lishing an answer to the papers which had been found in the strong box of Charles the Second. He is generally acknowledged to have occupied the very first place among those illustrious men who, in that important crisis of our history, brought great talents and prodigious learning to bear upon the exposure of Popery. - Macaulay, vol. ii. p. 149. "A clear and solid answer to the Papers undertaken herein to be examined.". - Chetham MS. ...... C. L. 15. A defence of the papers written by the late King of blessed memory and Duchess of York, against the answer made to them. [By John Dryden.] pp. 126, 4to Lond. 1686 Contin. p. 28. Born in 1631, died 1700. "The help of Dryden was welcome to those Roman Catholic divines who were painfully sustaining a conflict against all that was illustrious in the Established Church . . . . . . It seemed that it was no light thing to have secured the cooperation of the greatest living master of the English language. The first service which he was required to perform in return for his pension was to defend his Church in prose against Stillingfleet. But the art of saying things well is useless to a man who has nothing to say; and this was Dryden's case. He soon found himself unequally paired with an antagonist whose whole life had been one long training for controversy. The veteran gladiator disarmed the novice, inflicted a few contemptuous scratches, and turned away to encounter more formidable combatants."— Macaulay, vol. ii. p. 198. C. L. 16. A reply to the answer made upon the three royal papers. [4to] pp. 56, 1686 Contin. p. 28. The author of this pamphlet is honoured by Stillingfleet, in his Vindication, with a very respectful rejoinder. C. L. 17. A vindication of the answer to some late papers concerning the unity and authority of the catholick church, and the reformation of the church of England. [By Edward Stillingfleet, D.D.] pp. 118, 4to Lond. 1687 Cat. No. 32. Contin. p. 28. See 14. 18. An answer to father Huddleston's short and plain way, &c. as above. No. 12. Contin. p. 57. "To this there is an Answer almost finished by a very Learned Person, who will demonstrate to the World, how little that Book had in it to convince." 19. A discourse sent to the late K. James, to persuade him to embrace the protestant religion; with a letter to the same purpose. By Samuel Parker, Lord Bishop of Oxon. pp. 46, 4to Lond. 1690 Ath. Ox. vol. ii. col. 280. (Edit. Bliss, vol. iv. col. 225.) Republished, 8vo, 1714, under the title of "A Letter sent by Sir Leolyn Jenkins," &c. See 20. In the "Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and Prerogative Court of Canterbury, &c. Ambassador and Plenipotentiary for the General Peace at Cologne and Nimeguen, and Secretary of State to K. Charles II." &c. &c., by William Wynne, 2 vols. fol. Lond. 1724, there are two Letters addressed by him to the Duke of York, respecting which his Biographer remarks, in defence of his Protestantism: "To this (his bounty to the French Protestants in the year 1681) may be justly added the many affectionate and pressing Instances he had made to his Royal Highness to persuade him to return to the Communion of the Church of England both by Letter and Conversation. Dr. Parker's Letter to Sir Leoline Jenkins (?) is already in print, and the Lord Clarendon's Letters on the same subject, which I have some reason to think were published by Sir Leoline's means, in order to promote and encourage others in the like Addresses. There is likewise a Letter in the following Collection to his Highness when he was retired to Scotland, (vol. ii. p. 690,) wrote just after the Debates in the House of Commons, upon the Bill of Exclusion, full of affectionate expressions and pathetick arguments to induce him to forsake the Roman Catholick Religion, but was no more than, as he there says, what he had often presumed to urge in his private and occasional Conferences with him. I will presume,' says Sir Leoline, humbly to say that besides what you owe to the Injunctions of your Martyr Father, and the rest of the Protestant World, you are bound in Justice 1. To the Church of England. 2. In submission to the King your Royal Brother. 3. In natural Affection to your Children. 4. In charity to these Three unhappy Nations, to use all the Means possible to inform yourself, whether you can with a safe Conscience return again to this Communion.'" The Injunctions of Charles I. will be found in a Broad C. L. D side, No. 1144, in the Collection of Proclamations, &c., presented to the Chetham Library, Manchester, by James O. Halliwell Esq., F.R.S., viz.: "Not Popery but the Protestant Religion the Support of the Crown Confirmed out of the Mouth of the Blessed Martyr K. Charles I. of Pious Memory. With other of his Sayings and Instructions concerning both Religion and Government, worthy to be seriously considered by all Protestants." C. L. Letter to Ann, Duchess of York, a few months before her death. [By Geo. Morley, Bishop of Winchester.] 