alive, tho most of them with other Titles. And indeed, tho it may be ill
for Sir _W. T_'s private Satisfaction, that these _Memoirs_ were printed
against his Consent, and during his Life, which it appears was never
intended; yet nothing could defend the Truth of them so much, as that so
many Persons are yet alive, who had so great a part in all those Affairs
there related, who are the best and most competent Judges of the Truth;
and I never heard that any of them have yet contradicted the least part.
But however, since the _Monk_ has got into the _Infallible Chair_, he
must be believed, there is no help, and we must like the _Welsh-man_,
_Take her own word for it_. And so let him go away with all those
apposite and choice Epithets he has given of this _most worthy_ and
_well-deserving_ person, without where, or when, or why, or wherefore;
For I am sure there is no way of replying to them; and he that would set
about it, might as well resolve to write an Answer to a Leaf in
_Textor_'s Epithets.

And thus I have with much ado rid my hands of a great part of _De
Cros_'s Rubbish, as far as it endeavours to bespatter Sir _W. T._ in his
Morals and Intellectuals. It remains now I should observe a little what
he says concerning his Fortunes, which seems to turn upon these two
rusty Hinges, that make as ill a noise as all the rest; the obscurity
from whence he was raised to all those great Employments, and his
disgrace upon leaving them, which _De Cros_ says was immediately after
his Return from _Nimeguen_.

For my own part I must confess I am neither old enough, nor have had
Conversation in Courts, and with Publick Affairs, to give an account how
Sir _W. T._ came into Business, or how he went out, any further than I
could gather from Writings and Transactions which are publick and known
to every body; or by particular enquiries from some Friends and
Acquaintance of my own; and it has happened, that some of them have long
known so much of that Family, as to assure me it is a very Ancient one:
That Sir _W. T._ was born of a very Honourable Father, who was for many
years of the Privy Council in _Ireland_ to King _Charles_ the First, and
King _Charles_ the Second, and was long possessed of one of the best
Offices in that Kingdom, both for Honour and Profit; as likewise in his
time a Member of several Parliaments in _England_: That his two younger
Brothers are known to have lived always with plentiful Fortunes, and in
much esteem: