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Rh money upon funds bearing interest, iii. 337. iv. 111. Used little arts, to get off his third volume of the History of the Reformation, iv. 382. Denied access to the Cotton library, 384. Published a book, which carries the prerogative higher than any writer of the age, 385. What were his inducements to undertake it, 386. Frightens the nation with the old topick of fire and faggot, 388; the clergy with the apprehension of losing their wives or their livings, ibid; and the laity with the resumption of abbey lands, 390. Appealed to whether sacrilege or fornication be the greater sin, 392. Changes his mind with respect to the expediency of bishops letting leases for lives, 395. 396. His character of the clergy, 396. His contemptuous opinion of convocations, 398. Rails at the clergy; himself, being a bishop, not in the number of them, 399. Smells popery better at a great distance, than fanaticism under his nose, 404. Unjustly accuses Mr. Lesley of impudence, for proposing a union between the English and Gallican churches, 411. Hated by all the clergy, 413. The world has contracted a habit of believing him backward, 414. Advice to him upon certain points, 415-418. The obscure meaning of the words beggarly elements, as applied by him, v. 339. In the Preface to his History of his own Times, promises to polish that work every day of his life, viii. 251. His speech against a tacking bill, a proof that he was for it, xvi. 223. In the History of his own Times, misrepresents the action at Bothwell bridge, and the behaviour of the episcopal clergy in Scotland, x. 349. A short character of that history, 308. And of its author, iv. 19. x. 308. xviii. 232. His style rough, full of improprieties and mean expressions, x. 308. His own opinion of it, from a castrated passage in his original MS. ibid. His idle story of the pretender's birth fit only for an old woman, 309. His characters miserably wrought, frequently mistaken, and all of them detracting, except of those who were friends to the Presbyterians, ibid. Many of them however were stricken out with his own hand; but left legible in the MS. which the editor promised to deposit in the Cotton library, but did not perform, ibid. His account of the murder of the bishop of St. Andrews, 334. His character of general Dalziel, 361. His narrative of king James's abdication, 374. Of the prince of Orange's arrival, ibid. 375. Earl of Arran's sarcastick reply to him, 375. Some private conversation of his with Swift, iv. 394.

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