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 and is preserved in manuscript at Stonyhurst College. In the same collection there is another manuscript by Hunter, entitled ‘A Letter to the Author of “The Secret Policy of the Jesuits,”’ 4to, pp. 322 (Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. 234, 340). 3. ‘Pax Vobis, an Epistle to the three Churches,’ Lond. 1721. In imitation of ‘Pax Vobis, or Gospel and Liberty,’ by Robert Brown, a Scotch priest. 4. ‘Certamen utriusque Ecclesiæ; or a list of all the eminent Writers of Controversy, Catholics and Protestants, since the Reformation. With an historical idea of the politick attempts of both parties … to support their respective interests’ (Lond.?), 1724. Reprinted in the ‘Somers Tracts’ and in Jones's ‘Catalogue of Tracts for and against Popery’ (Chetham Soc.). 5. ‘The Church History of England, from the year 1500 to the year 1688. Chiefly with regard to Catholicks, being a complete account of the Divorce, Supremacy, Dissolution of Monasteries, and first attempts for a Reformation under King Henry VIII, the unsettled state of the Reformation under Edward VI, the interruption it met with from Queen Mary; with the last hand put to it by Queen Elizabeth, together with the various fortunes of the Catholick Cause during the reigns of King James I, King Charles I, King Charles II, and King James II. Particularly the Lives of the most eminent Catholicks, Cardinals, Bishops, Inferior Clergy, Regulars, and Laymen … with the foundation of all the English Colleges and Monasteries abroad,’ 3 vols., Brussels, 1737–39–42, fol. This history, the result of thirty years' labour, is believed to have been really printed in this country, as the paper and type are of English manufacture. For many years it was almost unknown, but it is now a costly and rare work. It contains many particulars, with copies of original documents not to be found elsewhere, relating to the affairs of the English catholics, and the biographical memoirs are particularly valuable. Dodd's severe strictures on the jesuits and their policy led to an embittered controversy between him and John Constable (1676–1744) [q. v.] The publication of Dodd's work also elicited from George Reynolds, archdeacon of Lincoln, ‘An Historical Essay upon the Government of the Church of England, with a vindication of the measures of Henry VIII from the calumnies of a Popish writer,’ Lond. 1743, 8vo. The Rev. Thomas Eyre, a Douay priest, who for fifteen years was chaplain at Stella, in the parish of Ryton, co. Durham, began in 1791 to circulate queries and to collect materials for a continuation of the ‘Church History,’ but the events of the French revolution and the destruction of the English colleges abroad called him to a more active life, and prevented him from proceeding with the work. His manuscripts are preserved at Ushaw College. The Rev. John Kirk, D.D., of Lichfield, was occupied for upwards of forty years in collecting materials for an improved edition and a continuation of Dodd's ‘Church History.’ He transcribed or collected, and methodically arranged, documents forming more than fifty volumes in folio and quarto. Of these he gave a detailed account in the ‘Catholic Miscellany’ for October 1826. The pressure of years, however, deterred him from attempting actual publication, and after restoring to the bishops, colleges, and private owners their respective portions he assigned what was properly his own to the Rev. Mark Aloysius Tierney of Arundel, who brought out a new edition of Dodd's work, ‘with notes, additions, and a continuation,’ 5 vols., Lond. 1839—43, 8vo. This edition is unfortunately incomplete, ending with the year 1625, and of course no portion of the projected continuation ever appeared. On Tierney's death in 1862 his manuscript materials were bequeathed to Dr. Thomas Grant, bishop of Southwark, and they are now in the possession of that prelate's successor, Dr. John Butt. 6. ‘Annals of the Reign of Henry VIII;’ a very thick quarto. 7. ‘Annals of the Heptarchy, Normans,’ &c. The preceding works are in print; the following remain in manuscript. 8. ‘The Free Man, or Loyal Papist;’ some fragments of this are printed in the ‘Catholicon,’ 1817, iv. 161, 275. 9. ‘An Historical and Critical Dictionary, comprising the Lives of the most eminent Roman Catholics, from 1500 to 1688, with an appendix and key to the whole’ (pp. 1280), 3 vols., in large folio. The lives are much enlarged and different from those printed in the ‘Church History.’ The first volume of this work, containing 492 closely written pages and extending only to the letter L, is among the manuscripts belonging to the catholic chapter of London, and is preserved at Spanish Place (Royal Historical MSS. Commission, 5th Rep. 467). 10. Part I. of ‘Catholic Remains, or a Catholic History of the Reformation in England,’ fol. pp. 191. 11. Part II. of ‘Catholic Remains, or the Lives of English Roman Catholics, Clergy, Regulars, and Laymen from 1500,’ pp. 748, preserved at St. Mary's College, Oscott (ib. 1st Rep. 90). 12. ‘Introductory History,’ fol. pp. 137. It only comes down to the year 600, and was the first form or draft of his ‘Church History.’ 13. ‘Christian Instructions, general and particular, delivered in eighty Discourses, methodised by way of Sermons,’ fol. pp. 370. 14. ‘The Creed, Lord's