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PREFACE.

for their Papal treason and rebellion in the reign of our Queen Elizabeth, in consequence of the damnatory bull of Pius V., repeated or unrepealed by Gregory XIII., Sixtus V., Urban VII., Gregory XIV., Innocent IX., and Clement VIII., will be required at the hands of those sovereign lords, their real murderers, at the day of just retribution, when neither bribery, nor force, nor fraud, will be of any avail.^[1]

Sutton Coldfield,

September 15, 1840.

↑ As a signal specimen of the literary knavery of Rome, and of the hard game it has to play, I will give in a final note, the result of a rather minute examination which I have made in the instance to be brought forward. In my Memoirs of the Council of Trent, pp. 277-9, I had occasion to notice, after James and others, a notorious and interested corruption of a passage in Cyprian, de Unitate Ecclesiæ. This is not the specimen I now propose to introduce, but another, relative to an edition of Chrysostom's Epistle to Cæsarius, first brought to notice in the Latin translation by Peter Martyr, who found it in a library of Florence, and presented it to Archbishop Cranmer; with the dispersion of whose library it was lost: Cardinal Perron thence obtained the opportunity, which he did not suffer to escape, of questioning its existence. It was, however, discovered in the Florence Library, and printed by Emeric Bigot, with Palladius's Life of Chrysostom, which formed the first and main article, in 1680, at Paris. The doctors of the Sorbonne were not pleased with it; and before the publication, obtained the suppression and abstraction of the leaves both of the Epistle, and of the part of the preface referring to it; and indeed of some others, as we shall see. Archbishop Wake fortunately got possession of those very leaves, and published them in his Defence of his Exposition, &c. in 1686, Ap-

[D38-1] As a signal specimen of the literary knavery of Rome, and of the hard game it has to play, I will give in a final note, the result of a rather minute examination which I have made in the instance to be brought forward. In my Memoirs of the Council of Trent, pp. 277-9, I had occasion to notice, after James and others, a notorious and interested corruption of a passage in Cyprian, de Unitate Ecclesiæ. This is not the specimen I now propose to introduce, but another, relative to an edition of Chrysostom's Epistle to Cæsarius, first brought to notice in the Latin translation by Peter Martyr, who found it in a library of Florence, and presented it to Archbishop Cranmer; with the dispersion of whose library it was lost: Cardinal Perron thence obtained the opportunity, which he did not suffer to escape, of questioning its existence. It was, however, discovered in the Florence Library, and printed by Emeric Bigot, with Palladius's Life of Chrysostom, which formed the first and main article, in 1680, at Paris. The doctors of the Sorbonne were not pleased with it; and before the publication, obtained the suppression and abstraction of the leaves both of the Epistle, and of the part of the preface referring to it; and indeed of some others, as we shall see. Archbishop Wake fortunately got possession of those very leaves, and published them in his Defence of his Exposition, &c. in 1686, Ap-

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