1670 "Of this letter of Morley, dated Jan. 1670, there is a copy indorsed by the hand of Lord Clarendon himself. There is, besides, a most able and pathetic letter written by that illustrious exile himself to his daughter, and another full of respectful but manly remonstrance to the Duke, on occasion of the rumours which had reached him concerning the change in her Royal Highness's religious faith. These are dated in 1668. The last paper in the series is a letter by Lord Cornbury to the Duke of York on the same subject, dated December 26, 1670. They are so full of interest, that I had purposed to print them here entire; but the great space, which they would occupy, forbids me. I trust however that the public will soon obtain them by some other channel." - Phillpotts' Letters to Charles Butler, Esq., p. 330. The first is in the collection of "Several Treatises written upon several Occasions by the Right Reverend Father in God George Lord Bishop of Winton," 4to Lond. 1683; the second and third in the third volume of the Harleian Miscellany; the second and fourth in the Supplement to the Clarendon State Papers, pp. 38-41. See 12 supra. C. L. A true relation of the late King's death. One folio half sheet. C. L. Copies of two papers written by the late King Charles II. of blessed memory; as also a copy of a paper written by the late Duchess of York, ut supra 13. Folio and 4to. pp. 14, 4to Lond. 1686 Reprinted in the fifth volume of the Harleian Miscellany. Remarks on the two Papers, writ by his late Majesty King Charles C. L. II. concerning Religion. By Gilbert Burnet, D.D. 4to Hague, 1687 This was the third answer to King Charles's Tracts published in the reign of James. Of these answers Dr. Lingard appears to have been ignorant. In vol. x. p. 215, he writes thus: "A question respecting their [King Charles's Tracts] authenticity was soon raised by persons who, with Evelyn and Burnet, maintained that both papers displayed a much greater proficiency in controversial learning than the laughter-loving Monarch had ever possessed. On the other side competent judges, acquainted with the handwriting of Charles, pronounced them genuine, and, from the erasures and corrections and interlineations with which they abounded, drew the conclusion that they were not mere copies of documents presented to that Prince, but compositions of his own, which he had revised and improved on different occasions. It was speedily known that numerous conversions to the Roman Catholic creed had occurred among the nobility and the dependants on the Court: the example of the higher was gradually imitated by the lower classes; and the more zealous of the Catholic body were careful to reprint editions of the two tracts, which they triumphantly dispersed among their neighbours. But the most unaccountable thing was the torpor with respect to them of the Protestant press. During the whole reign of James nothing was published in the shape of refutation; not a writer came forward to enter the lists against the royal theologian. This was a circumstance to which James has alluded with evident marks of satisfaction.". James's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 9. In the same page is added, "There was something of an answer published by an unknown hand; but the drift of it was rather to prove that the papers were not the late King's, than any reply to the arguments in it." Reprinted in State Tracts, 1660-89. An Answer to a book, entituled, A short and plain way to the C. L. "It may perhaps be objected, that I have said nothing to the Two I have good reason to call in question Mr. Huddleston's Sincerity and fair dealing in that relation. For I have been told by a person of no mean Quality and Known Integrity, who attended his Majesty from the time presently after his fall in that fatal Distemper to the last minute of his Life, excepting the space of about one half hour, when he and others were desired to withdraw, to make room for some other company, whereof Mr. Huddleston was one, that the King at that time was not able to speak three words together without great difficulty, and those so brokenly and unintelligibly that they were forced to guess at his meaning. Now let any man well consider all the Formalities and parts which Mr. Huddleston tells us he then acted, and you will scarce allow it to be done with any decency in less than an hour and a half (although nothing should have passed at that time between the King and Queen to hinder or interrupt his proceedings) and that is three times as long as he was there. But the strangest thing of all is that he puts long speeches in the King's Mouth, and makes him speak them Readily and Chearfully; whereas that Honourable Person tells me, that when he and the others went in again to the King, they observed his speech to fail more, and so it continued to his death. Now how came he to speak so well and readily then, who could do it neither before nor after ?"Pref. A Letter to the King, when Duke of York, persuading him to return to the protestant Religion, wherein the chief errors of the Papists are exposed. By an old Cavalier and faithful son of the church of England as established by law. A single sheet. 4to 1688 Probably the same as the Letter addressed by Sir Leoline Jenkins to the Duke of York in Scotland in 1680 above referred to. |