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 to shew the conformity of Popery with Paganism. Limerick: printed by T. Welsh, 1771. Every one is acquainted with the eminent merit of the work, which roused an antagonist, to whom a Reply was given in a well-written pamphlet in 1772, without name of place or printer, Truth Triumphant, a refutation of the Word to the Wise, and other pretended Answers to Dr. Meagher's Popish Mass. By. It appears from page 11, that the author of The Word to the Wise was Wlsh, so written, but hardly, I should suppose, though so near the mark, the printer of Meagher's work. This, indeed, is immaterial. The defender of the convert, however, at the page cited, speaks of a remonstrance made to the assailant by some well-bred sensible men of his [the assailant's] own religion," the purport of which he gives in four succeeding pages; and in page 14 they say, — "We can look into Dr Meagher's book only by stealth, for you have forbidden the reading of it under pain of excommunication. Nay, some of yourselves say, you would not for a thousand pounds look into it." Eusebes adds in a note, "This is a fact; for a priest in my neighbourhood made this declaration not long ago in public company