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his defence wrote An Appeal to Scripture, Reason, and Tradition, &c. Worcester (1786). He likewise published A General Defence of the Principles of the Reformation in a Letter to the Rev. Joseph Berington. Worcester,
or dictation, of Paul V. There is no reason to discredit the assertion. The Papal court was well attended by English traitors at the time. Parsons had just died, but there were Fitz-herbert, and others of his scholars to continue his services; and in truth, some parts of the work savour of English manufacture: the unctura sutoria — shoe-blacking — is a notion and expression which would naturally flow from an Englishman. In fact, the drift of this book and that of Fitz-herbert (both of wbich in my copy are bound together, with an unmenning one between, and they belonged to the Jesuits' College at Antwerp before the volume came into Mr. Heber's possession,) are so alike, or rather identical, that they may appear to be two different weapons made by the same hand, and for the same purpose: the one perbaps to succeed where the other might fail; or, better, both to unite their effect. It can escape no one, with what prudent dexterity both writers (supposing them two) unite in a significant suggestion of the judgments which may be expected to visit a heretical and Machiavellian tyrant, whether by divine or human means. Hints of this kind are intelligible enough to prepared minds, and they are often as effectual as they are safe to the authors. Ireland can attest the use and efficacy of this method; and who knows but that, in that favoured land, in which the religion of Rome expands in unrestrained freedom, the lives of the whole Protestant population may come to be at the mercy of a heartless and venal ruffian, wbo, by means, and at the sole risk, of others, may be able, with perfect security to himself, to effect atrocities, which, with no want of will to commit himself, be may feel much want of will to be responsible for?
