CHAP. VIII.

Of the discourses written on occasion of the conference between father Andrew Pulton and Dr. Thomas Tenison.

99. A true account of the conference between Dr. Thos. Tenison and Andrew Pulton. By Andrew Pulton.

See Contin. p. 61. "They met on the account of a Boy whom Mr. Pulton had perverted from our Religion. Great things were presently talked, as usual on such occasions, concerning this Conference; and the Papists fail'd not to boast of a mighty conquest made over the Doctor. This forced him to resolve on a Publication of what passed, tho' otherwise as little fit, as designed, to be communicated to the world." Contin. p. 61. See also a Letter from Dr. Horneck in

Tenison's Account, p. 79.

The same with that in Tenison's account, pp. 59–71.

C.L. 100. A true and full account of a conference held about religion between Dr. Thomas Tenison and Andrew Pulton, one of the masters in the Savoy.

pp. 18, Pref. 4 See Contin. p. 61. No books under these titles are in the Bodl. Cat., nor are they in the Trin. Coll. Library, Dublin. Dr. Tenison's account of the conference contains a Paper entitled, "The account written by Mr. Pulton, a true account of a conference had about Religion between Dr. T. and A. P. on the 29th of September 1687 in Long-Acre London" (pp. 59, see No. 101 infra); and there is a reference (p. 78 ibid) to a more full account which is spoken of as "Mr. Pulton's second Narrative," but which is not given. J. H. T. The account referred to is this No., in the beginning of which is this Advertisement: "A. P. having been eighteen years out of his own country, pretends not yet to any Perfection of the English Expression or Orthography, wherefore for the future he will crave the favour of treating with the Dr. in Latine, since the Dr. finds fault with his English." On which Macaulay remarks: "His orthography is indeed deplorable. In one of his letters wright is put for write, wold

for would. He challenged Tenison to dispute with him in Latin that
they might be on equal terms." In a contemporary satire, entitled
The Advice, is the following couplet:

"Send Pulton to be lashed at Busby's school,

That he in print no longer play the fool."

101. A true account of a conference held about religion at London, C. L. Sept. 29, 1687, between A. Pulton, Jesuit, and Tho. Tenison, D.D. as also of that which led to it, and followed after it. By Tho. Tenison, D.D. The third edition corrected. pp. 83, list of books 1 page. See Cat. No. 168. Contin. p. 61.

102. Remarks on a late conference Jesuit and Thomas Tenison, D.D.

pp. 83, 4to Lond. 1687 Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1056.

between Andrew Pulton
By Edward Meredith.

4to Lond. 1687

I do not

See No. 351 infra. Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1056.
understand the double date given by Wood, and copied by Peck,
unless the second (1688) refers to No. 106 infra. J. H. T.

103. The Vindication of A. Cressener, school-master in Long- C.L. Acre from the aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit and schoolmaster in the Savoy; together with some account of his discourses with Mr. Meredith. [Imprimatur Oct. 24, 1687.]

pp. 14, 4to Lond. 1687 See Cat. No. 170. Contin. p. 62, 63. This Vindication refers to some passages in Dr. Tenison's account of the conference with Pulton, wherein Cressener was alluded to, he having been present, and taking some part, at the conference. See No. 101 supra, p. 63. J. H. T.

104. Remarks of Andrew Pulton, Master in the Savoy, upon C.L. Dr. Tenison's late narrative; with a confutation of the doctor's rule of faith, and a reply to A. Cressener's pretended refutation. pp. 42, 4to Lond. 1687

See Contin. p. 61.

T

C. L. 105. Mr. Pulton considered in his sincerity, reasonings, and authorities; or a just answer to what he hath hitherto published in his true account; his true and full account of a conference, &c. His Remarks; and in them his pretended confutation of what he calls Dr. Tenison's Rule of Faith. By the said Tho. Tenison. pp. 100, and books printed for R. Chiswell 4 pp. pp. 100, Dedic. &c., pp. 8, 4to Lond. 1667 See Cat. No. 169. Contin. p. 62.

T.C.D.

106. Some farther remarks on the late account given by Dr.
Tenison of his conference with Mr. Pulton wherein the
doctor's three exceptions against Edward Meredith are
examined, several of his other misrepresentations laid open,
motives of the said Edward Meredith's conversion shewed,
and some other points relating to controversy, occasionally
treated. Together with an appendix, in which some passages
of the doctor's book entitled, Mr. Pulton considered, are
reconsidered; and in the close the best means of coming to
the true faith proposed. To all which is added a postscript,
in answer to the pamphlet put forth by the school-master of
Long-acre. By Andrew Pulton.
4to Lond. 1688

See Contin. p. 62. Peck ascribes this, as above, to A. Pulton. But it is evidently by Edw. Meredith, as distinctly stated by Wake, Contin. loc. cit., and as appears from the book itself, a copy of which is in the Trin. Coll. Library, Dublin. Meredith had been proposed by Pulton as a witness of the conference; Tenison's three objections were 1. That Meredith had not acted fairly in the conference between Stillingfleet and Godden. 2. That he had in a Coffeehouse pitied the state of St. Martin's (of which Dr. T. was rector) as being under one man, although it was capable of maintaining 30 friars. 3. That he was a convert from the Church of England, and therefore (as was usual with converts) possessed with a spirit of fiercer bigotry. J. H. T.

