defence of the liberties of mankind; Mr. Trenchard the president of the society, shewed me Cappel's

As to the conference between Du Plessis and Perron, about the Eucharist and other matters, besides the two pieces I have mentioned, to wit, Perron's account of it, and Mornay's answer to the account, you will find a good relation of it in the Histoire de l'Edit de Nantes, tom i. p. 343, et suivante; and see further on this article Sully's Memoirs.

The ingenious and excellent Miss Mornay, of ShelfordPark, is descended from the great Phillip Mornay Du Plessis, and the last of the house of Du Plessis now [1756] living. Her grandfather, Jacques de Mornay, was great grandson to Du Plessis Mornay, and came over to England on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in the year 1685, when Lewis XIV, with the same hand that signed the revocation of the edict of Nantes, granted to the reformed by Henry IV., in 1598, in the ninth year of his reign; likewise signed an order for eighty thousand merciless dragoons and other troops, to march against his protestant subjects, and force them by plundering and torturing, to turn papists.

I say with the same hand, because the twelfth article of the edict signed by this cruel and perfidious prince, in the forty-third year of his reign, is as follows: "And furthermore, Those of the said pretended reformed religion, till such time as it shall please God to illuminate them, may abide in the towns, and places of our kingdom, countries and lands of our dominion, and continue

Assertion of the True Faith against Rosweius the Jesuit. And in it the following passage. "In ec

their traffic, and enjoy their goods, without being molested or hindered, on account of the said pretended reformed religion, provided they do not assemble to exercise it, &c." This was a monstrous cheat and highly perfidious to deceive and ensnare his poor subjects. Something might be said for the edict of revocation, if Lewis had declared, that to quell the agitations of his conscience, he must revoke the edict of Nantes, though he had sworn to the observation of it; and that he allowed a certain time to his protestant subjects, after which they must either turn catholics, or quit the kingdom, with their families and effects, or else they should be exposed to such and such treatment. This had been plain and honest dealing, though an arbitrary proceeding but to give it under his hand to his subjects, that they might stay and continue their traffic, enjoy their goods without being molested, or hindered on account of their religion," and at the same time leave them to the mercy of the dragoons; Was not this an heinous act? "Had he been guilty of this single one only," says Laval, in the sixth volume of his excellent History of the Reformation in France, "it would have imprinted such a spot on his reputation, that all the waters of the Seine were not sufficient to wash it away."

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* Theodore Agrippa D'Aubigne, the favourite of Henry IV., was born in the year 1550, and died 1631, aged 80. He wrote several curious things; but his

clesiastica, antiquitate quam non esset Tyro Casaubonus, docuit A.D. 1607. libro singulari de libertate ecclesiastica, cujus jam paginæ 264. typis erant editæ, cum rex Henricus IV. Compositis jam Venetorum cum pontifice Romano controversiis, vetuit ultra progredi, et hoc ipsum quod fuerat inchoatum supprimi voluit, ut ejus pauca nunc extent exemplaria." p. 17. And in the same book, I saw some manuscript references to Casaubon's Lettres, p. 623. 632, and 647, and to one place in Scaliger's Letters, edit. 1627, p. 345. Several places I turned to, and saw that Casaubon hinted to his friends, that he was the author of the book de Ecclesiastica Anti

great and principal work is his Universal History, containing the transactions from 1550 to 1601, in three folio volumes. This is a very extraordinary history, and contains many curious relations that are no where else to be found. He was obliged to leave France on account of this history, and died at Geneva. His two satires, called La Confession de Sancy and Les Aventures du Baron de Fœneste, are fine things. Du Chat's edition of the latter, which is really a very curious thing, is well worth reading. The best edition is that printed at Cologne, in 1729, in two small volumes 12mo.

[The life of this extraordinary man, was written with much elegance and perspicuity, by Mrs. Sarah Scott, and printed in 1772, in one volume, 8vo. ED.]

quitate. Scaliger affirms it. The words "Vetuit ultra progredi, et hoc ipsum quod fuerat inchoatum

*

Joseph Scaliger, born Aug. 4, 1544, died in the 65th year of his age, at Leyden, Jan. 21, 1609. His father, Julius Cæsar Scaliger, died in the 75th year of his age, October 21, 1558.

The father was a papist, the son a protestant; were both great men in the republic of letters, and both wrote many books, but the son was by far the greatest man.

What I like best of the father's works, are his Poetics. His Account of the Latin Tongue, and his Exercitations against Cardan. These are fine pieces. His Problems on Aulus Gellius are also excellent.

The works of Joseph the son, are as follows,-Commentarii in Appendicem Virgilii. Note in librum Varronis de Re Rustica. Conjecturæ in Varronem de Lingua Latina. Cas tigationes in Valerium Flaccum. Note in Tertullianum de Pallio, cum Tractatus de Equinoctiis. Loci cujusdam Galeni Difficillimi Explicatio. Elenchus Tribaresii Nicolai Serarii. Confutatio ejusdem Serarii Animadversorum in Scaligerum. Castigationes et Note in Eusebii Chronica. Thesaurus Temporum. Elenchus utriusque Orationis Chronologica Davidis Parai. Conjectanea de Nonni Dionystaticis. Notæ in Opera Ausonii. Emendatio Temporum. Veterum Græcorum Fragmenta. Cyclometrica Elementa duo. Appendix ad Cyclometriam suam. Ausoniarum Lectionum libri duo. Emendationes ad Theocriti, &c. Idyllia. Notæ in Hippocratem. Nota et Castigationes, in Tibullum, Catullum, Propertium. Episto

supprimi voluit," accounts for its being published imperfect; which all that see it wonder at.

larum Volumen. Commentarii in Manilium. Animadversiones in Melchioris Guillandini Commentarium in Tria Plinii de Papyro Capita. Epistola adversus Barbarum et Indoctum Poema Patroni Clientis Lucani. Diatriba de Decimis in Lege Dei. Notitia Galliæ. Diatriba de Europæorum Linguis, &c. Judicium de quadam Thesi Chronologica. Expositio Numismalis Argenter Constantini Imperatoris. Orphei Poeta Hymni Sacri Versibus Antiquis Latine Expressi. Martialis Select. Epigram. Versiones Græce. Sophoclis Ajax Characteri Vetere Conversus. In Eschyli Prometheum Prologus. Animadversiones in Epigrammata, &c. Cornelii Galli. Animadversiones in Cyclopem Euripidis. Dionysius Cato cum Notis. De Equinoctiorum Anticipatione Diatriba. Varia Poemata Latina. Poemata Græca versa ex Lalino, &c. Nota in Panegyricum ad Pisones. Castigatio Kalendarii Gregoriani. Interpretatio Proverbiorum Arabicorum cum Scholiis. De Arte Critica Diatriba. Note in Novum Testamentum. Hyppoliti Canon Paschalis, cum Commentariis. De Re Nummaria Dissertatio. Discours de la Jonction des Mers, &c. Discours sur Milice Romaine. Lettres touchant l'Explication de quelques Medailles. Præfatio in Origines Lingua Latina. Scaligerana. Epistola in Fabrium Paulinum. Animadversiones in Locos Controversos Roberti Titii. Vita Julii Cesaris Scaligeri, cum Epistola de Vetustate et Splendore Gentis Scaligera.

These are the works of Joseph Scaliger, and in them one meets with so various and fine an erùdition, and so

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