ncinnata, London, in 8vo. and in 1673, a Discourse
intitled, Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration, and what best
Means may be used against the Growth of Popery, London, in 4to. He
published likewise the same year, Poems, &c. on several Occasions,
both English and Latin, composed at several times, with a small
Tractate of Education to Mr. Hartlib, London, 8vo. In 1674 he
published his Epistolarum familiarium, lib. i. & Prolusiones quaedam
Oratoriae in Collegio Christi habitae, London, in 8vo and in the same
year in 4to. a Declaration of the Letters Patent of the King of
Poland, John III. elected on the 22d of May, Anno Dom. 1674, now
faithfully translated from the Latin copy. Mr. Wood tells us[5], that
Milton was thought to be the author of a piece called the Grand Case
of Conscience, concerning the Engagement Stated and Resolved; or a
Strict Survey of the Solemn League and Covenant in reference to the
present Engagement; but others are of opinion that the stile and
manner of writing do not in the least favour that supposition. His
State Letters were printed at London 1676 in 12mo. and translated into
English, and printed 1694, as his Brief History of Muscovy, and of
their less known Countries, lying Eastward of Russia, as far as
Cathay, was in 1682 in 8vo. His Historical, Poetical, and
Miscellaneous Works were printed in three volumes in folio 1698 at
London, though Amsterdam is mentioned in the title page with the life
of the author, by Mr. Toland; but the most compleat and elegant
edition of his prose works was printed in two volumes in folio at
London 1738, by the rev. Mr. Birch, now secretary to the Royal
Society, with an Appendix concerning two Dissertations, the first
concerning the Author of the [Greek: EIKON BASILIKE], the Portraiture
of his sacred Majesty in his solitude and sufferings; and the prayer
of Pamela subjoined to several editions of that book; the second
concerning the Commission said to be given by King Charles I. in 1641,
to the Irish Papists, for taking up arms against the Protestants in
Ireland. In this edition the several pieces are disposed according to
the order in which they were printed, with the edition of a Latin
Tract, omitted by Mr. Toland, concerning the Reasons of the War with
Spain in 1655, and several pages in the History of Great Britain,
expanged by the licensers of the press, and not to be met with in any
former impressions. It perhaps is not my province to make any remarks