fool."

Another Roman Catholic, named William Clench, wrote a treatise on
the Pope's supremacy, and dedicated it to the Queen in Italian. The
following specimen of his style may suffice. "O del sagro marito
fortunata consorte! O dolce alleviamento d' affari alti! O grato ristoro
di pensieri noiosi, nel cui petto latteo, lucente specchio d'illibata
matronal pudicizia, nel cui seno odorato, come in porto damor, si ritira
il Giacomo! O beata regia coppia! O felice inserto tra l'invincibil
leoni e le candide aquile!"

Clench's English is of a piece with his Tuscan. For example, "Peter
signifies an inexpugnable rock, able to evacuate all the plots of hell's
divan, and naufragate all the lurid designs of empoisoned heretics."

Another Roman Catholic treatise, entitled "The Church of England
truly represented," begins by informing us that "the ignis fatuus
of reformation, which had grown to a comet by many acts of spoil and
rapine, had been ushered into England, purified of the filth which it
had contracted among the lakes of the Alps."]

[Footnote 120: Barillon, July 19/29 1686.]

[Footnote 121: Act Parl. Aug. 24. 1560; Dec. 15. 1567.]

[Footnote 122: Act Parl. May 8. 1685.]

[Footnote 123: Act Parl. Aug. 31 1681.]

[Footnote 124: Burnet, i. 584.]

[Footnote 125: Ibid. i. 652, 653.]

[Footnote 126: Ibid. i. 678.]

[Footnote 127: Burnet, i. 653.]

[Footnote 128: Fountainhall, Jan. 28. 1685/6.]

[Footnote 129: Ibid. Jan. 11 1685/6.]

[Footnote 130: Fountainhall, Jan. 31. and Feb. 1. 1685/6.; Burnet, i.
678,; Trials of David Mowbray and Alexander Keith, in the Collection of
State Trials; Bonrepaux, Feb. 11/21]

[Footnote 131: Lewis to Barillon, Feb. 18/28 1686.]

[Footnote 132: Fountainhall, Feb. 16.; Wodrow, book iii. chap. x. sec.
3. "We require," His Majesty graciously wrote, "that you spare no legal
trial by torture or otherwise."]

[Footnote 133: Bonrepaux, Feb. 18/28 1686.]

[Footnote 134: Fountainhall, March 11. 1686; Adda, March 1/11]

[Footnote 135: This letter is dated March 4. 1686.]

[Footnote 136: Barillon, April 19/29 1686; Burnet, i. 370.]

[Footnote 137: The words are in a letter of Johnstone of Waristoun.]

[Footnote 138: Some words of Barillon deserve to be transcribed. They
would alone suffice to decide a question which ignorance and party
spirit have done much to perplex. "Cette liberte accordee aux
nonconformistes a faite une grande difficulte, et a ete debattue
pendant plusieurs