that the place referred to by Paramo should be Tit. 2, cap. 1, and that de eo refers not to obitus, but Lutherus, concerning whom he there writes largely enough. But I leave the note because it contains independent truth of importance, and has nothing of which the author need be ashamed.

Page 170, line 18.

Affix the following Note to "adulation—”

Instances in some degree similar may be produced from Protestant writers, but their meaning is restrained by their subject. In the present case they are to be explained in connexion with the spiritual claims of the individual concerned. It is, likewise, to be remembered that the pope has absolute control over the press of his own dominions; and that, therefore, he is responsible for the ascriptions in question, particularly in the Medals, properly called Papal.

Page 171, line 2.

At" 1664" place the Note

It was not, indeed, till 1840 that I observed this derogatory notice of the work in the very Index referred to above, p. 103: Librorum omnium in Sacræ Indicis Congregationis decretis prohibitorum ab anno 1636 ad annum 1655. Elenchus ordine uno alphabetico per Fr. Thomam de Augustinis digestus, cum deficiens sit, nec omnia decreta contineat quæ hucusque à Sacra Congregatione dimanarunt* in decreto 10 Junii, 1658. The Decree is No. lxvii. postfixed to the Index of 1664.

Page 178, at the end of the Note, addVOLTAIRE writes, that the Jesuits had interest enough with the Parliament of Provence to obtain an Arrêt for the burning of the Provincial Letters. Louis XIV. ch. xxxvii. du Jansénisme. In the same place there are some observations

d;

respecting that extraordinary work, which, because they have been rather faultily repeated, because they are partly erroneous, and principally because in one instance they are importantly correct, I feel an inclination to introduce. The gay and eloquent historian observes, that the book proceeds upon a false foundation: it ascribes to the whole society of Jesuits the extravagant opinions of several Spanish and Flemish Jesuits. The critic should have known that the Jesuits alluded to enjoyed the highest reputation and authority in the Roman Church generally. He may be allowed credit when he rebuts the hypothesis, that any sect ever formed a regular design to corrupt the morals of mankind though, perhaps, himself and his associates may, with little injustice, be accused both of the design and the attempt to a tremendous degree. But the charge against the author of the Provincial Letters, which cannot be denied to be just, is, that he has confined to the Jesuits, whom he shows up, those extravagances, or rather atrocities, of doctrine, which may as well and fully be detected in the writings of the Dominican and Franciscan casuists. This is the fact; and, in the vindication of themselves, the accused asserted and proved it. The Jansenists carefully, and no doubt prudently, but not very fairly, omitted to extend their charges to this division of the guilty, some individuals of which may be considered as the proper parents both of the sophistry and immorality of Jesuitism.

Page 180, line 14,

After "year," add Note

The original edition of 1665 I now possess. It is small 8vo., and certainly very rare. Its principal value at the time of its publication was, its embodying a multiplied alphabet in one. It contains, however, under BIBLIA, an article of extreme moment, which I do not find in any of the parts of the preceding edition: Biblia vulgari quocunque

idiomate conscripta. No distinction-Catholic as well as heretic. This may do for Dr. Wiseman's 'love of the Catholics for the Scriptures.' This is the first instance of the entry, and it was continued in the succeeding Roman Indexes, down to that of Benedict XIV. in 1744. In the following of the same pontiff, in 1758, it was, for the first time, discontinued, and has not since reappeared. Shame will often produce effects which are in vain expected from common sense or common justice. And indeed, when interest required a display of mitigated intolerance, if not liberality, it would never do to let such a sweeping, as well as bigotted, proscription stand. According to CATALANI, de Secret. S. Ind., p. 114, there was another edition of this Index, in the same form, in 1670. The folio edition, of the date of 1667, is plainly the reprint of Geneva or Lyons, although sometimes separated from the other part, and appearing as a distinct work. It repeats the edition of 1665.

Page 187, line 21,

For" silence" substitute

Although the Tridentine Council and Catechism, and other papal authorities, had sufficiently decided this question in the affirmative,* silence, &c.

At the beginning of the Note add

The Judgment and Decree of the University of Oxford, July 21, 1681, against certain pernicious books, &c., destructive to Princes, &c. Published by command, Oxford, 1683, may just be noticed.

Sess. xiv, Decr. iv, Cat. pp. 172, 173, ed. 1566, fol. See this subject discussed, and the fact proved at length with the additional authorities in SOAMES'S Bampton Lectures, Sermon v. pp. 261, seqq. and 285, 286.

Voltaire is entitled to belief, when he affirms of his own knowledge, that the Abbé Renaudot, being at Rome the first year of Clement XIth's pontificate, found his holiness reading Quesnel's book, who said, 'Here is an excellent book. We have no one in Rome capable of writing in this manner. I should be happy to get him near me.' He little thought at the time that he should have to condemn the book. Louis XIV., ch. xxxvii. Euvres, tome xxi. p. 362, ed. 1784. [Kehl.]

Page 194, line 10.

At "present" place the Note

Madriti sub finem anni 1707 inter publicas et solennes processiones, quibus et gravissimi Inquisitionis generalis Assessores et plures viri primaria dignitate conspicui interfuere, magna pompa publicatus est Index Expurg., &c. In eum Indicem autores plures relati sunt a Senatu Inquisitionis, qui in prioribus editionibus nondum comparebant. Observatum tamen est a nonnullis, C. Papebrochii opera nondum in eum Indicem relata fuisse, quod idem Senatus ante editionem illius nihil adhuc de illis decrevisset.

Page 214, lines 12, 13.

desideratum," read, "the first of those very desiderata."

Page 217, line 4 from the bottom.

At "hiantes" place the Note

In Mr. Thorpe's Supplemental Catalogue of MSS. for 1836, No. 310, occurs, INDEX PROHIBITORIUS, cum Qualificationibus et Censuris; sive Catalogus ac Designatio quorundam Librorum, &c., jussu Maria Eliz. Archd. Austria Gub. Belgii Austr. pro Carolo VI. Imp. anno

1735 confectus, sed hactenus non promulgatus. It is, doubtless, the same as the catalogue described above, and has the imperial decree for compiling it; but, I presume, with a limited proportion of the other accompanying docu

ments.

Page 220, last line.

After "London," add "both."

Page 221, line 3.

After "reported," insert —

by BAUSSET, in his Hist. de Bossuet, tome i. p. 464,

Page 222, last line but one of the Note.

For "BRUEYS," read " DE LA BASTIDE."

Page 226, line 1,

For" 279," read" 486, ed. 1822 ;" and in line 1 of the Note, for "Brueys," read "De la Bastide."

Page 235, line 6 from bottom.

At" Jesuit" affix the Note

The second edition, I presume, in 1731, although without name or place. It is, according to a notice in the title-page, twice as extensive as the first. There was a third still more so, in 4 volumes.

Page 241, line 13.

After "XIV.” insert–

with Two Appendixes of 1763 and 1770.*

Page 244,

At the end of Note *, add

It likewise stands in its place in the Bullarium of Bene

*It is in 8vo. But one in large 4to, which I have, was published in the same year, without any Appendixes.