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his collected works, 1563, includes the Consilium, with the same date, but without the signatures. Wolfius has the work, with the signatures, in his Lectiones Mem., but under the year 1549, and with that date; and consistently therewith it is addressed to Paul III., insiead of Julius III., and wants the allusion in the end to Mary I. of England, who was not then reigning. If the Italian original had this date, this may have been a translation from it. But this supposition involves consequences; and Wolfius gives no information. Dr. William Clagett gave a translation in English of this and the preceding Consilium, in 1688, under the title, State of the Church of Rome when the Reformation began, &c.; and in his preface rather wonders at the variation of Wolfius, as if he transcribed from "a false copy." It deserves here to be mentioned, that there is another piece very similar to that under consideration, and, I have no doubt, proceeding from the pen of Vergerio, the first edition of which, as it plainly is, being, in the copy which I have, bound up with other acknowledged productions of the same author, Actiones Duæ, Address to the Dominican fathers about il Rosario, and others. It is
