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written with his own hand.

An old book of Sermons in Latin, in whose margin St Thomas of Aquin had made notes with his own hand.

An old Virgil with the pictures of the history in old painting.

An old Terence written twelve hundred yeares ago, and the ancientest that ever Politian saw, as he testifieth under his own hand in the inside of the cover of this book.

Baronnius his annals in his own hand writing.

The rare quotations out of the ancient Fathers, painfully and faithfully collected out of the best copies, by learned Cardinal Sirleto in the time of the Council of Trent, and sent by him weekly, by the Post, from Rome, to the Fathers in the Council, who proceeded to their definitions by the ancient tradition of the Church, found so plainly and unanimously in those Fathers. Those quotations make six volumes in folio: and this was it, which our adver-

saries