inclosed in a Letter of my own a Copy of which I here send to every Deanery directing it to some prime Minister of that Deanery and making the apparitor signify to the rest of the Ministers of that Deanery in whose hands those Letters were lodged that they might come and if they pleas'd take a Copy or at least for their directions read them Further though your Lordship has given me no directions or command to do it I have commanded the
and Learn the Greek Tongue 3. But that which most incouraged and necessitated the study of Languages and especially the Hebrew and Greek was Luther and the Reformation by him begun Anno 1517. Luther which was rare in those times in a Monk understood Hebrew and Greek and having many disputes with Cardinal Cajetan who was then Legat in Germany the Cardinal urging Scripture against him according to their Vulgar Latin Translation Luther told him that Translation was false and dissonant from the Original This puzl'd the Cardinal though a great Schoolman who thereupon set himself to study both Greek and Hebrew which with great diligence he did that he might be better able to Answer and Confute Luther and his followers many of which were excellent Grecians such were Melanchton and many others And hence it was that the Pope and his Party seeing the necessity of Languages especially Hebrew and Greek for the Defence of their Religion or Superstition rather against the Protestants Pope Paul the fifth Renews the Decree of Clement the fifth and the Council of Vienna before mention'd and though that Decree had been neglected and the Greek Tongue damn'd in their Canon Law yet he earnestly injoins the profession of it and of the Hebrew Chaldee and Arabick in all their (a) Vide Constitutionem 67. Pauli 5. in â—â—llario Romano Editionis Rome 1638. pag. 185 186. Vniversities Monasteries and Schools to this end that they might be better able to Confute the Hereticks I am Sir Your affectionate friend and Servant Tho. Lincolne A Letter concerning the Kings being empower'd to make a Lay-man his Vicar-General Sir THAT my Lord D. of Ormonds Commission which you say you have seen has no particular mention of the Kings Ecclesiastical Power deputed I wonder not The Commission which makes him Vice-roy Deputy or Lieutenant to the King does ipso facto make him his Vicar-General to execute both powers Ecclesiastical and Civil and by that Commission he does so Does not the Lieutenant there de jure ordinario and as Lieu-tenants call Synods collate Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Dignities and Preferments does he not hear and determine Ecclesiastical Causes by himself or some commissioned by him does he not punish Ecclesiastical persons when they are criminal Do not your Articles of Religion established in a National (a) Articles of Religion in the National Synod or Convocation at Dublâ—n 1615. § 57 58. c. Synod of Ireland give our Kings the same Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Causes there as he has here And do not our Kings here execute their Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction partly in Person in giving Arch-Bishopricks Bishopricks calling Synods c. partly by Commission so the Chancellors of England by their Commission have power to give some Ecclesiastical Dignities and Livings to visit Winsor I mean the Collegiate Church there and all his royal Chappels and Churches of his Foundation if he have not otherwise appointed other visitors c. In short I do believe that in England never any but Cromwel had such a large Commission and full power to Visit all persons in all Ecclesiastical Causes yet I believe it most evident that he may when he shall think it convenient give such a Commission I am Sir Your affectionate Friend and Servant T. L. A Letter concerning the allowance and respect that the Sentences of Protestant Bishops may expect from Popish ones writ by way of answer to a friend of Mr. Collington's who acquainted the Bishop that the Court of Arches here was of opinion that the Sentence of the Arch-bishop of Turin could not here be question'd by reason of the practice of Popish and Protestant Bishops allowing each others Sentences Sir FOR the contempt they of Rome have of our Bishops and all their Sentences and Judicial Acts especially in foro exteriori contentioso it is notoriously known that they have no value at all of our Bishops and pronounce all their sentences and judicial Acts null and every way invalid For 1. They generally deny our Bishops and Ministers to be true Bishops or Priests but admit them to be Lay-men only A Sorbon (a) Anth Champney P. and D. of the Sorbonne Douay 1616. Dr. In a Treatise about the Vocation of Bishops and Ministers indeavours to prove against Du Plessin Dr. Field and Mr. Mason that Protestant Bishops particularly those of England are not true Bishops nor have any lawful Calling Another and he a Popish Bishop speaking of our English Bishops and Pastors says (b) R. Smith Bp. of Chalcedon in praefat ad Collationem Doctrinae Catholicorum ac Pr testant Paris 1622. Eos quos nunc pro Pastoribus habent NIHIL EORVM OBTINERE quae ad ESSENTIAM hujus muneris requiruntur Another thus (c) Rich. Bâ—istow Motivo 21. Qualis est