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 bitter, I might say, blood-thirsty, attack upon James I., to whom he attributes Machiavellian principles of government, professes, in the Dedicatory Epistle, that he obtained a license to read Machiavelli from the Inquisition — impetratâ prius ab Illustrissimis Sanctæ Inquisitionis Cardinalibus legendi Machiavelli facultate, ut ex eorum diplomate, quod penès me est, satis liquet. This work is bound up with a vile Jesuitic lampoon against James I. by, I. C., Εξεταόις Epistolæ nomine Regis, M. B. &c. I. C. Montibus, Impressore Adamo Gallo. Anno 1610; forty unpaged leaves, remarkable for fligate profession of contempt for the obligation of an oath, and noticed by Richard Thompson, Ussher, Henry Mason, and others.