ed," 1692. His "Case of a Toleration in Matters of
Religion," addressed to Robert Boyle, p. 39. This volume was not
intended to have been given to the world, a circumstance which does
not make it the less curious.

[162] In the article _Sancterius_. Note F.

[163] Recent writers among our sectarists assert that Dr. Owen was
the _first_ who wrote in favour of toleration, in 1648! Another
claims the honour for John Goodwin, the chaplain of Oliver Cromwell,
who published one of his obscure polemical tracts in 1644, among a
number of other persons who, at that crisis, did not venture to
prefix their names to pleas in favour of toleration, so delicate and
so obscure did this subject then appear! In 1651, they translated
the liberal treatise of Grotius, _De Imperio Summarum Potestatum
circa Sacra_, under the title of "The Authority of the Highest
Powers about Sacred Things." London, 8vo, 1651. To the honour of
Grotius, the first of philosophical reformers, be it recorded, that
he displeased both parties!

[164] J. P. Rabaut, "sur la Revolution Francaise," p. 27.

[165] "Life of James the Second, from his own Papers," ii 114.

[166] This was a Baron Wallop. From Dr. H. Sampson's Manuscript Diary.

[167] It is curious to observe that the catholics were afterwards
ashamed of these indiscretions; they were unwilling to own that
there were any medals which commemorate massacres. Thuanus, in his
53rd book, has minutely described them. The medals, however, have
become excessively scarce; but copies inferior to the originals have
been sold. They had also pictures on similar subjects, accompanied
by insulting inscriptions, which latter they have effaced, sometimes
very imperfectly. See Hollis's "Memoirs," p. 312-14. This enthusiast
advertised in the papers to request travellers to procure them.

[168] The _Sala Regia_ of the Vatican has still upon its walls a
painting by Vasari of this massacre, among the other important
events in the history of the Popes similarly commemorated.

[169] "Memoires de Michel de Castelnau," liv. i. c. 4.

[170] "Life of Thuanus, by the Rev. J. Collinson," p. 115.

[171] Dr. M'Crie's "Life of John Knox," ii. 122.

[172] I quote from an unpublished letter, written so late as in 1749,
addressed to the author of "The Free and Candid Disquisition," by
the Rev. Thomas Allen, r