illa Ecclesia cujus Ministri NIHIL ALIVD sunt quam MERE LAICI NON MISSI NON VOCATI NON CONSECRATI Our Countrey-man Card. Alan and the Rhemish Annotators say (d) Annotatores Rhemenses in Rom. 10.15 All our Clergy-men from the highest to the lowest are false Prophets running and usurping being NEVER LAWFULLY CALLED And Dr. Kellison speaking of our Bishops and Ministers (e) Kellison in Repl. contra D. Sutlisse p. 31. NEC ORDINES nec JVRISDICTIONEM habent And Bellarmine (f) Bellarmin De Ecclesiâ militant l. 4. c. 8. Nostri temporis Haeretici nec ordinationem nec successionem habent ideo longè inverecundiùs quam ulli unquam Haeretici nomen munus Episcopi usurpant And some Popish Priests in their Petition to King James expresly tell the King (g) Supplicat ad Jacobum Regem 1604. NVLLI ministrorum vestrorum ad Catholicam fraternitatem accedentes habentur alii quam MERE LAICI Lastly Not to trouble you or my self with more Quotations Turrian tells us that Donatists and Luciferian Hereticks have some kind of Bishops and Priests (h) Turrian de Jure Ordinand lib. 1. cap. 7. Protestantes vero NULLAM PENITVS formam Ecclesiae habent quia NULLOS PENITUS Ecclesiae Verbi MINISTROS habent sed MEROS LAICOS This is their opinion of our Bishops and Clergy that they have no just Call or Ordination and consequently no Jurisdiction and then it necessarily follows if this were true that all their Sentences and Judicial Acts are invalid and absolute nullities 2. They say that all Protestants especially the Bishops and Clergy are Hereticks and Schismaticks extra Ecclesiam and neither have nor can have any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction so that whatever cause be brought before them in their Consistories it is coram non Judice and so whatever they do is a nullity That Hereticks and Schismaticks and such they declare all Protestants to be forfeit all their Ecclesiastical Authority and Jurisdiction their own (i) Gratian. Can. 4. Audivimus Can. vit Caelestinus 35. Can. Apertè 36. Can. Miramur 37. Caus 24. Quaest 1. vid. Card. de Turre-Cremata ad dictos Canones Canons expresly say And besides
times a Loyal Subject and faithful Servant to his Prince and a true Son of the Church of England c. So that the commendation I can give him although it be great will be ivtra laudem sed infra meritum The old saying is still true Cicerone opus est ut dignè laudetur Cicero I shall only name two passages which concern my Lord which shew his ingenuity and Learning Being with my Lord in Oxford some time after Dr. Hoyle was by the Rebâ—llioâ—s Parliament invited out of Ireland and by them design'd Regius Professor of Divinity it seems that we had not then amongst all our English Dissenters any one who durst undertake that Office although it was both for dignity and revenue very considerable Now Dr. Hoyle a known Rebell and Presbyterian being so exceedingly magnify'd in all our Mercuries and News-Books for a most Learned Divine I ask'd my Lord whether Dr. Hoyle was a person of such great parts as was pretended My good Lord presently told us only Dr. Morly since Bishop of Winton and my self were present That he very well knew Dr. Hoyle in Dublin and had him many times at his Table and that he was a person of some few weak parts but of very many strong infirmities This Character which my Lord gave of Dr. Hoyle is like himself very ingenious and the University did find it true Another thing concerning that very ingenious and Learned Lord and very well known to me and many others was this When Mr. Chillingworth undertook the Defence of Dr. Potter's Book against the Jesuite he was almost continually at Tew with my Lord examining the Reasons of both Parties pro and con and their invalidity or consequence where Mr. Chillingworth had the benefit of my Lords Company and his good Library The benefit he had by my Lord's Company and rational Discourse was very great as Mr. Chillingworth would modestly and truly confess But his Library which was well furnish'd with choice Books I have several times been in it and seen them such as Mr. Chillingworth neither had nor ever heard of many of them 'till my Lord shew'd him the Books and the passages in them which were significant and pertinent to the purpose So that it is certain that most of those Ancient Authorities which Mr. Chillingworth makes use of he owes first to my Lord of Falkland s Learning that he could give him so good directions and next to his civility and kindness that he would direct him But no more of this You desire to know some more Authors who in the War between Charles the I. and the Parliament writ for the King you name Dudly Diggs Dr. Ferne Dr. Hammond and you might have named many more all Ingenuous and Loyal persons and my Friends and Acquaintance but I do not think their Reasons so cogent or their Authority so great that we may safely rely upon them I shall rather commend unto you two Writers on this subject both of them of great Authority and in several respects of greater Judgment I mean 1. Arch-Bishop Vsher whose judgment in Antiquity is far greater 2. My Predecessor Bishop Sanderson the best and most rational Casuist ever England had whose judgment will be confest far greater 1. First Arch-Bishop Usher does expresly and datâ operâ make it his business to prove our King's Supremacy in all Civil and Ecclesiastical Causes against all Popes and Parliaments and to the same purpose does amongst others cite Bp. Andrews Hooker Dr. Saravia and which is very considerable there 's a long Preface to the Book of at least 20 pages in Quarto The Book was publish'd by Dr. Bernard Bishop Usher's Chaplain Anno 1661. and Printed at London and Sold by Richard Mariott in St. Dunstan's Church-yard in Fleetstreet The Title of the Book is this Clavi Trabales confirming the King's Supremacy and the Subjects Duty c. 2. This second Author I mention was Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln in his Tracts 1. De solemni Ligâ Foedere 2. De Juramento Negativo 3. De Ordinationibus Parliamenti circa disciplinam cultum And that which adds honour and weight to these Tracts is this that although Dr. Sanderson then Regius Professor of Divinity composed them yet they contain not his judgment but the judgment of the whole Vniversity of Oxford for it is call'd in the Title page Judicium Vniversitatis Oxoniensis in plena Convocatione Communibus suffragijs nemine contradicente promulgatum 1 Junii 1647. In the last and best Edition besides the 3. Tracts above mention'd you have his excellent Prelections 1. De Obligatione Juramenti promissorii 2. De obligatione conscientiae The last and best Edition I above mention'd was at London Anno 1671. By Richard Royston in St. Paul's Church-yard For answering your other Questions I must as poor men do crave some more time The Circumstances I am in and the very many publick businesses which at this time trouble me did disable me to return to you a speedier answer with my thanks for your kind Letter I beg your pardon for the rude Scrible and my great Age Anno 85. currente and the Infirmities which accompany it consider'd I hope your goodness will grant it I shall only add that God Almighty would be graciously pleas'd to bless you and your Studies is the Prayer of Your Affectionate Friend and Servant Thomas Lincoln The Substance of a Letter Written by Dr. Barlow late Lord Bishop of Lincolne to Mr. Isaac Walton upon his design of Writing the Life of his Predecessour Bishop Sanderson AFTER he has Congratulated Mr. Walton upon his design to write the Life of Bishop Sanderson and that upon two accounts viz. Because he was satisfied both of his ability to know and his Integrity to write Truth And that he was no less assured that the Life of that Prelate would afford him matter enough both for his commendation and for the Imitation of Posterity He next proceeds to gratifie his desires in assisting him towards the said intended Work with the Communication of such particular passages of that Prelates Life as were certainly known to him and gives him a short Narration of which this is the substance First he professes he had known him about twenty Years and that in Oxford he had injoyed his Conversation and Learned and Pious Instructions when he was Royal Professor of Divinity in that University and that after he was by the cross events that hapned in the Civil Wars in the time of King Charles the First forced to retire into the Country he had the benefit of conversing with him by Letters wherein with great candour and affection he answered all doubts he proposed to him and gave him more satisfaction than he ever had or expected from others But to proceed to particulars he further says that having hapned in one of his Letters to the said Dr. Sanderson to mention two or three Books Written professedly against the being of Original Sin and asserting
viz. the Turbervils In Carmarthen not one In Denbighshire but one And it may be worthy the Readers knowledge that Sir William Petty a great Master of Numbers and Calculations having in the late Reign of King James enquired from some of his R. C. Bishâ—ps what Numbers of Children they had Confirm'd throughout the Kingdom gave his judgment that all the Papists in England Men Women and Children were but 32000. And that George Fox in 44 Years hath made more Quakers five times than the Pope of Rome and all his Jesuits and other Emissaries have made Papists But as to the defectiveness of that Survey as to the Non-conformists the following Memorial was given by Sir P. P. to one of King James's Ministers viz. Whereas in the Survey of tâ—e Numbers of several Religionary Persuasions within the Province of Canterbury above the Age of Sixteen returned in the Year 1676. the Total of the Nonconformists there return'd was 93154. and consequently the Nonconformists under the Age of Sixteen doubling the aforesaid Number there made the Total of all the Nonconformists there to be but 186308. The defectiveness of the said Survey does most plainly appear by the instance of the short return there as to the Diocess of London For that Survey making the Conformists above the Age of Sixteen in that Diocess to be 263385 and the Nonconformists there under that Age to be 20893. and the Papists there under that Age to be 2069 makes by doubling that Total with those under the Age of Sixteen Years to be but 286347. Whereas Sir William Petty by his late Printed Calculations