C. L. 107. The Missionaries arts discovered; or an account of their ways of insinuation, their artifices and several methods of

which they serve themselves in making converts. With a
letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his
charge of disloyalty against Protestants. And an historical
Preface, containing an account of their introducing heathen
Gods in their processions, and other particulars relating to
the several chapters of this Treatise. Jer. xii. 6, Believe them
not, though they speak fair words unto us. Tertull. adv.
Valent. Habent artificium &c. Pers. Sat. v. fronte politi &c.
By H. minister of the Church of England.

pp. 96, Letter to Mr. Pulton, 4 pp. Pref. xxiv. 4to Lond. 1688
See Cat. No. 173. Contin. p. 59. Gee tells us, and is copied by
Peck, that this book is "by Mr. H., a Divine of the Church of Eng-
land." I know not whether it was any additional information that
made Peck alter the word "Divine" into "Minister," but I have not
been able to learn who Mr. H. was. There is nothing in the book
itself to guide us even to the amount of information that Gee has
communicated. The title page makes no mention of Mr. H. The
letter to Mr. Pulton is signed "Anonymous." Bp. Gibson, who has
reprinted this book (Preserv. against Popery, vol. iii. tit. xiii. p. 3)
attributes it to "Dr. Hicks" (Titles of the Treatises in vol. iii. p. 6),
meaning I presume the celebrated Dr. George Hickes, but it is not in
the list of his works given in Bayle's Dict. by Bernard, Bird, and Lock-
man, nor in that given Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1002 sq., nor can I find
any other authority besides Gibson's for attributing it to Hickes.
J. H. T.

That this and the following tract were not written by George
Hickes is certain, because in a Catalogue which he presented to
Thoresby in 1708 of his own Books, Sermons and Tracts, these are
not mentioned. See Thoresby's Diary and Correspondence, vol. iv.
pp. 115-20, 208, 209.

"That the gentlemen of the Church of Rome may have all the help in the world to convince me of falsifications, if they can; and to spare them that trouble which they put us to, by careless and ignorant quotations, I have here given a Catalogue of the Books [180] cited in the ensuing Treatise, with their Editions." pp. xxii-xxiv.

108. A defence of the missionaries arts, wherein the charge of C. L.

disloyalty, rebellions, plots and treasons, asserted p. 76 of that book, are fully proved against the Members of the Church of Rome, in a brief account of the several plots contrived, and rebellions raised by the papists against the lives and dignities of sovereign princes since the Reformation. By the Author of the Missionaries Arts.

pp. 96, Pref. 6 pp. Advert. of books 2 pp. 4to Lond. 1689

C.L.

A total Defeat of the Protestant Rule of Faith, by A. Pulton
against Dr. Tenison.
4to 1687

A Vindication of Protestant Charity, in Answer to some passages in Mr. E. M's Remarks on a late Conference. [Printed with Some Reflexions upon a Treatise call'd Pietas Romana et Parisiensis, lately printed at Oxford. By James Harrington.] 4to Oxford 1688

See Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 1059, and No. 352 infra. A copy of this is in Trin. Coll. Library, Dublin. It is Anon., but was written by James Harrington, A.M., Stud. of Ch. Ch. Ath. Oxon. vol. ii. col. 909 and 1056, where Wood informs us that Mr. E. M. was Edward Meredith, "son of a father of both his names, minister of Landulph in Cornwall," who had been Stud. of Ch. Ch. in 1666, but left without taking a degree, and afterwards became secretary to Sir Wm. Godolphin, when he was ambassador in Spain, and a strict Roman Catholic. See No. 102 supra. Mr. Meredith is mentioned by Tenison in his Account of a Conference with Pulton (No. 101 supra), where there are some notices of the Conference with Stillingfleet. The late Conference here spoken of is not that between Stillingfleet and Godden, but that between Tenison and Pulton. See Nos. 102, 106. J. H. T.

Some remarks upon the author and licenser of "The Missionaries Arts discovered," with a reply to a challenge made him. By Andrew Pulton, in a letter prefixed to the said Pamphlet. 4to Lond. 1688