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 :: of No. 11 to Grascome seems doubtful. Tallent replied, and Grascome answered him again in Posthumous was Hickes says he found it in Grascome's own handwriting among his other papers after his death.
 * 1) ‘The Scripture History of the Sabbath,’ London, 1700.
 * 2) ‘An Answer to a Book [by Father, q. v.] entituled “A Short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church,”’ London, 1702; second edition, 1715.
 * 3) ‘England's Black Tribunal’ (fourth edition), to which is added ‘An Historical Preface by a True Churchman’ (i.e. Grascome), 1703.
 * 4) ‘Occasional Conformity a most unjustifiable practice,’ London, 1704; also ascribed to  [q. v.].
 * 5) ‘Some Remarks … upon “A Compassionate Enquiry into the Causes of the Civil War,”’ a sermon of  [q. v.], London, 1704.
 * 6) ‘Certamen Religiosum, or a Dispute manag'd by writing between a Papist and a Protestant …; with a Preface concerning the Occasion of the Dispute, and a Letter of Mr. Chillingworth … shewing his Reasons why he deserted the Church of Rome. By S. G.,’ 1704.
 * 7) ‘Concordia Discors, or some Animadversions upon a late Treatise entituled “An Essay for a Catholick Communion” [by T. Dean?] … by a Presbyter of the Church of England,’ 1705.
 * 8) ‘Moderation in Fashion, or an Answer to a Treatise written by Mr. F. Tallent, entituled “Short History of Schism,” &c. … By S. G., a Presbyter of the Church of England,’ 1705.
 * 1) ‘Schism Triumphant, or a Rejoinder to a Reply of Mr. Tallent's, entituled “Some Considerations,”’ &c., 1707. Lee ascribes most of these treatises to Grascome (Memoirs of Kettlewell, § 55), and adds
 * 2) ‘The History of Schism.’
 * 3) ‘The Mask of Moderation pulled off,’ 1704.
 * 4) ‘The True Character of a Church of England Man,’ 1702.
 * 5) ‘A Resolution of a Case of Conscience concerning going to Church,’ 1719.
 * 6) ‘A Letter to Dr. William Payne.’
 * 7) ‘The Present State of England.’
 * 8) ‘An Appeal to True Englishmen,’ 1699.
 * 9) ‘New Court Contrivances,’ 1693; with some other flying papers and pamphlets by way either of dialogue or letter.
 * 1) ‘An Answer to some Queries sent by a Roman Catholic to a Divine of the Church of England;’ printed by  [q. v.] in his ‘Second Collection of Controversial Tracts,’ 1710.



GRATTAN, HENRY (1746–1820), statesman, was baptised at St. John's Church, Fishamble Street, Dublin, on 3 July 1746. His father, James Grattan, was for many years recorder of the city of Dublin, and from 1761 to 1766 represented the city in parliament with Charles Lucas, with whom he was in perpetual collision. His mother was Mary, daughter of Thomas Marlay, chief justice of Ireland. He was first sent to a day school kept by Mr. Ball in Great Ship Street, but having been subjected to a degrading punishment, he insisted on leaving the school, and was sent to Mr. Young's in Abbey Street. In 1763 he was attacked by a severe illness, and in the same year entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he became acquainted with John Fitzgibbon, John Foster, Hugh Macaulay, and Robert Day. His most intimate friend at this time was Mr. Broome, who afterwards went into the army. Grattan's father, a choleric, dictatorial man, died in 1766, leaving away from his son the family mansion of Belcamp, which had belonged to the family for upwards of a century. For some time previously they had become estranged on the question of politics. Grattan had already adopted the principles of Lucas, his father's colleague and opponent, and, though he did not openly oppose his father, had too much honesty to conceal his political sympathies. In the spring of 1767 he took his B.A. degree, and in Michaelmas term was admitted a student of the Middle Temple, London, in order that he might qualify himself for the Irish bar. With his friend Robert Day he shared chambers in the Middle Temple and a house at Sunning Hill, near Windsor Forest. During these early days Grattan led a desultory life. Though he did not read much law, he assiduously practised oratory by daily reciting and transcribing passages from Bolingbroke, Chatham, and the principal Greek and Roman orators. He went but little into society, and his correspondence betrayed a melancholy tone which entirely disappeared in after years. While in London he constantly attended the houses of parliament. In the country he spent the moonlight nights in rambling through the woods, pausing now and then to address a tree in soliloquy. ‘In one of those midnight rambles,’ writes his friend Day, ‘he stopped at a gibbet, and commenced apostrophizing the chains in his usual animated strain, when he suddenly felt a tap on his shoulder, and on turning about was accosted by an unknown person: “How the devil did you get down?” To which the rambler calmly replied, “Sir, I suppose you have some interest in that question”’ (, Life, i. 119).

At the end of 1767 Grattan lost his favourite sister Catherine, and in the autumn of 1768 his mother died. In the latter year his eldest sister married Gervase Parker Bushe.