e,
which is indeed commonly thought an injury, but not the other, as ever I
heard of before; yet he reckons it a terrible one to himself and his
Family, which he tells us is _a good one_; I know not whether he means
the _de Cros_'s, or the _Monks_. The first I must confess, I never heard
of in _France_, but the other is indeed a great one abroad, and a good
one at home. But whatever he would have us think of the Goodness of his
Family, I will never believe, by what little understanding I have of
Heraldry, that any _Gentleman_ would either write such a Letter, or
_Translate_ it, tho it were only out of the common Respect that is due
to the Memory of a Great King, whose Person Sir _W. T._ has so often
represented, and in so high a Character.

But to proceed; _That he was formerly a _French_ Monk_ (as the Memoirs
call him), he confesses, and owns besides (tho with a great deal of
ill-will) that _He changed his Frock for a Petticoat_: For, tho he
denies it positively, _p. 11._ yet five Lines after, he has these
words; _There was too great advantage to throw off my Frock for the
Petticoat I have taken, not to do it; it is a Petticoat of a _Scotch_
Stuff_, &c. I am glad it is of one so good as he mentions, and wish it
were large enough to cover all his Shame: But whatever he says in the
same Page, too malicious to be taken notice of here, of _Princesses, who
have quitted the Veil for the Breeches_ (tho, in that it self, I believe
he is mistaken) yet all this will never serve to wipe off the Ignominy
of _Un Moin Defroque_: Upon which I shall only add, That the Marriage of
a Monk, when stripp'd of his Frock, is not thought likely to mend the
matter: And I believe men of all Religions will agree in the Opinion,
That if a Monk leaves his Frock, he ought to do it for a _Gown_, rather
than for a _Petticoat_; and if he leaves the Orders of one Church,
should in decency continue in the Orders of that Church to which he
professes himself converted.

As to his being a _Swedish Agent_, tho he is very angry the _Memoirs_
should call him so; one cannot well discover by his Letter, whether he
has a mind to grant it or no; however, he confesses, p. 13, 14. That
_being Envoy from the Duke of _Holstein-Gottorp_, the Interests of his
Master being inseperable from those of_ Sueden, _he found himself
engaged to be very much concerned in the Interests of that Crown; and
that Monsieur _Van Benninguen_ believed, He was intrusted with some
Affairs