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246 Bishop. The inscription was as follows: "Depositum Georgii Hickes, S. T. P. non ita pridem Coll. Line. Oxon. Socii, et Ecclesiæ Cathedralis Wigornensis Decani, qui Obiit 15 Die Decembris 1715." It is very properly remarked, that no mention of the title of suffragan would at that time have been permitted: consequently nothing can be inferred in favour of the notion that he disclaimed the title.

Some notice of Leslie will be given in a subsequent page; but it may be mentioned here that he was supposed to be the author of "The Mitre and the Crown: or a real Distinction between them" in 1711, and "A Continuation of the Mitre and the Crown" in 1712. In the year 1713 he published "The Case Stated between the Church of England and the Church of Rome." It was answered by a Romanist in "The Case Re-stated." Even this book was cavilled at by the opponents of the Nonjurors. The object was to bring odium upon them as favourers of Popery: and when this could not be done, the next thing was misrepresentation. A more effective work against Rome could scarcely be named than Leslie's "Case Stated," and "Case Truly Stated;" yet the following notice appeared at the time. "Feb. 27th, 1713-14: The hopes of bringing over the Pretender to profess the Protestant religion began to diminish every day: especially when men saw that the book writ for that purpose by Mr. Leslie, and called the Case Stated,' was heinously taken by the Papists, and boldly answered by one of them in a tract, The Case Re-stated:' to which Mr. Leslie thought proper to reply in a Defence of what he had before said, but with no manner of suggestion that