hath made the Number of the People of London to be in all 696360. But the Diocess of London taking in all the other places in Middlesex that are without the Bills of Mortality and taking in likewise all Essex and part of Darthfortshire it appears thereby how extreamly defective the return of the Total for the Diocess of London was For the County of Essex bearing a two and twentieth part of the Taxes of this Kingdom and supposing the whole Kingdom to have but 7000000. the Number of People in Essex at that rate will be 318181. And in Fine as I have in another Paper set down the Total of the Burials and Christenings for the Year 1686 the Registred Christenings being near one Third part less than the Burials it may be thence inferr'd that near a Third part that Year were Nonconformists and so if we should Accompt the People then within the Bills of Mortality to have been but 600000 the Nonconformists there then were about 200000. The Reason of this Calculation of a third part being then within the Bills of Mortality Nonconformists is that the Christenings do there in common Years reverâ exceed the Burials the which appears out of the Amsterdam and Paris Bills of Mortality and where Christenings are carefully Registred But within the London Bills the Christenings of Nonconformists Children are not Registred SIR P. Pett judging it might tend to the publick benefit of Mankind to have the Lord Secretary Falklands Works Publish'd together in one Volume in Folio wrote to the late Bishop of Lincolne a large Letter acquainting his Lordship with his design about the same and that in his Lordships Life to be writ before the Book he intended a short Relation of some Memoirs wherein the Lord Falklands great Wit and Moral Perfections were Conspicuous And with the materials of which he was supplied in Discourse from the Lord Chief Justice Vaughan Mr. Robert Boyle and the Lady Ranalagh his Sister and Mr. Abraham Cowly and Mr. Edmund Waller who all had the Honour of his Friendship and frequent Conversation The two latter Persons having Celebrated his Lordships worth in their Immortal Poems and Sir P. told the Bishop he intended to Print their Verses before his Works And Sir P. Considering that the Bishop had often mention'd to him his frequent Conversation with my Lord Falkland at his House at Tew he thought fit to engage the Bishop to furnish him with some materials of Facts relating to his Lordship that might be worthy of the knowledge of the World Sir P. further mention'd it in his Letter to the Bishop that beside the great Learning Reasons and Judgment expess'd in my Lord Falklands Printed Writings there is an incomparable happy mixture of so much of that Great Beautiful Charming thing call'd Wit that the measures of Decorum would admit no more according to that known saying of Mr. Cowley in his Ode of Wit Rather than all be Wit i. e. in writings let none be there And therefore Sir P. thought that the publication of that Lords writings would be serviceable to future Writers as a standard for their measures to be govern'd by Sir P. further took notice in his Letter with what great Honour to my Lord Falklands Memory Mr. Marvel in p. 387. of the second part of his Rehersal Transprosed refers to two of his Lordships Speeches in the Long Parliament the first whereof concerning Episcopacy he saith begins thus He is a great stranger in Israel who knoweth not c. and the other at the delivery of the Articles against my Lord Keeper And Sir P. further observ'd how in the Printed Papers that passed between the late Earl of Clarendon and Serenus Cressy both the Antagonists agreed in their Celebrations of my Lord Falklands and how that Earl in p. 185. of his Animadversions on Cressys Book against Dr. Stillingfleet mentions the Lord Falkland to be a Nobleman of most prodigious Learning of the most exemplary manners and singular good nature of the most unblemish'd integrity and the greatest O nament of the Nation that any Age hath produced Whereupon the Bishop return'd him the following Answer and which he concludes with bearing his Testimony as I may say to some former writers of Loyalty My Ancient and good Friend I Have receiv'd yours and am very glad to hear by any hand especially your own of your health which I pray God continue to his glory your Countries good and the comfort of your Friends I return my thanks for your long Letter though being yours it did not seem so to me You are pleased to inquire after many Books and their Authors and require me to give you my Judgment and Character of both For my Judgment quod soâ—o quam sit exiguum I shall freely give you my Opinion sine ostentatione aut odio partium And here first it seems that you are about publishing my Lord Viscount Falkland's Life and Writings I have none save what are publish'd and in Print For his Person you do and truly suppose that I was acquainted with his Lordship in Oxford when he was Secretary to his Majesty Charles I. and you think that I may say something to his Honour Really Sir Peter I had the honour to be acquainted with that Illustrious person and did and do know that both his natural and acquired parts were exceeding great he was even in those â—â—bâ—llioâ—s