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, even to the sacrifice of conscience, to serve, is hard indeed; and shews that Rome has little pity for those of her servants whose zeal and labour are not rewarded with success. Had he succeeded always, as at first, all would have been well — the Dominican (and noticed with real respect in the Bibliotheca of the Fraternity by Quetif and Echard, ii. 40, 1;) Inquisitor General; Sub-commissary; and for his merits promoted by Albert, Archbp. of Magdeburgh, to the honour of Commissary and Special Inquisitor; and loaded with no moral vice but such as he shared in abundance with popes, cardinals, and father confessors; and this man, for his final failure, is so furiously rated by another, and no better servant of his master, Miltitz, that he sank under it, and in his last hours had none to pity him but Luther!

I perceive by the same note, that the Summary which I have given in the original at length of the Indulgences for the repair of the Cathedral of Saintes in Saintogne, somewhat discomposes Mr. G.'s serenity; and I do not wonder; for it contains a faithful and graphic description of his church and her doings. In puerile imprudence he lets out his wrath against the Commissary, Raymond Peraudi, who, let him remember, was a purpled ornament of his church, and as pains-taking a gentleman as Mr. G. himself. Yet of him he says — He was, in all probability, as accomplished a questor as the celebrated Tetzel himself. And the Summary is worthy of its author." He was, in all probability, as worthy a man as the priest who should solemnly deny "that he knows of his own personal knowledge," or,"so that he may tell" (according to Tresham's Treatise of Equivocation, or Soto's instruction, see Mason's New Art of Lying, p. 27.) what in all Ireland and the Breviary is as obtrusive on the view as the light of the sun at mid-day.

Mr. G. might have spared the second edition of his imaginary wit about "six folio volumes," had he foreseen that he himself would designate the places in Labbé's Councils by folia. He should have written columns; and any of the young gentlemen of Oscott would tell him, that in one folium there are four columns. I may here suitably enough introduce another specimen of the habits in which Romish controvertists familiarly allow themselves. Archdeacon Hodson quoted from Bp. Stillingfleet an Indulgence which contained a remission of all sins to those who in the article of death should devoutly commend their souls to God, &c. without referring to the authority. This made Mr. G. particularly urgent to obtain the reference. The call, however, suddenly dropped. Why? Be. cause Mr. G., in exploring Ferrari's Prompta Bibliotheca under